Another year, another onslaught of awesome films. Yes, it’s that time of year again. Fantastic Fest 2024 is just days away… Adam is with a breakdown of what’s cooler than cool at the festival this year!
I feel like I’ve perfectly captured what makes Fantastic Fest such a big deal to many a film fan a few years back when I wrote this;
Fantastic Fest is the Cannes Film Festival of Genre Film Festivals. It’s the Standard that all other Genre Film Festivals strive to achieve. Over the last two decades, it’s been the epicenter for all Genre Film Culture. If there’s a smaller genre film you loved and adored since the early 00s, it’s a pretty good bet that it’s played at Fantastic Fest.
This hasn’t changed, in fact, it’s maybe become more important. The festival and its amazing curation team have put together a truly wild varied and surprising group of films for 2024. In short, they’ve still managed to get you all the quality and all the awesome. Here is a look at some of the must-see films at the festival.
APARTMENT 7A
A prequel to Rosemary’s Baby starring Julia Gardener and directed by Natalie Erika James who directed the truly haunting generational horror film Relic. With the way that Horror and Legacy Prequels have been turning out in 2024 (The First Omen, anyone) we’re hedging our bets that this one could be pretty special.
BRING THEM DOWN
All we would need to know is Christopher Abbott and Barry Keoghan star in this film. Then there’s the unique aspect of this being the two men going to war over respective Irish shepherding dynasties has the curiosity factor through the roof. One hopes for something along the lines of Michaël R. Roskam’s neo-classic Bullhead. At the very least it should make for an arresting film.
CLOUD
One only need hear that this film is directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa to guarantee interest in the film. The director takes on the action thriller genre with Cloud, and we couldn’t be more excited. If one wonders why Kurosawa is on this list then no doubt they have not seen his stone-cold classic Cure. Fans of Kurosawa can only hope he brings his specific talents to the genre the way he did with the Serial Killer genre with Cure or the Spy Thriller with Wife of a Spy.
FRANKIE FREAKO
The creator of Psycho Goreman has made a new film. Nuff said. Nuff said.
THE LIFE AND DEATHS OF CHRISTOPHER LEE
A documentary about one of the most important actors of the last 100 years? Yes, please. One could double the 100-minute run time and we’d gladly sit in a darkened theater. One does hope that they cover his years as a spy during WW2 (as he was the inspiration for James Bond, rumor has it), and just the few stories this reviewer has heard make this not often-discussed time in the actor’s life could make for an arresting documentary.
MADS
Club Kids must survive a living nightmare of a night as a rage virus infects crowds – all done in a single take. The bravado of the concept alone makes this a must-see. One can only hope that it leads to a film of the delirious heights and madness of The Sadness.
THE UNKNOWN
No, it’s not a movie but the actual unknown. The best part of any Film Festival, specifically Fantastic Fest, is the film that will sneak up and either destroy you (in the best way) or make you swoon. You can never account for it and it happens but it is always the best thing to come out of any film festival.
We will be back covering as much as we can as we head into the festival. Stay tuned!!!
Another year, another onslaught of awesome films. Yes, it’s that time of year again. Fantastic Fest 2024 is just days away… Adam is with a breakdown of what’s cooler than cool at the festival this year!
I feel like I’ve perfectly captured what makes Fantastic Fest such a big deal to many a film fan a few years back when I wrote this;
Fantastic Fest is the Cannes Film Festival of Genre Film Festivals. It’s the Standard that all other Genre Film Festivals strive to achieve. Over the last two decades, it’s been the epicenter for all Genre Film Culture. If there’s a smaller genre film you loved and adored since the early 00s, it’s a pretty good bet that it’s played at Fantastic Fest.
This hasn’t changed, in fact, it’s maybe become more important. The festival and its amazing curation team have put together a truly wild varied and surprising group of films for 2024. In short, they’ve still managed to get you all the quality and all the awesome. Here is a look at some of the must-see films at the festival.
APARTMENT 7A
A prequel to Rosemary’s Baby starring Julia Gardener and directed by Natalie Erika James who directed the truly haunting generational horror film Relic. With the way that Horror and Legacy Prequels have been turning out in 2024 (The First Omen, anyone) we’re hedging our bets that this one could be pretty special.
BRING THEM DOWN
All we would need to know is Christopher Abbott and Barry Keoghan star in this film. Then there’s the unique aspect of this being the two men going to war over respective Irish shepherding dynasties has the curiosity factor through the roof. One hopes for something along the lines of Michaël R. Roskam’s neo-classic Bullhead. At the very least it should make for an arresting film.
CLOUD
One only need hear that this film is directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa to guarantee interest in the film. The director takes on the action thriller genre with Cloud, and we couldn’t be more excited. If one wonders why Kurosawa is on this list then no doubt they have not seen his stone-cold classic Cure. Fans of Kurosawa can only hope he brings his specific talents to the genre the way he did with the Serial Killer genre with Cure or the Spy Thriller with Wife of a Spy.
FRANKIE FREAKO
The creator of Psycho Goreman has made a new film. Nuff said. Nuff said.
THE LIFE AND DEATHS OF CHRISTOPHER LEE
A documentary about one of the most important actors of the last 100 years? Yes, please. One could double the 100-minute run time and we’d gladly sit in a darkened theater. One does hope that they cover his years as a spy during WW2 (as he was the inspiration for James Bond, rumor has it), and just the few stories this reviewer has heard make this not often-discussed time in the actor’s life could make for an arresting documentary.
MADS
Club Kids must survive a living nightmare of a night as a rage virus infects crowds – all done in a single take. The bravado of the concept alone makes this a must-see. One can only hope that it leads to a film of the delirious heights and madness of The Sadness.
THE UNKNOWN
No, it’s not a movie but the actual unknown. The best part of any Film Festival, specifically Fantastic Fest, is the film that will sneak up and either destroy you (in the best way) or make you swoon. You can never account for it and it happens but it is always the best thing to come out of any film festival.
We will be back covering as much as we can as we head into the festival. Stay tuned!!!
Fantastic Fest 2024 runs from September 19th to September 26th
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