Fantasia ’18 Review: Sympathy for a shapeshifter in “LIFECHANGER”
Writer/director Justin McConnell takes a thoughtful approach to the material that still allows for a number of scary and gruesome highlights.
Writer/director Justin McConnell takes a thoughtful approach to the material that still allows for a number of scary and gruesome highlights.
Once the horror truly takes hold, it doesn’t do so in the expected ways… The places it does eventually go are graphic and nasty and seriously disturbing.
The titillation remains between the people on screen, as the thrills the movie seeks to elicit from the audience are of a deeper, personal variety.
Hot on the news that Daniel Goldhaber’s CAM has won a pair of awards at Montreal’s Fantasia International Film Festival, where it made its world premiere, comes word that it has been picked up for distribution.
With Montreal’s Fantasia International Film Festival now in its third week, the winners of its juried awards have been announced, representing a wide spectrum of genre fare.