Fantasia ’25 Movie Review: “HOLD THE FORT” has fun with monsters
It feels like a valentine to the genre as a whole, and has a bit of fun with all of its attendant tropes and creatures.
It feels like a valentine to the genre as a whole, and has a bit of fun with all of its attendant tropes and creatures.
The filmmakers keep the twists and surprises coming, taking the audience into unexpected places that are both unsettlingly strange and blackly humorous.
On every level, it evinces a high level of care and thought, meshing personal pain with supernatural terror to conjure up something resonant and chilling.
David Dastmalchian challenges his celebrity friends to get six feet deep about life and death.
The whole movie is so dependent on nostalgia, at the expense of any meaningful variations on the themes and plotting it’s revisiting from the popular 1997 film.