It might have aimed to put Montreal on the horror map as a hotbed of filmmaking talent, but is so parochially focused it’s unlikely viewers outside the city will get much out of it.
The 2018 Fantasia International Film Festival came to a close August 2 (with the sold-out Canadian premiere of Panos Cosmatos’ MANDY), and a new round of award-winners from among the event’s many movies has just been announced.
Writer/director Tilman Singer’s unique mood piece is confounding and engrossing in equal measure.
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.
