Spanish director David Velduque's new work, Transción, had its world premiere at this year’s Fantastic Fest, screening in its Short Fuse section, a shorts block that delivers “cutting-edge horror that will make you ponder the uncanny.” The film focuses on the abandonment suffered by elderly trans people and delivers unnerving atmosphere and creepy body horror.
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Infinity Pool is the third feature from Canadian filmmaker Brandon Cronenberg, and it takes audiences on another horrific and twisted sci-fi/horror trip. This go around, it’s a sunny, all-inclusive resort set in some surreal alternate reality, and it plays like a sadistic White Lotus for kinky weirdos. The film finds Cronenberg expanding in scope and solidifying his own singular style.
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Director Olivia Wilde tries to go big with her sophomore feature, Don’t Worry Darling, but her efforts amount to an extravagant bore. It’s pretty to look at, but like the film goes to show you (and as the old saying goes), looks can be deceiving. Unfortunately, this “through-the-looking-glass” tale is familiar, dimwitted, and predictable. It’s a far cry from Booksmart'‘s gut-busting good time — it just might be the biggest budget stinker of the year.
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The long wait is finally over! Nope, the next exciting vision from Jordan Peele, is finally here, and it’s sure to take audiences for an entertaining and unexpected ride. This go around, Peele creates fear out of open spaces and will certainly have you looking at clouds in a different light. It will be hard to avert your eyes, but look at your own risk; this spectacle may just suck you up and spit you out.
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It’s been eight long years since David Cronenberg’s last film, but he’s finally back with another sick and surgical slice of psychological-tinged body horror. Crimes Of The Future possess thematic overlap with other Cronenberg staples, like Videodrome and eXistenZ, but it’s by no means a regurgitation. If surgery is the new sex, then long live the New Flesh, baby!
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Denis Villeneuve is back with another sci-fi epic! This time around, he grapples with one of the most influential sci-fi novels of all-time: Frank Herbert’s Dune. With incredible scope and scale, Villeneuve beautifully articulates Herbert’s vision, delivering another meticulously crafted and masterfully executed sci-fi blockbuster for adults.
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French visionary Bertrand Mandico creates a queer ode to Kate Bush with his sophomore feature, After Blue (Dirty Paradise), which recently had its U.S. premiere at Austin, Texas’ Fantastic Fest. This esoteric sapphic-surrealist sci-fi acid western reaffirms Mandico’s penchant for conceiving highly imaginative fantastic worlds, but it’s not going to be everyone’s cup of tea. The film is a frequency, and you’re either on it or you’re not.
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The Vast Of Night marks the feature film debut of writer/director Andrew Patterson, who proves to be another new filmmaker to keep your eye on. With astounding skill, Patterson finds a fresh angle to a familiar story about something otherworldly in the sky, and he fills its journey full of palpable wonder that will leave you feeling awestruck.
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