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Isaac Feldberg

Film Review: At the Toronto Film Fest — “Apples,” An Eerie, Airy Slice of New Greek Weird Wave

What comes through most resonantly in Apples is its envisioning of a society starting over, and its suggestion that a clean slate, accepted honestly, might not be the worst thing.

By: Isaac Feldberg Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: Apples, Greek Weird Wave, Isaac Feldberg, Toronto Film Festival

Film Review: At the Fantasia International Film Festival, Part Three

In wrapping up Fantasia, I focused on The Five Rules of Success, Come True, and The Dark and the Wicked, three ambitious genre titles that have stuck with me long since their credits rolled.

By: Isaac Feldberg Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: Come True, Fantasia 2020, Isaac Feldberg, Orson Oblowitz, The Dark and the Wicked, The Five Rules of Success

Film Review: At the Fantasia International Film Festival, Part Two

Movies, great or awful, are essential comforts in these nightmarish times. And in my second dispatch of the Fantasia fest, I bring better tidings.

By: Isaac Feldberg Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: Ben Hozie, Climate of the Hunter, Fantasia 2020, Fried Barry, Hunted, Isaac Feldberg, Ivo van Aart, Lapsis, Mickey Reece, Noah Hutton, PVT CHAT, Ryan Kruger, The Columnist, Vincent Paronnaud

Film Review: “I’m Thinking of Ending Things” — Charlie Kaufman’s Hall of Existential Mirrors Glimmers Darkly

I’m Thinking of Ending Things is a bit of a wonder, a careful nightmare that demands rapt attention even if repeated viewings do little to assuage its eeriness.

By: Isaac Feldberg Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: Charlie Kaufman, I'm Thinking of Ending Things, Isaac Feldberg

Film Review: At the Fantasia International Film Festival, Part One

The Mortuary Collection is a dark diamond in the rough of this year’s Fantasia so far, a canny ode to horror history that pays respect to its elders without appearing dated or derivative.

By: Isaac Feldberg Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: 12 Hour Shift, Brea Grant, Crazy Samurai Musashi, Fantasia 2020, Fantasia International Film Festiva, Isaac Feldberg, Lucky, Minoru Kawasaki, Monster Seafood Wars, Natasha Kermani, Ryan Spindell, The Mortuary Collection, Yuji Shimomura

Film Review: Shudder’s “La Llorona” — A Supernatural Reckoning with Guatemalan Genocide

La Llorona’s deepest horrors flow from real history, from the atrocities inflicted by powerful men and the institutions established to ensure they get away with it.

By: Isaac Feldberg Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: Isaac Feldberg, Jayro Bustamante, La Llorona, Shudder

Film Review: “The Rental” — Low Rent B and B Horror

The Rental chugs along predictable genre rails, its characters settling into the expected “types” as screws are gradually turned on them by whoever’s surveilling from a distance.

By: Isaac Feldberg Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: Dave Franco, Isaac Feldberg, The Rental

Film Review: “The Beach House” — Eco-Horrors on Cape Cod

Sharp, simple, and well-attuned to the hopelessly grim tenor of these past few years, The Beach House knows how doomed we all are, says we deserve it, and prays that, after the tide comes in to wash us out, the rest will be left to flourish.

By: Isaac Feldberg Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: Isaac Feldberg, Jeffrey A. Brown, The Beach House

Film Review: At the Boston Underground Film Festival — “Knife+Heart” and “Mope”

My mind is busy considering the presence of two distinctly engrossing thrillers of sex and violence set within the adult film industry, one a vividly romantic neo-giallo fairy tale, the other a discomfiting, tragicomic spiral into murder and depravity.

By: Isaac Feldberg Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: Boston Underground Film Festival, Isaac Feldberg, Knife+Heart, Lucas Heyne, Mope, Yann Gonzalez

Film Review: “Greta” — Psycho Thriller, Qui Est-Ce?

A B-movie par excellence, Greta’s the kind of unhinged and yet fiendishly well-calibrated genre fare that rarely gets afforded the attentions of a director as accomplished as Neil Jordan.

By: Isaac Feldberg Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: Greta, Isaac Feldberg, Isabelle Huppert, Neil Jordan

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