Fantastic Fest

Standing drunk on a beach, looking out at the ocean, filmmaker JD Dillard suddenly had the idea for his next movie.

On a long, long, long list of films or TV shows that writer-director Taika Waititi could have listed as influences…

The new animated film I Lost My Body tells two parallel stories. One is of a disembodied hand that somehow…

The 2019 edition of Fantastic Fest, which wrapped up yesterday, once again lived up to its name. Over the course of…

Don’t let the title fool you. There are no wolves in The True Adventures of Wolfboy. There are adventures, though—lot…

Buying a house sucks, but it has never, ever been as bad as it is in Vivarium. Jesse Eisenberg and Imogen Poots star…

While the simplest way to describe the new film Sea Fever is “Alien on the ocean,” let’s get something out of the…

If the guys in The Hangover learned to travel through time and ended up in Waking Life, it would be a little like The…

If watching Robert Pattinson and Willem Dafoe fuck with each other for two hours in black and white sounds like your…

A movie like Alien doesn’t just come out of nowhere. There’s the screenplay, the director’s vision, and a massive…

Every nine years, a mysterious killer resurfaces for one day only. The victims die from a disease no one has ever…

When you hear a movie is called Butt Boy, we all think the same thing. Either it’s a porno or it’s a gross-out…

When Stephen King makes cars, animals, housekeepers, diseases, or clowns scary, it somehow all makes sense. Those…

The whole world can change in the time it takes to play a high school basketball game. That’s exactly what happens…

Titling a movie about a woman stranded on an island that may or may not be infested with monsters Sweetheart doesn’t…

After films like What We Do in the Shadows, Hunt for the Wilderpeople, and even Thor: Ragnarok, we have a pretty…

It’s that time of year when some of the most insane, original, and glorious genre films in the world descend upon…

One of the most interesting film documentarians around is turning his watchful eye to an all-encompassing…

Imagine sitting down for a movie. You don’t know what that movie is but when it’s over you realize you’ve been…

io9's Germain Lussier spent the last week in Austin, Texas, feasting his eyeballs on Fantastic Fest’s rich, grisly…