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Fantasia 2013 Wrap Up!

And so, another great year of the Fantasia Film Festival is in the books. Overall, it was another awesome year, filled with jam-packed, crazy screenings with ultra-enthusiastic audiences, laid back celebrity guests, and plenty of late-night drinking at the Irish...

Latest Fantasia Reviews 2013

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Review: The Battery (Fantasia)

PLOT: Two middling baseball players, Mickey (Adam Cronheim) and Ben (Jeremy Gardner) find themselves in the middle of a full-blown zombie apocalypse. They hide out in the forests and back roads of New England, trying to scrape by and avoid...
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Review: Bad Milo! (Fantasia)

PLOT: A mild-mannered accountant (Ken Marino) is horrified to discover that he has a murderous monster living in his anus. There’s a sentence I never thought I’d write. Ouch. REVIEW: And here I thought I had seen it all. I...
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Review: 5-25-77 (Fantasia 2013)

PLOT: Growing up in rural Illinois in the mid-seventies, teenaged Pat Johnson (John Francis Daley) dreams of being a filmmaker like his idols Stanley Kubrick, Steven Spielberg, and Douglas Trumbull. But will Pat be able to escape his small town,...
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Review: The Machine (Fantasia)

PLOT: In a future where the U.K is on the brink of an all-out war with China, a brilliant doctor- Vincent (Toby Stephens) works for the Ministry of Defence, developing artificial limbs, and computer implants to repair wounded soldiers. When...
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Review: Raze (Fantasia)

PLOT: Several women are abducted, only to awaken in an underground prison where they’re forced to fight each other one-on-one to the death. If they lose, not only will they be killed, but their families will be murdered. REVIEW: RAZE...
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Review: Sweetwater (Fantasia)

PLOT: In late 1800's New Mexico, a young bride's husband is murdered by a fanatical religious leader. She cuts a swath of vengeance across the territory. REVIEW: Well, they can't all be winners, can they? Even a great festival is...
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Review: The Complex (Fantasia)

PLOT: Asuka (Atsuko Maeda) – a young nursing student- moves into a new apartment building with her family. Following some strange nocturnal activity, Asuka is horrified to discover the body of her neighbor, an elderly man who died of neglect,...
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Review: Zero Charisma

PLOT: Scott (Sam Eidson) is a dedicated table-top RPG fan. In fact, he’s such a fan that he’s unable to hold down anything but a dead-end job, while living at home with his cantankerous grandmother (Anne Gee Byrd) and dominating...
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Review: Willow Creek (Fantasia)

PLOT: Jim (Bryce Johnson) is obsessed with the legend of Bigfoot, and drags his girlfriend Kelly (Alexie Gilmore) along on a trip into the heart of “Bigfoot country” in Willow Creek, California to make a documentary retracing the journey taken...
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