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Interview by Paul Salfen With a filmography that runs the gamut but strikes a chord with genre fans, writer-producer-director Brian Yuzna has been churning out beloved films for years and three of those will be celebrated this weekend at the inaugural North Texas Film Festival: Re-Animator, Society, and Honey, I Shrunk the Kids. Yuzna took

A SLATE WILL ALSO FEATURE THE WORLD PREMIERE OF ZAK HILDITCH’S RATTLESNAKE, AND PREMIERES FROM…

ODE TO JOY was inspired by a true story written by Portland writer Chris Higgins for the radio program and podcast This American Life called “I’ve fallen in love and I can’t get up." in June 2010.  Despite centering around a serious debilitating condition of narcolepsy called cataplexy which is exactly what it sounds like...

Starring Traci Lords, whom Roe represents, the film is set in 1949 around a fading Hollywood star who mourns the loss of her sister on the year anniversary of her death. But there’s a ghostly twist that involves revenge, jealousy, and otherworldly justice. Shot lovingly in black and white in the former home of Frankenstein

DREADOUT from Indonesian director Kimo Stamboel has to be one of the true standouts of…

One of the strongest films of Fantasia, a film that works for exactly what it…

Gints Zilbalodis’ masterpiece journey AWAY captures everything that word suggests. A simple story of a…

It’s been a great Fantasia. The films I’ve seen have varied in their flavor from…

The thing I love most about Fantasia is it is such a mixed bag of…

Shelagh McLeod’s film ASTRONAUT should probably actually entitled ASTRONAUT? The film follows the journey…