Fantasia Film Festival 2023

28.07.2023

Devils (악마들) Review – Fantasia 2023

Devils is awaiting a UK release date. Dark, foreboding and violent writer-director Kim Jae-hoon’s Devils (악마들) takes us into the underbelly of a city caught in the grip of a violent, cold-blooded killer and his associates. Under a neon glow, Kim Jae-hoon’s devilishly clever thriller twists and turns, never allowing the audience to catch their breath as the stakes get higher and blood begins to flow down the city’s backstreets. Jae-hwan (Oh Dae-hwan) is the homicide detective charged with taking down the serial killer Jin-hyuk (Jang Dong-yoon) and his violent associates. Jae-hwan will stop at nothing to bring their torturous rampage

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25.07.2023

The Primevals (Review) – Fantasia 2023

The Primevals is awaiting a UK release date. Directed by the legendary special effects wizard David Allen (Young Sherlock Holmes) and co-written by Randall William Cook, the effects wizard behind The Gate (1987), The Primevals pays homage to the late great Ray Harryhausen while wrapping us in the wonder of Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack’s King Kong. Allen’s film is bathed in the magic of cinema as it whisks us away to a hidden world of wonder, adventure, excitement and danger by embracing a style of filmmaking now largely redundant due to CGI. For centuries the mysterious and

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24.07.2023

Stay Online (Review) – Fantasia 2023

Stay Online is awaiting a UK release date. On Thursday, 24th February 2022, life in Ukraine suddenly and violently changed as Russia invaded the sovereign democracy after months of military build-up on its borders and diplomatic lies. For the people of Ukraine, this invasion sparked anger, fear, a need for justice and a sudden and sharp change in life as air raid sirens sounded in cities and towns, and bunkers became second homes. The bravery shown by all those who stood firm and vowed to fight was inspiring to all of us watching from foreign lands. But none of us

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