Fantastic Fest

  • Movie News

Fantastic Fest 2022 Lineup Features Timothée Chalamet’s Bones & All, Anya Taylor-Joy’s The Menu

Timothée Chalamet and Anya Taylor-Joy fans, rejoice: Luca Guadagnino's Bones & All, starring Chalamet, and Mark Mylod's The Menu, starring…

2 years ago
  • Movie News

50 Film Festivals Worth the Entry Fee in 2022, Presented by FilmFreeway

Moviemaker Kevin T. Morales, whose ‘90s high school comedy Generation Wrecks is coming soon, tweeted something recently that we strongly…

2 years ago
  • Movie News

How Mickey Reece Built a DIY Oklahoma Film Empire (Podcast)

Ask Mickey Reece, director of the film festival darling Climate of the Hunter, how he deals with rejection, and he…

4 years ago
  • Moviemaking

Novel Ideas: Moviemakers Jeremy Saulnier and Macon Blair on Adapting a Book for the Screen and Building Atmosphere

In September, director Jeremy Saulnier and screenwriter Macon Blair attended Fantastic Fest 2018 to present Hold the Dark—a fully-immersive cinematic…

6 years ago
  • Festivals

Fantastic Fest 2018: Peak Programming and Premieres and a Self-Reflective Tone Shape the Austin Hotspot’s 13th Year

At its heart, Fantastic Fest is not simply a film festival: It's a weeklong experience of controlled extremity, in which…

6 years ago
  • Annual Lists

MovieMaker’s 30 Bloody Best Genre Fests in the World in 2019, Presented by HorrorHound

It’s a glorious time to be a horror fan and a horror moviemaker.  As proof continues to come in that…

6 years ago
  • Best Of

The World’s 15 Bloody Best Genre Fests, 2018

The language of fear, like that of music, is universal. Put all the people who’ve weathered hurricanes’ swift destruction of…

7 years ago
  • Festivals

The 25 Coolest Film Festivals in the World, 2017

Keith Richards said it best: “If you gotta think about being cool, you ain’t cool.” The 25 rare birds on…

7 years ago
  • Fall 2016

Shooting (for) the Moon: How Operation Avalanche Pulled Off a Reanimated Kubrick and a Tricky Legal Argument

“Do you think we could get the real Kubrick for this?” That was the question I asked my producer Matthew…

8 years ago
  • Festivals

The 25 Coolest Film Festivals in the World, 2016

In case you’ve forgotten, sometimes movies can just be about fun. Welcome to the 25 Coolest Film Festivals in the…

8 years ago
  • Fall 2015

Slaying the Horror Festival Circuit: How To Navigate the Deep, Dark Maze of North American Horror Film Festivals

No continent in the world hosts as many horror film festivals as North America, so the task of selecting a…

8 years ago
  • Best Of

The 25 Coolest Film Festivals in the World, 2015

We go to film festivals for the same reasons we see our favorite bands in concert. Or pop into bookstores…

9 years ago
  • Fall 2014
  • Festivals

The 25 Coolest Film Festivals in the World, 2014

Our annual list of the world’s weirdest and most wonderful cinematic celebrations: the 25 Coolest Film Festivals in the World.…

9 years ago
  • Documentary
  • Festivals

The Coolest Film Festivals in the World, 2013: Documentary and Horror/Sci-Fi Festival Winners by MM Editors

It's time! We're announcing our 2013 Coolest Film Festivals in the World winners, voted by YOU, two categories at a…

10 years ago
  • Documentary

Halloween Retro-SPOOK-tive: Navigating the Labyrinth of Room 237

Nobody ever forgets the Overlook Hotel and its wintry garden labyrinth, that elevator slowly gushing rivers of blood, the crayon-scrawled…

11 years ago
  • Best Of

The 25 Film Festivals Worth the Entry Fee: 2009

Every moviemaker has dreams of his or her film landing at Sundance or Cannes and instantly acquiring the enduring acclaim…

15 years ago