Browsing: Fantastic Fest 2025

Interview by Paul Salfen BEAST OF WAR will be In Theaters and On Digital October 10th.  The Timor Sea stretches endlessly, a merciless expanse of blue under a scorching sun. A life raft drifts, overcrowded with Australian soldiers—young, battered, and far from home. Their ship, sunk by Japanese Zeros in 1942, has left them stranded,

Interview by Paul Salfen In a cinematic landscape dominated by CGI spectacles, Steven Kostanski's remake of the 1983 sword-and-sorcery cult classic Deathstalker is betting big on old-school grit. Set for a limited theatrical release on Oct. 10 via Shout! Studios, the film stars action veteran Daniel Bernhardt in the titular role, channeling the barbaric heroism

The Alamo Drafthouse in Austin buzzed with anticipation at Fantastic Fest 2025, where the Adams family—Toby Poser, John Adams, and their daughters Lulu and Zelda—unveiled their latest cinematic creation, Mother of Flies. This warped fairy tale, shot in the hauntingly beautiful Catskill forests, marks their most personal narrative yet. As the lights dimmed and the

Interview by Paul Salfen The electric hum of Fantastic Fest 2025 buzzes through Austin, Texas, where filmmakers, actors, and cinephiles collide in a celebration of genre-bending storytelling. Amid the festival’s whirlwind of screenings and late-night Q&As, I find myself in a lively conversation with director Avalon Fast and the cast and crew of her sophomore

By Paul Salfen The Alamo Drafthouse was still buzzing from the electric premiere of The Curse at Fantastic Fest 2025 when I caught up with Kenichi Ugana, the Japanese genre maestro whose latest film had the audience gripped by a chilling vision of social media’s dark side. Over the clink of glasses and the hum

Interview by Paul Salfen The air crackled with anticipation at Fantastic Fest 2025, where Brooke H. Cellars unveiled her audacious feature debut, The Cramps: A Period Piece. In an exclusive interview with AMFM Magazine’s Paul Salfen, Cellars peeled back the layers of her wild, genre-bending horror-comedy, revealing a deeply personal story wrapped in the vibrant,

Interview by Paul Salfen The Alamo Drafthouse at Fantastic Fest buzzed with anticipation as the curtain lifted—figuratively, at least—on Haunted Heist, the latest genre-bending comedy-horror flick that's got audiences whispering about ghosts, heists, and heartfelt reunions. Directed by Lil Rel Howery and starring Tiffany Haddish alongside Brett Gelman and Ari Dayan, the film follows four

Interview by Paul Salfen Austin, TX – Fantastic Fest, the Mecca for all things macabre and mind-bending, is back in full swing at the Alamo Drafthouse, and this year's lineup is already dripping with dread. But few films are shrouded in as much secrecy as PRIMATE, the latest nightmare from horror maestro Johannes Roberts (47

By Paul Salfen Limp Bizkit’s Frontman Gets Real in Austin Fred Durst is no stranger to contradictions. The man who once shouted anthems of rage to stadiums full of kids in backward caps now spends his downtime digging into Bicycle Thieves and Kubrick. At Fantastic Fest 2025—the Austin mecca for genre diehards—Durst, who is a

Interview by Paul Salfen In the labyrinthine world of cinema, where genres collide and expectations are subverted, filmmaker Eugène Green’s The Tree of Knowledge emerges as a singular work—a meditative fable that defies categorization. Premiering at Fantastic Fest, the film captivated audiences with its blend of spiritual inquiry, fantastical elements, and a piercing critique of