As football legend Sepp Herberger said, "nach dem Spiel ist vor dem Spiel" (after the game is before the game), only it's "after the festival is before the festival" for me, because the next mini film festival, Fantasy Filmfest Nights, is already on the horizon - this year from May 8th until 11th. The tickets can be purchased from April 16th on, and the program has been out for a couple of weeks now!
Don't forget that some of these movies will have a theatrical release at a later date, like Clown in the Cornfield, so it might be more economical to differentiate between movies you want to see at the festival and those that can be watched elsewhere - although I've really grown to enjoy the festival-atmosphere at the FFF, so I might as well prefer seeing all movies here. Let's take a look which movies I'm talking about...
Full list of festival films can be found here!
The opening film of the festival will, without exception, be sold out you can't even look that fast. Add to it that it's a film about a Kung Fu (popular) master ending up in Rome and getting involved with the mafia (very popular) during her search for her sister, it will be nearly impossible to get tickets for this one. Which is fine. I wouldn't say no if they gave me tickets, but it's not a tragedy if I don't see it. The trailer gives off stereotypical martial arts fights and action vibes, and honestly, the question is why it opens the festival. Maybe the director will be there, who knows?
You can never have enough revenge... or can you? In McManus brothers' newest picture a woman goes after the killer of her daughter in every possible parallel dimension, but at what cost?
There's a movie with a similar premise (albeit a very different approach to that premise) which is now in theaters, namely Bong Joon-ho's Mickey 17, in which an "expendable" worker is helping out with colonizing planets, and with expandable I mean, they get to die a lot and be cloned countless times. The knowledge that death is part of our existence and the circumvention of this element as a loss of the very essence of our humanity is a very very exciting theme to explore and although I haven't seen both movies yet (I really really don't want to sit in one movie for more than two hours, so I'll wait for the home media) but I'm very much anticipating Redux Redux.
After seeing the trailer... If anyone fumbles around my face with a puppet like that, I think I might react aggressively too, so I'm team Jeffrey Rush all the way. I really hope for this to be good!
Written, directed, and acted by all-around talent Joe Begos; I love small projects like this! Excessive fake splatter, neon colors, slime, alien abduction and madness - what's not to love?
A petty thief being locked in some kind of environment by a psychopathic control freak is basically nothing new, you can play with different environments or motives here but there's really not much space to wiggle to create something original, really.
What such a movie can offer is, of course, well-cast actors we love to see, and maybe an exotic place, such as the inside of a car said petty thief tried to steal. And I'm sorry that ever since Silence of the Lambs Anthony Hopkins hasn't been getting any other roles than the smart and eloquent criminal who operates on a high level, but he's just so great in that role. And I'm happy that we actually get to see Bill Skarsgård's face for once, unlike his last role as Count Orlok that could have been played by anyone really, we couldn't tell from all the heavy masking.
As a fan of industrial and noise music I'm pretty used to horror transmitted auditorily, and under this title I was (in vain) expecting something very experimental, a movie which explores the horror of sounds, maybe. But from the trailer of Noise it looks like this movie is much more conventional than expected, a ghost or similar entity making its presence known through certain noises, or the lack thereof, to a woman with a hearing impediment. Due to the sumptuous participation of the Korean community in Berlin, Korean movies are usually sold out pretty quickly at the FFF, so I hope to make it, or I'll have to wait if or until when the Creepy Crypt will show this one.
Den stygge stesøsteren / The Ugly Stepsister
Luc brings home his fiancée to meet his family, who is spooky to say the least, and has weird traditions that scare not only strangers. So what will it be?
I love African horror, and I'm psyched to be able to see this movie, which apparently was the first Nollywood film to premiere at the Tribecca Festival, so...
Clown in a Cornfield
Admittedly, I'm not the biggest fan of Adam Cesare's highly praised killer clown saga (the book), which is full of that American "boomers are bad and we're young and great" bullshit. The characters were horribly underdeveloped and not interesting or care-worthy at all, so I want to see if there's more merit in the movie version. My hopes aren't very high, and I don't think I'll pay festival prices to see this, but I might go see it later with my Yorck Unlimited membership.
It doesn't happen every year that an Academy Award Winner is screened at the FFF, but here we are. Not bad, not bad at all... And Memoir of A Snail looks objectively cute and moving. I'll make sure to bring my eye drops and tissues because it seems to be a tearjerker.
Well, that's about it for now. I'm not sure if they'll add any more movies to the program, I actually think they should, since twelve movies for four days seem a little too little for me, but I might be wrong, maybe it was always that way. Too bad I don't find many interesting movies in regular cinemas right now. I'm hoping for another surge of horror, as there was last year, which was a wonderful year for the horror cinema. Fingers crossed that this year will be better!
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