SLA at Fantasia: Cuckoo – Spoiler Free Review

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I went into Cuckoo with as little knowledge about it as possible, only really knowing that it starred Hunter Schafer and Dan Stevens, and what a wild ride it was! Cuckoo first premiered at the 2024 Berlin International Film Festival earlier this year, but Shea and I were lucky enough to catch it for its Montreal premiere at Fantasia. It was a packed house, and a really responsive, engaged crowd, making this a blast to experience. The audible laughs, gasps, and cheers really reminded me how great it is to see a movie with people who love movies. This film is, as I’m sure many reviews will put it, completely cuckoo (I know, I know—I’m sorry). The story follows Gretchen (Schafer), a seventeen-year-old girl, who moves to the German Alps with her father and his new family and begins to experience unsettling things in the small resort town in which they find themselves. I won’t spoil what happens, but the bird-related title may give you some indication, although I would bet you won’t be able to predict exactly where it goes. There are some high-concept ideas that writer-director Tilman Singer is playing with here, and while I don’t think all of them quite cohere, I will say that I was never bored while watching Cuckoo. The movie is a bit all over the place tonally, but it has a sense of oddball style and confidence in its imagery and ideas that I found really refreshing in a horror movie. While Midsommar may have breathed new life into creepy European towns as a setting for horror, the isolated and wooded Bavarian setting here, along with vintage-style costumes and set design, make Cuckoo feel like it was ripped out of another era, in a good way. Hunter Schafer and Dan Stevens were by far the biggest highlights for me, though. Stevens gives a riotous performance, complete with silly German accent, as the mysterious and creepy Herr König, stealing scenes left and right. Every time he appears on screen, he’s a joy to watch, and, as he did in Abigail earlier this year, he provided some of the biggest laughs of the night. But, really, this is Hunter Schafer’s movie. If you’ve seen HBO’s Euphoria, you already know she can act her face off in a dramatic role, but it’s great to see her in something even more outside the box. Here, she gets to play a fairly wide range, from teenage angst to bloody desperation, and it’s a delight to see her in a role with plenty of physicality, digging into the genre muck to get bloodied, battered, and bruised—if you’ve ever wanted to see Hunter Schafer as a butterfly knife-wielding final girl, you won’t be disappointed. But she also gets to demonstrate some deadpan comedic chops and gives Gretchen plenty of heart. I don’t know exactly how to describe it, but the mix of tones, along with the subject matter (think bird-related reproductive horror?), makes Cuckoo feel pretty unique. Not every idea or creative choice lands, but there are some truly laugh-out-loud moments, alongside some tense atmosphere and body horror, not to mention a beating heart running through it, with a surprisingly tender and affective payoff (there’s one scene in particular that even had me getting a bit misty-eyed). The film is very well-shot, too, with a great soundtrack and excellent use of music and sound design. The pay-off to everything the movie tries to set up and to its unsettling early moments may not be to everyone’s taste. It goes to surprising places and, at the same time, some people will probably feel that it doesn’t really go far enough. What all that means is that the movie also feels like it’s juggling too much. It wants to be an over-the-top creature feature, a disturbing horror/thriller, but also a quirky deadpan comedy and a meditation on grief and parenthood. To its credit, though, the result is a movie that’s dark and disturbing and gross and bloody and tender and funny and weird—in short, it feels quite singular. I can’t deny how fun a ride this was, even if it doesn’t really come together to form a coherent and meaningful whole. But when you’re having this much fun, does that really matter? Verdict Cuckoo – ❤️ Cuckoo is an uneven but undeniably entertaining thriller. There’s gore and gross-outs and blood and scares—but also plenty of laughs and even some tender moments that are surprisingly effective. That the movie can juggle so many different threads and tones, and still (mostly) work, is really a testament to writer-director Tilman Singer and stars Hunter Schafer and Dan Stevens. Stevens is always a blast to watch, and he’s absolutely in his element here as an eccentric German resort owner with something to hide. And Schafer gets to bloody her hands as an iconic final girl, complete with a sick bomber jacket and butterfly knife. These elements of style may stand out more than any coherent thematic concerns, but who cares when the pieces are this fun?

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‘Witchboard’ Spoiler Free Review – Chuck Russell Summons Fun, Fear, and a Touch of Camp

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We’re entering the second week of our Fantasia Festival coverage and if you haven’t been following us on Instagram and X (formerly Twitter), you’re missing out! Not only can you follow what movies we’re seeing, but you can also see additional coverage, including from the red carpet! Last night, I got to see the world premiere of Witchboard, the latest from writer/director Chuck Russell. If you’re around my age or even a little older, chances are you’ve seen a few of Russell’s movies before. His credits include Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors, The Blob (1988), The Mask with Jim Carrey, The Scorpion King with Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, and Eraser with Arnold Schwarzenegger. That’s one hell of a diverse range of movies and is one of the coolest filmographies I’ve seen for any director.  This was Russell’s return to the horror genre, but he didn’t come alone! The cast includes Madison Iseman who you may recognize from the Jumaniji movies or Annabelle Comes Home, Jamie Campbell Bower, who is probably best known for playing Grindelwald in the Harry Potter series or his more recent turn as Vecna in Stranger Things, Charlie Tahan, who you may know from Ozark, and Aaron Dominguez, whose biggest credit is a 10 episode stint on Only Murders in the Building.  According to the director in our red carpet interview, Witchboard is more of a re-imagining than a remake of the original movie from 1986. To keep spoilers light, we will only give you an excerpt from the IMDB synopsis:  “​​Emily (Madison Iseman) and her fiancé Christian (Aaron Dominguez) discover an ancient Wiccan artifact, a pendulum board, as they prepare to open a bistro in New Orleans’ French Quarter. Emily becomes obsessed with the board’s power of divination and spirit summoning, exposing her to the ancient spirit of the Queen of Witches.” So, did Witchboard have me spellbound or did it just conjure up disappointment?  My Thoughts There is a lot to like about Witchboard, but right off the top I want to stress an important thing this movie does. Witchboard is another great example of a movie with a really specific vision for itself. The movie knows exactly what it wants to be and doesn’t take any detours to try and be more than that. This is one of the most refreshing things about my experience so far at Fantasia. Much of the movies I’ve seen have been free from studio interference, and it REALLY shows. If you’ve watched basically any studio movie you probably know what I’m talking about. Maybe it’s a comedy full of laughs, but suddenly the movie screeches to a halt so we can get a very serious scene to make the main character feel more relatable. Or maybe you’re vibing with a fun slasher movie and someone is running for their life from a killer but somehow finds fifteen minutes to give us some tragic backstory so they feel more complex. None of these kinds of moments occur in Witchboard but that’s not to say it lacks in relatability or complexity for its characters, it just finds a way to weave those aspects into the story.  Much of the credit for that has to go to Chuck Russell, who hasn’t lost his love for the genre. I asked Russell what it is about horror that brought him back to the genre and he said that, “[Horror] is one of the genres where you can be the most imaginative and the most fearless,” and this imagination and fearlessness is evident in the movie. Witchboard very much feels like a movie made with passion and a genuine desire to make something unique. While it has some more traditional horror elements and jump scares, the movie also has some pretty gory action sequences, some pretty solid restaurant cooking scenes, and even covers some different time periods. It’s hard to describe exactly, but something about how this movie was shot and what happens in it just oozed creative passion and an earnestness that I haven’t felt too often in movies these days.  Beyond that, though, there were some standout performances here too. I’ll start by talking about the biggest scene-stealer in the movie for me: Jamie Campbell Bower. I absolutely loved his performance in this movie. To be clear, this movie definitely has some camp to it, but it wasn’t always clear to me how much of it was intentional or not. However, I never had any of those doubts with Bower. I’m a sucker for a performance where you can just tell that the actor is having a great time, and there is no question that Bower enjoyed playing the eccentric occult expert Alexander Babtiste. It floors me that people aren’t jumping over each other to cast him in their movies, but I hope that will soon change! Madison Iseman and Aaron Dominguez were solid as our leads, particularly earlier in the movie, but I also felt like their relationship suffers a bit from the ambiguously campy tone. Certain moments got some laughs in our screening, but the music and performances felt like they wanted me to be taking them a bit more seriously. This wasn’t a significant issue or anything, as these moments are rare. Speaking of laughs, though, the movie is very aware of the comedy that can be found in the horror genre and there are plenty of intentional laughs to be had here. Iseman, in particular, is given a lot to do in this movie and she manages to excel no matter what situation her character is faced with. I also loved Charlie Tahan here. He has an energy about him that makes him incredibly likeable. He was really great in the movie and had a hand in some unforgettable moments!  I might be a little biased, but I loved the locations used in this movie too. The movie takes place predominantly in New Orleans, but they also filmed here in Montreal for some scenes and they managed to

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SLA at Fantasia: Dark Match – Spoiler Free Review

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When I first confirmed that I would be covering the Fantasia Film Festival this year, there were two movies I knew for sure that I wanted to see. The first was Chris Stuckmann’s Shelby Oaks (you can read my spoiler free review of that right here) and the other was the focus of this review: Lowell Dean’s Dark Match.  If movies are my first love, wrestling is a close second. Luckily for me, Dark Match brings these two things together! As if that wasn’t enough, this also is a Canadian production loaded with Canadian talent. That includes writer/director Lowell Dean (Wolfcop), current All Elite Wrestling (AEW) star Chris Jericho, Ayisha Issa, and Steven Ogg (Grand Theft Auto V, Better Call Saul, The Walking Dead). Dark Match is a horror action-thriller that takes place in the 1980s. The plot synopsis reads: “A small-time wrestling company accepts a well-paying gig in a backwoods town only to learn, too late, that the community is run by a mysterious cult leader with devious plans for their match.” For those of you less versed in the wrestling world than myself, the term “dark match” is used to describe a match that isn’t filmed or televised. Cleverly, it serves an extra purpose given the culty nature of the movie, but I will say at the top here that I was thrilled by the level of detail about wrestling in this movie. During the conversation with the cast and crew after our screening, Chris Jericho even remarked to Lowell Dean that after he read the script, he was so impressed with the details, he thought he wrote it himself!  But rest assured, this isn’t a movie that relies on you having any real knowledge about wrestling to enjoy. Much of the cast and even Dean himself noted that they weren’t immersed in wrestling before they started making the movie. The idea came to Dean after a friend brought him to a wrestling show in Canada, and he found himself fully immersed in what he was watching and seeing just how passionate the rest of the audience was. They had so much passion, in fact, Dean noted it felt “cult like,” and thus, Dark Match was born!  The theatre was packed, the crowd was energized, and a ton of the cast and crew were here for the world premiere at Fantasia. If you want to follow all of our coverage of the festival, be sure to follow us on Instagram and X (formerly Twitter)! So was Dark Match main event material or was watching it like taking an elbow from the top rope? My Thoughts Not only is this main event material, it’s championship worthy because this movie was an absolute blast from start to finish! I can’t imagine anything I see during the rest of Fantasia will be as fun as this movie was. Let’s start off with the cast, because just wow. Everyone was fantastic here and not one person felt out of place. The pleasant surprise for me was getting to see Canadian actress Ayisha Issa for the first time. She plays Miss Behave (I will be using kayfabe names only in this review 😎), and she was absolutely stupendous. When you have stars like Chris Jericho and Steven Ogg in your movie, it can be to the detriment of your movie if the rest of the cast can’t match what they can bring to it. That definitely wasn’t a problem for Issa, who was so great and so likable that I missed her whenever she wasn’t on screen. She was a captivating lead and played a variety of different sides of Miss Behave, and I hope to see her in more things after this.  Steven Ogg was another beaming high point of this movie. Like most of you, I became familiar with Ogg for his portrayal of Trevor in Grand Theft Auto V. He was easily the best performance in a game full of them and I was ecstatic to see him pop up a few times in Better Call Saul as well. He’s just so captivating on screen, and while his characters in those works aren’t exactly pillars of their community, this was my first time seeing a more human side of Ogg. Ironically, he plays “Mean” Joe Lean in Dark Match, but this really is a case of kayfabe as outside the ring, Joe Lean is a very sweet and nice guy. Also, one small note, every single time I heard his name in the movie, I kept thinking of the song “Jolene” by Dolly Parton. After the screening, Lowell Dean confirmed that was absolutely intentional because when he was a kid he thought the song was about a man named Joe Lean.  I also want to acknowledge the rest of the supporting cast as well, because they all did a fantastic job too. Leo Fafard, Jonathan Cherry, Michael Eklund, Sara Canning, and Mo Adan, who got some of the loudest pops in the entire movie.  Last, but certainly not least, let’s talk about Chris Jericho! Jericho is known for having one of the longest and most consistent runs in wrestling history, and I was intrigued by his casting for this movie. Despite having acted in a few different things, Jericho has avoided acting in movies about wrestling. He confirmed as much tonight, but said he signed onto Dark Match, because he believed there was more here than a simple wrestling movie (and boy, is he right about that). Jericho plays The Prophet, the leader of the mysterious cult that brings our wrestlers out to the middle of nowhere for a show. Jericho is used very well here, as his presence becomes more prominent as the movie progresses. While he clearly enjoys hamming it up, he also gets some moments to be a bit more serious as well. Jericho later pointed out something I noticed and appreciated while watching the movie: he deliberately avoided performing the moves that the real Jericho typically does in

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SLA at Fantasia: Carnage for Christmas – Movie Review

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We’re kicking off the Fantasia International Film Festival with a self-described “transgender holiday film,” directed and co-written by Alice Maio Mackay. There’s nothing like a good Christmas slasher in the middle of a humid Montreal July to offer a little bit of escapism. Carnage for Christmas is the first film in Fantasia’s ‘Underground’ lineup in 2024, which highlights “bold, super independent outsider works that possess a purity of vision and are wholly unafraid to take risks”. It’s also the first film of Mackay’s that I’ve seen, but, shockingly, considering the Australian filmmaker is just 19 years old, it’s her fifth feature. To be this prolific—and this creatively fearless—at just 19 is both awe-inspiring and more than a little envy-inducing. I didn’t know exactly what I was expecting going in, but with a title like Carnage for Christmas, and a throwback-style poster evoking the iconic Black Christmas (1974), I knew I was probably in for a fun time. And that’s exactly what I got! The film follows Lola, forensic investigator and host of a true crime podcast, who returns to her hometown for Christmas for the first time since running away and transitioning. Upon her return, bodies start to pile up, as her own past and the town’s dark history rear their heads. The holiday vibes are relatively minimal, especially at first. I’m also used to snow-white Christmases here in Canada, so the Australian setting didn’t exactly help to put me in the Christmas spirit. But, despite the lack of snow, we still get a fun holiday twist to the usual slasher tropes and imagery that makes the film effectively campy and creepy. In general, the movie is a bit slow to start, and the resolution felt somewhat rushed to me. But with a scant 70-minute runtime, that’s no surprise, and Mackay still manages to fit a lot into those 70 minutes, from fairly well-realized characters and relationships to small town lore to a whole animated sequence (!) that quickly and impressively conveys our protagonist’s relevant traumatic backstory. And honestly, by the time a drag queen is using her tits as a weapon, I was quite on board with the whole endeavor, despite the film’s flaws. Without spoiling too much, the ending, rushed as it was, felt redemptive and cathartic in a way that I think a lot of queer folks will appreciate. Don’t get me wrong here—for all its messaging, this is also a bloody, expletive-filled slasher. There’s some good use of practical effects, as well as some sharp lines of dialogue and moments of humour that work quite well. The performances, while at times a bit stiff, are also surprisingly good, especially from Jeremy Moineau, who plays Lola and has the difficult task of carrying the entire film and, as far as I can tell, hasn’t acted in anything else before. To that point, you can definitely tell the movie is low-to-no budget, but it’s what I would call “charmingly low budget”. It’s polished enough that the low-budget aspects don’t really detract from the experience, and more importantly, it’s clear that Mackay has an assured vision and presence as a director. With editing and visual effects by Vera Drew (whose film The People’s Joker released in the US earlier this year to critical acclaim), Carnage has a sense of visual flair and confidence that feels rare for a movie at this level. It also feels like a truly collaborative movie. From what I gather, a lot of the cast and crew here are people Mackay has worked with before, and it has the feeling of a group of friends coming together to create something they’re passionate about and have fun doing it, which is something I always appreciate and adore in a movie. Ultimately, we need more trans voices and filmmakers, especially in subversive genres like horror, where they’ve historically been either victimized or villainized. So I’m happy to say that, while the edges are rough and not every swing lands, this is a welcome entry into the queer underground Christmas horror canon. Verdict With a brisk runtime, a distinct sense of style, and some solid performances—all on a very low budget—this is a fun, campy, holiday slasher. While I wasn’t blown away by anything here, Carnage for Christmas shows a lot of promise. If this is what Alice Maio Mackay can do at 19 on a nothing budget, then I can’t wait to see what she’s capable of with even more to work with. And if she continues at this pace, she’ll be a household name in horror in no time.

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In a Violent Nature – Spoiler Free Review

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My love for horror has been well documented here on Screen Love Affair already, but to add a bit more to the lore, the slasher genre in particular is how I got into horror movies to begin with. Gram was watching Friday the 13th: Part VII in the guestroom and I, despite being scared, wanted to impress Gram with my brave face so I sat through the rest of the movie with her. My brother Ty found his own way to the Friday the 13th franchise, but he is an even bigger fan than I am.  I don’t remember exactly when In a Violent Nature first appeared on my radar, but when I first heard about it I thought that this was a movie tailor made for Ty and I. What made us so interested was that this movie was a classic slasher, but told from the perspective of the killer.  So, was this a slasher fan’s dream, or our worst nightmare?  My Thoughts Unfortunately, very little worked for me about this movie. Before I get specifically into my thoughts though, I want to preface this by saying that this was a super small budget Canadian film made by people with no real credits to their names and filmed in the province of Ontario. Not to mention, this movie does something new and takes a chance and I hope that the financial return this movie gets is significant and that the creative team behind this film are able to keep honing their skills and developing more interesting ideas!  While this movie didn’t work for me, the fact this movie exists and got a significant theatrical push is worth celebrating and supporting.  On that note, I will start with the good. There were quite a few small details in this movie that demonstrated a familiarity with the genre and an admiration for what has come before. This movie was clearly inspired by the Friday the 13th movies, but it always felt more like an homage than a blatant and soulless ripoff. The movie opens with the inciting incident that sets our killer loose through the woods and the scenes where the soon to be victims appear all feel like they were authentically written as if this was a real 80s slasher (for better and worse) which I thoroughly enjoyed. This movie is loaded with all the classic horror tropes too, which add to its charm for this seasoned horror veteran.  Unfortunately, that’s where most of the good ends for me.  My biggest critique is that in no way did this need to be a feature length film. This is one of the longest 94 minute movies I’ve ever seen. It’s not entirely unfair to call this a “walking through the woods simulator” because for a significant part of the runtime, that is all that’s happening. While this could have worked better as 20-30 minute short, I really don’t see a way this even could work as a full movie.  If you’re familiar with the Friday the 13th movies at all, I kept thinking about the 2009 movie where Jason was much more kinetic. He wasn’t just big, he moved fast, and *GASP* he would even run after someone if he had to! He also had an elaborate tunnel and alarm system that explained how he could just seemingly appear and always knew where people were. Perhaps this movie would’ve worked better with a protagonist more like that than the more sluggish slasher villains of that older era where they really do just walk from point to point.  Aside from one and a half solid kills, this movie just made me feel absolutely nothing. No tension, no fear, no anxiety, no joy, nothing. I’ve seen this movie described as an “ambient slasher” but it doesn’t even feel particularly serene or anything either. There is no music, the sound effects are mostly dulled and lack any impact. The only time I felt anything was during one particularly creative kill and when the movie suddenly abandons the killer’s perspective and focuses on one of the characters so you feel some of that tension that you haven’t been experiencing this whole time.  Reading other reviews after I saw the movie also made me feel like I saw a different movie entirely. The current Rotten Tomatoes “Critic Consensus” reads, “As single-mindedly focused on mayhem as its demonic monster, In a Violent Nature serves up a deliciously disgusting feast for gore aficionados.”  I have an issue with almost every aspect of this, so I’m going to break down each section of that statement.  “As single-mindedly focused on mayhem as its demonic monster,” mayhem? What mayhem? To me, mayhem contains a sense of chaos that this movie just doesn’t convey. Most kills are done with broad gaps of time between them (filled with lots of walking) and are over fairly quick or are so confoundingly drawn out it left us all confused why we had a seemingly more creative mind than our killer. As for being focused on the killer, the movie entirely abandons that perspective at a certain point, but also breaks away from it throughout the movie as well.  “In a Violent Nature serves up a deliciously disgusting feast for gore aficionados.” So, feast implies an abundance. To borrow from James A. Janisse’s YouTube Channel Dead Meat, where they do “Kill Counts” (must watch for any horror fan), eight people are killed in this movie, which is about one every 12 minutes, but two of them happen basically off screen. Of the six we actually get to see, only one of them was really inventive and gorey, while the others were fairly tame by my standards. Your mileage may vary here, but as someone who has seen a lot of movies, I wasn’t overwhelmingly excited by much of what I saw in the kill department either.  Again, maybe I saw a different movie than these other critics but I’m not sure what these people are

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Thanksgiving – Shea’s Review

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In 1978 John Carpenter gave us Halloween which has become synonymous with the season, from the iconic look of Michael Myers to the amazing soundtrack. Now we have Thanksgiving, which is Eli Roth’s attempt at creating the defining slasher horror movie of the (American) Thanksgiving season. Taking place in Plymouth, Massachusetts, the movie begins on Black Friday 2022 outside of a RightMart. Eventually the crowd is whipped into a frenzy and storms the store causing multiple fatalities. A year later, people involved in the incident are the targets of a killer wearing a John Carver mask and a traditional pilgrim outfit. The film stars Patrick Dempsey, Addison Rae, Milo Manheim, Jalen Thomas Brooks, Nell Verlaque, Rick Hoffman, and Gina Gershon. Despite being a new film in 2023, the inception of Thanksgiving actually dates back to 2007’s Grindhouse which was written and directed by Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez. It’s actually a double feature made up of Tarantino’s Death Proof and Rodriguez’s Planet Terror. In Grindhouse a fake trailer (also directed by Roth) is shown for “Thanksgiving”. There are definite references from the trailer in the movie, but tonally they are very different so just be aware of that if you check it out before you see this movie. Now, sixteen years later, we have the full feature film! Is it destined to become part of the Thanksgiving tradition or is it as forgettable as the casserole that your aunt always brings to Thanksgiving dinner? Let’s get into it! My Thoughts I’ve probably watched more horror movies in my life than any other genre and I was really worried that I had hit a wall with horror movies. This year saw the releases of The Evil Dead Rise and Talk To Me. Both received positive critical responses, but I really didn’t care for either one. I went into Thanksgiving hopeful, but I couldn’t shake this worry that maybe horror movies were just not working for me like they used to.Thankfully (pun intended) Thanksgiving was an absolute blast! The trailer shown in Grindhouse has a bit more of a sinister tone than the actual movie does, so if you felt put off by the fake trailer, don’t worry! Eli Roth loves the genre and that definitely shows in this movie. Many of the kills are over the top and they’re definitely graphic without being too mean spirited. There is a decent sized cast in this one, as is typical in these kinds of movies, and while everyone does a fine job nobody really stands out as a scene stealer. You won’t really remember anyone’s name after the credits roll, but you don’t really need to. Typically in horror movies they will try to give you some backstory or exposition about certain characters to try and get some emotional investment going, but it often feels cheap and unearned. They give you a little bit of this in Thanksgiving with the main character, but the good news is that it doesn’t really impact your viewing experience. You don’t need to care about the characters for this movie to work. I mean this is a movie where the tagline is “There will be no leftovers.” so you clearly aren’t meant to take it too seriously. What really shines here is the tone this movie takes. It delivers all the classic slasher staples while giving you a steady stream of laughs throughout. The laughs are genuine and earned and the quippy jokes and dialogue that seem to plague movies these days aren’t used here thankfully. It doesn’t rely on jump scares either which is becoming increasingly important to me as I watch more and more horror movies. Also, I want to make special mention of the inclusion of Tim Dillon in the cast as Manny the security guard. Tim is one of my favourite comedians and it was really fun to see him in this movie. I hope we see him in a lot more projects in the future! There is also a component of mystery to this movie about who exactly the killer is which is done well enough as the movie gives you many people to consider as possibilities. As is the case with the rest of the movie, this particular aspect isn’t breaking new ground but is handled well and offers an interesting twist to keep things going along. Verdict There really isn’t much more to say about this one! If you’re a horror fan, be sure to check this one out. It didn’t get much of a marketing push and deserves more success than it has gotten so far. It might not have the same iconic feel of the original Halloween movie but Thanksgiving is a feast of fun that I am certain I will watch again next Thanksgiving!

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