So you can’t make it down to Austin for Fantastic Fest this weekend? (In case you’re unaware, Fantastic Fest is the Alamo Drafthouse’s annual film festival “featuring the best in new science-fiction, fantasy, horror, animation, crime, Asian, and all around badass cinema.” Be sure to check the Screengrab for reviews, starting later this week.) Fret not – from now through September 20th you can get a taste of the fare that will be on offer, as five features and five shorts from the lineup will be available for viewing online.
The only catch is that you must be a member of the BSide community in order to log in and view the films. I don’t really know what that is, honestly, but apparently it’s free and easy to join. Among the films made available online (“in beautiful high-resolution for those with blazing speed”) are Doctor Infierno, a Spanish film in which a “demented gynecologist discovers a cure for all the world’s illnesses and uses it as leverage to become sole dictator of the earth,” South of Heaven, “a wholly unique and darkly comic id-ride through some of the more questionable corners of the human condition,” and I Think We’re Alone Now, a “fascinating and deeply disturbing documentary” about obsessed Tiffany fans.
Here’s the link. And if you are going to be in Austin for Fantastic Fest, be sure to buy your friendly neighborhood Screengrabber a beer.
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