The Best, Worst, Weirdest, and Wildest Movies of Fantastic Fest 2024
/Film Weekly
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4.4 • 942 Ratings
🗓️ 2 October 2024
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
On the October 2, 2024 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editor Ben Pearson is joined by /Film editor Jacob Hall and staff writer and box office expert Ryan Scott to talk about the best, worst, weirdest, and wildest movies of Fantastic Fest 2024.
In Our Feature Presentation: Fantastic Fest 2024 recap!
- The Creep Tapes Review: This Found Footage Horror Series Is Better Than Creep 3 [Fantastic Fest]
- Better Man Review: Robbie Williams Is Played By A CGI Ape In The Strangest Biopic Ever Made [Fantastic Fest]
- Heretic Review: Hugh Grant Is Terrifying In This Twisted A24 Horror Movie [Fantastic Fest]
- A Different Man Review: Sebastian Stan Astounds In This Brilliant, Pitch-Black Oddity [Fantastic Fest]
- The Apprentice Review: Sebastian Stan Gives Donald Trump His Darth Vader Origin Story [Fantastic Fest]
- The Wild Robot Review: Break Out The Tissues For The Most Breathtaking Movie Of The Year [Fantastic Fest]
- Anora Review: Sean Baker's High Stress Screwball Comedy Is The Best Movie Of 2024 [Fantastic Fest]
- V/H/S/Beyond Review: An Out Of This World Horror Anthology [Fantastic Fest]
- Terrifier 3 Review: Art The Clown Is Back In One Of The Nastiest Horror Movies Ever Made [Fantastic Fest]
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone and welcome to slash film daily today's Wednesday October 2nd |
| 0:03.5 | 2024 on today's episode of the show we're going to be talking about the best |
| 0:06.8 | worst weirdest and wildest movies of Fantastic Fest 2024 my name is Ben Pearson |
| 0:12.3 | I'm an editor at slash film.com and I'm joined on today's |
| 0:14.8 | episode by slash film editor Jacob Hall. |
| 0:17.0 | Hello, hello. |
| 0:18.0 | And staff writer and box office expert, Ryan Scott. |
| 0:21.0 | Hey, everyone, how's it going? |
| 0:22.0 | All right guys, so you just finished up... Ryan Scott. Hey, hey everyone, how's it going? |
| 0:22.6 | All right guys, so you just finished up Fantastic Fast 2024, |
| 0:26.7 | I guess it ended a few days ago by the time we're recording this. |
| 0:29.6 | I've been out on vacation, but I wanted to come back and jump back into the fold here and just talk to you guys about these movies that you saw because Fantastic Fest is, I mean it's widely known as being maybe the most extreme genre film festival in the United States. |
| 0:44.7 | Jacob, do you think that's fair? |
| 0:45.8 | I think it would have been fair a few years ago. |
| 0:49.4 | I think Beyond Fest is giving it a run for its money now, |
| 0:51.8 | to be honest, in terms of its programming. |
| 0:54.2 | But it's still a really good festival |
| 0:55.4 | for finding unique and interesting |
| 0:58.5 | and oftentimes surprising genre films. Excellent, excellent. |
| 1:04.0 | So one of you guys just set the table for me here. |
| 1:07.0 | We're going to categorize these movies in terms of best, worst, weirdest, and wildest in the second, |
| 1:12.0 | but just broad scope you know sort of a |
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