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Most film festivals are just film festivals. Fantastic Fest is a different beast. The premier American outpost on the global “fantastic cinema” circuit of festivals—devoted to all things action, horror, sci-fi and cult—FF spurts forth like a bottomless fountain of arterial spray for a week every autumn. This mutant brainchild of gonzo exhibitor Tim League and Ain’t It Cool News geek guru Harry Knowles has evolved over the past five years into a singular cinematic freak magnet.
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Steve Dollar has been thinking about film since his childhood visits to the drive-in theaters of the Florida Panhandle in the early 1960s, where exposure to Mondo Cane and The Good, The Bad and The Ugly irradiated his tender brain, causing permanent after-effects. Later on, he started writing about the stuff for daily newspapers in large American cities. He lives in Park Slope, Brooklyn, where he collects Steve Buscemi's junk mail. He also has contributed to such publications as the Wall Street Journal, Newsday, the New York Sun, GQ, Paste, Playboy.com, and Time Out New York. 24XPS is a topology of cinematic enthusiasms: interviews with filmmakers, screenwriters, actors and designers; reviews of indie, cult, genre, art, forsaken, forgotten, and forbidden movies; conversations with artists and fans about the films they love and hate; news about upcoming releases; festival coverage; and personal essays about anything and everything celluloid and pixel. Please visit often and tell your friends.
