Panic Fest

Reading the synopsis doesn’t give one much to go on as far as what to expect when sitting down to enjoy The Passenger (Spanish title: La Pasajera). The tagline, “Don’t …
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The premise of Watcher is simple: A young couple, Julia (Maika Monroe) and Francis (Karl Glusman), moves into a new apartment in a new country. Shortly after, Julia begins to …
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As horror fans, we often turn to the genre, whether we realize it or not, to help process some of our hardest feelings. We use these films to safely imagine …
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Sometimes a horror movie exists exclusively to be an over-the-top, ridiculous good time. There’s no deeper message and no real attempt to move people emotionally–just creators having a good time …
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This year brings us the 10th annual occurrence of Panic Film Fest. This horror and sci-fi genre festival has been a staple of the Kansas City, MO film scene for …
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For a movie about lizard people and pizza shop conspiracies, there’s a surprising amount of truth that can be found in John Valley’s far-right spoof, Duncan. Named after the film’s would-be protagonist, …
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First time directors on limited budgets don’t often get as ambitious as Carlson Young does with The Blazing World, and I would imagine they certainly don’t do so during global …
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Vicious Fun opens with a playful exchange between a filmmaker and a horror journalist. The filmmaker defends creative decisions he’s made in the past as being done in the spirit …
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Another year, another Panics Fest.

The ever-expanding and always entertaining genre festival returns with more horror than your eyes can contain. Short films, feature films, panels, Q&As, and more will …
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In January of 2020, Kansas City’s Panic Film Fest was one of the last in person events I attended before the world shut down. We could not have imagined, at …
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