There are dozens of genre film festivals around the world, and we either can’t afford – or don’t have the time – to go to any of them. We’re guessing a lot of you are in the same boat. On Cinema Smorgasbord presents CINEMA FANTASTICA our two hosts pick one of those festivals, a year in which it ran, and choose two films that played at that festival to BATTLE against each other.
Episode 223 – Cinema Fantastica – X: The Man With the X-Ray Eyes (1963) & Phase IV (1974)
On this episode of Cinema Fantastica we're traveling back to 1984 and the Boston Science Fiction Film Festival in Boston, ...
Episode 202 – The Cinema Smorgasbord Holiday Special – Tokyo Godfathers (2003) & The Wolf of Snow Hollow (2020)
It's the Cinema Smorgasbord HOLIDAY SPECIAL (with a touch of Cinema Fantastica) where we're once again traveling to the 2021 ...
Episode 176 – Cinema Fantastica – Watchers (1988) & Leviathan (1989)
On this episode of Cinema Fantastica we travel all the way to Molins de Rei, near Barcelona, Spain to attend ...
Episode 162 – Cinema Fantastica – Big Bad Wolves (2013) & Almost Human (2013)
On this episode of CINEMA FANTASTICA were traveling to the 2014 edition of the Panic Film Festival in Kansas City, ...
Episode 133 – Cinema Fantastica – Bad Black (2016) & Cold Hell (2017)
On this episode of Cinema Fantastica we're traveling to the 2017 Beyond Film Festival in Los Angeles, California and pitting ...
Episode 110 – Cinema Fantastica – The Windmill Massacre (2016) & Dog Eat Dog (2016)
On this episode of Cinema Fantastica we're going all the way to Melbourne, Australia and the 2016 edition of the ...
Episode 99 – Cinema Fantastica – Merry Christmas Mr. Mo (2016) & A Christmas Fury (2017)
On our special HOLIDAY episode of Cinema Smorgasbord we travel once again to the Weihnachtsfilmfestival in Berlin, Germany to talk ...
Episode 82 – Cinema Fantastica – Giallo (2009) & Macabre (2009)
On this episode of Cinema Fantastic (a trip to the genre film festivals around the world) we're traveling to the ...
Episode 74 – Cinema Fantastica – Coherence (2013) & Why Don’t You Play In Hell (2013)
On this rip-roaring episode of Cinema Fantastica we're traveling to the 2014 (premiere) edition of the Chattanooga Film Festival in ...
Episode 58 – Cinema Fantastica – Cold Fish (2010) & Golden Slumber (2010)
We're taking another journey through time and space to the film festivals around the globe on another episode of Cinema ...
Episode 48 – Cinema Fantastica Holiday Special – A Christmas Horror Story (2015) & Good Tidings (2016)
On this special HOLIDAY edition of Cinema Fantastica we go all the way to Berlin, Germany and the 2016 Weihnachtsfilmfestival, ...
Episode 38 – Cinema Fantastica – The Borrower (1991) & Children of the Night (1991)
On this special SUPER SPOOKY episode of Cinema Fantastica we're going all the way back to the 1991 Toronto International ...
Episode 29 – Cinema Fantastica – Soo (2007) & Epitaph (2007)
On this episode of Cinema Smorgasbord presents Cinema Fantastica we travel back to the 2008 Philadelphia Film Festival and two ...
Episode 18 – Cinema Fantastica – Barking Dogs Never Bite (2000) vs. Paul Is Dead (2000)
CINEMA FANTASTICA returns with a look at the 2001 Slamdance Film Festival! In this episode we pit Bong Joon-ho's debut ...
Episode 10 – Cinema Fantastica – The Hills Have Eyes (1977) vs Alucarda (1977)
On this episode of Cinema Smorgasbord presents Cinema Fantastica we travel back to the 1977 Sitges Film Festival and two ...
Episode 2 – Cinema Fantastica – Fist of the North Star (1986) vs. Wicked City (1987)
On the premiere episode we go back to the very first edition of Montreal's Fantasia International Film Festival to look ...