Graphic Sexual Horror Directed by Barbara Bell, Anna Lorentzon USA 2009 | 86 min Reviewed by Gabriel Sigler While torture and bloodshed on film is nothing new for the dedicated Fantasia viewer, the most uncomfortable film at this year’s festival may be “Graphic Sexual Horror”, a documentary on the now-defunct extreme bondage site “insex.com”. Founded in 1997 by former Carnegie Mellon professor and performance artist Brent Scott, “InSex” strove to offer the most realistic and brutal footage of bondage on the net. Through live video streams and photo shoots, female models were alternately shackled, electrocuted, beaten, submerged in water, and in one model’s case, subjected to pepper spray applied directly to her genitals. Sound sexy yet?

“Dead Snow” is the rare horror flick that follows through on its premise exactly as you hope it would; Nazi Zombies from Norway is the film’s hook, and it definitely delivers on all fronts. A self-referential horror film in nearly every way, (a hot girl proves her merit to a movie nerd by name-dropping the horror classic “April Fool’s Day” for example) “Dead Snow nevertheless manages to add some fun twists to the traditional zombie story.

Kaifeck Murder Germany 2009 86 minutes Directed by Esther Gronenborn Germany’s “Kaifeck Murder” follows a trajectory that will ring familiar to fans of “The Wicker Man” (the 1973 original version that is, not the recent Nicholas Cage travesty); in this case, Marc (Benno Fürmanna) is a grizzled photographer sent off to the remote village of Kaifeck to cover a bizarre annual tradition that sees villagers dress up as monsters in an effort to scare off the devil.

Here is an interview with No Warning from a couple of years back, while they were on tour with Sum 41(!?). There is nothing all that revelatory in here, but it gives you a good idea of where their heads were at when their controversial "Suffer Survive" LP was released.