Now in its fifth year, Fantastic Fest proudly boasts of being the largest “genre festival” in the United States. Still, even veterans may not realize that it’s not just sci-fi, horror, and chop-socky flicks that make it so unique. It’s the mutant mash-ups lurking around the edges that often provide the biggest draw for hardcore devotees of the offbeat, bizarre, and just plain wrong. After all, what other film festival features “spaghetti kung-fu operas in 3-D,” or “silent blaxploitation slasher mockumentaries”? Here are five more genetically recombined genre strains you won’t find anywhere else.
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