To make “The Legend of Ochi,” writer-director Isaiah Saxon borrowed a little piece of “E.T.,” some of “The Neverending Story” ...

A new A24 fantasy film helmed by a California native preaches reconciliation between man and beast. It hits home in a state ...

The baby Ochi in "The Legend of Ochi." From the moment I laid eyes on the baby Ochi in The Legend of Ochi's first trailer, I knew I had a new fantasy film creature to obsess over. SEE ALSO: 'The ...

"The Legend of Ochi," out April 25, stars Helena Zengel alongside Finn Wolfhard, best known from his role as Mike Wheeler on ...

“The Legend of Ochi” starts with promise. Maxim, Yuri, and the teens are in a dark forest hunting the Ochi, who are allegedly killing the livestock and worse. We get the impression that these are ...

I have an allegiance towards the moral superiority of children, and the script was written from that perspective,” Isaiah Saxon told me during an interview ahead of the release of his feature film ...

That feeling of childlike wonder returned while watching A24's The Legend of Ochi, the feature debut from writer/director Isaiah Saxon. The Legend of Ochi's gorgeous practical effects place it in the ...

Fantastic beast fantasy has creepy moments and language.

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The debut feature of wizardly video director Isaiah Saxon — a veteran of Björk and Panda Bear — presents a rich world of ...

From fires to spooky Transylvanian forests, Aptos native Isaiah Saxon encountered it all while filming “The Legend of Ochi.” ...

The Legend of Ochi conjures the kinds of effects the film industry rarely uses anymore.