Fantaspoa, the largest genre cinema celebration in Latin America, revealed the (amazing) full lineup for its upcoming eleventh edition, to be celebrated in the city of Porto Alegre, Brazil from May 15 to 31.
Fantaspoa's main competition, the international one, is usually massive and this year won't be the exception. More than 30 films are part of this section, including the hilarious vampire mockumentary What We Do in the Shadows, the Norwegian Nazi zombie sequel Dead Snow 2: Red vs. Dead, the latest films by Adrián García Bogliano (both Late Phases and Scherzo Diabolico), and the horror comedy WolfCop.
For 2015, Fantaspoa kept the Ibero-America competition - which is dominated by Argentina, Spain and Mexico - but added a special section exclusively for Brazilian productions. The splatter anthology The Black Fables, which marks the return of Brazilian cult master José Mojica Marins aka Coffin Joe, is definitely the highlight of the brand new Brazilian competition section.
As ScreenAnarchy already reported, Fantaspoa is set to honor both Dennis Paoli and Fabio Frizzi for their contributions to horror cinema. In order to celebrate these masters, the festival programed a couple of movies by Stuart Gordon (for which Paoli is credited as screenwriter) and Lucio Fulci (with music by Frizzi). In addition, there's going to be an amazing Frizzi live concert dedicated to the late Fulci, called "De Frizzi a Fulci."
The final section of Fantaspoa XI is that of the special screenings. It includes two mini-retrospectives dedicated to Juan Carlos Fresnadillo and the Dutch duo Steffen Haars and Flip Van der Kuil, plus a screening of the rare Jess Franco picture Revenge in the House of Usher.
You can check out the full lineup and schedule in the gallery below (plus the festival's trailer) and visit Fantaspoa's official site for additional information.
Fantaspoa XI
INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION
Afterlife (dir. Virág Zomborácz, Hungary) - May 21 (3 PM) & May 27 (5 PM)
Dead Snow 2: Red vs. Dead (dir. Tommy Wirkola, Norway/Iceland/US/UK) - May 15 (7 PM) & May 23 (5 PM)
Dealer (dir. Jean Luc Herbulot, France) - May 18 (3 PM) & May 21 (5 PM)
Deep Dark (dir. Michael Medaglia, US) - May 23 (7 PM) & May 26 (3 PM)
Der Bunker (dir. Nikias Chryssos, Germany) - May 25 (9:30 PM) & May 29 (7 PM)
Goodnight Mommy (dir. Severin Fiala, Veronika Franz, Austria) - May 15 (5 PM) & May 24 (3 PM)
Hardkor Disko (dir. Krzysztof Skonieczny, Poland) - May 16 (5 PM)
Hollow (dir. Ham Tran, Vietnam) - May 20 (3 PM) & May 25 (3 PM)
Kanyamakan (dir. Said C. Naciri, Morocco) - May 24 (5 PM)
Killers (dir. Kimo Stamboel, Timo Tjahjanto, Indonesia/Japan) - May 19 (7 PM) & May 27 (7 PM)
Late Phases (dir. Adrián García Bogliano, US) - May 28 (5 PM)
Liza, the Fox-Fairy (dir. Károly Ujj Mészáros, Hungary) - May 20 (5 PM) & May 24 (1 PM)
Man from Reno (dir. Dave Boyle, US) - May 22 (5 PM) & May 30 (5 PM)
Night of the Living Deb (dir. Kyle Rankin, US) - May 30 (9:30 PM) & May 31 (3 PM)
Nuigulumar Z (dir. Noboru Iguchi, Japan) - May 19 (3 PM) & May 23 (1 PM)
Premature (dir. Dan Beers, US) - May 19 (9:30 PM) & May 23 (3 PM)
Scherzo Diabolico (dir. Adrián García Bogliano, Mexico/US) - May 30 (5 PM) & May 31 (5 PM)
Spring (dir. Justin Benson, Aaron Moorhead, US) - May 29 (9:30 PM) & May 30 (3 PM)
Starry Eyes (dir. Kevin Kolsch, Dennis Widmyer, US/Germany) - May 15 (3 PM) & May 20 (7 PM)
Stung (dir. Benni Diez, Germany/US) - May 28 (9:30 PM) & May 30 (7 PM)
The Canal (dir. Ivan Kavanagh, Ireland) - May 24 (7 PM) & May 28 (3 PM
The Dead Lands (dir. Toa Fraser, New Zealand/UK) - May 19 (7 PM) & May 20 (3 PM)
The Frame (dir. Jamin Winans, US) - May 21 (7 PM) & May 26 (7 PM)
The Last Survivors (dir. Thomas S. Hammock, US) - May 24 (9:30 PM) & May 26 (3 PM)
The Man in the Orange Jacket (dir. Aik Karapetian, Latvia/Estonia) - May 19 (5 PM) & May 22 (3 PM)
The Midnight Swim (dir. Sarah Adina Smith, US) - May 15 (3 PM) & May 21 (5 PM)
The Ninja War of Torakage (dir. Yoshihiro Nishimura, Japan) - May 27 (5 PM) & May 31 (1 PM)
The Winter (dir. Konstantinos Koutsoliotas, UK/Greece) - May 27 (9:30 PM) & May 29 (3 PM)
True Love Ways (dir. Mathieu Seiler, Germany) - May 21 (3 PM) & May 28 (7 PM)
Turbo Kid (dir. François Simard, Anouk Whissell, Yoann-Karl Whissell, New Zealand/Canada) - May 21 (9:30 PM) & May 26 (5 PM)
Violator (dir. Dodo Dayao, Philippines) - May 26 (9:30 PM) & May 29 (5 PM)
Waste Land (dir. Pieter Van Hees, Belgium) - May 24 (5 PM)
We Are Still Here (dir. Ted Geoghegan, US) - May 30 (7 PM) & May 31 (3 PM)
What We Do in the Shadows (dir. Jemaine Clement, Taika Waititi, New Zealand/US) - May 15 (5 PM) & May 25 (5 PM)
WolfCop (dir. Lowell Dean, Canada) - May 28 (5 PM) & May 30 (1 PM)
Wyrmwood: Road of the Dead (dir. Kiah Roache-Turner, Australia) - May 17 (7 PM) & May 19 (5 PM)
IBERO-AMERICA COMPETITION
Intimate Witness (dir. Santiago Fernández Calvete, Argentina/Mexico) - May 21 (7 PM) & May 22 (3 PM)
México Bárbaro (dir. Lex Ortega, Isaac Ezban, et al., Mexico) - May 31 (5 PM)
Nacido para morir (dir. Andrés Borghi, Argentina) - May 29 (7 PM) & May 30 (3 PM)
Necrophobia 3D (dir. Daniel de la Vega, Argentina) - May 19 (3 PM) & May 29 (5 PM)
Pos eso (dir. Sam, Spain) - May 22 (7 PM) & May 27 (3 PM)
Redeemer (dir. Ernesto Díaz Espinoza, Chile/US) - May 26 (7 PM)
Santiago Violenta (dir. Ernesto Díaz Espinoza, Chile) - May 27 (7 PM) & May 28 (3 PM)
Still Life (dir. Gabriel Greco, Argentina) - May 25 (7 PM) & May 27 (3 PM)
Tejen (dir. Pablo Rabe, Argentina) - May 20 (7 PM)
The Corpse of Anna Fritz (dir. Hèctor Hernández Vicens, Spain) - May 24 (7 PM) & May 26 (5 PM)
The House at the End of Time (dir. Alejandro Hidalgo, Venezuela) - May 31 (7 PM)
The Incident (dir. Isaac Ezban, Mexico) - May 28 (7 PM) & May 29 (3 PM)
The Distance (dir. Sergio Caballero, Spain) - May 16 (7 PM) & May 20 (5 PM)
BRAZILIAN COMPETITION
13 Histórias Estranhas (dir. Felipe M. Guerra, Cesar Coffin Souza, et al., Brazil) - May 20 (9:30 PM)
A Capital dos Mortos 2 (dir. Tiago Belotti, Brazil) - May 17 (7 PM)
Condado Macabro (dir. André de Campos Mello, Marcos DeBrito, Brazil) - May 16 (9:30 PM) & May 17 (3 PM)
Deserto Azul (dir. Eder Santos, Brazil/Chile) - May 18 (7 PM)
O Amuleto (dir. Jeferson De, Cristiane Arenas, Brazil) - May 16 (7 PM)
The Black Fables (dir. Rodrigo Aragao, Petter Baiestorf, Joel Caetano, José Mojica Marins, Brazil) - May 17 (9:30 PM) & May 18 (5 PM)
HOMAGE: DENNIS PAOLI
Re-Animator (dir. Stuart Gordon, US) - May 22 (7 PM)
From Beyond (dir. Stuart Gordon, US) - May 22 (9:30 PM)
HOMAGE: FABIO FRIZZI
Zombie (dir. Lucio Fulci, Italy) - May 23 (7 PM)
The Beyond (dir. Lucio Fulci, Italy) - May 23 (9:30 PM)
SPECIAL SCREENINGS
28 Weeks Later (dir. Juan Carlos Fresnadillo, UK/Spain) - May 18 (9:30 PM)
Bros Before Hos (dir. Steffen Haars, Flip Van der Kuil, Netherlands) - May 23 (5 PM)
Deathgasm (dir. Jason Lei Howden, New Zealand) - May 15 (9:15 PM, 9:30 PM) & May 16 (3 PM)
Intacto (dir. Juan Carlos Fresnadillo, Spain) - May 15 (7 PM)
New Kids Nitro (dir. Steffen Haars, Flip Van der Kuil, Netherlands) . May 23 (3 PM)
New Kids Turbo (dir. Steffen Haars, Flip Van der Kuil, Netherlands) - May 22 (5 PM)
Revenge in the House of Usher (dir. Jesús Franco, Spain/France) - May 17 (5 PM)
Toda la Noche (dir. Jimena Monteoliva, Tamae Gareteguy, Argentina/Brazil) - May 31 (9:15 PM, 9:30 PM)
Uptake Fear (dir. Armando Fonseca, Kapel Furman, Brazil) - May 31 (7 PM)