Festivals: Fantasia
Fantasia 2026 Review: PENNY LANE IS DEAD Is Not For The Weak Of Heart
A celebratory girls’ night at the family beach house devolves into a night of unrelenting, brutal terror in Penny Lane is Dead, the debut feature from Australian filmmaker Mia’Kate Russell. A blood-soaked throwback to the wild days of ‘80s Ozploitation,...
Fantasia 2026 Review: ATTACK ON PARADISE, A Belgian Single Setting Siege Story With Heart
In a dystopic corner of urban Antwerp stands Paradise, a ten-story apartment block that houses some of the baddest dudes and dudettes in all of Belgium. Packed to the gills with drug hustlers, arms dealers, illicit brothels, and every other...
PENNY LANE IS DEAD: Shudder Acquires Homage to 80s Ozploitation Horror Flicks
Set on a hot summer's night in 1986 Australia, 17-year old Penny Lane is celebrating getting into college with her longtime girlfriends. After Penny's jealous and troubled cousin decides a cruel prank is in order, what begins as a thoughtless spiked cupcake game spirals into a night of bloodshed and revenge.
Fantasia 2026 Review: TEENAGE SEX AND DEATH AT CAMP MIASMA, Bold Queer Exploration
Opening with flesh and blood, Jane Schoenbrun's latest work, Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, is a continuation of the queer exploration found in their previous films, We're All Going to the World's Fair and I Saw the TV...
Friday One Sheet: HOT SPOT
Ochre and clay and sulphur, oh my! The poster for Agnieszka Smoczynska's big budget Artificial Intelligence dystopian sci-fi thriller, Hot Spot, is from Gravillis, the design house who did yeoman's work on the campaigns for Sinners and Obsession in the past year. ...
Fantasia 2026 Review: HER PRIVATE HELL, A Nightmare Neon Opera
At one point in Nicolas Winding Refn’s oblique, morally agnostic, performatively high-camp melodrama, a character pontificates, “You know, this movie is not going to fix us.” They are probably right. The director is far more interested in mise-en-scène still-lives...
Fantasia 2026: Raising the Curtain on the 30th Edition of Montreal's Smorgasbord of Genre Cinema
The Fantasia International Film Festival, North America's current largest genre festival runs from July 16 to August 2, in its 30th edition. With its large size, and 'big tent' scope of everything from everywhere as long it is never...
Fantasia 2026: FERINE, Check Out The Teaser Trailer And International Poster
A tragic event shatters a rich art collector's life, awakening her primal nature. She destroys her privileged existence to build a new concept of family, leading her on a path of destruction and animalistic transformation.
Fantasia 2026: INSECTASY Trailer Asks "You're Into Bugs, Right?"
A film trailer that asks two questions -- "Are you into bugs?" and "Are you a pervert?" -- is a trailer worth sharing. Angus Silver's perfectly portmanteau'd titled, Insectasy, is world premiering as part of the UNDERGROUND side-bar at Fantasia...
Fantasia 2026 Highlight: Special Live Events You Will Not Want to Miss
Deep within the bowels of that final wave of titles for this year's 30th Edition of Fantasia there were a number of free-of-charge special live events that are running during the festival. They were easy to miss under that...
ATTACK ON PARADISE: Teaser & New Stills For Belgian-Dutch Actioner Headed to Fantasia
An ex-convict fights his way up a gang-controlled high-rise during a violent police raid to rescue his mother, reluctantly partnering with a rookie officer to survive.
20001 AN EARTH ODYSSEY: An Introduction to Japanese Animated Short, in Competition at Fantasia
A sci-fi black comedy set 20,000 years after human extinction, where three aliens investigate the collapse of human civilization by misinterpreting everyday human relics.
TIGHT LETTUCE: An Introducton to Fantasia-bound Dark Comedy
A son films his father's addiction, hoping to document his recovery; but as he sacrifices everything to save him, he must decide how much he'll lose for someone who may not want saving.
SOUR MINNOWS: An Introduction to Harrison Atkins' Interdimensional Absurdist Comedy, Premiering at Fantasia
With the complete lineup of the 30th Edition of Fantasia announced today we are introduced to some of the titles that are playing this year. Here we have an introduction to Harrison Atkins' second movie. Sour Minnows, something we are...
Fantasia 2026 Shorts: Beauty in The Light, The Dark, Out There And in Each Other in Shorts Programme
The best festivals draw in the the best films and filmmakers. That goes for features, it also goes for short films, and Fantasia's short film programme is a entire beast of it's own. The full lineup of over two...
Fantasia 2026: Final Wave Announced, HER PRIVATE HELL & FREAKS PART II to Bookend 30th Edition
Okay, are you ready? The final wave of titles and additional programming for the 30th Edition of Fantasia is here and it is a whopper. The opening and closing films have been announced. Nicola Winding Refn's Her Private Hell...
UNHOLY NIGHT: Teaser And Images Come Wrapped in a Bloody Bow For Fantasia-Bound Horror Comedy
A family's Christmas Eve dinner becomes a nightmare as Gino must protect his loved ones from his reanimated grandmother who crashes the celebration with murderous intent.
Fantasia 2026: Second Wave Titles Includes The CAPE FEAR Finale, TEENAGE SEX AND DEATH..., And The Adams Family Makes it Six Festivals in a Row!
The second wave of titles for this year's Fantasia International Film Festival have been announced. How do you like your Javier Bardem? Do you like him tatted up and ripped to shreds? Well, Fantasia will be hosting the World Premiere...
TEENAGE SEX AND DEATH AT CAMP MIASMA: Canadian Premiere to Happen at Fantasia International Film Festival
The event chosen for the Canadian Premiere of Jane Schoenbrun's Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma has been announced.
Frontières 2026: First Wave of Titles Announced
The first wave of titles participating in the 15th anniversary edition of Frontières have been announced!
