Festivals: Fantasia
Frontières 2025: Industry Seminars & Power Houses Announcement
As the best three weeks you could have in Summer in Montreal nears particular focus today centers on some of the final programming to be announced for this years Frontières Market. Aside from the general program and pitches other panels...
THE UNDERTONE: First Look at Canadian Horror, Premieres at Fantasia This Month!
The host of an 'all-things-creepy' podcast moves into her mother's house and begins to receive anonymous recordings of a couple spiraling into madness. As she plays them, she realizes the woman's story is a mirror of her own and each new recording scratches at her sanity, drawing her into a fate she cannot escape.
FOREIGNER: Raven Banner Acquires Worldwide Rights Ahead of World Premiere at Fantasia
In the age of low-rise jeans and flip phones, a Persian teen trying to fit in with her new Canadian clique dyes her hair blonde -- and invites a monstrous force into her life.
HOLD THE FORT Teaser Trailer: Horror Comedy to Have World Premiere at Fantasia!
After moving to the suburbs, a young couple finds themselves trapped in an epic battle between their new HOA and an onslaught of monsters from hell.
Fantasia 2025: Final Wave Announced. Tartakovsky's FIXED to Close, Guests Aplenty!
With two weeks until the fest opens on July 16th, Fantasia 2025 has dropped the full and final lineup on us and there is so much to be excited about! PRIMAL's Genndy Tartakovsky brings his latest animated feature FIXED to...
Frontières 2025: Full Program Announced For Fourteenth Edition
What began in a small classroom high above Concordia Hall, fourteen years ago, in front of a small group of like-minded, potential backers, has grown and continues to be one of the most essential and successful co-production events of the...
Fantasia 2025: Second Wave Announced, Ari Aster's EDDINGTON to Open Fest!
The second wave of titles for this year's 28th edition of Fantasia has been announced. Once again, our trio of writers and editors planning on attending this year's festival have another list of banger titles to pour over and anticipate...
Fantasia 2025: First Wave of Titles Announced
Here. We. Go. The first wave of titles from this year's Fantasia International Film Festival have just been announced. Steve Pink has a new film, Terrestrial, starring Jermaine Fowler. Kurtis David Harder follows up their 2022 film Influencer, with the return...
Fantasia 2025: This Year's Poster Revealed, Submission Deadline Approaches
Yes, we suppose we do have to start thinking about Fantasia now. Truthfully, we have already begun talking amongst ourselves, vying for dates during the festival's run from July 17th to August 3rd. To get the ball rolling, the...
Fantasia 2024 Wrap: What We Saw, Liked, and Loved
From July 18 through August 4, 2024, the centre of our genre-film loving world moved to Montreal, Canada, where the Fantasia International Film Festival unveiled a broad and diverse selection of films from around the world, as they have done,...
Fantasia 2024 Review: A SAMURAI IN TIME, A Time Traveling Swordsman Finds New Life As A Samurai TV Extra
Steeped in a combined sense of nostalgic whimsy and melancholy, Yasuda Jun'ichi’s A Samurai in Time serves up a comedic fish-out-of-water tale of an Edo-period warrior magically transplanted to the present day and the challenges he faces as he tries...
Fantasia 2024 Review: SHELBY OAKS, A Rock Solid Fright Film From First Time Director Chris Stuckmann
Twelve years ago, YouTuber Riley Brennan went missing. When, after a long dry spell, a seemingly related tragedy lands on the doorstep of her sister Mia, the rescue mission restarts in debutante director Chris Stuckmann’s Shelby Oaks. Chris Stuckmann is...
Fantasia 2024 Review: BABY ASSASSIN NICE DAYS, Third Chapter Does The Same Things Over Again, Just Better
In the ongoing adventures of Chisato and Mahiro, our teenage assassins are on vacation in Miyazaki, Japan, for a little bit of work and a whole lot of rest and relaxation. A last minute dropout from another assassin in the...
Fantasia 2024 Review: IN OUR BLOOD, Using Documentary Sensibilities to Elevate Found Footage Horror
Emily is making a documentary about reconnecting with her estranged mother, Sam. Emily was removed from their home when she was just a teenager and put in foster care because of her mother’s addiction. Years later, Sam wants to reconnect....
Fantasia 2024: BOOKWORM Wins Audience Award/Prix du Public
Screendaily shared the news that Ant Timpson's Bookworm, the story of an absent father who reunites with their daughter to get proof of a mythical beast, has won the Audience Award for this year's edition of Fantasia. Bookworm was...
Fantasia 2024 Review: 100 YARDS, Exemplary Martial Arts Action
It’s the 1920s in Northern China and prized student Qi Quan returns to their martial arts academy. He is there to participate in a formal duel, for leadership of the academy. He will fight Shen An, son of the academy’s...
Fantasia 2024 Review: BLACK EYED SUSAN, A Hard Look at Toxicity and Exploitation
Derek is down on his luck. Separated from his wife and child he lives out of his car, using it for ride-sharing to make ends meet. He meets an old friend, Gilbert, who offers to give him a job testing...
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Fantasia 2024 Review: THE DEAD THING, Looking For Love In All The Wrong Places
It's tough out there for a single gal. Alex (Blu Hunt) is a woman caught in the throes of malaise, accompanied by a desperate wish to find something worth caring about. Her daily grind is uninspiring, her home life with...
Fantasia 2024: BLACK EYED SUSAN Red Band Trailer, Scooter McCrae Returns After 25 Years
CW: Domestic abuse, realistic violence Exploitation icon Scooter McCrae is back behind the camera with Black Eyed Susan, his first feature film since 1999's Sixteen Tongues. After having directed a few shorts and doing a bit of acting in the...
Fantasia 2024 Review: LANTERN BLADE, Stop-Motion Martial Arts Series Delights And Impresses
Lantern Blade is a web-seires directed by Zhu Ziqi at Mote Stop Motion Animation studio in China. Lantern Blade is part of the Tencent Video Original Animation Short Film Collection, an anthology with a stop-mo program. It was released in...
