Festivals: Fantasia Videos
Fantasia 2023 Review: HUNDREDS OF BEAVERS, Triumph of Escalating Sight Gags
Hundreds of Beavers has been tearing up the festival circuit for months now, scooping prizes and rapidly building a rabid cult following. And with damn good reason. If you have even the slightest love for slap stick comedy and goofball...
MAMI WATA Teaser: CJ "Fiery" Obasi's Fantasy Adventure at Fantasia's Opening Weekend
When the harmony in a village is threatened by outside elements, two sisters must fight to save their people and restore the glory of a mermaid goddess to the land.
THE BECOMERS Clip: Oh no, Did I Kill Him?
Part science fiction and part road movie, The Becomers is a genre-bending romantic tale of two body-swapping aliens trying to find their place on this big, dumb planet.
STAY ONLINE Official Trailer: Screenlife Thriller to Premiere at Fantasia Next Week
A young woman (Liza Zaitseva) volunteering in Kyiv is given one of the thousands of laptops donated by ordinary Ukrainians to support the war effort. The woman receives a mysterious video call from a young boy searching for his father,...
Fantasia 2023: Second Wave Announced! Pascal Plante's RED ROOMS Will Open The Fest
Our thoughts turn to Summer as our friends over at Fantasia are gearing up for another year of summer camp for genre film nerds. Over thirty more feature length films are being announced today. Pascal Plante's Red Rooms has...
Fantasia 2022 Review: COUNTRY GOLD, The Second Best Legend After Johnny Cash
Mickey Reece, prolific indie filmmaker, is no stranger to tackling stories of famous musicians (according to my partner, Reece's film Alien is a far superior look at the life of Elvis than the recent Baz Lurhmann film). After his previous...
Fantasia 2022 Review: WE MIGHT AS WELL BE DEAD, With Neighbors Like These
In the not too distant future, the outside world is a profoundly unsafe place. It is more broken, more threatening that it is today. Note that things can always be worse. A family tensely walks through the woods, with frightened...
GLORIOUS Teaser: Fifteen Seconds of Cosmic Chaos And Glory
Well, this looks like Rebekah MeKendry's Glorious is going to dance all over our eyeballs and brain, don't it? Glorious will have its world premiere tomorrow at Fantasia before it is whisked away to Shudder next month. A short...
THE ELDERLY (VIEJOS) Teaser: Abuela's Coming Back!
The Elderly (Viejos) is having its world premiere at Fantasia tomorrow night, thus the first teaser arrived this morning. Rosa commits suicide, which is the catalyst for the progressive physical and mental deterioration of Manuel, her elderly husband. Mario,...
THE ARTIFICE GIRL: Don't Sleep on This Trailer For Franklin Ritch Fantasia-bound Sci-fi Feature
Variety debuted the trailer for The Artifice Girl, the first sci-fi feature film from writer-director Franklin Ritch. The key art for the sci-fi flick was also released. “The Artifice Girl” follows the punishing interrogation of a rogue tech wizard...
ALL JACKED UP AND FULL OF WORMS Teaser: Cinedigm Digs up North American Rights For Avant-Garde Splatter Comedy
Here's your dose of weird and boundry pushing cinema for the day. Alex Phillip's All Jacked Up and Full of Worms, billed as a the transgressive splatter comedy, will have it's world premiere next week at Fantasia. Roscoe,...
DARK NATURE Exclusive Clip: World Premiere For Horror-Thriller at Fantasia Next Week
Berkley Brady's feature film debut, the horror-thriller Dark Nature, will premiere at the Fantasia International Film Festival in one week, on July 18th. An exclusive clip was dropped today, check it out below. It appears the clip happens very...
HYPOCHONDRIAC Trailer: Queer Horror Coming to Cinemas and Digital
Will, a young Hispanic gay potter, is one gregarious guy. His boss is terrible, but he's got a great boyfriend and a great job. Unfortunately, behind that veneer is a dark past of violence and mental illness that he is...
THE BREACH: Raven Banner Releases Trailer, Poster And More For Rodrigo Gudiño's Horror Flick
Rodrigo Gudiño's upcoming horror flick, The Breach, will have its world premiere at the Fantasia International Film Festival this month. The trailer for the Canadian horror flick dropped earlier, check it out below. It's been quite a while since...
CULT HERO Exclusive: Trailer Premiere, New Poster and Raven Banner Boards Jesse T. Cook's Action Horror Playing at Fantasia This Month
Coming at you today with your first look at the trailer and new poster (from SmallDog Design) for Jesse T Cook's new action horror, Cult Hero. Cult Hero was written by Kevin Revie (Deadsight). It is based on a...
FROM BEYOND Genre Short Premières At Fantasia: Watch The Trailer
Contact with extraterrestrial life forms would be an event of Earth-shattering, Belief-shattering proportions, and there sure is no shortage of films about the subject. From intelligent thought-pieces to epic monster flicks, we've seen plenty of first contacts and last contacts....
POLARIS: Watch The Trailer For Fantasia's Opening Film
Set in 2144 against the backdrop of a frozen wasteland, Sumi, a human child raised by Mama Polar Bear, narrowly escapes capture from a brutal Morad hunting party and sets out across the vast winter landscape. When Sumi stumbles across...
Fantasia 2022: Watch The Trailer For Inquisition Horror Short Film EL SEMBLANTE
Spain. Year 1692. The Holy Inquisition enters a long decline and, as a reaction, its servants are more ruthless than ever. An inquisitor has spent years searching for the perfect torture device that captures the purest face of pain and...
MOLOCH Trailer: Shudder Acquires Dutch Horror For July Release
Shudder has announced that they have acquired the rights for Nico van den Brink’s directorial debut Moloch. To celebrate, Shudder has released a creepy and bloody trailer as well, have a look below. Betriek lives at the edge of...
RESURRECTION Teaser: Rebecca Hall Tears up Then Tears it up in Andrew Seman's Psychological Thriller
Andrew Seman’s psychological thriller Ressurection will be released by IFC Films in theaters and on-demand August 5th. The teaser trailer was released yesterday and holy moly, does Rebecca Hall completely own this. Wow! It's going to play at Fantasia...