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Fantasia 2025 Review: THE SCHOOL DUEL, When Dystopia Doesn't Feel So Distant
We are thrown into a twisted, ultra-patriotic Florida where guns, God, and old-school values rule. 13-year-old Sam, a bullied kid who just wants to feel seen, instead he lashes out at his tormentors, even his mom. Sam’s actions catch the...
Fantasia 2025 Review: FOREIGNER, A Newcomer, Coming-of-Age Horror For The Tween Set
Yasamin (Yasi), a recently immigrated Iranian teen in Canada, struggles to fit in at her new high school. She falls in with a clique of white girls whose subtle racism pressures her to erase her identity. Desperate to belong, Yasi...
Fantasia 2025 Review: FLUSH, The Horrors And Hilarity When Trapped in a Toilet
Luc has gone to the club where his ex, Valentine, works to convince her to go with him to see their daughter, who is now living in foster care with his parents. A struggling addict, though, he buys a line...
Fantasia 2025 Review: THE BOOK OF SIJJIN AND ILLYYIN, Payback Is a Bitch
When Yuli was a child, she watched in horror as her mom was possessed by an spiritual force before killing her father. Parentless, she was treated as an outsider, a bastard. Twenty years have passed, and she is now a...
Fantasia 2025 Review: KAZAKH SCARY TALES, Too Scary For The Locals, What About International Horror Fans?
Birzhan, a big-city detective, moves his family to the remote village of Karatas and is called to investigate an eerie series of events at a maternity hospital. Pregnant women are getting sick, all at once, some of them even dying....
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,...
Call Me Maybe: Hideo Nakata's RINGU Turns 25
A curse that infects people like a virus; a ghostly girl apparition with long hair — we owe these iconic J-horror images, and many other elements that are now the scary starter kit, to the creators of Ring (orig. Ringu). This year...
Frontières 2015: The Brussels Market Lineup And Montreal Submissions Now Open
The Frontières International Co-Production Market makes the first of two stops this year at the Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival. The European edition of the market takes place during the festival from April 9th through the 11th. Frontières previously announced the...
