Now that it's July, we're gearing up to cover the Fantasia International Film Festival. Held each year in Montreal, the fest includes dozens of short films and plenty of electrifying features, making it one of the best yearly genre festivals. This year's event runs from July 18-August 4. Here are five films we can't wait [...]

Fantasia International Film Festival 2023- South Korean filmmakers have a talent for creating bloody revenge movies with an artistic flair. Just consider Oldboy and I Saw the Devil. Written and directed by Kim-Jae Hoon, Devils carries on the tradition. It's a brutal, colorful feature with a body swap twist. Dae-hwan Oh stars as Detective Jae-hwan. [...]

Fantasia International Film Festival 2023 - For better or worse, we'll likely continue to see a wave of pandemic-based horror films as a response to our collective experience of living through COVID. New Life is a character-driven feature following two women whose paths are set to collide. At the halfway point, the movie includes some [...]

Fantasia International Film Festival 2023 - There's something about French horror movies. They just seem to push the envelope about as far as it can go, especially features like Inside, Irreversible, Martyrs, or, more recently, Revenge, Raw, and Titane. Director Joséphine Darcy Hopkins' short Sweet Tooth, aka Les Dents du bonheur, follows the recent wave [...]

Fantasia International Film Festival 2023 - Writer/director Charlie Bellarose achieved a real feat with her short Jacques. She created a well-crafted horror comedy that's all kinds of funny. Oh, and the dog, Jacques (Jack Cockapoo), absolutely steals the show. Other than the adorable pooch, the short also stars Bellarose as herself. She encounters Jacques in [...]

Fantasia International Film Festival 2023 - Writer/director Noomi Yates makes everyday settings, like a street corner or alleyway, totally terrifying and uncanny in her short Only Yourself to Blame. Executive produced by Saint Maud director Rose Glass, the film is an unnerving bit of psychological horror, a manifestation of a young woman's fears. The short [...]

Fantasia International Film Festival 2023 - Writer/director Shane Bannon's short The Perfect Place to Cry is one of those films that toys with expectations. You have a young woman, Lyla (Celina Bernstein) sobbing, while alone in her car at night near the woods. When a stranger emerges from the forest, every horror red flag goes off. [...]