Fantasia Festival

By Jeffery X Martin July 30, 2024July 30, 2024

Fantasia Fest 2024: ‘Vulcanizadora’ is a Beautiful Instrument of Devastation

Our Fantasia Fest 2024 coverage keeps on truckin’ with a review of Joel Potrykus’s ‘Vulcanizadora,’ which is easy on the eyes but hard on the heart.

By Sachin Hingoo July 29, 2024July 29, 2024

Fantasia Festival 2024: Pratul Gaikwad’s ‘Dead Dead Full Dead’ is a Murder Mystery Where They All Dunnit

Pratul Gaikwad’s, ‘Dead Dead Full Dead’ presents an impossibly fresh take on the whodunnit – what if they all dunnit?

By Sachin Hingoo July 27, 2024July 27, 2024

Fantasia Film Festival 2024: Stephen Sawchuk’s ‘Hell is a Teenage Girl’ Leaves You Wanting More

Fantasia 2024: Stephen Sawchuk’s ‘Hell Is A Teenage Girl’ is a polished slasher that, at only 14 minutes, leaves you wanting more.

By Jeffery X Martin July 26, 2024July 25, 2024

Fantasia Film Festival 2024: ‘The Soul Eater’ Investigates Dark Mysteries, Old and New

Acclaimed French filmmakers Alexandre Bustillo and Julien Maury return with the grim police procedural, ‘The Soul Eater,’ as Biff Bam Pop!’s 2024 Fantasia Film Festival coverage continues.

By Jeffery X Martin July 25, 2024July 25, 2024

Fantasia Film Festival 2024: Urban Legend Horror Gets Existential in ‘This Man’

Our Fantasia Film Festival 2024 coverage continues with a review of the dread-laden horror movie, ‘This Man.’

By Sachin Hingoo July 10, 2024July 10, 2024

The 28th Annual Fantasia International Film Festival is Upon Us!

Sachin Hingoo and Jeffery X Martin run down their 10 picks from the 28th annual Fantasia Film Festival, which runs from July 18 through August 4 from Montreal, Quebec

By Sachin Hingoo October 4, 2023September 29, 2023

Fantasia 2023: Eva Strelnikova’s ‘StayOnline’

Fantasia 2023: Eva Strelnikova’s ‘StayOnline’ uses the Screenlife technique to depict the horror of war.

By Jeffery X Martin July 23, 2023July 18, 2023

Fantasia Fest 2023: ‘Lovely, Dark, and Deep’ Takes Conspiracy and Obsession Into the Wild

Things get weird in the woods in the excellent Fantasia 2023 selection, ‘Lovely, Dark, and Deep.’

By Sachin Hingoo July 13, 2023July 13, 2023

The Week in Horror: Fantasia International Film Festival 2023 Edition!

Jeffery X Martin and Sachin Hingoo run down their picks from the gargantuan lineup of films playing at the 2023 Fantasia International Film Festival!

By Sachin Hingoo July 25, 2022July 25, 2022

Fantasia Film Festival 2022: Ryan Bruce Levey’s ‘Out in the Ring’

Fantasia 2022: Ry Levay’s Out in the Ring is one of the best and most well-researched wrestling documentaries I’ve seen, and I say that as someone that’s seen nearly every doc produced on the industry.

By Sachin Hingoo July 20, 2022July 19, 2022

Fantasia Film Festival 2022: Carter Smith’s ‘Swallowed’

Like it’s sort-of namesake, Carlo Mirabella-Davis’s Swallow, Carter Smith’s Swallowed deals with the kind of body horror that’s ingested orally. Unlike in that film, though, there’s a tender centre to this twisted, filthy tale of bodily functions and violence.