Fantasia Film Festival

Carolyn Harper (Raven Whitley) is dead. Her small town reels. Her mother grieves. The boy responsible for her death—who left her stranded in a remote area when she refused to have sex with him—grapples with his guilt. Yet no detective...

“Ozark” star Bethany Anne Lind turns in one of the standout performances at this year’s Fantasia International Film Festival in Blood on Her Name, helmed by debut feature director Matthew Pope and written by Pope and Don Thompson. Blood On...

Los Angeles and cults. They go together like… well, Los Angeles and sunshine? Los Angeles and shattered dreams? Los Angeles and lost souls looking for a sense of community? Cinematically speaking, cults have come to the City of Angels in...

Having its Canadian premiere at the Fantasia International Film Festival, director/co-writer Yi Ok-seop’s Maggie starts with a Seoul hospital engulfed in scandal, as photographic evidence is discovered of two people having sex in the X-ray machine. The next day, just...

If the movies—or, y’know, basic common sense—have taught us anything, it’s that being lost at sea isn’t fun. In Life of Pi, the poor castaway at least gets to hang out with a rad-as-heck tiger. In Rob Grant’s Harpoon, screening...

Today marks the kickoff of the Fantasia Film Festival, which through its closing night on August 1st will bring to the city of Montreal a whole lot of Fantasia’s particular brand of cinematic madness. Spanning three weeks and boasting a...