Direct from Cannes, JIM QUEEN sold out its @fantasiafestival.com screening on Closing Night 2 weeks in advance, so we’ve added a 2nd screening earlier that day! Why am I telling you this? Because I’m DJing the 2nd screening! Come for the disco fun before and stay for the big screen fun after!

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Paris gay icon Jim Parfait rules the scene until Heterosis, an STI that turns gay men straight, spreads. As he loses status, a campy animated quest for a…

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Legendary yakuza stars face the music about their last dance, last chance for killing in a rather… unusual genre hybrid: THE SPECIALS | Screening as part of @fantasiafestival.com www.easternkicks.com/reviews/the-...

@cine-matographe.bsky.social and @vinsyn.bsky.social are world premiering their new 4K restoration of Paul Morrissey's 1982 Forty Deuce at @fantasiafestival.com this Friday, July 31st, at 4:25 PM in Salle J.A. De Sève. I'll be there! Review forthcoming. #fortydeuce #kevinbacon #filmsky

Last day of the @severinfilms.bsky.social table at @fantasiafestival.com ! All remaining items discounted as we get ready to pack up! Open 1pm-9pm (or whenever it's all gone!)

Easily the grossest movie of @fantasiafestival.com 2026 - if not 2026 entirely - BOWELS OF HELL is a shit-filled horror comedy that is, thankfully, not shitty. And it's from the Oscar-nominated producer of I'M STILL HERE (not shitting you)! Screens this Friday, July 31st! Enjoy my write up!

Fantasia Festival | Bowels of Hell

The toilets at a São Paolo apartment complex are scaring the crap out of the residents in more ways than one in this gross and unpredictable horror comedy…

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Lynch on a low budget: Harrison Atkins’ disorienting psychodrama SOUR MINNOWS (2026) "shows film-adjacent Angelenos lost in their dreams and disappointments". World première was last night at @fantasiafestival.com projectedfigures.com/2026/07/25/s...

Sour Minnows (2026) at Fantasia 2026 - Projected Figures

Lynch on a low budget: Harrison Atkins' disorienting psychodrama SOUR MINNOWS shows film-adjacent Angelenos lost in dreams & disappointments

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SOUR MINNOWS via @fantasiafestival.com is low-fi über weirdness. Deliciously confounding. Review for @thecurbau.bsky.social www.thecurb.com.au/harrison-atk...

Harrison Atkins draws maps to the stars of a distorted Los Angeles in Sour Minnows

Sour Minnows is inventive, bizarre, funny, and utterly nightmarish.

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Wings of desire: Angus Silver’s psychosexual drama INSECTASY (2026) "shows a young woman scratching the itch of her innermost errant entomological urges". World première last night at @fantasiafestival.com projectedfigures.com/2026/07/25/i...

Insectasy (2026) at Fantasia 2026 - Projected Figures

Angus Silver’s psychosexual drama INSECTASY shows a young woman scratching the itch of her innermost errant entomological desires

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From @fantasiafestival.com 2026: Via @crunchyroll.com, Kenichi Kutsuna’s SEKIRO: NO DEFEAT is a classically presented animated adventure exploring living with honor & dying with dignity that borrows from a variety of storytelling tools in order to create something unique, yet familiar. #FantasiaFest

Filmmaker Kenichi Kutsuna’s animated video game adaptation “Sekiro: No Defeat” beautifully captures its jidaigeki roots through classic animation and action. [Fantasia]

Sekiro: No Defeat, Kenichi Kutsuna, Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice, FromSoftware, Daisuke Namikawa, Miyuki Satou, Jin Urayama, animation, adventure, martial arts, Crunchyroll, Qzil.la, Kadokawa, Activisio...

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A woman indulges her sexual fetish for bugs in INSECTASY, and nothing can prepare you for what you'll see in this movie. It had its world premiere at @fantasiafestival.com. Here's my review: aisleseat.com/insectasy.html #horror #horrorsky #Fantasia

One of my favourites out of @fantasiafestival.com is Kasper Kalle’s 19thC Faroe Islands set queer romance and folk horror NO REST FOR THE WICKED. Review for @thecurbau.bsky.social www.thecurb.com.au/no-rest-for-...

A melancholic folk horror set in the Faroe Islands paints a portrait of eternal yearning

No Rest for the Wicked is a sublimely beautiful film about love that uses tones of folklore and horror to carve an atmosphere of Gothic Romanticism.

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One of the great films at @fantasiafestival.com & possibly 2026 is the doc THE SEOUL GUARDIANS about night the president of South Korea declared Martial Law and people & law makers took steps to tell him no. Its portrait of people fighting back at unchecked power unseenfilms.net/2026/07/the-...

The Seoul Guardians (2026) Fantasia 2026

On on the ground report of what happened when President Yoon of South Korea decided to declare Martial Law in order to squash his political ...

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A young woman grappling with depression goes for a stay in a remote cabin and finds a weird gaping hole in the bedroom floor in ANCESTRAL BEASTS. This is a true highlight of this year's Fantasia Film Fest. Here's my review: aisleseat.com/ancestral-be... #horrorsky #horror @fantasiafestival.com

One of the best things I've seen at @fantasiafestival.com so far has been Junar Kim's animated short THE END OF THE END which was just absolutely mind-blowingly beautiful on a big screen - like @realgdt.bsky.social and Lotte Reiniger and Jan Svankmajer having a collective nightmare. It's astonishing

I’m hosting the world premiere of RUBBERHEAD tonight with director Nick Taylor, but with Steve Johnson but it’s a whole movie about him so it’s kinda like he is. Tonight at @fantasiafestival.com - tickets still available!

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RUBBERHEAD: THE LIFE & MONSTERS OF STEVE JOHNSON (d. Nick Taylor) - World Premiere With archival footage, RUBBERHEAD is at once a captivating reflection on the glory days of practical FX, and a story of an artist whose greatest monster may have been himself fantasiafestival.com/en/film/rubb...

Guess who’s hosting this Saturday’s Canadian premiere of the very funny dark comedy DRAG at @fantasiafestival.com? It’s me! Guess who wrote these stellar program guide notes? Also me! I like this movie, and you will, too! Come see it!

Fantasia Festival | Drag

Two sisters (Lizzy Caplan and Lucy DeVito) find themselves trapped in a remote house when one of them throws her back out during a robbery attempt and the…

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Vinegar Syndrome's table opens today at the @fantasiafestival.com! Table hours: Thur. July 23: 11:45am-9:15pm Fri. July 24: 10:45am-9:15pm Sat. July 25: 10:45am-9:15pm Sun. July 26: 10am-4:15pm (*hours subject to change based on festival schedule/staff breaks)

The premiere of our new 4K restoration of Tibor Takács' METAL MESSIAH is just two days away. While Saturday’s @fantasiafestival.com screening is sold out, you can sample our restoration of this little-seen dystopian sci-fi rock opera in the new teaser here: m.youtube.com/watch?v=kpRT...

Metal Messiah (1978) teaser

YouTube video by Canadian International Pictures

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THE FOX (d. Dario Russo) - Quebec Premiere In this darkly comic folktale, afoxhunter (Jai Courtney) encounters a talking Fox (Olivia Colman) who offers him an opportunity to transform his fiancée (Emily Browning) into the perfect woman. fantasiafestival.com/en/film/the-...

LE JOURNAL D'AURÉLIE LAFLAMME (r. Christian Laurence) Aurélie Laflamme est un personnage intergénérationnel. Le film inspiré du premier tome de la série de romans ayant écoulé plus de 2,5 millions D’exemplaires à travers le monde souffle ses 15 bougies. fantasiafestival.com/fr/film/le-j...

KINO MONTRÉAL PRÉSENTE LA GUERRE DES TUQUES: RÉIMAGINÉE (Kino Montréal) Première Mondiale Les habitants d’un village décident de passer leurs vacances à jouer à la guerre. Le film québécois revient sur nos écrans sous forme de remake par 20 réalisateurs fantasiafestival.com/fr/film/kino...

JIM QUEEN (d. Nicolas Athane / Marco Nguyen) - North American Premiere Paris gay icon Jim Parfait rules the scene until Heterosis, an STI that turns gay men straight, spreads. As he loses status, an animated quest for a cure skewers queer scene politics. fantasiafestival.com/en/film/jim-...

GOZU (d. Takashi Miike) A gangster’s search for the missing body of his boss becomes an odyssey into deeply disturbing absurdity in one of Takashi Miike’s most delightfully confounding films, a fever dream that defies deciphering. fantasiafestival.com/en/film/gozu

FREAKS PART II (d. Zach Lipovsky/Adam Stein) - World Premiere A superpowered mutant (Amanda Crew) embarks on a quest to seek vengeance on the police force who killed her first child. A dazzling, imaginative and violent anti-superhero thriller. fantasiafestival.com/en/film/frea...

CITY WAR (d. Sun Chung) Superstars Chow Yun-Fat and Ti Lung reunite in this rarely seen Hong Kong action classic loaded with humour, strong characters, intense drama, and brutal, totally nuts gunfights. fantasiafestival.com/en/film/city...

PAPAYA (d. Priscilla Kellen) - Canadian Premiere A papaya seed dreams of flying and discovering the world. A film truly for the whole family, a memorable environmental fable told entirely without words. fantasiafestival.com/en/film/papaya

ROMIN (r. Jassen Charron / Anthony Dionne) - Première Mondiale Quand Romin trouve un artéfact dans la forêt, il se lance dans une épique course contre la montre pour retourner la relique à son point d’origine, afin d’éviter de succomber à la malédiction. fantasiafestival.com/fr/film/romin

POSSIBLE WORLDS (r. Robert Lepage) George Barber est un mathématicien pris dans une série de rêves récurrents. Il y rencontre une femme mystérieuse qui change d’identité selon les rêves. fantasiafestival.com/fr/film/poss...

THE PERIL AT PINCER POINT (d. Jake Kuhn / Noah Stratton-Twine) - Canadian Premiere In this beautiful, monochromatic absurdist comedy, a layabout sound recordist is sent to a remote island at the behest of the tyrannical filmmaker, P.W. Griffin. fantasiafestival.com/en/film/the-...

HONG KONG GODFATHER (d. Johnny Wang Lung-Wei) - Fantasia Retro Rival Kowloon gangs clash with machetes and bullets in this bonkers Shaw Brothers triad actioner on 35mm. fantasiafestival.com/en/film/hong...