Years after an avian-spread disease forces humanity into secluded cities, a foolhardy scientist and his wife, a wayward survivor, spend a night at a cabin outside of their compound. Recently infected and unbeknownst to his partner, he uses their seclusion as a trial run for his untested cure. This is Fantasia 2026 short, Birdcall. Read More →
Filmmaker Michael Gabriele’s Fantasia 2026 film UNHOLY NIGHT follows a family curse steeped in Italian lore in which deceased elders reanimate and embark on murderous rampages on Christmas. But mostly those who disrespected them. This holiday horror comedy nails Catholic guilt, cultural chaos, and delivers a splatter fest of kills. Read More →
In short film The Fated Hour, Florentine tells her fiance about her late sister’s connection to the spirit world, and her potential destiny. Read More →
In Fantasia 2026 comedy, Backstage Madness, a screenwriter must pander to the whims of a greedy producer when creating his latest script. Read More →
In Home Bodies, two children, raised in total isolation by an automated house, begin to confront the mysteries of their existence after an enigmatic stranger arrives from outside. Read More →
New mother Saga worries her child is not like the others. Motherhood is a beast in Hanna Bergholm’s Fantasia 2026 feature, Nightborn. Read More →
In Fantasia 2026 film Godhead, a morally corrupt priest is tasked to choose which mysterious twin visitor is the Holy Spirit. With striking black and white cinematography, Mark H. Rapaport’s sophomore film will challenge the norm by examining religion indoctrination and truth on a larger scale. Fantasia audiences will be wowed. Read More →
Harrison Houde’s “Tight Lettuce” explores generational trauma and the complexities of love amid addiction. Joel’s dedication to his father, battling a heroin and fentanyl addiction, stifles his personal growth. The film, featuring powerful performances, underscores the impact of drug abuse on families and the necessity of emotional independence. A compelling dark comedy, it resonates deeply. Read More →
Grab your party hats, because she’s turning thirty and flirty and extra scary. This year’s Fantasia 2026 is here to gag you, both literally and figuratively. Here are just a handful of the films and short blocks on our ever-growing list of magic and mayhem to check out: Read More →
THE SCHOOL DUEL Todd Wisemen Jr.’s heart-pounding feature debut, THE SCHOOL DUEL, gets its Canadian premiere at Fantasia 2025. Set in near-future Florida, they have outlawed gun control, and school shootings are at an all-time high. Students wear uniforms with patches on the shoulders. The emblem: a cross overlaid on top of the Liberty Bell. Hyper toxic masculinity is the Read More →
SHRIMP FRIED RICE Imagine MasterChef meets the Muppets, and you might be able to grasp the supreme silliness of Fantasia 2025 short, SHRIMP FRIED RICE. Filmmaker Dylan Pun gives audiences an adult Ratatouille, which ironically, Shrimp name-drops and threatens. It is part profile of this unexpected chef and part exposé. A father wishes to compliment the chef for his signature Read More →
THE UNDERTONE Established sci-fi author Ian Tuason brings his chilling directorial debut to Fantasia 2025 audiences. The film follows Evy, a full-time carer for her ailing mother and part-time spooky podcaster. Alongside her co-host Justin, Evy is the skeptic in the pair, searching for logic in the strange and unusual. THE UNDERTONE has arrived to f*ck you up. They receive Read More →
ANYTHING THAT MOVES Filmmaker Alex Phillips (All Jacked Up and Full of Worms) brings another entirely weird and one-of-a-kind film to Fantasia 2025 with ANYTHING THAT MOVES. The film follows Liam and his girlfriend, who are snack delivery sex workers. When their clients end up murdered, two detectives try to pin the gory violence on them. Don’t get ahead of Read More →
HELLCAT Filmmaker Brock Bodell brings his debut feature, HELLCAT, a genre-bending horror, to Fantasia 2025. Discussing HELLCAT is difficult without spoilers, which is always a compliment in my book. The basics (and I use that term loosely) are this: Lena wakes up groggy to discover she is being held captive in the back of a trailer. A man’s voice comes Read More →
LUCID Directors Deanna Milligan and Ramsey Fendall‘s 2022 short film LUCID gets the feature treatment, and Fanatsia 2025 audiences are its first test subjects. The film follows Mia, a misunderstood art student who delivers more performance art than quality visual art. She’s stressed and overly dramatic, but that’s pretty much a requirement for us artsy folk. At risk of being Read More →
TERRESTRIAL Opening with a bang, Steve Pink‘s Fantasia 2025 film, TERRESTRIAL, has landed. It follows a sci-fi writer who is about to fulfill his dreams with a book and movie deal. Alan invites his college friends to his new mansion in the Hollywood Hills to celebrate his good fortune, but something feels off. In his driveway, stands a large, striped Read More →
THE BEARDED GIRL Jody Wilson delivers a special film to Fantasia 2025 audiences with THE BEARDED GIRL. Cleo is the heir to a sideshow as the next Bearded Woman. Feeling conflicted about her future, Cleo rejects familial expectations to find herself. Inheriting a legacy from an overbearing and proud mother, Cleo wants to choose her path. After discovering a secret Read More →
HOLD THE FORT Filmmaker William Bagley brings his horror comedy HOLD THE FORT to Fantasia 2025. The film follows a young couple’s move into the neighborhood, who are acutely unaware of the expectations of their HOA. Upon their invitation to an annual get-together, they learn the fine print involves a particular species of grass and fighting monsters from a hell Read More →
Fantasia 2025 The literal moment a certain NYC festival closes, I begin to get hyped for Fantasia. If you are a genre nerd like I am, this is the festival that I’m talking about all year. Home of upcoming filmmakers that ultimately become household names, Fantasia boasts some of the coolest, scariest, weirdest, goriest, and most shocking films of the Read More →
FANTASIA UNVEILS VIVID FIRST WAVE OF TITLES FOR ITS 29th EDITION Steve Pink’s TERRESTRIAL, Kenichi Ugana’s I FELL IN LOVE WITH A Z-GRADE DIRECTOR IN BROOKLYN, Julie Pacino’s I LIVE HERE NOW, Hwang Wook’s THE WOMAN, Hubert Davis’ THE WELL, Yasuhiro Aoki’s CHAO, Kurtis David Harder’s INFLUENCERS, The Adams Family’s MOTHER OF FLIES, Alex Philips’ ANYTHING THAT MOVES, Shuhei Read More →
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