‘Fantasia Festival’ Archive

A THUNDERING SUCCESS WITH AN INTERNATIONAL REACH FOR FANTASIA’S 15th EDITION

Montreal, Sunday, August 7, 2011 – The 15th edition of the Fantasia International Film Festival has drawn to a close and our team is delighted by the great success of this year’s edition. As a stand-out event on the genre festival circuit since 1996, Fantasia is pleased to see its fan base continue to grow [...]

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Video: Fantasia Days 20-22

Don’t Miss DJ XL5′s Mexican Zappin’ Party – tonight!

On the Mexican menu are zany situations, rock ’n’ roll comedies, horror flicks, slo-mo shoot-outs, masked wrestlers, a mountain of firearms, monsters both snappy and crappy and, of course, big moustaches galore. This program celebrates the best and the worst (and the best of the worst!) of Mexican film.

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Video Interview: Gabriel Thibaudeau – THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA

VOLTAIRE: PUPPET MASTER OF THE MACABRE – tonight!

A darkly comic evening of movies and music by a charismatic entertainer (including the premiere of his latest short with narration by new wave icon Gary Numan!), this is one of the not-to-be-missed events of the festival that will leave you screaming for more, more, more!

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Don’t miss FINAL DESTINATION 5 (in 3D!)

Hosted by actress Jacqueline MacInnes-Wood (eyeball surgery girl!)

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Video: Fantasia Days 17-19

Don’t miss the North American premiere of QUIRKY GUYS AND GALS – tonight!

Japanese omnibus from the directors of SURVIVE STYLE 5+, FINE, TOTALLY FINE and more!

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Don’t miss the Canadian Premiere of BAS-FONDS – tonight at 9:15pm!

This is a nasty story, one of a hateful crime committed by three witches living far from the city. But it’s also a love story, the most beautiful and heartbreaking of all. It is a horrible tragedy, chronicling the impossible encounter of three despicable beings. But more than anything, it’s a true story.

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Drafthouse Films acquires THE FP fresh off its Fantasia screening!

Indiewire reports: Following Saturday night’s raucous Fantasia Fest screening of “The FP,” Drafthouse Films, the distribution arm of Tim League’s Alamo Drafthouse Cinema, has acquired US rights to the film

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