Small Gauge Trauma 2024
Fantasia’s celebrated international showcase of cutting-edge genre works is back with ten films from six countries that positively astonish, returning this year for its 25th edition.
The Mantis
Wylie Rush
Porn actors are turning up dead in this razor-sharp shock comedy about online hook-ups and performative play that will have you laughing and gasping in equal measure.
On God
Andrew Theodore Balasia
A funny and poignantly unsettling kaleidoscope of tones in which a man (Al Warren, DREAM SCENARIO), awakens from a gunshot-induced coma, determined to move on from his violent past.
Blockbuster
Rafael Toledo
Determined to work with practical effects, an aspiring filmmaker decides to blow up a nearby building for footage in his next film.
The Accomplices
Alberto Evangelio
Spanish filmmaker Alberto Evangelio casts a dark, horror lens on compassionate assisted death, to chillingly moving effect.
Birdcage
Karel Konings
A tense piece set in an early ’50 medical institution of a different kind, where supernatural children are being euthanized by frightened doctors.
Don't Talk to Strangers
Imanol Ortiz López
Skin-crawling nightmare fuel bathed in vintage Kodachrome transfixion, calculated to the microsecond, honed to haunt and mortify
The Fish Tank
Victoria Garza
The story of a fish woman (Ari Cigarroa) escaped into a world that longs to consume her. A wholly singular genre work that marks the arrival of one hell of a new talent.
Empty Jars
Guillermo Ribbeck
A stylishly directed dark fantasy set in a decaying student residence where a woman frees a ghost and works to find it a suitable human vessel to possess.
Faces
Blake Simon
A terrifying entity moves within a group of college students in this dreamily uncanny film that brings vivid freshness to an ageless horror theme.
Dysmorphic
Grant Swanson
A film about modern dating. To a point.