The 2024 Fantasia International Film Festival had a packed line-up full of big names and big stories. There was new work from Jayro Bustamente, Alice Maio Mackay and the Adams Family, while the stars included Elijah Wood, Yang Ik-joon and Kit Harington. It opened with the world première of Bookworm and closed with André Forcier's Ababouiné. Special events included conversations with filmmaker Mike Flanagan and artist Gary Pullin and a panel discussion on female directors in horror.

The festival ran from 18 July to 4 August.

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House Of Sayuri
House Of Sayuri
A vengeful ghost decimates a family until a counterattack from a bold grandmother brings a startling new dynamic into the house.
Vulcanizadora
Vulcanizadora
Two friends embark on a disturbing mission in the Michigan woods. When their plan unravels, one must face the surreal and unsettling consequences back home.
The Count Of Monte-Cristo
The Count Of Monte-Cristo
Aa adaptation of the Dumas classic in which a man betrayed and left to rot in prison escapes, acquires a fortune and sets out in pursuit of justice - or revenge.
Rita
Rita
Rita, a 13 year old girl, runs away from her abusive father to the big city. She finds solace until she's placed in a safe house run by the State. Rita and her cellmates plots an escape that ends in a shocking act of violence.
Azrael
Azrael
Many years following the apocalypse, a devout cult of mute zealots hunts down a young woman who has escaped her imprisonment.
The Paragon
The Paragon
The crippled and angry victim of a hit and run, who takes a course on how to be psychic so he can find the car that hit him and take revenge on the driver. But when his teacher draws him into her search for a mysterious crystal known as the paragon, he finds himself trapped in a parallel universe and on the run from her evil brother and his band of enslaved psychics.
Scared Shitless
Scared Shitless
A father and son plumbing duo face a gruesome challenge: rid a building of a toilet-dwelling creature before it unleashes itself to the rest of the world.
Shelby Oaks
Shelby Oaks
A woman's desperate search for her long-lost sister falls into obsession upon realising that the imaginary demon from their childhood may have been real.
Timestalker
Timestalker
A woman continuously seeks out the presumed love of her life across time, in one incarnation after another.
Steppenwolf
Steppenwolf
Tamara searches for her missing son in a violent town. She hires a morally questionable ex-detective to find him. His methods are cruel but she is determined to find her son whatever the cost.
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Fantasia International Film Festival Features

Weirdly Michigan
Joel Potrykus discusses writing, improvisation, music and Vulcanizadora
Puzzle boxes
Star Rosencrans on editing The Dead Thing and A Desert
In dialogue with time
Bookworm director Ant Timpson on the changing landscape of cinema
On the borderline
Julien Maury and Alexandre Bustillo on crossing genres in The Soul Eater
Magnificent creatures
Jayro Bustamante on giving the girls of Hogar Seguro a voice in Rita
Taking back power
Lucía Forner Segarra on reinventing the revenge film in Berta
A piece of cake
Yasuda Jun’ichi on sweetness and keeping it real in A Samurai In Time
Don't be square
Vincenzo Natali on the need for weirdness in cinema, and Cube
Mythical beast
Nick Johnson on re-envisioning the desert in Sunburnt Unicorn
Things to come
Scooter McCrae, Damian Maffei and Yvonne Emilie Thälker on Black Eyed Susan
Running with the wolves
Annick Blanc on asking people to open their eyes with Hunting Daze
Something under the earth is drooling
Toby Poser and John Adams on Hell Hole
Monster and metaphor
Alexander J Farrell and Greer Ellison on the layers of meaning in The Beast Within
Family forever
Isaac Ezban on exploring a troubled world through children's eyes in Parvulos
Killing on the clock
Araki Shinji on keeping viewers guessing in Penalty Loop
Los Angeles after dark
Elric Kane on the nocturnal city and The Dead Thing
Making the call
Steven Kostanski on making monsters in Frankie Freako
A moment of transformation
Miguel Llansó on the changing nature of humanity and Infinite Summer
All the buzz
Sander Maran and Peeter Maran on Chainsaws Were Singing
Five highlights of Fantasia 2024
Oddity, The Tenants, The G, Infinite Summer and The Missing
The monster within
Kourtney Roy and Chloe Pirrie discuss Kryptic
A gran plan
Karl R Hearne on The G's inspiration, those who target the old and the portrayal of female sexuality as a radical act
Putting The G in Vengeance
Dale Dickey on her role as a gran bent on revenge and the resolution of the actors' strike

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