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The 21st edition of South America's biggest genre film festival returns to Porto Alegre with a packed line-up of fantasy, science-fiction, horror and more. With films from 61 countries screening, it includes 11 world premières. As always, there's also a great collection of retrospectives, including a centenary screening of Lon Chaney Jr silent classic The Phantom of the Opera.
The festival runs from 9 to 27 April.
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Fantaspoa Latest Reviews
After a girl bursts into their home psychiatry practice claiming an entity is feeding on her, Jordan and her clairvoyant mother must find a way to stop the force before the girl is taken completely.
Mott the angel is sent on a holy mission in London and Bucharest. In his search for a mysterious saint, he encounters a world that sends him off course and forces him to face his true identity.
Best friends Ruth and Megan run a vintage shop in Muswell Hill. Stumbling across a time machine, they embark on trips to the past to stock their shop, with no idea of the irreparable damage they're causing to the fabric of the universe.
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.
A faux true-crime documentary about two detectives pursuit of an infamous serial killer named Mr. Shiny, who terrorised Southern California for almost two decades.
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.
Mikey’s night terrors become reality when his mother begins showing signs of demonic possession. What he’s about to experience will haunt him for the rest of his life and claim countless lives across generations.
On a working holiday in Miyazaki, the teenage killers find themselves up against a deadly freelancer.
A samurai who gets hit by lightning wakes up to find himself on a film set in the present day and starts to work as an extra on samurai films.
Three young women's week at the beach turns into a transhumanist mystery romp in one Estonian summer.
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