This year's Fantasia International Film Festival has a packed line-up full of big names and big stories. There's new work from Jayro Bustamente, Alice Maio Mackay and the Adams Family, while the stars include Elijah Wood, Yang Ik-joon and Kit Harington. Fans can look forward to thrills, chills and a feast of creature features. It will open with the world première of Bookworm and close with André Forcier's Ababouiné. Special events include conversations with filmmaker Mike Flanagan and artist Gary Pullin, a panel discussion on female directors in horror, and a chance to learn how to make your own makgeolli, Korean rice wine.

The festival runs from 18 July to 4 August.

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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.
Berta
Berta
A woman decides to put her trauma to rest by dealing with the man who hurt her, once and for all.
Sunburnt Unicorn
Sunburnt Unicorn
Lost in an endless desert, an injured teenager adopts the identity of a mythical unicorn to survive surreal encounters and rescue his abducted father.
Mash Ville
Mash Ville
Someone has died after drinking the bootleg liquor brewed by Se-jong and his two younger brothers. While on a mission to retrieve their deadly booze before another person perishes from it, they come across two homicidal cultists who are terrorising the villagers.
Ouch!
Ouch!
A disabled man's chronic pain is explored through horror movie tropes that the people around him can't see.
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Fantasia International Film Festival Features

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

Fantasia International Film Festival News

Bookworm wins international Fantasia Audience Award
Festival celebrates record attendance
The Count Of Monte Cristo wins Cheval Noir
Full suite of Fantasia awards announced
The Count Of Monte-Cristo heads for Fantasia
Festival announces second wave of films
Full steam ahead for Fantasia 2024
First tranche of titles revealed
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