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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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In an attempt to impress his wife and boss, a nerdy man is lured by a 1-900 TV ad to party with a strange little creature called Frankie Freako. All hell breaks loose when Frankie and his two friends wreak interdimensional havoc in his life.
When violent and gruesome deaths start plaguing a small mountain village, an old legend about a malevolent creature resurfaces.
A story inspired by the original Ramayana, retold in a futuristic universe, involving brave warriors who possess ancient powers from another dimension.
A ten-year-old girl she starts to question her atypical life in her family's fortified compound in rural England, and he father's strange behaviour.
The fog of grief shrouding Miriam, a branch librarian, begins to lift when she starts a love affair with cab driver Janko. But what’s the deal with the vaguely threatening letters she keeps finding?
Adventures await when new lovers are separated by a chainsaw killer in this absurdist musical.
Honeymooners are persuaded to give a ride to a stranger who wants to be dropped off on an uninhabited planet, but they're not prepared for what they find there.
11 year old Mildred's world is turned upside-down when her estranged father, the washed-up magician Strawn Wise comes to look after her and agrees to take her camping to find a mythological beast known as the Canterbury Panther.
In the remote Portuguese mountain village of Pé da Serra, a monk arrives wielding a demonic sword. Before long, the mystical weapon ends up in the hands of the town drunk. Now, the drunkard and the sword will have to learn to fight an encroaching evil together.
A strange creature, Animalia, roams an abandoned building. Dressed in rags and gas mask she moves like an alien dancer, crawling and stretching across concrete, plastic waste. She collects and fills empty bottles for a modest bath.
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