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The Cramps: A Period Piece
This year's Fantaspoa has a line-up of over 200 features plus workshops, lectures, a Costume Party Cruise and a 50th anniversary tribute to Brian De Palma classic Carrie.
The festival runs from 8 to 26 April.
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Fantaspoa Latest Reviews
A found footage horror film about the modern surveillance state, dark web crime, and political conspiracy.
A lazy sound designer is sent to the remote island where a film was shot to capture a sound powerful enough to elevate its finale. Once there, eerie local fables surface: for years, ambitious and headstrong youth have lost their souls to a ghostly sea captain for his spectral crew.
A punk kid gets superpowers from alcohol and tries to reshape society, but a violent error sparks global tensions with him at the centre.
Tony and his best friend, Ivy, decide to rob the bar where he works to steal a new drug that will take them on a journey to meet God.
Emily takes a job as a counselor at a summer camp and finds a coven of witches ready to show her a path to healing.
A young Māori woman travels to Victorian England after receiving a letter promising information about her birth parents. As she peels back the layers of colonial deceit, she is driven to avenge her shattered ancestry.
A vibrant collision of horror, comedy, and aching personal truth as seen through the eyes of a young woman dealing with the pain of her menstrual cramps.
Henry Violence, an anti-hero in an alternate 1980s world, becomes entangled in a brutal drug war as rival cartels battle for supremacy, forcing him to make difficult choices to navigate the treacherous landscape.
A reimagining of the quinceañera as a chaotic mix of comedy and creature horror.
Anthology re-imagining the tales of Hans Christian Andersen.
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