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Fantasia 2024 Review: ‘House of Sayuri’ Injects Wacky Comedy into Bleak J-Horror

It can only mean one thing when a family moves into a new house in a Japanese horror film: they’re about to be tormented by the vengeful…

Aug 10

Fantasia 2024 Review: ‘House of Sayuri’ Injects Wacky Comedy into Bleak J-Horror

Aug 10

Toni Stanger

Fantasia 2024 Review: ‘Electrophilia’ is a Fascinating Yet Lacklustre Exploration of a Lightning…

Electrophilia, which had its North American premiere at Fantasia Festival, tells the story of Ada (Mariana Di Girolamo), a young…

Aug 8

Fantasia 2024 Review: ‘Electrophilia’ is a Fascinating Yet Lacklustre Exploration of a Lightning…

Aug 8

Toni Stanger

Fantasia 2024 Review: ‘Oddity’ is a Genuinely Scary Modern Horror with Almost Unbearable Suspense

During an eerily quiet evening in Ireland, Dani (Carolyn Bracken) is renovating the remote country home she shares with her psychiatrist…

Aug 5

Fantasia 2024 Review: ‘Oddity’ is a Genuinely Scary Modern Horror with Almost Unbearable Suspense

Aug 5

Toni Stanger

Fantasia 2024 Review: ‘Kryptic’ is a Surreal Character Study with No Satisfying Pay-off

Kay Hall (Chloe Pirrie) doesn’t know who she is, but neither do we. The aptly named Kryptic, which screened at Fantasia Festival last week…

Aug 2

Fantasia 2024 Review: ‘Kryptic’ is a Surreal Character Study with No Satisfying Pay-off

Aug 2

Toni Stanger

Fantasia 2024 Short Film Reviews: AstroNots, Bangs, Berta, Dirty Bad Wrong, Faces, Hell is a…

The creators behind these six short films watched for Fantasia Festival are all talented filmmakers worthy of keeping an eye on.

Aug 1

Fantasia 2024 Short Film Reviews: AstroNots, Bangs, Berta, Dirty Bad Wrong, Faces, Hell is a…

Aug 1

Toni Stanger

Fantasia 2024 Review: ‘Cuckoo’ Gets Lost in Its Unique Storytelling

Mild spoilers. I encourage you to go in blind and read my review afterwards. Some things are better not knowing — the things the trailer…

Jul 31

Fantasia 2024 Review: ‘Cuckoo’ Gets Lost in Its Unique Storytelling

Jul 31

Toni Stanger

Fantasia 2024 Review: Dale Dickey is Utterly Compelling in ‘The G’

Dale Dickey proves she’s more than just a character actor in Karl R. Hearne’s revenge thriller, The G, which screened at Fantasia Festival…

Jul 29

Fantasia 2024 Review: Dale Dickey is Utterly Compelling in ‘The G’

Jul 29

Toni Stanger

Fantasia 2024 Review: ‘The Dead Thing’ Delivers a Strong Premise with Poor Execution

In The Dead Thing, which had its world premiere at Fantasia Festival today, Alex (Blu Hunt, The New Mutants) is going through the motions…

Jul 28

Fantasia 2024 Review: ‘The Dead Thing’ Delivers a Strong Premise with Poor Execution

Jul 28

Toni Stanger

Fantasia 2024 Review: ‘Carnage For Christmas’ is a Serviceable Trans Murder Mystery

Carnage For Christmas, which screened at Fantasia Festival on July 19th, follows true crime podcaster Lola (Jeremy Moineau), who co-hosts…

Jul 23

Fantasia 2024 Review: ‘Carnage For Christmas’ is a Serviceable Trans Murder Mystery

Jul 23

Toni Stanger

Fantasia 2024: Top 10 Picks

My most anticipated films from Fantasia’s current line-up.

Jul 9

Fantasia 2024: Top 10 Picks

Jul 9

Toni Stanger

Toni Stanger

Freelancer writer on mainly film and television, but sometimes dabbles in celeb culture. Covers mostly horror and female-led media for Screen Queens.

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