If the first wave of films didn’t make you want to trek across the Canadian border to attend the 2015 Fantasia International Film Festival (unless, ya know, you already live there) then maybe these ones will.
Fantasia already had some loose connections to the last South by Southwest Film Festival (what with a new project from the folks behind Turbo Kid being announced). Now the SXSW bonds have grown stronger, as a few more films that played at the Austin-based fest are heading north; including: the horror/crime thriller/comedy, He Never Died, starring punk raconteur Henry Rollins as an immortal cannibal (which one of our writers loved); the ’70s haunted house throwback, We Are Still Here; and the suspenseful indie road movie produced by the Duplass Brothers, Manson Family Vacation.
Other films set to play at Fantasia 2015 include veteran Hong Kong action director Ringo Lam’s first directorial effort since 2007, Wild City; the documentary about the reunion of one of Britain’s most famous comedy teams, Monty Python: The Meaning of Live; and the Nigerian zombie flick, Ojuju.
From June 14th to August 4th in Montreal, you can see all of these plus:
“Ryuzo and the Seven Henchmen”
Japan Dir: Takeshi Kitano
“Dark Places”
USA Dir: Gilles Paquet-Brenner
“Anguish”
USA Dir: Sonny Mallhi
“Cherry Tree”
Ireland Dir: David Keating
“Synchronicity”
USA Dir: Jacob Gentry
“Traders”
Ireland Dir: Rachael Moriarty, Peter Murphy
“Experience the Gaze of the Shamer’s Daughter”
Denmark Dir: Kenneth Kainz
Through the Eyes of a Stranger”
USA Dir: Victor Zarcoff
“Bite”
Canada Dir: Chad Archibald
“Extinction”
USA Dir: Miguel Angel Vivas
“Ava’s Possessions”
USA Dir: Jordan Galland
“Børning”
Norway Dir: Hallvard Bræin
“Bridgend”
Denmark Dir: Jeppe Rønde
“Bunny The Killer Thing”
Finland Dir: Joonas Makkonen
“Cop Car”
USA Dir: Jon Watts
“Crimson Whale”
South Korea Dir: Park Hye-mi
“Cruel”
France Dir : Eric Cherrière
“The Dark Below”
USA Dir: Douglas Schulze
Director’s Commentary — “Terror of Frankenstein”
USA Dir : Tim Kirk
“German Angst”
Germany Dir: Jörg Buttgereit, Michal Kosakowski and Andreas Marschall
“H.”
USA / Argentina Dir : Rania Attieh & Daniel Garcia
“The Hallow”
UK Dir: Corin Hardy
“The Invitation”
USA Dir: Karyn Kusama
“Ju-On: The Final Curse”
Japan Dir: Masayuki Ochiai
“The Master Plan”
Sweden Dir: Alain Darborg
“The Nutcracker 3D”
Japan Dir: Sebastian Masuda
“On The White Planet”
South Korea Dir: Hur Bum-wook
“Remake, Remix, Rip-Off: About Copy Culture & Turkish Pop Cinema”
Turkey/Germany Dir: Cem Kaya
“The Royal Tailor”
South Korea Dir: Lee Won-suk
“Scherzo Diabolico”
Mexico/USA Dir: Adrián García Bogliano
“Socialphobia”
South Korea Dir: Hong Seok-jae
“Some Kind of Hate”
USA Dir: Adam Egypt Mortimer
“She Who Must Burn”
Canada Dir: Larry Kent
“The Taking”
UK Dir: Dominic Brunt
“Therapy For A Vampire”
Austria Dir: David Rühm
“Wonderful World End”
Japan Dir: Daigo Matsui
“Haruko’s Paranormal Laboratory”
Japan, Dir: Lisa Takeba
“Haruko’s Paranormal Laboratory”
Japan, Dir: Lisa Takeba
“Hostile”
France, Dir : Nathan Ambrosioni
“Meathead Goes Hog Wild”
USA, Dir: Kevin Cline, Zach Harris, and Sean Pierce