MOVIE REVIEWS

There’s nothing quite like a traditional family Christmas, but what happens when uninvited (and previously dead) relatives crash dinner and all hell breaks loose? Having its world premiere at this year's Fantasia International Film Festival, Unholy Night, directed by Michael Gabriele, is a festive fright which explores whether traditions from days of yore should be respected more in modern society. Gino (played by Marc Bendavid) begrudgingly attends his yearly Italian-Canadia

Mother knows best, and there’s no better depiction of this mantra than Hanna Bergholm’s Nightborn which will be having its North American premiere at this year’s Fantasia International Film Festival. The first year of parenthood is a literal circle of hell, with sleepless nights, countless arguments with partners, changing bodies, and edging onto the brink of insanity, and a young couple in Finland are discovering just how difficult raising a newborn can be. Saga (Seidi Haarl

Morgan Holstrom as Elyse Digging deep into the rooted trauma of Indigenous communities and particularly women, is Tim Riedel’s Ancestral Beasts, which is holding its world premiere at this year's Fantasia International Film Festival. Following an indigenous Métis woman as she attempts to gain some peace from her declining mental health problems, she soon comes face to face with the horror that so many of her fore-mothers were forced to endure. Elyse (played by Morgan Holmstr

Lou Taylor Pucci as Winthrop Based on the podcast Knifepoint Horror, the Daniel Stamm directed psychological horror Lockbox examines the horrors of a person’s mind and how trauma, going untreated, can spill over, affecting everyone in the immediate vicinity. Starring Carla Gugino (Gerald’s Game, The Haunting of Hill House, The Fall of The House of Usher) as Ellen who, after moving to small town to deal with the grief of losing her mother, decides to take in her troubled adult

Celebrating its 30th edition in 2026 is The Fantasia International Film Festival which will be returning to the Concordia Hall and J.A de Sève cinemas, with additional screenings and events at Montréal’s Cinéma du Musée, occurring from 16th July through to the 2nd of August, with a plethora of screenings, workshops and events. This year’s incredible lineup is due to include over 125 features and 200+ shorts, appealing to a whole spectrum of genre fans with forays into anime,

Courtesy of AURA Entertainment Photo credit: Courtesy of AURA Entertainment For a mammal that kills more people per year than sharks, lions, tigers, and what most people would consider dangerous animals, the hippo has been a criminally under utilized antagonist in the cinematic genre of feral nature gone wrong. Here’s where James Nunn’s Hungry enters the chat. When holiday makers go on a day trip to the bayou in Louisiana to see some crocodiles, what they don’t expect is to b