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Rihito Itagaki as Shota J-Horror legend Takashi Shimizu (Ju-On) returns with supernatural curse thriller The Mouths which has its North American premiere at this year’s Fantasia International Film Festival. Packed with long-haired ghost ladies, mystery curses seeking to be unravelled, and creepy atmospheric set pieces, The Mouths follows a group of college friends who, after visiting a cursed tree, begin to experience haunting phenomena. Shota (Rihito Itagaki), encourages a g

Vince played by Brodie Townsend Sex and the supernatural collide in Corrin Evan’s erotic psychological horror Corpus, which has its world premiere at this year’s Fantasia International Film Festival. Set in the sweaty summer of 1998 on the outskirts of New York City, Corpus follows a nightlife photographer who finds himself in an unusual and highly dangerous situation after following his crush to a party. Sayo (Jeff Wahlberg) is a drug dealer as well as a photographer who dec

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