British director Neil Marshall (Dog Soldiers, The Descent, Doomsday) will be gracing the Fantasia stage tonight, to host the Canadian Premiere of his new film Centurion, with one of the film’s stars (and his wife), Axelle Carolyn (author of It Lives Again! Horror in the New Millennium). CENTURION screens Saturday July 24 at 7:00pm in the Hall Theatre, and a second screening has been added July 28th at 3pm in the Salle JA De Seve.

BLACK DEATH plays on Friday July 23 at 9:15pm in the Hall Theatre with director Christopher Smith in person, with a second screening added on July 26th at 5:30pm in the Hall.

How to describe Machotaildrop? Magic realism? Surreal kids film? Cautionary juvenile delinquent fantasy? Werewolf fetishism? It’s all of these things and more. Carrying on where his short films Of Wolf and Limb and Harvey Spannos left off , writer-director Corey Adams (who co-wrote with Alex Craig) went full-concept with this strange genre hybrid whose name [...]

Simon Rumley blew my mind in 2006 with his debut genre feature The Living and the Dead, which swept up awards all over the festival circuit and established him as a major international talent. Simon and exec producer Tim League were kind enough to answer some questions about Red White and Blue’s conception, moral trajectory and its promising future on the fest circuit.

A SERBIAN FILM plays Friday July 16 at 9:10pm and again on Monday July 19 at 4:40pm in the Hall Theatre, hosted by director/producer/co-screenwriter Srdjan Spasojevic, co-screenwriter Aleksandar Radivojevic & executive producer Nikola Pantelic.

T.T. SYNDROME plays July 15th at 7:45pm in the Salle J.A. De Seve.

Hard rock will probably never have an icon as enduring as Lemmy Kilmister – the mutton-chopped frontman for Motorhead, ejected bass player for Hawkwind, hard-drinkin’, toy-collecting composer of the immortal Ace of Spades and cab driver of the apocalypse.

Fantasia is extremely proud to be hosting the North American premiere of Philip Ridley’s Heartless, his first return to the big screen since The Passion of Darkly Noon in 1996

A HOLY PLACE screens July 13th at 7:30pm and July 26th at 1pm in the Salle JA De Seve.

While Tomas Villum Jensen is familiar to Fantasia audiences from his acting turns in festival faves In China They Eat Dogs and Old Men in New Cars, as well as the arthouse hit Adam’s Apples (2005), he’s also got a hefty back-catalogue of directing credits, and it’s safe to say that At World’s End is [...]