Nouvelles

08 august 2020

  • Festivals

    Fantasia 2020 : Class action park will have its International Premiere

    Imagine this: after a long wait, it is finally your turn to sit on the edge of the slide that will send you into a swimming pool, for your greatest pleasure and fun. But when you are about to launch yourself, you notice something: there is no light in the slide. It is completely dark. As you're being pushed by an underpaid teenager from New Jersey, you realize not only that you have no idea what's going on, but also that this slide is far from comfortable. It hurts...

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08 august 2020

  • Festivals

    Fantasia 2020: Bleed with me, World Premiere

    With her first feature film Bleed with me, director Amelia Moses takes us into an intimate stay at the cottage where boundaries will be crossed and relationships will deteriorate. Bleed with me is a thriller with striking imagery that manages to paint the state of vulnerability and discomfort that can be experienced when exploring the issues of self-harm and social isolation. In its winter setting, Bleed with me made the most of its small budget. Since her...

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08 august 2020

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    Fantasia 2020: Beauty Water will do its North European Premiere

    Beauty is always superficial, but scenes of bodily horror still make us shudder to the bone. Adapted from a very popular web comic, Beauty Water is director Cho Kyung-hun's first feature film. Horror in animation is definitely very hard to achieve. We can hardly fear for the lives of drawn characters. After all, we've seen them so often crushed by pianos or anvils, and then carry on as if nothing had happened. Cho Kyung-hun decided to focus not on what might kill us, but...

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08 august 2020

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    Fantasia 2020: The Curse of Audrey Earnshaw

    Set during the 1973 harvest season, The Curse of Audrey Earnshaw is a strangely nightmarish horror drama, steeped in folklore, brimming with atmosphere and vibrant with imagery that will haunt your subconscious. Writer and director Thomas Robert Lee (Empyream) brings to life a disturbing and surprising occult horror film. The film gives the impression of stepping out of a veritable canton of mystical knowledge, while at the same time ranking among the darkest coming-of-age...

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08 august 2020

  • Festivals

    Fantasia 2020 : Anything for Jackson

    Anything for Jackson is a clever, often funny and deliciously petty story about an elderly satanist couple who are literally ready for anything in the name of love. Keith Cooper's screenplay is constantly surprising, alternately funny, mean and progressively more intense as the film progresses, while director Justin G. Dyck happily dives into both the dark and comedic aspects. It is also the combination of the two lead roles played by Sheila McCarthy and Julian Richings, and the...

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