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Fantasia 2025
How Did a Toilet Movie Win Best Film? FLUSH (2025) Review. In this French horror-comedy fever dream, middle-aged party disaster Luke ducks into a club bathroom for a quick hit—and ends up trapped in one stall as his drug-fueled paranoia explodes into blood, rats, and surreal madness. FLUSH is grimy, claustrophobic, and hilariously unhinged. Fantasia 2025
This Is A Stylish Moody Nightmare - The Wailing (2024) Review. Across two continents and multiple timelines, a chilling force weaves its way through the lives of three women—each drawn into a waking nightmare they can’t explain. As their realities fracture and terror mounts, one thing becomes clear: the past is never truly gone. Unfolding with hypnotic precision and unforgettable visuals, this debut feature from Pedro Martín-Calero stunned audiences at Fantasia Film Festival 2025, marking him as a bold new voice in international horror.
Aliens, Zombies.. In Schijndrecht?! - STRAIGHT OUTTA SPACE (2025) | Alien Invasion Meets Dutch Hood Sci-Fi! Welcome to Schijndrecht—a humble, tight-knit neighborhood about to be gentrified… and slimed. In STRAIGHT OUTTA SPACE, street coaches Amin and Mitchell are just trying to help their community—until aliens start body-snatching the locals. Now it’s up to them to throw down and save their homes, their friends, and possibly the world. From the twisted minds behind MOLOCH, this wild blend of sci-fi, horror, and comedy is a total blast. Played at Fantasia 2025!
I Dated A World Eating Alien - TOUCH ME (2025) Review. Two codependent best friends become addicted to the heroin-like touch of an alien narcissist who may or may not be trying to take over the world. Shown at Fantasia Film Festival 2025 with no details about any release information as of reviewing it.
A Great New Concept For A Horror Film! BURNING (2024) Review. In a suburban village, a house belonging to a young family who recently lost their firstborn is burning. Neighbors say that the house bears the mark of a curse, as no one understands how the fire started, each neighbor has their own ideas but nobody trusts that house. Premiered at Fantasia 2025 Film Festival.
Is The School Duel The Most Controversial Movie This Year? REVIEW When an opportunity for twisted notoriety arises, a tormented 13-year old, Sammy, enlists in a deadly competition. Played at Fantasia Film Festival 2025. See what I thought about it.
YOU Need To See This Hilarious Indie Gem! $Spositions (2025) Review. One of the wilder most unexpected films of the Fantasia Film Festival So Far! A Midwest worker risks his savings on crypto, spiraling into gambling addiction and straining ties with his girlfriend, disabled brother, and recovering addict cousin in this anxious modern comedy. Equal parts intense & hilarious!
A Buffet Commercial Becomes Sentient - Buffet Infinity (2025) Review. Seriously one of the weirder films at the fest so FAR! It's about An All-You-Can-Eat Buffet commercial harbours an alien intelligence which is trying to take over the world. Premiered At Fantasia Film Festival 2025!
The Undertone's MASTERFUL Sound Design SHOOK ME! The UNDERTONE (2025) Spoiler Free Review. A podcast host covering spooky content moves in to care for her dying mother. When sent recordings of a pregnant couple's paranormal encounters, she discovers their story parallels hers, each tape pushing her toward madness. SOLD OUT & Premiered at Fantasia Film Festival 2025.
Why Haunted Mountain The Yellow Taboo (2025) Is So Different From Other Horror Films! A legend in Taiwan's mountains says that when lost, hikers encounter a figure in a yellow raincoat who points to a blurry path, leading them to disappear. Premiering at Fantasia 2025!
This INDIE is PACKED with SUSPENSE - Hellcat (2025) Review. Premiering at Fantasia 2025! A woman wakes in the back of a moving camper trailer with a badly infected wound. A voice from the truck towing it tells her they must reach a doctor within the hour or she'll suffer a horrific fate.
A VERY Cool Scifi THRILLER - REDUX REDUX (2025) Review! Irene Kelly travels through parallel universes, repeatedly ending her daughter's murderer. As she becomes consumed by vengeance, her humanity hangs in the balance. She wants Revenge! Premiering at Fantasia 2025!
An Alien Crashlands Into Our Hearts - STINKER (2025) Review. Three strangers with nothing in common—Sadyk, a homeless old man with a death wish, Nadya, a cold-faced shopkeeper, and an alien hiding in the outhouse and desperate to return to its planet—cross paths in a godforsaken corner of Kazakhstan. Premiered at Fantasia 2025!
Fantasia 2025 just dropped a psychological bomb with A Grand Mockery (2024), a grimy, surreal descent into madness that feels like a found Super 8 tape filmed during a nervous breakdown. Co-directed by Adam C. Briggs and Sam Dixon—who also stars—this Aussie acid-trip follows a man unraveling under the weight of addiction, paranoia, and some truly haunting inner voices.
Psychological SciFi Thriller - TERRESTRIAL Review. From the Director of Hot Tub Time Machine comes something completely different. During a weekend reunion, a rising sci-fi author welcomes three college friends to his home, but strange events begin to blur the lines between reality and imagination. Premiering at FANTASIA 2025.
What is that Terrifying Sound..? NOISE? Premiering at Fantasia Film Festival 2025, NOISE is a chilling Korean horror film where sound is the scariest thing of all. Joo-young (Lee Sun-bin), who has a hearing impairment, starts to notice disturbing noises in her new apartment—right before her younger sister vanishes. As the sounds grow more intense, so does the presence of something dark stalking her home. Tense, eerie, and packed with dread, NOISE turns every creak into a nightmare.
Did This Girl Just Meet a Time Traveler? - REWRITE (2025) Review - Fantasia 2025. Yasuhiko (Kei Adachi), a mysterious transfer student from the year 2311, suddenly appears in Miyuki’s (Elaiza Ikeda) life. Drawn together by his secret, they grow close. He tells her he was inspired by a novel from her time—a book she’ll one day write. On the day he leaves, she promises to write it and preserve their summer. A decade later, as the book nears publication, something’s off. The reunion never comes. Did something go wrong in the past—or is there more she doesn’t know?
Fantasia 2025 had BEGUN! Can Suburbia STOP Hell? | HOLD The FORT Review - Fantasia 2025. After moving to the suburbs, a young couple finds themselves trapped in an epic battle between their new HOA and an onslaught of monsters from hell.
