The good folks behind Montreal's Fantastia Film Festival must be conspiring to give me a panic attack as this year's festival has pretty much every genre film I have been anticipating over the last year. They just released the full line-up and it is staggering. Here are some of highlights of the films having their Canadian premieres:
- John Landis' BURKE AND HARE starring Andy Serkis and Simon Pegg
- Joe Cornish's sci-fi ATTACK THE BLOCK (our review)
- Kevin Smith's controversial RED STATE
- Lucky McKee's even-more-controversial THE WOMAN
- Israel's first slasher film, RABIES
- Xavier Gens (Frontiers)' THE DIVIDE
- Miguel Angel Vivas's KIDNAPPED, the horror film already making a lot of waves in the genre
- From Deadgirl screenwriter Trent Haaga, the horror-comedy CHOP
- New Zealand horror, THE DEVIL'S ROCK (trailer)
- The Netherlands' own killer Santa movie, SINT
- Trippy sci-fi, BEYOND THE BLACK RAINBOW (trailer)
- The wicked black comedy, SOME GUY WHO KILLS PEOPLE (trailer)
- High-school slasher film, DETENTION (trailer)
- From director Sion Sino (Love Exposure), COLD FISH
- Apocalyptic Argentinian horror, PHASE 7 (trailer)
- WWE meets monsters in MONSTER BRAWL (trailer)
- Existential vampire flick, MIDNIGHT SON
- Australian shark thriller, THE REEF
