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A film trailer that asks two questions — “Are you into bugs?” and “Are you a pervert?” — is a trailer worth sharing.  Angus Silver’s perfectly portmanteau’d titled, Insectasy, is world premiering as part of the UNDERGROUND side-bar at Fantasia in a few weeks. This new-ish programme to the festival often foregrounds transgressive sexual pictures, but rarely as beautifully shot as this one, which seems to sit in the perfect middle ground between Peter Stickland’s Duke of Burgundy, and Dario Argento’s Phenomena, with just the slightest nod towards the 1970s Euro-sleaze homage and ASMR-adjacent work of Hélène Cattet & Bruno Forzani (Amer, The Strange Colour of Your Bodies Tears). From the Fantasia International Film Festival catalogue: “Blurring the line between waking and sleeping life, INSECTASY…

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Every August, the heat is high in South Florida, USA, but the movie theaters are very, very cool, especially with the return of the Popcorn Frights Film Festival. The 14th edition will kick off on Thursday, August 6, with Yeon Sang-ho’s highly-anticipated Colony, which will be paired with a 10th anniversary screening of the director’s Train to Busan in a 4K restoration. Over its 11 days, the festival will include, per the official verbiage, some “14 film premieres and 7 special presentations + live immersive events that bring together horror royalty and live events for a cinematic experience with the volume cranked all the way up.” Special guests include the great Stephen Lang, who will present cult classic Band of the Hand, the gut-churning thrill…

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Our friends at MOTELX came in with a flash this week to announce the first wave of titles for this year’s 20th edition of the Lisbon International Horror Film Festival.    The first four titles in this year’s festival are Fuck My Son! which premiered at TIFF last year, John Minton’s Game, which was written and produced by the founder of the iconic British band Portishead, Geoff Barrow, Yusuke Iwasaki’s JHorror, AnyMart, and Marion Le Corroller’s debut, the French body horror film Species (Sanguine).    There are trailers for all four films below the official announcement. We hope to have boots on the ground in Lisbon once again this year. Stay tuned for more information as it happens.    MOTELX 2026 | TWENTY YEARS   First Wave: first news…

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Plus: ‘Goal of the Dead’ in the open air!

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The new anime adaptation may be quite nostalgic for some, confusing for others.

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A young woman seeks accommodation after being whisked away from everything she knows.

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Deep within the bowels of that final wave of titles for this year’s 30th Edition of Fantasia there were a number of free-of-charge special live events that are running during the festival.    They were easy to miss under that avalanche of information that came with the announcement but n that mix there are some very cool guests coming to speak about their films and careers.    First off, come on, a Masterclass with *the* Nicolas Winding Refn? There are also masterclasses with the visual fx group, Blood Brothers FX, and Quebecois film icons, Lousie Portal and Robert Lepage.    There is an In Conversation event with Jane Schoenbrun, their Camp Miasama stars , Hannah Einbinder and Louise Weard, and filmmaker Alice Maio Mackay. Canadian icon Bruce McDonald…

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A scholarship student meets a highly-admired, very popular model student. What could they have in common?

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Lars Shrike knows only two things: his name, and that he has escaped. Alone in a hostile desert landscape, he struggles to piece together who he is, where he came from, and what exactly he has fled.

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North America’s largest festival of contemporary Japanese film returns for its 19th year this summer at Japan Society! Join us as we take a closer look at over 30 curated films from across Japan, featuring major award-winners, indie darlings, up-and-coming filmmakers, restorations, documentaries, short films, anime and more. Japan Cuts will present lauded actress Hirose Suzu with the Cut Above Award for Outstanding Achievement in Film and host the New York Premiere of A Pale View of Hills, starring Hirose as the Centerpiece Film. The festival will conclude with legendary director Koreeda Hirokazu appearing in-person for the North American Premiere of Sheep in the Box as the Closing Film. The festival runs July 8 through 18. Here are the films I was able to sample in…

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