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Fantasia International Film Festival · 2025

Fantasia International Film Festival 2025

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5 films · 2 reviews

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Anything That Moves

Review preview for Anything That Moves

Setting two sets of narrative expectations against each other is an interesting way of presenting disordered thinking, and puts the viewer in a pleasingly uncomfortable position.

Jennie Kermode · 4.5 out of 5
An innocent Chicago food delivery boy, after having sex for money, finds himself involved in a series of murders that can be traced back to someone who was in his bed.

(Year: 2025; Director: Alex Phillips; Writer: Alex Phillips; Stars: Nina Hartley, Ginger Lynn Allen)

Full review See: Interview with Alex Phillips about Anything That Moves

Contact Lens

Getting rid of your contact lens as a way of breaking free.

(Country: China; Year: 2024; Director: Ruiqi Lu; Writer: Ruiqi Lu; Stars: Fan Chen, Yanni Dai, Shiqi Wu, Yunxi Zhong)

A Grand Mockery

Josie's mundane life changes when mental illness drives him to Queensland's rainforests.

(Country: Australia; Year: 2024; Director: Adam C Briggs, Sam Dixon; Writer: Adam C Briggs, Sam Dixon; Stars: Kate Dillon, Sam Dixon, James Louis O'Leary, Fiarrah Poole)

Messy Legends

A group of wayward Millennials embark on their own unique, regressive journeys during the same night out on Montreal's Plateau strip, chasing the past and losing the plot.

(Country: Canada; Year: 2025; Director: Kelly Kay Hurcomb, James Watts; Writer: Kelly Kay Hurcomb, James Watts; Stars: Kelly Kay Hurcomb, Melina Trimarchi, James Goddard, Mitchell Cohen, Garrett Johnson, Travis Cannon)

The Serpent's Skin

Review preview for The Serpent's Skin

Alice Maio Mackay’s...most accessible film to date.

Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
A young woman leaves her transphobic small-town, and develops a romance with tattoo artist Gen with whom she shares a paranormal connection. But their deep-rooted insecurities unknowingly release a demon, which possesses one of their ex-lovers and begins feeding on their friends by sucking out their lifeforce.

(Country: Australia; Year: 2025; Director: Alice Maio Mackay; Writer: Alice Maio Mackay, Benjamin Pahl Robinson; Stars: Alexandra McVicker, Avalon Fast, Jordan Dulieu, Charlotte Grimes)

Full review See: Interview with Alice Maio Mackay, Alexandra McVicker and Avalon Fast about The Serpent’s Skin