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| Los Vampires Photo: Fantasia International Film Festival |
The second tranche of films set to screen at this year's Fantasia International Film Festival has been revealed, and there's a lot to look forward to. The hotly-anticipated titles on offer include the Adams family's tale of small town troubles, The Glorious Dead; new Jane Schoenbrun thriller Teenage Sex And Death At Camp Miasma; and Larry Fessenden's monster mash-up Trauma Or, Monsters All.
There's a series on show this year - not the festival's usual fare, but likely to be of interest to regular attendees. The new adaptation of Cape Fear stars Javier Bardem as the man formerly imprisoned for murder who stalks the family he blames for his incarceration, and it's executive produced by Martin Scorsese and Steven Spielberg. Murder also looms large in Craig Mitchell's Los Vampires, which draws on the true story of English and Spanish-language films made by day and by night on Universal Horror's sets, and adds a little spice of its own.
Other festival highlights include Minos Papas’ Cypriot folk horror fable Motherwitch, about a grieving mother who enters into a terrible pact; Dave Boyle's Japanese seance story Never After Dark, and Bùi Thac Chuyên's Tunnels: Sun In The Dark, which looks at the Vietnam War from the perspective of the Viet Cong. Genre fans can enjoy a special screening of documentary The Origin Of Ultraman, which celebrates the iconic Japanese superhero; and there's sublimely animated adventure in video game adaptation Sekiro: No Defeat.
The festival is scheduled to run from 16 July to 2 August, with the third and final set of films to be announced early next month. We will be bringing you extensive coverage throughout.
