Fantasia Fest 2025 first wave creates major buzz with standout films: Kurtis David Harder’s Influencers sequel starring Cassandra Naud, Hwang Wook’s psychological thriller The Woman, the live action Ya Boy Kongmin! manga adaptation, and Oscar nominee Hubert Davis’s post apocalyptic eco horror debut The Well
The Moogai review: Jon Bell’s Indigenous Australian horror film attempts to blend post-partum anxiety with colonial trauma through supernatural scares. While the creature design works and cultural themes matter, the execution feels disconnected from its own ambitious goals. Our spoiler-free review examines how this 2024 horror film handles generational trauma, family dynamics, and the challenge of making accessible cultural horror that doesn’t sacrifice authenticity for mainstream appeal.
John Ajvide Lindqvist’s Handling the Undead isn’t zombie horror, it’s grief made manifest, exploring love’s refusal to accept death’s finality.
It Feeds review: Chad Archibald’s psychological horror explores trauma, family therapy, and supernatural predation. Ashley Greene leads this atmospheric Black Fawn Films thriller about entities that feed on human vulnerability and the dangerous territory between helping and enabling.
Phobia 2013: Jonathan MacKinlay is stuck at home, trapped not by walls, but by his own fear. Ever since the crash that took his wife, he’s lived the same lifeless routine, every day blending into the next. But lately, something feels…off. Dark visions creep in, nightmares that don’t fade when he wakes. Is his mind playing tricks on him, or is something truly sinister closing in?
The Monkey wreaks havoc in this darkly absurd, gore-splashed horror from Osgood Perkins. Brotherly trauma + cymbal crashes never looked so good
