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Thirty years in, the festival that started as a showcase for Asian genre cinema has become one of the best genre fests in the world. From July 16 through August 2, the Fantasia International Film Festival will, as usual, make its audience sit through body horror and heartbreak in the same afternoon, while also looking back through three decades of selections in a retrospective. Even with the 30-ye

Films Hot off the Major Fest Circuit Are Coming to Montreal This Summer

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Maybe John Waters made the most important movie in cinema history. And maybe I'm just too sentimental about this, but I have a point. I was in film school and I watched a lot of movies that talked about how to make movies, like La Nuit Américaine, which is an amazing movie, and Sunset Boulevard, another great movie. These are different movies about cinema; one recreates a film set and the other on

The passion of making film: Cecil B. Demented

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I'm a big fan of Christopher Nolan's work. I've caught (almost) all of his films in theaters since Batman Begins (2005). Millenial Man Remembers Newspapers! This was still in the days where you would have to either call the Movie Phone line or open the newspaper to see the recent releases and local showtimes. My parents didn't want me racking up a big phone bill constantly calling Movie Phone (the

Nolan Taps into His Emotions with The Odyssey

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I used to watch Titanic multiple times a year. My family would travel and my brother and I would share a hotel room. Of course, we argued over everything including what to watch on TV. Eventually, we’d settle on a movie playing and for whatever reason in the early 00’s Titanic was on TV a lot. So, my brother would stop flipping through channels, watch a bit of Titanic, and fall asleep. I would sta

Titanic, 29 Years Later It’s Still Unbeatable.

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"No, Hannah, you can't do that, that's cheating," complains Derek, throwing his ten-year-old hands up in the air. He had a full-bodied mannerism, especially when it came to frustration or annoyance. Which, he always was when it came to his younger sister. Who was only six, so she really didn't know anything at all. Not like Derek who now knew the times table all the way up to twelve. "I'm not chea

Jester Jack

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Hey Peliplaters! I'm sure you've noticed how much Short Stories have taken over Peliplat lately. We have original story writing challenges, and now a dedicated home for all your fiction in the Stories tab. We truly believe the best stories end up making the best movies, so this was the natural addition to the Peliplat-universe. As the next part of my How to Peliplat series, here are some tips and

How To Write a Short Story on Peliplat

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Most horror movies end by killing the monster. Obsession ends by finally giving the monster exactly what she wants. And somehow, that makes everything worse. Curry Barker’s Obsession has one of those endings that works as a gruesome horror climax, a cruel punchline and a complete summary of the movie’s themes—all at the exact same time. It doesn’t simply surprise us. It takes everything the movie

OBSESSION: A MASTERCLASS IN SET-UP & PAY-OFF

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When I was sixteen, for a secondary school project, I had to present myself through a piece of art of my choosing. I picked “The Starry Night” by Vincent van Gogh. It was one of my first meaningful encounters with art, and I didn't really have the tools to do an in-depth analysis of the work. I wrote about how I felt represented by the Dutch painter's colour palette and talked about the story the

Bella Baxter and the universal experience of growing up through art

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Recently I shared a discussion with the Peliplat community about their thoughts on the franchise. After comments related to their optimism following Evil Dead Rise but some what doubtful, my mission became not just to watch Evil Dead Burn for my personal pleasure but also to review it. Here are my thoughts. This Installment can be seen even if you haven't seen the previews films, but it helps if y

Evil Dead Burn hurts so good.

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Last night I saw ‘Obsession’ and oh my godddd, it’s probably the best movie of the year. I’ve seen most of the movies that have been released, and ‘Obsession’ could easily compete with ‘Project Hail Mary’, ‘Disclosure Day,’ and ‘The Odyssey.’ It makes me think about how the strongest genres of the year are horror and science fiction. At the moment, comedy and drama are pretty weak and aren’t attra

Be Careful What You Wish For... - OBSESSION

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I've been covering Fantasia for four or five years now, and how you start your run at a festival always matters, so for this 30th edition I happened to kick things off with Dance Freak, a film that somehow captures everything I love about this festival: low budget, experimental form, a bit of horror, a lot of absurdity, and big imagination that actually lands on screen instead of staying just an i

Fantasia 2026: Everyone's Punching Bag, Everyone's ¨Dance Freak¨