Fantasia '13: Global Gore Galore

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Published on Tuesday, 16 July 2013 14:01

Written by Renzo Adler

Since 1996, the Fantasia Film Festival of Montreal has been a breeding ground for the more bizarre and genre bending works of cinema, from low brow splatter fests, imaginative foreign journeys through strange lands. This year’s festival, running July 18 to August 7, 2013, continues the tradition of bringing some truly fascinating works of film from all over the world.

Opening the festival is the hotly anticipated new feature from Japanese shock-master, Takashi Miike, Shield of Straw, in which a child murder is protected by the police after an old whips the public into frenzy by putting a bounty on the killer’s head.

Troma and Lloyd Kaufman’s Return to Nuke ‘Em High is (hopefully) a return to form from the grizzled veterans of VHS era schlock, and goes back to the gory cheap thrills of the original, but now with an added message against processed foods.

Documentary L’Autre Monde (The Other World), from director Richard Stanley, follows the director’s own descent into madness as he ventures into an epicenter of the occult tucked away in the South of France.

A special screening of the so obscure it’s practically lost Japanese animated film, The Tragedy of Belladonna is a real treat. If all you know about Japanese animation is Akira, then this film will shatter your world. A story of jealousy, sex, spurned love, and death, The Tragedy of Belladonna is set in the time of the black plague and is about a woman’s pact with Satan to exact revenge on an uncaring world.

This is only a small sampling of the over 150 films being shown at Fantasia. For fans of the bizarre and innovative, there is no better festival.

To learn more, go to http://www.fantasiafestival.com/

Fantasia Film Festival
July 18 – August 7, 2013

Montreal, Quebec
Various locations

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