What to see at this year’s Fantasia Film Festival pt.3 | Sound Onight

Fantasia Festival is North America’s premiere (and largest) genre film festival. It is also my favorite film festival and so I could not wait to share the highlights of this years line up. Below is just some of the films we will be reviewing on our upcoming podcasts.

THE CHILDREN – North American Premiere

UK Dir: Tom Shankland

A holiday weekend turns into a nightmarish battle for survival when children inexplicably begin to slaughter their parents. Far more frightening than CHILDREN OF THE CORN or the bulk part of other killer kids pics that have preceded it, this British powerhouse shocker ranks among the best horror film offerings of recent years. THE CHILDREN inverts unconditional love with an impact that will freeze your blood. Would you be able to protect yourself if the people you loved wanted to cut you to pieces without any sense or reason? The film’s terrors are character-driven, smart and served straight, using the naturally manipulative nature of children to terrifying effect, magnifying trace elements of cruelty into the unthinkable.

COMBAT SHOCK (Director’s Cut)- Hosted by Director Buddy Giovinazzo

USA Dir: Buddy Giovinazzo

Giovinazzo’s heart-stopping 1986 debut remains one of the most upsetting films you will ever see. Vietnam War vet Frankie is struggling to raise a family deep below the poverty line in a skid row neighbourhood full of addicts, prostitutes and killers. His infant is sick and hideously deformed , a probable result of Agent Orange exposure. Shunned by a cutback welfare system and unable to get a job in his visibly broken state, Frankie wanders the streets of the city looking for anything that can get his family through the day. His wife Cathy (Veronica Stork) stays home with their son, both surviving only on baby food and milk. Around them, violence and drug addiction is everywhere. It’s only a matter of time until purgatory explodes into a bloodbath. Giovinazzo fuses the best elements from New York’s history of indie film scene: the immediacy and honesty of Cassavetes, the confrontation and shock of the underground transgression movement, elements of Abel Ferrara, into a deeply personal hand grenade that erupts with devastating impact.

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