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Tin Can – Fantasia 2021

A parasitologist is kidnapped and placed in a life-suspension chamber in Tin Can. There is a fungal outbreak known as Coral raging in Eastern Canada and Fret (Anna Hopkins) is a leading parasitologist looking for a cure. However, Fret is suddenly attacked and she wakes up in a life-suspension chamber, surrounded by people in the same…

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Woodlands Dark And Days Bewitched: A History Of Folk Horror – Fantasia 2021

The history of the folk horror subgenre is explored in Woodlands Dark And Days Bewitched: A History Of Folk Horror. The combination of folklore with the horror genre has been done since practically the start of cinema, with some of the earliest examples being silent films such as Häxan (1922) and Puritan Passions (1923). However,…

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Alien on Stage – Fantasia 2021

A group of bus drivers from Wimborne, Dorset in the UK put on an amateur stage production of Ridley Scott’s Alien in Alien on Stage. Paranoid Dramatics is an amateur theatre group consisting of Dorset Bus Drivers. In a departure from the group’s usual family pantomimes, scriptwriter Luc decides to write an adaptation of the film Alien, spurred…

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Agnes – Fantasia 2021

A priest is called in to investigate an apparent demonic possession at a convent in Agnes. Father Donaghue (Ben Hall) is a disaffected priest, who is called upon to perform the rite of exorcism on Sister Agnes (Hayley McFarland) of the Santa Teresa convent. Father Donaghue travels to the convent with his neophyte Benjamin (Jake Horowitz)…