For movie-goers warned

Bruno Lapointe

Saturday, 15 July 2017 06:00

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Each year, lovers of cold sweats, chills, and hemoglobin converge at the Fantasia film festival. Their goal : to discover the new sensations of horror, local and international. Do you like ghosts ? Creatures ? Or do you prefer serial killers ? The Journal offers its blows of heart of the programming on terror.

Friendly Beast

On 25 and 26 July

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There are already a good time that we waited the first feature of the Brazilian Gabriela Amaral Almeida. Often described as a replica women’s Quentin Tarantino, it impressed us several times with his short films, as well as When I Was Alive, a little gem of the horror of which she wrote the screenplay. With the behind closed doors Friendly Beast, she explores the depths of the human animal, while the team of a restaurant is taken hostage. We are promised a work provocative and brutal. And we will be waiting for you to discover it.

Prey

On the 1st of August

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Well-known for his eccentric side, the Dutch film director comes to us this year with a horror comedy soap, in which a lion strikes terror in the streets of Amsterdam. The images that we saw suggest the action, laughter… and a good dose of hemoglobin. In short, a winning combination that have led to the success of classics such as Shaun of the Dead and Dean Alive.

House of the Disappeared

On 18 and 20 July

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Remake of Korean’s devilishly effective La casa del fin de los tiempos, House of the Disappeared looks set to surpass its predecessor, at least in terms of atmosphere dark and disturbing. One finds there a young woman convicted wrongly of murdering her husband and the disappearance inexplicable to his son, two events that occurred in the family home. After spending 25 years in prison, she returns to the scene of the crime, determined to elucidate all the mysteries of this house.

Better Watch Out

On the 28th of July

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After Black Christmas, Krampus, and other Silent Night, Deadly Night, Hollywood is preparing to serve up a new horror film… Christmas. Even if this argument is sufficient in itself to prick our curiosity, Better Watch Out seems to be in the process of reinventing the genre, now outdated of home invasions. Hope it will do it as well as baby sitter Wanted, had it done, always at Fantasia in the summer of 2008.

Replace

On July 16,

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Barbara Crampton. The name alone piqued our interest for the film Replace.

It must be said that the american actress and true veteran of the horror, is on a momentum since she has returned to the horror with You’re Next in 2011. And this new film seems destined to be a part of this lineage. You will discover there a young woman struggling with serious skin problems who stalks his victims in a single purpose : to fly, then wear their skin.

Innocent Curse

On the 28th of July

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Fans of horror are already familiar with the name Takashi Shimizu with the now cult Ju-on and its american remake The Grudge (or murderous Rage in its French version) it has both realized. He leans back on a history of death featuring children with Innocent’s Curse, his new film where young people reported missing are found safe and sound… but those who welcome them on their return are almost invariably die in mysterious circumstances.

My Friend Dahmer

On July 16,

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Decidedly, Ross Lynch takes on the great ways to get rid of the label Disney that it sticks to the skin since we saw him in Austin & Ally and Teen Beach Movie. The young player of 21 years old ready today its traits to the famous murderer Jeffrey Dahmer, cannibal well-known having made 17 victims until his arrest in the early 1990s. The movie My Friend Dahmer is an adaptation of the graphic novel of the same title in which the author John Backderf, aka Derf, documents the teenage years of the killer that he himself coasted along to the secondary school.