by Mo Moshaty
Fantasia has no shortage of incredible films for it’s 2024 slate and the Montreal-based festival is housing some the buzziest horror making the festival rounds. Put these on your radar if you’re still arranging your screening schedule!
Azrael – Written by Simon Barrett, Directed by E.L. Katz
In a world no one speaks a devout female hunts down a young woman who has escaped her imprisonment. Recaptured by its ruthless leaders, Azrael is due to be sacrificed to pacify an ancient evil deep within the surrounding wilderness.
Starring: Samara Weaving, Nathan Stewart-Jarrett, Vic Carmen Sonne, Rea Lest
Showing: August 2, 19:00
Cuckoo – Written and Directed by Tillman Singer
Reluctantly, 17-year-old Gretchen leaves her American home to live with her father, who has just moved into a resort in the German Alps with his new family. Something doesn’t seem right in this tranquil vacation paradise.
Starring: Hunter Schafer, Dan Stevens, Jessica Henwick, Martin Csokas, Jan Bluthart, Mila Lieu
Showing: July 30, 21:30
Oddity – Written and Directed by Damian McCarthy
A blind woman struggles to uncover the truth behind sister’s death with the help of wooden mannequin.
Starring: Carolyn Bracken, Gwilym Lee, Tadhg Murphy, Caroline Menton, Steve Wall
Showing: August 4, 21:30
Timestalker – Written and Directed by Alice Lowe
The hapless heroine Agnes reincarnates every time she makes the same mistake: falling in love with the wrong man.
Starring: Alice Lowe, Nick Frost, Jacob Anderson,
Aneurin Barnard, Tanya Reynolds, Kate Dickie
Showing: July 31, 19:00
Hunting Daze – Written and Directed by Annick Blanc
Nina, a tempestuous young woman joins a group of hunters in a remote cabin. A mysterious stranger’s arrival disrupts her newfound place in their male micro-society.
Starring: Nahéma Ricci, Bruno Marcil, Frédéric Millaire-Zouvi, Marc Beaupré, Alexandre Landry, Maxime Genois, Noubi Ndiaye
Showing: August 1, 19:00
Fantasia Festival kicks off on July 18th through August 4th with mind-blowing genre films from across the globe! Do peruse the festival blocks here:
Les Fantastiques Week-ends du Cinema Quebecois
Tickets are available here!
Stay tuned for our festival coverage this summer!!
Mo Moshaty is a horror writer, lecturer and producer. As a Cognitive Behavioral Therapist and life long horror fan, Mo has lectured with Prairie View A&M Film & TV Program as a Keynote, BAFSS Horror Studies Sig and The University of Sheffield in the United Kingdom. Mo has partnered with horror giant, Shudder Channel, to co-produce the 13 Minutes of Horror Film Festival 2021 and 2022 with Nyx Horror Collective and her literary work “Love the Sinner” was published with Brigid’s Gate Press in July of 2023 and her two volume collection, “Clairviolence: Tales of Tarot and Torment will be published in 2024.
Mo is the creator and Editor-in-Chief of NightTide Magazine and the Founder of Mourning Manor Media
Mo Moshaty is an acclaimed horror writer, lecturer, and producer whose work combines visceral storytelling with the psychological insight of her Cognitive Behavioral Therapy background. She has lectured internationally, including as a keynote speaker at Nightmares from Monkeypaw: A Jordan Peele Symposium (Prairie View A&M), No Return: A Yellowjackets Symposium (Horror Studies BAFSS Sig), The Whole Damn Swarm: Celebrating 30 Years of Candyman (University of California), and with the Centre for the History of the Gothic (University of Sheffield). Mo has also presented at the BFI, Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies, and Final Girls Berlin Film Festival’s Brain Binge on women’s trauma in horror cinema, Cine-Excess on The Creepy Kid Horror Subgenre and Mother/Daughter Trauma in Horror, and Romancing the Gothic on Cosmic Horror’s Havoc on The Body Electric Her short film, 13 Minutes of Horror: Sci-Fi Horror, won the 2022 Rondo Hatton Classic Horror Award for Best Short Film. As a core producer with Nyx Horror Collective, Mo co-created the 13 Minutes of Horror Film Fest and partnered with Shudder in 2021 and 2022, while also establishing a Stowe Story Labs fellowship supporting women creatives over 40+ in horror. A member of the Black Women in Horror Class of 2023 and featured in 160 Black Women in Horror, Mo’s short fiction appears in A Quaint and Curious Volume of Gothic Tales (Brigid’s Gate Press) and 206 Word Stories (Bag O’ Bones Press). Her debut novella, Love the Sinner, was released July 5, 2024, with Clairviolence: Tales of Tarot and Torment released in October 2025. The first of her five-volume non-fiction series, The Annex of the Obscure: The Afterlife, will be released in 2027 from Tenebrous Press. As the Editor-in-Chief of NightTide Magazine and founder of Mourning Manor Media, Mo champions marginalized voices in horror. Under her leadership, NightTide plans to launch a film festival in 2028, furthering her mission to reshape the genre through inclusivity and representation.
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