Fantasia International Film Festival 2026 (Part 3: The Films + Our Top Picks)

Fantasia International Film Festival 2026, the 30th edition. This is the annual film festival founded in 1996 and held primarily in Montreal, Canada. It specialises in genre films, including fantasy, horror, science fiction, and cult cinema, and draws over 100,000 attendees each year including Marc Canale and myself, old hands at this now, two years on the trot at A Year in Horror HQ. Once again we've been invited to take part in covering the big one and we can not wait to get stuck in. Today we run through the second batch of films we caught at this years event and then pick our favourites of the festival. 00.33 - Intro 01.15 - Home Bodies 03.56 - The Mouths 08.54 - I Love Paris 11.26 - Redneck 16.38 - Nightborn 19.37 - The Last Footage 30.06 - Colony 39.23 - Peril at Pincer Point 41.27 - Top Picks + Outro