The Fantastic Pavilion presents a weekly recap with the most relevant news about the world of genre cinema.
News
Neon Rated released the full trailer for the horror movie Together (2025), in which Alison Brie and Dave Franco play a couple that move to the countryside and eventually face a “mysterious, unnatural force” that “threatens to corrupt their lives, their love, and their flesh.” Directed by Michael Shanks, Together hits U.S. cinemas on July 30.
Stephen King’s novel The Long Walk – which is notoriously the first one he wrote – has been turned into a movie by screenwriter JT Mollner and director Francis Lawrence. In The Long Walk (2025), “walk or die” is the scenario for a group of youngsters who are part of a contest controlled by the military. You can watch here its first trailer, ahead of its September 12 theatrical release.
The horror thriller Dangerous Animals (2025) got a new trailer, just days before its world premiere in Cannes as part of the 2025 Quinzaine des Cinéastes (May 14-24). The flick will then open in U.S. theaters on June 6.
Synopsis: “When Zephyr, a rebellious surfer, is abducted by a shark-obsessed serial killer and held captive on his boat, she must figure out how to escape before he carries out a ritualistic feeding to the sharks below.”
“Discover why this case was their last,” says the teaser for The Conjuring: Last Rites (2025), which features once more Vera Farmiga and Patrick Wilson as, respectively, the paranormal investigators Lorraine and Ed Warren. The ninth movie in The Conjuring Universe lands on the big screen on September 5.
The production of a new Eli Roth horror picture was announced via Variety. Titled Ice Cream Man, it was described by Roth himself as his “most terrifying and insane film to date.” Not many plot details were unveiled, aside of the fact that the titular horror antagonist will serve kids “sweet delights with horrifying results.” Roth’s own new company The Horror Section is co-producing Ice Cream Man, which is expected to be unleashed in cinemas in 2026.
Deadline confirmed that Raven Banner Entertainment is “kicking off global sales” for Love Is the Monster at the upcoming Marché du Film in Cannes (May 13-21). Love Is the Monster was directed by the Fantastic Pavilion’s ambassador Alex Noyer (Sound of Violence). It’s a folk horror film inspired by Finnish mythology.
Festivals
Fantasia Fest’s first wave of 2025 titles includes: Kenichi Ugana’s I Fell in Love with a Z-Grade Director in Brooklyn (2025), Julie Pacino’s I Live Here Now (2025), Alex Phillips’ Anything That Moves (2025), the Adams Family’s Mother of Flies (2025), and Roy and Arturo Ambriz’s Mexican stop-motion animation I Am Frankelda (Soy Frankelda, 2025). Fantasia’s 29th edition will take place in Montreal, Canada, from July 17 to August 3.