The Fantastic Pavilion presents a weekly recap with the most relevant news about the world of genre cinema.
News
A24 has dropped the full trailer for Ari Aster’s Eddington (2025), ahead of its U.S. theatrical release on July 18. Set in 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic, Eddington is about a “standoff between a small-town sheriff (Joaquin Phoenix) and mayor (Pedro Pascal),” and has been described as a “modern western.”
Abraham Van Helsing’s family is in danger in the official trailer for Abraham’s Boys: A Dracula Story (2025), the upcoming horror flick based on a short story by Joe Hill. It hits U.S. cinemas on July 11, via RLJE Films and Shudder.
Synopsis: “Max and Rudy Van Helsing have spent their lives under the strict and overprotective rule of their father, Abraham. Unaware of his dark past, they struggle to understand his paranoia and increasingly erratic behavior. But when they begin to uncover the violent truths behind their father’s history with Dracula, their world unravels, forcing them to confront the terrifying legacy they were never meant to inherit.”
Another new movie derived from Bram Stoker’s classic Gothic horror novel is Luc Besson’s Dracula: A Love Tale (2025), starring Caleb Landry Jones, Christoph Waltz, and Zoë Bleu. Dracula: A Love Tale opens theatrically in France on July 30. You can watch here its trailer.
Synopsis: “In the 15th century, Prince Vladimir renounces God after the brutal and cruel loss of his wife. He then inherits a curse: eternal life. He becomes Dracula. Condemned to wander through the centuries, he will have only one hope: to find his lost love.”
Based on Don Roff’s book Clare at Sixteen, Saint Clare (2024) is a horror thriller about a teenage serial killer (played by Bella Thorne). It screened at the 2024 FrightFest and is now heading to U.S. theaters and VOD on July 18, thanks to Quiver Distribution (trailer here).
There’s a new trailer for the Australian folk horror movie The Banished (2024), which premiered last year at Beyond Fest under the title Baal. The flick lands in U.S. cinemas and on VOD on July 18.
Synopsis: “After her brother mysteriously goes missing, Grace ventures into the dangerous wilderness to find him. As she uncovers the horrific truth of his disappearance, she is faced with a darkness which threatens to claim her as well.”
Festivals
The Neuchâtel International Fantastic Film Festival (NIFFF) unveiled the poster for its 24th edition, to be celebrated from July 4 to 12. Designed by Studio Éponime, the poster was inspired by the mushroom and the fairy ring. Find more information about it on the festival’s website.