The Fantastic Pavilion presents a weekly recap with the most relevant news about the world of genre cinema.
News
Netflix released the final trailer for Frankenstein (2025), which features clearer shots of the Creature (played by Jacob Elordi). Guillermo del Toro’s Gothic horror movie is currently playing in select theaters and will be available to watch on Netflix from November 7.
Sidney (Neve Campbell) and her daughter (Isabel May) try to deal with “a new Ghostface killer” in the official trailer for Scream 7 (2026). The already controversial slasher was directed by Kevin Williamson, who penned the original 1996 flick. It’s set to hit cinemas on February 27.
Full synopsis: “When a new Ghostface killer emerges in the quiet town where Sidney has built a new life, her darkest fears are realized as her daughter becomes the next target. Determined to protect her family, Sidney must face the horrors of her past to put an end to the bloodshed once and for all.”
Shudder has shared the poster for Reflection in a Dead Diamond (Reflet dans un diamant mort, 2025), the latest film from Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani, directors of Let the Corpses Tan (Laissez bronzer les cadavres, 2017). After screening at Berlinale, Tribeca and Fantasia, this “stylish spy thriller” heads to Shudder on December 5.
Synopsis: “When the mysterious woman in the room next door disappears, a debonair 70-year-old ex-spy living in a luxury hotel on the Côte d’Azur is confronted by the demons and darlings of a lurid past in which moviemaking, memories and madness collide.”
The audiovisual market Ventana Sur (December 1-5 in Buenos Aires) revealed the genre projects that were selected for their 2025 Fantastic! Lab: Gisberg José Bermúdez’s Alijuna (Venezuela), Javier Suazo Mejía’s The Fire Within (Honduras), Rafael Toledo’s Shallow Hell (Brazil), Emiliano Mazza De Luca’s The Healer’s Blood (Uruguay), Gonzalo Iglesias’ The Mukis (Peru), Alejandra Lipoma’s Lugoland (Mexico), Tamae Garateguy’s Match (Brazil), Julia Sofía Vega’s I Need to Be Loved (Argentina), Óscar Adán Díaz’s I’ll Keep My Mouth Shut (Colombia), Francisco Pavanetto’s Peek a Boo (Argentina), Ignacio Sesma and Ignacio Cucucovich’s Piacere (Argentina), Jean-Philippe Bouix’s Vautours (Belgium), and Paul Urkijo’s The Escape (Spain).
Filmmaker and musician Rob Zombie presented his first art exhibition – What Lurks on Channel X? – at the Morrison Gallery in Kent, Connecticut. Zombie’s pantings are described as a “colorful collision of pop culture iconography,” inspired by “a childhood of nonstop TV watching.” The gallery will be open to the public until November 16.
The animated space opera comedy Lesbian Space Princess (2024) follows the titular character in her “intergalactic space quest” to save her ex-girlfriend. It’ll screen at the 2025 Mórbido Fest on November 8. A few days later, on November 18, it’s getting a digital release in the U.S. thanks to Cineverse (trailer here).