The Fantastic Pavilion presents a weekly recap with the most relevant news about the world of genre cinema.
News
Warner Bros. Pictures unveiled a new trailer for Sinners (2025), the latest film from director Ryan Coogler (Creed, Black Panther). According to The Hollywood Reporter, Coogler recently said that Sinners is more than a vampire movie, as it also deals with “American music” and his “ancestral Mississippi family history.”
Sinners hits theaters on April 18. Synopsis: “Trying to leave their troubled lives behind, twin brothers (Michael B. Jordan) return to their hometown to start again, only to discover that an even greater evil is waiting to welcome them back.”
Netflix offered a glimpse of their 2025 releases, including Guillermo del Toro’s highly anticipated take on Mary Shelley’s classic Frankenstein. Netflix released a new still from the film – which features Oscar Isaac as Victor Frankenstein – and also confirmed that it’ll be available to stream on their platform in November.
Damien Leone shared on his Instagram a few details about Terrifier 4. He said that the script is “under way” and promised that Art the Clown’s origin will be finally revealed in this entry. His post also indicates that Terrifier 4 – which is expected to premiere some time in 2026 – is going to be the “conclusion to the Terrifier saga.”
Hell of a Summer (2023) is finally heading to U.S. theaters on April 18, via Neon Rated. This slasher comedy originally premiered at the 2023 Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), as part of the Midnight Madness section.
Directed by Finn Wolfhard and Billy Bryk, Hell of a Summer “follows 24-year-old camp counselor Jason Hochberg (Fred Hechinger), who arrives at Camp Pineway thinking his biggest problem is that he feels out of touch with his teenage co-workers. What he doesn’t know is that a masked killer is lurking on the campgrounds, brutally picking counselors off one by one.” Watch here its official trailer.
Horror master and composer John Carpenter will play a series of shows in Los Angeles, California. The director of the original Halloween (1978) is set to perform at the Belasco Theater on October 24, 25, 31 and November 1. Tickets go on sale this Friday, January 31.
The trailer for Michael Kallio’s Dinner with Leatherface (2024) debuted via JoBlo’s Arrow in the Head. This documentary is about Gunnar Hansen, the actor who gave life to the iconic Leatherface in the original The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974). The doc will be released on digital, Blu-ray and DVD on February 25.
Locked (2025) is a horror thriller starring Bill Skarsgård and Anthony Hopkins. In its brand-new trailer we can see Skarsgård’s character, a thief who ends up locked inside the luxury vehicle of a “self-proclaimed vigilante delivering his own brand of twisted justice” (Hopkins). It’s worth noting that Sam Raimi produced this flick, which arrives in U.S. theaters on March 21.
Festivals
Registration for the 2025 Marché du Film, the industry market within the Cannes Film Festival, will be open from Monday, February 3. The market is scheduled to take place from May 13 to 21.