The Fantastic Pavilion presents a weekly recap with the most relevant news about the world of genre cinema.
News
Damien Leone’s Terrifier 3 (2024), arguably the most anticipated horror movie for the upcoming spooky season, has now an official two-minute trailer. This Christmas-set installment sees the return of Lauren LaVera and Elliott Fullam as the siblings who must face the murderous Art the Clown (David Howard Thornton).
Terrifier 3 – which promises chainsaw killings and nods to Psycho (1960) and The Shining (1980) – world premieres at Fantastic Fest (on September 19) and opens in U.S. theaters on October 11.
Another flick that will be released in time for spooky season is the sci-fi horror anthology V/H/S/Beyond (2024). The new entry in the popular V/H/S franchise consists of five segments – directed by Jordan Downey, Christian and Justin Long, Justin Martinez, Virat Pal and Kate Siegel –, plus a “special presentation” by Jay Cheel. V/H/S/Beyond hits Shudder on October 4. Watch here its first teaser trailer.
Nick Frost, costar of Edgar Wright’s Cornetto Trilogy (Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, The World’s End), wrote the movie Get Away (2024), which will have its world premiere at the 2024 Fantastic Fest (September 19-26). Directed by Steffen Haars, Get Away stars Frost himself as a family man who, together with his wife and adult children, go on vacation to a remote island, where there’s a serial killer. This horror comedy will eventually arrive in U.S. theaters on December 6, via IFC Films and Shudder.
Directed by Will Joines and Karrie Crouse, and starring Sarah Paulson, Hold Your Breath (2024) is one of the genre films set to premiere at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF). It’s a psychological/supernatural horror movie set during the 1930s Dust Bowl, about a family and a legendary ghost known as the Grey Man. After TIFF, Hold Your Breath will be available to stream on Hulu from October 3.
Festivals
The genre cinema incubator SANFIC-Mórbido Lab revealed (via Variety) the winners of its 2024 edition:
Morbido Award 30%
Caye Casas’ El show del gran Luciferio
Morbido Award 10%
Cremance’s Silence is the Music of the Devil (El silencio es la música del diablo)
Fantastic Pavilion Award
El show del gran Luciferio
Guillermo Amoedo’s Loved Ones (Seres queridos)
Lahaye Media Award
Loved Ones
SANFIC Industria, the space for industry professionals at the Santiago International Film Festival, took place from August 18 to 24.
Home video
Three years after the release of their first folk horror box set – All the Haunts Be Hours, which originated from Kier-La Janisse’s mammoth documentary Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror (2021) –, Severin Films announced the incredible Volume Two. It’s a 13-disc set that compiles 24 folk horror films from different nationalities and eras. Don Sharp’s Psychomania (1973), John Newland’s Who Fears the Devil (The Legend of Hillbilly John, 1972), Juraj Herz’s Beauty and the Beast (Panna a netvor, 1978), Leonardo Favio’s Nazareno Cruz and the Wolf (Nazareno Cruz y el lobo, 1975), and Mike De Leon’s The Rites of May (Itim, 1976) are among the titles.
The set – which also contains a folk horror fiction book – is scheduled for a November 12 release, but you can already pre-order it on Severin. Additionally, there’s a limited edition bundle that comes with even more goodies, like a steel tea infuser and a paper puppet theater inspired by Herz’s The Ninth Heart (Deváté srdce, 1979).
Arrow Video has put out what seems to be the definitive home video release of Robert Rodriguez’s Mexico Trilogy (El Mariachi, Desperado and Once Upon a Time in Mexico). The limited edition four-disc set features the three films on Blu-ray (plus Desperado on 4K UHD), posters, a booklet, and certainly a bunch of extras, including new interviews with RR and a “filmed appreciation” on Desperado by Gareth Evans (director of The Raid: Redemption).