By Eric Ortiz
The Fantastic Pavilion presents a weekly recap with the most relevant news about the world of genre cinema.
News
After being one of our Fantastic Galas in 2025, The Turkish Coffee Table (Cam Sehpa, 2025) is now heading to cinemas in Turkey on February 20. The Turkish Coffee Table is Can Evrenol’s take on the Spanish movie The Coffee Table (La mesita del comedor, 2022).
You can watch here the new trailer for Grace Glowicki’s Dead Lover (2025), a horror comedy about a “gravedigger who goes to morbid lengths to resurrect her dream man through madcap scientific experiments, resulting in grave consequences and unlikely love.” Dead Lover opens March 20 at the IFC Center.
NEON has acquired the worldwide distribution rights to the horror flick Leviticus (2026), which celebrated its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival. Leviticus follows “two star-crossed teenage boys,” who “must escape a violent entity that takes the form of the person they desire most: each other.” According to Deadline, NEON will be giving it a theatrical release this year.
Festivals
Film submissions are currently open for the 2026 edition of the Warsaw-based Splat!FilmFest, set to take place from October 22 to 31. The deadline to submit, via FilmFreeway, is June 30.
The Wench Film Festival unveiled its 2026 poster, inspired by “a member of our team who has had a relentlessly difficult year, and then suffered a serious leg injury that brought her into hospital care.”
The festival is happening in two Indian cities: Kolkata (February 19-22) and Mumbai (February 26-March 1).
Home video
Boxcar Bertha (1972) – the exploitation film directed by Martin Scorsese and produced by Roger Corman – is debuting on 4K UHD later this month, thanks to Vinegar Syndrome’s sub-label Cinématographe. The two-disc set includes, among other supplements, a “booklet with a new interview with Scorsese.”