{"id":21398,"date":"2016-07-11T12:59:25","date_gmt":"2016-07-11T16:59:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=21398"},"modified":"2020-07-29T11:12:12","modified_gmt":"2020-07-29T15:12:12","slug":"what-the-fantasia-5-wtf-films-from-fantasias-international-film-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/11\/what-the-fantasia-5-wtf-films-from-fantasias-international-film-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"What The Fantasia?! 5 WTF Films from Fantasia\u2019s International Film Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fantasia International Film Festival is renowned for showcasing some of the best and weirdest of the film world.\u00a0 As someone who started going their second year and started seriously going for multiple screenings per week in 1999, some of the weird films I\u2019ve seen cannot be unseen.\u00a0 So, just to bring some to attention and have a bit of fun, here are five of the most WTF films I\u2019ve seen.<\/p>\n

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\"mgs\"<\/a>Mutant Girl Squad (Japan) (2010)
\n<\/strong>It\u2019s Japanese, there are crazy mutant girls who fight for the survival of all mutants and humans alike.\u00a0 Tak Sakaguchi is the villain with a sword growing from his belly.\u00a0 This film is insane and a ton of fun.\u00a0 The mutants here are absolutely crazy.\u00a0 This one is in the tradition of Tokyo Gore Police and Machine Girl.<\/p>\n

\"rubber-movie\"<\/a>Rubber (France, Angola) (2010)
\n<\/strong>A serial killer tire is on a rampage, killing everyone in his path with its psionic power.\u00a0 The public becomes obsessed with following the story.\u00a0 This film should have been ridiculous and boring but it catches the attention and makes the viewer want to know what happens next.\u00a0 It\u2019s also a good metaphor on the world\u2019s fascination with crime sprees and temporarily famous personas.<\/p>\n

\"theburningbuddhaman\"<\/a>The Burning Buddha Man (Japan) (2013)
\n<\/strong>Following a series of Buddha statue thefts and the murder of her parents a young girl goes through feelings of guilt, responsibility, and loneliness while battling these feelings, she meets a being that looks to be her parent and Buddha all rolled into one.\u00a0 This one is so trippy; it\u2019s hard to explain its appeal without saying \u201cjust watch it\u201d.\u00a0 It\u2019s captivating in its weirdness and stunning visuals, worth watching even though the story may be hard to follows.<\/p>\n

\"After<\/a>After School Midnighters (Japan) (2012)
\n<\/strong>Once again from Japan, this story of three school girls going through adventures after dark in their boarding school with a talking skeleton, an anatomical statue, and a bunny.\u00a0 It\u2019s really fun and visually loud.\u00a0 The animation is a bit odd but the story with its unusual evolution and horror themes keeps the attention while also making one wonder what the hell they are watching.<\/p>\n

\"live-freaky-die-freaky\"<\/a>Live Freaky, Die Freaky (USA) (2006)
\n<\/strong>Charles Manson returns to save the people of 3069, as told by puppets and songs.\u00a0 The WTF level is very high with this one just based on that.\u00a0 It\u2019s weird and not particularly great but most definitely worth seeing.\u00a0 Manson is voiced by Billie Joe Armstrong with extra voices by Jane Wiedling, Sean Yseult, Benji Madden, Tre Cool, Travis Barker, et al.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Fantasia International Film Festival is renowned for showcasing some of the best and weirdest of the film world.\u00a0 As someone who started going their second year and started seriously going for multiple screenings per week in 1999, some of the weird films I\u2019ve seen cannot be unseen.\u00a0 So, just to bring some to attention and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2497,1284,9],"tags":[99,111,113,367,477,631,700,701,809],"class_list":["post-21398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fantasia-fest","category-festivalsevents","category-list-junkies","tag-animation","tag-arthouse","tag-asian","tag-foreign","tag-horror","tag-martial-arts","tag-musical","tag-mutants","tag-puppets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21398"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22036,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21398\/revisions\/22036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}