{"id":54072,"date":"2026-07-26T06:00:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T10:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=54072"},"modified":"2026-07-26T03:47:36","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T07:47:36","slug":"30-years-of-fantasia-2018-reviews-at-cinema-crazed-fantasia-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/26\/30-years-of-fantasia-2018-reviews-at-cinema-crazed-fantasia-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"30 Years of Fantasia: 2018 Reviews at Cinema-Crazed [Fantasia 2026]"},"content":{"rendered":"

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As it is the 30th Anniversary of Fantasia, we (well, I on behalf of the team and site) will reshare reviews we\u2019ve done for the fest including those done during the fest and those done for films that have played at the fest that we reviewed at other times to give an idea of the scope of Fantasia and how important it is for the film industry as a whole.<\/p>\n

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2018, feels like a another time, another world,, let\u2019s see what we covered at the fest itself and what we covered at other times that also played Fantasia, starting with the films that played at the fest:<\/p>\n

From Felix:
\nKnuckleball<\/a>
\nAragne: Sign of Vermillion<\/a>
\nNumber 37<\/a>
\nPledge<\/a><\/p>\n

From Emilie:
\nChained for Life<\/a>
\nFleuve Noir<\/a>
\nCold Skin<\/a>
\nLaplace’s Witch (Rapurasu no majo)<\/a>
\nThe Man Who Killer Hitler and Then the Bigfoot<\/a>
\nMicrohabitat (So-gong-nyeo)<\/a>
\nKnuckball<\/a>
\nTremble All You Want (Katte ni furuetero)<\/a>
\nLa nuit a devore le monde<\/a>
\nGaston Lagaffe<\/a>
\nMega Time Squad<\/a>
\nMontreal Dead End<\/a><\/p>\n

As most know by now, Fantasia is a great place for films to premiere, get picked up for distribution if they don\u2019t already have a distributor in place, and generally to make waves, which leads to these films landing on our proverbial desks throughout the year. Here are some of the others from Fantasia 2020 that we have reviewed through the years between Fantasia 2021 and Fantasia 2026 (some during the fest but from other sources and some before):<\/p>\n

From Felix:
\nGremlins (physical media)<\/a>
\nGremlins (film)<\/a>
\nHeavy Trip (Hevy Reissu) (physical media)<\/a>
\nHeavy Trip (Hevy Reissu) (film)<\/a>
\nThe Howling<\/a>
\nMandy (physical media)<\/a>
\nMandy (film)<\/a>
\nNightmare Cinema<\/a>
\nOne Cut of the Dead (Kamera o tomeru na!) (physical media)<\/a>
\nOne Cut of the Dead (Kamera o tomeru na!) (film)<\/a>
\nOur House<\/a>
\nPupper Master: The Littlest Reich<\/a>
\n42 Counts<\/a>
\nSummer of ’84<\/a>
\nTales from the Hood 2<\/a><\/p>\n

From Emilie:
\nChuck Steel: Night of the Trampires<\/a>
\nA\/S\/L<\/a>
\nHeavy Trip (Hevy Reissu)<\/a>
\nLifechanger<\/a>
\nMandy<\/a>
\nPiercing<\/a>
\nLa Quinceanera<\/a>
\nThe Ranger<\/a>
\n42 Counts<\/a>
\nSummer of ’84<\/a>
\nTigers Are Not Afraid (Vuelven)<\/a><\/p>\n

From Kim:
\nThe Ranger<\/a><\/p>\n

As we constantly review new films, classics, and re-releases, this list is only complete as of right this moment (at time of posting) and will likely become incomplete at some point.<\/p>\n

Fantasia 2026 runs from July 16th to August 2nd, 2026<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As it is the 30th Anniversary of Fantasia, we (well, I on behalf of the team and site) will reshare reviews we\u2019ve done for the fest including those done during the fest and those done for films that have played at the fest that we reviewed at other times to give an idea of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2497],"tags":[58,1749,477,3756],"class_list":["post-54072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fantasia-fest","tag-action","tag-fantasia","tag-horror","tag-scifi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54072","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=54072"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54074,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54072\/revisions\/54074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}