# Special Report: Fantasia 2026

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Published: 2026-07-12T19:50:22+00:00
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July in Montreal means Fantasia is back. Mike offers his annual curtain raiser for the Fantasia International Film Festival — one of the great genre film festivals on the planet — running July 16th through August 2nd, 2026. This year's lineup spans Nicolas Winding Refn's mist-shrouded sci-fi nightmare Her Private Hell (opening night), a 147-minute samurai epic from Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Agnieszka Smoczynska's A.I. thriller Hot Spot starring Noomi Rapace, and Jenn Wexler's The Last Temptation — the Becky sequel nobody asked for but everyone needed. Closing Night belongs to The Fox, an Australian dark comedy with Olivia Colman voicing a talking fox with opinions about your fiancée. The Retro section alone is worth the trip: 35mm screenings for Robert Lepage's Le Confessionnal and Bruce McDonald's Pontypool, a 4K restoration of Paul Morrissey's Forty Deuce, and the world premiere restoration of Metal Messiah — a 1978 Canadian glam-rock sci-fi film that has been hiding in the dark for nearly fifty years. Plus, Takashi Shimizu receives a career honor and brings two new films. It's a full plate. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-projection-booth--5513239/support . Become a supporter of The Projection Booth at http://www.patreon.com/projectionbooth

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