Canada

Federal Service Agent Justin Vanier has been assigned to infiltrate the mysterious Virtual Arts Academy in search of Eric, a fellow agent. In this high-tech facility, the maniacal leader Warbeck is training assassins to become even more efficient killing machines using virtual reality. Penetrating the organization as a new recruit, Justin finds Eric, and together with the idealistic Vicki must bring down Warbeck before he succeeds with his deadly plans.

A freelance news crew and a hotshot reporter search for a violent vagrant and get more than they bargained for.

Nearly thirty years after the strange disappearance of a Canadian baseball team, a recovered VHS tape reveals their shocking final moments as they're hunted down by a backwoods psychopath.

Three popular snowboarders hit the slopes on the latest episode of the Canadian hit show "Brain Bucket" However, during the filming, they're hunted down by a sadistic sniper.

Death row inmates participate in a game show where they have to fight for survival against TV sport hunter Tad Nightingale.

An animated pop-poetic incantation for weirdo intimacy.

He hates people. He loves smoking. And he grows the world's finest fish bait. What's his secret?

After calling a late-night party hotline that promises out-of-this-world fun, uptight yuppie Conor Sweeney must battle the pint-sized forces of evil unleashed through his phone line, led by the maniacal rock n’ roll goblin FRANKIE FREAKO.

A possessive doctor prepares an ostensibly romantic bath for his narcissistic boyfriend, but after an accusation of infidelity, things take a deeply disturbing turn.

Cash-strapped, a man accepts a strange, high-paying job where he must measure a hole in the wall to determine whether or not it's growing.

A young couple on a fishing trip with their son decide to explore an area of remote wilderness known as the Stickman’s Hollow. Told through the surviving pieces of footage from their fateful trip, the film documents the family’s vacation as they are mercilessly hunted in the forest by an unknown force, and the dark past of the hollow is brought to light.

This transgressive portrait of desire shot on 16mm, examines trans-lesbian love and longing with humour, heat, puppetry and a subversive twist.

A nude cycling event is hounded by a right-wing picketer attempting to sabotage it....

In a world dominated by cheesy chips, a Game Show tyrant will meet his fate.

A dancer's shift in a dive bar takes an unexpected turn.

You'll never slice a tomato the same way again.

In 1996, two brothers go over the top to reach satisfaction from their interactive television. Worst nightmare or dream come true?

A woman is tormented by a menacing creature who tries to take control of her body.

A young woman offers her special services as a virtual après-ski partner.

Rey Ciso was once the greatest editor. Since a horrific accident left him with four wooden fingers on his right hand, he's had to resort to cutting pulp films and trash pictures. When the lead actors from the film he's been editing turn up murdered at the studio, Rey is fingered as the number one suspect. The bodies continue to pile up in this absurdist giallo-thriller.

Great film-about-film that seems tailor-made for our festival and will be presented in the presence of our special guest: actor par excellence Laurence R. Harvey!

The sensual art of cooking breakfast.

Make sure to not lose your head when dealing with this much money.

Two brothers and a fistful of friends have to face the Chinese mafia. Counting on The Smoke Master and his unique Cannabis fighting style, they stand a chance. A stoner comedy from Brazil that brings sillyness to a well crafted film and also contains well-executed, realistic Kung-Fu. Stick this in your pipe!

Manager-summoning control freak Kallie Jones attempts to rescue her husband from a "wellness center" with the help of a washed-up expert Cult Buster.

When society breaks down due to a violent outbreak that turns victims into undead monsters, a former elite soldier breaks out of jail to find his family.

Audra's graduation gift is her dream house, but it soon becomes a living nightmare when some uninvited guests come to her homecoming party who aren't very subtle.

Blood-on-the-boobs film with many playboy girls, as if Hugh Heffner and Russ Meyer teamed up.

The Northern Lights shine down on a prairie city with a notorious history of anti-Indigenous racism. Seeing the lights, Stephanie, a 2 Spirit nêhiyaw, sadly remembers her missing mother. Not wanting to be alone, she decides to go see her girlfriend, Jackie. She gets into a cab with a seemingly harmless, but nosey male settler cab driver. As Stephanie tries to evade increasingly invasive questions from the driver, the ride takes a dangerous turn when he locks her in the vehicle and speeds out of the city. In a deserted lot she is faced with this predator.

In rural Canada, six brothers drinking and joyriding in a pickup truck cause an accident that kills Joey Rosso's mother and sisters. As it turns out, the brothers are the sons of an influential entrepreneur named Tiny Doyle, and they all get off scot-free. When Joey's father is murdered as well, there's only one thing left for Joey to do: build a massive truck to mow the entire Doyle family down.

A young couple trying to reunite amid a city ravaged by a plague that turns its victims into deranged, bloodthirsty sadists.

After the death of their father, two brothers decide to embark on a hunting trip to help bring them closer together. They become the prey of a deadly creature.

Get ready for shellshock! It’s the ZOMBEAVERS meets GODZILLA hybrid you always craved in the creature feature comedy horror of the year

A man invokes and meets three different woman-like incarnations of the lustful demon.

Probably the greatest story ever told, after FORGOTTEN SILVER by Peter Jackson. Suddenly, everything makes sense in history. But you will not be able to tell what you just saw. During World War II, the Allied Secret Service recruited a Mexican masked wrestler named the Golden Angel. Recently discovered secret files reveal that this agent thwarted several plans that could have changed the course of the conflict in favor of the Nazis. This documentary chronicles the perilous missions of the Golden Angel and how he came to face Hitler in person.

As the world faces a deadly plague, a front-lines parasitologist is imprisoned in a life-suspension chamber. To escape she must destroy the last of her kind.
Slow-burning, captivating, and totally outrageous. With a fantastic soundtrack that will keep you in your seats till after the end credits.

Fear Goes Viral

When a debilitating sickness spreads across a long hotel hallway, a few scattered victims fight for survival, and try to escape from the dark narrow stretch of isolated carnage.

'Is Your Teen A Homosexual?' is a short allegorical comedy that satirizes Trump's America by using the style of “teen hygiene” educational films of the 1950s. Johnny comes out to his family, who is helped by an off-screen Narrator, but stereotypes and prejudices prove to be stronger than family ties.

High school student Sarah is at her lowest point when she runs away from home and finds herself with no one to rely on and struggling with recurring nightmares. She chances upon a university sleep study that offers the promise of safety and money, and which also brings her an unexpected friend and confidant in the overseeing scientist Jeremy. But there's something curious about proceedings, and being under observation seems to make Sarah's disturbing dreams even worse.

SWEET SICK TEENS

Following his mother's death, Mark is sent to Maine to visit his aunt and uncle while his father goes on a business trip to Tokyo. Mark meets his cousin Henry, and the two quickly form a friendship. However, Henry shows signs of violent behavior that worry Mark.
With a young Macaulay Culkin and a young Elijah Wood, now how creepy is that?

SWEET SICK TEENS

Siblings Mimi and Luke unwittingly resurrect an ancient alien overlord who was entombed on Earth millions of years ago after a failed attempt to destroy the universe. They nickname the evil creature Psycho Goreman (or PG for short) and use the magical amulet they discovered to force him to obey their childish whims. It isn’t long before PG’s reappearance draws the attention of intergalactic friends and foes from across the cosmos, and a rogues’ gallery of alien combatants converges in small-town suburbia to battle for the fate of the galaxy.

When a possessed pair of jeans begins to kill the staff of a trendy clothing store, it is up to Libby, an idealistic young sales clerk, to stop its bloody rampage. Canadian horror-comedy from the team behind TURBO KID (BUT 2019), that manages to slip in some social comments between the tight possessed jeans.

When a perfect day in the park descends into horror, the only witness is completely useless.

Pink Flamingoos Day

In a godforsaken bar in the middle of nowhere – an all-girl punk band, Ms. 45, rip the stage apart with their punk spirit. Their performance impresses an enthusiastic fan who lures the girls into a trap, sedates them, and starts… customizing them. The four wake up with an axe, drill or chainsaw attached to one arm and are forced to fight gladiator-style, in an arena-style auto-wrecking yard for the amusement of the Emperor and his sadistic townsfolk. The women must now truly band together and use all of their talents if they're going to get out alive.

To celebrate their graduation, the teenagers from Valley Hills High School have organized an '80s-themed party in an old water park. Things grow gruesome when it turns out that a mysterious maniac has inserted giant razor blades into the water slides. The Wet Valley water park thus becomes the backdrop for a bloodbath (literally), and everyone is a suspect.

To celebrate their graduation, the teenagers from Valley Hills High School have organized an '80s-themed party in an old water park. Things grow gruesome when it turns out that a mysterious maniac has inserted giant razor blades into the water slides. The Wet Valley water park thus becomes the backdrop for a bloodbath (literally), and everyone is a suspect.

The Legend of Rasputin presents the amazing last days of Russia's Mad Monk, Gregori Rasputin, infamous for his debaucherous lifestyle and his talents as a prophet and a healer.

A young girl takes vengeance on creeps.

DEAD DICKS follows Becca (Jillan Harris) as she attempts to pry her way out of a trap, only to be dragged into a world that defies nature and reason — the dilapidated apartment of her brother Richie (Heston Horwin). Answering an all too familiar barrage of calls from her down-and-out, suicidal brother, Becca rushes to his rescue only to find him… and an apartment full of corpses that look just like him. She scrambles to make sense of the heap of dead copies and the strange orifice that is producing them.