The epic festival runs three weeks long each July and delivers copious amounts of genre fun year after year. The ongoing pandemic has thrown a wrench into this year’s plans, but like a couple other festivals before them they’ve paused, reflected, and redirected their efforts so that the fest can go on… by going online.

Fantasia 2020 is going virtual from August 20th to September 2nd, and just as you had to be in Canada to attend the real fest the same apples here — tickets will only be available to people with a Canadian IP address. The first wave of 21 titles has just been announced. Including the world premiere of The Curse of Audrey Earnshaw.

THE CURSE OF AUDREY EARNSHAW

Dir. Thomas Robert Lee
Canada
World Premiere

A mother and daughter are suspected of witchcraft by their devout rural community in Canadian filmmaker Thomas Robert Lee’s freakishly nightmarish THE CURSE OF AUDREY EARNSHAW. One of the most unsettling and surprising occult horror films since HEREDITARY, this haunting tale is steeped in folklore and brimming with imagery that will besiege your subconscious. It stars Catherine Walker (A DARK SONG), Jared Abrahamson (HELLO DESTROYER), Hannah Emily Anderson (WHAT KEEPS YOU ALIVE), Don McKellar (LAST NIGHT), and Sean McGinley (BRAVEHEART), and is co-produced by MY BLOODY VALENTINE director George Mihalka.