This second edition will take place from Monday, October 24 to Sunday, October 30, 2011, at the Mercury Cinema and the Théâtre de la Cité.
The Fantastic Week of Cinema Festival 2011, includes: 7 magical and festive evenings, 12 international feature films, 14 short films, a zombie walk, an exhibition of rare and old posters, scream contests, a giant beetle with spectators, karaoke, a treasure hunt, cult screenings, a memorable closing with the Rocky Horror Picture Show live, and special guests who will enhance our evenings.
8 awards (Golden Medusa – Jury Prize for Best Feature Film, Audience Award for Best Feature Film, Best Director Award, Best Screenplay Award, Best Special Effects Award, Fear Award, Most Original Film, Best Soundtrack Award).
Fantastic Week of Cinema – Teaser 2011 from LES MÉDUSES on Vimeo.
Feature films in competition (12 films) *:
MONSTER BRAWL by Jesse Cook
Canada 2011 – French Premiere
Inside an old, abandoned, and cursed cemetery, eight iconic movie monsters battle in a ring to determine which one of them is the most powerful…
RED STATE by Kevin Smith
USA 2011 – Preview
In a small town in deep America, three teenagers respond to an erotic ad. It is, in fact, a trap, and the three buffoons find themselves prisoners in a farmhouse of religious fanatics who reserve ultimate punishment for sinners.
THE HUMAN CENTIPEDE 2 by Tom Six
UK/USA 2011 – French Premiere
Martin is a mentally handicapped forty-something who is fascinated and obsessed with the film The Human Centipede. He seeks to create, in his way, the creation undertaken by Dr. Heitzer in the original film. His goal is to make a centipede with twelve people, all connected from head to anus, to thus create the longest digestive tube in the world.
PENUMBRA by the Bogliano brothers
Argentina 2011 – European Premiere
Carte Blanche at the Fantastic Fest.
A young woman working as a real estate agent conducts a last-minute viewing with a couple passing through her town. The latter are looking for an ideally located apartment to view the upcoming eclipse…
P.O.E. (Poetry of Eeerie) by Domiziano Christopharo, Giovanni Pianigiani, Bruno di Marcello, Paolo Gaudio, Alessandro Giordani, Paolo Fazzini, Michele Restaino, Simone Barbetti, Giuliano Giacomelli, Matteo Corazza, the Capasso Brothers, Edo Tagliavini, Manuela Sica, and Claire “Fluff” Llewellyn
Italy 2011 – World Premiere
A fantastic anthology bringing together 13 short stories adapted from Edgar Allan Poe by a collective of talented Italian filmmakers.
BULLHEAD by Michael Roskam
Belgium 2011 – Preview
68th Berlin Film Festival.
Jacky comes from a major family of farmers and fatteners in southern Limburg. At 33, he appears as a reserved and unpredictable being, sometimes violent… Through his collaboration with a corrupt veterinarian, Jacky has carved out a niche in the hormones mafia. While he is about to conclude an exclusive deal with the most powerful hormone trafficker in West Flanders, a federal agent is murdered. It’s an all-hands-on-deck situation among the police. Things get complicated for Jacky, and as the noose tightens around him, all his past and heavy secrets resurface…
HELLACIOUS ACRES: THE CASE OF JOHN GLASS by Pat Tremblay
Canada/Québec 2011 – French Premiere
One fine day, in an isolated barn, John Glass wakes up from a long cryogenic sleep with a massive hangover. Knowing nothing of where he is or even who he is, a recording tells him that the planet was not only devastated by a world war but also invaded by aliens. Halfway between The Hangover, the video game Halo, and the Mad Max universe.
THE MILLENNIUM BUG by Kenneth Kran
USA 2011 – European Premiere
December 31st, 1999, the Haskin family seeks to find peace in the Sierra Diablos Mountains, away from the noise of cities celebrating the turn of the millennium. Unfortunately for them, every 1000 years a horrible slimy, smelly, sharp-toothed creature emerges from the ground…
THE TAINT by Drew Bolduc & Dan Nelson
USA 2010 – Preview
Following the pollution of drinking water, men go crazy and mutate into ultra-violent, misogynistic psychopaths.
All films are presented in their original language with subtitles.
- Programming subject to change.
