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Top 10 Possession/Haunting Films By WVM
2. The Shining (1980)
Kubrick is perhaps my all-time favorite director, and this movie is mind numbingly perfect. It’s done in a very old fashioned story telling way. There are many moments in this film that make me think there is another movie entirely going on, sort of a subtext of another topic entirely. But I’ll stick to the general plot, which is Stephen King’s classic story. The hotel in this movie is every bit as much a character as the actors. The building is haunted with a history that engulfs its longtime companion Jack Torrance upon his return. A place Jack can never really escape from, not even in death. I have never seen an actor as possessed by a role as Jack Nicholson was in this movie. It’s a transformation you rarely see in film and the stories of Kubrick’s perfectionism overshadow everything else behind the scenes. There is a tremendous amount of detail in this movie, details that are meant to unsettle the mind subconsciously, from the typewriter changing color – white to black the more Jack became enraged with thoughts of massacring his family – to the continuity mistakes of chairs missing and reappearing frame to frame, which I think Kubrick did intentionally to create tension subconsciously in the mind of the viewer. The ending is bone chillingly perfect. “The Shining” is one of the greatest films ever made in any genre.
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Katharine Isabelle Battles Cosmic Horror in Exclusive ‘Junction Row’ Teaser Trailer [Fantasia 2026]
Among Fantasia 2026‘s massive final wave of programming this morning is Raven Banner’s Lovecraftian creature feature Junction Row, starring Canadian horror icon Katharine Isabelle, and we’re exclusively unveiling the teaser trailer.
Junction Row will celebrate its World Premiere at Fantasia on July 28.
Watch a housing compound fall under siege from Lovecraftian creatures more dangerous than drug dealers in the trailer below.
Junction Row follows “Juno, a recovering addict who leaves a fringe housing compound for a better life, leaving her beloved Ruby behind. When she learns that Ruby has gone missing, Juno returns, only to find Junction Row has become a hotbed of criminal activity, but she encounters much more than menacing drug dealers on her mission to find Ruby.”
Isabelle stars as Juno, with Natalie Brown (FX’s The Strain) as Ruby.
The creature feature marks the feature debut by director Ashlea Wessel, who has directed festival-favorite shorts like 2018’s “Tick” and 2020’s “Weirdo”.
Wessel co-writes Junction Row with Clown in a Cornfield author Adam Cesare and Matt Serafini.
Katharine Isabelle is coming off a brief appearance in Kane Parsons’ Backrooms, and more recently appeared in holiday horror It’s a Wonderful Knife. The horror icon is arguably best known for her turn as the eponymous werewolf in Ginger Snaps and for her roles in American Mary and Freddy vs Jason.
Fantasia teases that Junction Row tells “a story where the fear of the unknown isn’t confined to what lies above, but what waits beneath.”
Stay tuned for more from Fantasia as the festival gets underway later this month.