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Red Band ‘For the Sake of Vicious’ Clip Takes a Hammer to the Eye Ahead of Fantasia [Exclusive]
Blood sprays in this exclusive red band clip from the action-horror For the Sake of Vicious, which will world premiere as part of the virtual edition of Fantasia Film Festival.
The film, co-directed by Reese Eveneshen & Gabriel Carrer, “follows Romina (Lora Burke, Lifechanger), an overworked nurse and single mother, who returns home from her late shift on Halloween night to find Chris (Nick Smyth), a forlorn maniac, hiding out with Alan (Colin Paradine), a bruised and beaten hostage.
“As an unexpected wave of violent intruders descend upon the neighbourhood and lay siege to her home, the trio soon realize the only way out of the situation is to become as violent as everyone else.”
For the Sake of Vicious premieres on September 2nd, 2020 at 7:30pm. If you live in Canada, tickets for the film can be purchased here.
The film is being sold worldwide by Toronto-based genre label Raven Banner.
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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.