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Festival season is wrapping up and we’re finishing off our Fantasia coverage with three more movies.

Sarah checked out the world premiere of The Last Footage, Myanmar’s found-footage horror from writer-director-editor Arkar Soe Oo. It’s shot entirely in first-person through a pair of camera glasses, plays out in near-real time, and follows a group of friends heading to an inherited rubber plantation that turns out to be significantly more haunted than expected. Classic horror tropes, not much gore, no score leads to almost documentary-style tension. Perfect Friday-night watch if you’re into that Blair Witch-adjacent vibe and don’t mind a little cheese.

I caught the Canadian premiere of The Peril at Pincer Point from Jake Kuhn and Noah Stratton-Twine. Grainy black-and-white, early-2000s energy, and the entire thing is basically an elaborate inside joke about sound recording and indie film-making. A London sound designer gets sent to a crab-infested island to capture the perfect audio for some pretentious indie horror and ends up mind chasing ghost noises and angelic vocals. The actual sound design is excellent (as it better be), the runtime is breezy, and it feels like watching your friends make a movie that only they find hilarious. Hardcore Fantasia weirdos only.

Then we both watched the Canadian premiere of The Galactic Ghoul, Simon Harrisson’s gloriously low-budget space-opera goof starring Vincent Hoss-Desmarais in two roles and Ginger Snaps legend Katharine Isabelle as evil intergalactic royalty. Hardware-store costumes, over-the-top camp acting, and the kind of cheesy practical effects that only work when the entire movie is committed to the bit. Best experienced with a group of people who refuse to take anything seriously for 85 minutes. Sarah was less convinced. The rest of us had a blast.

See you next year at Fantasia International Film Festival!

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The Fantasia International Film Festival runs from July 16th to August 2nd 2026 at Concordia University.

The song during our intro and outro is “Until I Sleep” by Henry Homesweet and is licensed under a Attribution 2.0 UK: England License.