Festivals
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Osorio Márquez’s ‘El Despertar’ Joins Medellín’s Fantasmagoría
The eighth Fantasmagoría opens October 15th in Medellín with 47 titles, a siege theme, and a posthumous Colombian horror feature.
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Grimmfest Weighs Hammer’s New Monster by Its Old Count
Manchester’s 18th edition pairs a fuller 1958 vampire with the first Hammer film made under the studio’s current owners.
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Sitges Honors Bárbara Rey and the Templars Who Never Died
Brigadoon’s 40th-anniversary Nosferatu Award returns a Fantaterror actress, and a medieval charge sheet, to the Catalan screen.
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‘Upiro’s World Premiere Completes Fantastic Fest’s Circuit
Óscar Martín’s Spanish vampire film world-premieres at Fantastic Fest after five years inside the international lab circuit.
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HorrorFest International Becomes Horror’s Closing Stop
St. George’s 24th HorrorFest pairs a Shudder pickup and a Magnolia release with a Fantasia-vetted restoration of horror’s own mascot.
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Fantastic Fest’s Discovery Mandate Meets a Wisconsin Plague
Its 21st edition tests a FIAPF-specialized designation against a Berlinale-vetted frontier plague drama’s North American premiere.
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Cărtărescu Joins the Twentieth Fiesta del Libro y la Cultura
As Mircea Cărtărescu joins its twentieth edition, Medellín treats gnostic dread as native reading territory, not imported genre.
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Rock al Parque Reaches Thirty Years in Bogotá This October
As Rock al Parque reaches its thirtieth edition this October, the free Bogotá festival built by public policy still awaits…
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Infest Tests Its Manchester Foothold for a Second Year
The UK’s longest-running dark-electronic festival returns to Manchester Academy, with IAMX headlining and Utah Saints in an Infest debut.
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M’era Luna Turns 26 on the Hildesheim Airfield
M’era Luna returns to the Hildesheim airfield for a twenty-sixth edition anchored by Lacrimosa, Within Temptation, and In Extremo.
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Beyond the Gates Returns to Bergen for Its 14th Chapter
USF Verftet, Grieghallen, and Kulturhuset carry four days of black, death, and doom metal as Bergen’s scene meets international extremity.
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Amphi Festival Completes Two Decades on the Rhine
The Tanzbrunnen hosts a 20th Amphi Festival arranged around gothic rock, EBM, and darkwave veterans, from Clan of Xymox to…
