When Ben Wheatley got the call asking him to make a film starring Jason Statham and a giant shark (Meg 2: The Trench) he thought: ‘Why not?’ Wheatley, our 2025 Guest…
When Ben Wheatley got the call asking him to make a film starring Jason Statham and a giant shark (Meg 2: The Trench) he thought: ‘Why not?’ Wheatley, our 2025 Guest…
Horror in the Andes, a short documentary by Martha-Cecilia Dietrich, looks behind the scenes of a blood-drenched film adaptation of an ancient Inca tale: The Curse of the Inca. Dozens…
In Kim and Fort Buku, two shorts by Surinamese filmmaker Loëlle Monsanto, characters are warned not to enter their house forwards, but backwards. Or else… And in Fort Buku, famous…
Happy Halloween, and off with our head! Last night, our festival director Chris Oosterom opened the festival with a tentacle-themed opening speech and a special post-screening discussion with Ted Evans,…
Imagine Fantastic Film Festival 2025 has begun! This year, the cosmic-dread-infused oeuvre of writer H.P. Lovecraft forms the backbone of the Imagine programme. But in Retreat, the film that opened the…
Join our unique VR Hosting Workshop and become a Guardian of the Threshold Calling all curious and creative individuals! Imagine, the biggest Fantastic Film Festival in The Netherlands, needs you….
Heyyy, summer! Hot days, sun and sweat, but we still want to make you sweat in a different way. Genre fans have plenty to see look forward to in cinemas…
Club Imagine is back! This March we again have great films to shock and bedazzle, six of them in three days, ranging from folk horror to goofball comedy, and from…
As we start fantasising about next year’s festival (and the Club Imagine editions in between), here’s a list of genre must-sees for the following weeks on the big screen or…
Last month, we closed off Imagine Imagine Fantastic Film Festival 2024, our 40th edition. Looking back on a lovely, busy ten days in Amsterdam-West, with more tickets sold than ever,…