The Gutter’s own Sachin Hingoo watched Métis director Tim Riedel’s Ancestral Beasts (2026) at Fantasia! “Every horror movie is about confronting trauma of some kind. Sometimes – usually – it’s the actual, real-life source of that trauma like a masked killer, a ghost, or a monster in the woods. Other times, it means confronting a traumatic presence from within. But what if the thing pursuing you is a malevolent combination of both?”

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