Louise Weard

An ambitious director sets out to revive a faded slasher franchise, but her meeting with the film’s reclusive original star spirals into a terrifying maze of obsession, fear, and blood-soaked delusion.

Izzy does everything in her power to stop her partner from transitioning.

Michaela tries her best to be a good person.

A tour diary for Castration Movie part two. This hourlong collection of tour footage and live Q&As features stops in New York, Dallas, Austin, Dublin, Manchester, Birmingham, Edinburgh, Los Angeles, Sydney and Auckland. Edited by Elizabeth Purchell.

A feature-length deleted scenes movie from the Blu-ray release of the anthology series Castration Movie.

Fourth entry in the Castration Movie series. Plot details unknown.

Izzy does everything in her power to stop her partner from transitioning.

Izzy does everything in her power to stop her partner from transitioning.

Michaela tries her best to be a good person.

Michaela tries her best to be a good person.

A tour diary for Castration Movie part two. This hourlong collection of tour footage and live Q&As features stops in New York, Dallas, Austin, Dublin, Manchester, Birmingham, Edinburgh, Los Angeles, Sydney and Auckland. Edited by Elizabeth Purchell.

A feature-length deleted scenes movie from the Blu-ray release of the anthology series Castration Movie.

A feature-length deleted scenes movie from the Blu-ray release of the anthology series Castration Movie.

Fourth entry in the Castration Movie series. Plot details unknown.

Fourth entry in the Castration Movie series. Plot details unknown.

Over the course of nearly two years, Louise Weard and her loved ones test the limits of filmmaking, friendship and sanity as they try to finish shooting her seven-hour epic: The Untitled Louise Weard Castration Movie.

Michaela 'Traps' Sinclair is a trans sex worker trying to get by in Vancouver while also mentoring her recently-out friend Adeline and making an attempt at pursuing actual motherhood. Meanwhile, lowly production assistant Turner finds himself dangerously spiraling into inceldom as his current relationship implodes.

Michaela 'Traps' Sinclair is a trans sex worker trying to get by in Vancouver while also mentoring her recently-out friend Adeline and making an attempt at pursuing actual motherhood. Meanwhile, lowly production assistant Turner finds himself dangerously spiraling into inceldom as his current relationship implodes.

Two young women form a romantic bond after discovering they have supernatural powers. Their insecurities unknowingly release a demon, which possesses one of their exes and begins feeding on their friends. As the bodies pile up, it becomes up to the women to face their pasts and stop the growing evil.

In New York, Circle tries to leave a trans separatist cult.

In New York, Circle tries to leave a trans separatist cult.

Lucy brings her girlfriend Linda to an underground internet forum meet-up. The evening does not go as planned.

Albert's stable relationship with his fiancé is jeopardized when he becomes obsessed with a computer simulation.

Albert's stable relationship with his fiancé is jeopardized when he becomes obsessed with a computer simulation.

Albert's stable relationship with his fiancé is jeopardized when he becomes obsessed with a computer simulation.

An annoyed theatre goer takes revenge on the texting couple seated in front of him.

After an unexpected pregnancy The Patient is terrified at the prospect of fatherhood, and after being denied an orchiectomy by their doctor they seek to have the surgery performed illegally at a seedy motel.

After an unexpected pregnancy The Patient is terrified at the prospect of fatherhood, and after being denied an orchiectomy by their doctor they seek to have the surgery performed illegally at a seedy motel.

An interview with Z-movie director Vince D’Amato (director of Carmilla, the Lesbian Vampire aka Vampires vs Zombies) serves as an opportunity for a nostalgic reflection on video stores, on how the landscape of the home video world has changed, and on the importance it had in shaping the imagery of the underground scene.

An interview with Z-movie director Vince D’Amato (director of Carmilla, the Lesbian Vampire aka Vampires vs Zombies) serves as an opportunity for a nostalgic reflection on video stores, on how the landscape of the home video world has changed, and on the importance it had in shaping the imagery of the underground scene.

A lonely man is taken hostage by an exotic dancer and her two friends, who plan to use him as their fall guy after stealing drugs from their sadistic boss.

Adaptation of Alison Rumfitt's dark, unflinching haunted house novel that takes readers from the well of the literary gothic, up through Brighton’s queer scene, and out into the heart of modern day trans experience in the UK.

100 Best Kills dates back to the earliest days of Fantastic Fest, a cornerstone of the fest’s grand tradition of lowbrow pandemonium. In previous years, we’ve focused our knee-slapping man-reaping sights on everything from vehicular mayhem to gut-busting infanticide. We brought you Vehikills and decapitations during the pandemic years; You sick and depraved fools still couldn’t get enough! We were banging our heads against the warm walls of the Alamo and it must have been the perfect mix of patriotism and stupidity that opened the floodgates to creative genius. For this, my hungry hippos, we said to ourselves, We must bring in Louise Weard, Filmmaker, writer, programmer, and even a Canadian, to join our very own Zack Carlson to help make this the greatest kills of all time. We proudly raise the flag, salute your shorts, and present 100 BEST KILLS : Texas Birth Control, Dick Destruction... A celebration and reliably comforting countdown of castrations.

A group of gay teenagers are picked off by a mysterious killer during the first month of their senior year, while insecure boy Micah goes through a crisis of self-worth as he can't grasp why the killer has no interest in coming after him.

When a group of young friends take a trip to a remote mountain to get away from their families for Christmas, their stress-free getaway turns into a nightmare. Trapped in a cabin by a supernatural creature, their fight for survival puts their fracturing relationships to the test as it becomes increasingly clear that all of them won’t be surviving the holidays.

The Fool performs a Magickal Work in hopes of cosmic suicide.

The Fool performs a Magickal Work in hopes of cosmic suicide.

Louise Weard's first film, written and directed in sixth grade.

Louise Weard's first film, written and directed in sixth grade.

Final part in the Castration Movie series. Plot details unknown.

Final part in the Castration Movie series. Plot details unknown.

A documentary which examines the making of Computer Hearts and the perils of no-budget student film making.

A surreal haunted house movie created for the 24 Hour Film Race 2012. A group of people, Number One through Five, find themselves trapped in a labyrinthine house in which a Minotaur is orchestrating their demise.