Fresh from Fantasia 2025, we had the opportunity to start our remote coverage with “Hold The Fort”, the new film written and directed by William Bagley.
In this film, we meet Lucas and Jenny, a couple looking for a new home away from the stress and noise of the big city. While Jenny is not very thrilled by the high fees of the local Home Owners Association, she admits she likes the calm and apparently friendly neighborhood where they have moved into.
While attending that same night to an Equinox celebration in the community center, Lucas and Jenny discover that their new home comes with a very important inconvenience that is specified in the HOA contract, the couple signed after barely skimming through it.
It turns out that in the forest next to the suburb, there is a dimensional portal that opens every year. From this hellish portal, all kinds of horrible creatures come through into our world, wreaking havoc and killing everyone that crosses their path. This party is really the time where all the neighbors join forces to battle the monsters from the portal, in order to keep their land and their lives.