The Fantasia International Film Festival will close on Aug. 7 with the Canadian premiere of Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark, directed by Troy Nixey and scripted by Guillermo del Toro, organizers said Thursday.

The Canadian premiere of Kevin Smith’s Red State was named two weeks ago to open the Montreal genre festival.

Other high-profile Fantasia titles bound for Montreal include world premieres for The Wicker Tree, which reteams Robin Hardy with producer Peter Snell, and Theatre Bizarre, in which Udo Kier plays master of ceremonies for six other filmmakers’ shorts, all of whom will be in Montreal to present the film.

Also booked into Fantasia for a world premiere is Carl Tibbetts’ Retreat, to be released by Sony next year, while veteran Canadian producers John Dunning and Andre Link are to receive a lifetime achievement award in Montreal.

Another spotlight will be on veteran Canadian director Ted Kotcheff, who will be on hand to present a restored print of the 1971 Australian thriller Wake in Fright.

In all, 130 films will unspool at Fantasia during its July 14 to Aug. 7 run.

From Canada, Xavier Gens will screen The Divide, which stars Michael Biehn, Laura German and Rosanna Arguette, Dominic Laurence James brings Die to Montreal, and there’s a world premiere for Larry Kent’s Exley, billed by festival programmers as a “loose, rough, sexual and violent neo-realist film about a skid row hustler trying to scam dollars to visit his dying mother.”

Other Canuck films to screen as part of the Playback in Black: The Next Wave sidebar in Montreal  include Reggie Bannister, Andrew Roth and Caroline Williams starring in Mike Klassen’s Abolition, and Panos Cosmatos’s Beyond The Black Rainbow, which screened at Tribeca.

Fantasia’s 15th edition will run from July 14 to Aug. 7.