At Fantastic Fest 2026, Paul Salfen sits down with Queensland writer-director Josh Tanner as Posthumous — his first feature, co-written and produced with his wife Jade van der Lei — world-premieres in the festival’s analog-horror lane. Sophie Lowe’s Zoe comes home on her 30th birthday to a stack of VHS messages her mother recorded before dying in childbirth. The tapes degrade. The house keeps secrets. And six months before cameras, Tanner and van der Lei put a nonrefundable ten-grand studio deposit on a Gold Coast stage because standing still was the real loss. Grief, not a bleak fest. A haunted VCR with a pulse.
