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Girl In The Night (Fantastic Fest 2026) He would do anything for love, but it will backfire

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The aimless life of a lonely kleptomaniac takes an unexpected turn for the worse when he steals a bicycle from a mysterious girl who spends her nights fighting crime. To cut through the mundanity of his night shifts, Rok keeps himself busy by stealing chocolate bars at the gas station where he works. One night, he meets a mysterious girl with severe bruises on her face. She only appears at night, is all about fighting crime, and claims to possess superpowers. If he wants to meet her again, Rok will have to come up with a cunning plan – so he decides to steal her bike. Read More →

SICK (Fantastic Fest 2026) Gagworthy sibling summer

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During the summer holidays, Maks (16) and his older sister Emma (19) are sent to the Polish countryside to care for their ailing grandmother. Trapped together in the heavy, stifling isolation of the summer heat, the siblings’ bond begins to shift into something unsettling and difficult to define. As tensions rise and boundaries begin to blur, their grandmother’s frail presence takes on an increasingly disturbing quality, turning a once-idyllic summer into a haunting passage into adulthood. Read More →

Fantastic Fest 2025 Announces Awards!

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FANTASTIC FEST 2025 AWARDS Austin, TX – September 23, 2025 – Fantastic Fest 2025 is excited to unveil the winners of this year’s awards, celebrating a remarkable array of genre films from around the world. With an abundance of unique and captivating features and shorts, narrowing down the selections proved to be a tough challenge. Even so, our distinguished jury Read More →

‘THE CRAMPS: A Period Piece’ (Fantastic Fest 2025) Tangible taboo with a horror twist

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THE CRAMPS: A Period Piece Brooke H. Cellars’ campy new horror comedy THE CRAMPS: A Period Piece comes to Fantastic Fest 2025 to leave audiences in a state of giggling discomfort. The story follows Agnes, a young woman from a strict household who gets a job at the local salon. When her period cramps manifest into monsters, life gets a Read More →

‘THE VILE’ (Fantastic Fest 2025) Greed and trauma manifested.

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THE VILE Fantastic Fest alum Majid Al Ansari brings this year’s audience a terrifying tale in THE VILE. Amani and her impressionable teen daughter, Noor, predominantly exist as a dynamic duo. When her husband shows up after an extended work trip with a second wife in tow, Amani must come to terms with living conditions she never planned for. Not Read More →

SILVER SCREAMERS (Fantastic Fest 2025): Debuts on Bloodstream, Nov 6th!

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The cameras have rolled, the fake blood has flowed, and the retirement community is about to slay the big screen with Silver Screamers, a heartwarming and spine-tingling documentary following a spirited crew of retirees as they swap knitting needles for camera lenses to make their very own horror short – The Rug. Read More →

‘THE TREE OF KNOWLEDGE’ (Fantastic Fest 2025) Satire, Politics, and Metaphors. Oh My!

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THE TREE OF KNOWLEDGE (A árvore do Conhecimento) Eugène Green‘s absurdist film THE TREE OF KNOWLEDGE comes to Fantastic Fest 2025. Presented in three parts. The first piece finds Gaspar leaving his home for a more exciting life in Lisbon, only to be kidnapped by a man named Ogre. Ogre made a deal with the devil in exchange for the Read More →

‘TEACUP’ (Fantastic Fest 2024) Peacock’s Original Horror-Thriller Series is finally here!

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TEACUP The First Two Episodes, “Think About the Bubbles” & “My Little Lighthouse,” Premiere Thursday, October 10, Only on Peacock Ep 1: Think About the Bubbles Based on Robert R. McCammon‘s novel Stinger, Peacock’s original series TEACUP finds a tiny rural community in distress as something unknown affects the animals and the electricity. We meet veterinarian Maggie Chenoweth, her two Read More →

‘GIRL INTERNET SHOW: A KATI KELLI MIXTAPE’ (Fantastic Fest 2024) An experimental greatest hits documentary of a pioneering goddess.

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GIRL INTERNET SHOW: A KATI KELLI MIXTAPE This brand-new feature-length “mixtape” unearths and reintroduces a stunning, singular body of work by the enigmatic Kati Kelli, an outsider video artist and digital native whose subversive online uploads push at the seams of the digital form. For nearly a decade before her passing in 2019, Kati ran “Girl Internet Show,” a YouTube Read More →

‘AJ GOES TO THE DOG PARK’ (Fantastic Fest 2024) An odyssey of the absurd.

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AJ GOES TO THE DOG PARK Toby Jones’ Midwestern Comedy AJ Goes to the Dog Park to World Premiere at Fantastic Fest September 23rd Fargo Man Goes on an Odyssey in Burnt Ends Selection Toby Jones‘ Fantastic Fest 2024 absurd comedy AJ GOES TO THE DOG PARK had me giggling nonstop at its wholly silly dialogue and slapstick comedy. Poor Read More →

‘PÁRVULOS’ (Fantastic Fest 2024) An exquisite wow and one of the year’s best films.

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PÁRVULOS  US Premiere Filmmaker Isaac Ezban brings Fantastic Fest 2024 PÁRVULOS, the story of three siblings surviving in the woods by scavenging in a virus-ravaged world. The dangerous secret they harbor in the basement may be their undoing. The cinematography is something to behold. The sepia-toned lens locks you into a compelling plot. It creates this magical, borderline eerie feeling. Read More →

‘HEADS OR FAILS’ (Fantastic Fest 2024) Lenny and Harpo Guit take a gamble on one disarming dame.

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HEADS OR FAILS FANTASTIC FEST 2024 World Premiere BURNT ENDS Masterfully absurd, Lenny and Harpo Guit’s latest film, HEADS OR FAILS, introduces Fantastic Fest 2024 to the ceaselessly irresponsible and eternal hustler, Armande. Down on her luck and owing money to everyone in her path in Belgium, risky wagers are her bread and butter. Whether they pan out is another Read More →

‘BONE LAKE’ (Fantastic Fest 2024) Diabolical and sexy cat-and-mouse game.

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BONE LAKE World Premiere Fantastic Fest alum Mercedes Bryce Morgan brings her latest in BONE LAKE, a psychosexual game of sex, lies, and videotape. Two very different couples find themselves double booked at a palatial lakeside Airbnb. Sage and Diego are in a relationship rut, while Cin and Will are hot and heavy. Awkwardness turns into friendship. When the four Read More →

Fantastic Fest 2024 is genre heaven. 6 films we are psyched for.

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FANTASTIC FEST 2024 Our merry band of misfits, muckrakers, and miscreants is making it’s way to Austin, TX, for an 8-day carnival of cinematic delights – Fantastic Fest is back on Sept. 19th – 26th, taking place at the Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar cinema. Fantastic Fest 2024 is upon us! The entire lineup is spectacular. Here are 6 films we Read More →

Fantastic Fest 2023 capsule review: ‘The Other Laurens’ brims with mystery and mayhem

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THE OTHER LAURENS Beginning in Shakespearean fashion, the chaos and bait-and-switch screenplay of Claude Schmitz‘s THE OTHER LAURENS earns your attention. Private investigator, Gabriel gets contacted by his niece to look into the recent death of her father and Gabriel’s estranged twin brother, François. THE OTHER LAURENS is a whirlwind of mafialike underworld, bikers as protective soldiers, drug trafficking, double Read More →

Fantastic Fest 2023 review: Nicholas Tomnay’s delicious treat ‘WHAT YOU WISH FOR’ is a twisted tale of wealth, power, and consequence.

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WHAT YOU WISH FOR Writer-director Nicholas Tomnay takes us on a journey of twisted morality. Down on his luck, chef Ryan steps into the life of his schoolmate and cooks for a small group of ultra-wealthy diners. The experience is nothing like he imagined. Nick Stahl plays Ryan, a chef running from his gambling debts. When he assumes the identity Read More →

Fantastic Fest 2023 documentary review: ‘SPOOKTACULAR!’ tells the tale of the first horror theme park, and it’s scary good.

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SPOOKTACULAR! Executive produced by Tom Savini, Fantastic Fest 2023 doc SPOOKTACULAR! by filmmaker Quinn Monahan takes us back to a place I never knew existed. Now that it’s gone, I’m incredibly jealous. It’s time to tell the tale of Spooky World. 1991, in the middle of a Massachusetts cornfield, open every day in October, Dave Bertolino‘s Spooky World was a Read More →

Fantastic Fest 2023 review: ‘THE WAIT’ is a solid entry in the Western-horror subgenre.

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THE WAIT (La Espera) Eladio has been hired to watch over the hunting grounds of Don Francisco’s estate, somewhere in rural Spain. The estate is divided into ten hunting stands, spaced far enough apart to avoid incidents. After three years of service, Don Carlos — Don Francisco’s second in command — offers him a bribe to add an additional three Read More →

Fantastic Fest 2023 review: Jamie Childs’ action-packed feature debut ‘JACKDAW’ makes you beg for a franchise

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JACKDAW A former motocross champion and army veteran is now caring for his younger brother. Broke, he agrees to do an open water pick up of a mysterious illegal package in the North Sea. A resulting double cross and his brother’s disappearance set him and his old bike on a violent nocturnal odyssey through England’s northern rust belt. Nonstop action Read More →

Fantastic Fest 2022 review: ‘GIVE ME AN A’ for autonomy, damnit.

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GIVE ME AN A A wild ride of an anthology reacting to the overturning of Roe v Wade through horror, dark comedy, and sci-fi. Created by an all-female filmmaking team, this 17-segment series focuses on the visceral gut reactions of each filmmaker to expand conversations about women’s reproductive rights and the importance of bodily autonomy and also addresses the issues Read More →