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Fall film festival season is just around the corner, which means it's almost the most fantastic time of the year. In exactly one month, Fantastic Fest, the U.S.'s premier genre cinema festival, will be back for its 21st iteration in Austin, Texas, to showcase the very best in horror, sci-fi, and more from September 17 through 24. This year, the event will play host to a selection of 73 features and episodic projects, including 35 World Premieres, 21 International and North American Premieres, and 14 U.S. Premieres. That's all in addition to the typical special events with exciting guests and Opening and Closing Night parties that bookend the fest with a bang.
Last year's iteration was a milestone for Fantastic Fest, marking 20 years since Alamo Drafthouse's Tim League founded the event as a haven for unique cinematic experiences that challenge audiences. For 2026, the festival will continue to expand with high-profile, highly-anticipated projects in addition to under-the-radar gems looking to make an impression. The full lineup of feature and episodic titles has been unveiled today, and it begins with two exciting features that emphasize all the festival stands for. Making its world premiere as the festival's opening film is Lionsgate's creature feature Beware Boiúna, following a medical mission in the Amazon that evolves into a fight for survival against a giant serpent of legend. Alongside it, Zach Cregger's much-anticipated Resident Evil, based on Capcom's beloved series of survival horror games, will be shown in a gala screening for a one-two punch of chilling yet bombastic action.
On the flip side, directors Kevin Kölsch and Dennis Widmyer will close out the festivities with The Swallow, starring Stranger Things' Grace Van Dien. Described as a "brutally efficient, effects-forward survival horror," it brings the throwback vibes with a story of rebellious teenagers who, after busting into a fenced-off area of the woods, are terrorized by a sentient ooze with the consistency of quicksand. As for the films in between the cappers, there are plenty of highlights. Victorian Psycho, starring Maika Monroe and Jason Isaacs, and the body horror Bloody Tennis will notably make their North American premieres, while Shudder's Deborah Ann Woll-led The Cycle stands out among the buzzy world premieres. Horror maestro Mike Flanagan will also return to the festival to preview the first two episodes of his Carrie adaptation for the first time in the U.S. before it premieres on Prime Video on October 7. Attendees will even get to take in a screening of Martin McDonagh's prospective Oscar contender Wild Horse Nine after its Venice debut.
Collider Exclusive · Horror Survival Quiz Which Horror Villain Do You Have the Best Chance of Surviving? Jason Voorhees · Michael Myers · Freddy Krueger · Pennywise · Chucky
Five killers. Five completely different ways to die — if you're not smart enough, fast enough, or self-aware enough to avoid it. Only one of them is the villain your particular set of instincts gives you a fighting chance against. Eight questions will figure out which one.
🏕️Jason
🔪Michael
💤Freddy
🎈Pennywise
🪆Chucky
TEST YOUR SURVIVAL →
01
Something feels wrong. You can't explain it — you just know. What do you do? First instincts are the difference between the survivor and the first act casualty.
ALeave immediately. I don't need to understand a threat to respect it. BStay quiet and observe. If I can see it, I can understand it. If I can understand it, I can avoid it. CStay awake. Whatever this is, I am not going to sleep until I feel safe again. DConfront it directly. Fear grows in the dark — I'd rather know what I'm dealing with. ECheck everything, trust nothing. The threat might be closer than I think — and smaller.
NEXT QUESTION →
02
Where are you most likely to find yourself when things go wrong? Setting is everything in horror. Where you are determines which rules apply.
ASomewhere remote — a cabin, a campsite, off the grid and away from people. BA quiet suburban neighbourhood where nothing ever happens. Except tonight. CIn my own head — the most dangerous place of all, depending on what's already in there. DWherever children are — because something about this place attracts the worst things. ESomewhere ordinary — a house, a toy store, a place where the last thing you'd expect is a threat.
NEXT QUESTION →
03
What is your most reliable survival asset? Every survivor has a quality the villain didn't account for. What's yours?
APhysical fitness — I can run, I can swim, I can outlast something that relies on brute persistence. BSpatial awareness — I always know the exits, the hiding spots, the fastest route out. CPsychological resilience — I've faced my worst fears before. They don't have the same power over me. DEmotional steadiness — I don't panic. Panic is what gets you caught. EScepticism — I don't underestimate threats because of how they look. Size is irrelevant.
NEXT QUESTION →
04
What kind of fear is hardest for you to fight through? Knowing your weakness is the first step to not dying because of it.
AThe unstoppable — something that will not stop, cannot be reasoned with, and is always getting closer. BThe invisible — a threat I can feel but can't locate, watching from somewhere I can't see. CThe psychological — something that uses my own mind and memories against me. DThe unknowable — something ancient, shapeless, that feeds on the fear itself. EThe mundane — a threat so ordinary-looking that no one will believe me until it's too late.
NEXT QUESTION →
05
You're with a group when things start going wrong. What's your role? Horror movies are brutally clear about who survives group situations and who doesn't.
AThe one who says "we need to leave" first — and means it, even when no one listens. BThe one who stays quiet, watches the others, and figures out the pattern before anyone else does. CThe one who holds the group together when panic sets in — because someone has to. DThe one who asks the questions nobody wants to ask — because ignoring them gets people killed. EThe one who takes the threat seriously when everyone else is laughing it off.
NEXT QUESTION →
06
What's the horror movie mistake you're most likely to make? Honest self-assessment is a survival skill. Denial is not.
AGoing back for someone — I know I shouldn't, but I can't leave them behind. BAssuming I'm safe once I've found a hiding spot. That's when it finds me. CFalling asleep when I absolutely cannot afford to. Exhaustion is its own enemy. DLetting my curiosity override my instincts — I always need to understand what I'm dealing with. EDismissing the threat because of how it looks. That's exactly what it wants.
NEXT QUESTION →
07
What's your best weapon against something that can't be stopped by conventional means? Every horror villain has a weakness. The survivors are always the ones who find it.
AThe environment itself — I use the terrain, the water, the geography against it. BPatience — I wait, I watch, and I strike at the one moment it doesn't expect. CLucidity — if I can stay in control of my own mind, it loses its primary weapon. DCourage — facing it directly, refusing to run, taking away the fear it feeds on. EImprovisation — I use whatever's at hand, however unconventional. Creativity over brute force.
NEXT QUESTION →
08
It's the final scene. You're the last one standing. How did you make it? The final survivor always has a reason. What's yours?
AI kept moving. I never stopped, never hid for too long, never let it corner me. BI figured out the pattern before anyone else did — and I used it against the thing following it. CI stayed awake, stayed lucid, and refused to give it the one thing it needed most. DI stopped being afraid of it. And the moment I did, everything changed. EI took it seriously from the start — and I never once made the mistake of underestimating it.
REVEAL MY VILLAIN →
Your Survival Odds Have Been Calculated Your Best Chance Is Against…
Your instincts, your strengths, and your particular way of thinking under pressure point to one villain you actually have a fighting chance against. Everyone else — good luck.
Jason Voorhees
Jason is relentless, but he is also predictable — and that is the gap you would exploit.
- He moves in straight lines toward his target. He doesn't strategise, doesn't adapt, doesn't outsmart. He simply pursues.
- Your ability to keep moving, use the environment, and resist the panic that freezes most victims gives you a genuine edge.
- The Crystal Lake survivors were always the ones who stopped running in circles and started thinking about terrain, water, and distance.
- You think like that. Which means Jason, for all his indestructibility, would face someone who simply refused to be where he expected.
Michael Myers
Michael watches before he moves. He is patient, methodical, and almost impossible to detect — until it's too late for anyone who isn't paying close enough attention.
- But you are paying attention. You notice the shape in the window, the car parked slightly wrong, the silence where there should be sound.
- Michael's power lies in the invisibility of ordinary suburbia — the fact that nothing ever looks wrong until it already is.
- Your spatial awareness and instinct to map every room, every exit, and every shadow before you need them is precisely the quality Laurie Strode had.
- You are not a victim waiting to happen. You are someone who already suspects something is wrong — and acts on it.
Freddy Krueger
Freddy wins by getting inside your head — using your own fears, your own memories, your own subconscious as weapons against you. That strategy requires a target who can be destabilised.
- You are harder to destabilise than most. You've faced uncomfortable truths about yourself and you haven't looked away.
- The survivors on Elm Street were always the ones who understood what was happening and chose to face it rather than flee from it.
- Freddy's greatest weakness is that his power evaporates in the presence of someone who refuses to give him the fear he feeds on.
- Your psychological resilience — the ability to stay grounded when reality itself becomes unreliable — is exactly the quality that keeps you alive here.
Pennywise
Pennywise is ancient, shapeshifting, and feeds on terror — but it has one critical vulnerability: it cannot function against someone who genuinely stops being afraid of it.
- The Losers Club didn't survive because they were braver than everyone else. They survived because they faced their fears together, and faced them honestly.
- You ask the questions others avoid. You look directly at what frightens you rather than turning away.
- That directness — the refusal to let fear fester in the dark — is Pennywise's worst nightmare.
- It chose the wrong target when it chose you. You are exactly the kind of person whose fear tastes like nothing at all.
Chucky
Chucky's greatest advantage is that nobody takes him seriously until it's already too late. He exploits the gap between how something looks and what it actually is.
- You don't have that gap. You take threats seriously regardless of how they present — and you never make the mistake of underestimating something because of its size or appearance.
- Chucky relies on surprise, on the delay between recognition and response. You close that delay faster than almost anyone.
- Your instinct to treat every unfamiliar thing with appropriate scepticism — rather than dismissing it because it seems absurd — is the exact quality that keeps you breathing.
- Against Chucky, not laughing is already winning. You are very good at not laughing.
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What Else Is There to Experience at Fantastic Fest?
Fantastic Fest is often a great launch pad for fledgling filmmakers, and that remains true this year with the return of Fantastic Pitches. Filmmaking teams will present their projects live for a chance at winning $100,000 in financing, distribution, and sales provided by Chroma and Narrative Global Sales to jump-start their idea, along with other goodies. First prize will be decided by a panel of judges hosted by Gore Verbinski and Catherine Hardwicke, and, to coincide with it, the event will world premiere last year's winner, Play House. That'll be just one of several exciting events and screenings outside the typical entries, as the fest also offers looks at new restorations, live podcast recordings, conversations, a concert, and a ceremony celebrating director Walter Hill with a special award and a viewing of his underrated neo-western classic Extreme Prejudice.
Festival Director Lisa Dreyer emphasized that, although Fantastic Fest offers attractions for all manner of genre enjoyers, the focus remains on the next generation of acclaimed filmmakers. She teased that, 21 years in, the event is only building on its programming designed to share fresh talent with audiences.
“This year, we’re doubling down on what we do best: introducing the world to exciting new talent and helping launch filmmakers’ careers. We really focused our programming efforts on bringing new discoveries to our audience of discerning and passionate cinephiles. I guarantee we have the next batch of breakout directors in our lineup, and you’ll discover them first at Fantastic Fest.”
Fantastic Fest runs from September 17 through 24 at the Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar in Austin, Texas. Check out the full lineup below.
2026 Fantastic Fest Feature Film and Episodic Lineup
3 WEEKS AFTER
Serbia, Bulgaria, Italy, Croatia, Luxembourg, 2026
North American Premiere, 94 min
Director - Miroslav Terzić
Three weeks after his friend's suicide, a teenager joins his classmates on a school trip. As the bullying escalates and tensions boil over, tongues loosen, forcing the truth out into the open.
5 MORE MINUTES
Spain, 2026
International Premiere, 93 min
Director - Javier Ruiz Caldera
A husband and wife in an ailing marriage discover that actions really do have consequences in this darkly funny twist on the time loop motif.
ADULT SUPERVISION
Sweden, 2026
World Premiere, 108 min
Director - Alex Schulman
When three fathers volunteer to chaperone their teenage daughters’ school trip, the initially idyllic getaway quickly reveals brutal social dynamics that have them in over their heads.
ATTACK ON PARADISE
Belgium, The Netherlands, 2026
US Premiere, 99 min
Director - Bob Colaers
After seven years of no sleep, grief, and nightmares, Suleyman finally reunites with his mother in Paradise—just as henchmen, cops, and one very bad raid drag him back into hell.
BEWARE BOIÚNA
USA, 2026
World Premiere, 104 min
Director - Mike P. Nelson
Deep in the Amazon, a medical mission spirals into a fight for survival when Boiúna, a colossal ancient predator, awakens to reclaim her domain. In the jungle where nature holds absolute power, she decides who lives and who dies.
THE BIRTHDAY PARTY
France, 2026
North American Premiere, 114 min
Director - Léa MYSIUS
Happy biiiirthday to you! Nora is turning 40, and for her birthday she’ll be getting three uninvited guests who claim she isn’t who she says she is, plus the unraveling of her carefully constructed life.
THE BLOOD COUNTESS
Austria, Germany, Luxembourg, 2026
North American Premiere, 119 min
Director - Ulrike Ottinger
Elizabeth Báthory, a recently reawakened vampire, pursues an ancient artifact that could destroy her family in present-day Austria.
BLOOD FEAST (Presented by AGFA)
USA, 1963
World Premiere of the 4K Restoration, 67 min
Director - Herschell Gordon Lewis
A 4K restoration of the world's first "splatter" film from AGFA + Something Weird.
BLOODY TENNIS
Germany, 2026
North American Premiere, 90 min
Director - Nikias Chryssos
Sophie’s coming of age gets sweatier and bloodier than expected when she joins a summer tennis academy where the blood-red morning smoothie is by far the least weird thing going on.
CARRIE (Two Episodes)
Canada, USA, 2026
US Premiere, 101 min
Director - Mike Flanagan
After her father’s sudden, untimely death thrusts her into the unforgiving ecosystem of public high school, Carrie is forced to navigate a viral bullying scandal that tears through her community, the relentless pressure and casual cruelty of the social‑media
age, and the awakening of mysterious telekinetic powers that rise alongside her adolescence.
CINEMA RECOMPOSED: SILENT MONSTERS (Presented by Golden Hornet)
USA, 1908, 1910, 1912, 1919, 1922, 1929, 1930
World Premiere, 65 min
Directors - THE THIEVING HAND - Unknown Director / FRANKENSTEIN - J. Searle Dawley / DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE - Lucius J. Henderson / THE GHOST OF SLUMBER MOUNTAIN - Willis O'Brien / HÄXAN: HELL SEQUENCE - Benjamin Christensen / HELLS BELLS - Ub Iwerks / THE
HAUNTED SHIP - John Foster & Mannie Davis
A live string quartet plays new scores for seven classic silent horror short films. Seven composers, aged 17 to 24, composed new scores for these films under the mentorship of some of the industry's top professionals.
COMPLIANCE
USA, 2026
North American Premiere, 104 min
Director - Kyle Mangione-Smith
A corporate client relations rep pulls a loose string, unraveling a vast conspiracy in this doom-laden found footage stunner.
CORPUS
USA, 2026
US Premiere, 102 min
Director - Corrin Evans
Three friends flee the club scene for an exclusive, steamy party at a remote estate only to find themselves victims of increasingly erotic and violent supernatural attacks.
THE CYCLE
USA, 2026
World Premiere, 111 min
Director - Jordan Downey
When the body of a man missing for thirty-six years is discovered at the scene of a horrific crime, it’s up to his estranged daughter to unravel his dark past.
DEATH HAS NO MASTER
Venezuela, Canada, Italy, Luxembourg, 2026
North American Premiere, 106 min
Director - Jorge Thielen Armand
After her father's death, Caro travels to Venezuela to sell the family cacao plantation, only to find it occupied by a mother who refuses to leave—forcing Caro down a path of violence with devastating consequences.
DEATH OF A YELLOW BIRD
Canada, 2026
World Premiere, 93 min
Director - Cody Calahan
A dying man returns to his childhood home to film messages for his son when he discovers a supernatural presence haunting the isolated cabin in this emotional ghost movie.
DOG GOD
Thailand, 1997
International Premiere, 110 min
Director - Ing K
Banned in Thailand for almost 30 years for insulting religion, and maybe the monarchy too, the elusive DOG GOD emerges as a gleefully anarchic critique of blind faith.
DONKEY PRINCESS
Chile, France, Netherlands, Uruguay, Germany, 2026
North American Premiere, 90 min
Directors - Cristóbal León & Joaquín Cociña
In a kingdom where love has been declared a plague, a princess travels across different realities to find love, confront grief, and attain individuation.
EXTREME PREJUDICE
USA, 1987
Special Presentation, 105 min
Director - Walter Hill
Nick Nolte stars as a Texas Ranger engaged in a showdown against his former childhood friend turned drug kingpin, played by Powers Boothe, in this classic neo-Western action film.
THE FACE OF HORROR
UK, 2026
US Premiere, 120 min
Director - Anna Biller
A vain knight, an inconvenient wife, and a marriage built on murder. Anna Biller’s gloriously lurid ghost story proves that killing your wife may only be the beginning of your problems.
FLAPJAX
USA, Canada, 2026
World Premiere, 98 min
Director - Rocko Zevenbergen
An annoyingly optimistic, but endearingly earnest, fast food restaurant manager is tasked with relaunching the long-dormant product, Flapjax, and no amount of mysterious warnings or disappearances are going to get in his way in this campy horror-comedy.
FRISK
USA, 1995
North American Premiere of the 4K Restoration, 89 min
Director - Todd Verow
Tired of only fantasizing about murdering young, attractive men, Dennis decides to take the plunge and do the deed in this restoration of Todd Verow’s 1995 gay serial killer fantasia.
FULL PHIL
France, USA, 2026
World Premiere, 78 min
Director - Quentin Dupieux
Tim, Eric, K-Stew, Woody, and Dupieux team up in this feature-length comic romp that’ll leave your belly full o’ laffs.
FUTURE TENSE
South Africa, Australia, 2026
US Premiere, 98 min
Director - Jenna Cato Bass
In a dystopian future, a young couple clashes during their time-traveling vacation.
GAME MASTER
France, 2026
International Premiere, 89 min
Director - Éric Judor
A joyous celebration of imagination, awkward parenthood, and the transformative power of play that ventures deep into the wonderfully eccentric world of live-action role-playing.
GHOST IN THE CELL
Indonesia, 2026
North American Premiere, 106 min
Director - Joko Anwar
Witness Indonesian genre visionary Joko Anwar’s most deliriously ambitious film: a blood-soaked fusion of supernatural horror, prison thriller, martial arts action, and pitch-black political satire.
GIMME TRUTH
Canada, 2026
US Premiere, 84 min
Directors - Brad Abrahams & Simon Ennis
Delve deep into the world of conspiracy theories in North America in this compassionate documentary by Brad Abrahams and Simon Ennis.
GIRL IN THE NIGHT
Slovenia, 2026
World Premiere, 94 min
Director - Luka Marčetić
In this deadpan Slovenian romp, a lonesome guy desperate for human connection decides to steal the bicycle of the town’s self-appointed vigilante; as the “sole witness” of the crime, he is inducted into joining her nightly escapades.
THE GLORIOUS DEAD
USA, 2026
US Premiere, 81 min
Directors - John Adams & Toby Poser
A sheriff and her deputy awaken to a world transformed: bloody chasms erupt from the earth, grotesque flesh-born creatures roam the land, and the recently deceased rise again.
GODMOTHER
USA, 2026
World Premiere, 85 min
Director - John Veron
A meticulously planned desert couples' vacation spirals into chaos when family tensions and a pair of mysterious hosts with devilish intentions transform a romantic getaway into a nightmare.
HALF
India, 2026
International Premiere, 111 min
Director - Samjad
Two half-human, half-vampire siblings are run off the road and left for dead by a gang of scavengers—and they're coming back for bloody revenge.
HELL HOUSE (Presented by AGFA)
USA, 2001
World Premiere of the Restoration, 86 min
Director - George Ratliff
A restoration of the essential Y2K-era doc from the American Genre Film Archive (AGFA) with director George Ratliff in person.
HENRY: PORTRAIT OF A SERIAL KILLER (Presented by Dark Sky Films & AGFA)
USA, 1986
World Premiere of the 35mm print, 83 min
Director - John McNaughton
A brand-new 35mm print produced for the 40th anniversary of one of the 20th century's most harrowing films, HENRY: PORTRAIT OF A SERIAL KILLER features a chilling, career-defining turn by Michael Rooker.
THE HERETIKS
USA, 2026
World Premiere, 89 min
Director - Gregg Bishop
When a coven of witches determined to unleash the apocalypse marks Ada's younger sister for sacrifice, she joins forces with a renegade witch in a relentless fight for survival.
I HAVE PROOF (Burnt Ends Selection)
USA, 2026
World Premiere, 76 min
Director - James Cullen Bressack
Alex has proof, and he wants you to see it.
INTO THE SKY
USA, 2026
World Premiere, 97 min
Directors - Evan Wolf Buxbaum & Drew Mylrea
A man’s efforts to win back his estranged wife are derailed by a mysterious extraterrestrial force that keeps snatching him from Earth.
JANUR IRENG: SEWU DINO THE PREQUEL
Indonesia, 2026
North American Premiere, 94 min
Director - Kimo Stamboel
Indonesian horror specialist Kimo Stamboel cooks up a deliriously demonic prequel to his box office hit SEWU DINO, as a pair of desperate siblings stumble unwittingly upon a centuries-old satanic ritual orchestrated by their wealthy relatives.
JIM QUEEN
France, 2026
US Premiere, 84 min
Directors - Marco Nguyen & Nicolas Athane
As a virus that turns gay people straight sweeps across the world, Jim Perfect goes on a quest across Paris, with his number one fan Lucien, to find the cure in this animated comedy.
JOLLYFACE
USA, 2026
World Premiere, 77 min
Director - Justin Floyd
A white woman launches her own investigation into her Black fiancé’s violent murder only to find herself hunted in her apartment complex by a killer determined to keep the truth silent.
KICK ON
Australia, 2026
US Premiere, 89 min
Director - Nick Kozakis
Four friends trying to keep their late-night bender going end up at the apartment of a reckless mobster; what starts as a casual substance-fueled afterparty quickly escalates into a violence-filled rager.
KUNG FU DEADLY
Ireland, Australia, 2026
World Premiere, 96 min
Director - Fergal Costello
A late-to-launch young man and his even less responsible friend realize they may be the last line of defense between humanity and an ancient Chinese evil. Martial arts and supernatural horror collide in this romp of a buddy comedy.
KYLGOR IN THE GRISLY ABYSS
Canada, 2026
World Premiere, 74 min
Director - Mason Jeffrey Newton-DeRushie
Grimdark fantasy, an epic quest, buckets of blood… all puppets. Need we say more?
LITTLE DOORS (Burnt Ends Selection)
USA, 2026
US Premiere, 79 min
Director - Anthony Oberbeck
Two socially awkward people find love and then define it for themselves in a barren, post-apocalyptic world before they discover a small, wooden door in the side of her body and decide whether or not to open it.
MAGICK MTN. (Burnt Ends Selection)
USA, 2026
World Premiere, 80 min
Directors - Hana Mae Lee & Hal Satin
Ghosts, Goblins, and Crowley. MAGICK MTN. is a rock and roll fairytale set deep in Laurel Canyon using instruments of the occult to dig beneath the soil of a hillside marked by tragedy and death.
MR. CREAMJEANS’ HIDEY HOLE (Burnt Ends Selection)
USA, 2026
World Premiere, 70 min
Director - Heath Benfield
A raunchy series of sexy, horrifying, and hilarious vignettes, MR. CREAMJEANS' HIDEY HOLE is a shocking, disgusting, and ultimately satisfying anthology that’s never afraid to put a man in his proper place.
NO REST FOR THE WICKED
Denmark, 2026
US Premiere, 103 min
Director - Kasper Kalle
After Baldur is rescued from drowning by a handsome whaler, the two begin a passionate love affair that requires sacrifices to an Elder God to endure.
NO WAY DOWN
France, 2026
World Premiere, 91 min
Directors - Mohamed Chabane & Théo Jourdain
Fresh out of prison, Idriss enters the derelict Kraken apartment complex to find his ex-girlfriend's brother, only to be dragged back into violence by a ruthless squatter tied to the past Idriss is fighting to leave behind.
OGROFF (Presented by BLEEDING SKULL)
France, 1983
World Premiere of the Restoration, 89 min
Director - Norbert Moutier
Bleeding Skull presents a restoration of the fabled underground slasher from France.
THE ONES WHO GRIEVE
France, 2026
North American Premiere, 116 min
Director - Quarxx
At the end of the 19th century, as a mysterious plague spreads across the countryside, a young woman living under the tyranny of her deeply religious father fights to reclaim her freedom.
PATHETIC FALLACY
USA, 2026
World Premiere, 98 min
Director - Adam Egypt Mortimer
After suffering the devastating loss of his wife, a man embarks on a surreal journey to bring her back.
PHREAKER
Canada, 2026
World Premiere, 98 min
Director - Adam Yorke
A blind lonely teen becomes the latest breed of telecom criminal in this crackling dial-up thriller.
PLATYPUS
Canada, 2026
World Premiere, 85 min
Director - Joshua Gratton
Kimberly's recurring dreams of a masked killer murdering young people around town progressively close in on her in this Canadian genre experiment.
PLAY HOUSE
USA, 2026
World Premiere, 85 min
Director - Nicolas Jon Curcio
While renovating a dilapidated house to win back his ex, Elliot discovers VHS tapes of an unaired children’s TV show. The show's dark history seeps into his life, threatening his last chance at reconciliation. Winner of the 2025 Fantastic Pitches.
POSTHUMOUS
Australia, 2026
World Premiere, 110 min
Director - Josh Tanner
Zoe returns home to her estranged father, seeking comfort from a series of VHS birthday recordings left behind by her deceased mother, and uncovers an occult ritual that upends everything she was told about her mother's death.
A PRAYER FOR THE DYING
Norway, Greece, UK, Sweden, 2026
North American Premiere, 95 min
Director - Dara Van Dusen
In a rural Wisconsin town in 1870, Sheriff Jacob Hansen—a man still haunted by the Civil War—is pushed to his psychological limits when a deadly plague sweeps through his community and encroaching wildfires close in.
RED SNOW
Finland, Estonia, Sweden, 2026
World Premiere, 92 min
Director - Ilja Rautsi
A vampire posing as Santa Claus invades the home of a family whose rebellious teenage daughter wants only one thing: to become a vampire herself and escape her miserable life.
RESIDENT EVIL
USA, 2026
Gala Screening, 93 min
Director - Zach Cregger
From the mind of visionary filmmaker Zach Cregger (WEAPONS, BARBARIAN) comes a thrilling — and terrifying — reinvention of the RESIDENT EVIL franchise. In an all-new story, Resident Evil follows Bryan (Austin Abrams), a medical courier who unwittingly finds
himself in an action-packed, non-stop race for survival as one fateful, horrifying night collapses around him in chaos. From TriStar Pictures, Constantin Film, and Davis Films, RESIDENT EVIL hits theatres September 18, 2026.
RIVER
USA, 2026
US Premiere, 92 min
Director - Joshua Giuliano
When three estranged siblings reunite in their hometown after the death of their father, they set out to scatter his ashes at his favorite spot on a remote river. But when their boat breaks down, the trip devolves into a waking nightmare.
ROMA ELASTICA
France, Italy, 2026
North American Premiere, 107 min
Director - Bertrand Mandico
French cinema maestro Bertrand Mandico and mega-starlet Marion Cotillard broadcast a daring hyper-pulp transmission straight from 1980s Italian cinema.
ROY FROM SPACE
Mexico, 1983
World Premiere of the Restoration, 64 min
Director - Héctor López Carmona
An evil space emperor plots to take over the Earth in this restoration of one of the first fully animated feature films from Mexico.
SCREAMPLAY
USA, 1984
World Premiere of 4K Restoration, 93 min
Director - Rufus Butler Seder
Your new favorite queer horror rediscovery, newly restored.
SICK
Poland, 2026
World Premiere, 90 min
Director - Agata Trzebuchowska
Things spiral out of control in more ways than one when two siblings are tasked with caring for their ailing grandma.
THE SPIRAL
Italy, France, Belgium, 2026
US Premiere, 115 min
Director - Paolo Strippoli
When Alice’s estranged mother arrives with a confession about a twenty-year-old bargain, Alice discovers that the miracle that saved her came with a debt… and the bill has finally come due.
THE SQUIRREL
Finland, Germany, The Netherlands, Sweden, 2026
International Premiere, 92 min
Director - Markus Lehmusruusu
In a sterile future devoid of nature where emotions are forbidden, a toy designer developing robotic companion dogs rescues an injured squirrel, setting him on a journey of self-discovery and societal rebellion.
THE SWALLOW
USA, 2026
World Premiere, 82 min
Directors - Kevin Kölsch & Dennis Widmyer
A sentient, quicksand-like sludge terrorizes a group of young people in this brutally efficient, effects-forward creature feature.
TOO MANY BEASTS
France, 2026
North American Premiere, 96 min
Director - Sarah Arnold
Transferred to the French countryside, a disgraced cop investigates a rift between the local farmers and hunters, uncovering corruption that runs far deeper than the damage the exploding population of wild boars has wreaked on the region's crops.
UPIRO
Spain, 2026
World Premiere, 106 min
Director - Óscar Martín
In the Age of Enlightenment, Ana is sent to a remote monastery to atone for her sins. There, she finds a place plagued by a mysterious blood disease linked to a supernatural being: the upyr.
ÜREI
Kazakhstan, 2026
World Premiere, 80 min
Director - Yerkezhan Baizhan
When a young girl is left with her aging grandmother in rural Kazakhstan, an ordinary act of familial care quickly turns into an unsettling descent into the unknown where loss can take monstrous forms.
VERTIGINOUS
France, 2026
US Premiere, 67 min
Director - Quentin Dupieux
Quentin Dupieux offers a delightfully off-kilter take on the simulation hypothesis with early Y2K graphics and his trademark deadpan wit, turning the theory into an absurdly funny mirror of contemporary life.
VICTORIAN PSYCHO
USA, 2026
North American Premiere, 102 min
Director - Zachary Wigon
Set in Victorian England, VICTORIAN PSYCHO sees an eccentric governess arrive at a remote gothic manor, where strange happenings stir suspicion that she’s not what she seems.
WELCOME TO DOLLY’S HOUSE
R.O.C. (Taiwan), 2026
North American Premiere, 86 min
Directors - Seven Ych, Rady Fu, & Tree Muta
Taiwan’s first major rotoscoped 2D animated feature tells the story of a ghost-debunking influencer who begins to question her own identity after entering the mansion of a famously reclusive doll-maker.
WHAT HAPPENED TO DORIS?
USA, 2026
World Premiere, 92 min
Director - Nick Simon
Based on the terrifying true story that inspired THE ENTITY, WHAT HAPPENED TO DORIS? follows a single mother whose violent encounters with an unseen force draw UCLA investigators into one of the most infamous paranormal cases in American history.
WILD HORSE NINE
UK, USA, Chile, 2026
Texas Premiere, 118 min
Director - Martin McDonagh
A CIA mission to Easter Island unravels amid conspiracies, secrets, and Chile's looming coup.
Release Date September 18, 2026
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