FANTASTIC FEST 2019 is proud to announce its second wave of programming, led by a closing night screening of writer-director Rian Johnson’s hotly anticipated new mystery Knives Out. Johnson will be in attendance for a special presentation at Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar in Austin, TX on September 26th.
In addition to its usual representation of every genre of film from fantasy to documentary, Fantastic Fest will celebrate the rich and varied history of Mexican genre film with a trio of rarely seen repertory titles, programmed in association with Mexico City’s Mórbido Film Fest. Mórbido’s head of programming, Abraham Castillo Flores, will give a lecture titled “The Mórbido Crypt’s Guide to Mexican Fantasy and Horror Cinema,” a co-presentation with The Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies.
Fantastic Fest will also show its full (rainbow) colors with a sidebar dedicated to LGBTQ+ representation in genre cinema, sponsored by Shudder and co-presented by community partners aGLIFF and OUTsider, the Horror Queers podcast, and drag horror titans Peaches Christ and Louisianna Purchase, who, along with Die Felicia, will slay at an epic BYOW (Bring Your Own Wig) party in The Highball.
SECOND WAVE FILM LINEUP:
ABOU LEILA
Algeria, France, Qatar, 2019
North American Premiere, 139 min
Directed by Amin Sidi-Boumédiène
THE ANTENNA
Turkey, 2019
US Premiere, 115 min
Directed by Orçun Behram
THE BLACK PIT OF DR. M
Mexico, 1959
Repertory Screening, 82 min
Directed by Fernando Méndez
BLISS
USA, 2019
Texas Premiere, 80 min
Directed by Joe Begos
BLOOD MACHINES
France, USA, 2019
North American Premiere, 50 min
Directed by Seth Ickerman
BUTT BOY
USA, 2019
World Premiere, 100 min
Directed by Tyler Cornack (in attendance)
CLIMATE OF THE HUNTER
USA, 2019
World Premiere, 90 min
Directed by Mickey Reece
COLOR OUT OF SPACE
USA, 2019
US Premiere, 111 min
Directed by Richard Stanley
IRON FISTS AND KUNG FU KICKS
Australia, 2019
North American Premiere, 107 min
Directed by Serge Ou
KNIVES OUT
USA, 2019
Special Presentation, 130 min
Directed by Rian Johnson (in attendance)
THE LODGE
USA, 2019
Texas Premiere, 108 min
Directed by Veronika Franz & Severin Fiala
THE LONG WALK
Laos, Spain, Singapore, 2019
US Premiere, 115 min
Directed by Mattie Do (in attendance)
LYLE
2014, USA
Repertory Screening, 65 min
Directed by Stewart Thorndike (in attendance)
A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET 2: FREDDY’S REVENGE
USA, 1985
Repertory Screening, 87 min
Directed by Jack Sholder
In attendance: actors Mark Patton and Kim Myers
NOBADI
Austria, 2019
US Premiere, 90 min
Directed by Karl Markovics
PARASITE
South Korea, 2019
Texas Premiere, 131 min
Directed by Bong Joon-ho (in attendance)
PATRICK
Belgium, 2019
North American Premiere, 97 min
Directed by Tim Mielants
PHIL TIPPETT – MAD DREAMS AND MONSTERS
France, 2019
International Premiere, 80 min
Directed by Gilles Penso & Alexandre Poncet
THE PLATFORM
Spain, 2019
US Premiere, 90 min
Directed by Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia (in attendance)
PREY
1977, United Kingdom
Repertory Screening, 78 min
Directed by Norman J. Warren
SCREAM, QUEEN! MY NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET
USA, 2019
US Premiere, 100 min
Directed by Roman Chimienti & Tyler Jensen (in attendance)
THE SHIP OF MONSTERS
Mexico, 1960
Repertory Screening, 81 min
Directed by Rogelio A. González
SYNCHRONIC
USA, 2019
US Premiere, 96 min
Directed by Justin Benson & Aaron Moorhead (in attendance)
TRAMPA INFERNAL
Mexico, 1989
Repertory Screening, 77 min
Directed by Pedro Galindo III
THE TRUE ADVENTURES OF WOLFBOY
USA, 2019
North American Premiere, 88 min
Directed by Martin Krejčí
THE VAST OF NIGHT
USA, 2019
Texas Premiere, 90 min
Directed by Andrew Patterson
VFW
USA, 2019
World Premiere, 92 min
Directed by Joe Begos (in attendance)
VHYES
USA, 2019
World Premiere, 71 min
Directed by Jack Henry Robbins (in attendance)
VIVARIUM
Ireland, Belgium, Denmark, 2019
US Premiere, 98 min
Directed by Lorcan Finnegan
To attend, FAN Badges, 2ND HALF Badges, and MIDNIGHT Badges for Fantastic Fest 2019 are available for purchase
here.
