The Telluride Horror Show has unveiled the full lineup for its 16th annual festival, returning October 10–12, 2025, in the mountain town of Telluride, Colorado. Over the course of three days, audiences will experience a curated program of genre cinema, author events, and community gatherings that have made the festival one of the premier horror celebrations in the United States.
Among this year’s highlights is the Colorado Premiere of Dust Bunny, the highly anticipated feature directorial debut from Bryan Fuller (Hannibal, Pushing Daisies). Starring Mads Mikkelsen, the film tells the story of a young girl who enlists her hitman neighbor to take down the monster she believes destroyed her family. Fuller will be in attendance to present the film.
Another major selection is Shelby Oaks, the NEON Spotlight supernatural mystery from writer-director Chris Stuckmann. The film follows a woman’s search for her missing sister, uncovering sinister forces along the way.
Returning festival alumni the Adams Family—Toby Poser, John Adams, and Zelda Adams—will present Mother of Flies, their fourth feature to screen at Telluride. Known for their distinctive DIY approach and emotionally resonant horror, the family continues to expand their unique filmmaking voice.
In addition, the festival will host an advance screening of three episodes from Season 2 of The Creep Tapes. Building on the legacy of Creep and Creep 2, the new season premieres November 14, 2025, on Shudder and AMC+ and further explores the unsettling mythology of its serial killer through newly unearthed tapes.
The literary side of horror will be strongly represented with guest authors including Grady Hendrix, Stephen Graham Jones, Sarah Langan, Daniel Kraus, Paul Tremblay, and Jeremy Robert Johnson. They will take part in Creepy Campfire Tales, the Horror Summit, and signing sessions throughout the weekend.
Special programming includes the Horror Vault, curated by returning Vault Keeper Jon Davison (RoboCop, Starship Troopers), who will present six classic horror films on 16MM. Meredith Borders, senior editor at FANGORIA, also returns as Guest Host, lending her insight to festival presentations.
With its combination of screenings, author events, and after-hours gatherings across Telluride, the festival promises a weekend of horror exploration at high altitude. Passes are available now at www.telluridehorrorshow.com. Individual tickets will be released at venues shortly before showtimes, pending availability.
SPECIAL GUESTS
Grady Hendrix
GUEST AUTHOR
Grady Hendrix is the New York Times-bestselling author of Witchcraft for Wayward Girls, How To Sell a Haunted House, The Final Girl Support Group, My Best Friend’s Exorcism, and many more. His history of the horror paperback boom of the ’70s and ’80s, Paperbacks from Hell, won the Stoker Award for Outstanding Achievement in Nonfiction. His books have been translated into 23 languages and sold over two million copies, which means he is guaranteed a seat on the space ark when the earth becomes uninhabitable.
Jeremy Robert Johnson
GUEST AUTHOR
Jeremy Robert Johnson is the author of The Loop, Skullcrack City, In the River, and Entropy in Bloom. His fiction has been praised by The Washington Post and Publishers Weekly, authors such as Chuck Palahniuk and Jack Ketchum, and has appeared internationally in numerous anthologies and magazines. A long-time member of the Telluride Horror Show family, Jeremy is known for “thrillers that become bloodbaths, horrors that blend into fantasies, and apocalypses that transcend into high art” (Los Angeles Review of Books).
Stephen Graham Jones
GUEST AUTHOR
Stephen Graham Jones is the NYT bestselling author of nearly thirty novels and collections, and there’s some novellas and comic books in there as well. Most recent are Killer on the Road/The Babysitter Lives, The Buffalo Hunter Hunter, I Was a Teenage Slasher, and The Angel of Indian Lake. Winner of four Bram Stoker Awards, three Shirley Jackson Awards, six This is Horror Awards and countless other accolades, he’s also the guy who wrote Mongrels, The Only Good Indians, and My Heart is a Chainsaw. Stephen lives in Boulder, Colorado.
Daniel Kraus
GUEST AUTHOR
Daniel Kraus is the New York Times bestselling author of more than a dozen novels and graphic novels. He coauthored The Living Dead with legendary filmmaker George A. Romero. With Guillermo del Toro, he coauthored The Shape of Water, based on the same idea the two created for the Oscar-winning film. Also with del Toro, Kraus coauthored Trollhunters, which was adapted into the Emmy-winning Netflix series. He has won two Odyssey Awards (for Rotters and Scowler), and The Death and Life of Zebulon Finch was named one of Entertainment Weekly’s Top 10 Books of the Year. His books have been Library Guild selections, YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults picks, Bram Stoker finalists, and more. His work has been translated into over twenty languages. Daniel lives with his wife in Chicago.
Sarah Langan
GUEST AUTHOR
Sarah Langan’s a three-time Bram Stoker Award-winning author, whose novels (A BETTER WORLD, GOOD NEIGHBORS, THE MISSING, etc.) have made best of the year lists at NPR, Newsweek, The Irish Times, AARP, and PW. Her stories have appeared in F&SF, WIRED, Lightspeed, Nightmare, Year’s Best Horror, Year’s Best Dark Fantasy and Horror, Year’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy, etc. She has an MS in Environmental Health Science from NYU, and lives in Los Angeles with her husband, the writer/director JT Petty, their two daughters, and two maniac rabbits. Her most recent works are the novella PAM KOWOLSKI IS A MONSTER (RDS, 2025), “Squid Teeth” (Reactor, 2025), and her forthcoming sixth novel, TRAD WIFE (Tor UK, Atria US, 2026).
Paul Tremblay
GUEST AUTHOR
Paul Tremblay has won the Bram Stoker, British Fantasy, and Massachusetts Book awards and is the author of Horror Movie, The Pallbearers Club, Survivor Song, The Cabin at the End of the World (adapted as Knock at the Cabin), Disappearance at Devil’s Rock, A Head Full of Ghosts, the YA novel Another, and the crime novels The Little Sleep and No Sleep Till Wonderland. His essays and short fiction have appeared in the Los Angeles Times, Entertainment Weekly online, and numerous year’s-best anthologies. He has a master’s degree in mathematics and lives outside Boston with his family.
Jon Davison
VAULT KEEPER
Jon Davison, producer of RoboCop and Starship Troopers, returns to the Telluride Horror Show as host of the Horror Vault. Pulling from his vast collection of movies, Mr. Davison presents six horror classics on glorious 16MM film! Located in the program room at Wilkinson Public Library in downtown Telluride.
Meredith Borders
GUEST HOST
Meredith Borders is the Senior Editor of FANGORIA magazine and the former Editorial Director of Birth.Movies.Death, Fantastic Fest, and the Alamo Drafthouse. She’s been working as a writer for twenty years and has edited ten published manuscripts, including Creepshow: From Script To Scream and Horror Movie A Day: The Book. Originally from Texas, she’s now based in Bavaria, Germany.
FEATURES
A Woman Called Mother
Indonesia | 2025 | 119 min | Director: Randolph Zaini
COLORADO PREMIERE
A teenage girl from a broken home, Vira, and her younger brother, Dino, live under constant threat as they share a house with a mother who is no longer herself—possessed by a dark force from a powerful talisman.
Blood Shine
USA | 2025 | 100 min | Directors: Emily Bennett & Justin Brooks
COLORADO PREMIERE
IN PERSON: Emily Bennett & Justin Brooks
In upstate New York, Clara is a religious zealot who worships light in lonely, sacred rituals. Brighton West is a horror filmmaker trying to work on his script when a chance encounter with Clara leads him into a hallucinatory web of faith, flesh, and the sublime. From the directors of “Alone With You” (2021 Telluride Horror Show).
Boorman and the Devil
USA | 2025 | 112 min | Director: David Kittredge
COLORADO PREMIERE
After the success of POINT BLANK and DELIVERANCE, Warner Brothers offered John Boorman the opportunity of a lifetime…the chance to direct a sequel to their smash hit, THE EXORCIST. The result was one of the biggest disasters in movie history. A critical and financial failure that not only changed how Hollywood did business, but nearly ended Boorman’s filmmaking career. But to be an artist is to be a risk-taker. Now, John Boorman, Linda Blair, Louise Fletcher, Karyn Kusama, Mike Flanagan, and more reflect back on the ambition of the film, the artistry and craft, and the value of big creative swings.
Crazy Old Lady
Spain/Argentina | 2025 | 94 min | Director: Martín Mauregui
COLORADO PREMIERE
A man is asked by his ex-girlfriend to care temporarily for her senile mother, Alicia. But Alicia won’t let him leave, turning a simple task into a nightmare he must escape.
The Creep Tapes – Season 2
USA | 2025 | 67 min | Director: Patrick Brice
COLORADO PREMIERE
The Creep Tapes season two will continue to expose a collection of video tapes from the secret vault of the world’s deadliest and most socially uncomfortable serial killer (Mark Duplass). Unfortunately, as the tape rolls, the killer’s questionable intentions surface with his increasingly odd behavior and the victims will learn they may have made a deadly mistake. Watch an advanced screening of three episodes from season two before the series returns on Friday, November 14 on Shudder and AMC+.
Deathgasm 2: Goremageddon
Canada/New Zealand | 2025 | 102 min | Director: Jason Lei Howden
COLORADO PREMIERE
Years after thwarting a demon apocalypse, Brodie finds himself unemployed, single and without ambition. But when he learns that ‘NoizeQuest’, a battle-of-the-bands competition is coming to his town, he decides to reform his heavy metal band DEATHGASM to find redemption and, most importantly, get his ex-girlfriend Medina back. Only problem, his drummer Giles is missing an arm, and the rest of his band is, well…dead. Thankfully Brodie still has the pages of The Black Hymn, so raising his bandmates from beyond the living is as easy as playing a little tune…
Demons
Italy | 1985 | 89 min | Director: Lamberto Bava
40TH ANNIVERSARY
Welcome to the most life-enriching Italian terror-party of 1985. Produced by Dario Argento (SUSPIRIA) and directed by Lamberto Bava, DEMONS follows a panorama of punks, preppies, and ne’er-do-wells as they get trapped in a movie theater and possessed by gut-shredding Satanic demonoids. Featuring songs by Mötley Crüe and Billy Idol, gloopy effects, and the iconic Geretta Geretta in a lead role, this is the most fun you’ll ever have in a movie theater while watching a movie about beasties on the loose in a movie theater.
Dolly
USA | 2025 | 83 min | Director: Rod Blackhurst
COLORADO PREMIERE
IN PERSON: Noah Lang (Producer)
A young woman, Macy, fights for survival after being abducted by a deranged, monster-like figure who wants to raise Macy as their child. A daring blend of New French Extremity and 1970s American horror. From the director of “Here Alone” (2016 Telluride Horror Show).
Dust Bunny
USA | 2025 | 106 min | Director: Bryan Fuller
COLORADO PREMIERE
IN PERSON: Bryan Fuller
In visionary creator Bryan Fuller’s (“Hannibal,” “Pushing Daisies”) fantastical and wickedly inventive feature directorial debut Dust Bunny, a 10-year-old girl joins forces with her hit man neighbor to confront each other’s monsters. Ten-year-old Aurora has a mysterious neighbor (Mads Mikkelsen) who kills real-life monsters. He’s a hit man for hire. So, when Aurora needs help killing the monster she believes ate her entire family, she procures his services. Suspecting that her parents may have fallen victim to assassins gunning for him, Aurora’s neighbor guiltily takes the job. Now, to protect her, he’ll need to battle an onslaught of assassins – and accept that some monsters are real.
Flush
France | 2025 | 70 min | Director: Grégory Morin
U.S. PREMIERE
Trying to win back his girlfriend in a shady club, Luke finds himself in the middle of a drug deal gone wrong. Left for dead with his head stuck in the hole of a squat toilet, he must survive a nightmarish night involving dangerous dealers, a junkie rat, and an ever-increasing series of crazy circumstances.
Fuck My Son!
USA | 2025 | 94 min | Director: Todd Rohal
COLORADO PREMIERE
An X-Rated descent into demented comedy and maniacal horror, as a desperate mother drags an innocent stranger into an absurd, filthy nightmare beyond comprehension. An unflinchingly loyal adaptation of transgressive artist Johnny Ryan’s joyfully disgusting comic book. Adults only!
Good Boy
USA | 2025 | 72 min | Director: Ben Leonberg
SPECIAL PRESENTATION COURTESY OF INDEPENDENT FILM COMPANY/SHUDDER
Our canine hero, Indy, finds himself on a new adventure with his human owner and best friend Todd, leaving city life for a long-vacant family home in the country. From the start, two things are abundantly clear: Indy is wary of the creepy old house, and his affection for Todd is unwavering. After moving in, Indy is immediately vexed by empty corners, tracks an invisible presence only he can see, perceives phantasmagoric warnings from a long-dead dog, and is haunted by visions of the previous occupant’s grim death. When Todd begins succumbing to the dark forces swirling around the house, Indy must battle a malevolence intent on dragging his beloved Todd into the afterlife. Celebrate your love of horror and pets with a special presentation of GOOD BOY, one of the best horror movies of the year, starring Indy the Dog. Donate to Second Chance Humane Society and Telluride Humane Society at the show! All door sales at the GOOD BOY screening will join passholders’ voluntary contributions.
Hellcat
USA | 2025 | 91 min | Director: Brock Bodell
COLORADO PREMIERE
Lena wakes up in a moving camper trailer with a horrifying wound. She’s warned by the driver that they have one hour to get to a doctor, or she’ll succumb to an unimaginably awful fate. As the pain sets in and reality begins to fray, who should really be afraid? Dakota Gorman (Natural Disasters) delivers a blistering performance in this tense, mind-bending horror where survival cuts both ways. The directorial feature debut from “Grief” short film director (2019 Telluride Horror Show).
Honey Bunch
Canada | 2025 | 113 min | Directors: Madeleine Sims-Fewer and Dusty Mancinelli
COLORADO PREMIERE
Diana’s husband is taking her to an experimental trauma facility deep in the wilderness, but she can’t remember why… As her memories begin to creep back in, so do some unwelcome sinister truths about her marriage.
It Ends
USA | 2025 | 87 min | Director: Alexander Ullom
COLORADO PREMIERE
A group of recent grads head out on a late-night drive for grub, hoping to enjoy one final hangout before their paths diverge. Instead, they accidentally turn onto a never-ending, two-lane hellscape surrounded by untold horrors and cosmic forces beyond their understanding. Cramped together inside a Jeep Cherokee and with the miles stretching infinitely ahead, they face a choice: embrace their new existence or fight to escape it.
Man Finds Tape
USA | 2025 | 84 min | Directors: Peter Hall & Paul Gandersman
COLORADO PREMIERE
Pulled in by a series of strange and unexplainable video clips, a brother and sister team up to investigate the events captured in the footage, only to discover a shocking secret that’s overtaking their small-town Texas community.
Mother of Flies
USA | 2025 | 92 min | Directors: John Adams, Zelda Adams, Toby Poser
COLORADO PREMIERE
IN PERSON: John Adams, Zelda Adams, Toby Poser
