Unbelievable Fest has introduced the ultimate wave of programming for the pageant’s sixteenth version, that includes the widest collection of “extraordinary movies” gathered from throughout the globe to display screen in Austin, TX, from September 23-30.
“Engaged on this closing wave has been a pure pleasure for the programming group,” stated Unbelievable Fest Director of Programming Annick Mahnert. “With movies coming from so far as Senegal, Latvia, Iran and Kazakhstan, and subjects starting from teenage assassins, circus freaks, serial killers and eerie youngsters enjoying with harmful powers, there is no such thing as a doubt this system will delight the Unbelievable Fest viewers. 2021 is certainly a fantastic yr for Style and we’re actually proud to have secured so many unbelievable motion pictures. We are able to’t wait to reunite with the viewers at Alamo Drafthouse and to speak with you all about our lineup.”
A couple of of the studio titles embody the World Premiere of Scott Derrickson (Physician Unusual, Sinister franchise) and C. Robert Cargill’s The Black Telephone, primarily based on the brief story by Joe Hill, starring Ethan Hawke in “one of the crucial terrifying Blumhouse movies ever;” the U.S. premiere’s of IFC’s A Banquet and the Norwegian drama The Innocents; the World Premieres of Netflix’s There’s Somebody Inside Your Home from director Patrick Brice (Creep), and SYFY’s Slumber Social gathering Bloodbath, a up to date reimagining of Roger Corman’s 1982 slasher cult traditional; and rather more.
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The ultimate wave of Unbelievable Fest movies presents 37 characteristic movie titles and 56 brief movie alternatives, showcasing world, US, and regional premieres, and one pre-fest screening.
Moreover, after a profitable digital occasion in 2020, Unbelievable Fest @ Dwelling will happen 9/30-10/11 on Alamo On Demand, with over 30 movies from the present pageant lineup out there nearly. Rev.com will probably be sponsoring the brand new accessibility initiative.
“Step one to creating entry was providing a digital possibility with an inexpensive badge value,” says Ahbra Perry, Head of Alamo On Demand. “With assist from our mates at Rev.com we’re going to have the ability to present Closed Captions for the movies and shorts enjoying nearly that may’t present their very own. That may be a huge step in the suitable route and hopefully only the start.”
FINAL WAVE FEATURE FILM LINEUP BELOW:
AELITA: QUEEN OF MARS
Russia, 1924
World Premiere of Rating by Chris Bullock, 113 min
Director – Yakov Protazanov
A silent science fiction movie directed by Soviet filmmaker Yakov Protazanov with new rating by Chris Bullock, a saxophonist, multi-instrumentalist, and as a longtime member and composer for Snarky Pet, he has acquired 4 Grammy awards.
BABY ASSASSINS
Japan, 2021
Worldwide Premiere, 95 min
Director – Hugo Sakamoto
Two teenage assassins are simply making an attempt to get by when a run-in with the Yakuza throws a wrench of their plans. Bummer!
A BANQUET
United Kingdom, 2021
US Premiere, 97 min
Director – Ruth Paxton
Betsey, the eldest daughter of a widowed mom, abruptly finds herself unable to eat. Betsey believes this to be a religious blessing fairly than an ailment — a perception that threatens the material of her household.
BELLE
Japan, 2021
Texas Premiere, 122 min
Director – Mamoru Hosoda
Suzu is a shy lady from a small city who moonlights as a pop singer in a digital universe referred to as “U.” When a mysterious dragon crashes one in all her performances, Suzu is pushed to trace down its person within the bodily world.
BLACK FRIDAY
USA, 2021
World Premiere, 84 min
Director – Casey Tebo
A ragtag group of toy retailer workers get greater than they bargained for when Black Friday customers mutate into violent monsters.
THE BLACK PHONE
USA, 2021
World Premiere, 102 min
Director – Scott Derrickson
After being kidnapped by a baby killer and locked in a soundproof basement, a 13-year-old boy begins receiving calls on a disconnected telephone from the killer’s earlier victims.
BLOODY ORANGES
France, 2021
North American Premiere, 102 min
Director – Jean-Christophe Meurisse
A seemingly benign look into the each day lives of individuals dwelling in modern-day France goes fully haywire on this stunning black comedy.
COP SECRET
Iceland, 2021
North American Premiere, 98 min
Director – Hannes Thór Halldórsson
Bussi is the most effective and most reckless cop within the Reykjavik police pressure. When, after thwarting a financial institution heist, he’s paired up with Hördur, the most effective and sexiest cop in Gardabaer, sparks begin to fly. Professionally and personally.
DEALER
Belgium, 2021
World Premiere, 104 min
Director – Jeroen Perceval
Johnny is a street-smart child in Antwerp who strikes medicine to outlive. When he establishes a friendship with one in all his shoppers — an actor apprehensive about remaining related — each are hoping for an opportunity at a brand new life.
THE DEER KING
Japan, 2021
US Premiere, 114 min
Administrators – Masashi Ando & Masayuki Miyaji
Within the Kingdom of Aquafa which is below the dominion of Zol, enslaved warrior Van could maintain the remedy to a illness referred to as the Black Wolf Fever. When he escapes the mines, a manhunt begins.
DEVIL STORY
France, 1986
World Premiere of 4K Restoration, 78 min
Director – Bernard Launois
Mummies! Nazi mutants! Silly goddamn ghost horses! And oh no… look out for that pirate ship! DEVIL STORY is a caustic anti-human geyser of sanity-proof mayhem, completely distinctive, nearly completely unseen, and beamed in straight from the armpit of the 80s French trash-horror cuckooverse.
THE EXECUTION
Russia, 2021
North American Premiere, 130 min
Director – Lado Kvataniya
Issa Valentinovich is celebrating his promotion to police chief when a telephone name reveals that the serial killer case that made his profession is probably not closed.
EYES OF FIRE
USA, 1983
World Premiere of 4K Restoration, 86 min
Director – Avery Crounse
The seminal American folks horror movie, unavailable on house video for many years, now debuts in a brand new 4K restoration from Severin Movies, overseen by director Avery Crounse.
FREAKS OUT
Italy, Belgium, 2021
Worldwide Premiere, 140 min
Director – Gabriele Mainetti
Throughout WWII in Italy, after circus director Israel disappears, 4 performers gifted with particular powers go searching for him and unknowingly stroll right into a entice set by an SS Officer who's obsessive about discovering them.
GLASSHOUSE
South Africa, 2021
US Premiere, 94 min
Director – Kelsey Egan
In a harmful dystopia, a matriarch struggles to guard her youngsters and defend them from the tough truths of the world.
HOMEBOUND
United Kingdom, 2021
World Premiere, 75 min
Director – Sebastian Godwin
A visit to the countryside seems to be removed from idyllic for a father and his new fiancée when his youngsters resolve the home is a little bit too crowded…
HOSTAGE: MISSING CELEBRITY
South Korea, 2021
North American Premiere, 94 min
Director – Gam-sung PIL
Hwang Jung-min’s motion movie credentials are put to the take a look at in HOSTAGE: MISSING CELEBRITY, a no-holds-barred thriller wherein the Korean star performs himself.
THE INNOCENTS
Norway, 2021
US Premiere, 117 min
Director – Eskil Vogt
A bunch of youngsters uncover that they've psychic powers that defy clarification. Will they use them for good… or evil?
LUZIFER
Austria, 2021
North American Premiere, 103 min
Director – Peter Brunner
Johannes, a person with the thoughts of a kid, lives secluded within the Austrian Alps together with his God-fearing mom. When a developer begins shopping for out the land with the intention to construct a cable automobile, their world is turned the other way up with tragic penalties.
MASKING THRESHOLD
Austria, 2021
World Premiere, 90 min
Director – Johannes Grenzfurthner
An IT technician locks himself in his condominium and units up a selfmade lab with the intention to higher perceive and remedy his tinnitus. His experiment will finally result in tragedy.
MLUNGU WAM
South Africa, 2021
US Premiere, 92 min
Director – Jenna Cato Bass
The aftershocks of apartheid reverberate by a household as a daughter tries to free her mom from the grip of her mysterious employer.
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Netherlands, Belgium, 2021
World Premiere, 103 min
Director – Alex van Warmerdam
A stranger whispers the phrase “kamaihí” into stage actor Günter’s ear and disappears. Günter was discovered deserted in a forest as a baby and by no means questioned about his delivery mother and father… till now. Will his quest to unravel the thriller of his previous present peace or additional plunge him into chaos?
SALOUM
Senegal, 2021
US Premiere, 80 min
Director – Jean-Luc Herbulot
A trio of mercenaries discover themselves navigating a mysterious area of Senegal in Jean-Luc Herbulot’s cool and kinetic genre-shifting thriller.
SAMUEL’S TRAVELS
Latvia, 2021
World Premiere, 85 min
Director – Aik Karapetian
Samuel travels to Jap Europe to search for the daddy he’s by no means met. When he by accident hits a piglet together with his automobile, he finally ends up enslaved on the proprietor’s farm.
SILENT NIGHT
United Kingdom, 2021
US Premiere, 90 min
Director – Camille Griffin
Household and mates come collectively to rejoice Christmas. The gathering rapidly escalates into arguments and the rehashing of previous points, however there could also be a quite simple purpose for the quickly rising implosion.
SLUMBER PARTY MASSACRE
South Africa, 2021
World Premiere, 86 min
Director – Danishka Esterhazy
From the sensible thoughts of Unbelievable Fest alum Danishka Esterhazy (LEVEL 16) comes a stunning, pleasant, and bloody reimagining of ‘80s slasher traditional SLUMBER PARTY MASSACRE.
SOME LIKE IT RARE
France, 2021
North American Premiere, 87 min
Director – Fabrice Eboué
Vincent’s butcher store is just not doing nicely. After he deliberately runs over a vegan activist who has vandalized his retailer, he makes use of his expertise to get rid of the physique… to the delight of his clueless prospects.
SWEETIE, YOU WON’T BELIEVE IT
Kazakhstan, 2020
Texas Premiere, 85 min
Director – Yernar Nurgaliev
What begins as a fishing journey with the boys rapidly spirals uncontrolled after they witness a mob hit within the forest, and that’s only the start of this insane, violent, hilarious misadventure from Kazakhstan.
THE TAKING
USA, 2021
World Premiere, 76 min
Director – Alexandre O. Philippe
In his elegant new documentary, Alexandre O. Philippe analyzes the parable of Monument Valley, its symbolism in westerns (together with John Ford’s), and its significance throughout the conquest of the West and in American historical past.
THERE’S SOMEONE INSIDE YOUR HOUSE
USA, 2021
World Premiere, 96 min
Director – Patrick Brice
Makani Younger and the graduating class at Osborne Excessive are being focused by a masked killer intent on exposing their darkest secrets and techniques to the world.
TILL WE MEET AGAIN
Taiwan, 2021
North American Premiere, 128 min
Director – Giddens KO
After being struck by lightning, Alan wakes to search out himself in a bureaucratic underworld. Going through the prospect of being reincarnated as a snail, he opts as an alternative to coach as a love god.
THE TIMEKEEPERS OF ETERNITY
Greece, 2021
World Premiere, 64 min
Director – Aristotelis Maragkos
On this mesmerizing experimental movie, a Stephen King tv film is compressed and remodeled by hypnotic black and white collage animation that meticulously reconstructs and reshapes its supernatural drama to an eerie and profound impact.
THE UNITED STATES OF INSANITY
USA, 2021
World Premiere, 99 min
Administrators – Tom Putnam & Brenna Sanchez
Get to know the lads behind the make-up on this illuminating doc in regards to the Insane Clown Posse as they struggle for his or her followers’ proper to get pleasure from their music, free from authorities harassment.
V/H/S/94
USA, Indonesia, 2021
World Premiere, 100 min
Administrators – Chloe Okuno, Simon Barrett, Timo Tjahjanto, Ryan Prows & Jennifer Reeder
Chloe Okuno, Jennifer Reeder, and Ryan Prows be a part of franchise alumni Simon Barrett and Timo Tjahjanto on this fourth installment of the blood-soaked discovered footage horror omnibus sequence.
WHO KILLED THE KLF?
United Kingdom, 2021
World Premiere, 88 min
Director – Chris Atkins
They got here to unfold chaos and to make you dance. When the dancing stopped, the chaos was all that remained. A method or one other, WHO KILLED THE KLF? is gonna rock you.
WOODLANDS DARK AND DAYS BEWITCHED: A HISTORY OF FOLK HORROR
USA, 2021
US In-Theater Premiere, 192 min
Director – Kier-La Ok. Janisse Dracula III
The world’s most passionate and educated style movie professional, Kier-La Janisse, takes you on a world tour of people horror that may concurrently rock your world and can change your life without end.
ZALAVA
Iran, 2021
US Premiere, 93 min
Director – Arsalan Amiri
Investigating reviews of demonic possessions in a distant village, a skeptical army officer finds his beliefs examined by an enigmatic exorcist.
FANTASTIC FEST 2021 SHORTS FILM LINEUP BELOW:
Every brief movie will probably be introduced both as a part of our conventional shorts block applications (FANTASTIC SHORTS, SHORT FUSE, SHORTS WITH LEGS, and DRAWN AND QUARTERED) or paired to display screen with one in all our unbelievable options.
THE 27 DEATHS (Dir. Franklin Connor Ritch, USA, 2021)
ALGORITHM (Dir. Edwina Casey, Eire, 2020)
THE ARCHIVISTS (Dir. Igor Drljača, Canada, 2020)
BIRTHDAY BOY (Dir. Jordan Michael Blake, USA, 2021)
BLACK HOLE (Dir. Jamie Parslow, USA, 2021)
CALVING (Dir. Louis Bhose, United Kingdom, Eire, 2021)
CELEBRITAS EX MACHINA (Dir. Joe Nicolosi, USA, 2021)
CERBERUS (Dir. Kaspar Ainelo, Estonia, 2021)
THE DANGEROUS TYPE (Dir. Tipper Newton, USA, 2021)
DEATH AND THE WINEMAKER (Dir. Victor Jaquier, Switzerland, 2021)
DIGITAL VIDEO EDITING WITH ADOBE PREMIERE PRO: THE REAL-WORLD GUIDE TO SET UP AND WORKFLOW (Dir. Seong-yoon HONG, South Korea, 2020)
DUST BATH (Dir. Seth A Smith, Canada, 2021)
EXPECTANCY (Dir. Juho Fossi, Finland, 2020)
THE FAMILIARS (Dir. Millicent Malcolm, Australia, 2020)
THE GIRL FROM SATURN (Dir. Gonçalo Almeida, Portugal, 2021)
GUTS (Dir. Chris McInroy, USA, 2021)
HEART OF GOLD (Dir. Simon Filliot, France, 2020)
HIS & HERZOG (Dir. Gates Bradley, USA, 2020)
INHERITANCE (Dir. Annalise Lockhart, USA, 2021)
ITCH (Dir. Susannah Farrugia, Malta, 2021)
LA CIGUAPA SIEMPRE (Dir. Monica Moore-Suriyage, USA, 2021)
THE LAST DAYS (Dir. Dipo Baruwa-Etti, United Kingdom, 2021)
LAUNCH (Dir. Leah Shore, USA, 2021)
LILIAS ADIE (Dir. Elize du Toit, United Kingdom, 2021)
LUCID (Dir. Deanna Milligan, Canada, 2021)
MAN OR TREE (Dirs. Varun Raman & Tom Hancock, United Kingdom, 2021)
MINIMALLY INVASIVE (Dir. Adam Harvey, New Zealand, 2020)
MISTER POWERFUL (Dir. Oriol Barberà Masats, Brazil, 2021)
MOTHER BUNKER (Dir. George Metaxas, Australia, USA, 2020)
MR. JAMES IS DEAD (Dirs. Daniel Irving & Josh Arie
COVID Security Protocols Replace
From Unbelievable Fest: “Whereas we strongly want proof of vaccination, by state order, the pageant will now additionally settle for a adverse COVID take a look at from a state-approved take a look at supplier taken inside 24 hours of every day’s screenings. Pageant employees will test for both vaccine playing cards or take a look at outcomes as attendees enter the theater for all Unbelievable Fest screenings. Attendees with a vaccine card will probably be given a wristband to make this course of extra environment friendly for attending a number of screenings. Moreover, masks have to be worn always indoors when not consuming or consuming.”
