Here is the complete line-up for this yr’s Unbelievable Fest.
30 COINS (Season 2, Episodes 1 & 2)
Produced in Spain for HBO Europe, 2023
World Premiere, 110 min
Director – Álex de la Iglesia
Welcome to hell.
100 YARDS
China, 2023
US Premiere, 108 min
Administrators – Xu Haofeng & Xu Junfeng
Shen An wages battle on the streets of Tianjin after shedding management of his martial arts academy in a humiliating duel along with his father’s apprentice.
ACID
France, 2023
North American Premiere, 99 min
Director – Simply Philippot
In a world tousled by local weather change, a woman and her divorced dad and mom should cross a devastated France beneath unusual clouds pouring acid rain.
THE ALL GOLDEN
Canada, 2023
World Premiere, 64 min
Director – Nate Wilson
In veteran Unbelievable Fest filmmaker Nate Wilson’s kaleidoscopic and labyrinthine deconstructionist satire, a laid-up polyamorous bicycle courier discovers that her older, scholarly boyfriend has been preserving a sinister secret in his closet.
THE ALTMAN METHOD
Israel, 2022
North American Premiere, 101 min
Director – Nadav Aronowicz
A struggling actress questions her husband’s account of a brutal act of heroism that has received him nationwide recognition and saved his failing enterprise.
THE ANIMAL KINGDOM
France, 2023
North American Premiere, 130 min
Director – Thomas Cailley
Emile’s dad strikes him to southern France, the place his mother is held in a facility for sufferers stricken with an sickness that mutates them into animals.
ANIMALIA
France, Morocco, Qatar, 2023
Texas Premiere, 91 min
Director – Sofia Alaoui
Separated from her husband throughout a state of emergency, pregnant Itto is stranded in a village, the place she begins to expertise mysterious phenomena.
BABY ASSASSINS 2
Japan, 2023
US Premiere, 101 min
Director – Hugo Sakamoto
The Child Assassins have been suspended from the Murderer Guild and it is arduous to discover a new job whenever you’ve acquired a fanboy murderer duo out to kill you.
BARK
Germany, 2023
World Premiere, 90 min
Director – Marc Schölermann
A businessman tied to a tree deep within the woods struggles to persuade an outdoorsman to chop him free after the hunter units up camp to look at him die.
BLONDE DEATH (Introduced by Bleeding Cranium)
USA, 1984
World Premiere of Restoration, 98 min
Director – James Dillinger aka James Robert Baker
Bleeding Cranium presents a story of loss of life, medication, and Disneyland in James Robert Baker’s important chapter of queer cinema historical past.
BLOOD DINER
USA, 1987
90 min
Director – Jackie Kong
A mind in a jar orders his cannibal nephews to dismember name ladies of their diner’s kitchen to patch collectively an ideal physique for an historical goddess.
THE BOOK OF SOLUTIONS
France, 2023
North American Premiere, 102 min
Director – Michel Gondry
Michel Gondry returns with a tongue-in-cheek satire about an idiosyncratic filmmaker who will do something to execute his imaginative and prescient.
BUGGED! (Introduced by AGFA and Troma)
USA, 1996
82 min
Director – Ronald Ok. Armstrong
Following a freak lab accident, a girl hires the Useless and Buried Exterminators to rid her home of some overgrown crickets however all of them quickly understand the bugs are radioactive beasties with a lust for blood!
CALIGULA: THE ULTIMATE CUT
USA, Italy, 1980
North American Premiere, 173 min
Artwork historian Thomas Negovan provides a brand new lower of some of the decadent films ever made, utilizing outtakes to reconcile the movie to its authentic script.
CAPTAIN FAGGOTRON SAVES THE UNIVERSE
Germany, 2023
Texas Premiere, 75 min
Director – Harvey Rabbit
This absurd camp fantasy holds a giant outdated mirror to persecution of homosexuality and queerness all through historical past and confronts it in a generally musical / all the time garish comedy.
CENTIPEDE HORROR (Introduced by AGFA and Error 4444)
Hong Kong, 1982
94 min
Director – Keith Li
After his sister dies beneath mysterious circumstances whereas on trip, Wai Lun decides to take issues into his personal fingers. Quickly sufficient, he discovers a household curse, battling wizards, and centipedes.
COBWEB
South Korea, 2023
US Premiere, 135 min
Director – Kim Jee-woon
Director Kim Jee-woon’s ravishing and raucous story of a director attempting to complete his magnum opus within the censorship-prone Nineteen Seventies Korean movie trade.
THE COFFEE TABLE
Spain, 2022
North American Premiere, 90 min
Director – Caye Casas
Generally a gaudy espresso desk is only a espresso desk, and generally it is the catalyst for a nightmarish descent into ruination.
CONANN
France, Luxembourg, Belgium, 2023
US Premiere, 105 min
Director – Bertrand Mandico
Unbelievable Fest favourite Bertrand Mandico is again along with his uniquely stunning and weird time-traveling spin on the parable of Conan the Barbarian.
CONCRETE UTOPIA
South Korea, 2023
Texas Premiere, 130 min
Director – Um Tae-hwa
A magnetic Lee Byung-hun and Park Search engine marketing-joon lead this darkish, high-stakes catastrophe parable of Korea’s fevered obsession with actual property and sophistication kinds.
THE CREATOR
USA, 2023
Texas Premiere, 133 min
Director – Gareth Edwards
From director/co-writer Gareth Edwards (ROGUE ONE, GODZILLA) comes an epic sci-fi motion thriller
set amidst a future battle between the human race and the forces of synthetic intelligence.
CRUMB CATCHER
USA, 2023
World Premiere, 103 min
Director – Chris Skotchdopole
An anxiety-inducing chamber piece that can make you fondly bear in mind the worst high-pressure gross sales pitch you’ve got ever delivered (or endured).
THE CULT OF AGFA TRAILER SHOW (Introduced by AGFA)
USA, 2023
World Premiere of 35mm Restoration, 77 min
Director – Joseph A. Ziemba & Bret Berg
The world premiere 35mm screening of AGFA’s wildest mixtape but.
THE DEEP DARK
France, 2023
Worldwide Premiere, 100 min
Director – Mathieu Turi
A bunch of coal miners unintentionally free a bloodthirsty creature after accompanying a professor right down to a hidden crypt found deep within the mine.
DIVINITY
USA, 2023
Texas Premiere, 88 min
Director – Eddie Alcazar
A mad scientist’s serum grants excellent our bodies and immortality, however at a value: rampant infertility results in an timeless society based mostly solely on pleasure.
DOOR
Japan, 1988
North American Premiere, 94 min
Director – Banmei Takahashi
A lonely housewife is held hostage in her personal condominium by an more and more deranged door-to-door salesman on this forgotten dwelling invasion masterpiece.
EILEEN
USA, 2023
Texas Premiere, 97 min
Director – William Oldroyd
Set throughout a bitter 1964 Massachusetts winter, younger secretary Eileen turns into enchanted by the glamorous new counselor on the jail the place she works. Their budding friendship takes a twisted flip when Rebecca reveals a darkish secret — throwing Eileen onto a sinister path.
ENTER THE CLONES OF BRUCE
USA, 2023
Texas Premiere, 94 min
Director – David Gregory
Within the wake of Bruce Lee’s sudden loss of life, movie studios rushed to capitalize on the irreplaceable icon, and a brand new subgenre was born — Bruceploitation.
THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER (Episodes 1 & 2)
USA, 2023
World Premiere, 120 min
Director – Mike Flanagan
Roderick Usher, CEO of a corrupt pharmaceutical firm, should face his previous when brutal and mysterious incidents begin affecting his household.
FALLING STARS
USA, 2023
North American Premiere, 80 min
Administrators – Richard Karpala & Gabriel Bienczycki
Three brothers set out on the primary evening of Harvest to take a look at the desiccated stays of the witch that their buddy has buried within the desert.
THE FANTASTIC GOLEM AFFAIRS
Spain, 2023
US Premiere, 97 min
Administrators – Burnin’ Percebes
After his finest buddy falls to his loss of life and shatters into pottery shards, Juan uncovers a secret world of residing golems on this offbeat comedy.
FOUND FOOTAGE FESTIVAL VOL. 10
USA, 2023
Texas Premiere, 85 min
Administrators – Joe Pickett & Nick Prueher
Joe Pickett (THE ONION) and Nick Prueher (LATE SHOW) take you on a guided tour via their newest and best VHS finds.
FOUR’S A CROWD
Spain, 2022
Texas Premiere, 100 min
Director – Álex de la Iglesia
Two sudden passengers complicate an Uber driver’s plan to declare his emotions for one among his common clients throughout a 300 km drive to Madrid.
A GUIDE TO BECOMING AN ELM TREE
Eire, 2023
North American Premiere, 75 min
Administrators – Skye & Adam Mann
Padraig (James O Healy) is pulled right into a darkish world of Irish Mythology and magic as he struggles to take care of his previous actions.
I’LL CRUSH Y’ALL
Spain, 2023
World Premiere, 92 min
Director – Kike Narcea
A retired boxing champion and his canine should defend his household’s nation farm from wave after wave of gangsters on this bloody, bare-knuckle brawler.
IN MY MOTHER’S SKIN
Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, 2023
Texas Premiere, 97 min
Director – Kenneth Dagatan
A Filipino lady residing beneath Japanese occupation learns the tragic penalties of constructing offers when a fairy’s presents extract kilos of flesh.
THE INVISIBLE FIGHT
Estonia, Latvia, Greece, Finland, 2023
North American Premiere, 115 min
Director – Rainer Sarnet
After martial artists take out his Soviet put up on the China border, a mechanic seeks kung fu mastery at a monastery on this wuxia-inspired comedy.
JACKDAW
UK, 2023
World Premiere, 97 min
Director – Jamie Childs
Former motocross champion Jack Dawson embarks on a darkish odyssey via his decaying Rust Belt city after being double-crossed by the native kingpin.
THE JAR (CHARON)
USA, 1984
World Premiere of Restoration, 85 min
Director – Bruce Tuscano
After hitting an outdated man along with his automotive, Paul is left with a jar holding a demonic creature that opens a portal to unusual worlds and psychotic visions.
KENNEDY
India, 2023
US Premiere, 144 min
Director – Anurag Kashyap
Kennedy works as a contract killer for a corrupt police commissioner with the hope of exacting vengeance on the person who murdered his son.
KILL DOLLY KILL
USA, 2023
World Premiere, 79 min
Director – Heidi Moore
Dolly Lethal is out to win Serial Killer of the Yr, and he or she’ll violate all sense of fine style to grab the crown and look fabulous whereas doing it.
KILLING ROMANCE
South Korea, 2023
Texas Premiere, 107 min
Director – Lee Gained-suk
A poisonous masculinity-bashing karaoke musical phantasmagoria from the magical thoughts of LEE Gained-suk, KILLING ROMANCE will stick in your head for months.
KIM’S VIDEO
USA, UK, France, 2023
Texas Premiere, 86 min
Administrators – David Redmon & Ashley Sabin
An aspiring filmmaker with fond reminiscences of searching the cabinets of a defunct NY video retailer makes an attempt to rescue its singular assortment of VHS tapes.
THE LAST STOP IN YUMA COUNTY
USA, 2023
World Premiere, 90 min
Director – Francis Galluppi
A touring salesman and a waitress face down two murderous financial institution robbers whereas ready for fuel on the final pump earlier than 100 miles of desert.
THE LAST VIDEO STORE
Canada, 2023
World Premiere, 83 min
Administrators – Cody Kennedy & Tim Rutherford
Blaster Video’s solely worker groups up along with his finest buyer’s daughter to combat off an onslaught of B-movie baddies made actual by a VHS necronomicon.
LETTERS TO THE POSTMAN
UK, England, 2022
US Premiere, 61 min
Director – Felix Dembinski
A naive postman finds himself corresponding with a mysterious girl in Felix Dembinski’s auspicious and bewitching people fable.
MANCUNIAN MAN: THE LEGENDARY LIFE OF CLIFF TWEMLOW
UK, 2023
North American Premiere, 124 min
Director – Jake West
A hilarious, action-packed documentary chronicling the fascinating lifetime of indie filmmaker Cliff Twemlow and the trade he inbuilt Manchester, UK.
#MANHOLE
Japan, 2023
Texas Premiere, 99 min
Director – Kazuyoshi Kumakiri
The premise is an easy one: After an evening of arduous consuming on the evening earlier than his marriage ceremony, a person falls into an open manhole. How will he escape?
MESSIAH OF EVIL (Introduced by AGFA and Radiance Movies)
USA, 1974
World Premiere of 35mm Restoration, 90 min
Administrators – Gloria Katz & Willard Huyck
AGFA and Radiance Movies current a model new, restored 35mm print of Willard Huyck and Gloria Katz’ suave nightmare.
MUSHROOMS
Poland, 2023
World Premiere, 75 min
Director – Paweł Borowski
An outdated girl stumbles upon a misplaced couple whereas choosing mushrooms. They beg for assist getting out of the forest, however she senses that one thing is off.
THE NEST (Introduced by AGFA and Shout! Manufacturing facility)
USA, 1988
89 min
Director – Terence H. Winkless
Roaches have by no means tasted flesh… Till now.
NOWHERE
USA, 1997
Texas Premiere of 4K Restoration, 83 min
Director – Gregg Araki
A bunch of LA teenagers understand they’re witnessing the apocalypse as they search out a wild occasion on this 4K restoration of Gregg Araki’s cult traditional.
ONE-PERCENTER
Japan, 2023
North American Premiere, 85 min
Director – Yûdai Yamaguchi
An growing old stuntman caught in a brutal feud between yakuza gangs lastly shoots the pure motion thriller he is been obsessing over his complete profession.
THE ORIGIN
UK, 2023
North American Premiere, 87 min
Director – Andrew Cumming
A bunch fights for survival towards an unknown adversary on this stone age thriller.
THE OTHER LAURENS
Belgium, France, 2023
North American Premiere, 117 min
Director – Claude Schmitz
When his niece exhibits up at his door in search of assist, shaggy-dog P.I. Gabriel Laurens is unwittingly drawn into his twin’s shady legal underworld.
THE PEOPLE’S JOKER
USA, 2022
Texas Premiere, 92 min
Director – Vera Drew
The Joker finds new goal in Gotham Metropolis after transitioning and opening an unlawful comedy membership in Vera Drew’s handcrafted superhero style parody.
PET SEMATARY: BLOODLINES
USA, Canada, 2023
World Premiere, 87 min
Director – Lindsey Anderson Beer
In 1969, a younger Jud Crandall and his childhood mates band collectively to confront an historical evil that has gripped their hometown. PET SEMATARY: BLOODLINES is a terrifying prequel based mostly on chapters from Stephen King’s novel “Pet Sematary.”
PROJECT SILENCE
South Korea, 2023
North American Premiere, 101 min
Director – Tae-gon Kim
A automotive pileup on a foggy bridge pits survivors towards a pack of vicious canines on this satirical horror pitched between THE HOST and TRAIN TO BUSAN.
PROPERTY
Brazil, 2022
North American Premiere, 101 min
Director – Daniel Bandeire
A gang of disenfranchised farmhands traps a traumatized girl in her armored automotive in Daniel Bandeira’s Brazilian tackle the house invasion.
RAGE
Mexico, 2023
North American Premiere, 93 min
Director – Jorge Michel Grau
The one baby in a rundown gated group mourns his mom’s loss of life as suspicious occasions lead him to suspect that his father could also be a werewolf.
RESTORE POINT
Czech Republic, 2023
North American Premiere, 108 min
Director – Robert Hloz
A detective investigates a double murder in a near-future world the place know-how permits those that die violently to be rebooted from a knowledge backup.
RIDDLE OF FIRE
USA, 2023
US Premiere, 113 min
Director – Weston Razooli
Three kids go on an epic quest to uncover the password for his or her TV, discovering themselves in their very own video game-like journey in the actual world.
RIVER
Japan, 2023
US Premiere, 86 min
Director – Junta Yamaguchi
Kikaku Theater Group, the group behind our 2021 Viewers Award winner BEYOND THE INFINITE TWO MINUTES, returns with extra two-minute time loop hijinks.
THE SACRIFICE GAME
USA/CANADA, 2023
US Premiere, 100 min
Director – Jenn Wexler
Disillusioned demon worshipers finish a string of grisly murders by interrupting a boarding faculty’s quiet Christmas on this ’70s-era Satanic Panic romp.
SALEM
France, 2023
Worldwide Premiere, 115 min
Director – Jean-Bernard Marlin
A former gang member begins to imagine that his daughter will probably be their slum’s new messiah after a rival curses the neighborhood along with his dying breath.
SCALA!!!
UK, 2023
North American Premiere, 96 min
Administrators – Jane Giles & Ali Catterall
The story behind London’s legendary Scala Cinema, which screened essentially the most outrageous films earlier than it was sued and shuttered for displaying A CLOCKWORK ORANGE.
SLEEP
South Korea, 2023
US Premiere, 95 min
Director – Jason Yu
Somnambulism takes on a frightful new that means on this intelligent, claustrophobic Korean chiller from former Bong Joon-ho assistant director Jason Yu.
SO UNREAL
USA, 2023
World Premiere, 95 min
Director – Amanda Kramer
Amanda Kramer’s documentary collage appears to be like again on the subgenre of movies involved with our on-line world, hackers, and the primary days of the web.
SPOOKTACULAR!
USA, 2023
World Premiere, 105 min
Director – Quinn Monahan
A brand new documentary tells the warts-and-all story behind America’s first horror theme park, Spooky World.
SRI ASIH: THE WARRIOR
Indonesia, 2022
North American Premiere, 133 min
Director – Upi Avianto
An aspiring boxer discovers she’s a reincarnation of the goddess Asih on this Indonesian superhero film targeted on punching horrible males within the face.
STOPMOTION
UK, 2023
World Premiere, 93 min
Director – Robert Morgan
A stop-motion animator places up together with her overbearing, sick mom in Robert Morgan’s haunting debut.
STRANGE DARLING
USA, 2023
World Premiere, 96 min
Director – JT Mollner
Someday within the lifetime of a serial killer.
THE STRANGLER
France, 1970
US Premiere of 2K Restoration, 95 min
Director – Paul Vecchiali
A killer and a detective cross paths as they hunt for a solution to their respective emotions of loneliness on the planet premiere of the restoration of this 1970 Giallo.
SUBURBAN TALE
India, 2023
World Premiere, 89 min
Director – Stephen Alexander
A younger girl reluctantly returns dwelling for her estranged sister’s marriage ceremony solely to find that her household is hiding a possessed boy of their dwelling.
SUITABLE FLESH
USA, 2023
Texas Premiere, 100 min
Director – Joe Lynch
An informal, intimate encounter with a affected person leads a psychologist into the cosmic, kinky world of Lovecraftian horror headlined by Barbara Crampton and Heather Graham.
THERE’S SOMETHING IN THE BARN
Norway, 2023
World Premiere, 96 min
Director – Magnus Martens
After inheriting an outdated cabin in Norway, an American household strikes there with the intention of turning the adjoining barn right into a mattress and breakfast. They find yourself disturbing a barn elf who will go to lethal lengths to drive the household away.
TIGER STRIPES
Malaysia, Taiwan, France, Germany, Netherlands, Indonesia, 2023
US Premiere, 95 min
Director – Amanda Nell Eu
A dreamy horror fairy story a few teenage lady who notices unusual, transformative modifications in her physique quickly after getting her first interval.
TOTALLY KILLER
USA, 2023
World Premiere, 106 min
Director – Nahnatchka Khan
When the notorious “Candy Sixteen Killer” returns 35 years after his first homicide spree to assert one other sufferer, 17-year-old Jamie (Kiernan Shipka) by chance travels again in time to 1987, decided to cease the killer earlier than he can begin.
THE TOXIC AVENGER
USA, 2023
World Premiere, 102 min
Director – Macon Blair
A horrible poisonous accident transforms downtrodden janitor Winston Gooze into a brand new evolution of hero: THE TOXIC AVENGER!
TRIGGERED
Philippines, 2023
North American Premiere, 113 min
Director – Richard V. Somes
Procuring a job as an evening watchman as a re-entry again into civilian life, ex-soldier Miguel finds himself caught in a gun battle between a drug cartel and a corrupt police unit.
UFO SWEDEN
Sweden, 2022
North American Premiere, 115 min
Director – Victor Danell
A rebellious teenager seeks out the assistance of a disgraced meteorologist’s ufology society to find her father years after he vanished into skinny air.
THE UNCLE
Croatia, Serbia, 2022
US Premiere, 104 min
Administrators – David Kapac & Andrija Mardešić
A household prepares for his or her uncle’s Christmas go to, however the festivities are dampened by the truth that he’ll return in a couple of days to have fun once more.
V/H/S/85
USA, 2023
World Premiere, 110 min
Administrators – David Bruckner, Gigi Saul Guerrero, Natasha Kermani, Mike Nelson, & Scott Derrickson
The long-lasting discovered footage collection returns with an array of explosive, bloody scares set in a decade obsessive about serial killers and the Satanic Panic.
VERMIN
France, 2023
North American Premiere, 100 min
Director – Sébastien Vaniček
A critter collector’s buy of a venomous spider turns his complete condominium constructing right into a loss of life entice after it escapes from its shoebox enclosure.
VISITORS (COMPLETE EDITION)
Japan, 2023
World Premiere, 61 min
Director – Kenichi Ugana
A rock ‘n’ roll band drop in unannounced on a buddy and discover themselves plummeting right into a wackadoo reverie of monsters and mayhem.
THE WAIT
Spain, 2023
North American Premiere, 99 min
Director – F. Javier Gutiérrez
The gamekeeper of a rich man’s rural looking grounds accepts a bribe from the native looking information, which spirals downward into dire penalties.
WAKE UP
France, 2023
World Premiere, 90 min
Administrators – RKSS
Gen Z activists are violently picked off by a deranged evening watchman after sneaking into an environmentally damaging big-box furnishings retailer.
WE ARE ZOMBIES
France, Canada, 2023
Worldwide Premiere, 80 min
Administrators – RKSS
Canadian filmmaker collective RKSS returns with a hilarious, violent tackle a post-apocalyptic world the place zombies are misunderstood, unalive residents.
WHAT YOU WISH FOR
USA, 2023
US Premiere, 101 min
Director – Nicholas Tomnay
A down-and-out sous-chef will get greater than he bargained for when he steps into the lifetime of an outdated culinary faculty pal, a personal chef for the über-rich.
WHEN EVIL LURKS
Argentina, Uruguay, 2023
US Premiere, 99 min
Director – Demián Rugna
Two brothers uncover a lethal secret festering of their village and are quickly in a race to comprise a demon threatening to extinguish their group.
WHERE THE DEVIL ROAMS
USA, 2023
US Premiere, 92 min
Administrators – John Adams, Zelda Adams, & Toby Poser
After a deadly trespassing incident, Eve steals a terrifying artifact from a fellow carnival performer within the hope of bringing her dad and mom again.
YOU’LL NEVER FIND ME
Australia, 2023
Texas Premiere, 96 min
Administrators – Josiah Allen & Indianna Bell
An odd girl determined for shelter from a harrowing storm picks the unsuitable trailer to hunt refuge… or did she select precisely proper?
YOU’RE NOT ME
Spain, 2023
World Premiere, 98 min
Administrators – Marisa Crespo & Moisés Romera
Aitana exhibits up at her estranged dad and mom’ dwelling for a shock Christmas go to and discovers they’ve changed her with a wierd live-in caretaker.
YOUR LUCKY DAY
USA, 2023
World Premiere, 89 min
Director – Dan Brown
After a dispute over a successful lottery ticket turns right into a lethal hostage state of affairs, the witnesses should resolve precisely how far they’re going to go—and the way a lot blood they’re keen to spill—for a lower of the $156 million.