13 Awesome-Sounding Genre Films Coming to Sundance 2025

The twelvemonth successful movies doesn’t commencement until Sundance. Since the 1980s, immoderate of the biggest names successful the movie industry, and promising aboriginal talent, caput to Park City, Utah, hoping to marque history. Sundance is wherever galore of the astir celebrated and buzzworthy autarkic films commencement their journeys to either container bureau occurrence oregon captious glory—and, with the festival present having an yearly online component, audiences everyplace tin participate.

Sundance mightiness beryllium champion known for its melodramatic fare (Oscar winners similar Coda and Little Miss Sunshine got their starts there), but it’s besides a large spot to observe fantabulous horror, sci-fi, and different genre films. That’s wherever io9 comes in. In the past, the festival was the proving crushed for films similar Saw, The Blair Witch Project, Donnie Darko, Talk to Me, 28 Days Later, The Descent, and Primer. Earlier this year, It’s What’s Inside, My Old Ass, I Saw the TV Glow, and In a Violent Nature each premiered there.

So, is 2025’s I Saw the TV Glow playing astatine Sundance? It’s clip to spot the contenders and find out. If you privation to ticker them for yourself, the festival runs from January 23–February 2, 2025 successful Park City, Utah, and online from January 30–February 2. You tin get tickets here and spot the genre fare below.

Note: What follows are the authoritative descriptions from Sundance, successful alphabetical order.

A inactive from By Design – Sundance

By Design / U.S.A. – A pistillate swaps bodies with a chair, and everyone likes her amended arsenic a chair. Cast: Juliette Lewis, Mamoudou Athie, Melanie Griffith, Samantha Mathis, Robin Tunney, Udo Kier. World Premiere. Fiction. Available online for Public. (Director and Screenwriter: Amanda Kramer, Producers: Miranda Bailey, Sarah Winshall, Natalie Whalen, Jacob Agger)

Dead Lover / Canada – A lonely gravedigger who stinks of corpses yet meets her imagination man, but their whirlwind matter is chopped abbreviated erstwhile helium tragically drowns astatine sea. Grief-stricken, she goes to morbid lengths to resurrect him done madcap technological experiments, resulting successful sedate consequences and improbable love. Cast: Grace Glowicki, Ben Petrie, Leah Doz, Lowen Morrow. World Premiere. Fiction. (Director, Screenwriter, and Producer: Grace Glowicki, Screenwriter and Producer: Ben Petrie, Producer: Yona Strauss)

Didn’t Die / U.S.A. – A podcast big desperately clings to an ever-shrinking assemblage successful the zombie apocalypse. Cast: Kiran Deol, George Basil, Samrat Chakrabarti, Katie McCuen, Vishal Vijayakumar. World Premiere. Fiction. Available online for Public. Director, (Screenwriter, and Producer: Meera Menon, Screenwriter and Producer: Paul Gleason, Producers: Erica Fishman, Joe Camerota, Luke Patton)

The Legend of Ochi / U.S.A. – In a distant colony connected the land of Carpathia, a workplace miss named Yuri is raised to fearfulness an carnal taxon known arsenic Ochi. But erstwhile Yuri discovers a wounded babe Ochi has been near behind, she escapes connected an escapade to bring him home. Cast: Helena Zengel, Finn Wolfhard, Emily Watson, Willem Dafoe. World Premiere. Fiction. (Director, Screenwriter, and Producer: Isaiah Saxon, Producers: Richard Peete, Traci Carlson, Jonathan Wang)

A inactive from Luz – Sundance

LUZ / Hong Kong, China – In the neon-lit streets of Chongqing, Wei desperately searches for his estranged girl Fa, portion Hong Kong gallerist Ren grapples with her ailing stepmother Sabine successful Paris. Their lives collide successful a virtual world world, wherever a mystical cervid reveals hidden truths, sparking a travel of find and connection. Cast: Isabelle Huppert, Sandrine Pinna, Xiao Dong Guo, Lu Huang, David Chiang, En Xi Deng. World Premiere. Available online for Public. (Director, Screenwriter, and Producer: Flora Lau, Producers: Yvette Tang, Joseph Sinn Gi Chan, Stephen Lam)

OBEX / U.S.A. – Conor Marsh lives a secluded beingness with his dog, Sandy, until 1 time helium begins playing OBEX, a new, state-of-the-art machine game. When Sandy goes missing, the enactment betwixt world and crippled blurs and Conor indispensable task into the unusual satellite of OBEX to bring her home. Cast: Albert Birney, Callie Hernandez, Frank Mosley. World Premiere. Fiction. Available online for Public. )Director, Screenwriter, and Producer: Albert Birney, Screenwriter and Producer: Pete Ohs, Producers: Emma Hannaway, James Belfer)

Opus / U.S.A. – A young writer is invited to the distant compound of a legendary popular prima who mysteriously disappeared 30 years ago. Surrounded by the star’s cult of sycophants and intoxicated journalists, she finds herself successful the mediate of his twisted plan. Cast: Ayo Edebiri, John Malkovich, Juliette Lewis, Murray Bartlett, Amber Midthunder. World Premiere. Fiction. (Director, Screenwriter, and Producer: Mark Anthony Green, Producers: Collin Creighton, Brad Weston, Poppy Hanks, Jelani Johnson, Josh Bachove)

A inactive from Rabbit Trap – Sundance

Rabbit Trap / U.K. – When a instrumentalist and her hubby determination to a distant location successful Wales, the euphony they marque disturbs section past people magic, bringing a nameless kid to their doorway who is intent connected infiltrating their lives. Cast: Dev Patel, Rosy McEwen, Jade Croot. World Premiere. Fiction. (Director and Screenwriter: Bryn Chainey, Producers: Daniel Noah, Lawrence Inglee, Elijah Wood, Elisa Lleras, Adrian Politowski, Martin Metz)

Rains Over Babel / Colombia, U.S.A., Spain – A radical of misfits converges astatine Babel, a legendary dive barroom that doubles arsenic purgatory, wherever La Flaca — the city’s Grim Reaper — presides. Here, souls gamble years of their lives with her, daring to outwit Death herself. Cast: Saray Rebolledo, Felipe Aguilar Rodríguez, John Alex Castillo, William Hurtado, Santiago Pineda, Celina Biurrun. World Premiere. Fiction. Available online for Public. (Director, Screenwriter, and Producer: Gala del Sol, Producers: H.A Hermida, Ana Cristina Gutiérrez, Andrés Hermida, Natalia Rendón Rodríguez)

The Thing with Feathers / U.K. – Struggling to process the abrupt and unexpected decease of his wife, a young begetter loses his clasp connected world arsenic a seemingly malign beingness begins to stalk him from the shadowy recesses of the flat helium shares with his 2 young sons. Cast: Benedict Cumberbatch, Richard Boxall, Henry Boxall, Eric Lampaert, Vinette Robinson, Sam Spruell. World Premiere. Fiction. (Director and Screenwriter: Dylan Southern, Producers: Andrea Cornwell, Leah Clarke, Adam Ackland)

A inactive from Together – Sundance

Together / Australia, U.S.A. – With a determination to the countryside already investigating the limits of a couple’s relationship, a supernatural brushwood begins an utmost translation of their love, their lives, and their flesh. Cast: Alison Brie, Dave Franco, Damon Herriman. World Premiere. Fiction. (Director and Screenwriter: Michael Shanks, Producers: Dave Franco, Alison Brie, Mike Cowap, Andrew Mittman, Erik Feig, Max Silva)

Touch Me / U.S.A. – Two codependent champion friends go addicted to the heroin-like interaction of an alien narcissist who whitethorn oregon whitethorn not beryllium trying to instrumentality implicit the world. Cast: Olivia Taylor Dudley, Lou Taylor Pucci, Jordan Gavaris, Marlene Forte, Paget Brewster. World Premiere. Fiction. (Director, Screenwriter, and Producer: Addison Heimann, Producers: John Humber, David Lawson Jr.)

The Ugly Stepsister / Norway – In a fairy-tale kingdom wherever quality is simply a brutal business, Elvira battles to vie with her incredibly beauteous stepsister, and she volition spell to immoderate magnitude to drawback the prince’s eye. Cast: Lea Myren, Thea Sofie Loch Næss, Ane Dahl Torp, Flo Fagerli, Isac Calmroth, Malte Gårdinger. World Premiere. Fiction. (Director and Screenwriter: Emilie Blichfeldt, Producer: Maria Ekerhovd)

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