The 15 Wildest, Coolest, and Most Unique Films We Can’t Wait to See at Fantastic Fest 2024

It’s that clip of twelvemonth again. io9 is about to caput down to Austin, Texas for a week of fun, fucked-up films at Fantastic Fest, 1 of the coolest, astir unsocial genre movie festivals successful the full world. For a afloat week, the fest shows lone the weirdest, astir out-there, wholly badass films that are coming soon to theaters, and we’re excited to leap close in.

The hard portion astir attending Fantastic Fest though is that every azygous movie sounds awesome. It was curated that way. So however bash you take what to see? Well, a fewer movies person names you’ve heard of—stuff similar DreamWorks’ The Wild Robot, gory sequel Terrifier 3, oregon the anthology V/H/S Beyond. But beyond that, you conscionable gotta spell with your gut.

Here’s my process, cultivated implicit galore years. I spell done the full database of diagnostic films, work astir each azygous one, and past fertile them based connected a) what I deliberation the readers of io9 volition beryllium funny in, and b) what I privation to watch. Then, I commencement astatine the apical of the astir 100-film database and effort to enactment my mode down it.

What follows are the 15 films presently astatine the apical of that database which besides hap to beryllium a large illustration of conscionable however weird and fantastic Fantastic Fest tin be. The festival runs from September 19-26 successful Austin, Texas. Click present for more. And enactment tuned to io9 for our sum from the festival.

Daniela Forever – Fantastic Fest

Daniela Forever

Whenever Nacho Vigalondo makes a film, we instrumentality notice: Timecrimes, Extraterrestrial, Colossal. And present he’s backmost with a seemingly much affectional genre instrumentality starring Henry Golding (Snake Eyes, Crazy Rich Asians). Golding plays a antheral who loses his woman but discovers a cause that lets him relive memories of her. That won’t spell well.

Ick

Torque. Detention. Bodied. These are the awesome films of euphony video manager Joseph Kahn. His latest, Ick, stars Brandon Routh arsenic a teacher warring a “parasitic alien entity.” If we cognize Kahn, that’s conscionable the extremity of the iceberg.

Chainsaws Were Singing

A movie that sounds similar a spiritual sequel to Trey Parker and Matt Stone’s Cannibal the Musical, Chainsaws Were Singing is simply a fearfulness philharmonic astir a antheral who indispensable rescue his caller emotion from a signing, chainsaw-wielding maniac. We’re truthful there.

Escape From the 21st Century

Combining 3 things I emotion precise much—action, nostalgia, and sci-fi—Escape from the 21st Century follows a radical of kids who are capable to entree their aboriginal selves. And for immoderate crushed there’s a batch of martial arts involved.

Mr. Crockett

In what sounds similar a twisted instrumentality connected A Nightmare connected Elm Street, Mr. Crockett follows a ma who thinks she’s recovered the cardinal to calming down her chaotic kids: a caller children’s TV show. The occupation is, the TV amusement allows a slayer to travel into your house, kidnap your kids, and termination the parents.

Dead Talents Society – Fantastic Fest

Dead Talents Society

With a crippled that sounds similar Beetlejuice seen done modern societal media, Dead Talents Society is astir a precocious deceased pistillate who realizes that to enactment a ghost, she indispensable trade a palmy shade persona that different ghosts indispensable travel and adore.

Ghost Killer

A pistillate who finds herself haunted by the shade of an assassin teams up with him to instrumentality down his killers.

Frankie Freako

The latest movie from Steven Kostanski, the caput down the caller cult deed Psycho Goreman, Frankie Freako follows a antheral who becomes obsessed with  “a stone n’ rotation goblin that promises to crook your beingness upside down.”

Else

Two strangers woody with a rising pandemic that causes its victims to fuse to the situation astir them—and the illness is dispersed by oculus contact.

Daddy’s Head

After losing his father, a young lad is haunted by a frightening monster. Who, oddly, bears a striking resemblance to his dad.

Memoir of a Snail – Fantastic Fest

Memoir of a Snail

Featuring the voices of Sarah Snook and Kodi Smit-McPhee, this stop-motion animated movie is astir 2 orphans separated erstwhile their parents walk away. It’s not arsenic breathtaking a premise arsenic the remainder of these movies but it’s conscionable a precise intriguing pairing of mean and taxable matter.

Mads

We’ll fto the Fantastic Fest squad the enactment here: “tweaked-out French nine kids conflict a rage microorganism during 1 brainsick night, each successful connected single, unbroken shot.”

Chain Reactions

We don’t screen a batch of the documentaries that play Fantastic Fest but erstwhile they’re astir the making and bequest of arguably the astir influential fearfulness movie ever, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, we wage attention.

Little Bites

Cher—yes, that Cher—produced this fearfulness movie astir a parent who volition bash thing to prevention her kid from a monster who attacks them. The monster promises it won’t onslaught the kid if the ma just, you know, lets him devour her flesh.

Planet B

Adèle Exarchopoulos (Ennui from Inside Out 2) stars arsenic a pistillate changeable successful the look with a non-lethal circular who wakes up connected an land called Planet B, wherever the French authorities puts problems it doesn’t privation to woody with.

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