The Overlook Film Festival is proud to announce its closing night film and first wave of the 2022 festival lineup. The festival will close with Universal Picture’s and Blumhouse’s The Black Phone. Check out the rest of the first wave below. An additional wave of titles will be announced on May 3rd.
The Special Events lineup can be viewed HERE.
Closing Night – THE BLACK PHONE
Scott Derrickson | 2022 | USA
The minds behind Sinister and Dr. Strange return to horror with this terrifying tale of a shy 13-year-old boy (Mason Thames), abducted and trapped in a soundproof basement by a sadistic killer (Ethan Hawke), who begins to receive mysterious calls, on a dead telephone, from the killer’s previous victims.
DEADSTREAM
Joseph Winter, Vanessa Winter | 2022 | USA
This go-for-broke gorefest sees an arrogant, stunt-driven video blogger, on the verge of social cancellation, who gets exactly what he bargained for when he faces his craziest challenge yet – spending a night in an actual haunted house.
JETHICA
Pete Ohs | 2022 | USA
When Jessica’s stalker follows her to a remote area of New Mexico, her and her estranged high school friend must enlist spectral assistance in this thoughtful, often comedic ghost story that skewers toxic masculinity in modern dating.
SALOUM
Jean Luc Herbulot | 2021 | Senegal
On a strange planet habitable only by women, a teen When a group of mercenaries transporting both a fugitive and a bounty they stole find themselves stranded in a remote region of Senegal, they begin to realize there a much more potent fears out in the unknown in this action-packed, twisty genre bender.
WHO INVITED THEM?
World Premiere
Duncan Birmingham | 2022 | USA
Reminiscent of Michael Haneke’s Funny Games, Duncan Birmingham’s first feature follows a young married couple who, after a successful housewarming party, discover that their charming new neighbors have crashed. Hoping to prove themselves to be hospitable, they keep the drinks flowing, only to realize there might be sinister intent in the air.
FLUX GOURMET
Peter Strickland | 2022 | UK/USA/Hungary
Peter Strickland (In Fabric, The Duke of Burgundy), the master of oddities, is back with his latest tale, a portrait of an institute devoted to culinary and alimentary performances where power struggles, bizarre fetishes, gastro-intestinal issues and revenge abound.
RESURRECTION
Andrew Semans | 2022 | USA
Rebecca Hall and Tim Roth turn in career defining performances in this blistering tale of a successful business woman whose peaceful and disciplined life with her daughter takes a turn for the very, very dark, when a man carrying the secrets of their past returns to confront her.
SWALLOWED
World Premiere
Carter Smith | 2022 | USA
From Carter Smith, the Director of The Ruins, comes a pulse-pounding tale of two best friends on what might be their final night together. A drug deal gone wrong finds them at the center of a chilling queer body horror full of shocking violations.
WATCHER
Chloe Okuno | 2022 | USA
One of the most exciting new voices in horror this year, Chloe Okuno, makes her solo feature debut with this homage to 70s tales of paranoia about a young woman who moves to foreign country with her fiancée and can’t shake the feeling that she is being constantly monitored by an unseen figure in an adjacent building.