The 2026 Overlook Film Festival will take place April 9th-12th. The full film lineup is below.
The 2026 Special Events lineup can be found HERE. The full schedule can be found HERE.
Advanced Reservations for all passes are now open. Individual tickets now on sale to films and events.
All International Titles Presented By MUBI
All Side Shows Titles Presented By Magnolia Pictures
Opening Night – OBSESSION
Curry Barker | 2025 | USA | 108 min
Hopelessly paralyzed by his unrequited crush on one of his closest friends, a lovelorn 20-something makes a wish on a mysterious novelty toy, only to find out that his dreams are far worse than any nightmare he could imagine in this bone-chilling relationship horror.
Cast: Michael Johnston, Inde Navarrette, Cooper Tomlinson, Megan Lawless, Andy Richter
Closing Night – HOKUM
Damian McCarthy | 2026 | USA, Ireland | 101 min
From the director of the 2024 Overlook hit Oddity comes a shocking new vision of folk-horror. Adam Scott stars as a cynical writer who travels to a secluded Irish inn, only to find himself trapped in a labyrinthian nightmare of secrets hidden within the bowels of the hotel.
Cast: Adam Scott, Peter Coonan, David Wilmot, Florence Ordesh, Will O’Connell, Michael Patric, Siox C, Brendan Conroy, Austin Amelio, Ezra Carlisle
Saturday, April 11th, 7:00 PM – Prytania Theatre Uptown
Sunday, April 12th, 3:00 PM – Prytania Theatres at Canal Place
Centerpiece Film – LEVITICUS
Adrian Chiarella | 2026 | Australia | 86 min
In an ultra-religious, isolated Australian community, two closeted high school lovers struggle to come into their own. But when a fit of jealousy outs them, they are forced into a bizarre form of conversion therapy, unleashing a cunning and deadly threat in this equally terrifying and sensitive coming-of-age tale.
Cast: Joe Bird, Stacy Clausen, Mia Wasikowska, Jeremy Blewitt, Ewen Leslie, Davida McKenzie
AFFECTION
Filmmaker in Attendance
BT Meza | 2025 | USA | 93 min
Ellie wakes up after a brutal car accident, discovering that she has a rare condition that frequently resets her memory. As she tries to assimilate back into life with her husband and daughter in their secluded home, she starts to get the unsettling feeling that not everything is what it seems.
Cast: Jessica Rothe, Joseph Cross, Julianna Layne
Friday, April 10th, 7:30 PM – Prytania Theatres at Canal Place
Sunday, April 12th, 12:00 PM – Prytania Theatres at Canal Place
AMERICAN DOLLHOUSE
Filmmaker in attendance
John Valley | 2025 | USA | 87 min
After inheriting her childhood home, an unsuspecting woman becomes the object of her psychotic neighbor’s obsession, spiraling her down a violent path of stalking and possession that can only lead her to an extremely bloody Christmas.
Cast: Hailley Lauren, Kelsey Pribilski, Tinus Seaux, Danielle Evon Ploeger, Richard C. Jones
Friday, April 10th, 10:45 PM – Prytania Theatres at Canal Place
Saturday, April 11th, 7:30 PM – Prytania Theatres at Canal Place
AN AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON
45th Anniversary Screening
2026 Master of Horror Award Recipient Rick Baker in Person
John Landis | 1981 | USA | 97 min
Beware the moon! Witness the most monstrous of monster transformations, one that cemented Rick Baker’s legacy and earned him his first Academy Award, unfurl on the big screen before your very eyes. Chosen by our 2026 Master of Horror recipient Rick Baker, the screening will precede a conversation with the legend himself.
Cast: David Naughton, Jenny Agutter, Griffin Dunne, John Woodvine
BLACKOUT
Filmmaker in attendance
Larry Fessenden | 2023 | USA | 103 min
Not your typical werewolf story, Blackout follows a painter, haunted by guilt, who becomes convinced that he is transforming at night and wreaking havoc in his small town in the third of Larry Fessenden’s four part monsterverse series.
Cast: Alex Hurt, Addison Timlin, Motell Gyn Foster, Joseph Castillo-Midyett, John Speredakos
Sunday, April 12th, 5:20 PM – Prytania Theatres at Canal Place
BOORMAN AND THE DEVIL
Filmmaker in attendance
David Kittredge | 2025 | USA | 112 min
Hot off the success of his genre defining film, Deliverance, John Boorman takes on his biggest challenge yet – a sequel to one of the most successful horror movies in history, The Exorcist. What could go wrong? This insightful documentary delves deep into the making of one of the biggest bombs in horror history.
Cast: John Boorman, Louise Fletcher, Karyn Kusama, Mike Flanagan, Joe Dante
Thursday, April 9th, 10:15 PM – Prytania Theatres at Canal Place
Friday, April 10th, 12:30 PM – Prytania Theatres at Canal Place
BUDDY
Casper Kelly | 2026 | USA | 95 min
From the unique and twisted mind of iconic writer-director Casper Kelly (Too Many Cooks, Yule Log) comes the tale of a courageous girl and her friends who must fight to escape the sinister clutches of a kid’s television show.
Cast: Cristin Milioti, Delaney Quinn, Topher Grace, Keegan-Michael Key, Michael Shannon, Patton Oswalt
Saturday, April 11th, 7:00 PM – Prytania Theatres at Canal Place
Sunday, April 12th, 8:20 PM – Prytania Theatres at Canal Place
BUFFET INFINITY
Filmmaker in Attendance
Simon Glassman | 2025 | Canada | 100 min
Told entirely through a series of fake commercials, Simon Glassman’s cutting-edge creepshow is the story of rival restaurants competing through local TV marketing for their town’s business… and maybe more. What is going on in Westridge County?
Cast: Kevin Singh, Claire Theobald, Donovan Workun
Friday, April 10th, 11:00 PM – Prytania Theatres at Canal Place
Saturday, April 11th, 4:30 PM – Prytania Theatres at Canal Place
CHILI FINGER
Filmmaker in attendance
Edd Benda, Stephen Helstad | 2025 | USA | 100 min
When a down on their luck couple find a gruesome surprise at their favorite fast food chain, they hatch a simple blackmail plot that quickly spins their lives out of control in this bloody, Coen Brothers-esque thriller featuring an all-star cast.
Cast: Judy Greer, Sean Astin, Bryan Cranston, John Goodman, Madeline Wise, Paul Stanko, Sarah Herrman, Sara Sevigny, Dann Florek
Saturday, April 11th, 12:45 PM – Prytania Theatres at Canal Place
Sunday, April 12th, 11:50 AM – Prytania Theatres at Canal Place
CRAMPS! A PERIOD PIECE
Local Spotlight
Filmmaker in attendance
Brooke H. Cellars | 2025 | USA | 89 min
In a fanciful technicolor town full of dueling beauty shops, drag queens and midcentury flair, a young woman’s quest to defy her family is upended when her menstrual cramps manifest themselves as actual monsters. At once gory and campy, Overlook alum (and previous Grand Jury Prize winner) Brooke H. Cellars makes their feature debut with a film that’s as fun as it is horrific.
Cast: Lauren Kitchen, Vincent Stalba, Jared Bankens, Martini Bear, P*$$y D’lish, Wicken Taylor, Sylvia Grace Crim, Michelle Malentina, Brooklyn Woods, Olivia Peck, Penny Leleux, Harlie Madison
DEMON LOVER DIARY
Subject Jeff Kreines in attendance
Joel DeMott | 1980 | USA | 90 min
Jeff, a documentary filmmaker, is shooting a low-budget horror film for Don and Jerry, two Michigan factory workers. Jeff’s girlfriend Joel tags along, making a diary film. What could possibly go wrong? The Overlook Film Festival is proud to present an extremely rare screening of this hilarious and horrifying portrait of ambition gone off the rails from the late, pioneering cinema verité filmmaker Joel DeMott.
Saturday, April 11th, 12:30 PM – Prytania Theatres at Canal Place
DEPRAVED
Filmmaker in attendance
Larry Fessenden | 2019 | USA | 114 min
The second in Larry Fessenden’s genre-bending four movie monsterverse is a millennial take on the Frankenstein myth in which a PTSD-riddled field surgeon deep in the heart of Brooklyn decides to reconstruct an unsuspecting man out of spare body parts.
Cast: David Call, Joshua Leonard, Alex Breaux, Ana Kayne, Mara Dizzia, Chloe Levine, Owen Campbell, Addison Timlin
Sunday, April 12th, 2:30 PM – Prytania Theatres at Canal Place
DRAG
Filmmaker in attendance
Raviv Ullman, Greg Yagolnitzer | 2025 | USA | 86 min
Two sisters. One empty house. A simple burglary plan. If only one of them didn’t throw their back out… Raviv Ullman and Greg Yagolnitzer’s hilarious and twisty horror comedy is a ticking clock crawl to survival as the sibling duo must find a way out or face the dangers of being caught when the owner returns home.
Cast: Lizzy Caplan, Lucy DeVito, John Stamos, Christine Ko
Friday, April 10th, 7:15 PM – Prytania Theatres at Canal Place
Saturday, April 11th, 4:15 PM – Prytania Theatres at Canal Place
EXIT 8
Genki Kawamura | 2025 | Japan | 95 min
Based on the hit video game, this eerie fright-fest follows a lost commuter trapped in a seemingly repetitious corridor in the bowels of a Japanese subway station. Desperate to escape, he is forced to look for breaks in the pattern that is confining him.
Cast: Kazunari Ninomiya, Yamato Kochi, Naru Asanuma, Kotone Hanase, Nana Komatsu
Thursday, April 9th, 7:45 PM – Prytania Theatres at Canal Place
Thursday, April 9th, 10:45 PM – Prytania Theatres at Canal Place
FACES OF DEATH
Filmmaker in attendance
Daniel Goldhaber | 2026 | USA | 108 min
A moderator at a social media platform gets thrown face-first into a macabre mystery when she uncovers a series of visceral snuff videos bearing resemblance to a mythical 1978 cult film. Starring Barbie Ferreira, this New Orleans shot slasher is a thrilling twist on the modern remake.
Cast: Barbie Ferreira, Dacre Montgomery, Josie Totah, Aaron Holliday, Jermaine Fowler, Charli XCX
FAMILY MOVIE
Director/Actor Kevin Bacon and Producer/Actor Kyra Sedgwick in attendance
Kevin Bacon | 2026 | USA | 81 min
A down-on-their-luck, dysfunctional family, hard at work on their new horror film, gets more than they bargained for when a real dead body appears on set. The legendary Kevin Bacon directs and stars alongside the iconic Kyra Sedgwick and their real life kin in this moving ode to both slasher flicks and family.
Cast: Kevin Bacon, Kyra Sedgwick, Sosie Bacon, Travis Bacon, Liza Koshy, John Carroll Lynch, Jackie Earle Haley, Andrea Savage, Austin Amelio, Scoot McNairy
Saturday, April 11th, 4:00 PM – Prytania Theatres at Canal Place
Saturday, April 11th, 7:45 PM – Prytania Theatres at Canal Place
FLUSH
Grégory Morin | 2025 | France | 70 min
All Luke wanted to do was win his girlfriend back. Finding himself on the bad end of a drug deal gone wrong, this well-intentioned cocaine addict is now trapped with his head stuck in a squat toilet. Desperate for escape, Luke must contend with ruthless gangsters, a mischievous rat and a barrage of other shit (literally) if he’s going to survive the night in this gross-out festival favorite.
Cast: Jonathan Lambert, Élodie Navarre, Rémy Adriaens, Elliot Jenicot
Thursday, April 9th, 11:00 PM – Prytania Theatres at Canal Place
Saturday, April 11th, 10:45 PM – Prytania Theatres at Canal Place
THE FURIOUS
Kenji Tanigaki | 2026 | Hong Kong | 113 min
Part of Side Shows: Genre diversions from horror tailor made for the world of the Overlook.
A desperate father teams up with a street-smart journalist to take down a sadistic child abduction ring in this gory, pulse-pounding, take-no-prisoners action thriller.
Cast: Miao Xie, Joe Taslim, Yang Enyou, Brian Le, Joey Iwanaga
GOODY GOODY
World Premiere
Filmmaker in attendance
Raymond Creamer | 2026 | USA | 80 min
Lulled into a necessary sense of comfort during a long home birth process, expecting parents and their midwife begin to realize that something may be horribly wrong. As labor complications ensue, a blizzard rages outside trapping the family in their home – sitting ducks for whatever sinister presence might be in there with them.
Cast: Colleen Foy, Samantha Robinson, Zoe Renee
Friday, April 10th, 4:30 PM – Prytania Theatres at Canal Place
Saturday, April 11th, 1:15 PM – Prytania Theatres at Canal Place
GRIND
Filmmaker in attendance
Brea Grant, Ed Dougherty, Chelsea Stardust | 2026 | USA | 104 min
Overlook alums Brea Grant, Ed Dougherty and Chelsea Stardust return with a hilarious and terrifying anthological look at modern work culture. Featuring four distinct stories (including Overlook hit MLM), this zany, bloody, wacko tale of inequality is sure to galvanize anyone who has ever felt lost in a sea of menial repetitious tasks.
Cast: Barbara Crampton, Rob Huebel, Christopher Rodriguez-Marquette, Vinny Thomas, Jessika Van, James A Janisse, James Urbaniak, James Paxton, Ify Nwadiwe
Thursday, April 9th, 7:15 PM – Prytania Theatres at Canal Place
Friday, April 10th, 10:15 PM – Prytania Theatres at Canal Place
HABIT
Filmmaker in attendance
Larry Fessenden | 1995 | USA | 112 min
Indie icon Larry Fessenden’s first feature, about an alcoholic New Yorker who falls for a mysterious woman with vampiric qualities, is as groundbreaking now as it was when it debuted over 20 years ago, inspiring generations of young horror filmmakers to this day.
Cast: Larry Fessenden, Meredith Snaider
Sunday, April 12th, 11:30 AM – Prytania Theatres at Canal Place
THE HOLY BOY
Paolo Strippoli | 2026 | Italy | 122 min
Deep in the Italian mountains lives a village of some of the happiest people on earth. Their serenity is about to be broken by the arrival of the new PE teacher who is haunted by his past and determined to uncover the secret of how all of the townspeople are healed weekly by the touch of a 15-year-old boy with special powers.
Cast: Michele Riondino, Giulio Feltri
Thursday, April 9th, 7:00 PM – Prytania Theatres at Canal Place
Sunday, April 12th, 8:00 PM – Prytania Theatres at Canal Place
MARAMA
Filmmaker in Attendance
Taratoa Stappard | 2025 | New Zealand | 89 min
Set in on the moors of 1859 North Yorkshire, this gothic horror follows a Maori teacher who travels to the manor of a wealthy whaler in search of buried truths about her family. What she finds there is something far more threatening – dark secrets that define the grim legacy of the British empire in this bone-chilling Kiwi tale.
Cast: Ariana Osborne; Toby Stephens; Umi Myers
Friday, April 10th, 4:15 PM – Prytania Theatres at Canal Place
Sunday, April 12th, 5:30 PM – Prytania Theatres at Canal Place
NEVER AFTER DARK
Filmmaker in attendance
Dave Boyle | 2025 | Japan | 105 min
A medium for hire, assisted by the spirit of her deceased sister, takes on the case of a grotesque apparition that haunts an isolated country home. As she peels back the layers of the spine-tingling investigation, she realizes that the greatest threats don’t lie in the world of the dead, but rather in with the living people around her.
Cast: Moeka Hoshi, Kento Kaku, Kurumi Inagaki, Mutsuo Yoshioka, Bokuzo Masana, Tae Kimura
Friday, April 10th, 12:45 PM – Prytania Theatres at Canal Place
Saturday, April 11th, 3:45 PM – Prytania Theatres at Canal Place
NEW GROUP
Yûta Shimotsu | 2026 | Japan | 82 min
From the director of the Overlook 2025 winner for Scariest Feature, Best Wishes to All, comes a terrifying new vision of youth, conformity, and authoritarianism as the students inside a modern high school are violently forced to become part of increasingly disturbing, physically demanding and surreal tasks in order to assimilate.
Cast: Yuzu Aoki, Pierre Taki
Saturday, April 11th, 10:30 PM – Prytania Theatres at Canal Place
Sunday, April 12th, 8:30 PM – Prytania Theatres at Canal Place
NORMAL
Ben Wheatley | 2025 | USA | 90 min
Part of Side Shows: Genre diversions from horror tailor made for the world of the Overlook.
Genre-bending director Ben Wheatley (Kill List, Sightseers) returns with a razor sharp action thriller about a small town sheriff (Bob Odenkirk) who, following a local bank robbery, uncovers a web of dark dealings in the place he calls home.
Cast: Bob Odenkirk, Henry Winkler, Lena Headey
OVER YOUR DEAD BODY
Director Jorma Taccone in attendance
Jorma Taccone | 2026 | USA | 112 min
Part of Side Shows: Genre diversions from horror tailor made for the world of the Overlook.
Pitch-perfectly directed by Jorma Taccone (Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping, The Lonely Island), this action-comedy remake of Tommy Wirkola’s The Trip follows a husband and wife (Jason Segel and Samara Weaving) who take a remote weekend getaway as an opportunity to secretly plot to kill each other.
Cast: Jason Segel, Samara Weaving, Timothy Olyphant, Juliette Lewis, Paul Guilfoyle, Keith Jardine
A PAGE OF MADNESS
100th Anniversary Screening
Live Score Composed by Jeff Pagano
Teinosuke Kinugasa | 1926 | Japan | 70 min
A completely original avant-garde masterpiece once thought lost to time for 45 years, Japan’s first ever horror film simply must be seen. A rarity in sight and sound, this work of art will be presented with an original composition from Nola’s own Jeff Pagano (Marigny Opera House) and performed by a six piece orchestra handpicked by the maestro.
Cast: Masao Inoue, Yoshie Nakagawa, Ayako Iijima
PARASOMNIA
Filmmaker in attendance
James Ross II | 2025 | USA | 85 min
When one of her closest friends goes missing, Riley, a young woman haunted by a lifelong battle with debilitating night terrors, must come to terms with the fact that the demonic entity that’s been stalking her dreams since childhood may have followed her home into the real world.
Cast: Jasmine Mathews, RJ Brown, Sally Stewart, Stephen Barrington, Danny Brown
Friday, April 10th, 1:15 PM – Prytania Theatres at Canal Place
Sunday, April 12th, 5:40 PM – Prytania Theatres at Canal Place
THE RESTORATION AT GRAYSON MANOR
Filmmaker in Attendance
Glenn McQuaid | 2025 | Ireland | 90 min
When a freak accident leaves the proprietor of Grayson Manor handless, his overbearing mother turns to an experimental treatment, giving him a set of prosthetics controlled by his subconscious. From the twisted mind of writer Clay McCleod Chapman (The Pumpkin Pie Show) and director Glenn McQuaid (I Sell the Dead) comes this sexy, pulpy, Warhol-coded romp.
Cast: Chris Colfer, Alice Krige, Daniel Adegboyega, Declan Reynolds, Gabriela Garcia Vargas, Matthew McMahon
Friday, April 10th, 10:30 PM – Prytania Theatres at Canal Place
Saturday, April 11th, 7:15 PM – Prytania Theatres at Canal Place
SACCHARINE
Natalie Erika James | 2026 | Australia | 112 min
Looking for a quick weight loss fix, a medical student accepts a mysterious drug, setting her off on a path of unwanted transformation in this goopy, sickening, violent body-horror from the director of Relic.
Cast: Midori Francis, Danielle Macdonald, Madeleine Madden
Thursday, April 9th, 10:30 PM – Prytania Theatres at Canal Place
Saturday, April 11th, 10:00 PM – Prytania Theatres at Canal Place
SUFFOCATION
Louis Chan, Stone Chang | 2026 | Taiwan | 96 min
Told through a haunting series of Steadicam shots, this chilling Taiwanese twist on J-horror tropes follows a group of elite high school swimmers who find themselves cursed by a mysterious evil after releasing a video that exposes a teacher-student relationship.
Cast: Yao Ai Ning, Wang Yu Ping, Chu Meng Syuan, Julia Huang, Rainie Dun, Helen Wang, Chun Hong
Friday, April 10th, 7:45 PM – Prytania Theatres at Canal Place
Sunday, April 12th, 5:50 PM – Prytania Theatres at Canal Place
TRAUMA OR, MONSTERS ALL
World Premiere
Filmmaker in attendance
Larry Fessenden | 2026 | USA | 118 min
An aspiring author gets more than she bargained for when she writes an article for the local paper about her small town’s dark history, prompting unwanted speculation on what monsters may lie within. Overlook mainstay Larry Fessenden returns with the thrilling conclusion to his quadrilogy, a thoughtful and fiercely independent monster mash that can be enjoyed on its own or marathoned with his three origin stories – Habit, Depraved, and Blackout.
Cast: Laëtitia Hollard, Aitana Doyle, Addison Timlin, Alex Hurt, Alex Breaux, Larry Fessenden, John Speredakos, Cody Kostro, Marc Senter, Rigo Garay, Barbara Crampton, James Le Gros, Joshua Leonard
Friday, April 10th, 7:00 PM – Prytania Theatres at Canal Place
Sunday, April 12th, 8:10 PM – Prytania Theatres at Canal Place
UGLY CRY
Filmmaker in attendance
Emily Robinson | 2026 | USA | 94 min
An actor’s desperate determination to break in Hollywood leads her down a frightening spiral of obsession, delusion and augmentation in this darkly comedic, Repulsion-esque thriller from first time writer-director and star Emily Robinson.
Cast: Emily Robinson, Ryan Simpkins, Aaron Dominguez, Robin Tunney
Friday, April 10th, 1:00 PM – Prytania Theatres at Canal Place
Sunday, April 12th, 2:50 PM – Prytania Theatres at Canal Place
SHORTS PROGRAM 1: FERAL
Filmmakers in attendance
Claws are out in this violently carnal collection of femme-forward short films.
MEN (LOK) Dir. Mahmuda Sultana Rima | 2025 | Bangladesh
THE DYSPHORIA Dir. Kylie Aoibheann | 2025 | Australia
HOT WATER Dir. Miles Gunter, Cassie Kramer | 2025 | USA
SCISSORS Dir. Hannah Alline | 2025 | USA
HICKEYS Dir. Ella Rhodes | 2025 | USA
LAST CALL Dir. Winnie Cheung | 2025 | USA
SPANKED BY A GHOST Dir. Katelyn Douglass | 2025 | USA
HE Dir. Hira Vin | 2025 | Canada
MAN EATING PUSSY Dir. Lee Lawson | 2026 | Canada
99 Min
Saturday, April 11th, 1:00 PM – Prytania Theatres at Canal Place
Sunday, April 12th, 2:40 PM – Prytania Theatres at Canal Place
SHORTS PROGRAM 2: FREAKY
Filmmakers in attendance
Family curses, inexplicable terrors, and dark surrealism combine in freaky ways.
CAROUSEL Dir. Christopher Kosakowski | 2025 | USA
NAIL-BITER Dir. Joseph Burch | 2025 | USA
BREEDER Dir. Sapphire Sandalo | 2025 | USA
HAINT Dir. Jahmil Eady | 2025 | USA
MOTHER MARY Dir. Playdoh Kolo | 2025 | USA
F**K FACE Dir. Dean Puckett | 2025 | UK
HOMEMADE GATORADE Dir. Carter Amelia Davis | 2025 | USA
HOUSE CAT Dir. Kyle Spleiss | 2026 | USA
STEAK DINNER Dir. Nathan Mark Glinter | 2025 | USA
94 Min
Friday, April 10th, 4:00 PM – Prytania Theatres at Canal Place
Saturday, April 11th, 10:15 PM – Prytania Theatres at Canal Place
SHORTS PROGRAM 3: STATIC
Filmmakers in attendance
Subtle wavelengths and sinister transmissions from beyond human consciousness.
HAS ANYONE ELSE LOST THEIR BODY? Dir. Randall Snare | 2026 | USA
DARKROOM Dir. Matt Black | 2025 | USA
IT’S NOT ME Dir. Cameron Veitch, Robert J Kemp | 2025 | Canada
GHOSTSTORY Dir. Alex Jacobs | 2026 | USA
THE CREATURE OF DARKNESS Dir. Lisa Marie Malloy, Roy Whitaker | 2026 | USA
VLOG CAM Dir. Danilo Rafael Parra | 2025 | USA
BLISTER Dir. Olivia Simon | 2025 | USA
SUPERCONSCIOUS Dir. Christianne Hedtke | 2025 | USA
103 Min
Thursday, April 9th, 7:30 PM – Prytania Theatres at Canal Place
Sunday, April 12th, 11:40 AM – Prytania Theatres at Canal Place