In just some days, SXSW is ready to take over Austin, Texas with a flurry of music, films, and tech. However what’s most fun for us at Dread Central are all of the style titles making their approach to the SXSW movie competition! Yearly the competition showcases among the 12 months’s most fun and weird horror titles, and it seems like 2025 received’t be an exception.
Forward of the competition’s begin, we’re sharing the 13 titles we’re most enthusiastic about enjoying at this 12 months’s SXSW. From tales of far-off planets to a person’s obsession with a mermaid, we will’t wait to see what these movies have in retailer.
Ash (dir. Flying Lotus)
A girl wakes up on a distant planet and finds the crew of her house station viciously killed. Her investigation into what occurred units in movement a terrifying chain of occasions.
Clown In A Cornfield (dir. Eli Craig)
Tailored to a screenplay by Carter Blanchard and Craig, Clown In A Cornfield follows Quinn and her father, who’ve simply moved to the quiet city of Kettle Springs hoping for a contemporary begin. As an alternative, she discovers a fractured group that has fallen on laborious occasions after the treasured Baypen Corn Syrup Manufacturing facility burned down. Because the locals bicker amongst themselves and tensions boil over, a sinister, grinning determine emerges from the cornfields to cleanse the city of its burdens, one bloody sufferer at a time. Welcome to Kettle Springs. The actual enjoyable begins when Frendo the Clown comes out to play.
Descendant (dir. Peter Cilella)
Set in present-day Los Angeles, Descendent follows Sean Bruner, an elementary faculty safety guard grappling with previous trauma whereas getting ready for the delivery of his first youngster together with his spouse, Andrea. Haunted by his mom’s loss of life in childbirth and his father’s suicide, Sean fears he’s destined to fail. After a beam of sunshine seems within the sky throughout a late-night shift, Sean wakes within the hospital with an inexplicable expertise for vivid, unsettling drawings of extraterrestrials and desert landscapes. As his visions blur the road between goals and actuality, Sean’s grip on sanity unravels. With time operating out, he should confront his fears to flee his household’s tragic legacy.
Fucktoys (dir. Annapurna Sriram)
Be part of AP on a bubblegum grindhouse journey by means of sunny and romantic Trashtown, USA. On this raucous odyssey throughout a dreamy panorama of smut, filth, and psychics, wanton minx quests laborious to make $1000, discover love, and elevate a curse.
Good Boy (dir. Ben Leonberg)
Good Boy began with a easy excessive idea: a haunted home movie, the place the primary character is the household canine—and the one one who can see the forces that hang-out us. Our canine hero, Indy, finds himself on a brand new journey together with his human—and finest pal—Todd, leaving metropolis life for a long-vacant household house within the nation. After shifting in, Indy is instantly vexed by empty corners, tracks an invisible presence, perceives phantasmagoric warnings from a long-dead canine, and is haunted by visions of the earlier occupant’s grim loss of life. When Todd begins succumbing to the darkish forces swirling round the home, Indy should battle a malevolence intent on dragging his beloved Todd into the afterlife!
Hallow Street (dir. Babak Anvari)
Two dad and mom obtain a distressing late-night name from their teenage daughter, who has simply by accident hit a pedestrian. They leap of their automobile, racing to get there earlier than anybody else stumbles throughout the scene. As they head deeper into the evening, disturbing revelations threaten to tear the household aside as they quickly understand they may not be the one ones driving down Hallow Street.
Holland (dir. Mimi Cave)
On this wildly unpredictable thriller, Nicole Kidman is the meticulous Nancy Vandergroot, a trainer and homemaker whose picture-perfect life together with her group pillar husband and son in tulip-filled Holland, Michigan tumbles right into a twisted story. Nancy and her pleasant colleague grow to be suspicious of a secret, solely to find nothing of their lives is what it appears.
The House (dir. Mattias J Skoglund)
A few years after leaving the small city behind, Joel returns to maneuver his mom Monika, a house for the aged battling dementia. Nonetheless, Monika’s well being takes a flip for the more serious quickly after her arrival. She experiences terrifying visions of her late husband, Joel’s abusive father, and begins exhibiting violent conduct. Joel begins to consider that one thing malevolent and supernatural has taken management of his mom. However together with his personal historical past of substance abuse and psychological instability, can he belief his personal perceptions? As Monika’s recollections fade, Joel should confront the demons of his personal previous, dredged up by his return to the house the place he grew up.
It Ends (dir. Alexander Ullom)
A gaggle of latest grads head out on a late-night drive for grub, hoping to take pleasure in one ultimate hangout earlier than their paths diverge. As an alternative, they by accident flip onto a unending, two-lane hellscape surrounded by untold horrors and cosmic forces past their understanding. Cramped collectively inside a Jeep Cherokee and with the miles stretching infinitely forward, they face a selection: embrace their new existence or battle to flee it.
Mermaid (dir. Tyler Cornack)
Doug is a clumsy Florida drug addict. Divorced and alone, he shares custody of his younger daughter together with his ex. Doug’s reeling from shedding his job at an area strip membership, the place he takes care of the fish within the aquarium. Issues are past bleak – so Doug zips his boat out into the Gulf to finish the ache of his actuality. However at his lowest level, he discovers an injured Mermaid creature clinging to life. For Doug, it’s an indication from the Universe – so he brings her house, provides her shelter in his tub and begins to nurse her again to well being. He even names her Future. As their rapport blossoms, phrase of his secret will get out and he’s pressured to guard his new pal by any means essential.
Odyssey (dir. Gerard Johnston)
Odyssey follows Natasha Flynn, a sharp-tongued, coke-fuelled London property agent, who juggles money owed, hazard, and deception. Her seemingly shiny life—flashy garments, posh loft residence, and countless champagne—hides a spiraling mess of damaged goals, dependancy, and a enterprise on the point of collapse. Enter Dan and Will, smooth-talking mortgage sharks with a sinister edge. Their supply? Simple money, if she hides a kidnapped fellow property agent. What follows is a wild, neon-soaked experience by means of London’s seedy underbelly, as Natasha searches for The Viking, an previous ally with violent tendencies. A bloody, chaotic showdown ensues, leaving our bodies—and morals—shattered.
Redux Redux (dir. Kevin McManus and Matthew McManus)
In an try to avenge her daughter’s loss of life, Irene Kelly travels by means of parallel universes, killing her daughter’s assassin time and again. She grows hooked on the revenge streak, placing her personal humanity in jeopardy.
The Give up (dir. Julia Max)
A fraught mother-daughter relationship is put to a terrifying check when the household patriarch dies, and the grieving mom hires a mysterious stranger to deliver her husband again from the lifeless. Because the weird and brutal resurrection spirals uncontrolled, each girls should confront their variations as they battle for his or her lives – and for one another.
SXSW begins on March 7, 2025, and goes till March 15, 2025. Keep watch over Dread Central for all our protection out of the fest!
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