The Boston Underground Movie Pageant (BUFF) returns to the Brattle Theatre for its twenty fifth annual celebration of all issues bizarre, depraved, and great, operating from March 19 to March 23, 2025. This 12 months’s program is a high-voltage mixture of hallucinatory horror, transgressive comedy, and unclassifiable style chaos that includes world premieres, competition darlings, deep-cut rediscoveries, and quite a lot of movies that defy well mannered description.
BUFF kicks off with the East Coast Premiere of Lorcan Finnegan’s The Surfer, starring Nicolas Cage as a person who returns to his childhood seashore solely to search out himself in a psychological dying match with territorial locals. A sun-drenched descent into insanity, Cage delivers a tour-de-force efficiency that can have audiences gripping their armrests and reconsidering any future surf journeys.
BUFF is past honored to world premiere Alma & The Wolf, the newest from Michael Patrick Jann (Drop Lifeless Beautiful), a slow-burn psychological thriller a few troubled cop (Ethan Embry) investigating a vicious wolf assault that shortly spirals into the uncanny, the unexplainable, and the deeply unsettling. Jann and actor Lukas Jann might be in attendance to debate their eerie, Oregon-set thriller.
Whether or not you’re right here for the world premieres, the genre-bending madness, or the sheer pleasure of descending into the darkness with fellow weirdos, BUFF 2025 guarantees an unforgettable lineup of movies, particular friends, and late-night delirium.
Be a part of us at The Brattle Theatre, March nineteenth–twenty third, for an additional spherical of gorgeous, deranged, and completely unmissable insanity as we rejoice our silver anniversary.
A restricted variety of competition badges can be found now for buy on the Brattle Theatre’s web site.
Badge holders will be capable of make screening picks beginning Friday, March seventh, earlier than tickets are launched to most of the people on Monday, March tenth. Tickets might be on sale at www.brattlefilm.org and www.bostonunderground.org
BOSTON UNDERGROUND 2025 FESTIVAL LINEUP
Opening Night time Movie
THE SURFER (dir. Lorcan Finnegan)
East Coast Premiere
A person returns to the idyllic seashore of his childhood to surf along with his son. When he’s humiliated by a bunch of locals, the person is drawn right into a battle that retains rising and pushes him to his breaking level.
Highlight Screening
RE-ANIMATOR (dir. Stuart Gordon)
World Premiere of the 4K Restoration & fortieth Anniversary Screening
After an odd new medical pupil arrives on campus, a devoted native and his girlfriend turn into concerned in weird experiments centering across the re-animation of lifeless tissue.
This particular theatrical screening will function the World Premiere of the brand new pristine fortieth Anniversary 4K UHD restoration of Re-Animator from Ignite Movies and Eagle Rock Photos, which is out there for pre-order on Blu-ray and 4K UHD discs at Ignite-Movies.com. (It consists of 2 hours and 47 minutes of brand-new bonus supplies, plus all basic legacy options.)
Characteristic Movies
ALMA & THE WOLF (dir. Michael Patrick Jann)
World Premiere
Horror and insanity emerge from the shrouded mists of coastal Oregon. A violent wolf assault. A lacking son. The looks of a harmful and seductive lady from the previous. How are they linked? At the price of his sanity, Deputy REN Accord (Ethan Embry) should unravel the thriller and uncover the reality earlier than time runs out.
BEST WISHES TO ALL (dir. Yûta Shimotsu)
New England Premiere
A younger lady visits her grandparents on a break from college. Whereas she’s there, she discovers a darkish secret about them and probably herself.
CHAIN REACTIONS (dir. Alexandre O. Philippe)
East Coast Premiere
The Texas Chain Noticed Bloodbath‘s impression on 5 artists—Patton Oswalt, Takashi Miike, Alexandra Heller-Nicholas, Stephen King, Karyn Kusama—by way of interviews and outtakes, exploring the way it formed their artwork and psyche from childhood trauma.
ESCAPE FROM THE 21ST CENTURY (dir. Yang Li)
New England Premiere
Three mates uncover that they’ve the ability to journey backwards and forwards 20 years with a sneeze. Nonetheless, the longer term is inferior to they hope, and they should tackle the accountability of saving the world.
FRÉWAKA (dir. Aislinn Clarke)
New England Premiere
Haunted by a private tragedy, house care employee, Shoo, is shipped to a distant village to take care of an agoraphobic lady who fears the neighbors as a lot as she fears the Na Sídhe — sinister entities who she believes kidnapped her many years earlier than. As the 2 develop a unusually deep connection, Shoo is consumed by the previous lady’s paranoia, rituals, and superstitions, ultimately confronting the horrors of her personal previous.
FUCKTOYS (dir. Annapurna Sriram)
East Coast Premiere
A lush 16mm fever dream that reimagines The Idiot’s Journey of the Main Arcana of the Tarot by way of the story of AP—a rosy younger lady in search of salvation from a curse.
HEAD LIKE A HOLE (dir. Stefan MacDonald-Labelle)
East Coast Premiere
In monetary dire straits, a person accepts an odd, high-paying job the place he should take up residence in a house and measure a gap within the wall of the basement to find out whether or not or not it’s rising in measurement.
MUERTE EN LA PLAYA (dir. Enrique Gómez Vadillo)
Repertory Screening
A disturbed younger man who was molested by his trainer begins murdering these round him who he sees as accountable for his trauma whereas attempting to beat his personal gay needs.
SISTER MIDNIGHT (dir. Karan Kandhari)
New England Premiere
A newly organized marriage sees an oddball couple shoved collectively in a small Mumbai shack with paper-thin partitions. They’re alone, awkward, and collectively. Cranky Uma does her greatest to deal with the warmth, her full lack of home expertise, nosy neighbors, and her bumbling partner till one evening she discovers unusual new feral cravings.
THE UGLY STEPSISTER (dir. Emilie Blichfeldt)
East Coast Premiere
In a twisted tackle the basic Cinderella story, ‘The Ugly Stepsister’ follows Elvira as she battles to compete along with her insanely lovely stepsister. In a fairy-tale kingdom the place magnificence is a brutal enterprise, Elvira will go to any lengths to catch the Prince’s eye. ‘The Ugly Stepsister’ is the gory story of the blood and sweat, grit, and gold that goes into making Elvira the belle of the ball.
VULCANIZADORA (dir. Joel Potrykus)
MA Premiere
Two mates trudge by way of a Michigan forest with the intention of following by way of on a disturbing pact. After they fail, certainly one of them should return house to take care of the authorized and emotional repercussions.
BOSTON UNDERGROUND 2025 SHORTS LINEUP
THE DUNWICH HORRORS – NEW ENGLAND HORROR
Good Wanting Out dir. by Seth Chatfield
Ache dir. by Mike Canale
Rattling Useful dir. by Peter Filardi
Followers dir. by Miriam Olken
Eternally Warfare dir. by Shana Figueroa
Katie’s Pores and skin dir. by Steven Schloss
Methuselah dir. by Nathan Sellers
My Little one dir. by Deniz Akyurek
Sogno Rosso (Purple Dream) dir. by Coco Roy
TRIGGER WARNING – MIDNIGHT BLOCK
Brothers Beastly dir. by Peter J. Hartsock
Burn Out dir. by Russell Goldman
F#cker dir. by Amir Baikatov
Mopsorden dir. by Julien Jauniaux
Rejected dir. by Rene R Rivas
Terminal Emulator dir. by Benjamin Capps
The Night time Has 1000 Wishes! dir. by Vance Osteen
LOVE TO LOVE YOU MAYBE – COMEDY BLOCK
Banjo dir. by Cameron Poletti
However He’s Homosexual dir. by Michael Calciano
Catamaran dir. by Joseph Rocco Plescia
Erection and Destruction dir. by Eddie Mullins
Handball dir. by Eli Beutel
Make Me A Pizza dir. by Talia Shea Levin
SexySweat dir. by Luke Condzal
The Streetlight dir. by Sophia Parella
The Time Capsule dir. by Michael Charron
There Will Be Womanly Wiles dir. by Nicole Higgins
RAGDOLL DANCE – ANIMATION BLOCK
A Stroll within the Park dir. by Jay Marks
Demons within the Closet dir. by James Smith
Howl if You Love Me dir. by John R. Dilworth
Les Bêtes dir. by Michael Granberry
Lilly Visits the Hospital dir. by The Bum Household
Peeping dir. by Yixuan Wang
Pippy and The Typist dir. by Rachel Nemez
Pocket Princess dir. by Olivia Loccisano
Poppa dir. by Peter Ahern
Purple Thumb dir. by Kolya Kishinsky, Geneva Huffman
The Backyard Sees Hearth dir. by Kiera Faber
The Home of Bizarre dir. by Mark Reyes
MUST HAVE GOT LOST – SHORTS BLOCK
Stomach Stomach dir. by Gabriel Carnick
Good Boy dir. by Colin Russell
How To Clear The Dishes dir. by Benjamin Thomae
Macula dir. by Julietta Korbel
Nadir dir. by Jack Galvin
Completely a Strangeness dir. by Alison McAlpine
Rabbit dir. by Nathan Catucci
The Audacity dir. by Desmond Spranklin
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