From feeling tarantulas crawling on my face and attending a midnight séance to assembly wonderful creators and seeing motion pictures comparable to Discuss to Me and Evil Useless Rise conjure up scares on the large display, these previous a number of years I have been lucky to expertise the thrills and chills awaiting horror followers within the Massive Simple at The Overlook Movie Pageant. Likened to being “a summer season camp for horror followers,” Overlook is at all times circled on my calendar, and this 12 months isn’t any exception, because the competition’s first wave lineup is brimming with must-see motion pictures and immersive experiences.
Happening April third–sixth in New Orleans’ Prytania Theatres, the primary wave lineup for this 12 months’s Overlook Movie Pageant pays homage to horror’s hallowed previous whereas celebrating its promising future with an eclectic lineup of movies together with Christopher Landon’s Drop, David Cronenberg’s The Shrouds, Eli Craig’s Clown in a Cornfield, the brand new documentary The Spirit of Halloweentown (which, as a lifelong ’90s DCOM fan, I am dying to see), and anniversary screenings of Stuart Gordon’s Re-Animator (with the legendary Barbara Crampton in attendance) and Tales from the Crypt: Demon Knight from director Ernest Dickerson, who will likely be on the competition to obtain the Grasp of Horror Award!
Flying Lotus will even be in attendance to introduce his new sci-fi movie Ash and curate a movie lineup that features a screening of David Lynch’s Misplaced Freeway.
Moreover, horror followers can look ahead to an insightful dialog with creator Joe Hill, whose quick story “Abraham’s Boys” is tailored in a brand new film by Natasha Kermani that may have its world premiere on the competition, and author Grady Hendrix will enthrall attendees with a presentation of Witchcraft for Wayward Ladies – Stay!, a novel celebration of his newest must-read novel.
Beneath, we’ve got the official press launch with extra particulars on Overlook’s killer first wave announcement. Keep tuned to Day by day Useless for added updates within the coming weeks, and to be taught extra about getting passes, go to The Overlook Movie Pageant’s official web site!
Press Launch: March 6, 2025 | New Orleans, LA – The Overlook Movie Pageant, the annual celebration of all issues horror, introduced at present the primary wave of the lineup for its 2025 version. Happening April 3 – April 6 in New Orleans, Louisiana on the Prytania Theatres, the horror competition will welcome audiences again to America’s most haunted metropolis with a terrifying collection of new and basic movies in addition to the intensive offscreen choices together with interactive occasions, reside performances, immersive programming and particular visitors that the annual horror staple has turn into identified for.
“Irrespective of what number of years this competition runs, each time we get to re-open the gates of our spectral summer season camp seems like a miracle,” stated Landon Zakheim, co-founder and govt director of the Overlook FIlm Pageant. “For all wayward souls and monster youngsters who gravitate to the macabre, we’ve got one thing to fulfill your ghoulish cravings due to the brilliance of our artists, the fervour of our tireless group, our unimaginable companions and this lovely haunted metropolis. Hell, we even have our first audio-animatronic this 12 months.”
This wide-ranging first wave competition lineup consists of 47 movies (25 options and 22 shorts) from 10 international locations, in addition to 5 reside displays and three immersive experiences, with many extra thrilling surprises to be introduced because the competition approaches.
Kicking off the festivities because the Opening Night time movie will likely be Common Photos’ upcoming thriller Drop from Blumhouse and Platinum Dunes. Director Christopher Landon will likely be readily available, returning to New Orleans the place he shot Pleased Dying Day and We Have a Ghost, to current his new, nerve-wracking whodunit. Starring Meghann Fahy, Brandon Sklenar and Violett Beane, Drop follows a widowed mom who, on her first date in years, arrives at an upscale restaurant the place she meets her good-looking suitor. However their chemistry begins to curdle when she is terrorized by a sequence of nameless drops to her cellphone.
Following the screening, festival-goers and particular visitors will make their technique to an unmissable celebration celebrating each the beginning of the competition and the tenth anniversary of Shudder, the long-lasting horror curation and streaming service. Hosted by Shudder, this one-of-a-kind occasion will kick off with a horror-infused second line and can embrace some very particular visitor performances. Honoring the corporate’s historical past and enduring affect on the style as a complete, the celebration will characteristic many surprises from the streaming service’s intensive horror catalogue.
Highlighting the lineup of latest and upcoming movies is The Shrouds, the most recent physique horror exploration from the legendary director David Cronenberg. Starring Vincent Cassel, Diane Kruger and Man Pearce, the movie digs into Cronenberg’s basic obsessions, following a bereaved businessman who invents a expertise permitting the dwelling to observe their dearly departed’s corpses. Different notable options embrace Hallow Street, director Babak Anvari’s pulse-pounding thriller starring Matthew Rhys and Rosamund Pike as determined dad and mom; R.T. Thorne’s 40 Acres starring Danielle Deadwyler in a post-apocalyptic, cannibal-ravaged style mashup; and Shudder’s upcoming slasher movie Clown in a Cornfield, directed by Eli Craig, the place a smiling menace wreaks havoc on a small city.
“I really feel like we’re standing on the crossroads of horror historical past,” stated Michael Lerman, co-founder and director of movie programming of The Overlook Movie Pageant. “This 12 months actually showcases the outdated and new guard coming collectively. We’ve astounding debuts from thrilling newcomers. We’ve veteran masters that maintain reinventing themselves with new work. And we’re simply getting began so keep tuned for extra.”
As a celebration of horror’s historical past, in addition to its future, the competition will as soon as once more characteristic a collection of retro screenings of basic movies. These embrace a thirtieth Anniversary screening of Tales From the Crypt: Demon Knight, from director Ernest Dickerson, who will likely be readily available to obtain the competition’s Grasp of Horror Award. Previous recipients of this award embrace Roger Corman, Mick Garris, Mike Flanagan, Stuart Gordon and Joe Dante.
There will even be a screening of the model new fortieth anniversary 4K restoration of cult director (and founding Overlook advisory board member) Stuart Gordon’s masterpiece Re-Animator, overseen by Ignite Movies and Eagle Rock Photos. The retro lineup will spherical out with a a centesimal anniversary screening of 1925’s monumental The Phantom of the Opera, starring the legendary “man of a thousand faces” Lon Chaney, which will likely be accompanied by a reside rating from New Orleans’ personal Suppose Much less, Hear Extra.
Because the Overlook’s inaugural Visitor Curator, Flying Lotus, the acclaimed filmmaker and Grammy-winning musician, will likely be programming an extra retro movie part of non-public favorites and style classics. This distinctive program, which is able to embrace in-person introductions from FlyLo himself, will likely be made up of The Descent, Neil Marshall’s terrifying journey into the earth; Dying Turns into Her, Robert Zemeckis’ camp basic starring Meryl Streep and Goldie Hawn as rivals who gained’t let loss of life get in the way in which of their feud; and, in tribute to the lately departed auteur, David Lynch’s surreal neo-noir masterpiece Misplaced Freeway, that includes one of many filmmaker’s all-time scariest sequences in addition to a predictably unimaginable soundtrack labored on by Trent Reznor. The part will likely be rounded out with a particular screening of Flying Lotus’ personal movie, Ash, the mind-shredding sci-fi nightmare starring Eiza González and Aaron Paul as they work to outlive the neon-splattered horrors of the cosmic unknown.
Along with the movies and particular visitors, the Overlook Movie Pageant will as soon as once more be full of the reside displays and signature immersive programming it’s identified for.
The Overlook’s collection of reside occasions and particular displays will embrace programming comparable to A Dialog with Joe Hill, a wide-ranging dialogue with the acclaimed horror creator of works comparable to Horns, NOS4A2 and The Fireman as he dives into the inner-workings and inspirations of his spine-tingling oeuvre; Museum of House Video VJ Bret Berg returns to the competition for a 3rd time with Hazard Tales, a discovered footage remix for stoners, seekers, archivists and drinkers; a surreal mix of artwork, horror, hilarity and unhappiness, The whole lot Is Horrible’s Reminiscence Gap presents their newest anti-humanity work, “Animals Are Over,” interwoven with a reside efficiency/rating; and Witchcraft For Wayward Ladies – Stay!, a journey with bestselling creator Grady Hendrix to have a good time his newest e book and examine the world of witchcraft in books and films whereas witnessing a military of broomstick-brandishing, curse-hurling, penis-stealing, baby-eating, world-renouncing, unkillable, unstoppable, unbeatable witches!
The Overlook Movie Pageant’s one-of-a-kind immersive program, that includes interactive tasks and experiences, returns this 12 months with three mind-bending displays. These embrace the World Premiere of Spooky Tales with Cowboy Dale, an up-close sit-down with the cordialest cowpoke within the West from director/performer Jason Woliner (Borat Subsequent Moviefilm, Paul T. Goldman); Odyssey Journey Co. and Ferryman Collective’s award-winning The Severance Concept: Welcome to Respite, the place upon visiting your loved ones’s residence after your mother’s passing, you might be whisked right into a forgotten childhood reminiscence; and the US Premiere of The Manikins: A Work in Progress from the Deadweight Theatre, a psychedelic thriller for a single viewers member the place dream and actuality collide. The immersive program is sponsored by the American Immersion Theater.
The competition is programmed by Co-Founders Landon Zakheim & Michael Lerman; Programming Supervisor Daniel Crooke; Brief Movie Programmer Katie Rife; and Pageant Director Sheryl Santacruz.
The present lineup of movies, experiences, reside occasions and immersive content material is included beneath, with extra programming to be introduced because the competition approaches.
Opening Night time Movie
Drop
Director: Christopher Landon
Solid: Meghann Fahy, Brandon Sklenar, Violett Beane, Jacob Robinson, Reed Diamond, Gabrielle Ryan, Jeffery Self, Ed Weeks, Travis Nelson
United States, 2025
A widowed mom, on her first date in years, arrives at an upscale restaurant the place she meets her good-looking suitor. However their chemistry begins to curdle when she is terrorized by a sequence of nameless drops to her cellphone.
Characteristic Movie Displays
Worldwide Titles Introduced by MUBI
40 Acres
Director: R.T. Thorne
Solid: Danielle Deadwyler, Michael Greyeyes, Kataem O’Connor, Leenah Robinson
United States, 2024
Danielle Deadwyler anchors this heart-pounding post-apocalyptic genre-blender as Hailey Freeman, a ferocious matriarch and former soldier hellbent on defending her household and their farmland from a band of marauding cannibals in a world ravaged by plague and famine. Thriving in survival mode, the Freemans should draw blood to safe their future and protect the legacy of their previous.
Abraham’s Boys
WORLD PREMIERE
Director: Natasha Kermani
Solid: Titus Welliver, Jocelin Donahue, Judah Mackey, Aurora Perrineau, Brady Hepner
United States, 2025
Following the occasions of Dracula, Abraham van Helsing strikes his two sons, Max and Rudy, to the US in an try to flee their previous. It doesn’t work. Based mostly on the spine-tingling story by Joe Hill, fest alum Natasha Kermani (Fortunate, Nightstream ‘20) directs a terrifying continuation of a basic story.
Chain Reactions
Director: Alexandre O. Philippe
That includes: Patton Oswalt, Takashi Miike, Alexandra Heller-Nicholas, Stephen King, Karyn Kusama
United States, 2024
For 50 years, Tobe Hooper’s The Texas Chain Noticed Bloodbath has terrified audiences by worming its approach into their unconscious. On this documentary analyzing its profound lasting affect, director Alexandre O. Philippe (78/52, Overlook ‘17) dives into the reminiscence palaces of 5 iconic artists whose lives had been ceaselessly altered by seeing it: Patton Oswalt, Takashi Mike, Alexandra Heller-Nicholas, Stephen King, and Karyn Kusama.
Clown in a Cornfield
Director: Eli Craig
Solid: Katie Douglas, Carson MacCormac, Aaron Abrams, Cassandra Potenza, Verity Marks, Vincent Muller, Will Sasso, Kevin Durand, Ayo Solanke, Alexandre Martin Deakin
United States, 2025
The residents of Kettle Springs can’t catch a break. Nothing has ever been the identical for the reason that treasured Baypen Corn Syrup Manufacturing unit burned down and now a mysterious, grinning determine has emerged from the cornfields to cleanse the city of its burdens, one bloody sufferer at a time. In Eli Craig’s (Tucker & Dale vs Evil) latest outing, the true enjoyable begins when Frendo the clown comes out to play.
Useless Lover
Director: Grace Glowicki
Solid: Grace Glowicki, Ben Petrie, Leah Doz, Lowen Morrow
Canada, 2025
True, poetic, everlasting love conquers all — a gravedigger’s stench, a tragic shipwreck, even loss of life! With solely a severed finger as remembrance, a heartbroken romantic embarks on a madcap mission to reanimate the love of her life. Co-written, directed, and audaciously carried out by Grace Glowicki, this peculiar story is, in equal measure, grotesque and pleasant, raunchy and surreal.
Good Boy
Director: Ben Leonberg
Solid: Indy, Shane Jensen, Larry Fessenden, Arielle Friedman, Stuart Rudin, Anya Krawcheck, Hunter Goetz, Max
United States, 2024
Indy is an efficient boy; a devoted canine, he’s at all times by his human Todd’s aspect. When Todd seeks quiet in an empty household residence within the countryside, Indy finds there’s a unusual, malevolent presence lurking within the shadows — an evil that solely he can sense. Shot completely from Indy’s perspective, Ben Leonberg’s first characteristic balances bark with chunk
Hallow Street
Director: Babak Anvari
Solid: Rosamund Pike, Matthew Rhys, Paul Tylak, Stephen Jones, Megan McDonnell
United Kingdom, 2025
Rosamund Pike and Matthew Rhys shine as distraught dad and mom in a race in opposition to time as they pace by the night time to achieve their daughter after a distressing cellphone name. Lauded director Babak Anvari (Below the Shadow, Wounds) lends his signature rigidity to this disturbing pulse-pounder.
Ick
Director: Joseph Kahn
Solid: Mena Suvari, Brandon Routh, Malina Pauli Weissman, Mariann Gavelo, Cory Hart United States, 2023
Has-been science instructor Hank (Brandon Routh) is the one one suspicious of the “ick,” a pervasive gooey development that has permeated by his city. It’s seemingly innocent, till now. Teaming up with scholar Grace, Hank should struggle to cease this parasitic alien and the apathy of the city it’s absorbing. Laced with 2000s emo and pop-punk hits, Joseph Kahn (Bodied) brings frenetic vitality to this sci-fi/horror satire.
It Ends
Director: Alexander Ullom
Solid: Phinehas Yoon, Akira Jackson, Noah Toth, Mitchell Cole
United States, 2024
4 current school grads, out for an harmless late night time drive, discover themselves trapped in a seemingly endless hellscape the place they’re being haunted by mysterious forces. Questions of friendship and existentialism are explored in director Alexander Ullom’s genre-bending first characteristic, equal components terrifying and thought-provoking.
Monster Island (Orang Ikan)
Director: Mike Wiluan
Solid: Dean Fujioka, Callum Woodhouse, Alan Maxson
Singapore, Indonesia, Japan, United Kingdom, 2024
In 1942 — deep within the Pacific theater of World Battle II — a Japanese soldier and British prisoner-of-war discover themselves washed ashore on a harmful abandoned island. As these sworn enemies quickly uncover…they don’t seem to be alone, as a fanged amphibious creature referred to as the Orang Ikan needs to kill them much more than they want to kill one another.
Redux Redux
Director: Kevin McManus, Matthew McManus
Solid: Michaela McManus, Stella Marcus, Jeremy Holm, Jim Cummings, Grace Van Dien, Taylor Misiak, Dendrie Taylor
United States, 2025
Revenge is difficult. Doing it many times is tougher. Emmy nominated brothers Kevin and Matthew McManus (American Vandal, Cobra Kai) current a gritty sci-fi thriller that follows a mom on a warpath by parallel universes in a determined try to quench her need for vengeance.
The Shrouds
Administrators: David Cronenberg
Solid: Vincent Cassel, Diane Kruger, Man Pearce, Sandrine Holt
France, Canada, 2024
All hail! The reigning king of physique horror returns with one other story of corruption, greed, conspiracy and expertise. Vincent Cassel stars as a grieving widower who develops a tool that permits the bereaved to attach with their deceased family members in David Cronenberg’s most private movie to this point.
The Spirit of Halloweentown
Administrators: Brett Whitcomb, Bradford Thomason
Solid: Chris Cannard, Colleen Ohler, Saydra Manning, Darrin Scholl, Holcombe Waller
United States, 2024
What does it imply to reside in a spot identified for Halloween? Set in St. Helens, OR, the filming web site of the 1998 Disney Channel film, Halloweentown, this heartfelt documentary follows the native residents and the impression that the film has had on their lives and traditions. Steeped in typically hilarious communal disagreements and spooky imagery, Spirit of Halloweentown is a colourful love letter to the city’s legacy and dedication to our favourite vacation.
Contact Me
Administrators: Addison Heimann
Solid: Olivia Taylor Dudley, Lou Taylor Pucci, Jordan Gavaris, Marlene Forte, Paget Brewster United States, 2024
In Addison Heimann’s (Hypochondriac, Overlook ‘22) wild and absurd new characteristic, intergalactic polyamory and one very codependent friendship collide when stoner roommates Craig and Joey should all of a sudden transfer out of their condominium and determine to shack up with Joey’s poisonous ex who occurs to be a attractive, narcissistic alien from outer area. Story as outdated as time.
The True Fantastic thing about Being Bitten by a Tick
Director: Pete Ohs
Solid: Zoë Chao, Callie Hernandez, Jeremy O. Harris, James Cusati-Moyer
United States, 2025
Zoe Chao (The Afterparty) stars as Yvonne, a girl reeling from a tragedy, who takes some a lot wanted time away with a gaggle of mates at their residence within the countryside. After a stroll by the woods, what looks as if an innocuous tick chunk has grotesquely sudden penalties on this creepy little shocker from fest alum Pete Ohs (Jethica, Overlook ‘22).
The Ugly Stepsister
Director: Emilie Blichfeldt
Solid: Lea Myren, Thea Sofie Loch Næss, Ane Dahl Torp, Flo Fagerli, Isac Calmroth, Malte Gårdinger
Norway, 2024
On this warped, sinister spin on a Cinderella story, the lens shifts to plain-faced Elvira, who’s prepared to do no matter it takes to compete along with her enchantingly lovely stepsister Agnes, and win the prince’s coronary heart. No process is simply too ugly, too bloody, or too painful to attain her fortunately ever after, on this visceral physique horror from Norway.
Zodiac Killer Challenge
Director: Charlie Shackleton
United States, United Kingdom, 2025
When a ardour mission utterly disintegrates, most filmmakers hand over, transfer on and mourn their masterpiece that acquired away. However Charlie Shackleton is just not most filmmakers. The wreckage of his derailed try at a zodiac killer documentary rises from the useless in Shackleton’s devilish grip as a wry, eerie, post-modern commentary on our cultural fascination with true-crime and collective bloodlust.
Visitor Curator Displays
Ash
Particular Screening
Director Flying Lotus in Particular person
Director: Flying Lotus
Solid: Eiza González, Aaron Paul, Iko Uwais, Kate Elliott, Beulah Koale, Flying Lotus
United States, 2024
Thoughts-shredding multi-hyphenate Flying Lotus pours the psychedelic contents of his galaxy mind into this sci-fi nightmare starring Eiza González as a sole surviving astronaut awaking to find her crew has been murdered mysteriously within the night time. Psychological area terror ensues, as does a cryptic arrival by Aaron Paul, as they work to outlive the neon-splattered horrors of the cosmic unknown.
Dying Turns into Her
Introduction by Visitor Curator Flying Lotus
Director: Robert Zemeckis
Solid: Meryl Streep, Bruce Willis, Goldie Hawn, Isabella Rossellini United States, 1992
Some folks will go to any lengths to remain younger ceaselessly.
The Descent
Introduction by Visitor Curator Flying Lotus
Director: Neil Marshall
Solid: Shauna Macdonald, Natalie Mendoza, Alex Reid, Saskia Mulder, Nora-Jane Noone, MyAnna Buring
United Kingdom, 2005
The scariest film in Earth.
Misplaced Freeway
Introduction by Visitor Curator Flying Lotus
Tribute to David Lynch
Director: David Lynch
Solid: Invoice Pullman, Patricia Arquette, Balthazar Getty, Robert Blake, Natasha Gregson Wagner, Gary Busey, Robert Loggia
United States, 1997 Dick Laurent is useless.
Extra Retrospective Movie Displays
The Phantom of the Opera
a centesimal Anniversary Screening with Stay Music Accompaniment by Suppose Much less, Hear Extra
Director: Rupert Julian
Solid: Lon Chaney, Norman Kerry, Mary Philbin, Arthur Edmund Carewe, Gibson Gowland, Snitz Edwards, Bernard Seigel
United States, 1925
Feast your eyes! Glut your soul on my accursed ugliness! The person of a thousand faces anoints this seminal work of cinema that foretold the age of Common monsters.
Re-Animator
fortieth Anniversary 4K UHD Restoration Introduced by FANGORIA
Actress Barbara Crampton in Particular person
Director: Stuart Gordon
Solid: Jeffrey Combs, Bruce Abbott, Barbara Crampton, David Gale, Robert Sampson United States, 1985
Herbert West Has A Very Good Head On His Shoulders… And One other One In A Dish On His Desk on this all-time basic from former Grasp of Horror recipient and founding competition advisory board member Stuart Gordon.
Tales From the Crypt: Demon Knight
thirtieth Anniversary Screening
2025 Grasp of Horror Award Recipient Ernest Dickerson in Particular person
Director: Ernest Dickerson
Solid: Billy Zane, William Sadler, Jada Pinkett Smith, Brenda Bakke, CCH Pounder, Dick Miller, Thomas Haden Church
United States, 1995
Fasten your drool cups, and prepared your vomit luggage! We will the films! Frights, digicam, motion! It is time for the total horror debut of the legendary Ernest Dickerson.
Stay Occasions and Particular Displays
A CONVERSATION WITH JOE HILL
Beloved bestselling horror creator Joe Hill (King Sorrow) checks in to the Overlook for a wide-ranging profession dialog to debate the strategies behind the insanity which animate his beautiful physique of labor. Throughout novels, comedian e book sequence, and quick tales — lots of which have been memorably tailored from web page to display together with Horns, Locke & Key, The Black Telephone and this 12 months’s Abraham’s Boys — Hill’s distinctive mix of horror, darkish fantasy, and science fiction has cemented his standing as a up to date grasp of the macabre. We’re delighted to host this award-winning literary nice as he dives into the inner-workings and inspirations of his spine-tingling oeuvre.
DANGER STORIES: A WORD SALAD SYMPHONY
Creator: Museum of House Video
Museum of House Video is a weekly found-footage remix livestream for stoners, seekers, archivists and drinkers. For his third Overlook look, Museum VJ Bret Berg presents two deliriously jagged archival disasterpieces as regards to “private hazard”. First is Hazard Tales: A Phrase Salad Symphony, created by Bret for the American Style Movie Archive. This frantic ode to tradition jammers like Negativland and Bruce Conner takes 30+ hours of twentieth-century well being and security “scare movies” and mixes them into half-hour of mirthful musical terror. This system’s second half hits cruising altitude with Bret’s montage of highlights from the Aughties’ cringiest cable-TV present ever. Particular due to One thing Bizarre Video for the Phrase Salad Symphony’s uncooked materials.
MEMORY HOLE
Creator: The whole lot is Horrible
Stare deep into the soul of this decaying nation with Reminiscence Gap, the enigmatic video collective spun off from The whole lot is Horrible! A surreal, anti-humanity efficiency that unfolds in a mind-melting spectacle you’ll always remember (regardless of how a lot you want you may). Composed completely of discovered footage, it is an uncanny mix of artwork, horror, hilarity, and unhappiness. The expertise can have you guffawing in terror, all whereas questioning if there’s a monster lurking simply behind you. Reminiscence Gap proudly presents their newest work “Animals Are Over,” interwoven with a reside efficiency/rating, plus beforehand unseen clips from their 11-year archive of insanity.
SHUDDER SECOND LINE PARADE
Introduced by Shudder
The quintessential New Orleans artwork kind will get spookified simply in time for Shudder’s tenth Anniversary. Make your technique to the anniversary celebration on opening night time in model along with your favourite streamer’s reverie strutting by the French Quarter behind a brass band enjoying some acquainted scores, creepy characters, and also you.
WITCHCRAFT FOR WAYWARD GIRLS – LIVE!
Introduced by Magnolia Photos
Host: Grady Hendrix
Are witches outdated girls who reside in sweet homes and eat kids? Are they bare maidens dancing in a circle and celebrating the moon? Are they driving broomsticks to a black mass the place they’ll worship Devil, or being dragged to a gallows the place they’ll be hung after false accusations? Be a part of bestselling creator Grady Hendrix to have a good time his newest e book, Witchcraft for Wayward Ladies, by taking a wild flight into the blackest night time as we examine the world of witchcraft in books and films and witness a military of broomstick-brandishing, curse-hurling, penis-stealing, baby-eating, world-renouncing, unkillable, unstoppable, unbeatable witches!
Immersive Displays
Introduced by American Immersion Theater
The competition’s distinctive interactive reside theatrical horror experiences for small audiences return with contemporary choices for the courageous and mysterious.
SPOOKY TALES WITH COWBOY DALE
WORLD PREMIERE
Creator: Jason Woliner
Collect spherical, companions, for a chat that’ll put the giddy-up again in your get-along. That is an up-close sit-down with the cordial-est cowpoke within the West. However don’t let his creaky joints idiot ya: ol’ Dale’s acquired tales galore, spun from the dusty trails of the frontier days… and some of ’em may simply ship a shiver proper on down yer backbone. Yee haw!
THE SEVERANCE THEORY: WELCOME TO RESPITE
Introduced by Welcome Villain, at the side of the College of New Orleans
Creator: Odyssey Journey Co. and Ferryman Collective
Upon visiting your loved ones’s residence after your mother’s passing, you might be whisked right into a forgotten childhood reminiscence. Every interplay is as significant as it’s fascinating whenever you rediscover your previous and delight within the simplicities of being a toddler as soon as once more. Nevertheless, one thing is just not fairly proper — maybe it is the masked rigidity between your dad and mom, possibly you might be listening to voices that appear to be solely in your thoughts, it may even be that there’s a monster hiding in your closet. In spite of everything, respite is simply short-term if you end up on the whim of your individual thoughts.
THE MANIKINS: A WORK IN PROGRESS
Introduced by Bywater Wonderland
US PREMIERE
Creators: Deadweight Theatre
An interactive efficiency for a single viewers member. A psychedelic thriller the place dream and actuality collide. Step into the workplace of Dr. Ligotti, the place you’ll navigate the hidden agendas and supernatural methods of the enigmatic psychiatric workers. When you’ve got ever wished to do extra than simply learn or watch a narrative, however really enter inside it, be consumed by it, then this expertise is for you. You’ll not know the place actuality ends and the play begins – and by the top it’ll all really feel like a dream.
Brief Movie Displays
Brief movies will likely be introduced in three themed packages: Apocalypse Fairly Quickly, The Furies and Freaky.
Arson, Dir. Erin Broussard, United States, 2024, WORLD PREMIERE
An getting older boy band decides to promote their souls for fame and fortune. Sadly, not studying the wonderful print may show disastrous.
Away with the Fairies, Dir. René Brar, Canada, 2024
Three exhausted sisters try to euthanize their violently unwell mom on a distant island.
The Beguiling, Dir. ishkwaazhe Shane McSauby, United States, 2024
A burgeoning romance between two Natives takes a sinister flip as one grows suspicious of the opposite’s Indigenous heritage on this darkly comedic nightmare.
Boy Band, Dir. Benedict Chiu, United States, 2023
A member of a well-known Okay-Pop boy band whose face has been disfigured by an accident should bear surgical procedure to restore his fracturing picture.
Model New Cadillac, Dir. Stacy Haiduk & Sophia Tatum, United States, 2024
Lana and Strode, a mom and daughter, take to the street for a five-day killing spree.
Name Earl, Dir. Jordan Pfeifer, United States, 2024, WORLD PREMIERE
Desirous to make new mates, Kate attends a slumber celebration, however the night time takes a sinister flip when the women determine to play a wierd celebration sport.
Cataratas, Dir. Francisco Bendomir, Argentina, 2024, WORLD PREMIERE
It is New Yr’s Eve, and Catalina is ready for her girlfriend to choose her up when an uncommon incident with a firework threatens to damage their trip.
Cruelty, Dir. Sam Das, United States, 2024
A younger trans lady is chased right into a junkyard whereas being adopted residence late at night time. There, she should outwit her predator and summon the power of a goddess.
Lethal Duels XII, Dir. Justine Beed, United States, 2024, WORLD PREMIERE
A deeply spiritual little one suspects that his large sister is possessed, and goes to excessive lengths to save lots of her.
Destroyer, Dir. Judd Myers, United States, 2023
An insecure man’s compulsion to know his associate’s secrets and techniques leads him on an underworld descent the place he makes contact with one thing non-human.
Dry January, Dir. C.J. Arellano, United States, 2024, WORLD PREMIERE
When Maya commits to a month of sobriety and takes up sculpting as a pastime, her crab sculptures terrorize her former ingesting buddy — her brother Toby.
Easybake, Dir. Sasha Duncan, Canada, 2024
After consuming a clay sculpture, an insecure teen wakes with the flexibility to sculpt her personal physique, resulting in an obsessive pursuit of “perfection.”
Endzgiving, Dir. Tina Carbone, United States, 2024
That is gonna be Will’s final Friendsgiving.
The Flacalta Impact, Dir. Rochée Jeffrey, United States, 2024
After a drug with anti-aging properties has apocalyptic penalties, two Black sisters struggle for his or her lives—and appears—on this satirical tackle poisonous magnificence tradition.
Simply Wait, Dir. Blaine Morris, United States, 2024
A younger spouse fights to be heard by her husband as a hurricane rages outdoors their home and hazard lurks inside.
Final to Go away, Dir. Mary Elizabeth Ellis, United States, 2023
Final to Go away addresses the pandemic of loneliness, our primal want as people for connection, and a reckoning with the way in which we deal with our residence planet.
Mr. Static, Dir. Mike Williamson, United States, 2024
A lady should watch a reside video stream of family murders which might be mysteriously broadcast to an outdated tv, or face dire penalties.
Los Muchachos, Dir. Alejandro Artiles, Spain, 2025, WORLD PREMIERE
Via a cell phone and remoted within the La Palma observatory, Fran should face the very last thing any dad or mum desires to listen to.
Slush, Dir. Ashley George, United States, 2024
Frankie reunites along with her poisonous group and should faucet into her darkish aspect to outlive unscathed.
They Come House to Die, Dir. Zeke Farrow, United States, 2024
It is 2021. Ten years into the pandemic, Zeke makes a documentary about life in quarantine with Mother.
The Traveler & The Troll, Dir. Adam Murray, United States, WORLD PREMIERE
A traveler stops to relaxation in a clearing of a haunted forest. Son, they be taught they’ve stumbled upon the lair of a terrifying troll who calls for items for passage.
Vines, Dir. Luke Zwanziger, United States, 2024
A mad botanist experiments on an unwilling human topic to provide crops a combating probability in opposition to local weather change.
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2025 Overlook Movie Pageant companions embrace OFFICIAL SPONSORS American Immersion Theater, IFC Movies, Shudder PREMIERE SPONSORS Bywater Wonderland, MUBI; SIGNATURE SPONSORS Darkish Sky Movies, SAGIndie; PATRON SPONSORS Kodak, FANGORIA, Louisiana Workplace of Tourism, Magnolia Photos, Vinegar Syndrome; EVENT SPONSORS Day by day Useless, Welcome Villain, College of New Orleans; VENUE SPONSORS Prytania Theatres, Westin New Orleans; SIGNATURE HOTEL SPONSOR Worldwide Lodge Home. Extra sponsors might be discovered on our web site.
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About The Overlook Movie Pageant
The Overlook Movie Pageant is a 4-day celebration of all issues horror held in haunted, historic & iconic venues all through New Orleans. Presenting superior movie programming with an expanded give attention to experiential occasions, the competition showcases thrilling work in new and basic horror cinema alongside the most recent in interactive and reside exhibits for a totally immersive weekend. As a summer season camp for style followers, The Overlook is a group occasion bringing the very best of horror storytelling to an enthusiastic and appreciative viewers inside an intimate and inspirational setting. Evoking the spirit of the Overlook lodge, horror’s most notorious fictional hang-out, the 2025 Overlook Movie Pageant runs from April 3 – April 6, headquartered on the Prytania Theatres at Canal Place in Downtown New Orleans and Prytania Theatres Uptown. The competition advisory board consists of Joe Dante (Filmmaker – Gremlins, The Howling), Karyn Kusama (Filmmaker – Jennifer’s Physique, The Invitation), Ryan Turek (VP of Characteristic Movie Improvement, Blumhouse Productions), Leigh Whannell (Actor / Author / Filmmaker – Noticed, Insidious), Diana Williams (CEO & Co-Founder, Kinetic Vitality Leisure), Elijah Wooden (Founding Associate, SpectreVision), and extra.
