The world's biggest and best genre film festival, Beyond Fest, is back for 2026. The Fest includes 10 WORLD PREMIERES, 1 INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE, 4 NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERES, 7 U.S. PREMIERES, 28 WEST COAST PREMIERES, 81 FEATURE FILMS in all. Beyond Fest runs from September 23rd to October 6th in Los
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Beyond Fest is giving M. Night Shyamalan fans a pretty incredible reason to head to Los Angeles this September. The genre film festival has announced Night Visions: The Shock and Awe of M. Night Shyamalan, a massive retrospective celebrating the filmmaker’s career with 12 feature films spanning
Later this year, Beyond Fest is going beyond Los Angeles to the Windy City for Beyond Fest Chicago. The event runs from April 2nd to the 5th for four days of all-killer-no-filler cinematic carnage. The Music Box Theater is the home for the combined forces to create Beyond Chicago. Presented by
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With a career beginning in the 1960s, Meiko Kaji became a Japanese screen legend. From playing a Yakuza leader in Blind Woman's Curse to playing the tough, betrayed heroine of Female Prisoner #701: Scorpion, or embodying vengeance as Yuki in Lady Snowblood and its sequel, Lady Snowblood: Love Song
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I watched Dust Bunny as part of Beyond Fest at American Cinematheque. You can check out the full schedule here. Every once in a while, a movie idea comes out of nowhere and makes you go "damn, why didn't I think of that?". In the 2020's there have been a couple, mixing vampires and moonshine like
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I watched Shelby Oaks as part of Beyond Fest at American Cinematheque. You can check out the full schedule here. Shelby Oaks is a wild movie through and through. It's definitely creepy and the story behind how the movie was made isn't creepy, but still just as improbable. It comes from YouTube
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The world's biggest genre-film festival Beyond Fest has finally announced its full lineup. It includes 8 world premieres, 5 North American premieres, 9 US premieres, 25 West Coast premieres, and 90 feature films in total. The great thing about Beyond Fest is that they get the filmmakers in person
Are you ready for Beyond Fest 2025? It's only the greatest genre film festival on the planet. To celebrate this year, they're going back over the 30-year career of Guillermo del Toro and his films. Está Vivo: The Gods and Monsters of Guillermo del Toro is the most complete retrospective of the
We're in the era of liminal spaces, folks. Movies like Skinamarink, Backrooms, and Exit 8 have all proven that audiences, especially younger audiences, can't get enough of them. it Ends brings us really two liminal spaces in one movie. The film tells the story of four friends who are getting
Oasis: Don’t Look Back in Anger feels like a movie that’s selling itself as something deeper than it ultimately is. There’s an expectation that we’re going to get this grand story about the Gallagher brothers reconciling, putting aside their differences, and coming back together for these
Jaadugar: A Witch in Mongolia shows us the power of wisdom, for good and for evil, in the titular Ep. 10 "Wisdom". With Boraqchin showing Sitara / Fatima that she's both very crafty and utterly ruthless in her pursuit of her goals. However, for all that she is wise, she is by no means omniscient.
