Attention, Los Angeles residents:Beyond Festis bringing the heat this year with an absolute knockout of genre programming. The festival previously announced a killerDavid Cronenberglineup, which is a 13-film celebration of the filmmaker’s career, including appearances from the man himself. But before that, you can get caught up on all the must-see titles from the festival circuit.
Some highlights from the lineup includeDavid Gordon Green’s much-anticipatedHalloweenandSteve McQueen’s heist thrillerWidows, both of which earned glowing reviews of out TIFF,Drew Goddard’sBad Times at the El Royale,S. Craig Zahler’sDragged Across Concretethe delightful Christmas zombie musicalAnna and the Apocalypse, and the world premiere ofEli Roth’s History of Horror. There are also a number of classics getting the screening treatment, fromAkiratoBlack Christmas,The Wicker Man(the good one), the 4KManiacrestoration, and at the top of my hype list,Bubba Ho-Tep, which is a movie I havealwayswanted to see with a vocal crowd. Beyond Fest over here making dreams come true this year.
See below for the full lineup of newly announced film titles for Beyond Fest 2018. Tickets will be on sale via Brown Paper Tickets on Friday, September 14th at 12PM PST.
HULU THEATRE
AKIRA in 35mm
Director: Katsuhiro Ôtomo
Country: Japan
Runtime: 124 min.
Year: 1988
AN EVENING WITH BEVERLY LUFF LINN
West Coast Premiere
Director: Jim Hosking
Country: USA
Runtime: 108 min.
Year: 2018
GUESTS: Aubrey Plaza, Craig Robinson, Jim Hosking in Person
BAD TIMES AT THE EL ROYALE
Director: Drew Goddard
GUESTS: Drew Goddard and Jeremy Latchman in Person
BEST F(R)IENDS: VOLUME TWO
World Premiere
Director: Justin MacGregor
Runtime: 120 min.
GUESTS: Tommy Wiseau, Greg Sestero and Justin MacGregor in Person
BLACK CHRISTMAS
Director: Bob Clark
Country: Canada
Runtime: 98 min.
Year: 1974
BUBBA HO-TEP in 35mm (Free Screening)
Director: Don Coscarelli
Runtime: 92 min.
Year: 2002
GUESTS: Don Coscarelli and Reggie Bannister in Person
Director: Gaspar Noé
Country: France
Runtime: 96 min
GUESTS: Sofia Boutella in Person
DRAGGED ACROSS CONCRETE
Director: S. Craig Zahler
Runtime: 159 min.
Year: 2018im
GUESTS: S. Craig Zahler, Vince Vaughn, Tory Kittles, Michael Jai White, Dallas Sonnier in person
DOBERMAN COP
Director: Kinji FukasakuIT
Runtime: 90 min.
Year: 1977
Guests: Sonny Chiba in person
THE WICKER MAN in 35mm
Director: Robin Hardy
Country: UK
Runtime: 88 min.
Year: 1973
ELI ROTH’S HISTORY OF HORROR
Co-presented with Cinematic Void + Friday Night Frights
Runtime: 42 min.
GUESTS: William Lustig and Eli Roth in Person
FLASH GORDON in 35mm
Director: Mike Hodges
Runtime: 111 min.
Year: 1980
GUESTS: Lisa Downs, Sam J. Jones, Melody Anderson in person
Director: David Gordon Green
Runtime: 109 min.
GUESTS: Malek Akkad in person
Director: John Carpenter
Runtime: 91 min.
Year: 1978
LIFE AFTER FLASH
Director: Lisa Downs
Runtime: 94 min.
Year: 2017
LIQUID SKY - 4K Restoration
Director: Slava Tsukerman
Runtime: 112 min.
Year: 1982
GUESTS: Slava Tsukerman in Person
LORDS OF CHAOS
Director: Jonas Åkerlund
Country: UK, Sweden
GUESTS: Jonas Åkerlund in Person
MANIAC – 4K Digital Restoration
Director: William Lustig
Runtime: 87 min.
GUESTS: Bill Lustig and Eli Roth in Person
THE MONSTER SQUAD
Director: Fred Dekker
Runtime: 79 min.
Year: 1987
GUESTS: Andre Gower, Ashley Bank, Ryan Lambert, Duncan Regehr, Stephen Macht, Lisa Fuller, Adam Carl, Tom Woodruff Jr., Michael MacKay, Fred Dekker
Director: Zhang Yimou
Country: China
Runtime: 116 min.
Director: Steve McQueen
Country: USA, UK
Runtime: 128 min.
WOLFMAN’S GOT NARDS
Director: Andre Gower
SHUDDER THEATRE
A BLUEBIRD IN MY HEART (Free Screening)
Director: Jérémie Guez
Country: Belgium, France
Runtime: 85 min.
ABSURD presented by Rendezvous (Free Screening)
West Coast Premiere - New 4K Scan
Director: Joe D’Amato
Country: Italy
Runtime: 89 min.
Year: 1981
ALL THE COLORS OF THE DARK - Restoration (Free Screening)
Presented by CInematic Void
Director: Sergio Martino
Country: Italy, Spain
Runtime: 88 min
Year: 1972
ANNA AND THE APOCALYPSE (Free Screening)
Director: John McPhail
THE BOAT (Free Screening)
Director: Winston Azzopardi
Runtime: 100 min.
BORDER (Free Screening)
Director: Ali Abbasi
Country: Sweden
Runtime: 101 min.
DJANGO - Restoration (Free Screening)
Director: Sergio Corbucci
Runtime: 91 min
Year: 1966
THE GUILTY (Free Screening)
Director: Gustav Möller
Country: Denmark
LUZ (Free Screening)
Director: Tilman Singer
Country: Germany
Runtime: 70 min.
MONSTER PARTY (Free Screening)
Director: Chris von Hoffmann
THE NIGHTSHIFTER (Free Screening)
Director: Dennison Ramalho
Country: Brazil
Runtime: 110 min.
THE QUEEN OF HOLLYWOOD BLVD. (Free Screening)
Director: Orson Oblowitz
GUESTS: Orson Oblowitz
THE STANDOFF AT SPARROW CREEK (Free Screening)
Director: Henry Dunham
GUESTS: Henry Dunham, Dallas Sonnier and cast and crew in person
TERRIFIED (Free Screening)
Director: Demián Rugna
Country: Argentina
THE WIND (Free Screening)
Director: Emma Tammi
GUESTS: Emma Tammi and cast and crew in person
