Browsing: Fantastic Fest 2026

Sam Richardson wakes up naked and covered in blue goo, and the movie has already shot out of a cannon. At Fantastic Fest 2026, Paul Salfen sat down with writer-directors Drew Mylrea and Evan Wolf Buxbaum as their alien-abduction romance Into the Sky world-premiered at Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar. Emmy winner Richardson stars opposite Sofia

Fantastic Fest is the week Paul Salfen treats like Christmas, and James Cullen Bressack has been trying to get into that room since he was eighteen. Fifteen years and one action movie later, he is back in Austin with I Have Proof, a 77-minute VHS horror he wrote and directed, and the first horror title

Adam Egypt Mortimer talks with AMFM Magazine Managing Editor Paul Salfen and Lillian Powell after the Fantastic Fest 2026 world premiere of Pathetic Fallacy — a 35mm psychedelic horror-musical about love, death, and the price of bringing someone back. AMFM_Mortimer_Pathetic_Fallacy_Paul_Salfen

At Fantastic Fest 2026, Paul Salfen sits down with Queensland writer-director Josh Tanner as Posthumous — his first feature, co-written and produced with his wife Jade van der Lei — world-premieres in the festival’s analog-horror lane. Sophie Lowe’s Zoe comes home on her 30th birthday to a stack of VHS messages her mother recorded before

Fantastic Fest would not be Fantastic Fest without the Adams Family. This year the surprise was The Glorious Dead, the snowbound apocalyptic dark comedy that world-premiered at Fantasia, took its U.S. bow at Alamo South Lamar, and left Austin with a 2027 Shudder pickup — the clan’s fourth with the streamer after Hellbender, Hell Hole,

The inflatable snake floated above the heads of moviegoers at the entrance to the Alamo Drafthouse. The real one had tried to eat them on the river. The morning after the Fantastic Fest premiere of Beware Boiúna, Paul Salfen sat down with Jessica Rothe, Kiana Madeira, and director Mike P. Nelson — the Wrong Turn

Paul Salfen caught Scott Tinkham and Michael Woloson in the week they treat like Christmas. Fantastic Fest was about to swallow Austin again, and the pair were about to unveil Littermates, their first feature — a comic dystopian sibling story you can barely logline without stepping on a spoiler. Two survivors wash up at an

In a karaoke room at Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar, Paul Salfen sat down with the traveling circus behind The Heretiks — director Gregg Bishop, writers Luke Piotrowski and Ben Collins, and the actors who spent Halloween night locked in a house with a coven that wanted sunrise to come too late. The world-premiere tape is

Walter Hill walked the Fantastic Fest opening-weekend carpet at Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar as the festival’s 2026 Lifetime Achievement honoree — the first recipient to get a nationwide Alamo retrospective. Before the award and a screening of Extreme Prejudice, AMFM’s Paul Salfen asked the Warriors and 48 Hrs. director about El Paso heat, Rip Torn’s

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