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    Alamo Drafthouse's Fantastic Fest 2013 Announces its First Wave of Film Programming!


    By Adam Ruhl


    Fantastic Fest announced the festival's initial lineup of incredible genre films. Fantastic Fest will take place September 19-26 in Austin, Texas at the Alamo Drafthouse Lakeline. Fan Badges are still available.

    See below for the initial lineup of films at this year's festival. Stay tuned for more programming announcements in the near future.   

     

    BIG BAD WOLVES (Israel, 2013)

    Texas Premiere

    Director- Navot Papushado & Aharon Keshales, 110 mins

    The directing team behind the 2010 cult smash RABIES return to Fantastic Fest with one of the best genre films of 2013.   

      

    BORGMAN (The Netherlands, 2013)

    North American Premiere

    Director - Alex van Warmerdam, 113 mins

    Something wicked this way comes in the form of the ordinary, the polite and the normal as a drifter and his followers invade the home of a bourgeois family.  

     

    CHEAP THRILLS (United States, 2013)

    Regional Premiere

    Director - E.L. Katz, 85 mins

    A recently fired father facing eviction is paid to take on an escalating series of insane challenges from a rich couple with a twisted sense of humor.

     

    COMMANDO - A ONE MAN ARMY (India, 2013)

    US Premiere

    Director- Dilip Ghosh, 120min

    Singing! Dancing! Extreme violence and goofy one-liners from Bollywood's answer to Tony Jaa and Marko Zaror! If Cannon Films were to relocate to India, COMMANDO would be the result!

     

    EEGA (India, 2012)

    Austin Premiere

    Director - SriSaila Sri Rajamouli, 107 mins

    A murdered man reincarnates as a fly to wreak vengeance on the villain who took his life and his lover. EEGA is an inventive, insane take on a revenge story unlike anything you've seen before.

     

    HALLEY (Mexico/The Netherlands, 2013)

    Texas Premiere

    Director - Sebastian Hofmann, 83 mins

    Though Beto's life may technically be over, he allows himself to experience it one last time before his body completely falls apart in this unique and contemplative horror film.  

     

    KID'S POLICE (Japan, 2013)

    North American Premiere

    Director - Yuichi FUKUDA, 100 mins

    When evil criminal organization Red Venus strikes, there's only one team of highly specialized cops who can help. Unfortunately, they've been dosed with anti-aging gas that has turned them all into children.   

      

    LFO (Sweden/Denmark, 2013)

    World Premiere

    Director - Antonio Tublen, 94 mins

    A solitary man discovers audio frequencies that open the human mind wide to hypnotic suggestion and, ultimately, his total control in this slyly deadpan dark comedy from Sweden.

     

    MAN OF TAI CHI (United States, 2013)

    US Premiere

    Director - Keanu Reeves, 105 mins

    Keanu Reeves stars in and directs this epic tale about a young martial artist who must compete in an underground fight club to protect his way of life. As the fights intensify so does his will to survive.

     

    NARCO CULTURA (United States, 2013)

    Texas Premiere

    Director - Shaul Schwarz, 103 mins

    NARCO CULTURA is a graphically disturbing documentary that examines the parallels between the Mexican drug war and the increasingly popular musical style of narcocorridos (drug ballads).

     

    NIGHTBREED - THE CABAL CUT (United Kingdom, 2012)

    Texas Premiere

    Directors - Russell Cherrington, 144 mins

    NIGHTBREED: THE CABAL CUT is a new director's cut of Clive Barker's horror classic that places the film in an entirely different light.

     

    NORTHWEST (Denmark, 2013)

    Regional Premiere

    Director - Michael Noer, 91 mins

    A teen hoodlum in Copenhagen becomes entangled in the criminal underworld   

      

    NOTHING BAD CAN HAPPEN (Germany, 2013)

    North American Premiere

    Director - Katrin Gebbe, 110 mins

    Tore, a member of the counter-culture Christian movement Jesus Freaks, is befriended and taken in by a family who play an increasingly cruel, violent game and push his capacity to love to its limits.    

      

    ON THE JOB (Philippines, 2013)

    US Premiere

    Director - Erik Matti, 200 min

    Corruption abounds in this stylish, Cannes-selected, ripped-from-the-headlines story of prisoners released on a day pass to work as killers. The cops must bring them in, never knowing how far the corruption spreads and who they can trust.   

      

    RESURRECTION OF A BASTARD, THE (The Netherlands, 2013)

    Regional Premiere

    Director - Guido van Driel, 89 mins

    Adapted from his own graphic novel by first time writer-director Guido van Driel, RESURRECTION OF A BASTARD tells the darkly funny, Coen-esque tale of a career thug caught in an existential crisis.   

      

    SHE WOLF  (Argentina, 2013)

    North American Premiere

    Director - Tamae Garateguy, 92 mins

    A sexual predator roams the streets and trains of Buenos Aires, a beautiful woman who uses sex to lure in her victims. A potent, punk rock spin on Euro-sleaze influences in this raw, erotic thriller.   

      

    VIC + FLO SAW A BEAR  (Canada, 2013)

    US Premiere

    Director - Denis Côté, 95 mins

    An ex-con named Vic and her lover Flo retreat to a sugar shack in a small Quebec town to start anew. Their attempt to live a normal life slowly and disastrously unravels.

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