The 15 Wildest, Coolest Movies We Can’t Wait to See at Unbelievable Fest 2025

Probably the most improbable time of yr is right here once more. io9 is about to head down to Austin, Texas, for per week of fun, fucked-up films at Unbelievable Fest, one of many coolest, most unique genre film festivals in the complete world. It’s a pageant that focuses on solely exhibiting the weirdest, most out-there, completely badass movies, and we’re excited to leap proper in as all the time.

What makes attending Unbelievable Fest tough, although, is that each single film sounds superior. It was curated that approach. So how do you select what to see? Nicely, this yr, as all the time, a number of films have names you’ve heard of—stuff just like the horror sequel Black Telephone 2 or the streaming anthology V/H/S/Halloween. However past that, you simply need to go along with your intestine.

I’ve been attending Unbelievable Fest for about 15 years and, over that point, I’ve give you my very own distinctive system to pick which movies I wish to see most. First, I’m going by the complete listing of function movies and examine each single one. I then rank them primarily based on a) what I feel the readers of io9 can be excited about, and b) what I wish to watch. Then, I begin on the high of the practically 100-film listing and try and work my approach down it.

What follows are the 15 movies at present on the high of that listing, which additionally occur to be an awesome instance of simply how extraordinary Unbelievable Fest may be. The pageant runs from September 18 to 25 in Austin, Texas. Click here for more. And keep tuned to io9 for our protection from the pageant.

Bulk

Director Ben Wheatley (Kill Record, Meg 2) is again with a bonkers-sounding film a couple of man who is distributed to search out somebody in a home however realizes that each door in the home opens to a brand new dimension. As an enormous fan of alternate realities, a number of timelines, and all that sort of Primer/Again to the Future Half II stuff, this appears like that fused with House of Leaves. Signal me up.

Vicious

Dakota Fanning stars on this movie that’s really being launched by Paramount, however I wasn’t fairly conscious of it but. Fanning performs a lady who’s introduced with a field. Contained in the field, she is to place three issues: one thing she wants, one thing she hates, and one thing she loves. And, apparently, all hell breaks free.

Dangerous Haircut

Getting a haircut may be one of the vital enjoyable, invigorating issues ever. That’s, until it’s a foul one. And in Dangerous Haircut, not solely does somebody get a foul haircut, they get it from a barber they slowly understand is totally psychotic and possibly supernatural, and, nicely, we’re in.

Disforia

Teasing shades of Humorous Video games and Hostel, Disforia is ready in a dystopian future the place a household is focused by a bunch that pays to observe people torture different people. Yeah, like I stated, Unbelievable Fest may be tousled.

Whistle

Director Corin Hardy (The Nun) is on the helm of this easy, scary-sounding film a couple of group of scholars who discover a whistle. A whistle that, whenever you blow it, your loss of life instantly begins coming for you.

Don’t Go away the Youngsters Alone

Think about you’re a child. Your dad and mom simply purchased a brand new home and scheduled a babysitter to allow them to exit. The babysitter cancels. So, your dad and mom go away you residence alone for a number of hours. What might go mistaken? Nicely, then you definately discover out your new home is haunted, and it’s simply you at residence? Lots. That is nightmare gas at its most interesting.

Appofeniacs

Sean Gunn and Jermaine Fowler lead an ensemble forged within the story of a hacker who causes violent havoc by creating and releasing deepfake movies everywhere in the world.

The Curse

Impressed by movies like The Ring and The Grudge, The Curse is a couple of girl who investigates her good friend’s loss of life, solely to understand the reality could lie in some form of social media-driven evil.

A Helpful Ghost

All ghosts don’t need to be unhealthy, proper? Working example, this movie is a couple of man who loses his spouse, solely to find that she is reincarnated as their vacuum cleaner. The Unbelievable Fest web site tagged this one with the phrase “vacuum intercourse.” What else must be stated?

The Plague

Joel Edgerton co-stars on this movie a couple of group of tight-knit, upper-middle-class youngsters, a lot of whom have a mysterious pores and skin illness that infects you for those who contact it.

Obsession

A person with a crush on a co-worker buys one thing that enables him to make one want. He needs for the co-worker to love him, which unleashes an otherworldly pressure neither of them is able to take care of.

Dolly

Seann William Scott and Ethan Suplee co-star within the movie a couple of couple who’re kidnapped and subsequently put by hell by a murderous psychopath carrying a large doll masks.

Beast of Warfare

Consider the USS Indianapolis speech from Jaws, however as its personal film. That’s the vibe we get from Beast of Warfare, which follows a bunch of downed troopers throughout World Warfare II who need to take care of a killer shark.

Decorado

Think about an animated model of The Truman Present with a mouse. That’s what Decorado appears like, as an animated mouse should attempt to escape a world he believes to be false.

The Ice Tower

Marion Cotillard stars in a reimagining of The Ice Princess set within the Nineteen Seventies French movie business. She’s an actress making a model of the story who’s befriended by a runaway orphan. What does that even imply? I can’t wait to search out out.

And that’s only a few of the flicks we’re excited about seeing. Unbelievable Fest runs from September 18 to 25, so preserve checking io9 for extra reactions, opinions, and extra.

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