
Scary Movies XIII
August 15–21, 2025
New York City’s premier showcase for the best in new genre (and genre-bending) cinema from around the globe alongside spine-tingling classics and rediscoveries conjured from the dark recesses of midnight-movie lore
Alexander Ullom
2025|
U.S.|
86 minutes|
English
Four young adults find themselves trapped on a seemingly endless road—one from which they can’t escape, as they soon discover that stopping the car invariably attracts the attention of what lurks in the forest…
Bryan Bertino
2020|
U.S.|
95 minutes|
English
A pair of grown siblings who venture back to their childhood home to care for their father in his final days are disturbed to find their mother under the influence of an evil, shape-shifting supernatural presence.
Jérôme Boivin
1989|
France|
83 minutes|
French with English subtitles
The first of two collaborations between director Jérôme Boivin and co-writer Jacques Audiard is at once a satirical work of pitch-black, bone-dry humor and a chillingly sober fable illustrating the interpersonal—and interspecies—mechanics of amorality and violence.
Alexandre O. Philippe
2024|
U.S.|
101 minutes|
English and Japanese with English subtitles
Alexandre O. Philippe’s expansive documentary celebrates five decades of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, examining its legacy via extended interviews with five influential luminaries of the horror genre.
Harry Kümel
1971|
Belgium / France / West Germany|
100 minutes|
English, French, Dutch, and German with English subtitles
Delphine Seyrig commands the screen with potent erotic flair as a bewitching Hungarian countess whose fateful encounter with a honeymooning couple catalyzes a blood-soaked maelstrom of desirous depravity.
Adam C. Briggs, Sam Dixon
2024|
Austraila|
105 minutes|
English
Co-director Sam Dixon stars as Josie, a bedraggled Queensland cinema worker who slowly begins to lose his grip on reality in this singularly nerve-jangling, magnificently lo-fi head trip from down under.
Mattias J. Skoglund
2025|
Sweden / Iceland / Estonia|
90 minutes|
Swedish with English subtitles
Soon after moving into a memory-care facility, an elderly widow’s confused behavior turns abruptly violent, and her son can’t shake the horrifying suspicion that his late father might have returned from the beyond to torment them anew.
Lina Lužytė, Nerijus Milerius
2024|
Lithuania|
83 minutes|
Lithuanian with English subtitles
Unsettled by the comportment of a dead man’s wife when she comes to identify the body, a Vilnius morgue worker launches an informal investigation hoping to make sense of her own suspicions.
Kim Soo-jin
2025|
South Korea|
95 minutes|
Korean with English subtitles
Soon after two sisters move into their new shared apartment, one of them mysteriously disappears–-and the other starts to perceive a barrage of weird, portentous frequencies that seem to emanate from the building itself.
Bryn Chainey
2025|
U.K.|
88 minutes|
English
When a sound engineer in the Welsh countryside stumbles upon a “fairy circle” that emits an unidentifiable frequency, his discovery coincides with the appearance of an otherworldly child who’s oddly eager to befriend the man and his wife.
Abel Ferry
2025|
France|
103 minutes|
French with English subtitles
A ruthlessly ambitious candidate for local office will stop at nothing to thwart a group of activists who’ve gathered damning evidence of brutally inhumane practices at the slaughterhouse he owns.
Pedro Martín-Calero
2024|
Spain / Argentina / France|
107 minutes|
Spanish and French with English subtitles
The life of a Madrid university student gradually descends into chaos when, after indirectly witnessing a shocking act of violence, she begins to suspect that she’s being targeted by a malevolent inhuman entity.
Andreas Prochaska
2025|
Germany / Austria|
105 minutes|
German with English subtitles
Andreas Prochaska updates the well-worn tropes of prenatal anxiety horror with the story of a Berlin physician who reluctantly inherits her estranged father’s house, where she soon begins to experience strange memory lapses, troubled dreams, and troubling visions.
Diego Figueroa
2024|
Chile|
108 minutes|
Spanish with English subtitles
A mild-mannered architectural model maker in Pinochet’s Chile finds his tenuously peaceful life disrupted by the arrival of mysterious new neighbors whose noisy nighttime activities sound suspiciously like violent intimidation.
About the Festival
It’s alive! Since its founding in 2002, Scary Movies has been proud to offer moviegoers the cathartic treat of experiencing world-class suspense, gore, and terror of all stripes on the big screen, while celebrating cinema’s boundless capacity to probe the creepiest corners of the human psyche in the company of dedicated fellow thrill-seekers. Film at Lincoln Center is excited to present the re-animated Scary Movies, roaring back to life after a five-year hiatus for its 13th edition. Films in this year’s lineup contend with a wide range of themes, including the existential perils of family ties, parenting, and inheritance; the precarious struggle for survival in an increasingly hostile environment; the mind-bending consequences when inner demons are left to fester; and more.
Organized by Madeline Whittle, Programmer, Film at Lincoln Center.
Scary Movies XIII is sponsored by MUBI, the global streaming service, production company, and film distributor dedicated to elevating great cinema.

The Scary Movies festival at Film at Lincoln Center still oozes blood and guts.”
—The New York Times, 2019










Past Editions
Scary Movies XIV
2026
Scary Movies 9
2015
Scary Movies 8
2014
Scary Movies 7
2013
Scary Movies 6
2012
Scary Movies 5
2011























