Scary Movies XII
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Join Film at Lincoln Center for the 12th edition of Scary Movies, New York City’s top horror festival. Bringing you the genre’s best from around the globe, Scary Movies, which returns as a summer series for the third year, offers moviegoers the increasingly rare, cathartic treat of experiencing the exhilaration of suspense, thrills, and gore on the big screen as part of an audience. This year’s week of hair-raising premieres and rediscoveries features a series of specially themed double bills and exciting opening and closing night premieres—all of which will have you watching the screen from behind your fingers.
Organized by Laura Kern and Madeline Whittle
Villains
Opening Night Party · Q&A with Dan Berk, Robert Olsen & Maika Monroe · New York Premiere
In this darkly funny, brightly colored twist on gothic horror and the home-invasion thriller, Jules and Mickey are young outlaw lovers who get more than they bargained for when they break into an isolated house in the woods.Ready or Not
Closing Night Party · Q&A with Matt Bettinelli-Olpin, Tyler Gillett, Chad Villela, Samara Weaving, Mark O’Brien, and Andie MacDowell
Grace (Samara Weaving) is getting married to a charming scion of the Le Domas family board game empire in this adrenaline-fueled meet-the-inlaws class-warfare funhouse ride from filmmaking trio Radio Silence, boasting standout supporting performances from Andie MacDowell, Adam Brody, and Henry Czerny.Feral
New York Premiere · Q&A with Andrés Kaiser · Opening Night Party
The Blair Witch Project meets Truffaut’s The Wild Child in this visually arresting, deeply haunting found-footage faux-documentary from first-time director Andrés Kaiser, about a high-minded priest who brings an unsocialized “wild child” to live with him in an isolated mountain outpost.Finale
New York Premiere · Q&A with Søren Juul Petersen · Closing Night Party
Søren Juul Petersen’s directorial debut, which follows two young women working a lonely night shift at a remote gas station, is a gruesome and grisly meditation on the potential for cruelty inherent in surveillance and spectatorship.Midsommar (Director’s Cut)
World Premiere · Q&A with Ari Aster
American grad student Dani (Florence Pugh), grieving after a shocking loss, accompanies her boyfriend and his buddies on their vacation to a tight-knit commune in the sunny Swedish countryside, where an extravagant nine-day festival celebrating the summer solstice takes a dark turn.“Agora-Horror"
The Wolf Hour
New York Premiere · Q&A with Alistair Banks Griffin
Starring Naomi Watts in a spring-loaded performance as an acclaimed writer suffering from extreme agoraphobia, and set during the 1977 Summer of Sam in New York City, Alistair Banks Griffin’s sophomore feature is a sweaty, intensely atmospheric examination of fear itself as a mortal foe to be vanquished.Copycat
“Exorcisms Abroad”
Extra Ordinary
New York Premiere
Rose (Maeve Higgins), a mild-mannered driving instructor with a gift for communing with restless spirits, reluctantly agrees to help a widowed father (Barry Ward) exorcise the ghost of his dead wife, but things get complicated when a has-been singer (Will Forte) targets the customer’s teen daughter for his own nefarious purposes.Belzebuth
New York Premiere
Five years after his infant son is murdered in a horrific, senseless massacre, a Mexican police detective is drawn into the mystery of another mass killing that eerily parallels the first. What begins as a high-stakes procedural drama rapidly evolves into a vividly original outing in the subgenre of exorcism horror.“Extreme Family Values”
All the Gods in the Sky
New York Premiere
This uncanny, unnerving fable—adapted from a short by Quarxx, here making his feature debut—centers on Simon, a brooding, guilt-ridden factory worker who cares for his disabled sister while preparing for the arrival of mysterious visitors who just might be the siblings’ salvation.Bloodline
Q&A with Henry Jacobson, Avra Fox-Lerner, and Trevor Gureckis · Unrated Cut · New York Premiere
The debut directorial outing from producer and cinematographer Henry Jacobson is simultaneously a blood-spattered portrait of a serial killer and a wry valentine to the ties of mutual devotion that bind mother and son, and husband and wife.“Terrible Bears”
Grizzly
Prophecy
Special 40th Anniversary Screening
Director John Frankenheimer (The Manchurian Candidate) imparts straight-faced camp and a “social conscience” to writer David Seltzer’s affectionate love letter to American bug movies of the midcentury. Starring Talia Shire, Robert Foxworth, and Armand Assante.“Villainous Music”
Black Circle
North American Premiere · Q&A with Adrián García Bogliano
Spanish horror veteran Adrián García Bogliano teamed up with iconic Swedish actress Christina Lindberg for this trippily mesmerizing tale, in which dark otherworldly forces are unleashed upon two sisters when they undergo hypnosis induced by an old vinyl record.The Sonata
New York Premiere
When a young musical prodigy inherits the mansion owned by her late father, a famous and reclusive composer (Rutger Hauer in a stone-faced cameo), she discovers among his belongings an unpublished musical score that turns out to contain sinister, supernatural secrets.Tickets now on sale! To begin the purchase process, log in to your account. Don’t have an account? Sign up for one today. To see member and patron pricing, you must be logged into your account.
3+ Film Package – Tickets just $9 Members / $10 Students, Seniors, and Persons with Disabilities / $13 General Public. (Excludes Opening Night, Closing Night, and the Midsommar Special Event.)
Special Event Pricing
Opening Night (Villains) and Closing Night (Ready or Not) – $13 Members & Students / $18 General Public, Seniors & Persons with Disabilities
Midsommar (Director’s Cut) World Premiere – $25 Members & Students / $30 General Public, Seniors & Persons with Disabilities
Note: Film at Lincoln Center Members at eligible levels can redeem their complimentary ticket vouchers for this series in person at the box office. Patrons can reserve in advance by emailing [email protected]. Vouchers can not be used for premium priced events, including Opening Night, Closing Night, and the Director’s Cut of Midsommar.
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