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FF programmer Lisa Dreyer with Director Emmanuel Osei-Kuffour.

Check out the link in our bio for tonight's @welcometotheblumhouse Watch Party Link for THE LIE. Watch Party starts at 5:30pm PT.

This weekend! Join us for two @welcometotheblumhouse Amazon Watch Parties, starting at 5:30pm PT. With edge of your seat twists you'll want to experience together, RSVP now via the link in our bio. All RSVPs are entered to win an art poster via our friends at @mondonews. Plus! Exclusive Q&A content for each film, starting with THE LIE director Veena Sud in conversation with filmmaker Karyn Kusama. On Sunday, join us at 4:30pm PT for a chat with FF programmer @lisadreyer8 and BLACK BOX director @eokfilms.

This Saturday and Sunday join us for live watch parties at 6:30pm CT featuring two exciting new films part of @welcometotheblumhouse via @amazonprimevideo. Read more about why we love this weekend's films below, and head to the link in our bio for more info. Saturday: With a twist so thrilling you'll want to talk about it immediately, THE LIE is the perfect way to kick off your watch party weekend. Two desperate parents struggle to cover up their child's brutal crime, only to descend further and further into a dark web of deception. Sunday: Who are any of us, really? After losing his wife and memory in an accident, BLACK BOX finds a single father undergoing an agonizing experimental treatment that causes him to question who he truly is.

THUNDER ROAD writer/director/star Jim Cummings would like to invite you to his new film, THE WOLF OF SNOW HOLLOW, premiering this Thursday, October 8th with an early Fantastic Fest Q&A screening exclusively at Alamo Drafthouse locations. (But werewolves not invited. Because they're not real. Right? Right?)

We're teaming up with our friends at @FANGORIA to bring you exclusive watch parties for WELCOME TO THE BLUMHOUSE via Amazon Prime Video. Join us as we celebrate four unique, unsettling genre thrillers More info via link in bio.

That's a wrap folks! While we wish we were playing you out in a melee of music, mayhem and tattoos, we'll have to settle for an intimate goodbye instead. If you liked what you saw, please take a minute to follow the Dream Team (or Nightmare Coterie, whichever you prefer) that makes it happen. 👇👇👇 This isn't everyone by a long shot, but just the folks you can follow here right now. 💀 The Reigning Queen of Chaos @ahbracadabra 💀 Programming gang: @lotaytx @btsjunkie @peterkapow @jeannelauer @ldmullen @lisadreyer8 💀 FF archivist @jenerator 💀 Our friends at @scener made our virtual cinema possible. Follow them for updates on future events via Alamo on Demand. 💀 Special Events Squad: Trivia Dome/Feud Baron @accordion27, Feud asst @jcdeleon1, Feud tech director/creative @behmcreative, tech guru/Nacho whisperer @theymightbepoz, 💀 Immersive Showcase curators @loquaciousmuse @caramandel @interwovenimmersive 💀 Pre-screeners, without whom our program wouldn't be possible: @contrastfilmfest @emily_dawn @connermakenzie @rosemarys_gayby @noraofthehour @thevarunraman @windybowlsby @moatsie @jessieseitzeisspooky @ahouseingotham 💀 Email Maven @manicmelany and me, your lovable lil social scamp @anamarama See you next year! Thank you and good night

From "boo!" To "eww!" SHORT FUSE is a parade of short-form horror in all of its permutations. Here's a sampling of the narratives you'll find in this stellar line-up. Interdimensional courtship proves more challenging than anticipated in MIME. "GREAT CHOICE!" Sublime absurdity crescendos to nightmarish heights when a woman is trapped in a Red Lobster commercial. The coach of a girls gymnastics team STUCK with a persistant pervert takes him "to the matresses". MOURN finds a grief counselor (Lynne Griffin, BLACK CHRISTMAS) confronted by a widower with an eerie claim. A young woman attempts to stave off some unrelenting HEAT in an ice cream parlour, only to find herself melting into a grotesquely sticky scenario. Two sisters' illusion of safety is shattered by a late-night phone call in ABRACITOS. BLITZKRIEG asks where does paranoia end and reality begin? THE THREE MEN YOU MEET AT NIGHT are a source of patriarchal dread in this suspenseful rumination of all-to-real terrors.

It's Closing Night, and we're sending you off with a dread inducing final feature. A finely tuned body horror, BLOODTHIRSTY follows an indie singer on a mission to write her next killer album. A collab with a mysterious producer proves to be both fruitful and dangerous. RSVP and info at fantasticfest.com

Lisa Dreyer in conversation with Lauren Beatty

Lisa Dreyer in conversation with Director Amelia Moses of BLOODTHIRSTY

Lisa Dreyer in conversation with Katharine King of BLOODTHIRSTY