The Boston Underground Film Festival returns for its 25th annual celebration of all things weird, wicked, and wonderful, running from March 19–23 at the Brattle Theatre in Cambridge, MA. The festival will host the world premieres of the new Re-Animator 4K restoration with horror legend Barbara Crampton in attendance and Alma & The Wolf with […]
Horror and madness emerge from the shrouded mists of coastal Oregon. A violent wolf attack. A missing son. The appearance of a dangerous and seductive woman from the past. How are they connected? At the cost of his sanity, Deputy REN Accord (Ethan Embry) must unravel the mystery and discover the truth before time runs out.
BEST WISHES TO ALL – New England Premiere
Director: Yûta Shimotsu
Japan, 2023
A young woman visits her grandparents on a break from university. While she’s there, she discovers a dark secret about them and potentially herself.
CHAIN REACTIONS – East Coast Premiere
Director: Alexandre O. Philippe
USA, 2024
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre’s impact on 5 artists – Patton Oswalt, Takashi Miike, Alexandra Heller-Nicholas, Stephen King, Karyn Kusama – through interviews, outtakes, exploring how it shaped their art, psyche from childhood trauma.
ESCAPE FROM THE 21ST CENTURY – New England Premiere
Director: Yang Li
China, 2024
Three friends discover that they have the power to travel back and forth 20 years with a sneeze. However, the future is not as good as they hope, and they need to take on the responsibility of saving the world.
FRÉWAKA – New England Premiere
Director: Aislinn Clarke
Ireland, 2024
Haunted by a personal tragedy, home care worker, Shoo, is sent to a remote village to care for an agoraphobic woman who fears the neighbors as much as she fears the Na Sídhe — sinister entities who she believes abducted her decades before. As the two develop a strangely deep connection, Shoo is consumed by the old woman’s paranoia, rituals, and superstitions, eventually confronting the horrors from her own past.
FUCKTOYS – East Coast Premiere
Director: Annapurna Sriram
USA, 2025
With Filmmaker Annapurna Sriram andActor Sadie Scott in Attendance
A lush 16mm fever dream that reimagines The Fool’s Journey of the Major Arcana of the Tarot through the story of AP–a rosy young woman seeking salvation from a curse.
HEAD LIKE A HOLE – East Coast Premiere
Director: Stefan MacDonald-Labelle
Canada, 2024
With Filmmaker Stefan MacDonald-Labelle in Attendance
In financial dire straits, a man accepts a strange, high-paying job where he must take up residence in a home and measure a hole in the wall of the basement to determine whether or not it’s growing in size.
MUERTE EN LA PLAYA – Repertory Screening
Director: Enrique Gómez Vadillo
Mexico, 1991
A disturbed young man who was molested by his teacher begins murdering those around him who he sees responsible for his trauma while trying to overcome his own homosexual desires.
SISTER MIDNIGHT – New England Premiere
Director: Karan Kandhari
India, 2024
A newly arranged marriage sees an oddball couple shoved together in a small Mumbai shack with paper-thin walls. They are alone, awkward and together. Cranky Uma does her best to cope with the heat, her complete lack of domestic skills, nosy neighbors and her bumbling spouse until one night she discovers strange new feral cravings.
THE UGLY STEPSISTER – East Coast Premiere
Director: Emilie Blichfeldt
Norway, 2025
In a twisted take on the classic Cinderella story, ‘The Ugly Stepsister’ follows Elvira as she battles to compete with her insanely beautiful stepsister. In a fairy-tale kingdom where beauty is a brutal business, Elvira will go to any lengths to catch the Prince’s eye. ‘The Ugly Stepsister’ is the gory tale of the blood and sweat, grit and gold that goes into making Elvira the belle of the ball.
VULCANIZADORA – MA Premiere
Director: Joel Potrykus
USA, 2024
Two friends trudge through a Michigan forest with the intention of following through on a disturbing pact. After they fail, one of them must return home to deal with the legal and emotional repercussions.
Shorts Line Up
THE DUNWICH HORRORS – New England Horror
Good Looking Out dir. by Seth Chatfield
Ache dir. by Mike Canale
Damn Handy dir. by Peter Filardi
Followers dir. by Miriam Olken
Forever War dir. by Shana Figueroa
Katie’s Skin dir. by Steven Schloss
Methuselah dir. by Nathan Sellers
My Child dir. by Deniz Akyurek
Sogno Rosso (Red Dream) dir. by Coco Roy
TRIGGER WARNING – Midnight Block
Brothers Beastly dir. by Peter J. Hartsock
Burn Out dir. by Russell Goldman
F#cker dir. by Amir Baikatov
Mopsorden dir. by Julien Jauniaux
Rejected dir. by Rene R Rivas
Terminal Emulator dir. by Benjamin Capps
The Night Has 1000 Desires! dir. by Vance Osteen
LOVE TO LOVE YOU MAYBE – Comedy Block
Banjo dir. by Cameron Poletti
But He’s Gay dir. by Michael Calciano
Catamaran dir. by Joseph Rocco Plescia
Erection and Destruction dir. by Eddie Mullins
Handball dir. by Eli Beutel
Make Me A Pizza dir. by Talia Shea Levin
SexySweat dir. by Luke Condzal
The Streetlight dir. by Sophia Parella
The Time Capsule dir. by Michael Charron
There Will Be Womanly Wiles dir. by Nicole Higgins
RAGDOLL DANCE – Animation Block
A Walk in the Park dir. by Jay Marks
Demons in the Closet dir. by James Smith
Howl if You Love Me dir. by John R. Dilworth
Les Bêtes dir. by Michael Granberry
Lilly Visits the Hospital dir. by The Bum Family
Peeping dir. by Yixuan Wang
Pippy and The Typist dir. by Rachel Nemez
Pocket Princess dir. by Olivia Loccisano
Poppa dir. by Peter Ahern
Red Thumb dir. by Kolya Kishinsky, Geneva Huffman
The Garden Sees Fire dir. by Kiera Faber
The House of Weird dir. by Mark Reyes
MUST HAVE GOT LOST – Shorts Block
Belly Belly dir. by Gabriel Carnick
Good Boy dir. by Colin Russell
How To Clean The Dishes dir. by Benjamin Thomae
Macula dir. by Julietta Korbel
Nadir dir. by Jack Galvin
Perfectly a Strangeness dir. by Alison McAlpine
Rabbit dir. by Nathan Catucci
The Audacity dir. by Desmond Spranklin
A limited number of Boston Underground Film Festival badges are available now for purchase.
Badgeholders will be able to make screening selections starting Friday, March 7, before tickets are released to the general public on Monday, March 10.
