The Overlook Film Festival: Second Wave Includes Lionsgate’s ‘The Furious’, Magnolia’s ‘Normal’ and IFC’s ‘Over Your Dead Body’

The Overlook Film Festival announced today the full schedule for its 10th anniversary edition, including a surprise new film section and live events.

From the press release, taking place April 9-12 in America’s most haunted city, New Orleans, Louisiana, at the Prytania Theatres, the horror festival announced fifteen additional films, nearly doubling the size of its features lineup, as well as new immersive events, presentations and parties. The full festival schedule can be found here.

The new additions to the lineup bring the festival total to 62 films (36 features and 26 shorts) from 10 countries, as well as 10 live events and six immersive experiences, making this the largest and most varied Overlook lineup in the festival’s history.

Highlighting the additions is a brand new film section, Side Shows. In a first for The Overlook, this section will feature upcoming genre films which may fall outside of horror but still feel tailor-made for the world of the Overlook. Those include IFC’s Over Your Dead Body, the latest work from comedic mastermind Jorma Taccone (The Lonely Island), who will be on hand to present this action-comedy in which a married couple (Jason Segel and Samara Weaving) use a romantic getaway as an excuse to plot each other’s murder; Magnolia’s Normal, an action thriller, from genre-bending director Ben Wheatley, about a small town sheriff (Bob Odenkirk) who, following a local bank robbery, uncovers a web of dark dealings in the place he calls home; and Lionsgate’s The Furious, from director Kenji Tanigaki, in which a desperate father teams up with a street-smart journalist as they fight their way through an international criminal network in a desperate bid to save his daughter.