Fantastic Fest is returning to Austin, Texas, this fall, taking over the Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar from September 17-24, 2026. […]
Fantastic Fest is returning to Austin, Texas, this fall, taking over the Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar from September 17-24, 2026. As always, the festival is packed with world premieres, major genre releases, and the kind of completely unexpected discoveries that make it one of our favorite places to find what’s next in horror.
We dug through this year’s massive lineup and pulled out a handful of films we’re particularly excited about, including the World Premiere of The Swallow.
This one comes from Kevin Kölsch and Dennis Widmyer, the filmmaking duo behind Starry Eyes and 2019’s Pet Sematary.
And the premise is wonderfully simple: A group of young people finds themselves terrorized by a sentient, quicksand-like sludge that quite literally wants to swallow them.
Fantastic Fest describes the film as a “brutally efficient, effects-forward creature feature,” which is pretty much all I needed to hear.
