IFC Center

7:00 screening SOLD OUT! Tickets available for 7:30 screening and Q&A! BEFORE THE FILM: Get your Frankenstein on as we kick off What The Fest!? 2019! WORLD PREMIERE Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein; Or The Modern Prometheus is certainly one of the most famous tales not just in literature but in all popular culture, helped immeasurably over […]

BEFORE THE FILM: Be prepared to be surprised! NYC PREMIERE Lizzy wants to be a good wife – take care of her home, have children and patiently bide her time until her husband returns, while she waits alone in the vast, empty plains of the 19th century west. But being by yourself in the middle […]

BEFORE THE FILM:  Jack Ketchum tribute in collaboration with the world’s longest-running educational organization devoted to the study of horror history – The Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies. EAST COAST PREMIERE When we last came upon Darlin’, she was leaving her seemingly ideal suburban family life behind to live in the wilderness with The Woman […]

NYC PREMIERE Penny Lane has a unique, political voice in the documentary landscape and her latest work tackles a truly unexpected topic – The Satanic Temple. Fresh from its Sundance premiere, the film follows the rise of The Satanic Temple, a mysterious organization led by Lucien Greaves that’s calling for Satanic revolution to save America’s […]

AFTER THE FILM: New York’s finest low budget zombie auteurs recount their own horror stories of surviving the making of a zombie movie. Here’s the thing that you absolutely, positively have to know going into ONE CUT OF THE DEAD: Pay attention to the first third of the movie.  Rarely, if ever, in the entire […]

BEFORE THE FILM: Join us to hear what Doomsday in New York would mean!  Learn how to worry more creatively about the NYC Apocalypse!  Learn how to run faster than others!  Q&A with Professor Anna Maria Bounds on her upcoming book on how New York preppers plan to survive disaster.  No Seamless, No Uber, No Prime […]

NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE Norman (Caleb Landry Jones) is an installation artist living in a spacious, seemingly half-abandoned loft building by the East River. He’s obsessed with the fire that killed his parents when he was a child, and his life and his art become more and more consumed by that obsession. Pain takes over reason, understanding […]

BEFORE THE FILM: Probe the creepy, cryptic, and stunning world of pathology with Brian D. Robinson, M.D, Chief of Surgical Pathology at Weill Cornell Medicine. NYC PREMIERE In a dark morgue one night, an unidentified suicide victim comes to life and hides nearby. The next day, Edward, the coroner who’s supposed to perform the autopsy, can’t […]

NYC PREMIERE Wendy works as a park ranger, but sometimes she’s a little sloppy at her job. She can be a little careless, a little too chill. When she gets an assignment to take care of the mountain trails that would mean being completely on her own way out in the woods, her friends try […]

BEFORE THE FILM: Get the inside dope on the world of stunts from New York’s hardest working stunt women, Kimmy Suzuki and Ai Ikeda. NYC PREMIERE To some, Zhang Yimou is a master of cinema known for such classic dramas as RAISE THE RED LANTERN, JU DO and TO LIVE.  But to others, Zhang is […]

AFTER THE TALK: Book signing! Heavy metal — the subject of Congressional hearings, its albums burned by church groups, its musicians taken to court and accused of playing a role in teen suicides again and again… that’s a whole lot of fear over music sung by men wearing too much eye shadow. But heavy metal […]

BEFORE THE FILM: Join us for an ice-cream social! NYC PREMIERE One thing to note before we say anything about FREAKS is that you really should know absolutely nothing about this film before seeing it. So you can either keep reading or just trust us and sign up for one of the wildest science fiction […]

BEFORE THE FILM: Stand-up comedy! Because who could have more fun with the idea of “why don’t you just die” than comedian Harrison Greenbaum (Last Comic Standing). NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE The term “Tarantinoesque” tends to bring to mind the legions of lackluster Tarantino wannabes that sprung from the wake of RESERVOIR DOGS and PULP FICTION, so […]

WORLD RESTORATION PREMIERE This 1970 American documentary takes us inside the infamous “Black House” in San Francisco, where the Church of Satan was established. We also get a glimpse of the neighborhood around it, more and more specifically of the none-too-pleased neighbors, who have quite a few things to say about that damned house. But […]

From the beginning, women have held a central role in the history of horror, fantasy, and suspense as creators, innovators, and consumers. But until recently, few have been afforded the opportunity to write and direct genre movies. Where once there was only a trickle of women’s voices leading major genre films — Katherine Bigelow’s Near […]

EAST COAST PREMIERE Fresh from its Sundance premiere, this deliciously twisted comedy is set in a demented, timeless suburbia where every adult wears braces on their straight teeth, couples coordinate meticulously pressed outfits, and coveted family members are swapped in more ways than one in a competition for acceptance. Based on their 2016 SXSW award-winning […]

NYC PREMIERE Ranch. Dipped. Chicken. Fingers. Co-presented by NYC Women Filmmakers. Screens before The Unthinkable.