PARTNER FESTIVAL: TOHORROR FANTASTIC FILM FEST
Thursday, September 25th at 8:00 PM
TAMBERLICK CINEMAS
This year we have the honor of having TOHorror Fantastic Film Fest (Italy) as our partner festival.
The TOHorror Fantastic Film Fest is one of Italy’s most important festivals dedicated to genre cinema. Born in 1999 with the blessing of an exceptional godfather, Dario Argento, it is based in the city of Turin, Italy. Proudly independent since its founding, it has been reinventing itself over the years, evolving from an event linked solely to Italian underground horror cinema to become an international heterogeneous festival that each year presents dozens of works from the most disparate corners of the globe, including both feature films and short films by both emerging and established filmmakers, dedicated to everything related to horror, science fiction, fantasy, thriller, dark comedy, grotesque, weird, surreal…
One of TOHorror’s objectives is to contribute to spreading new talented and independent voices in the genre cinema scene. Alongside films by established filmmakers, the festival program annually presents many works by debut directors or second-time filmmakers. In recent years they have had the honor and pleasure of presenting alternative gems and formidable debuts in Italy such as “Red Rooms” by Pascal Plante, “Saint Maud” by Rose Glass, “The Sadness” by Rob Jabbaz, “Skinamarink” by Kyle Edward Ball, “Eight Eyes” by Austin Jennings, “Abruptio” by Evan Marlowe, “Amulet” by Romola Garai, “One Cut of the Dead” by Shinichiro Ueda, “We’re All Going to the World’s Fair” by Jane Schoenbrun, “Voidcaller” by Nils Alatalo, “Mad Heidi” by Johannes Hartmann and Sandro Klopfstein and many others.
In addition to feature films, the Short Films and Animation Short Films sections are definitely one of the festival’s cornerstones: more than 50 shorts are selected each year, bringing to light some of the most promising emerging filmmakers in the contemporary fantastic and horror cinema landscape.
Being a transversal event, TOHorror starts with films and then explores all possible modern media, with the aim of analyzing current society through the distorting lens of fantastic culture.
Thus, through screenings, meetings with guests (in recent years: Robert Morgan, Dave McKean, Richard Stanley, Jean Rollin, Dario Argento, Ruggero Deodato, Hélène Cattet & Bruno Forzani, Miguel Angel Martin, Klaus Maeck, André Bonzel…), live music, art exhibitions, comic presentations, talks, roundtables and wild parties, we manage to experience reality through the most unbridled imagination.
The 24th edition of TOHorror was held in October 2024, presenting Italian premieres of such great films as “In A Violent Nature” by Chris Nash, “Oddity” by Damian McCarthy, “Sayara” by Can Evrenol, “Else” by Thibault Emin, “Animale” by Emma Benestan, “Steppenwolf” by Adilkhan Yerzhanov, “Krazy House” by Steffen Haars & Flip Van der Kuil, “Spermageddon” by Tommy Wirkola & Rasmus Sivertsen, “So Unreal” by Amanda Kramer and many, many others; as well as an extensive programming of incredible animation and live-action short films.
TOHORROR SELECTION
Anechoique
Enzo Croisier
Pierre is a very professional person, in all circumstances. But this time, he wasn’t expecting to have to give so much of himself…
- Prix CNC Talent du court-métrage web, 47º Le COURT – Festival international du court métrage de Clermont-Ferrand (Francia, 2025)
- 28º TAFFF – The American French Film Festival (EUA, 2024)
- 17º FEFFS – Festival Européen du Film Fantastique de Strasbourg (Francia, 2024)
Harvest Bowl
Cody Kostro
A salacious secret is uncovered in a nineteenth century New England farming village.
- 49º Athens International Film and Video Festival (Grecia, 2022)
- 22º Calgary International Film Festival (Canadá, 2021)
- 20º San Diego International Film Festival (EUA, 2021)
- 52º Nashville Film Festival (EUA, 2021)
Stuck
David Mikalson
A gymnastics coach must deal with a man who has taken an interest in the young girls she coaches. When the creep makes a bold move, the coach responds with an even bolder one.
- Best International Short, 18º Calgary Underground Film Festival 8Canadá, 2021)
- Mellor Guión, 5º Madeira Fantastic FilmFest (Portugal, 2021)
- HIFF Award, 12º Horrible Imaginings Film Festival (EUA, 2021)
- 6º Nightmares Film Festival (EUA, 2020)
We Forgot About the Zombies
Chris Mcinroy
Two men, hiding in a barn during a zombie invasion, think they've found a vaccine.
- Mellor Micro-Curtametraxe, 17º Atlanta Horror Film Festival (EUA, 2023)
- 37º SXSW – South by Southwest Film Festival (EUA, 2023)
- 27º Fantasia Film Festival (Canadá, 2023)
- 15º Milwaukee International Film Festival (EUA, 2023)
Waka Chika Waka
Ryan Clausen
Things take an unexpected turn when two young women hire a skeezy plumber to fix the kitchen sink.
- Mellor Comedia de Terror, 5º Austin Micro Film Festival (EUA, 2023)
- 4º B Beside The Seaside (Reino Unido, 2023)
- 15º Knoxville Horror Film Fest (EUA, 2023)
- 11º Grindhouse Nights Film Fest (EUA, 2023)
Killer in the house
Kris Carr e Sam Fowler
Two friends hide under their kitchen table when a masked killer invades their home.
- 25º Calgary International Film Festival (Canadá, 2024)
The flute
Nick Roney
Fleeing a long-term relationship, a young man seeks refuge with his best friends. After discovering their strange instruments, he’ll learn the bachelor lifestyle is not as sweet as it sounds.
Para lo que me queda en el convento
Ángel Quel
According to legend, whoever sees the Santa Compaña in procession will die within a year. 65-year-old Lucita saw such a vision last year, and she’s now waiting for her opportunity to visit her son Vicente… in hell.
- 38º Leeds International Film Festival (Reino Unido, 2024)
- 21º FIFCA – Festival International du Film Court d'Angoulême (Francia, 2024)
- 11º FANTAELX | Festival Internacional de Cine Fantástico de Elche (España, 2023)
- 16º Up and Coming International Film Festival (Alemaña, 2023)