Barely rested from the last film festival, here I am planing for the next one, the wonderful Fantasy Filmfest Nights (April 16-19) which impresses with a truly fantastic selection that makes me wish I could see all of the films featured. But the budget is tight, and time isn't endless, so I have to make choices. Although I made my choices generously, I probably still won't be able to see all of the pictures below, especially as I still have to go to work, notably on Saturday. The day is for working but we have nights to watch films and I'll try to fill them with screenings.
Let's take a look at which films stood out for me and their trailers.
Feels Like Home (Hungary 2025)
Another surprise by Attila Veres. Why? Because he's the screenwriter for "Feels Like Home", he wrote the movie! I was happy enough to find out that Valancourt issues a second short story collection by him this year (it should be out next week, I already preordered my copy) but now a movie too!
And, oh, this looks so good too... The synopsis says it's about a woman who leads a lonely life being kidnapped by a crazy family who claims she is one of them to give her the Budapest Chainsaw Massacre experience, and I'm all here for it. I'm expecting a really banger of an ending because that's Veres' forte, I can't wait to see this.
Good Boy (Poland, UK 2025)
Another kidnapping story, but it's an influencer who is being kidnapped and held in the cellar of a seemingly normal family. Apparently this one includes humor and social criticism, the Guardian praises it, but I'm not sure whether or not that's always a good thing. British movies (except for short films) tend to be hyped up a lot and turn out to be rather ordinary in the end, so let's see.
Kinki (Japan 2025)
No trailer for this one, and the description sounds rather mysterious too. But give me video archives of the lost editor of an occult magazine, and I'm all ears and eyes. This can't go wrong.
Nightborn / Yön Lapsi (Finnland etc. 2026)
I'm very happy to see Yön Lapsi here on this list because it is one of the films I missed during the past Berlinale because I couldn't find tickets, and because it's one of the few films in this year's FFF selection directed by a woman, Hanna Bergholm whose debut feature was a reproductive horror, HATCHING, and so is Yön Lapsi, Nightborn. The trailer gives chest constrictions, unsettling story, and a kind of thrill about creepy children that has its very own horrors.
The opening film of the festival is a film that has been causing waves of enthusiasm already, as all the horror people I follow are literally obsessed with it, but let's calm down. It's only a movie, as Wes Craven says. We are following a young man who makes a wish, which then comes true but it is, ultimately, not at all what he wants. But it's not reversible.
I was actually quite enjoying the mystery surrounding this movie and I'm not sure whether or not the trailer gives away too much, and whether or not Curry will be able to bring something fresh to this age old trope.
A little fun mixed with body horror never hurt anyone except the one whose body is in horror, and after the last FFF horror comedy I saw from New Zealand, Goremageddon, I was 100% satisfied, entertained, saturated, so I'm ready for more. Can't read much out of the trailer, though.
I'm not going to lie, I wasn't really considering watching this until I saw it's from the director of Relic, Natalie Erika James, plus she also made the wonderful Apartment 7A too. I only found this weird fan-made trailer, which doesn't really provide much information about this film, all we know is that there's a diet pill and it has side effects. It can go anywhere from there.
The Vile (UAE 2025)
Amani is upset when her husband brings a second wife to their house but her resistance is futile. Then scary things happen and there's a spaceship? Is the second wife an alien?
This looks super strange and mysterious and if only to solve that mystery I will go and see this, the director is very acclaimed too.
OK, so the idea of your own dead body coming from the future to haunt you is admittedly TERRIFYING! A group of stupid teenagers couldn't let it go, though, of course they can't, and activate the whistle that's supposed to do exactly that.
This is the second Irish film I'll be watching this year, and if it's as good as the first one (Fréwaka) then let's go.
Teenage Lucía and her deaf little brother Adrián are running away from their violent father and move into a run-down villa, where they can't find peace either. Looks like a thriller with minimal supernatural elements, and looks very watchable. As I recently found out, I quite like any horror from Argentina, so I'm actually excited to see this.
Well, about a month to go, but I'm already excited, and if it had been possible I would watch all of the movies - luckily recently Creepy Crypt shows nothing but FFF films, so there's a good chance I can see most of them anyway.
Amazing selection! Don't forget: tickets are available from tomorrow, March 20th, on.
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