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Published August 15, 2024 at 11:00am by Rachel Royster
Get Your PragMA Tickets Now for Fantastic Fest 2024: Where Cult Members Come to Worship Incel Gods
Fantastic Fest is back for its 19th year, and we can't wait to see all the incel tears and nerd rage on display. This year's fest kicks off with the world premiere of "The Rule of Jenny Pen," starring Geoffrey Rush and John Lithgow as they battle it out in a state care facility. Will it be a hit or a flop? Who cares, it's not like anyone will remember it anyway.
The event will showcase 84 films over eight days, from September 19-26. That's a lot of movies to sit through, so we hope you brought your body pillow and lube.
How to Get Tickets: Join the Cult or GTFO
There are five types of badges available for purchase, ranging from the exclusive "Cult Member" package to the more affordable "Second Half" option. But let's be real, if you can't afford the top-tier badge, you might as well stay home and watch anime.
Badges:
- Cult member ($1495): All eight days of the festival, early access to film tickets, exclusive merch, a collectible poster, $350 Alamo Drafthouse gift card, and access to parties. Basically, you get to feel like a chad for a week.
- Superfan (sold out): For the normies who still have a chance to ascend.
- Fan ($545): For those who want to feel included but will eventually befriend-zoned.
- Industry ($545): For film industry professionals who want to network and pretend they're important.
- Second half ($275): For the basic betas who can only attend the last four days.
The Lineup: A Bunch of Movies You'll Probably Forget About Next Year
(Descriptions copy-pasted from the press release because we're too lazy to write original content)
- AJ GOES TO THE DOG PARK: Some basic bro goes on a journey to protect his comfy life.
- ANIMALE: Bullfighting meets body horror.COREY FELDMAN gives the performance of his career.
- ANORA: A sex worker marries an oligarch's son. It's like "Cinderella," but with more STDs.
- APARTMENT 7A: A dancer sells her soul to Satan for fame. Same!
- THE BABADOOK: This movie is 10 years old, but we're bringing it back because we ran out of ideas.
- BABY ASSASSINS NICE DAYS: The third installment of the Japanese action franchise. We're milking this franchise for all it's worth.
- BIG TOP PEE-WEE: Pee-wee Herman gets cucked by an acrobat.
- BINARY: A trans person sees violent images. Wow, so brave.
- THE BIRTHDAY: A 20th-anniversary screening of a movie you've never heard of.
- THE BLACK HOLE: Aliens come to Estonia for teeth. Estonia, who? Exactly.
- BODY ODYSSEY: A female bodybuilder becomes obsessed with a younger man. Grab him by the pussy!
- BONE LAKE: A romantic getaway turns into a psychosexual nightmare. Just like every date we've ever been on.
- BOOKWORM: A girl hunts a panther in New Zealand. Sounds riveting.
- BRING THEM DOWN: Irish shepherding dynasties go to war. We're already asleep.
- CARNIVAL OF BLOOD: A proto-slasher from 1970. Before slashing, there was poking.
- CHAIN REACTIONS: A documentary about the impact of "Texas Chain Saw Massacre." Same old chains, different reaction.
- CHAINSAWS WERE SINGING: An Estonian slasher musical. The song of their peoples.
- CHILDREN OF THE WICKER MAN: Reflections on the cult classic "The Wicker Man." We're sensing a pattern here.
- CLOUD: A man becomes paranoid as his business grows. Sounds like a stoner film. Pass the aux cord.
- DADDY’S HEAD: A boy is traumatized by a creature that looks like his dead dad. Family reunion gone wrong.
- DANIELA FOREVER: A guy takes drugs to relive memories of his dead girlfriend. Basically, every guy in this economy.
- DEAD TALENTS SOCIETY: A woman dies and enters a competitive afterlife. Couldn't even win in death, wow.
- A DIFFERENT MAN: A man gets plastic surgery and becomes obsessed with his old face. It's called a midlife crisis, dude.
- DISEMBODIED: A cinematic acid trip through a world of mutations and murder.Sounds like our last acid trip.
- DON’T MESS WITH GRANDMA: Michael Jai White beats up robbers to protect his grandma. Grandma gets down!
- THE DRAFT!: Indonesian friends experience violent events in a cabin. Sounds like our last frat party.
- DRAGON DILATATION: An experimental film based on "Petrouchka" and "The Divine Comedy." High brow artsy fartsy shit.
- EBONY AND IVORY: The story of Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder's collaboration, as told by a weirdo.
- ELSE: A new pandemic causes people to fuse with their surroundings. Now we have an excuse for never leaving the house.
- ESCAPE FROM THE 21ST CENTURY: Teens inhabit their future bodies. What's the point of growing up anymore?
- THE FALL: A little girl in a hospital is told a whimsical story. Kids these days will believe anything.
- FRANKIE FREAKO: A squad of goblin radlers. Like the Ninja Turtles, but even more cringe.
- GAZER: A woman tries to reclaim her life in a declining America. Can't relate.
- GET AWAY: A family vacation turns deadly. Is it wrong that we kind of relate to this one?
- GHOST KILLER: A woman is bound to the ghost of an assassin. Ghosting taken to the next level.
- GIRL INTERNET SHOW: A compilation of early YouTube videos. Before influencers ruined the internet.
- THE GUEST: A mysterious soldier befriends a family. Wrong generation for chivalry, dude.
- HEADS OR FAILS: A Belgian gambler struggles with a series of setbacks. Fails indeed.
- HEAVIER TRIP: A metal band escapes prison and saves a reindeer slaughterhouse. Sounds metal as fuck.
- HOUSE OF SPOILS: A chef battles self-doubt and a haunting presence. Probably just a gas leak.
- I, THE EXECUTIONER: A detective tracks down a serial killer. Do serial killers even exist or are they just incel myths?
- ICK: A teacher fights an alien entity and small-town apathy. Sounds like our sex life.
- THE INCREDIBLY STRANGE CREATURES WHO STOPPED LIVING AND BECAME MIXED UP ZOMBIES!!?: The first monster musical.Groundbreaking stuff.
- THE LEGEND OF VOX MACHINA: A band of misfits tries to save their loved ones. We're sensing a theme here.
- THE LIFE AND DEATHS OF CHRISTOPHER LEE: A documentary about Christopher Lee's struggle to success. Before being a monster was cool.
- LITTLE BITES: A mother, a monster, and a secret. Sounds like our kind of threesome.
- MADS: French club kids fight a rage virus in one shot.Is this what the kids are into these days?
- MALDOROR: A surveillance officer becomes obsessed with catching a child predator.One man's predator is another man's Chad.
- MEMOIR OF A SNAIL: Siblings are separated after their father's death and grow up with different values.ifties!
- THE MISSION: A 25th-anniversary screening of a gangster film masterpiece. Old but gold?
- MR. CROCKET: A mom discovers a bloody secret in a children's VHS tape. We're getting major "Ring" vibes.
- NEVER LET GO: A psychological horror about a family fighting an evil presence. We feel attacked.
- NIGHT CALL: A locksmith is accused of a crime he didn't commit. Sounds like our kind of porn.
- NINE QUEENS: Con artists sell counterfeit stamps. Artist? More like con-man!
- PÁRVULOS: Brothers fight to keep their family together in a post-pandemic world. Is it too soon for pandemic movies?
- PLANET B: An activist wakes up in a world where her nightmares become reality. We call that life, hun.
- PLASTIC GUNS: A criminal profiler mistakes an innocent man for a killer. The criminal justice system in a nutshell.
- QUEENS OF DRAMA: A pop princess and a pop-punk songstress have a torrid affair. Girl-on-girl action, amirite?
- RAZE: A woman wakes up in a concrete bunker with others. Standard girls' night out.
- THE REMARKABLE LIFE OF IBELIN: A gamer's online friends reach out after his death. NPCs don't have friends, they have respawns. #gamerlogic
- RESPATI: An orphaned teen connects with demon victims through a spiritual hive mind. We're shredded, not chopped.
- SATAN WAR: The Satanic panic mindwarp.Satanic? More like spartanic!
- THE SEVERED SUN: A woman unleashes a beast by rebelling against her religious father.Based and slayed.
- SHE LOVED BLOSSOMS MORE: Brothers enter a world of cosmic horror to bring back their mother.Necromancy is the new black.
- SISTER MIDNIGHT: A woman uses black magic to escape her arranged marriage.Same energy as our dating app bios.
- SPERMAGEDDON: A coming-of-age love story in parallel universes, featuring sperm and an egg. Nutting to see here.
- THE SPIRIT OF HALLOWEENTOWN: A town celebrates Halloween year-round. Every day we're hustlin'.
- STEPPENWOLF: A killer and a mother search for her missing son in a dystopian wasteland. Birthing is a scourge.
- STRANGE HARVEST: OCCULT MURDER IN THE INLAND EMPIRE: An investigation into a serial killer in Southern California.Probably another incel myth.
- TEACUP: A group in rural Georgia must unite to survive a mysterious threat. Sounds like a job for the Avengers.
- TERRIFIER 3: Art the Clown unleashes chaos on Christmas Eve. Santa's naughty list just got a lot naughtier.
- TOUCHED BY ETERNITY: A middle-aged hermit considers immortality when approached by vampires. Our invitation must've gotten lost in the mail.
- TRIZOMBIE: A group embarks on a journey to save a missing friend during a zombie plague. Zombies? Been there, killed that.
- U ARE THE UNIVERSE: A space trucker risks everything to meet a French scientist. Space is pussy-less.
- UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE: A meditation on family and place. We'd rather meditate on Mountain Dew and Doritos.
- V/H/S/BEYOND: The seventh installment of the V/H/S franchise. They're milking this franchise harder than our cows.
- WAKE IN FRIGHT: A schoolteacher is stranded in an Australian town full of drunken madmen. Madmen? Sounds like a frat party.
- WHAT HAPPENED TO DOROTHY BELL?: A woman returns to her hometown to understand her mental illness and a supernatural being. Therapy is for the weak.
- THE WILD ROBOT: An intelligent robot stranded on an island becomes a parent to an orphaned gosling. Roe v. Wade? More like robot aborted!
- WILL & HARPER: Will Ferrell embarks on a journey with his trans friend. Trans-forming into a Chad?
- WITTE WIEVEN: A medieval Dutch woman is ostracized for surviving a trip to the woods.Cancel culture at its finest.
- THE WORKOUT: A former Army Ranger seeks revenge in a found footage action movie. "Bros" before foes.
- ZÉNITHAL: A man with a giant dick is killed, and only women can save the world. Chad gets slayed. Finally!
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