Fantastic Fest , the United States’ largest genre film festival celebrating horror, sci-fi, fantasy and action cinema, has announced the 2025 lineup of features for its 20th anniversary edition, taking place Sep. 18-25 at the Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar in Austin , Texas.

This year’s festival will feature 78 feature films, from highly anticipated studio tentpoles to independent and emergent gems. The program will also include special events championing genre films and short film packages to be announced at a later date.

The festival is bookended by two world premieres. Opening night will show Paramount’s “Primate,” the original vacation-gone-wrong horror film directed by Johannes Roberts and starring Johnny Sequoyah and Troy Kotsur. The film will hit theaters Jan. 9, 2026. Closing ni

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