Beyond Fest 2021
After a successful 2020 swing at a drive-in festival experience, Los Angeles’ biggest genre fest Beyond Fest has announced its full slate for its next outing. The fest will see 39 features, including 8 world premieres, 4 US premieres, and 17 West Coast Premieres, coming to theaters for a 10-day run spanning September 29th through October 11th. The festival is partnering with the American Cinematheque, where Beyond Fest will screen at the Legion Theatre, Aero Theatre, and Los Feliz 3 with all ticket sales going to the 501c3 non-profit film institution. Attendance to all screenings require physical proof of vaccination and guests must follow mandatory mask mandates.
This year the fest boasts some of the most highly anticipated genre films of the year, opening with the West Coast Premiere of Julia Ducornau’s Palme d’Or Winner Titane at the Hollywood Legion Theater with the director in attendance. Blumhouse has lined up Halloween Kills alongside Scott Derrickson and C. Robert Cargill’s The Black Phone (based on the Joe Hill story).
The fest also sees A24’s Cannes entry Lamb in its West Coast Premiere, alongside auteur Gaspar Noé’s highly anticipated Vortex among others. There will also be a celebration of the works of Michael Mann with the director in attendance, and restorations of both Blood for Dracula and A Clockwork Orange.
The festival’s excellent full slate of offerings are below:
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BEYOND FEST 2021 PROGRAM
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TITANE West Coast Premiere
Director: Julia Ducournau
Country: France, Belgium
Runtime: 108 minutes
Year: 2021
GUESTS: Director Julia Ducournau in person
HALLOWEEN KILLS US Premiere
Director: David Gordon Green
Country: USA
Runtime: 106 Minutes
Year: 2021
GUESTS: Director David Gordon Green and producer Jason Blum in person
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MUBI THEATRE at the Aero Theatre
LAMB West Coast Premiere
Director: Valdimar Jóhannsson
Country: Iceland, Sweden, Poland
Runtime: 106 minutes
Year: 2021
GUESTS: Director Valdimar Jóhannsson and actor Noomi Rapace in person
NEW YORK NINJA World Premiere
Director: John Liu
Country: USA
Runtime:
Year: 1984
GUESTS: Actors Cynthia Rothrock, Leon Isaac and Adrienne Meltzer, Producer Kurtis Spieler and Brad Henderson in person
FREDDY VS. JASON Repertory Screening
Director: Ronny Yu
Country: USA
Runtime: 97 minutes
Year: 2003
GUESTS: Writers Mark Swift and Damian Shannon in person
YOU’RE NEXT Repertory Screening
Director: Adam Wingard
Country: USA
Runtime: 94 minutes
Year: 2011
GUESTS: Director Adam Wingard and Writer Simon Barrett in person
EVIL DEAD Repertory Screening
Director: Fede Álvarez
Country: USA
Runtime: 96 minutes
Year: 2013
GUESTS: Director/Co-Writer Fede Álvarez in person
V/H/S 94 West Coast Premiere
Director: Jennifer Reeder, Simon Barrett, Timo Tjahjanto, Chloe Okuno, Ryan Prows
Country: USA
Runtime: 101 minutes
Year: 2021
GUESTS: Director Simon Barrett, Chloe Okuno, Ryan Prows, Producers Brad Miska, Josh Goldbloom and composer Greg Anderson in person
V/H/S Repertory Screening
Director: Adam Wingard, David Bruckner, Ti West, Glenn McQuaid, Joe Swanberg, Radio Silence
Country: USA
Runtime: 116 minutes
Year: 2012
GUESTS: Director Simon Barrett in person
MAD GOD West Coast Premiere
Director: Phil Tippett
Country: USA
Runtime: 83 minutes
Year: 2021
GUESTS: Director Phil Tippett in person
STARSHIP TROOPERS Repertory Screening
Director: Paul Verhoeven
Country: USA
Runtime: 129 minutes
Year: 1997
GUESTS: Phil Tippett in person
COLLATERAL Repertory Screening
Director: Michael Mann
Country: USA
Runtime: 120 minutes
Year: 2004
GUESTS: Director Michael Mann in person
THIEF Repertory Screening
Director: Michael Mann
Country: USA
Runtime: 122 minutes
Year: 1981
GUESTS: Director Michael Mann in person
VORTEX West Coast Premiere
Director: Gaspar Noé
Country: France
Runtime: 144 minutes
Year: 2021
GUESTS: Director Gaspar Noé in virtual Q&A
POSSESSION West Coast Premiere – 4K Restoration
Director: Andrzej Żuławski
Country: France, Germany
Runtime: 124 minutes
Year: 1981
THE EMPTY MAN Repertory Screening
Director: David Prior
Country: USA
Runtime: 137 minutes
Year: 2020
GUESTS: Director David Prior in person
BLACK PHONE West Coast Premiere
Director: Scott Derrickson
Country: USA
Runtime: 102 minutes
Year: 2021
GUESTS: Director Scott Derrickson in person
BLOOD FOR DRACULA Repertory Screening
Director: Paul Morrisey
Country: Italy, France
Runtime: 106 minutes
Year: 1974
GUESTS: Actor Udo Kier in person
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SHUDDER THEATRE at the Los Feliz 3
WOODLANDS DARK AND DAYS BEWITCHED: A HISTORY OF FOLK HORROR West Coast Premiere
Director: Kier-La Janisse
Country: USA
Runtime: 194 minutes
Year: 2021
ALLISON’S BIRTHDAY World Premiere – 4K Restoration
Director: Ian Coughlan
Country: Australia
Runtime: 97 minutes
Year: 1981
SOUTH OF HEAVEN World Premiere
Director: Aharon Keshales
Country: USA
Runtime: 120 minutes
Year: 2021
GUESTS: Director Aharon Keshales in person
THE SPINE OF NIGHT West Coast Premiere
Director: Morgan Galen King, Philip Gelatt
Country: USA
Runtime: 93 minutes
Year: 2021
GUESTS: Actor Patton Oswalt in person
CODE NAME: NAGASAKI West Coast Premiere
Director: Fredrik Hana
Country: Norway
Runtime: 70 minutes
Year: 2021
DR. CALIGARI US Premiere – 4K Restoration
Director: Stephen Sayadian
Country: USA
Runtime: 80 minutes
Year: 1989
GUESTS: Director Stephen Sayadian, Writer Jerry Stahl, Director of Photography Ladi von Jansky
TOMBS OF THE BLIND DEAD West Coast Premiere – Uncut Restoration
Director: Amando de Ossorio
Country: France, Portugal
Runtime: 101 minutes
Year: 1972
THE FEAST West Coast Premiere
Director: Lee Haven Jones
Country: UK
Runtime: 93 minutes
Year: 2021
SALOUM West Coast Premiere
Director: Jean Luc Herbulot
Country: Senegal, Congo
Runtime: 84 minutes
Year: 2021
THE SCARY OF SIXTY-FIRST US Premiere
Director: Dasha Nekrasova
Country: USA
Runtime: 81 minutes
Year: 2021
THE SEED World Premiere
Director: Sam Walker
Country: UK
Runtime:
Year: 2021
THE BETA TEST West Coast Premiere
Director: Jim Cummings
Country: USA
Runtime: 93 minutes
Year: 2021
THE MEDIUM US Premiere
Director: Banjong Pisanthanakun
Country: Thailand, South Korea
Runtime: 131 minutes
Year: 2021
EARWIG US Premiere
Director: Lucile Hadžihalilović
Country: France, Belgium, UK
Runtime: 114 minutes
Year: 2021
HOMEBOUND West Coast Premiere
Director: Sebastian Goodwin
Country: UK
Runtime: 75 minutes
Year: 2021
SECRET SCREENING xxxxxxxx Premiere
Director: xxxx xxxxxxxxx
Country: xx
Runtime: xxxxx minutes
Year: 2021
THE SADNESS West Coast Premiere
Director: Rob Jabbaz
Country: Taiwan
Runtime: 99 minutes
Year: 2021
A BANQUET West Coast Premiere
Director: Ruth Paxton
Country: UK
Runtime: 97 minutes
Year: 2021
AFTER BLUE (DIRTY PARADISE) West Coast Premiere
Director: Bertrand Mandico
Country: France
Runtime: 127 minutes
Year: 2021
TRAVELLING LIGHT World Premiere
Director: Bernard Rose
Country: USA
Runtime: 90 minutes
Year: 2021
GUESTS: Director Bernard Rose, Actor Danny Houston, Tony Todd, Olivia D’Abo, Stephen Dorf and Matthew Jacob in person
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IFC MIDNIGHT SCREENINGS
ANTICHRIST Director: Lars Von Trier
Country: Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Sweden
Runtime: 108 minutes
Year: 2009
THE AUTOPSY OF JANE DOE Director: André Øvredal
Country: USA, UK
Runtime: 86 minutes
Year: 2016
KILL LIST Director: Ben Wheatley
Country: UK
Runtime: 95 minutes
Year: 2011
BABADOOK Director: Jennifer Kent
Country: Australia
Runtime: 91 minutes
Year: 2014
BERBERIAN SOUND STUDIO Director: Peter Strickland
Country: UK
Runtime: 94 minutes
Year: 2014
MANIAC Director: Franck Khalfoun
Country: USA
Runtime: 89 minutes
Year: 2012
