The fifth Overlook Film Festival is just around the corner ahead of its June 2 kick-off and the full-line up is still available with more information at the website on how to participate. In the meantime, there are at least five titles that fans should look forward to in our curtain raiser below, including Phil Tippet’s long-awaited dystopian sci-fi magnum opus, Mad God, which is coming soon to AMC’s Shudder.
Read on!
MAD GOD
Phil Tippet | 2021 | USA | 84 min
Legendary animator and VFX wizard Phil Tippett makes his long awaited feature directorial debut with a stop-motion, Miltonesque fever dream that follows an assassin into a labyrinthian city full of monster and creeps.
SALOUM
Jean Luc Herbulot | 2021 | Senegal | 84 min
When a group of mercenaries transporting both a fugitive and a bounty they stole find themselves stranded in a remote region of Senegal, they begin to realize there a much more potent fears out in the unknown in this action-packed, twisty genre bender.
THE SUMMONED
World Premiere
Filmmakers in Person
Mark Meir | 2022 | USA | 86 min
Two high profile couples learn the true price of success and inheritance when they discover just how exclusive the self-help seminar they’ve attended is in this nasty piece of evil business from newcomer Mark Meir.
ZALAVA
Arsalan Amiri | 2021 | Iran | 93 min
A military official’s skepticism gets a rude awakening when he travels to a rural village reportedly possessed by a demon in this chilling, critically acclaimed Iranian tale of the line between faith and paranoia.
HYPOCHONDRIAC
Filmmakers in Person
Addison Heimann | 2022 | USA | 96 min
The life of a young, gay potter begins to spin out of control when he realizes he’s losing control of his bodily functions while being haunted by an unknown presence tied to his past in this blistering, erotic spookfest
