Fantastic Fest 2010

TICKETS ON SALE NOW! Yuen Woo Ping, legendary director and martial arts choreographer, brings TRUE LEGEND, an epic tale of Su Can, Master of the Drunken Fist.

A small group of documentary filmmakers chronicle the trials and inequities faced by Mexican illegal immigrants. When they join a group of families crossing the border to record the experience firsthand, their truck is pulled over and detained. What happens next plunges the group into unimaginable horror.

Original Icelandic legend provides for 13 Santa Clauses, each of whom arrive in succession on different nights. But their Santas aren't as benevolent as ours, and tonight is the night for the one they call "Meathook."

You're likely already familiar with the classic monster films of Hollywood's golden age. Now, learn how tough it was to get those monsters to behave on camera!

What starts as a biker bash gone awry first gets unfathomably bloody before finally transcending into truly bizarre territory.

The latest hilarious heartwrecker from unstoppable animation force Don Hertzfeldt!

One of the very best films directed by Roger Corman, X: THE MAN WITH THE X-RAY EYES helped solidify his reputation in the U.S. and abroad as a vital, intelligent film-maker and not just a creator of cheap drive-in fare. Above all else, Corman's movies are designed to turn a profit, and in virtually every case they have, but there wouldn't be a long-lasting, devoted Corman cult if they were merely crass commercial product, devoid of ideas. His best films work equally well with sensation-seeking teenagers and those with a more refined palate. Case in point: X: THE MAN WITH THE X-RAY EYES, a film lauded by serious cinephiles from Austin to Paris. Roger Corman is justly proud of it as an exceptional piece of work that explores important ideas and has a tremendous impact as pure cinema. X tells the story of scientist Dr. James Xavier (Ray Milland) who develops a method for improving eyesight. But without funding for proper research he is compelled to test it on himself. Soon he finds he has such acute vision that he can actually see through things - women's clothing for instance. When, through an unfortunate chain of events, the doctor is forced to go underground his powers become both his salvation and a kind of torture. He uses his powers to heal the sick but as his power grows stronger he sees into death itself. He goes to Vegas and becomes a wiz at blackjack but his vision now penetrates the darkness of the human soul and he is transformed by the experience. He has seen too much. This was all very heavy stuff for the drive-ins, but it worked. Special praise is due Ray Milland, who gives a beautifully paced and nuanced performance in a very difficult role. When we asked Roger Corman if we could screen this film he was ecstatic, it is one of the two or three films that he is most proud of.

Zombie Roadkill follows a group of college kids driving on an unfamiliar winding road through a national park. They are heading for a weekend away at a national park. Unfortunately these protected woods are alive with the undead: wronged woodland creatures that have been reanimated as vengeful, murderous zombies!