Fantastic Fest 2012 Recap

Fantastic Fest is the largest genre film festival in the U.S., specializing in horror, fantasy, sci-fi, action and just plain fantastic movies from all around the world. In years past we have presented the world premieres of THERE WILL BE BLOOD, APOCALYPTO, CITY OF EMBER, ZOMBIELAND, and GENTLEMEN BRONCOS, while our guest roster has included such talent as Mel Gibson, Bill Murray, Dolph Lundgren, Jemaine Clement, Paul Rudd, Bill Pullman, Paul Thomas Anderson, Kevin Smith, Jon Favreau, George Romero, Darren Aronofsky and Mike Judge. We also feature world, national and regional premieres of new, up-and-coming genre films.

More Fantastic Videos

  • Fantastic Fest: Data Pop
    Austin's premiere celebration of 8-Bit music and culture, this pulse-pounding concert features six of the world's leading musicians and two top visualists all employing a plethora of low-res technology. Come dance the night away to music made by everything from classic Amigas to original Nintendo Gameboys.
  • Fantastic Debates - Tim League, Honorary Blackbelt
    Grandmaster Y.K. Kim forces Tim League to endure a series of strength trials for the honor to fight him. The reward if he succeeds? Tim becomes and honorary Black Belt master himself. Quench your thirst for blood AND intellectual disputation with another installment of the Fantastic Debates, where the burning questions facing the fan community are resolved once and for all via formal debate followed by in-ring fisticuffs.
  • Fantastic Fest 2012: AFTERSHOCK Red Carpet
    Chile has it all: gorgeous landscapes, smokin'- hot women, cool dudes, great wine, and the wildest parties. For a hapless American tourist, nicknamed Gringo (Eli Roth) by his two Chilean pals Ariel (Ariel Levy) and Pollo (Nicolás Martínez), the trip has been heaven on earth — except that he just can't hook up with the ladies. Gringo's luck seems to change when the group meets a trio of babes — Russian model Irina (Natasha Yarovenko), non-stop party girl Kylie (Lorenza Izzo) and her serious sister Monica (Andrea Osvárt) — who agree to accompany them on a trip to the coastal town of Valparaíso. The new friends are having the best of times whooping it up in a dance club, until a violent earthquake brings the entire city down around them. With this one- time paradise now a landscape of death and destruction that's seething with terror and panic, our unlucky heroes must run for their lives from looters, escaped convicts, and the inevitable aftershocks.
  • Fantastic Fest 2012 THE AMERICAN SCREAM Q&A
    Chances are you've come across one in your lifetime. Your neighbor may be one. Your co-worker may be one. There could even be one in your family. Sometimes they operate alone and sometimes they involve their loved ones. The moment they wait for is over in what seems like the blink of an eye but there can be months of planning, designing and building leading up to a night of terror. These people are home haunters.
  • Tim goes to the Mayor - OFFICIAL Fantastic Fest Week Proclamation
    Austin Mayor Lee Leffingwell makes September 20-27th the official City of Austin Fantastic Fest Week. Tim League visited the Mayor to find out what exactly that entails in this clip that opened the 2012 Fantastic Fest Award Show.
  • Fantastic Fest 2012 LOOPER Red Carpet
    In the futuristic action thriller Looper, time travel will be invented -- but it will be illegal and only available on the black market. When the mob wants to get rid of someone, they will send their target 30 years into the past, where a "looper" -- a hired gun, like Joe (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) -- is waiting to mop up. Joe is getting rich and life is good... until the day the mob decides to "close the loop," sending back Joe's future self (Bruce Willis) for assassination.
  • Fantastic Fest THE COLLECTION Red Carpet
    In this sequel to THE COLLECTOR, our favorite victim-hoarding serial killer chooses a new specimen and his previous quarry Arkin leads a strike team into The Collector's lair on a rescue mission.
  • Fantastic Fest DREDD 3D Slow Mo Booth #12
    Fantastic Fest, DREDD 3D and RealD 3D teamed up at Fantastic Fest 2012 to give fans a unique experience with the unparalleled Phantom Camera. The Phantom's 2500fps slow motion capabilities allowed fans and artists at Fantastic Fest a chance to experience the photo booth on a new and more personal level. See DREDD 3D in RealD 3D in theaters Friday, September 21. @mattgoldberg