Fantastic Fest Announces The 2013 Fantastic Fest Tour

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Fantastic Fest — the nation's largest genre film festival — is pleased to announce the Fantastic Fest Tour, which will take place at all Alamo Drafthouse markets over three weekends in November.  Fantastic Fest has partnered with Drafthouse Films, Magnet Releasing, and Well Go USA to present audience favorites from the films that played at Fantastic Fest 2013.  The Fantastic Fest tour is designed to highlight these independent titles, and give discerning and adventurous filmgoers across the nation the opportunity to enjoy unique works well before their theatrical and/or online release.

"We wanted to bring the excitement of Fantastic Fest to other cities around the country," said Alamo Drafthouse and Fantastic Fest founder Tim League.  "Genre film fans will get a sneak peak at this year's hands-down craziest and wickedly enjoyable movies."

The inaugural 2013 Fantastic Fest Tour will consist of the following titles.  For exact locations, showtimes and tickets please visit- http://drafthouse.com/packages/fantastic-fest-2013-tour

 

BIG BAD WOLVES

Directors: Navot Papushado and Aahron Keshales

2013, Israel, 110 min

The directing team behind the 2010 cult smash RABIES return to the screen their unique blend or horror, suspense and droll comedy. Iconic director Quentin Tarantino recently called BIG BAD WOLVES "the best film of the year."

 

BORGMAN

Director: Alex Van Warmerdam

2013, The Netherlands, 113 min

Something wicked this way comes in the form of the polite and the normal as a drifter and his followers invade the home of a bourgeois family.  Borgman is the official Netherlands entry for the Academy Award Best Foreign Language Film. Jessica Kiang of Indiewire describes BORGMAN as "[c]austic, surreal, creepy, and blackly funny."

 

CHEAP THRILLS

Director: E.L Katz

2013, USA, 85 min

A recently fired father (Pat Healy) facing eviction is paid to take on an escalating series of insane challenges from a rich couple (David Koechner and Sara Paxton) with a twisted sense of humor. "[Cheap Thrills] is many things: original, satirical, violent, funny….Consider yourself warned," said Complex.com's Matt Barone. "Genre flicks this unique, daring, and perversely thoughtful don't come around very often."

 

CONFESSION OF MURDER

Director: Jeong Byeong Gil

2012, South Korea, 119 min

After the statute of limitations expires on a series of high profile murders, a man writes a book claiming to be the killer, setting off a firestorm of media attention as the families of the dead and the cop in charge of the case hunt for justice.  Film School Rejects says the film "melds intense drama, exhilarating action, and honest heart into one hell of a ride."  

 

THE CONGRESS

Director: Ari Folman

2013, Israel, 123 min

Robin Wright (playing a version of herself) receives the last offer she'll ever get from a Hollywood studio in Ari Folman's adaptation of Stanislaw Lem's classic sci-fi novel, and his follow-up to the animated WALTZ WITH BASHIR.  Also stars John Hamm and Harvey Keitel. Empire Online's Damon Wise describes THE CONGRESS as an "extraordinary and very touching film that exists somewhere in the twilight zone between the existential brainteasers of Charlie Kaufman and the psychedelic wonders of Hayao Miyazaki.

 

GRAND PIANO

Director: Eugenio Mira

2013, Spain, 90 min

In this Fantastic Fest 2013 Audience Award winner, a renowned concert pianist (Elijah Wood) returns to the stage for one final performance, only to become the target of a sadistic cat-and-mouse game with a faceless sniper (John Cusack).  IGN calls GRAND PIANO "Hugely entertaining-an acting and directing tour de force that holds the viewer in its vice-like grip from start to finish."

 

JOURNEY TO THE WEST: CONQUERING THE DEMONS

Directors: Stephen Chow and Chi-Kin Kwok

2013, China, 110 min

The undisputed Chinese master of comedy, Stephen Chow (SHAOLIN SOCCER; KUNG FU HUSTLE) returns with an action-packed love story about competing demon hunters vying for the same conquests. Badass Digest says the film is "a monster-iffic blast. Outstandingly entertaining – you will laugh your ass off."

 

WHY DON'T YOU PLAY IN HELL

Director: Sion Sono

2013, Japan, 126 min

Things get insanely bloody when an aspiring film troupe collides with a yakuza boss who wants to make a movie with his daughter, Fantastic Fest veteran Sion Sono's (LOVE EXPOSURE; SUICIDE CLUB) latest has been called "a madcap salute to cinema and yakuzas" by Debra Young of The Hollywood Reporter.

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