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Overlook Film Festival 2021–2022

8 titles12h 3m totalGhost Guide

The Overlook Film Festival is one of the world's premier celebrations of genre cinema — a gathering of horror devotees, filmmakers, and the films that haunt us. These titles screened at the 2021 and 2022 editions of the festival.

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Lake of the Dead

1958•1h 16m

20-23 August 1958: Crime Author Bernhard and his wife Sonja, psychoanalyst Kai, magazine editor Gabriel, lawyer Harald and his fiancée Liljan are six Oslo people who will visit Bjørn, Liljan's brother in his cabin deep in the Østerdal forests. But, when the guests arrive, Bjørn is missing and his dog is found dead at a pond nearby. It's not long before they begin to ponder the old legend that is associated with the place: a man is said to have killed his sister and her lover and then drowned himself in the lake. It is said that everyone who stays in the house-the murder's cabin-would be possessed by a strange attraction: They would be forced to drown themselves in the pond. The company decides to solve the mystery, but soon it appears that they are exposed to the mysterious, fascinating powers that are tied to the lake.

horror

6.8

Mad God

2022•1h 23m•Unrated

The Assassin travels through a nightmare underworld of tortured souls, ruined cities and wretched monstrosities forged from the primordial horrors of the unconscious mind of Phil Tippett, the world's preeminent stop-motion animator.

animationfantasy

6.8

The Black Phone

2022•1h 43m•R

Finney Shaw is a shy but clever 13-year-old boy who is abducted by a sadistic killer and trapped in a soundproof basement where screaming is of no use. When a disconnected phone on the wall begins to ring, Finney discovers that he can hear the voices of the killer's previous victims. And they are dead-set on making sure that what happened to them doesn't happen to Finney.

horrormystery

6.9

Resurrection

2022•1h 43m•R

A single mother living with her daughter is convinced that a mysterious man from her past, appearing in her environment, intends to bring tremendous violence into their lives. She embarks on a vigilante mission to protect her daughter.

crimedrama

5.9

Deadstream

2023•1h 27m•Not Rated

A disgraced internet personality attempts to win back his followers by livestreaming one night alone in a haunted house. But when he accidentally pisses off a vengeful spirit, his big comeback event becomes a real-time fight for his life.

comedyhorror

6.4

Saloum

2021•1h 24m

In 2003, a trio of mercenaries escaping a coup in Guinea-Bissau take refuge in a hidden region on the Saloum river of Senegal. But something from beyond the grave awaits them there.

actionhorror

6.2

Sleepwalkers

1992•1h 31m•R

Charles and his mother Mary move to a small Indiana town, having recently fled Bodega Bay, California after draining and killed a young girl there. They are sleepwalkers - they can change their appearance and they need the lifeforce from young women. Charles has picked out young girl Tanya, whom he meets at a local high school, as his next victim. He asks her out for a date and invites her home - however, she did not suspect his real interest in her. On their first date, a picnic at a nearby cemetery, he attempts to drain the lifeforce from her for himself and his mother.

fantasyhorror

5.3

Swallowed

2022•1h 36m•R

Follows two best friends on their final night together, with a nightmare of drugs, bugs, and horrific intimacy.

horrorthriller

5.3

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