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SUMMARY:Fantastic Fest 2026 — Austin\, TX
DESCRIPTION:Winning Best Film here means your movie is genuinely\, get-under-your-skin frightening -- because the whole point of this place is the horror\, science fiction\, and genre film that would never survive a studio committee. For eight days the Alamo Drafthouse in Austin turns into the strangest week of the year in a city that specializes in strange.\n\nThe Drafthouse means dinner and drinks arrive at your seat during the film. The selection spans international premieres and US debuts under a curatorial ethos that prizes the weird over the safe and refuses to be rigid about genre -- the umbrella covers anything that warrants the word. Secret screenings are the festival's signature: you sit down not knowing what you are about to watch\, and the audience often does not learn the title until moments before it starts. Between films there are trivia nights\, drag shows\, karaoke\, live bands\, and stunts that have included burying audience members alive and staging sideshow performances.\n\nIf your opinions about horror and cult cinema run ahead of the mainstream\, this is your event -- and this is the 21st edition\, a scrappy Austin experiment that became the definitive American destination for genre film\, the place where the most adventurous versions of these genres get their first real audience. Films that premiere here regularly go on to win awards and pull strong box office months later. Sitting in that auditorium surrounded by people who drove in from five states for this one week is the feeling that makes the badge worth every dollar.\n\nSend this to the friend who has watched everything and is still hunting for something that scares them. Fantastic Fest runs September 17 to 24. Fan Badges cover the full eight days\; Second-Half Badges run September 21 to 24 and include parties and Highball access at the venue adjacent to the Drafthouse\; Industry Badges cover daily press and industry screenings. The Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar runs multiple simultaneous screenings across several auditoriums\, which gives you real choices when your schedule collides with itself. Badge categories sell out early and secret-screening seats fill fastest\, so arrive early if you want one. Check fantasticfest.com for current availability.
LOCATION:Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar\, 1120 S Lamar Blvd\, Austin\, TX 78704
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