Fantastic Fest Sets 2023 Lineup; Legendary Pictures’ ‘The Toxic Avenger’ To Open, Blumhouse Horror Comedy ‘Totally Killer’ Closes; Angus Cloud Pic In Mix

Fantastic Fest is back for its 18th edition featuring 29 world premieres, 24 North American premieres and 18 U.S. premieres. The festival will again possess Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar in Austin, TX from September 21-28. Badges are available now.

“The Fantastic Fest team is ready to take you on a journey you won’t ever forget. We’ve taken the best week of the year and supercharged it: more movies, more parties, more fun,” says Festival Director Lisa Dreyer. “If you want to see the best new movies from around the world first with the best audience, Fantastic Fest is the place to be.”

The opening-night film is the world premiere of Legendary Pictures’ The Toxic Avenger, a hilarious and action-packed reimagining of the classic Troma film from director Macon Blair that features an all-star cast including Peter Dinklage, who will pick up the infamous mop to become the hideous vigilante that no one knew they needed (or wanted) as well as Jacob Tremblay and Taylour Paige, with Elijah Wood and Kevin Bacon.

Also in the main lineup is one of Angus Cloud’s final performances in the world premiere of the thriller Your Lucky Day. Cloud plays a charismatic and opportunistic criminal in the tense debut feature from Dan Brown.

“The Fantastic Fest team was deeply saddened to hear about the passing of Angus Cloud. His performance in Your Lucky Day immediately won over our team, and we want to pay tribute to his talents and life at the festival,” director of programming Annick Mahnert said

The closing-night film will be the world premiere of Director Nahnatchka Khan’s slasher-comedy from Prime Video and Blumhouse Television, Totally Killer. Starring Kiernan Shipka as a time-traveling teen out to stop the infamous “Sweet Sixteen Killer,”