Japanese sex dolls, Belgian black-market beef and Korean-created aliens in bathing suits will touch down at this year's Fantastic Fest genre film festival in Austin, Texas.
"Fantastic Fest is my extended dysfunctional family," said festival director and Alamo Drafthouse Cinema co-founder Tim League in a press release. "Each of us completely obsessed by the wildest and weirdest films on earth."
Described by organizers as "a film festival with the boring parts cut out," the annual gathering of movie nerds and filmmakers celebrates sci-fi, action and fantasy genres. The first batch of titles, announced this week, includes genre oddities from Japan, Belgium, Mexico, Russia, Hong Kong, Korea and the United States.
Among this year's fresh films:
• Yakuza Weapon (2011) marks the return of star/co-director Tak Sakaguchi, who will appear at Fantastic Fest to talk about his performance as a Japanese gangster with a machine-gun arm and a rocket-launcher leg.
• Bullhead (2011), directed by Michael R. Roskam and set in Belgium, examines the illicit beef hormone and steroid addiction, complicated by repressed memory syndrome.
• Invasion of Alien Bikini (2011), shot for less than $5,000 by Korean director Oh Young-Doo, pictures scantily clad aliens with expertise in martial arts.
• Body Temperature (2011), from director Takaomi Ogata, follows a young man’s creepy love affair with a life-size sex doll.
The eight-day festival, which opens Sept. 22, also pulls from the past, with a digitally restored print of Lucio Fulci's 1981 Italian gorefest The House by the Cemetery and other genre classics.
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