Three years have handed since io9 traveled to Austin, Texas for per week of enjoyable, fucked up movies. The occasion is Fantastic Fest, one of many coolest, most original style movie festivals in your complete world—and this yr, it’s lastly again in full power. For a number of days, we’ll be spending hours upon hours at nighttime, watching largely films nobody outdoors of the pageant circuit has ever heard of. Which makes selecting troublesome. What bizarre, wacky films do you watch?

To assist, we undergo and examine each single film taking part in. Some of them, like Park Chan-wook’s Decision to Leave or Martin McDonagh’s The Banshees of Inisherin, are intriguing however will not be precisely movies we’d cowl on io9. Some, like the superb Somewhere within the Dirt, we’ve alprepared seen. But for the movies which are fantasy, sci-fi, horror, and extra, we simply go by our intestine. Does the premise sound interesing? Is the filmmaker thrilling? And slowly however absolutely, an inventory is shaped.

What follows are the highest 21 movies we’re excited to see at Fantastic Fest. Will we see all of them? Probably not. Will others rise to the highest? Of course. But both manner, this can be a nice sampling of simply how off the wall the pageant can get.