Featuring a post-screening Q&A with director BT Meza, actress Jessica Rothe and additional cast/crew TBD.

Continuously struck with violent seizures that erase her recently created memories, Ellie (Jessica Rothe, HAPPY DEATH DAY films) repeatedly wakes to a life she doesn’t recognize and must fight through an amnesiac nightmare to discover the terrible truth of her affliction. Jessica Rothe delivers an impressive-as-hell viscerally physical performance in this fresh merging of sci-fi horror and time loop narratives, the latter of which Rothe can now definitively be labeled queen. —Joseph Hernandez

Featuring a post-screening Q&A with director David Kittredge.

On paper, it made a ton of sense: Hire the red-hot John Boorman, who was coming off the successes of POINT BLANK (1967) and DELIVERANCE (1972), to make a sequel to William Friedkin’s critically adored 1973 box office horror juggernaut THE EXORCIST. In practice, however, the resulting film, 1977’s EXORCIST II: THE HERETIC, turned out to be a disaster on every level. In the decades since, though, the tide has shifted a bit and the once-toxic sequel’s reputation has evolved. David Kittredge’s comprehensive and highly entertaining documentary BOORMAN AND THE DEVIL digs deep into the film’s promising origins, troubled production and overall complicated history with joyful aplomb, featuring candid interviews with Boorman and cast members Linda Blair and Louise Fletcher, as well as EXORCIST II apologists Mike Flanagan and Karyn Kusama. —Matt Barone

Starring: Lucy Fry, Matt Rife, Madeline Brewer, Cara Seymour

Featuring a post-screening Q&A with director Julie Pacino.

Rose is traumatized by a pregnancy that never should have happened. She ends up waiting to have a procedure in a hotel that feels unstuck from time and space. Surrounded by an eclectic group of guests and staff she falls further and further into a surreal dream world which she might not be able to escape. Julie Pacino creates a stunning vibrant world that is alluring yet maddening in her impressive first feature. —Tori Potenza

Starring: Raquel Lebish, Isadora Leiva, Lydia Fiore

After a traumatic event, Rowan is forced to live with her aunt in a remote island town. She distracts herself by searching increasingly disturbing videos. After discovering videos from a mysterious girl known as Fish Tooth she is sent down a dark path that she may not be able to pull herself out of. IT NEEDS EYES is an eerie internet horror that is full of creepy pasta vibes. —Tori Potenza

Local businesses duke it out by making increasingly unhinged commercials to outdo their competitors in one of the more bizarre films in the slate this year. If you love the surreal late night humor of Adult Swim, you will love Simon Glassman’s experimental feature BUFFET INFINITY. Watch the world slowly descend into a Lovecraftian fever dream and have a blast doing it. —Tori Potenza

Starring: Olivia Taylor Dudley, Riley Dandy, Shayn Herndon, Jordan Lane Shappell, Molly Jackson

Beatrice (Olivia Taylor Dudley) lives an isolated life in rural Arkansas, recovering from the traumas of being in a cult. Upon receiving the news that her former cult’s leader has been released from prison, Beatrice contends with past demons and reconcile with her past life’s myriad emotional minefields, including a complicated relationship with fellow cult member Abigail (Riley Dandy). Undeniably dark and unnerving yet also tender and powerful, writer-director Cassie Keet’s ABIGAIL BEFORE BEATRICE is a devastating entry into cult horror, one that’s as interested in generating empathy as it is leaving its viewers rattled. —Matt Barone

Featuring a post-screening Q&A with writer/director James Ross II.

Riley suffers from disturbing night terrors where a demonic entity hunts her through a hellish maze. When her best friend suddenly goes missing, she fears the demon may have followed her into the real world. Ambitious and certifiably creepy, PARASOMNIA is a smartly structured and visually haunting feature debut from James Ross II. —Joseph Hernandez

Starring: Steve Oram, Margaux Dietrich, Sahajak Boonthanakit

A British pastor, living in Bangkok with his wife and young daughter, sees his tranquil life upended when a viral video showing extreme animal cruelty leads to his daughter’s kidnapping. To find and rescue her, he’ll have to put his faith to the test and confront the city’s darkest corners. No stranger to savage and bleak storytelling, iconoclastic British filmmaker Simon Rumley (RED, WHITE & BLUE; BHFF 2017 selection FASHIONISTA) plunges viewers straight down into the depths of mankind’s depravity and emerges with one of the grimmest yet most profound psychological horror films of the year. —Matt Barone

Left with severe memory loss following a horrific accident, Diana enters a mysterious experimental treatment plan with the support of her loving husband Homer. The isolation of the hospital, peculiar methods and exceedingly delirious visions lead Diana to wonder, what the hell is really going on here? Quirky and inventive dark fantasy grounded in comically relatable relationship dynamics, HONEY BUNCH marks an exciting sophomore effort for directors Madeleine Sims-Fewer and Dusty Mancinelli and a beastly acting showcase for rising star Grace Glowicki. —Joseph Hernandez