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Fantastic Fest, San Francisco September 28-October 1, 2017
« on: September 01, 2017, 05:06:01 PM »
I know I've seen the one in Austin mentioned on the forum. The badge situation is pretty confusing, some badges went on sale at noon today, which I missed. But the system is letting you buy them for the next sale on 9/6. $75 each, don't know if there is any difference between the badges.

The official page doesn't help clear it up, "Tickets for these shows will go on sale Wednesday September 7th at 1pm EST. A limited number of badges for the San Francisco Fantastic Fest will go on sale today at 12pm PST."

There is one "surprise movie", others are:
   AGFA Presents: Mystery Movie
   Brawl In Cell Block 99
   Hagazussa
   Jailbreak
   My Friend Dahmer
   The Square
   Top Knot Detective

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Re: Fantastic Fest, San Francisco September 28-October 1, 2017
« Reply #1 on: September 07, 2017, 11:20:48 AM »
Tickets are on sale for some of the films (at the link above.) People that bought badges were able to book seats on Monday, I'll post about that later, but it looks like there are seats available for everything still.

Dario Argento is tooooo much for me, but one of the most talked about screenings is the 4K restoration of Suspiria.

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Re: Fantastic Fest, San Francisco September 28-October 1, 2017
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Re: Fantastic Fest, San Francisco September 28-October 1, 2017
« Reply #2 on: September 07, 2017, 02:00:04 PM »
This is the first year that they are expanding Fantastic Fest to other locations so they are still figuring some things out. For example they didn't have an online system set up to allow badgeholders early access, so you had to go to the theater in person Monday night to buy tickets.  On the plus side you could meet the organizers and ask questions. You also got drink coupons and a, well, an anatomically shaped flash drive containing all of the episodes and movies from the Danish TV series Klown. Badges also get you a swag bag, and access to two special screenings and two parties.

There are going to be two badgeholder-only screenings, no details yet on what these are, just hints. Badgeholders also got an invite to a free advance screening of WOODSHOCK, starring Kirsten Dunst, with a Q&A with directors Kate & Laura Mulleavy.

AGFA + SOMETHING WEIRD MYSTERY MOVIE
After years of detective work, AGFA located and purchased the only existing film elements for one of the most sought-after "lost" holy grails in the history of exploitation cinema.

AGFA Mystery Movie
The handsome fellas down at the American Genre Film Archive got their mitts on a previously unknown film by a major, major, major American filmmaker.  After laying completely unseen for decades, the film will have its West Coast premiere to the 45 most movie-mad maniacs in the state of California.

Here are the other movies, just one showing per film and it is possible to see all of them. There aren't nearly as many movies as the Austin festival of course. Three movies have yet to be announced but badgeholders are supposed to get first shot at tickets when they are. You still have to buy tickets for these, $16 per seat.

THE SQUARE
An art museum director’s life becomes a comedy of errors when trying to put together his latest exhibit in FORCE MAJEURE director Ruben Ostlund’s latest, which won the Palme D’Or at this year’s Cannes.

MY FRIEND DAHMER
Jeffrey Dahmer murdered 17 men and boys in the Midwest United States between 1978 and 1991 before being captured and incarcerated. He would become one of America’s most infamous serial killers. This is the story before that story.  Marc Meyers’s MY FRIEND DAHMER is the haunting, sad, funny, true story of Jeffrey Dahmer in high school, based on Derf Backderf's critically acclaimed, best selling graphic novel of the same name.

HAUNTERS
HAUNTERS is a documentary that goes behind-the-screams with the visionaries who create the most popular and polarizing haunted houses for Halloween - from family-friendly mazes, to a controversial new subculture of full-contact extreme horror simulations. What's behind the rise of terror as entertainment - and how far is too far?

JAILBREAK
What started as a simple escort mission will soon turn to chaos as the prisoners of Koh Kla take over the prison grounds.  Cambodia's traditional martial art of bokator is unleashed in all its bone crunching fury in this action packed tale of police trapped in the midst of a raging prison riot.

HAGAZUSSA
HAGAZUSSA follows a young goatherd living alone in a mountain hut and intuiting a dark presence in the oppressive woods that surround her. As she grapples with uncertainty, so does the audience. Are these nightmarish visions the product of a deluded mind or a supernatural force of evil?

APPLECART
Filmmaker Brad Baruh and Star Barbara Crampton in person!  The Pollack family is ready for vacation. Jason has just graduated, Jessica is bringing her friend Becky, and James and Casey are both trying to take their minds off James' inoperable liver cancer. James is skeptical but Casey is futilely hoping that a weekend at her friend Mika's cabin that happens to be built on a deposit of iron oxide will cure him or at least help him feel better. Everything seems normal, the cabin is rustic but nice, Jessica and Jason snipe at each other like most siblings and James' awkward dad humor keeps the mood light. But their weekend away takes an odd turn when James finds a woman passed out in the woods near the cabin. After bringing her inside, Casey leaves to find better reception and call an ambulance. While she's gone, the mysterious woman's behavior sets the rest of the Pollacks on edge. When Casey returns, things get too strange and the Pollacks reach the limits of their hospitality. But the woman isn't ready to leave, and the family's relaxing weekend away is about to turn deadly.

GEMINI
A heinous crime tests the complex relationship between a tenacious personal assistant and her Hollywood starlet boss. As the assistant unravels the mystery, she must confront her own understanding of friendship, truth, and celebrity.  Aaron Katz’s crackling new film recalls recent films like DRIVE and NIGHTCRAWLER, but also genre giants like THE LONG GOODBYE and THE DRIVER.  The most memorable mystery of the year, by a wide margin.

SUSPIRIA 4K Restoration
There's nothing more satisfying than being manipulated by Italians. With SUSPIRIA, Dario Argento combines comic book aesthetics with haunted psychology to forge a true benchmark of twentieth-century horror. Jessica Harper arrives at a prestigious ballet school in the middle of nowhere. And things aren't right. Hallucinations! Maggot infestations! Phantasmic gore-slayings! As the secrets of the school unfold, Harper finds herself falling deeper into madness. Or does she?! SUSPIRIA feels like it materialized from an inhuman super-brain that combined the visual energy of Jim Steranko’s work for Marvel Comics, the obsessive science of a Stanley Kubrick production, and the doom-fueled mystery of Shirley Jackson’s gothic paperbacks. This is sensory overload done right. Prepare to be hypnotized for life.

TOP KNOT DETECTIVE
Aliens! Ninjas! Robots! Enormous egos! Get ready to enter the world of TOP KNOT DETECTIVE! Possibly the greatest cult TV series you've ever never heard of, TOP KNOT DETECTIVE and its creator Takashi Tawagoto come to life in this gonzo documentary.

BRAWL IN CELL BLOCK 99
In the latest bloody thriller from BONE TOMAHAWK writer-director S. Craig Zahler, Vince Vaughn as a former boxer named Bradley who loses his job as an auto mechanic as his troubled marriage is about to end. At this crossroads in his life, he feels that he has no better option than to work for an old buddy as a drug courier. Bradley’s situation improves until the day that he finds himself in a gunfight between a group of police officers and his own allies. When the smoke clears, Bradley is badly hurt and thrown in prison, where his enemies force him to commit acts of violence that turn the institution into a savage battleground.

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Re: Fantastic Fest, San Francisco September 28-October 1, 2017
« Reply #3 on: September 08, 2017, 12:52:50 AM »
Always have wanted to go to FF! I will settle for our local horror fest this weekend called Horrible Imaginings. It gets better every year!

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Re: Fantastic Fest, San Francisco September 28-October 1, 2017
« Reply #4 on: September 08, 2017, 07:32:28 AM »
A lot of it is going to depend on what the mystery movies are since we had to buy our badges in advance without knowing what we'll see. They have talked them up quite a bit, and the Alamo people I've met are such huge movie geeks so I'm hopeful, but if we end up seeing some German remake of Smokey and the Bandit then, well actually I'd be totally cool with that, but you know what I mean.