The eighth Fantastic Fest is now officially underway! And while I can’t wait to start gorging myself on movies until I’m so sleep deprived I consider voting for a third party candidate, I realize that a lot of you can’t make the trip down to Austin or aren’t yet sold on the world’s most badass film festival. Click here for full Fantastic Fest coverage.
Well, you’re in luck. Nearly 1/3 of all contemporary films that were programmed in its seven previous iterations are currently available to stream (as of 9/20/12). Through the magic of the internet, you can program your own Fantastic Fest from the privacy of your own home!
Best of all, it doesn’t cost anything extra if you’re already a subscriber to Netflix Instant Watch or Amazon Prime.
Of the 115 total films available to stream:
108 titles are available to stream via Netflix (N).
42 titles are available to stream via Amazon Prime (A).
The meticulously compiled list of titles and links starts below.
2011
Boys on the Run (Drama/Comedy) N
Bullhead (Crime/Drama) N
Elite Squad: The Enemy Within (Action/Crime) N
Knuckle (Documentary) N
Let the Bullets Fly (Action/Comedy) N
Melancholia (Drama/Sci-Fi) N A
Michael (Thriller/Drama) N
Penumbra (Horror) N
The Snowtown Murders (Crime/Drama) N
The Corridor (Horror/Thriller) N
The Human Centipede 2: Full Sequence (Horror) N
The Yellow Sea (Crime/Drama) N
Yakuza Weapon (Action/Sci-Fi) N
2010
13 Assassins (Samurai) N A
A Horrible Way to Die (Horror) N
A Somewhat Gentle Man (Crime Comedy) A
Bibliotheque Pascal (Drama) N A
Bunraku (Martial Arts/Action) N
Buried (Thriller) N
Cold Fish (Crime Drama) N
Drones (Comedy) N
Enter The Void (Crime Drama) N
Fatso (Comedy) N
Fire of Conscience (Crime/Action) N
Heartless (Supernatural Horror) N
Helldriver (Horror)
High Lane (Thriller/Horror) N
I Saw the Devil (Crime Thriller) N A
Ip Man 2 (Martial Arts) N A
Kidnapped (Horror/Thriller) N A
Legend of the Fist: The Return of Chen Zhen (Martial Arts/Action) N
Machete Maidens Unleashed (Documentary) N
Man From Nowhere (Crime Thriller) N A
Mutant Girls Sqaud (Action/Horror) N
Norwegian Ninja (Comedy) N
Ong Bak 3 (Martial Arts) N A
Outrage (Crime Drama) N
Playing Columbine (Documentary) N
Primal (Horror) N
Rammbock (Thriller) N A
Rare Exports (Comedy) N
Red Hill (Crime Drama) N
Red White and Blue (Thriller) N
Rubber (Comedy/Horror) N A
Sound of Noise (Comedy/Crime) N A
The Housemaid (Thriller) N A
The Last Circus (Action/Comedy) N A
Trollhunter (Fantasy/Horror/Comedy) N A
True Legend (Martial Arts) N
Undocumented (Thriller) N
2009
A Town Called Panic (Animated Comedy) N
Antichrist (Drama/Horror) N A
Bronson (Crime Drama) N A
Clive Barker’s Dread (Horror) N A
Cropsey (Documentary) N A
Daybreakers (Horror/Action) N
District 13: Ultimatum (Martial Arts/Action) N A
Doghouse (Comedy/Horror) N
Down Terrace (Crime Comedy) N
Fish Story (Comedy/Action) N
Hard Revenge Milly (Comedy/Horror) N
Hard Revenge Milly: Bloody Battle (Comedy/Horror) N
House of the Devil (Horror) N
Human Centipede (Horror) N A
Mandrill (Spy/Martial Arts) N A
Merantau (Martial Arts) N A
Metropia (Animated Sci-Fi) N
Private Eye (Mystery) N
Rampage (Thriller) N
RoboGeisha (Comedy/Monster) N
Salvage (Horror) N
Survival of the Dead (Horror) N A
Sweet Karma (Revenge) N
Vampire Girl vs Frankenstein Girl (Comedy/Horror) N
2008
Acolytes (Crime/Thriller) N
Astropia (Comedy) N A
Chocolate (Martial Arts) A
Deadgirl (Horror) N
Donkey Punch (Horror) A
I Think We’re Alone Now (Documentary) N
Just Another Love Story (Crime Drama) N
Let The Right One In (Horror/Drama) N A
Not Quite Hollywood (Documentary) N A
Repo! The Genetic Opera (Musical/Horror) N
Santos (Comedy/Sci-Fi) N
Surveillance (Crime Thriller) N A
The Burrowers (Horror/Western) N A
The Chaser (Thriller) N
The Good The Bad and the Weird (Western/Action) N
The Wreck (Thriller) N
Zombie Girl: The Movie (Documentary) N
2007
Big Man Japan (Comedy/Monster) N A
Flash Point (Action/Crime) N
Kiltro (Martial Arts) N
Mirageman (Superhero/Martial Arts) N
Postal (Comedy) N
Retribution (Horror) N
Southland Tales (Sci-Fi) N A
Timecrimes (Sci-Fi/Thriller) N
Weirdsville (Crime Comedy) N A
2006
Blood Trails (Horror) N A
Edmond (Crime Drama) N
Isolation (Horror) A
Origin, Spirits of the Past (Anime/Sci-Fi) N
Puzzlehead (Drama/Sci-Fi) A
Severance (Horror/Comedy) N A
Shinobi: Heart Under Blade (Martial Arts) N
Shiva (Action/Crime) N
The Fountain (Drama/Sci-Fi) A
The Host (Monster) N A
Wilderness (Horror) N A
2005
The Dark Hours (Horror/Sci-Fi) N
Roman (Thriller) N
Pulse (Horror) N A
The Big White (Comedy/Crime) N
Also of note, for those that want to splurge, the following 2011 favorites are currently available to rent via Amazon (among other services): Beyond the Black Rainbow, Extraterrestrial, Headhunters, Juan of the Dead, Sleepless Night, The Innkeepers, and We Need to Talk About Kevin.
Please comment below with any updates to this list, any recommendations for where people should start, or your thoughts on these movies!
George Hickman is the first child conceived and raised by a sentient television and an anthropomorphic video store. He is a true Texan, in the sense that it is true that he lives in Texas. He spends his days making the Internet work and his nights surviving on the sustenance that only flickering lights and moving pictures can bring. There were no survivors.
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I’ve only seen five of these. Someone point me in the right direction on where to continue. Any favorites?
In no particular order, here are some of my all time favorites: The Yellow Sea, Man From Nowhere, Rare Exports, Rubber, Sound of Noise, Trollhunter, A Town Called Panic, Daybreakers, District 13: Ultimatum, Fish Story, House of the Devil, Private Eye, Let the Right One In, Not Quite Hollywood, The Good the Bad the Weird, Mirageman, Timecrimes, Severence, the Host.