Scary Movies XIII

August 15–21, 2025

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New York City’s premier showcase for the best in new genre (and genre-bending) cinema from around the globe alongside spine-tingling classics and rediscoveries conjured from the dark recesses of midnight-movie lore

It Ends

Alexander Ullom

Opening Night
North American Premiere
CC
It Ends

2025|

U.S.|

86 minutes|

English

Four young adults find themselves trapped on a seemingly endless road—one from which they can’t escape, as they soon discover that stopping the car invariably attracts the attention of what lurks in the forest…

Closing Night
The Dark and the Wicked

2020|

U.S.|

95 minutes|

English

A pair of grown siblings who venture back to their childhood home to care for their father in his final days are disturbed to find their mother under the influence of an evil, shape-shifting supernatural presence.

Baxter

Jérôme Boivin

Baxter

1989|

France|

83 minutes|

French with English subtitles

The first of two collaborations between director Jérôme Boivin and co-writer Jacques Audiard is at once a satirical work of pitch-black, bone-dry humor and a chillingly sober fable illustrating the interpersonal—and interspecies—mechanics of amorality and violence.

Chain Reactions

Alexandre O. Philippe

New York Premiere
Chain Reactions

2024|

U.S.|

101 minutes|

English and Japanese with English subtitles

Alexandre O. Philippe’s expansive documentary celebrates five decades of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, examining its legacy via extended interviews with five influential luminaries of the horror genre.

Closing Night
4K Restoration
Daughters of Darkness

1971|

Belgium / France / West Germany|

100 minutes|

English, French, Dutch, and German with English subtitles

Delphine Seyrig commands the screen with potent erotic flair as a bewitching Hungarian countess whose fateful encounter with a honeymooning couple catalyzes a blood-soaked maelstrom of desirous depravity.

Good Boy

Ben Leonberg

New York Premiere
Good Boy

2025|

U.S.|

73 minutes|

English

Director Ben Leonberg’s own dog Indy stars as a charismatic canine hero whose tranquil coexistence with his human companion begins to unravel with the intrusion of sinister, possibly paranormal forces.

A Grand Mockery

Adam C. Briggs, Sam Dixon

A Grand Mockery

2024|

Austraila|

105 minutes|

English

Co-director Sam Dixon stars as Josie, a bedraggled Queensland cinema worker who slowly begins to lose his grip on reality in this singularly nerve-jangling, magnificently lo-fi head trip from down under.

The Home

Mattias J. Skoglund

New York Premiere
The Home

2025|

Sweden / Iceland / Estonia|

90 minutes|

Swedish with English subtitles

Soon after moving into a memory-care facility, an elderly widow’s confused behavior turns abruptly violent, and her son can’t shake the horrifying suspicion that his late father might have returned from the beyond to torment them anew.

Jōhatsu

Lina Lužytė, Nerijus Milerius

North American Premiere
Jōhatsu

2024|

Lithuania|

83 minutes|

Lithuanian with English subtitles

Unsettled by the comportment of a dead man’s wife when she comes to identify the body, a Vilnius morgue worker launches an informal investigation hoping to make sense of her own suspicions.

Noise

Kim Soo-jin

New York Premiere
Noise

2025|

South Korea|

95 minutes|

Korean with English subtitles

Soon after two sisters move into their new shared apartment, one of them mysteriously disappears–-and the other starts to perceive a barrage of weird, portentous frequencies that seem to emanate from the building itself.

Rabbit Trap

Bryn Chainey

New York Premiere
CC
Rabbit Trap

2025|

U.K.|

88 minutes|

English

When a sound engineer in the Welsh countryside stumbles upon a “fairy circle” that emits an unidentifiable frequency, his discovery coincides with the appearance of an otherworldly child who’s oddly eager to befriend the man and his wife.

Row

Matthew Losasso

North American Premiere
Row

2025|

U.K.|

118 minutes|

English

Ingeniously assembled flashback sequences recount the fragmented memories of a young woman who washes ashore on a windswept Scottish isle, the lone surviving passenger of a battered and blood-spattered rowing vessel.

Squealers

Abel Ferry

North American Premiere
Squealers

2025|

France|

103 minutes|

French with English subtitles

A ruthlessly ambitious candidate for local office will stop at nothing to thwart a group of activists who’ve gathered damning evidence of brutally inhumane practices at the slaughterhouse he owns.

The Wailing

Pedro Martín-Calero

New York Premiere
The Wailing

2024|

Spain / Argentina / France|

107 minutes|

Spanish and French with English subtitles

The life of a Madrid university student gradually descends into chaos when, after indirectly witnessing a shocking act of violence, she begins to suspect that she’s being targeted by a malevolent inhuman entity.

Welcome Home Baby

Andreas Prochaska

North American Premiere
Welcome Home Baby

2025|

Germany / Austria|

105 minutes|

German with English subtitles

Andreas Prochaska updates the well-worn tropes of prenatal anxiety horror with the story of a Berlin physician who reluctantly inherits her estranged father’s house, where she soon begins to experience strange memory lapses, troubled dreams, and troubling visions.

A Yard of Jackals

Diego Figueroa

North American Premiere
A Yard of Jackals

2024|

Chile|

108 minutes|

Spanish with English subtitles

A mild-mannered architectural model maker in Pinochet’s Chile finds his tenuously peaceful life disrupted by the arrival of mysterious new neighbors whose noisy nighttime activities sound suspiciously like violent intimidation.

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$14
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About the Festival

It’s alive! Since its founding in 2002, Scary Movies has been proud to offer moviegoers the cathartic treat of experiencing world-class suspense, gore, and terror of all stripes on the big screen, while celebrating cinema’s boundless capacity to probe the creepiest corners of the human psyche in the company of dedicated fellow thrill-seekers. Film at Lincoln Center is excited to present the re-animated Scary Movies, roaring back to life after a five-year hiatus for its 13th edition. Films in this year’s lineup contend with a wide range of themes, including the existential perils of family ties, parenting, and inheritance; the precarious struggle for survival in an increasingly hostile environment; the mind-bending consequences when inner demons are left to fester; and more.

Organized by Madeline Whittle, Programmer, Film at Lincoln Center.

Scary Movies XIII is sponsored by MUBI, the global streaming service, production company, and film distributor dedicated to elevating great cinema.

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The New York Times, 2019
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