Overlook Film Fest announces second wave of programming, including The Boulet Brothers, Buddy, and Over Your Dead Body

The Overlook Film Festival has announced its second and final wave of programming. The fest, which takes place from April 9-12 in New Orleans, will screen 62 films in total, including 36 features and 26 shorts from 10 different countries. Additionally, the fest is adding a new category titled Side Shows. These are basically horror-adjacent movies that still fit within a genre festival.

The first wave announcement included some real bangers, such as writer/director Damien Mc Carthy's third feature Hokum and Curry Barker's Obsession, the opening night film. Here's everything announced in the second wave of programming, including a panel hosted by The Boulet Brothers.

Side Show Category (presented by Magnolia Pictures)

The Furious

Director: Kenji Tanigaki

Cast: Miao Xie, Joe Taslim, Yang Enyou, Brian Le, Joey Iwanaga

Hong Kong SAR China, 2026

When his daughter Rainy is abducted, humble tradesman Wang Wei is thrust into a deadly underworld of corruption and violence. His only ally is Navin, a relentless journalist haunted by his own past. Together, they fight their way through an international criminal network in a desperate bid to save Rainy and uncover the truth.

Normal

Director: Ben Wheatley 

Cast: Bob Odenkirk, Henry Winkler, Lena Headey

United States, 2025

Ben Wheatley (Kill List, Sightseers) returns with an action thriller about a small town sheriff (Odenkirk) who, following a local bank robbery, uncovers a web of dark dealings in the place he calls home.

Over Your Dead Body

Director: Jorma Taccone

Cast: Jason Segel, Samara Weaving, Timothy Olyphant, Juliette Lewis, Paul Guilfoyle, Keith Jardine

United States, 2026

Directed by Jorma Taccone (Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping, The Lonely Island), this action-comedy remake of Tommy Wirkola’s The Trip follows a husband and wife (Segel and Weaving) who take a remote weekend getaway as an opportunity to secretly plot to kill each other.

New Feature Film Presentations (international titles presented by MUBI)

Affection

Director: BT Meza

Cast: Jessica Rothe, Joseph Cross, Julianna Layne

United States, 2025

Ellie wakes up after a brutal car accident, discovering that she has a rare condition that frequently resets her memory. As she tries to assimilate back into life with her husband and daughter in their secluded home, she starts to get the unsettling feeling that not everything is what it seems.

American Dollhouse

Director: John Valley

Cast: Hailley Lauren, Kelsey Pribilski, Tinus Seaux, Danielle Evon Ploeger, Richard C. Jones

United States, 2025

After inheriting her childhood home, an unsuspecting woman becomes the object of her psychotic neighbor’s obsession, spiraling her down a violent path of stalking and possession that can only lead her to an extremely bloody Christmas.

Buddy

Director: Casper Kelly

Cast: Cristin Milioti, Delaney Quinn, Topher Grace, Keegan-Michael Key, Michael Shannon, Patton Oswalt

United States, 2026

From writer-director Casper Kelly (Too Many Cooks, Yule Log) comes the tale of a courageous girl and her friends who must fight to escape the sinister clutches of a kid’s television show.

Buffet Infinity

Director: Simon Glassman

Cast: Kevin Singh, Ahmed Ahmed, Brandon Vanderwall

Canada, 2026

Told entirely through a series of fake commercials, Simon Glassman’s creepshow is the story of rival restaurants competing through local TV marketing for their town’s business… and maybe more. What is going on in Westridge County?

Capturing Bigfoot

Director: Marq Evans

Cast: Clint Patterson, Bob Gimlin, Bob Heironimus, Larry Lund, Greg Long, Vaile Thompson, Sandy Collier, Bill Munns

United States, 2026

On October 20, 1967, Roger Patterson captured 59 seconds of film showing a creature walking through the Northern California woods—footage that became the most analyzed and debated in history. Fifty-seven years later, a reel of 16mm film discovered in a safe changes everything.

CRAMPS! A Period Piece

Local Spotlight

Director: Brooke H. Cellars

Cast: Lauren Kitchen, Vincent Stalba, Jared Bankens, Martini Bear, P*$$y D'lish, Wicken Taylor

United States, 2025

In a fanciful technicolor town full of dueling beauty shops, drag queens, and midcentury flair, a young woman’s quest to defy her family is upended when her menstrual cramps manifest themselves as actual monsters. At once gory and campy, Overlook alum (and previous Grand Jury Prize winner) Brooke H. Cellars makes their feature debut with a film that's as fun as it is horrific.

Flush

Director: Grégory Morin

Cast: Jonathan Lambert, Élodie Navarre, Rémy Adriaens, Elliot Jenicot

France, 2025

All Luke wanted to do was win his girlfriend back. Finding himself on the bad end of a drug deal gone wrong, this well-intentioned cocaine addict is now trapped with his head stuck in a squat toilet. Desperate for escape, Luke must contend with ruthless gangsters, a mischievous rat and a barrage of other shit (literally) if he’s going to survive the night in this gross-out festival favorite.

Grind

Directors: Brea Grant, Ed Dougherty, Chelsea Stardust

Cast: Barbara Crampton, Rob Huebel, Christopher Rodriguez-Marquette, Vinny Thomas, Jessika Van, James A Janisse, James Urbaniak

United States, 2025

Overlook alums Brea Grant, Ed Dougherty and Chelsea Stardust return with a hilarious and terrifying anthological look at modern work culture. Featuring four distinct stories (including Overlook hit MLM), this wacko tale of inequality is sure to galvanize anyone who has ever felt lost in a sea of menial repetitious tasks.

Mārama

Director: Taratoa Stappard

Cast: Ariana Osborne; Toby Stephens; Umi Myers

New Zealand, 2025

Set in on the moors of 1859 North Yorkshire, this gothic horror follows a Māori teacher who travels to the manor of a wealthy whaler in search of buried truths about her family. What she finds there is something far more threatening - dark secrets that define the grim legacy of the British empire in this bone-chilling Kiwi tale.

The Restoration at Grayson Manor

Director: Glenn McQuaid

Cast: Chris Colfer, Alice Krige, Daniel Adegboyega, Declan Reynolds, Gabriela Garcia Vargas, Matthew McMahon

Ireland, 2024

When a freak accident leaves the proprietor of Grayson Manor handless, his overbearing mother turns to an experimental treatment, giving him a set of prosthetics controlled by his subconscious. From the twisted mind of writer Clay McCleod Chapman (The Pumpkin Pie Show) and director Glenn McQuaid (I Sell the Dead) comes this sexy, pulpy, Warhol-coded romp.

Suffocation

Director: Louis Chan, Stone Chang 

Cast: Yao Ai Ning, Wang Yu Ping, Chu Meng Syuan, Julia Huang, Rainie Dun, Helen Wang, Chun Hong

Taiwan, 2026

Told through a haunting series of Steadicam shots, this chilling Taiwanese twist on J-horror tropes follows a group of elite high school swimmers who find themselves cursed by a mysterious evil after releasing a video that exposes a teacher-student relationship.

Panel Presentations

In addition to dozens of films, the Overlook will host various panel presentations. The panels include The Boulet Brothers' House of Horror Hosts: Past, Present, and Undead. This promises to be a lively, unfiltered conversation about the history of the horror host, from Vampira to Elvira to the Crypt Keeper.

The other panel announced is Alt-Horror Experiences, which promises to venture beyond the screen into both new and old art forms that challenge the way we experience art. The panel intends to bring together horror fans in what's likely to be an immersive experience, featuring radio plays, music, theater, gaming, haunted houses, and more.

For more information and to purchase tickets, visit the Overlook Film Festival's website.

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