January in the world of film can only mean one thing – Sundance Film Festival rolls back around with another stacked slate. Next year's lineup, taking place from January 23–February 2, 2025, in person in Park City and Salt Lake City, Utah, boasts 87 feature films and six episodic projects, including a Midnight section full of brand new genre features that'll soon be on your watchlist.
Past and recent premieres in Sundance's Midnight slate include I Saw the TV Glow, In A Violent Nature, Love Lies Bleeding, Infinity Pool, Talk to Me, FRESH, Hereditary, Mandy, Relic, and The Babadook.
Up on the slate for this year's Midnight are films starring Dev Patel, Ayo Edebiri and Amber Midthunder, folk horror magic, alien addictions and fairytale frights, to name but a few. Read on for the full Midnight slate (we know that's why you horror buffs are here, after all) and head over to the official Sundance site for full lineup details.
Single Film Tickets and limited packages and passes for in-person and online screenings go on sale January 16 at 10 a.m. MT. For more information on in-person and online screenings, head over to the official Sundance site. Beginning January 30, more than half the feature program will be available online for audiences nationwide to watch from home at festival.sundance.org.
Midnights
Dead Lover / Canada (Director, Screenwriter, and Producer: Grace Glowicki, Screenwriter and Producer: Ben Petrie, Producer: Yona Strauss)
A lonely gravedigger who stinks of corpses finally meets her dream man, but their whirlwind affair is cut short when he tragically drowns at sea. Grief-stricken, she goes to morbid lengths to resurrect him through madcap scientific experiments, resulting in grave consequences and unlikely love.
Cast: Grace Glowicki, Ben Petrie, Leah Doz, Lowen Morrow. World
Premiere. Fiction.
Didn’t Die / U.S.A. (Director, Screenwriter, and Producer: Meera Menon, Screenwriter and Producer: Paul Gleason, Producers: Erica Fishman, Joe Camerota, Luke Patton)
A podcast host desperately clings to an ever-shrinking audience in the zombie apocalypse.
Cast: Kiran Deol, George Basil, Samrat
Chakrabarti, Katie McCuen, Vishal Vijayakumar. World Premiere. Fiction. Available online for Public.
Opus / U.S.A. (Director, Screenwriter, and Producer: Mark Anthony Green, Producers: Collin Creighton, Brad Weston, Poppy Hanks, Jelani Johnson, Josh Bachove)
A young writer is invited to the remote compound of a legendary pop star who mysteriously disappeared 30 years ago. Surrounded by the star’s cult of sycophants and intoxicated journalists, she finds herself in the middle of his twisted plan.
Cast: Ayo Edebiri, John Malkovich, Juliette Lewis, Murray Bartlett, Amber Midthunder. World Premiere. Fiction.
Rabbit Trap / U.K. (Director and Screenwriter: Bryn Chainey, Producers: Daniel Noah, Lawrence Inglee, Elijah Wood, Elisa Lleras, Adrian Politowski, Martin Metz)
When a musician and her husband move to a remote house in Wales, the music they make disturbs local ancient folk magic, bringing a nameless child to their door who is intent on infiltrating their lives.
Cast: Dev Patel, Rosy McEwen, Jade Croot. World Premiere. Fiction.
Together / Australia, U.S.A. (Director and Screenwriter: Michael Shanks, Producers: Dave Franco, Alison
Brie, Mike Cowap, Andrew Mittman, Erik Feig, Max Silva)
With a move to the countryside already testing the limits of a couple’s relationship, a supernatural encounter begins an extreme transformation of their love, their lives, and their flesh. Cast: Alison Brie, Dave Franco, Damon Herriman. World Premiere. Fiction.
Touch Me / U.S.A. (Director, Screenwriter, and Producer: Addison Heimann, Producers: John Humber,
David Lawson Jr.)
Two codependent best friends become addicted to the heroin-like touch of an alien narcissist who may or may not be trying to take over the world.
Cast: Olivia Taylor Dudley, Lou Taylor Pucci, Jordan Gavaris, Marlene Forte, Paget Brewster. World Premiere. Fiction.
The Ugly Stepsister / Norway (Director and Screenwriter: Emilie Blichfeldt, Producer: Maria Ekerhovd)
In a fairy-tale kingdom where beauty is a brutal business, Elvira battles to compete with her incredibly beautiful stepsister, and she will go to any length to catch the prince’s eye.
Cast: Lea Myren, Thea Sofie Loch Næss, Ane Dahl Torp, Flo Fagerli, Isac Calmroth, Malte Gårdinger. World Premiere. Fiction.
