The 2018 Sundance Film Festival kick off today , marking the first appearance of some of the class ’s most exciting sovereign films , as well as shorts , VR experiences , and more . Although only a small portion of the festival ’s content is in the scifi / fantasy / horror / science domain , there are still a lot of film worth pointing out — and we ’ve collected them all here for you .
Movies
I Think We’re Alone Now
If The Last Man on Earth was a drama star Peter Dinklage and Elle Fanning , you ’d have I call up We ’re Alone Now . The apocalypse happened , a survivor think they ’re the last mortal in the world , but then they meet someone else . It ’s channelize by Reed Morano , who ’s done multiple episodes of The Handmaid ’s Tale .
Sorry to Bother You
In this comedic fantasy set in an alternate - existence translation of modern - day Oakland , a telemarketer observe a key that leads him into a dark , mystic new world . Lakeith Stanfield star along with Tessa Thompson , Steven Yeun , Jermaine Fowler , and Armie Hammer , and it ’s written and directed by instrumentalist - turned - filmmaker Boots Riley .
Search
John Cho play a father whose teenage girl go missing , so he tries to explore her laptop looking for clue . The whole affair takes place completely on a computer screen and Debra Messing atomic number 27 - star .
Assassination Nation
Sundance ’s official description of Assassintation Nation makes it seem like a movie about the Salem Witch trial , but look at that photograph . It seems more probable that the idea of a town conk mad is modernize and turned into some form of badass revenge tale . Bill Skårsgard co - stars along with Odessa Young , Suki Waterhouse , Hari Nef , Abra , and Bella Thorne .
Lords of Chaos
Prolific music video theater director Jonas Åkerlund helms this film based on the fad volume about the tumultuous other sidereal day of Norway ’s extreme sinister metal scene — think church building burnings , suicide , and murder . Rory Culkin star along with Emory Cohen , Sky Ferreira , and Jack Kilmer .
Mandy
Nicolas Cage superstar in this revenge thriller about a couple in the Pacific Northwest whose peaceful life is turned upside down when their household is destroyed by an evil cult . It ’s the second film by Panos Cosmatos , who did Beyond the Black Rainbow .
Eyes in the Red Wind
This South Korean thriller follows a grouping of friends and family who find a numb body and do a rite to ease its soul . However , the ceremony not only unwrap the truth behind the mysterious death but also other disgraceful secrets .
VR
Chorus
Artist Tyler Hurd created Chorus , which transforms all its users into “ fantastical distaff warrior ” wielding crystals , lasers , and more , and duplicate as a bit of a social experimentation .
Space Explorers: A New Dawn
This VR experience puts exploiter into an immersive earth of NASA cosmonaut , as they train and go on delegacy .
SPHERES: Songs of Spacetime
Darren Aronofsky contributed to this VR experience which takes users into a smuggled hole .
Short Films
Black
Sundance always has an impressive collection of shorts ; this one , by author and manager Tomasz Popakul , is about a span of astronauts who are stranded in distance when nuclear war erupts on Earth .
The Blazing World
After old age of dream about a mysterious Earth , a woman is present with a map that actually leads there .
World of Tomorrow Episode Two: The Burden of Other People’s Thoughts
Don Hertzfeldt ’s amazing sequel to his animated masterpiece has already run into a few festivals and we ’ve written about it . Read more here .
The Right Choice
A couple is hale to answer three questions that will settle the fortune of a designer baby in this creepy - sound short .
High & Mighty
Sometimes Sundance will show a few episodes of a new show or series to get buzz going away , and that ’s the case with High & Mighty , which is about a man who is shoot multiple sentence and wake up with superpower . However , those powers can only be accessed when he ’s drunk or in high spirits .
Documentaries
Inventing Tomorrow
This physician is about Kid from around the world who ready for the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair , which is basically the largest high-pitched school skill fair in the world .
The Cleaners
Can what you put on the internet ever really go forth ? This documentary explores an industry scream “ digital cleaning , ” which set about to in truth erase sure things online .
Genesis 2.0
In this true history , a group of Hunter search outside island in the Arctic Ocean looking for wooly gigantic tusk , and then find a amazingly well - bear on carcase .
Science Fair
Nine students from around the world are the focus of this documentary about their journey to an international science fair , where they ’ll compete against 1,700 students from 78 countries .
Live Performance
Deep Astronomy and the Romantic Sciences
Writer and director Cory McAbee ( The American Astronaut ) takes the stage at Sundance subsist , where he ’ll “ teach ” two masterclasses that cover several fantastic science fiction concepts including space change of location , inter - dimensional travel , and more . Except the masterclasses wo n’t be real — they’ll be performance themselves . What can I say ? Sundance is weird .
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