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If the films announced so far weren’t enough to get you to travel to Austin later this month, this last wave of programming should have you packing your bags immediately! Read on for details.

From the Press Release:
Fantastic Fest is thrilled to announce the final installment of programming for Fantastic Fest 2012, including the world premiere screening of The Collection. Fantastic Fest (official site here) will take place September 20-27 in Austin, Texas, at the Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar.

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AMERICAN MARY (2011)
US Premiere
Directors – Jen and Sylvia Soska, 95 mins
Disillusioned with her chosen profession and perpetually broke, medical student Mary Mason finds herself drawn into a shady world of underground surgery and body modification.

Fantastic Fest 2012: Final Wave Announced - American Mary

Fantastic Fest 2012: Final Wave Announced - American Mary

Fantastic Fest 2012: Final Wave Announced - American Mary

Fantastic Fest 2012: Final Wave Announced - American Mary

ANTIVIRAL (2012)
US Premiere
Director – Brandon Cronenberg, 110 mins
Syd March makes people sick, infecting them with viruses harvested to order from celebrities, but gets more than he bargained for when his most famous source dies from a virus with which Syd has just infected himself.

Fantastic Fest 2012: Final Wave Announced - Antiviral

BERBERIAN SOUND STUDIO (2012)
US Premiere
Director – Peter Strickland, 92 mins
Strange things occur after a British audio technician is summoned to Italy to work on a gory giallo film.

Fantastic Fest 2012: Final Wave Announced - Berberian Sound Studio

Fantastic Fest 2012: Final Wave Announced - Berberian Sound Studio

BESTIES (2012)
World Premiere
Director – Rebecca Perry Cutter, 91 mins
The story of two high school girls-an awkward freshman and a sexy senior-who become immersed in a manipulative and deadly friendship.

Fantastic Fest 2012: Final Wave Announced - Besties

Fantastic Fest 2012: Final Wave Announced - Besties

BLACK OUT (2012)
World Premiere
Director – Arne Toonen, 73 mins
A splitting headache, a dead gangster, twenty kilos of missing coke and 24 hours to sort it all out before getting married. Jos is about to have a very bad day.

Fantastic Fest 2012: Final Wave Announced - Black Out

Fantastic Fest 2012: Final Wave Announced - Black Out

Fantastic Fest 2012: Final Wave Announced - Black Out

Fantastic Fest 2012: Final Wave Announced - Black Out

Fantastic Fest 2012: Final Wave Announced - Black Out

Fantastic Fest 2012: Final Wave Announced - Black Out

BRING ME THE HEAD OF THE MACHINE GUN WOMAN (2012)
World Premiere
Director – Ernesto Diaz Espinosa, 75 mins
Timid, video game-loving DJ Santiago seemingly digs his own grave when he agrees to bring a violent criminal kingpin the head of Machine Gun Woman.

Fantastic Fest 2012: Final Wave Announced - Bring Me the Head of the Machine Gun Woman

Fantastic Fest 2012: Final Wave Announced - Bring Me the Head of the Machine Gun Woman

Fantastic Fest 2012: Final Wave Announced - Bring Me the Head of the Machine Gun Woman

THE COLLECTION (2012)
World Premiere with director/writer Marcus Dunstan, writer Patrick Melton, and cast members Josh Stewart and Emma Fitzpatrick in person
Directors – Marcus Dunstan, 83 mins
When Elena’s friends take her to a secret party at an undisclosed location, she never imagined she would become the latest victim of The Collector, a psychopathic killer.

Fantastic Fest 2012: Final Wave Announced - The Collection

Fantastic Fest 2012: Final Wave Announced - The Collection

Fantastic Fest 2012: Final Wave Announced - The Collection

Fantastic Fest 2012: Final Wave Announced - The Collection

COME OUT AND PLAY (2012)
US Premiere
Director – Makinov, 95 mins
While on vacation, Beth and Francis visit a remote island that turns out to be almost solely inhabited by children. Unfortunately for them, these kids are far from well behaved.

Fantastic Fest 2012: Final Wave Announced - Come Out and Play

Fantastic Fest 2012: Final Wave Announced - Come Out and Play

Fantastic Fest 2012: Final Wave Announced - Come Out and Play

Fantastic Fest 2012: Final Wave Announced - Come Out and Play

Fantastic Fest 2012: Final Wave Announced - Come Out and Play

DANGER 5 (2012)
World Premiere
Director – Dario Russo, 150 mins
It’s World War II, and there’s nothing Hitler won’t do to take over the world! Dinosaur men! Love potions! Giant robots! And all that stands in his way are the intrepid forces of the DANGER 5!

Fantastic Fest 2012: Final Wave Announced - Danger 5

Fantastic Fest 2012: Final Wave Announced - Danger 5

Fantastic Fest 2012: Final Wave Announced - Danger 5

Fantastic Fest 2012: Final Wave Announced - Danger 5

Fantastic Fest 2012: Final Wave Announced - Danger 5

Fantastic Fest 2012: Final Wave Announced - Danger 5

DOM – A RUSSIAN FAMILY (2011)
North American Premiere
Director – Oleg Pogodin, 109 mins
A Russian mobster returns to his ancestral home for a family reunion after years of living in the criminal underworld. Unbeknownst to him, his ruthless enemies follow close behind.

Fantastic Fest 2012: Final Wave Announced - Dom

Fantastic Fest 2012: Final Wave Announced - Dom

Fantastic Fest 2012: Final Wave Announced - Dom

Fantastic Fest 2012: Final Wave Announced - Dom

THE EXORCIST IN THE 21ST CENTURY (2012)
World Premiere
Director – Fredrik Horn Akselsen, 80 mins
Norwegian documentarian Fredrik Horn Akselsen examines the work of Father Jose Antonio Fortea – an actual, Vatican-approved exorcist – in this balanced look at a largely hidden world within the Catholic Church.

Fantastic Fest 2012: Final Wave Announced - EXORCIST IN THE 21ST CENTURY

Fantastic Fest 2012: Final Wave Announced - EXORCIST IN THE 21ST CENTURY

THE FINAL MEMBER (2012)
Regional Premiere
Directors – Jonah Bekhor and Zach Math, 75 mins
A mind-blowing documentary about three men who are deeply obsessed with penises-human or otherwise.

Fantastic Fest 2012: Final Wave Announced -THE FINAL MEMBER

THE GREATEST MOVIE EVER ROLLED (2012)
World Premiere
Director – Ryan Polito, 90 mins
Inspired by Morgan Spurlock’s Greatest Movie Ever Sold, two comedians, Doug Benson and Graham Elwood, decide to finance a movie about going on tour by going on tour.

Fantastic Fest 2012: Final Wave Announced - THE GREATEST MOVIE EVER ROLLED

Fantastic Fest 2012: Final Wave Announced - THE GREATEST MOVIE EVER ROLLED

HAIL (2012)
Regional Premiere
Director – Amiel Courtin-Wilson, 104 mins
Real life ex-con Daniel P. Jones stars in this haunting and unflinchingly realistic film crafted from over 500 pages of his own memories and experiences.

Fantastic Fest 2012: Final Wave Announced - Hail

Fantastic Fest 2012: Final Wave Announced - Hail

HELLFJORD (2012)
World Premiere
Directors – Patrik Syversen, Kenneth Olaf Hjellum, Ole Giæver, Sebastian Dalén, Vegar Hoel and Roar Uthaug, 203 mins
Seven of Norway’s finest directors team up for writer/producer Tommy Wirkola’s fusion of Hot Fuzz and Twin Peaks. A seven-part TV series from the director of Dead Snow.

Fantastic Fest 2012: Final Wave Announced - HELLFJORD

Fantastic Fest 2012: Final Wave Announced - HELLFJORD

HISTORY OF FUTURE FOLK (2012)
Regional Premiere
Directors – J. Anderson Mitchell and Jeremy Kipp Walker, 85 mins
Real life bluegrass band Future Folk use a banjo and a guitar to save mankind in this sci-fi comedy origin story.

Fantastic Fest 2012: Final Wave Announced - HISTORY OF FUTURE FOLK

Fantastic Fest 2012: Final Wave Announced - HISTORY OF FUTURE FOLK

LEE’S ADVENTURE (2011)
North American Premiere
Director – Frant Gwo, 91 mins
When Li Xianje’s beautiful girlfriend dies in a tragic accident, he attempts to harness his temporal dilation disorder in order to travel back in time and save her.

Fantastic Fest 2012: Final Wave Announced - LEE'S ADVENTURE

MIAMI CONNECTION (1987)
Repertory screening
Directors – Y.K. Kim and Woo-sang Park, 120 mins
The legendary long-lost ’80s thunder-rager! Martial arts rock band Dragon Sound throw down in the ultimate conflict against an army of cocaine-powered motorcycle ninjas. The BEST unseen movie in HISTORY!

Fantastic Fest 2012: Final Wave Announced - MIAMI CONNECTION

PUSHER (2012)
US Premiere
Director – Luis Prieto, 89 mins
A small time drug dealer gets in way over his head when a big deal goes bad in Luis Prieto’s British remake of Nicolas Winding Refn’s debut feature film.

Fantastic Fest 2012: Final Wave Announced - Pusher

Fantastic Fest 2012: Final Wave Announced - Pusher

Fantastic Fest 2012: Final Wave Announced - Pusher

TAI CHI 0 (2012)
US Premiere
Director – Stephen Fung, 100 mins
Martial arts meets steampunk in Hong Kong actor-director Stephen Fung’s slick, stylish pop-art take on the life of Yang-lu Chan (played by new martial-arts sensation Yuan Xiaochao), founder of the Yang school of tai chi.

Fantastic Fest 2012: Final Wave Announced - TAI CHI 0

Fantastic Fest 2012: Final Wave Announced - TAI CHI 0

TAPED (2012)
Regional Premiere
Director – Diederik van Rooijen, 80 mins
A trip meant to save their marriage turns into a nightmare when Johan and Saar accidentally videotape a police shooting in the streets of Argentina.

Fantastic Fest 2012: Final Wave Announced - Taped

Fantastic Fest 2012: Final Wave Announced - Taped

TEBANA SANKICHI: SNOT ROCKETS (2012)
World Premiere
Director – Yudai Yamaguchi, 79 mins
Tak Sakaguchi stars in Yudai Yamaguchi’s feature-length reboot of an original indie short film made in 1995. Follow the ridiculous adventures of sometime private detective and fighting master Tebana “Snot Rockets” Sankichi and his loyal sidekick “Twice” Shiro. An episodic, nonsense comedy that flies like a rocket and lands like a wet loogie.

Fantastic Fest 2012: Final Wave Announced - TEBANA SANKICHI: SNOT ROCKETS

Fantastic Fest 2012: Final Wave Announced - TEBANA SANKICHI: SNOT ROCKETS

Fantastic Fest 2012: Final Wave Announced -TEBANA SANKICHI: SNOT ROCKETS

TWO RABBITS (DOIS COEHLOS) (2012)
International Premiere
Director – Afonso Poyart, 108 mins
Edgar returns to Brazil after two years in Miami, focused on enacting a complicated revenge plot and hoping to find absolution for his sins in the process.

Fantastic Fest 2012: Final Wave Announced - TWO RABBITS (DOIS COEHLOS)

Fantastic Fest 2012: Final Wave Announced - TWO RABBITS (DOIS COEHLOS)

Fantastic Fest 2012: Final Wave Announced - TWO RABBITS (DOIS COEHLOS)

VEGETARIAN CANNIBAL (2012)
North American Premiere
Director – Branko Schmidt, 84 mins
A corrupt gynecologist provides illegal abortions to prostitutes working for the Croatian mafia.

Fantastic Fest 2012: Final Wave Announced - VEGETARIAN CANNIBAL

Fantastic Fest 2012: Final Wave Announced - VEGETARIAN CANNIBAL

Fantastic Fest 2012: Final Wave Announced - VEGETARIAN CANNIBAL

Fantastic Fest 2012: Final Wave Announced - VEGETARIAN CANNIBAL

VULGARIA (2012)
Regional Premiere
Director – Pang Ho-Cheung, 90 mins
What do pubic hair, pop rocks, cow vaginas and sex with mules have in common? They are all part of moviemaking in Hong Kong.

Fantastic Fest 2012: Final Wave Announced - VULGARIA

Fantastic Fest 2012: Final Wave Announced - VULGARIA

Fantastic Fest 2012: Final Wave Announced - VULGARIA

WAKE IN FRIGHT (1971)
Repertory screening
Director – Ted Kotcheff, 114mins
A Palme D’Or nominee based on the 1961 book of the same name by Kenneth Cook and directed by First Blood’s Ted Kotcheff, Wake in Fright is an uncompromisingly brutal look at what happens when men are left alone together in the Outback with guns and a lot of beer. This is going to be a mind-blower on the big screen. Get ready.

Fantastic Fest 2012: Final Wave Announced - WAKE IN FRIGHT

Fantastic Fest 2012: Final Wave Announced - WAKE IN FRIGHT

Fantastic Fest 2012: Final Wave Announced - WAKE IN FRIGHT

Fantastic Fest 2012: Final Wave Announced - WAKE IN FRIGHT

Fantastic Fest 2012: Final Wave Announced - WAKE IN FRIGHT

Fantastic Fest 2012: Final Wave Announced - WAKE IN FRIGHT

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