Never been to Lund Fantastic before?

You do not need to know anything about genre cinema, obscure cult films or the correct number of zombies in a respectable apocalypse. You just need to pick a film.

So if this is your first Lund Fantastic, here are six very different places to start.

4 Tigers — for the big night out

28 October · 19:00 · Kino 1
Opening Film

Want something big, funny and easy to enjoy with a crowd?

4 Tigers has black magic, bullet-bending bandits, martial arts, romance, comedy and stolen Japanese gold. Director Kongkiat Komesiri turns Thai outlaw folklore into a maximalist action adventure with very little interest in behaving itself.

Come with friends. Bring a date. Get a drink beforehand. This is the kind of film that benefits from a full cinema and people having a good time.

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Phreaker — for something fun and clever

1 November · 18:00 · Kino 1

Think Home Alone energy, except the kid is blind, very good with telephones and gradually discovering just how much trouble you can cause through a landline.

Inspired by true events, Phreaker follows fifteen-year-old Jake as he discovers the hidden world of telephone phreaking: secret codes, party lines, hackers and people who know far too much about how the phone system works.

Funny, fast and playful, with crime and technology underneath it all. A good choice if you want something entertaining rather than particularly scary.

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Sender — for the sleek modern thriller crowd

29 October · 18:00 · Kino 1

Prefer your horror contemporary, stylish and slightly paranoid?

Julia is trying to rebuild her life when mysterious packages from an online retailer begin arriving at her home. She did not order them. Customer service is not especially helpful. And whoever is sending them seems to know quite a lot about her.

Russell Goldman’s Sender mixes psychological thriller, dark comedy and the uncomfortable feeling that technology may know you a little too well.

With David Dastmalchian and Jamie Lee Curtis in supporting roles, this is a good way in if your taste runs toward polished contemporary thrillers.

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Carrie — for the cult classic

31 October · 21:00 · Kino 1
50th Anniversary

Get your cult classic in with Stephen King’s prom queen horror.

Brian De Palma’s Carrie turns teenage humiliation, religious repression and one spectacularly bad prom night into one of the defining horror films of the 1970s.

Released in 1976, it was the first feature adaptation of a Stephen King novel and remains one of the most recognisable films in horror history.

If you want your first Lund Fantastic experience to begin with something iconic, this is a very safe place to start.

The prom itself is considerably less safe.

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Break Free — for the TikTok generation

4 November · 20:00 · Kino 1
Closing Film

TikTok dance? We’ve got you covered this year.

Kunio is an old-school yakuza enforcer whose entire identity is built around a world that is disappearing. Then an unexpected dance is caught on camera and goes viral.

Break Free mixes yakuza action, comedy, J-pop and dance into something warm, funny and very easy to enjoy with an audience.

Come for the organised crime. Stay for the choreography.

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I Live Here Now — for the first-semester film studies crowd

30 October · 16:45 · Kino 2

Got into Film Studies at Lund University? Congrats!

You’ve seen Mulholland Drive once, you own a notebook, and you’re ready to use the word “liminal”. Conveniently, I Live Here Now also draws on the psychological cinema of Ingmar Bergman and David Lynch, so you can start earning seminar points immediately.

Julie Pacino’s film follows Rose into a remote hotel where time fractures, memories bleed into the present and reality becomes increasingly difficult to pin down.

Dreamlike, psychological and visually stylised, it is a good place to start if you like your horror with ambiguity, symbolism and something to discuss on the walk home.

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Still not sure?

That is fine.

One of the pleasures of a film festival is seeing something you would never normally choose. Start with the film that sounds most like you — action, comedy, thriller, classic horror, dancing yakuza or immediate Film Studies seminar material — and see where you end up.

Everybody has a first Lund Fantastic.