16 Awesome Sounding Genre Films Coming to Sundance 2024

The kicks into high gear 2024 Sundance Film Festival. Each year, Sundance is where many of the biggest, most buzzworthy independent films start their journeys to either box office success or critical glory—and, with the festival now being both , audiences everywhere can participate. Sundance might be best known for its dramatic fare (Oscar winners like and got their starts there), but it’s also a great place to discover excellent horror, sci fi, and other genre films.

That’s where io9 comes in. In the past, the festival was the proving ground for films like and Last year, and all premiered at the festival. So, is this year’s coming out this week? It’s time to see the contenders and, if you want to watch them for yourself, the festival runs from January 18 28 both in Park City, Utah and online.

and click through to see the films. Pedro Pascal stars in the latest film from directors Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden in which a mysterious force brings together four different stories in 1980s Oakland. Kristen Stewart and Steven Yeun star as a satellite and a buoy who fall in love long after humanity has gone extinct.

No, we have no idea how it works either. Legendary director Steven Soderbergh and screenwriter David Koepp team up for a supernatural film about a family who moves into a new house. Lucy Liu stars. Justice Smith stars in a satire about a group of magical Black people who live to make the lives of white people better.

A young actress, played by Melissa Barrera, has her life changed when she finds a scary yet kind monster in her closet. A young man is introduced to a creepy late night TV show by a classmate that shows a world unlike their own. A group of friends gather before a wedding, and a person they haven’t seen in a while brings a mysterious suitcase that turns the party into an “existential nightmare.” Set in Norway, this unconventional zombie movie follows three families who struggle to figure out what it means when their newly deceased loved ones return from the grave.

What if a slasher movie was told from the point of view of the killer? If the victims were off screen and the main character hunted them? That’s the premise here. From the producers of and is a film about an Aboriginal couple who believe a demon is stalking their second child. Marvel star Sebastian Stan plays an actor who undergoes radical surgery to change his looks, but then decides he wants his old face back.

Nick Frost and Alicia Silverstone star in a film about what happens when a ‘90s sitcom family has to battle evil Russians. A documentary about what happens when a billionaire attempts to transfer the consciousness of her dead wife to a robot and succeeds. Yes, we said “documentary.” Best to let the official description do the talking here: “Past and present collide when an Iranian American trans man time travels through an LGBTQ+ archive on a dizzying and erotic quest to unravel his own sexual desires.” A young woman decides to trip on mushrooms and encounters an older version of herself, played by Aubrey Plaza.

A documentary about legendary actor Christopher Reeve using never before seen footage spanning his entire life..