Emilie Blichfeldt’s The Ugly Stepsister, a warped, sinister spin on the Cinderella story has won the feature film Audience Award at the 2025 Overlook Film Festival.
Overlook Film Festival
The Overlook Film Festival is a 4-day celebration of all things horror held in America’s most haunted city, New Orleans. Each May, genre fans and cinephiles from the world over convene in the heart of the French Quarter, home to countless apparition sightings, voodoo legends, vampire curses and even some lore related to our namesake, horror fiction’s most frightening creation.
Presenting superior film programming with an expanded focus on experiential events, the festival showcases exciting work in new and classic independent horror cinema alongside the latest in interactive and live shows for a fully immersive weekend. As a summer camp for genre fans, The Overlook is a community event bringing the best of horror in all its forms to an enthusiastic and appreciative audience within an intimate and inspirational environment.
Overlook Film Festival started in 2018 and takes place in New Orleans, LA
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‘The Ugly Stepsister’ and ‘Touch Me’ Win Top Prizes at 2025 Overlook Film Festival
The Ugly Stepsister (Lukasz Bak | IFC Films. Shudder)
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Cloud, LifeHack and Rosario Among New Films Added to Overlook Film Festival Lineup
Lifehack by Ronan Corrigan (Lifehack) Nine films, including Cloud, LifeHack and Rosario, have been added to the lineup for the 2025 Overlook Film Festival, taking place April 3 – April 6 in New Orleans, Louisiana at the Prytania Theatres. The horror festival also announced new immersive events, presentations and parties.
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Overlook Film Festival Unveils First Wave of Films, Christopher Landon’s ‘Drop’ to Open Fest
(from left) Violet (Meghann Fahy) and Henry (Brandon Sklenar) in Drop, directed by Christopher Landon (courtesy The Overlook Film Festival) Overlook Film Festival unveiled the first wave of the horror film lineup for its 2025 edition, taking place April 3 – April 6 in New Orleans, Louisiana at the Prytania Theatres.
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Overlook Film Festival Awards – Damian Mc Carthy’s Oddity Wins Audience Award
Oddity The 2024 Overlook Film Festival honored the winners of the audience and juried prizes, with the feature film Audience Award, voted on by festival attendees, going to Damian Mc Carthy’s Oddity, a terrifying creepfest in which a blind medium resorts to desperate measures in an effort to find out the truth behind what happened to her sister.
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Nicolas Cage’s Arcadian Among New Films Added to 2024 Overlook Film Festival
Arcadian (credit Patrick Redmond | RLJE) The Overlook Film Festival has added seven films, as well as new immersive events, presentations and special guests to the full schedule for its 2024 edition, taking place April 4 – April 7 in New Orleans, Louisiana at the Prytania Theatres.
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Horror Films Cuckoo and Abigail to Headline 8th Overlook Film Festival Lineup
Abigail (Universal Pictures / courtesy: Overlook Film Festival) The Overlook Film Festival returns for its 8th edition from April 4 – April 7, 2024, in New Orleans, Louisiana at the Prytania Theatres.
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MONA LISA AND THE BLOOD MOON to Open Overlook Film Festival 2022
Mona Lisa and the Blood Moon directed by Ana Lily Amirpour The Overlook Film Festival 2022 will open with the North American premiere of Ana Lily Amirpour’s Mona Lisa and the Blood Moon, which features a stellar cast including Jeon Jong-soo, Kate Hudson and Craig Robinson. Shot in New Orleans, this fantastical boundary pushing tale marks the third feature from acclaimed director Amirpour.
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‘The Black Phone’ Starring Ethan Hawke to Close The Overlook Film Festival 2022
The Black Phone starring Ethan Hawke The Overlook Film Festival 2022 will close with the new horror thriller film The Black Phone starring Ethan Hawke. Based on an award-winning short story from Joe Hill’s best-selling 2005 collection 20th Century Ghosts, the new movie from the filmmakers of Sinister, marks the triumphant return to the genre for screenwriter C. Robert Cargill and director-screenwriter Scott Derrickson.
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Overlook Film Festival Returns to New Orleans in June 2022
The Overlook Film Festival, showcasing exciting work in new and classic genre cinema, live events, and its trademark interactive activities returns to New Orleans, June 2 through June 5, 2022.
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Virtual Genre Film Festival NIGHTSTREAM Returns for 2nd Edition in Fall 2021
Nightstream Festival 2021 The Boston Underground Film Festival (MA), Brooklyn Horror Film Festival (NY), North Bend Film Festival (WA) and the Overlook Film Festival (LA) team up again to present a second edition of NIGHTSTREAM, set to run in the Fall from October 7 to 13, 2021.
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Adam Rehmeier’s DINNER IN AMERICA Wins Audience Award + Winning Shorts Announced at NIGHTSTREAM Film Festival
Dinner in America NIGHTSTREAM, formed as a banner uniting five US genre festivals – Boston Underground, Brooklyn Horror, North Bend, Overlook, and Popcorn Frights – came to a close with Adam Rehmeier’s DINNER IN AMERICA winning the festival’s Audience Award.
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Virtual ‘NIGHTSTREAM’ Genre Film Festival Announces Lineup – Opening with Hulu’s RUN, Closing with MANDIBLES
Kiera Allen as ‘Daughter / Chloe’ and Sarah Paulson as ‘Mother / Diane’ in RUN. Photo Credit: Allen Fraser. NIGHTSTREAM – formed as a banner uniting five US genre festivals — Boston Underground, Brooklyn Horror, North Bend, Overlook, and Popcorn Frights — who have all been affected by COVID-19, unveiled its program of films and special events set to take place virtually next month.