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Freak Me Out is the SFF sidebar dedicated to all things strange and scary in contemporary world cinema.

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Prepare to be Freaked Out by everything from heavy-duty horror to brain-bending sci-fi and eerie and eccentric arthouse attractions. FMO is at your service with seven motion picture entertainments to rattle your nerves and blow your mind. See you in the grindhouse.

Richard Kuipers, Freak Me Out Curator

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Belloe
An expectant mother awakens an unknown entity in the wilderness, forever changing the nature of her unborn child and her trust in the natural world. Screens with It Ends
Dangerous Animals
A shark-obsessed serial killer is on the loose in this nail-biting Aussie horror-thriller, starring Yellowstone’s Hassie Harrison. Coming to Sydney shores direct from Cannes.
Short
Em & Selma Go Griffin Hunting
A coming-of-age tale set in an alternative 1930s USA. Midnight Short Film Program, Sundance 2025. Screens with The Wailing
Short
Ferryman
A lost soul searches for the light. Screens with The Home
The Home
Mattias J. Skoglund’s chilling social horror film is set in a small Swedish town, at an aged care home where something malevolent has taken hold. SXSW Midnighter 2025.
Short
I Can’t Go On
Children’s entertainer Natalie is having a rough day at work. Screens with Redux Redux
Selling Fast
It Ends
Four college grads get stuck on road trip that never ends in this gripping existential horror. A viral online short turned stunning feature debut, in competition at SXSW 2025.
Selling Fast
OBEX
This gloriously weird, lo-fi mix of sci-fi, fantasy, comedy and horror set in 1987 follows a reclusive nerd’s quest into a mysterious video game to rescue his dog. Sundance 2025.
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Real
Un smartphone dans la France rurale, 1857? Comme, oh mon Dieu! Screens with OBEX
Redux Redux
Direct from its hit SXSW premiere comes this mind-bending sci-fi horror about a mother who travels across the multiverse to repeatedly take revenge on her daughter’s killer.
Straight on Till Morning
Dani and Kaitlin’s whirlwind love affair is interrupted by a twisted family with a terrifying agenda. This blistering blend of extreme horror and tender romance never lets go.
The Wailing
A sinister presence visible only through a camera stalks three women in this beguiling, richly textured chiller starring Ester Expósito (Netflix’s Elite). Best Director, San Sebastián 2024.
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The Wanderer
A dying man meets immortality herself. Screens with Straight On Till Morning
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