TOHorror Fantastic Film Fest

The TOHorror Fantastic Film Fest is a long-running Italian festival dedicated to fantastic & horror cinema.
It was founded in 1999 and is based in Torino, the city where Dario Argento shot one of his masterpiece, "Profondo Rosso", and where Italy's National Museum of Cinema is located.

The 24th edition of TOHorror was held in October 2024, presenting Italian premieres of such great films as "In A Violent Nature" by Chris Nash, "Oddity" by Damian McCarthy, "Sayara" by Can Evrenol, "Else" by Thibault Emin, "Animale" by Emma Benestan, "Steppenwolf" by Adilkhan Yerzhanov, "Krazy House" by Steffen Haars & Flip Van der Kuil, "Spermageddon" by Tommy Wirkola & Rasmus Sivertsen, "So Unreal" by Amanda Kramer and many many others; as well as a large lineup of amazing animated and live action shorts.

One of the goals of TOHorror is to contribute spreading talented and independent new voices in the genre-cinema scene. Alongside films by established filmmakers, the festival programme annually features many works by first-time or second-time directors. In recent years we have had the honor and pleasure of presenting in Italy alternative gems and terrific debuts such as "Red Rooms" by Pascal Plante, "Saint Maud" by Rose Glass, "The Sadness" by Rob Jabbaz, "Skinamarink" by Kyle Edward Ball, "Eight Eyes" by Austin Jennings, "Abruptio" by Evan Marlowe, "Amulet" by Romola Garai, "One Cut of the Dead" by Shinichiro Ueda, "We're All Going to the World's Fair" by Jane Schoenbrun, "Voidcaller" by Nils Alatalo...

Beside feature films, the Short Film and Animated Short Film sections definitely are one of the cornerstones of the festival: more than 40 shorts and animated shorts are selected each year, bringing to light some of the most promising new filmmakers in the panorama of contemporary fantastic & horror cinema.

Being a transversal event, TOHorror starts with movies and then explores all possible modern media, with the aim of analyzing today's society through the deforming lens of fantastic culture.
Thus, through screenings, meetings with guests (in recent years: Robert Morgan, Dave McKean, Richard Stanley, Jean Rollin, Dario Argento, Ruggero Deodato, Hélène Cattet & Bruno Forzani, Miguel Angel Martin, Klaus Maeck, André Bonzel...), live music, art exhibitions, comic book presentations, talks, panel and wild parties, we are enabled to experience reality through the wildest imagination.