TOHorror Fantastic Film Fest

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

The 22nd edition of TOHorror was held in October 2022, presenting Italian premieres of such extraordinary films as A WOUNDED FAWN by Trevis Stevens, TERRIFIER 2 by Damien Leone, SKINAMARINK by Kyle Ball, SYK PIKE by Kristoffer Borgli, MAD HEIDI by Johannes Hartmann and Sandro Klopfstein, MEGALOMANIAC by Karim Ouelhaj, MANDRAKE by Lynne Davison, HOLY MOTHER by Yoshihiro Nishimura, POLARIS by KC Carthew and many many others. The 2022 festival was also attended by very special guests, such as British illustration master DAVE McKEAN and French filmmaker ANDRÉ BONZEL (1992 cult film MAN BITES DOG's director), to name a few.

One of the goals of TOHorror is to contribute to the dissemination of talented new voices in the fantastic genre scene. In addition to works by well-known directors, the festival line-up is largely composed, year after year, of films by first-time or second-time filmmakers. In recent years we have had the honor and pleasure of presenting in Italy alternative gems by established directors and surprising feature debuts such as SAINT MAUD by Rose Glass, THE SADNESS by Rob Jabbaz, THE SCARY OF SIXTY-FIRST by Dasha Nekrasova, AMULET by Romola Garai, CLIMAX and LUX AETERNA by Gaspar Noé, ONE CUT OF THE DEAD by Shinichiro Ueda, PRISONERS OF THE GHOSTLAND by Sion Sono, WHY DON'T YOU JUST DIE! by Kirill Sokolov, IT COMES by Tetsuya Nakashima, PSYCHO GOREMAN by Steven Kostanski, AFTER BLUE by Bertrand Mandico, WE'RE ALL GOING TO THE WORLD'S FAIR by Jane Schoenbrun...

The strong SHORT FILM and ANIMATED SHORT FILM sections are one of the cornerstones of the festival: more than 40 amazing short and animated films from around the world are selected each year, bringing to light some of the best new filmmakers on the scene.

Being a transversal event, TOHorror starts from cinema and then explores all possible modern media, with the aim of analyzing contemporary society through the deforming lens of fantastic culture. Thus, through screenings, meetings with authors and guests -- in recent years: RICHARD STANLEY, JEAN ROLLIN, DARIO ARGENTO, RUGGERO DEODATO, HELENE CATTET & BRUNO FORZANI, MIGUEL ANGEL MARTIN, LORENZO BIANCHINI, ANDREAS MARSCHALL --, live concerts, art exhibitions, comic book presentations, talks about VR and videogames, and crazy parties, we are enabled to experience and interpret reality through the wildest imagination.