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 23rd edition of TOHorror was held in October 2023, presenting Italian premieres of such extraordinary films as LES CHAMBRES ROUGES by Pascal Plante, GOOD BOY by Viljar Boe, DIVINITY by Eddie Alcazar, PERPETRATOR by Jennifer Reeder, THE SEEDING by Barnaby Clay, TIGER STRIPES by Amand Nell Eu, ABRUPTIO by Evan Marlowe, MAD CATS by Reiki Tsuno, and many many others.
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 filmmakers, the festival line-up is largely composed year after year of films by first-time or second-time directors. 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, SKINAMARINK by Kyle Ball, AMULET by Romola Garai, CLIMAX and LUX AETERNA by Gaspar Noé, ONE CUT OF THE DEAD by Shinichiro Ueda, TERRIFIER 2 by Damien Leone, A WOUNDED FAWN by Travis Stevens, 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 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: DAVE McKEAN, RICHARD STANLEY, JEAN ROLLIN, DARIO ARGENTO, RUGGERO DEODATO, HELENE CATTET & BRUNO FORZANI, MIGUEL ANGEL MARTIN, LORENZO BIANCHINI, KLAUS MAECK, ANDRE BONZEL, 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.
● Best Short Film
● Best Animated Short Film
● Anna Mondelli Award for the Best Feature Film
● Audience Award for the Best Short Film
● Audience Award for the Best Animated Short Film
● Audience Award for the Best Feature Film
● Antonio Margheriti Award for the most insane independent vocation and artisanal attitude
● Bloody FX Award for the best FX
● Scuola Comics Award, assigned to the best Animated Short Film by teachers and students of Turin's International School of Comics
● Special Mentions assigned by both the official juries and the festival team