‘Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer,’ ‘Wendigo’ Restorations, and 14 More Films Set for Lincoln Center’s Scary Movies Lineup
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- Scary Movies XIV runs August 12-20 at Film at Lincoln Center's Walter Reade Theater, with 16 films including 4 North American premieres, 2 U.S. premieres, and 4 New York premieres
- Casper Kelly's "Buddy" opens the festival on August 12 — a satirical horror-comedy about a children's TV show that descends into chaos, starring Cristin Milioti and Topher Grace with voice work from Keegan-Michael Key and Patton Oswalt
- John McNaughton's "Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer" (1986) gets a world premiere 4K restoration, alongside a 25th-anniversary screening of Larry Fessenden's "Wendigo" and a new 35mm print of "Sudden Fury" (1975)
- Daniel Goldhaber's "Cam" (2018) gets a new 35mm print at the festival — IndieWire notes the techno-horror about webcam identity theft was recently removed from Netflix and had never existed in physical media form
- Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick co-direct and star in "Family Movie" alongside their real-life children Sosie and Travis Bacon, playing a family shooting a microbudget vampire movie on their farm
- Programmer Madeline Whittle framed the lineup's appeal, saying horror thrives during 'compounding global crises' and 'audiences today have resoundingly backed the hypothesis that there will always be an appetite for art that scares us'
Why it matters: Scary Movies XIV arrives as theatrical horror continues to break box-office records, and Film at Lincoln Center is using its platform to rescue at-risk genre films from streaming deletion — 'Cam' world-premiering in 35mm just as it was pulled from Netflix shows preservationists racing against digital disappearance. For New York genre fans, the August 12-20 run packs four North American premieres and three restorations into nine days at the Walter Reade Theater.
