Behold! Two more feature films coming to this year’s Anomaly festival lineup for 2024: Universal Language and Dead Talents Society. Details & trailers for each film are below, and be sure to pick up a full festival pass you don’t miss a second of the great genre films we have lined up to bring you November 6-10 in downtown Rochester, NY.

Full festival lineup revealed — and individual tickets on sale — very, very shortly!

A touching alternate reality, cultural fusion fable.

In a mysterious and surreal interzone — somewhere between Tehran, Iran and Winnipeg, Canada — characters try to free money from an ice block, lead tourists through local historic sites, quit theirs jobs to visit their mothers, reunite with old friends and new acquaintances at a Tim Hortons, and — yes — even visit the finest turkey butcher in town. Space, time and identities interweave in this incredibly unique and surreal comedy of misdirection from director Matthew Rankin (The Twentieth Century, Anomaly 2020).

Anomaly Slightly Safer (films that avoid excessive blood, guts, gore, and explicit terror)

Canada / 2024 / 1 hr 27 mins

A haunting comedy about the horrors of influencer culture.

Dying is just the beginning of one young woman’s problems when she learns that the afterlife is a competitive world of celebrity scarers and desperate wannabes. Ghosts can linger in the mortal realm by competing to haunt humans, and so our rookie ghost embarks on a journey to find her own uniqueness under the tutelage of a passionate ghost talent agent and a washed-up diva, in an attempt to avoid failure — a fate in the underworld that is even worse than death.

Taiwan / 2024 / 1 hr 45 mins