Anomaly is thrilled to announce the first 4 feature films in our festival lineup for 2024: Chainsaws Were Singing, Timestalker, Dead Mail, and Flow. Find details & trailers for each film 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 — in the weeks to come!
Chainsaws Were Singing
A gory slapstick horror musical romance… with chainsaws.
An absolutely bonkers B-movie epic from Estonia, this horror-musical-comedy love letter to exploitation cinema finds new lovers separated from each other by a chainsaw killer. In their search to find each other again, they encounter maniacal locals, a dangerous forest, crazed cults, carnivorous animals, and the constant threat of dismemberment in this wild amalgamation of Monty Python meets Texas Chainsaw Massacre meets... Les Misérables.
Estonia / 2024 / 1 hr 57 mins
Timestalker
An absurd, darkly funny love story throughout time.
A bawdy reincarnation rom-com about the eternal humiliation that is the search for love. Hapless heroine Agnes travels through time as she repeatedly falls for the wrong guy, dies a grim death, and gets reincarnated a century later… before meeting him again and starting the cycle anew. Her only hope in avoiding this violent fate is by finally reaching spiritual enlightenment; but how can she ever wise up when she’s destined to be a fool for love? Some lessons are just too hard to learn in one single lifetime.
UK / 2024 / 1 hr 29 mins
Dead Mail
An analogue, chilly thriller of obsession and devotion.
A blood-stained cry for help desperately jammed into a mailbox outside a madman's house is the thread that ends up tying together an electronics virtuoso, a fervent synthesizer fanatic, and the unorthodox investigators at a small, midwestern dead letter office sometime in the 1980s. As points of view shift and situations turn deadly, the story oscillates and amplifies as it plays its own unique tune.
USA / 2024 / 1 hr 46 mins
Flow
A fantastical post-apocalyptic adventure for all ages.
A wondrous journey, through realms natural and mystical, Flow follows a courageous cat after its home is devastated by a great flood. Teaming up with a capybara, a lemur, a bird, and a dog to navigate a boat in search of dry land, they must rely on trust, courage, and wits to survive the perils of a newly aquatic planet. Steeped in the soaring possibilities of visual storytelling, Flow is a feast for the senses.
Anomaly Slightly Safer (films that avoid excessive blood, guts, gore, and explicit terror)
Latvia, Belgium, France / 2024 / 1 hr 29 mins
Full Festival Passes, which include every film program during all 5 days of Anomaly’s 2024 festival lineup are now on sale!