A New Kind of Film Festival

     There’s a time and a place for charming, simple, beautiful films...for sweet, positive, life-affirming cinema...

This ain’t that.

Bizarre. Strange. Peculiar. Eccentric. The abnormal. The disturbing. The troubling. The unsettling, the unsavory, the upsetting, the unusual, and the uncategorizable.
You’re invited to our next celebration of the darker side of cinema, as we unleash a second helping of absolute celluloid insanity and some seriously fucked up flicks at RETURN OF THE CINEMATIC PANIC! - a four day film festival devoted entirely to the dangerous, the demented, and the damaging in film...

Black Lodge and Piano Man Pictures offer you a unique cinematic dare: to test your limits and subject yourself to the most subversive cinema we can find. Can you handle it?
Join us for special screenings of some of the most notorious movies and short films in cinema history. Prepare for a universe of deranged movie treasures! Worried you may not be able to handle the madness? Let our “Panic Meter” help guide you through the fest, revealing just how disturbing each movie is. Can’t say we didn’t warn you!

But we not only want to show some of cinema’s most outrageous, mind-blowing and even sinister movies ever...we want to see new ones. We invited film-makers to submit their most outlandish films to screen and enter for MONEY PRIZES, with categories in features, short films, music videos and even fake trailers. And there was only one criteria: all submissions must simply be as bizarre, strange, and unsettling as possible, whatever genre they are. We received submissions from all around America and from over 25 countries. The best will be publicly screened at the festival, where YOU, the audience, will pick your favorites and decide who gets the prizes.


Can your grip on reality handle just how far it can all go? Prepare to Panic...

Full fest schedule of films will be posted end of August.

Tickets are $10 a person for full access to every screening and event at the fest, across the entire four day schedule! Daily tickets available for $8!

THE DETAILS

Event Date: OCTOBER 8TH-9TH, 2021

Location: Black Lodge, 405 N Cleveland, Memphis TN