Beyond Fest Sets 2023 Lineup: Genre Fest Features Roger Corman Tribute, ‘It’s A Wonderful Knife’ Premiere, ‘The Abyss’ Screening, Guillermo del Toro, Brad Bird & More:

The 2023 Beyond Fest lineup is set. America’s biggest genre-focused festival is returning this month with a 55-film slate that includes a Roger Corman career celebration, special screening of The Abyss with James Cameron, the world premiere of RLJE Films/Shudder’s It’s a Wonderful Knife and much more.

The 11th edition of the fest runs from September 26-October 10 in at the Los Feliz 3 in Los Angeles, the Aero Theatre in Santa Monica and Regency Village Theatre in Westwood. See the full lineup below.

Beyond Fest 2023 will open with Gareth Edwards’ sci-fi epic The Creator from 20th Century Studios and close with Kristoffer Borgli’s A24 pic Dream Scenario, starring Nicolas Cage. It also will feature the world premieres of It’s a Wonderful Knife, Welcome Space Brothers, History of Evil and the 4K restorations of Cemetery Man (1994) and The Church (1989).

Other highlights include Legendary’s new remake of Troma classic The Toxic Avenger, the Prime Video-Blumhouse TV’s ’80s retro-slasher pic Totally Killer, V/H/S/85, Suitable Flesh, Where Evil Lurks and the hyper-violent Kill.

Also on tap are a pair of films starring Paul Mescal: All of Us Strangers, with Jamie Bell and Claire Foy, and Foe, which also stars Saoirse Ronan.

The Corman retrospective will feature the celebrated schlockmeister’s Rock’n’roll High School, Piranha, Grand Theft Auto and The Raven, followed by a panel featuring Corman and longtime collaborators Ron Howard, Jon Davison, Amy Holden Jones, Joe Dante and Allan Arkush.

Michael Mann returns to Beyond Fest to discuss cinema’s iconic serial killer Dr. Hannibal Lector and the making of Mann’s 1986 classic Manhunter, Guillermo del Toro joins to celebrate the 10-year anniversary of his Jaeger-focused epic Pacific Rim, and Brad Bird will attend a screening of his 1999 toon The Iron Giant. Cameron will attend a screening of The Abyss, the 1989 deep-ocean thriller he wrote and directed starring Ed Harris, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio and Michael Biehn.

“With over 19,000 attendees in 2022, our goal this year was to go bigger while also exposing audiences to new filmmakers who represent the future,” said Evrim Ersoy, Beyond Fest’s Head of Programming. “We’ve delivered on that promise with a program that has the world’s most celebrated artists like James Cameron, Guillermo del Toro and Roger Corman joining us alongside some of cinema’s boldest new voices including Nikhil Nagesh Bhat, Demián Rugna and Macon Blair.”

For the full Beyond Fest 2023 lineup, view this article at Deadline.