I'm crossing my fingers I'll be able to attend Fantastic Fest this year, because it's one of the most exciting film festivals around.  We previously reported that this year's opening night flick would be the stop-motion animated adaptation of Frankenweenie, and now the full line-up is starting to be announced.  Fantastic Fest usually announces its line-up in waves, and wave one has already got some big highlights for genre fans.  There's the hard R-rated Dredd, Quentin Dupieux's hilariously bizarre Wrong, and the excellent documentary Room 237, which is about The Shining.  Oh, and they'll also be showing The Shining (a movie that doesn't need a prequel).  Room 237 and The Shining would be a kick-ass double-feature, and I hope those movies will be played together (although I'm not sure which one I would choose to go first; probably Room 237 since it would cause the audience to start combing through the screening of The Shining).Hit the jump for the first wave of announcements.  Fantastic Fest 2012 runs from September 20 – 27th.dredd-3d-movie-posterVia Fantastic Fest's official website.COCKNEYS VS ZOMBIES (2011)US PremiereDirector - Matthias Hoene, 87minWhen a badly planned bank robbery and a zombie outbreak collide, hilarity ensues in this balls-out, irreverent British comedy.DEAD SUSHI (2012)US PremiereDirector - Noboru Iguchi, 91minJapanese splatter action comedy is on the menu when director Noboru Iguchi & karate girl Rina Takeda join forces to take on flying killer sushi monsters in DEAD SUSHI!DREDD 3D (2012)Gala PremiereDirector: Pete Travis, USA, 98 minutesThe future America is an irradiated waste land. The only force of order lies with the urban cops called “Judges” who possess the combined powers of judge, jury and instant executioner.  Known and feared throughout the city, Dredd (Karl Urban) is the ultimate Judge, challenged with ridding the city of its latest scourgeTHE ENTITY (1982)Repertory Screening as part of the House of Psychotic Women seriesDirector – Sidney J. Furie, 125minIn this controversial film based on a true story, director Furie explores the domestically-abused-woman-as-masochist stereotype by veiling it as a supernatural horror film.ERRORS OF THE HUMAN BODY (2012)US PremiereDirector – Eron Sheean, 101minPlagued by the memory of the infant son he could not save, geneticist Geoff Burton plunges into a web of intrigue, jealousy and lies in this icily precise thriller.room-237-movie-posterEVERYBODY IN OUR FAMILY (2011)US PremiereDirector – Radu Jude, 107minA simple domestic dispute becomes an explosive examination of stress in this powerful and unsettling Romanian drama.I DECLARE WAR (2012)Regional PremiereDirector – Jason Lapeyre and Robert Wilson, 91minA group of exceptionally creative teens gets sucked into their own private Lord of the Flies scenario when an after-school game of “war” turns into a test of loyalty, strategy and friendship.THE KING OF PIGS (2011)Texas PremiereDirector – Yeun Sang-Ho, 97minTHE KING OF PIGS is an emotionally punishing animated indie film about a group of friends whose brutal childhoods continue to haunt them as adults.LE MEMORIA DEL MUERTO (2012)US PremiereDirector - Valentín Javier Diment, 89minAlicia undertakes a bizarre cult ritual to restore her deceased husband to life – a ritual that will see her home and friends visited by the spirits of the dead.the-mafu-cage-posterTHE MAFU CAGE (1978)Repertory Screening as part of the House of Psychotic Women seriesDirector – Karen Arthur, 102minOne of the most compelling and uniquely dark films of the psychotic woman subgenre, Karen Arthur’s adaptation of Eric Westphal’s play You and Your Clouds stars Lee Grant as Ellen, an astronomer who lives with her feral sister Cissy (Carol Kane).PARIS BY NIGHT (2011)Texas PremiereDirector - Philippe Lefebvre, 100minPhilippe Lefebvre's PARIS BY NIGHT is a sleek French cop thriller that follows a pair of vice cops as they patrol the Parisian club scene over the course of a single evening.ROOM 237 (2012)Texas PremiereDirector - Rodney Ascher, 102minRodney Ascher's ROOM 237 is a fascinating documentary that explores bizarre theories about the subtext and symbolism underlying Stanley Kubrick's landmark film THE SHINING.SECRET CEREMONY (1968)Repertory Screening as part of the House of Psychotic Women seriesDirector – Joseph Losey, 105minIn Losey’s underrated SECRET CEREMONY, an aging but still glamorous Elizabeth Taylor stars as Leonora, a prostitute grieving over the death of her daughter in a drowning accident.the shining prequel posterTHE SHINING (1980)Repertory ScreeningDirector – Stanley Kubrick, 142minStanley Kubrick’s horror masterpiece features an unhinged performance by Jack Nicholson and a setting that drips with menace.  Its imagery and characters have permeated all areas of pop culture throughout the decades, yet the film retains all its power to disturb and terrify.TOWER BLOCK (2012)US PremiereDirectors - James Nunn and Ronnie Thompson, 87minThe last remaining tenants of a deteriorating, soon-to-be-demolished tower block must band together to survive when a killer with a high-powered sniper rifle starts picking them off through the windows of their flats.UNIT 7 (Grupo 7) (2012)Texas PremiereDirector - Alberto Rodriguez, 95minAlberto Rodriguez's UNIT 7 is gritty realistic thriller about a crew of narcotics officers in Seville, Spain who go rogue during a citywide crackdown in the years preceding Expo '92.WRONG (2011)Regional PremiereDirector - Quentin Dupieux, 94minEveryman Dolph Springer’s (Jack Plotnick) world is turned wrong when he awakens at 7:60 one morning to find his beloved dog missing in Quentin’s Dupieux’s latest absurdist opus and follow up to 2010’s killer tire film, RUBBER.YOUNG GUN IN THE TIME (2012)US PremiereDirector - Oh Young Doo, 95minThe director of INVASION OF ALIEN BIKINI returns with a quirky, low budget time travel romp filled with sex shops, robot hands and Hawaiian shirts.