10 horror movies to keep an eye on the 2025 river festival

The 2025 edition of the Rio Festival begins this week and, over the next few days, the looks of the movie buffs and movie buffs of the whole planet will be focused on the Marvelous City. There are many movies awaited, played premieres and debates in a program that promises to be fantastic! For you who like horror movies, the menu is a must see! Below are some suggestions for you to check during the festival:

The Primate

Upon returning from college for a few days on vacation at the Hawaii family home, Lucy meets her father, younger sister and their pet chimpanzee Ben. The mother, who died a few years earlier, was a scientist and raised Ben since the animal was born as a family member. However, on the eve of Lucy’s arrival the chimpanzee is bitten by a wild animal and contracts anger. What will happen in the following days will force Lucy, sister and friends to take refuge in absolute terror in the pool – the only place feared by Ben. (Official Synopsis of the Festival)

Bone lake

A couple, seeking to reconnect intimately, rent a house by a lake to spend the weekend. However, another couple also appears. Realizing that the property has been reserved twice at the same time by mistake, the two couples shyly agree to share the space and make the most of the weekend together. What begins promising how friendship soon turns into a distorted series of sex and lies, and the idyllic weekend quickly collapses in a torrent of orgianic violence, with generous doses of sensuality and thirst for blood. (Official Synopsis of the Festival)

The ugly sister

Body horror movie that reimagues Cinderella’s tale from the perspective of the half sister, Elvira. In a society where beauty is the currency of exchange, Elvira resorts to extreme and grotesque measures to reach unrealistic standards and win the heart of the prince, facing the competition of her beautiful half sister, Agnes. The film explores beauty, pain, greed, and ugliness behind the search for a physical ideal, with strong social criticism. (Official Synopsis of the Festival)

Exit 8

A man is increasingly desperate to realize that he is stuck in a subway station, having to win a mission to get out of there. He is obliged to follow some rules during the walk to the exit. However, a single mistake makes him come back over and over to the starting point, leading him to wonder if one day he will actually be able to leave the place. (Official Synopsis of the Festival)

Thin!

It’s Christmas time in Los Angeles. Penny, tormented by his own binge food and body dysmorphia, takes Thinnestra, a mysterious Ozempic -like drug. That night she expels grotesque masses of fat violently. But the meat returns – distorted, voracious, reborn as Penelope. While double causes bloody damage around the city, Penny struggles to recover control. (Official Synopsis of the Festival)

Queens of the Dead

When a zombie apocalypse happens during a Drags show in Brooklyn, an eclectic group of Drag Queens, Club Kids and Angimos friends needs to set aside their personal dramas and use unique skills to combat brain-thirsty dead. (Official Synopsis of the Festival)

The flesh itself

Three deserting soldiers during the Paraguayan War in 1870, each fighting for survival in their own way, find a isolated house on the border, inhabited only by a mysterious farmer and a young woman. What seemed to be a safe haven becomes a terrifying nightmare when soldiers discover that the house hides macabre secrets, confronting them with an even more horrible destination than the war they fled. (Official Synopsis of the Festival)

Narcissa’s inheritance

Haunted by the memories of her newly failed mother, former Narcissa Schedule, Ana decides to sell the childhood mansion she inherited and share the money with her brother, Diego. However, the dark cleaning process reveals a very different inheritance from what she imagined. (Official Synopsis of the Festival)

Virtuous

A VIP retreat for women in search of their best version becomes an absurd and dangerous journey. (Official Synopsis of the Festival)

Macabre weekend

Nikiya is an orphan who feels alone and yearns for a family. She begins to find a sense of belonging on her fiance, Luke, and insists to know his family, who resists the idea. To please her and for her sake, Luke finally makes the sacrifice. In his visit to his hometown, inside, meeting people, Nikiya discovers the truth behind Luke’s removal, revealing obscure family dynamics and conflicts, turning the trip into a nightmare. (Official Synopsis of the Festival)