TOP10 Fantastic Cinema 2025

The time has come to share it: after several committee sessions, with intense debates and differing opinions, we have decided which works have left the deepest mark on this year’s Fantástico season. This is our final verdict: what, from the Festival’s perspective, we consider the highlights of the 2025 crop.

They have transported us to worlds as unsettling as they are possible, made us see characters we thought we knew with fresh eyes, and quite simply, we can’t get them out of our minds.

Here are our picks… take note!

1. Weapons, by Zach Cregger
2. Sinners, by Ryan Coogler
3. Reflection in a Dead Diamond, by Hélène Cattet & Bruno Forzani
4. Frankenstein, by Guillermo del Toro
5. Exit 8, by Genki Kawamura

6. The Ice Tower, by Lucile Hadžihalilović

   28 Years Later, by Danny Boyle

7. Fuck My Son!, by Todd Rohal

   Obsession, by Curry Barker

8. Bugonia, by Yorgos Lanthimos
9. Havoc,  by Gareth Evans

10. Final Destination: Bloodlines, by Zach Lipovsky & Adam B. Stein

    Arco, by Ugo Bienvenu

    Bring Her Back, by Danny & Michael Philippou

    Sisu: Road to Revenge, de Jalmari Helander

But… how did we get here? Very simple: by adding up all the TOP 10 lists sent to us by the team members, which you can see below.

Ángel Sala, Artistic Director

1. Sinners, by Ryan Coogler
2. The Plague, by Charlie Polinger
3. The Ice Tower, by Lucile Hadžihalilović
4. A Useful Ghost, by Ratchapoom Boombunchachoke
5. Frankenstein, by Guillermo del Toro
6. Bugonia, by Yorgos Lanthimos
7. 28 Years Later, by Danny Boyle
8. Reflection in a Dead Diamond, by Hélène Cattet & Bruno Forzani
9. Exit 8, by Genki Kawamura
10. New Group, by Yuta Shimotsu

Mònica Garcia i Massagué, General Manager Foundation

1. Sinners, by Ryan Coogler
2. Fuck My Son!, by Todd Rohal
3. Weapons, by Zach Cregger
4. Obsession, by Curry Barker
5. Silencio, by Eduardo Casanova
6. Alpha, by Julia Ducournau
7. Together, by Michael Shanks
8. Black Phone 2, by Scott Derrickson
9. The Ugly Stepsister, by Emilie Blichfeldt
10. Gaua, by Paul Urkijo Alijo

Diego López-Fernández, Direction Assistant

1. Reflection in a Dead Diamond, by Hélène Cattet & Bruno Forzani
2. Warfare, by Alex Garland & Ray Mendoza
3. Eddington, by Ari Aster
4. Weapons, by Zach Cregger
5. One Battle After Another, by Paul Thomas Anderson
6. Sinners, by Ryan Coogler
7. Fuck My Son!, by Todd Rohal / Flush, by Grégory Morin
8. The Furious, by Kenji Tanigaki
9. Memoria (1976), by Francisco Macián – 4K Restoration
10. Lo spettro (1963), by Riccardo Freda – 4K Restoration

Jordi Sánchez-Navarro, Programming Committee

1. Frankenstein, by Guillermo del Toro
2. Weapons, by Zach Cregger
3. Reflection in a Dead Diamond, by Hélène Cattet & Bruno Forzani
4. Bulk, by Ben Wheatley
5. Sinners, by Ryan Coogler
6. Taroman Expo Explosion, by Ryô Fujii
7. Bugonia, by Yorgos Lanthimos
8. Arco, by Ugo Bienvenu
9. Obex, by Albert Birney
10. Exit 8, by Genki Kawamura

Xavi Sánchez Pons, Programming Committee

1. Final Destination: Bloodlines, by Zach Lipovsky & Adam B. Stein
2. Astrid’s Saints, by Mariano Baino
3. Alien: Earth (TV Series), by Noah Hawley
4. Havoc, by Gareth Evans
5. Theatre of Horrors: The Sordid Story of Paris’ Grand Guignol, by David Gregory
6. Hellboy: The Crooked Man, by Brian Taylor
7. The Woman in the Yard, by Jaume Collet-Serra
8. Ataraxia, by Joe Meredith
9. The Shrouds, by David Cronenberg
10. A Grand Mockery, by Adam C. Briggs & Sam Dixon

Gerard Casau, Selection Committee

1. Reflection in a Dead Diamond, by Hélène Cattet & Bruno Forzani
2. Weapons, by Zach Cregger
3. Transcending Dimensions, by Toshiaki Toyoda
4. Arco, by Ugo Bienvenu
5. The Ice Tower, by Lucile Hadžihalilović
6. Gaua, by Paul Urkijo Alijo
7. Zodiac Killer Project, by Charlie Shackleton
8. Blood Shine, by Emily Bennett & Justin Brooks
9. CAMP, by Avalon Fast
10. Be a Good Girl, by Louiza Zouzias

Víctor Esquirol, Selection Committee

1. 28 Years Later, by Danny Boyle
2. Sinners, by Ryan Coogler
3. Exit 8, by Genki Kawamura
4. Weapons, by Zach Cregger
5. Obsession, by Curry Barker
6. The Ugly Stepsister, by Emilie Blichfeldt
7. El jockey, by Luis Ortega
8. Bugonia, by Yorgos Lanthimos
9. Heretic, by Scott Beck & Bryan Woods
10. Bring Her Back, by Danny & Michael Philippou

Omar Parra, Selection Committee

1. Sisu: Road to Revenge, by Jalmari Helander
2. Bring Her Back, by Danny & Michael Philippou
3. Weapons, by Zach Cregger
4. Havoc, by Gareth Evans
5. Luger, by Bruno Martín
6. Meat Kills, by Martijn Smits
7. Exit 8, by Genki Kawamura
8. Together, by Michael Shanks
9. V/H/S/Halloween, by Bryan M. Ferguson, Casper Kelly, Micheline Pitt, R.H. Norman, Alex Ross Perry, Paco Plaza, Anna Zlokovic
10. The Monkey, by Osgood Perkins