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Lance Oppenheim’s Primetime, starring Robert Pattinson, is set to open the Beyond Fest genre festival in Los Angeles after bowing in Venice.

The A24 film also starring Merritt Wever, Skyler Gisondo, Phoebe Bridgers and Jeff Zucker playing himself will make its West Coast premiere at the Director’s Village. This year’s festival running from Sept. 23 to Oct. 8 will feature in all 10 world premieres of its own.

Those include a first look for Nobuhiko Obayashi’s Hausu, paired with Conor Oberst’s short Invention 13; V/H/S/MIXTAPE, from director RZA, Flying Lotus and Ernest Dickerson; RZA’s Saturday Afternoon Kung-Fu Theater – ‘Born Invincible’ series; and debuts for a host of 4K film restorations.

There’s also Beyond Fest screenings for Alex Gibney’s Musk, Bassam Tariq’s Your Mother, Your Mother, Your Mother, a restoration of Ken Russell’s The Devils, and Robert Eggers will give a first look at material from his upcoming film Werwulf, while also bringing earlier horror pics like The Witch, The Lighthouse and The Northman for repertory screenings.

Also booked into the genre film festival is Mike Flanagan bringing two episodes of his Carrie series; Sung Kang’s Drifter; Mike P. Nelson’s Beware Buouna; The Cannes standout Victorian Psycho from directors Zachary Wigon and Maika Monroe; and Jordan Downey’s The Cycle.

“Beyond Fest has always existed to erase the false borders between arthouse and grindhouse, the brand new and the gloriously rediscovered,” Evrim Ersoy, Beyond Fest head of programming, said in a statement. “This year’s program is a maximalist celebration of cinema in every form: major artists, new voices, impossible repertory events and the kind of shared theatrical experiences that can only happen in Los Angeles.”

Beyond Fest will feature in-person appearances by M. Night Shyamalan, who will have a retrospective of his films at the festival, Danny DeVito on hand for a special screening of Hoffa, Al Pacino, Jamie Lee Curtis, Bruce Dern, Matt Berry, Michael Mann and Dolph Lundgren.