The favorite of the X “Fuck My Son” festival is now heading for a theater near you.
The team behind the horror comedy, which made its debut as part of Midnight Madness Slate this year at the Toronto International Film Festival, announced a first share of projections, which should start in mid-October.
Todd Rohal’s long adaptation of Johnny Ryan’s subversive comic strip – on an obsessive mother who kidnaps a woman to sleep with her scary son disfigured – was confronted with laughter, groans and even some debraying during his beginnings at TIFF on September 10.
“Rather than putting the film back to a traditional distributor,” fucking my son! “Will be published through a collective led by the filmmaker – a new model that combines the independence of DIY cinema with the scope of industry expertise,” the collective announced in a press release. “The exit is managed by a partnership of filmmakers, an experienced theatrical book and a former studio director. This cooperative structure allows filmmakers On resources, strategy and connections generally reserved for studio outings.
The Collective Consists of Todd Rohal (Writer, Director, Producer, Editor, Post-Supervisor, VFX Artist, Accountant and Mixing Assistant, “Fuck My Son!”), Tommy Lucente (Media & Entertainment Exec, Ex-Vice/Fox/Disney), James Belfer (Producer/Distributor, Cartuna) (Booker / Distributor, Cartuna) and Michael Tully (Publicist, writer / director of “Septien”, “Ping-Pong Summer”, “Do’t’t Leave Home”).
See the initial lot of “Fuck my son!” Dates below, with more follow-up, according to the collective, with a “commitment to maintain this film screening exclusively in theaters throughout 2026 and beyond”.
10 / 201-23 – New York, NY – IFC Center
10 / 23-30-los Angeles, Ca- Alamo Drafthouse Los Angeles
10/31 – 11/04 – Austin, TX – Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar
10/31 – 11/01 – Brooklyn, ny – nan’ahawk cinema – Williamsburg * 35 mm *
11/05-08-san Francisco, Ca- Alamo Drafthouse New Mission * 35 mm *
11/14-15-Chicago, The- Music Box Theater * 35 mm *
11 / 28-29 – Dallas, TX – Texas Theater * 35 mm *
12/05-06 – Seattle, WA – Cinema Grand Illusion at the Siff Film Center * 35 mm *
19/19 – Toronto, is – Cinema review
12 / 26-27-Philadelphia, pa- Philalamoca
01/02-03/26 – Omaha, ne – Théâtre Dundee Streams De Film Streams * 35 mm *
In addition, the collective shared a first overview of the film by making its debut on the trailer Variety. Look at the NSFW clip below.
