Boston Underground Film Festival

Boston Underground Film Festival Celebrating the bizarre and insane since 1999. We feature arthouse, dark comedy, horror, cult, short films, documentaries, and a music video program.
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The Boston Underground Film Festival (BUFF) is an annual event committed to the celebration of alternative vision and cultivation of independent, provocative and experimental filmmaking. By featuring work that pushes the envelope in form, style and content, BUFF seeks to be a platform for the screening of new work and a forum for the exchange of ideas among filmmakers, curators and audiences. Goin

g into its 19th year, BUFF aims to bring filmmakers and their strange, beautiful, haunting, horrifying, profound, comedic, and exquisite cinematic masterpieces from all over the world, face-to-face with our audience of cineastes. "BUFF is a terrific festival! Great audience! Great staff! Screening there was a delight. I can't wait to return!" ~ Don Coscarelli (Phantasm, John Dies at the End)

"Boston Underground Film Festival was one of my favorite film festival experiences I've had. Organized, attentive and downright fun. With a great selection of movies, Buff attracts one of the rowdiest and most vocal group of cinema lovers in the nation. My screening was an absolute blast and I hope I get the opportunity to showcase my next film there!" ~ Mike Mendez (Big Ass Spider!)

"I went to BUFF with nothing and I left with a pink vibrating bunny; how could that not be an excellent time!?" ~ Simon Rumley (Red, White & Blue)

“The Boston Underground Film Festival prides itself on digging up naughty and subversive little flicks that look something like a Herschell Gordon Lewis/John Waters concoction.” – DigBoston

Who caught this last night?
03/23/2026

Who caught this last night?

The official poster for Kenji Tanigaki’s The Furious 👀

The Furious is in theaters May 29 via Lionsgate.

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And the Winners are….we’re all winners here! What an amazing week of films and frivolity. Thank you to the Brattle, the ...
03/23/2026

And the Winners are….
we’re all winners here! What an amazing week of films and frivolity. Thank you to the Brattle, the Coolidge, our volunteer staff, our sponsors, the filmmakers, and you the audience!

Audience Choice Award: Best of Fest Short - CHECK PLEASE
Audience Choice Award: Best of Fest Feature - The Hedonist
Director’s Choice: Best Short- What Are Grandchildren Made Of?
Director’s Choice: Best Feature - Sugar Rot
Audience Choice Award: Best Debut Feature - Cramps! A Period Piece
Best New England Film/David Kleiler Award - Interference

In addition to this amazing trophy designed by Larry Sampson, some award winners will receive prizes from our sponsors including Avid, Blackmagic Design, and Super 8 Film from Kodak!

Best audience a group of cinema-loving weirdos could ever ask for! Finishing the fest with THE FURIOUS!
03/23/2026

Best audience a group of cinema-loving weirdos could ever ask for! Finishing the fest with THE FURIOUS!

Chop Top himself, Bill Moseley, talking THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE 2 tonight at BUFF26. Presented by Rucking Fotten. Ho...
03/22/2026

Chop Top himself, Bill Moseley, talking THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE 2 tonight at BUFF26. Presented by Rucking Fotten.
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When at BUFF be sure to stop by the merch table to say hi to Sean and the wonderful BUFF Merch Crew!
03/21/2026

When at BUFF be sure to stop by the merch table to say hi to Sean and the wonderful BUFF Merch Crew!

03/21/2026

Death walks behind. Hell waits ahead. Saturday at 10:30pm, join Rucking Rotten and Boston Underground Film Festival for THE DEVIL'S REJECTS, with horror icon Bill Moseley in person for an extended intro! Tickets are going fast, get yours now at bostonunderground.org/schedule/2026/feature/the-devils-rejects/

Come meet BILL MOSELEY and check out all the amazing films of BUFF Day 4!!!UPDATE: THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE 2 and THE...
03/21/2026

Come meet BILL MOSELEY and check out all the amazing films of BUFF Day 4!!!

UPDATE: THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE 2 and THE DEVIL’S REJECTS will now be on DCP. Same body count in both films, even with the format change.

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