The Holy Boy
2025
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Synopsis
A PE teacher moves to a isolated mountain village where the people appear to live in unshakeable serenity, but soon stumbles across a disturbing ritual. Once a week, the locals are freed of their pain by a lonely boy born with the power to heal one's soul just by hugging them. Trying to rescue him from this madness, the man unleashes his dark side.
The Holy Boy (2025) is a 2h 2min horror feature film by Paolo Strippoli. A PE teacher moves to a isolated mountain village where the people appear to live in unshakeable serenity, but soon s... Selected for The Fantasy Film Festival (2026).
Key facts
Original language
Italian
First release
September 17, 2025
Production companies
Vision Distribution, Fandango
Trailer
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Festival History
- Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival 2026 - Feature
- Fantastic Zagreb Film Festival 2026 - Thrills & Chills
- Hallucinations Collectives 2026 - Avant Premieres
- The Fantasy Film Festival 2026
- Transilvania International Film Festival 2026 - Full Moon
- BFI London Film Festival 2025 - Cult
- Brooklyn Horror Film Festival 2025 - Features
- Busan International Film Festival 2025 - Midnight Passion
- Chicago International Film Festival 2025 generic
- Fantastic Fest 2025 - Features
- Golden Horse Film Festival 2025 generic
- PIFFF (Paris International Fantastic Film Festival) 2025 - Competition
- Razor Reel Flanders Film Festival (member of the MIFF) 2025 - Fantastic Scope
- Sitges - Catalonian International Film Festival 2025 - Noves Visions - Cloenda
- SLASH Fantastic Film Festival 2025 - Guest(s) present
- Strasbourg European Fantastic Film Festival (Festival européen du film fantastique de Strasbourg) 2025 - Fantastic Film competition
- Venice Film Festival 2025 generic
Identifiers & sources
| Wikidata | Q135921404 |
| IMDb | tt33382323 |
| TMDB | 1092936 |
Source: Wikidata (CC0-1.0)
