Sundance unveils its midnight lineup

Anyway, leading the slate is Eli Roth’s Knock Knock, a home-invasion thriller we thought sounded suspiciously like a Seymour Cassel movie from 1977. Reeves stars as a married man whose life is “turned upside down” when two beautiful young women appear on his doorstep. Bacon stars in another high profile pick, Cop Car, as a police officer pursuing two 10-year-old boys who took his squad car for a joyride.

Room 237 director Rodney Ascher will return to the festival with the world premiere of The Nightmare, a “docu-horror” film about sleep paralysis. Other world premieres include The Hallow, the debut from new The Crow reboot director Corin Hardy; Hellions, about a teenage girl who must fend off malevolent trick-or-treaters, from Pontypool director Bruce McDonald; Reversal, about a woman who turns the tables on the sexual predator who has her chained up in his basement; and Turbo Kid, an ’80s style post-apocalyptic adventure developed from a The ABCs Of Death contest entry.

Finally, there’s It Follows, starring The Guest’s Maika Monroe as a teenager pursued by a terrifying entity that appears to be sexually transmitted. It Follows premiered at Cannes last year, where The A.V. Club’s A.A. Dowd saw it and said it was really good.