The Outer Rim Unveils Genre-Spanning Lineup for 2026: Alien Westerns, Lunar Thrillers, and Interdimensional Invasions

BALTIMORE - EntSun -- The Outer Rim: The Off-World Experience, Baltimore's home for independent science fiction, returns August 28–30, 2026 at the Baltimore Science Fiction Society with a lineup spanning genres, continents, and galaxies.

Alien Boy brings actor-filmmaker Forrest Goodluck (The Revenant, Pet Sematary: Bloodlines, How to Blow Up a Pipeline) to the festival with this tale-within-a-tale alien western, in which an aging L. Thomas Frank recounts to a modern film crew the story of a father in desolate Bummer, NM, confronted by an alien claiming to be his son's true father. Goodluck, a Sundance Full Circle Fellow and award-winning filmmaker in his own right, brings both star power and craft to this genre mashup.

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From China, Labile, directed by Qing Kong (Borderline), imagines a 2044 energy crisis in which a team must risk their lives to manually detonate a malfunctioning lunar fusion reactor before it destroys Earth's last hope for power.

Dorion, from New Zealand filmmaker Eren Gulfidan, follows a man afflicted by a sensation of floating who seeks out a mysterious alien healer, while fellow Kiwi Christian Nicolson delivers laughs with the comedy Space Chai.

Friday Night's SciFi Romance block features Jane 2687 from veteran writer-director Joe Benedetto (Slapface), the story of an escort who falls for a client claiming to be from the 27th century.

Closing out the festival Sunday at 3:25 PM: Chedey Reyes's The Thing in the Fog, following a veteran pilot and his trainee co-pilot thrust into interdimensional chaos as humanity's last defense against an invading force.

Also screening: the acclaimed time-travel comedy Time Helmet.

Tickets and passes at http://theouterrimfest.com

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