Posts Tagged ‘Film Festival’
Posted by dominie in Events, Films, News on September 15th, 2008
The final two official posters for Midnight Movie, directed by Jack Messitt, are available now. Starring Daniel Bonjour, Michael Swan, Arthur Roberts, Dinora Walcott, Rebekah Brandes, Ashley Black, Michael Schwartz, Kathryn Aagesen, and Greg Ciruinick, the film about a 1970’s horror screening that comes alive… literally. The audience is in for a thrilling surprise when the killer from the movie emerges from the screen to kill them one at a time.
If you can’t wait for the DVD (arrives January 9, 2009), view below for the upcoming screening dates!
Chicago Film Festival – World Premier!
Sept 27, 2008 at 9:45
Portage Theater, Chicago IL
http://www.chicagohorrorfest.com
Shriekfest Horror/Sci-Fi Film Festival
Oct 2-5, 2008
Releigh Studios, Los Angeles, CA
Screening times/details to follow
http://www.shriekfest.com
Eerie Horror Fest
October 9-12
The Warner Theater - Erie, PA
Screening times/details to follow
http://www.eeriehorrorfest.com/
Escapism Film Festival
October 17-19, 2008.
The Carolina Theatre – Durham, North Carolina
Screening times/details to follow
http://festivals.carolinatheatre.org/escapism/index.html
Deadmonton Horror Festival
Oct. 26, 2008 at 5:50
Metro Cinema, Edmonton, AB Canada
http://www.deadmonton.net
Posted by dominie in Events, Films on September 4th, 2008
With only 43 days to go, the 2008 Toronto After Dark Film Festival’s official site has released their festival preview trailer and its first wave of film titles to be premiered during its festivities on October 17-24. The complete lineup and schedule will be available on September 24th. For now, we can look forward to these eight outstanding feature films:
REPO! THE GENETIC OPERA
“An audacious cinematic experience” - Fangoria
Darren Bousman, USA, Toronto Premiere
Beware the deadly repo man in the most highly anticipated cult film of the year, blending gothic horror, futuristic sci-fi, and rock opera! Starring genre icons Anthony Head (Buffy the Vampire Slayer), Bill Mosely (Devil’s Rejects), Alexa Vega (Spy Kids) and Paul Sorvino (Goodfellas).
Winner, Most Groundbreaking Film - Fantasia Film Festival.
RED
“What makes this movie worth seeing is the acting, which is superb throughout.” - New York Post
Trygve Diesen & Lucky McKee, USA, Toronto Premiere
Brian Cox (Bourne Supremacy) delivers a standout performance as a wronged man out for revenge in this thriller based on the celebrated Jack Ketchum novel. Co-starring cult icons Robert Englund (Nightmare on Elm St.), Amanda Plummer (Pulp Fiction), Richard Riehle (Office Space) and Tom Sizemore (Heat).
Official Selection - Sundance Film Festival 2008. (more…)
Posted by bob in Events, Films, News on August 24th, 2008
The Eerie Horror Film Festival, established in 2004, will be back October 9-12. The guest highlight is a reunion of the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre cast including Gunnar Hansen, Ed Neal, Marilyn Burns, Allen Danziger, Teri McMinn, John Dugan and Bill Vail.
Of course, there will also be their recognized film competition for independently minded creators.
Those near Erie, PA should definitely mark this on their calendars.
Posted by bob in Events, Films, News on August 23rd, 2008
ShocktilyouDrop has gotten the first look at the poster for January 2009’s After Dark Horrorfest III. The women seen here is After Dark’s Miss Horrorfest winner, Mistress Malice.
Among the eight films to be featured are Perkins’ 14, The Broken and Faithless.
Posted by dominie in Events, Films, News on August 21st, 2008
Perkins’ 14, an After Dark Films’ production, and Massify in association with FanLib, will début in theaters nationwide in the January 2009’s After Dark Horrorfest. The feature film is the first of its kind to have completed its development process entirely over the Internet—first Massify.com invited writers to pitch their favorite storyline from which a board of community members would vote for their favorite story, then actors were encouraged to submit audition videos to be cast for the winning story.
Jeremy Donaldson was the winner that pitched the idea of Perkins’ 14. The story is a killer thriller that follows Robert Perkins whose parents were massacred at their home when he was only six years old. Since that dreadful night, he had convinced himself that the assassins would return to finish him off. Perkins, now 34 years old, abducts 14 people to brainwash them into his personal team of psycho killers.
The screenplay was written by Lane Shadgett (Luna Park, All Lost Souls) and directed by award winning Craig Singer (Dark Ride, Dead Dogs Lie, A Good Night to Die), who also directed a previous After Dark Horrorfest release that grossed rather successful numbers. Perkins’ 14 thus far has had great success and has now gone into post-production based in NYC.
Posted by dominie in Films, News on August 20th, 2008
It was first announced nearly a year ago that master stop-motion animator Ray Harryhausen planned to produce the first Edgar Allen Poe adaptation in stop-motion. Ladies and gentleman, the time has finally come. The Pit and the Pendulum, directed by Marc Lougee, is a seven minute short based on Edgar Allen Poe’s 1842 tale of the same title in old-school stop-motion animation. The story is about a man who is condemned to death during the Spanish Inquisition for his beliefs. His method of death was unbeknownst to him, but he will soon find out.
The Pit and the Pendulum will debut on DVD at this month’s Festival of Fear in Toronto, ON, Canada. Dread Central tells us the DVD will include:
- A tour of the Foley Studio at urban Post Production
- 5.1 surround mixing session and breakdown for the film
- Production stills
- Storyboards
- Conceptual art gallery
- Easter eggs
- Secret links to online material
Posted by bob in Events, News on June 13th, 2008
The Fantasia film festival (http://fantasiafestival.com/pre2008/en/), held July 3-21 in Montreal, Canada, has released a list of films being screened, many of which look to be debuting there.
Midnight Meat Train
Repo! The Genetic Opera
Stuck
Bad Biology
Red
The Echo
Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer
Dance of the Dead
The Objective
Pig Hunt
L: Change the World
Timecrimes
The final two official posters for Midnight Movie, directed by Jack Messitt, are available now. Starring Daniel Bonjour, Michael Swan, Arthur Roberts, Dinora Walcott, Rebekah Brandes, Ashley Black, Michael Schwartz, Kathryn Aagesen, and Greg Ciruinick, the film about a 1970’s horror screening that comes alive… literally. The audience is in for a thrilling surprise when the killer from the movie emerges from the screen to kill them one at a time.
Shriekfest Horror/Sci-Fi Film Festival
