SATURDAY – OCTOBER 13TH
12:00 STUDENT SHORTS
ANGEL
Director: Nikolas List
Producers: Benedicte Lescalier for MEDIADIFFUSION (IAD)
One evening, Octave, a doll repairman of about 30, is at a country fair and discovers ANGE (Angel), a girl with a broken spine condemned to spend her life in a steel scaffolding. This chance meeting is destined to upset the young man's life and force him to confront the voices that haunt him day and night...
COMING TO TOWN
Director: Carles Torrens
JoBeth Smalls is an eleven-year-old girl who gets bullied at school. With her mother in a coma and no one else to go to for help, she writes a letter to Santa Claus asking for revenge. Her wishes come true when Klaus, a deranged version of Santa Claus with a taste for blood and automatic weapons, pays her foes a visit. He is acompanied by two foul-mouthed, psychotic elves.One of them, Baldfred, has a drinking problem and loves his women big and trashy. The other one, Alpinolo, is a mute goblin who hides his hideous monster face under a WWI gas mask. His hobbies include porn and teddy-bear humping.
CRAW LAKE
Director: Jordan Downey
Producers: Dane Lillegard, Andy Kelly
While camping, Dale wakes to find his daughter missing and like any father he races through the woods searching for her. Coming upon a shack at the edge of a lake, he quickly finds himself pitted against nightmarish creatures responsible for the disappearance of his little girl.
EATER
Directors: Matt and Russ Duffer
Producer: Sam Winkler
To make ends meet, rookie cop Bannerman works the grueling night shift for the NYPD. On this particular night, the senior officers are abuzz with rumors about a new prisoner held in the upper floor jail cell: Mellor, a notorious serial killer with a habit of eating his victims. Following a series of bizarre incidents, Bannerman begins to suspect that Mellor has, in fact, escaped. Based on the short story by Peter Crowther.
ENTITY-NINE
Director: Bread Kean
Producers: Jennie Chamberlain, Gabriel Lichstein, Eric Wostenberg
Brilliant robotics engineer Alex Wayland has perfected android technology. When he refuses to continue working under his corrupt superior, Wayland discovers that he is now marked for replacement. Stalked by an android bearing his exact likeness, Wayland must stop the corporation at all costs.
HIDEOUS
Director: Ben Sztajnkrycer
Producer: Josh Feldman
In the dead of night, a homeless man, known only as John Doe, is beaten and left for dead. Soon after, a team of surgeons makes a hideous discovery – a parasite growing deep inside John Doe’s body. They remove the creature, but their nightmare is only just beginning, as they are soon murdered one by one. Who will survive? Only one thing is certain...
KIRKSDALE
Director: Ryan Spindell
Producer: T. Justin Ross
In the deep south of 1960s Florida, amongst blooming live oaks, rests a quiet hospital. Kirksdale Hospital, a plantation turned mental asylum, provides patients with a calm environment to ease their inner turmoil. At least on the surface, but things are not as they appear to be. when a tormented mental patient escapes the facility, Molly Walker, a misunderstood teenage girl, and Darryl Pearl, a young Sheriff's deputy, must face their inner demons in a fight for their sanity and their lives.
PARA-NORMAL
Director: Lauren Timmons
Ben Rutter has one shot at the investigation of a lifetime. But in the world of paranormal research, things don't always go as planned.
PROMBIES
Director: Frederick Snyder
Producer: Andrew Bartels
Strange things are happening at the Senior Prom. The boys have gone crazy and the girls have gone wild. Amy and Darryl flee from the horror, but will they also become victims of the supernatural forces from below? Can Darryl save Amy from the madness? Can Amy save Darryl from himself? Amy and Darryl must face sex and zombies in this thrilling journey of fear and discovery in a heartwarming tale of coming together.
RECENTLY DECEASED
Director: Chris McInroy
Producers: Rebecca "Susie" McInroy, Geoff Moskowitz
Jim doesn’t know how he died or why he’s back from the dead. He does know that he needs to water the plants, take out the trash, and figure out what the missing piece of his to-do-list says before he rots away or his killer kills him again.
3:00 SHORT PROGRAM 1 69 minutes
THE CABINET (Canada) 12 mins
Director: Karen Lam
Producer: Karen Wong
In this suspenseful retelling of the Bluebeard fairytale, Lizzie visits her long-distance lover Michael for the first time. When Michael is called away on an overnight business trip, he leaves Lizzie alone in the house. She begins to explore Michael’s possessions and his house, allowing curiosity to get the better of her. Lizzie unlocks the forbidden door to Michael’s office – only to discover his macabre secret.
CRAWL SPACE (US) 12 mins
Director: Michael Tiddes
Producer: Kelly Dymon, Howard Eriksson
CRAWL SPACE is an unpredictable, nail-biting thriller, testing the true natures of love and betrayal. A young woman trapped inside a crawl space desperately searches through the darkness when she hears a noise, which leads to a horrifying truth, pushing her to the edge of humanity.
HALFWAY (UK) 6 mins
Director: Karl Holt
"A man awakes captive in an unknown location. How did he get there? How will he get out?"
LOOKING GLASS (Sweden) 5 mins
Director: Erik Rosenlund
A dark stormy night. A little girl is home alone, but is she really?
NIGHT OF THE HAMSTERS (Australia) 16 mins
Director: Paul Campion
Producer: Elisabeth Pinto
*ONE MORE TIME 6 mins
Director: Jesse Grce
Producers: Andrew Duncan, Steve Gute, Jesse Grce
Ethan is ripped from sleep to find his fiance chained to a chair and only five minutes to save her.
*SHUT-EYE HOTEL 7 mins
Director: Bill Plympton
Producer: Biljana Labovic
“Shuteye Hotel" is a film noir murder mystery that takes place in a sleazy hotel. As cops investigate the gruesome murders they become victims of this evil force. What "Jaws" did to swimming, "Shuteye Hotel" will do for sleeping.
TAKE OUT 5 mins
Director: Jonathan Budine
Producer: Bill Hall
The story of a woman on a journey into a dark unknown cavern she considers familiar...the parking garage. Relying on her inner strength, this working mother must trust her instincts to carry her, unharmed, back to her family one more time. Heart-pounding moments and minute by minute suspense may make this the most tension filled car retrieval ever. This short shocker of a film illustrates how unsafe it is to be alone in a parking garage these days..Regardless of why it is that you're there!
5:00 SHORT PROGRAM 2 109 minutes
Boost Mobile Best of the Next in Horror
Directors:
Adam Penn
Gus Krieger
Iqbal Ahmed
Viko Nikci
Catero Colbert
BECOMING
Director: Viko Nikci
Producers: Viko Nikci , Lindsay Webster
Three survivors are trapped with a terrifying creature that grows stronger with every victim it claims. Once it has your scent, you can not run from it. And if you kill it... you become it.
THE HUNTSMAN
Director: Adam Penn
Producer: Seyi Peter-Thomas
In a cottage, in a wood, a red cloaked predator is spinning fairy
tales of death. Whether gutted, stuffed in an oven, or simply drowned,
The Huntsman ensures that no one lives happily ever after...
OL' STAN LEVID
Director: Gus Krieger
Producers: Arik Ruchim, Logan Hufford
A young drifter by the name of Cal finds himself in unfamiliar territory: a small, incongruous tavern just off the dusty interstate. Suddenly opposite a well-dressed stranger calling himself Stanley Levid, the two begin to casually converse. As the situation turns increasingly sinister, however, the unsuspecting young man quickly finds himself locked in a desperate struggle, fighting for his very life.
ONIONHEAD
Director: Catero Alain Colbert
Producers: Catero Alain Colbert, Tray Anthony Garriga, Maia Tarrin
Sixty years ago a giant grotesquely disfigured man roamed the woods of a rural Louisiana community. The locals cruelly nickname him Onionhead. When a young girl was found murdered, he was wrongfully blamed. An angry mob came for him, killed him then buried his dismembered remains in an unmarked grave. Many years later a young teenage couple meets the resurrected monster, when four children unwittingly release him from the grave that trapped him for decades.
STEM
Director: Iqbal Ahmed
Producer: Wes Shive & Iqbal Ahmed
After a miraculous but questionable discovery, stem cell researcher Dr. William Chen suffers a massive stroke leaving him paralyzed. Slowly the life he knew disappears -- his wife leaves him and he’s left to waste away in a hospital bed, humiliated by his inability to move.
Dr. Chen can’t take it anymore. He knows what it's going to take to get his old life back -- he's the only one who knows how to reverse his condition. But it's going to get messy.
DARA (Indonesia) 27 mins
Director: The Mo Brothers - Kimo Stamboel & Timothy Tjahjanto
Dara is everything that almost any men could wish for.
This is a sweet tale about the daily life Dara, being a woman whose passion includes cooking fine cuisine, romantic dinner, torture and mass bloodletting.
BLAXORCIST (Ireland) 4 mins
Director: Ed King
THE ELECTION (US) 10 mins
Director: Padraig Reynolds
Producers: John Norris, Steve Daf
On the eve of the most important election in their career - a horrible event puts John and Abby on the dark side of choice. With the pressure of remaining in the race pushing hard, the solutions become clear. Ray Wise and Lin Shaye give the best performances in short format. Newcomer Padraig Reynolds (Sean Cunningham's The Utah Murders, The Drowned) shows his ability to create horror with backbone.
ELI (US) 16 mins
Director: Josh Lee Kwai
Producers: Josh Lee Kwai, Tyler Erskine, Ron Beyers
A man awakens on an operating table with no idea where or even who he is. Armed with only one memory of a girl on a beach and a tattoo on his hand that reads 'ELI,” he must elude his captors and unravel the sinister truth behind his missing identity.
IN THE WALL (US) 25 mins
Director: Mike Williamson
Producer: Greg Booth
It's New Year's Eve and what should be a snowy winter's day has turned into a blistering heatwave. Temperatures are off the charts, and so are tempers. Newscasts report of violence throughout the city in unprecedented numbers.
7:30 DEAD IN 3 DAYS (German)
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In 3 days… you’re dead!" At first, Nina and her friends think this SMS is just a stupid joke. But no one is laughing when Nina's boyfriend is found tied to a concrete block at the bottom of a lake the next day. When another member of the group is savagely attacked everyone is paralysed with dread. They're all on the murderers list. But why? Nina is the only one who discovers a mysterious clue leading to the brutal killer's identity. As the body count rises and the slayings become more and more vicious, still no-one believes her and time is running out
9:30 25TH ANNIVERSARY SCREENING and REUNION – FRIDAY THE 13TH PART 3 IN 3D
Followed by a Q & A with
Tracie Savage, Paul Kratka, Richard Brooker, Larry Zerner, and Harry Manfredini
11:30 25TH ANNIVERSARY SCREENING and REUNION – FRIDAY THE 13TH PART 3 IN 3D
The screening will be introduced by
Tracie Savage, Paul Kratka, Richard Brooker, Larry Zerner, and Harry Manfredini
Screamfest Horror Film Festival™ 2007
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