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2007 Festival Film Guide

2007 Films

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Film Category

30 Days Of Night

Director(s)

David Slade

Director
Synopsis
The special screening at the Grauman's Chinese Theater will be attended by the film's stars, Josh Hartnett, Melissa George, and Ben Foster. Producers Sam Raimi and Rob Tapert, director David Slade, and Steve Niles and Ben Templesmith, authors of the graphic novel on which the film is based, will also attend.

For 30 days every winter, the isolated town of Barrow, Alaska is plunged into a state of complete darkness. It's a bitter time when most of the inhabitants head south. This winter, a mysterious group of strangers appear: bloodthirsty vampires, ready to take advantage of the uninterrupted darkness to feed on the residents remaining in town. Barrow's Sheriff Eben (Josh Hartnett), his estranged wife Stella (Melissa George), and an ever-shrinking group of survivors must do anything they can to last until daylight in Columbia Pictures 30 Days of Night.
Film Category

Alone

Director(s)

David Moreau

Director
Synopsis
The brilliant and terrifying horror film "ALONE" tells the story of Pim who moved from Thailand to Korea to escape the guilt of being the surviving half of a conjoined twin. Flashbacks to Pim's childhood show how the bittersweet relationship with her sister, and their commitment to stay together forever, transforms into a repressive bond that ultimately leads to a separation. After she returns to visit her dying mother, the spirit of her dead sister angrily thrusts herself into Pim's life.

We promised to stay together forever."
Film Category

Angel

Director(s)

Nikolas List

Director
Synopsis
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...
Film Category

Becoming

Director(s)

Adam Penn

Director
Synopsis
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...
Film Category

The Blaxorcist

Director(s)

Ed King

Director
Synopsis
From the makers of "Dead Meat" comes
"The Blaxorcist."

Only this time, Edward King is in the
director's chair and Conor McMahon
produces.

A black priest without soul has been called upon to perform an exorcism on a young teenage white girl who's soul has been possessed by "soul."
Film Category

Boogeyman 2

Director(s)

Jeff Betancourt

Director
Synopsis
From Sony Pictures Home Entertainment comes a more intense and terrifying sequel to the original Boogeyman! A young woman attempts to face her fears...with chilling results. Laura Porter checks
herself into a mental health facility still haunted by a paralyzing fear of the boogeyman after witnessing her parent's murder as a child. Upon her arrival at the clinic, other patients begin dying in horrifying ways that manifest their worst fears and phobias leading Laura to believe that the Boogeyman has finally returned.
Film Category

Buried Alive

Director(s)

Robert Kurtzman

Director
Synopsis
Tobin Bell stars in this terrifying story about a group of lustful college friends on a road trip to a remote desert cabin. As a night of extreme truth-or-dare and wild partying gives way to sheer fright, the teens are terrorized by a vengeful corpse who was cruelly entombed on the property.

Directed by legendary make-up effects wizard Robert Kurtzman of From Dusk Till Dawn fame, Buried Alive is a chilling, retro fright-fest packed with sex, shocks and supernatural horror!
Film Category

The Cabinet

Director(s)

Karen Lam

Director
Synopsis
In this suspenseful retelling of the Bluebeard fairy tale, 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.
Film Category

Coming To Town

Director(s)

Carles Torrens

Director
Synopsis
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 accompanied 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 whose hobbies include porn and teddy bear
humping.

Film Category

Craw Lake

Director(s)

Jordan Downey

Director
Synopsis
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.
Film Category

Crawl Space

Director(s)

Michael Tiddes

Director
Synopsis
CRAWL SPACE is an unpredictable, nailbiting 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.
Film Category

Dara

Director(s)

Kimo Stamboel Timothy Tjahjanto

Director
Synopsis
Dara is everything that almost any men could wish for. Never mind her charm or her superbly fine cooked meals, because unbeknownst to her many swooned suitors lies a secret so gruesome that no one ever lived to tell the tale. 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.
Film Category

Days Of Darkness

Director(s)

Jake Kennedy

Director
Synopsis
As if ripped from the headlines, the world watches as a comet looms over the earth for days. The masses were told "there is nothing to worry about." It was a lie! An eclectic group of survivors huddle together and battle for their only chance to survive against the uprising of the undead while trying to save the fate of mankind.
Film Category

Dead End (Doodeind)

Director(s)

Erwin Van Den Eshof

Director
Synopsis
Seven young friends are on holiday in Scotland. One night they are attacked by dogs that force them to flee into an abandoned old house. Once inside they realize that the house is hardly a haven of refuge. Corridors shift and doors and walls become lethal objects. Slowly they learn about the curse that lives inside every room. What once was created out of a mother's love was turned into a source of grief and evil a long time ago. To leave the house alive, they need to stop the hurt that lies at the hart of the curse, in the centre of the house.
Film Category

Dead In 3 Days

Director(s)

Andreas Prochaska

Director
Synopsis
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.
Film Category

Diary of the Dead

Director(s)

George A. Romero

Director
Synopsis
As always, the government moves too late and poorly and a group of film students wind up filming the movie of their lives, without even looking to do so, and while trying to escape from the massacre. A genuine Romero, in top shape and with his rifle loaded.
Film Category

Eater

Director(s)

Matt Duffer Ross Duffer

Director
Synopsis
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.
Film Category

The Election

Director(s)

Padraig Reynolds

Writer-Director-Producer
Synopsis
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.
Film Category

Eli

Director(s)

Josh Lee Kwai

Director
Synopsis
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.
Film Category

Entity-Nine

Director(s)

Brad Kean

Director
Synopsis
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.
Film Category

Frayed

Director(s)

Rob Portmann Norbert Caoili

Director
Synopsis
Pat Baker is a small town sheriff. His son, Kurt, is a deranged young man with a dark secret. Sheriff Baker's worst nightmare comes true when Kurt escapes from a psychiatric hospital where he was locked away for the brutal murder of his mother thirteen years earlier. Gary, a hospital security guard, sets out into the woods to hunt him down, but soon finds himself relentlessly hunted by Kurt, who
is determined to kill him and anyone who crosses his path. Sheriff Baker launches an intense search
to find his son, only to discover that his daughter, Sara, and her friends are camping in the same woods where Kurt had escaped. Kurt's psychosis escalates, culminating in a terrifying, climactic confrontation with Kurt, the Sheriff and his family. Their fates and the dark secret behind Kurt's demented mind are revealed in this stylish and suspenseful film that will scare you senseless and leave you shocked and disturbed.
Film Category

Halfway House

Director(s)

Karl Holt

Director
Synopsis
A man awakes captive in an unknown location. How did he get there? How will he get out?
Film Category

Headless Horseman

Director(s)

Anthony C. Ferrante

Director
Synopsis
Seven college kids take a shortcut on their way to a party and unfortunately end up in Wormwood, where the spirit of the Headless Horseman hunts them one by one.
Film Category

Hell's Ground

Director(s)

Omar Ali Khan

Director
Synopsis
PAKISTAN FIRST GORE FILM!
In the spirit of the EC horror comics of old, the film tells the story of five teens who get lost on their way to a rock concert, are menaced by flesh eating mutations and then fall into the clutches of a family of backwoods killers. The film includes copious amounts of gore alongside a splattering of social commentary and several slices of dark humour. It's best seen as a tribute to the cinema of Lucio Fulci and George Romero, but viewed from a distinctly Pakistani perspective. The film is directed and co-written by former film critic Omar Ali Khan. Its cast combines some of the country's most exciting new talent alongside Pakistani film veterans such as Rehan and Najma Malik. The gruesome make up effects were done by Nawab Sagar, another industry veteran who has worked on numerous mainstream productions. The film was shot by London trained cinematographer Najaf Bilgrami and was edited by the UK's Andy Starke.
Film Category

Hideous

Director(s)

Ben Sztajnkrycer

Director
Synopsis
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 of 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 You can't escape the evil within.
Film Category

In The Wall

Director(s)

Mike Williamson

Director
Synopsis
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. Jonelle, nine months pregnant, takes refuge from the heat in her tiny apartment. But with a secretive husband hiding a private life from her, home may be even more dangerous than the city streets. When Jonelle discovers her husband has been cheating on her, their argument erupts into an act of cold blooded murder.
Film Category

Inside

Director(s)

Julien Maury & Alexandre Bustillo

Director
Synopsis
Sarah, a young photographer, is by herself on Christmas eve. She's been alone since her husband died tragically in a car accident. Today is the last day she has to spend at home before going to hospital to induce labor. The calm is interrupted by a knock on the door. Confronted by a mysterious woman, Sarah is immediately suspicious, and refuses to let her in; however, the woman will not leave. Sarah suddenly feels afraid and calls the police. In the gloom outside, the woman watches her through the picture windows. Yet, when the police show up, the woman is gone. With riots raging in the neighbouring suburb, the distracted policemen comfort Sarah and leave. Sarah locks herself away in her house, unaware that the woman is now inside. As she feels her first contractions, she does all she can to fight back this madwoman hellbent on taking one thing...
Film Category

Kirksdale

Director(s)

Ryan Spindell

Director
Synopsis
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.
Film Category

Looking Glass (Spegelbarn)

Director(s)

Erik Rosenlund

Director
Synopsis
A dark stormy night. A little girl is home alone, but is she really?
Film Category

Night of the Hell Hamsters

Director(s)

Paul Campion

Director
Synopsis
On a dark and stormy night, a young babysitter, Julie and her boyfriend Karl fool around with the occult and inadvertently summon up a demon which possesses the family hamsters. Suddenly Julie and Karl find themselves fighting for their lives against a tiny furry, bloodthirsty supernatural evil from the very pits of Hell!
Film Category

One More Time

Director(s)

Jesse Grce

Director
Synopsis
Ethan is ripped from sleep to find his fiance chained to a chair and only five minutes to save her.
Film Category

Para-Normal

Director(s)

Lauren Timmons

Director
Synopsis
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.
Film Category

Paranormal Activity

Director(s)

Oren Peli

Director
Synopsis
Preceeded by the first 10 mins of A & E's new supernatural series PARANORMAL STATE Paranormal Activity is a terrifying supernatural thriller featuring shocking footage of a demonic haunting. Katie and Micah were enjoying a happy, carefree life. Their future looked promising until bizarre events began occurring at night. Katie was no stranger to paranormal phenomena - she had been stalked by a malevolent entity since childhood, and she feared that it had followed her to their new home. They purchased a video camera to find out what was happening at night as they slept. Over the course of three weeks in September & October of 2006, they ran nightly surveillance and captured incredible proof of Paranormal Activity. The nightly surveillance footage and home videos have been edited into the feature film, Paranormal Activity.

Q&A session for Paranormal State will follow:
Ryan Buell - Star of Paranormal State, Founder of Penn State's Paranormal Research Society Betsy Schecter: Four Seasons Productions, President. Paranormal State, Executive Producer Gary Aurbach: Go Go Luckey Productions, Founder/President.





Film Category

Planet Terror

Director(s)

Robert Rodriguez

Director
Synopsis
Married doctors William and Dakota Block (Brolin and Shelton) find their graveyard shift inundated with townspeople ravaged by gangrenous sores and a suspiciously vacant look in their eyes. Among the wounded is Cherry (McGowan), a go-go dancer whose leg was ripped from her body during a roadside attack. As the invalids quickly become enraged aggressors, Cherry and Wray (Rodriguez), her former significant other, lead a team of accidental warriors into the night, towards a destiny unknown in the new, extended cut of PLANET TERROR.
Film Category

Prombies

Director(s)

Frederick Snyder

Director
Synopsis
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.
Film Category

The Rage

Director(s)

Robert Kurtzman

Director
Synopsis
Dr. Vasilienko has a problem with authority. Wronged by his government, the once benevolent scientist has created the ultimate biological weapon, a "rage" mutagen that transforms its human hosts
into savage harbingers of death. When one of the carriers is attacked by vultures, the rage goes airborne, transforming the winged carnivores into mutated monstrosities with a taste for human flesh. With the virus spreading across the countryside, a group of young adults unwittingly stumble upon Vasilienko's secret lab and a night of unimaginable horror ensues when his family of flesh eating freaks arises for dinner.
Film Category

Recently Deceased

Director(s)

Chris McInroy

Director
Synopsis
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.
Film Category

Return To House On Haunted Hill

Director(s)

Victor Garcia

Director
Synopsis
Sarah Wolfe was the only living survivor from the massacre at the Vanacutt Mansion, but no one believed her claims that ghosts were responsible for the gruesome murders that took place there. Now her recent and questionable suicide leaves her sister, Ariel, no choice but to devote herself to finding out who - or what - was responsible for her death. Ariel discovers that Sarah sent her the diary of the sadistic Dr. Vanacutt just before she died, offering clues to the diabolical evil that resides within the house. But the diary also makes Ariel a target in a deadly treasure hunt that leads a group of unwitting victims back to the Vanacutt Mansion, reawakening the terror imprisoned within the house on the hill. This time, the house and the evil spirits inside are out to make sure that no one leaves alive.

Fearnet's 30 DAYS OF NIGHT BLOOD
TRAILS directed by Victor Garcia will
screen prior to the feature.
Film Category

Room 205 (KOLLEGIET)

Director(s)

Martin Barnewitz

Director
Synopsis
Katrine has just moved to the city to study. In her dorm, she accidentally releases a resentful ghost, who takes revenge on the dorm's inhabitants. Together with her new friend Rolf, Katrine tries to stop the ghost before it kills everybody in the dorm. However, while Katrine and Rolf attempt to find a solution, people around them are dying. Soon, only Katrine and her closest friends remain.
Film Category

Shrooms

Director(s)

Paddy Breathnach

Director
Synopsis
A group of American teens come to Ireland to visit an old school friend who takes them on a camping trip in search of the local fabled magic mushrooms. When the hallucinations start taking hold, the panicked friends are attacked by ghostly creatures; never able to determine if they
are experiencing gruesome reality or startling delirium. When one teenager unknowingly eats the dangerous "Death Head" mushroom, the group's nightmare takes a deeply sinister turn.
Film Category

Shuteye Hotel

Director(s)

Bill Plumpton

Director
Synopsis
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.
Film Category

The Signal

Director(s)

David Bruckner Jacob Gentry, Dan Bush

Director
Synopsis
It's New Year's Eve in the city of Terminus and chaos is this year's resolution. All forms of communication have been jammed by an enigmatic signal that preys on the fears and desires of everyone in the city. Told in three parts from three unique perspectives by three visionary directors, The Signal is a horrific journey towards discovering that the most brutal monster might actually be within all of us.
Film Category

Storm Warning

Director(s)

Jamie Blanks

Director
Synopsis
From the director of Urban Legend comes this terrifying trip into the depths of human depravity. When a storm forces a couple to land their sailboat far ashore, they stumble upon a remote island inhabited by a demented father and his psychotic sons. Captured, beaten and sexually enslaved, the couple turns the tables in a bloody fight for survival. Featuring some of the most intensely brutal scenes imaginable, Storm Warning never lets up as it builds toward a shocking finish.
Film Category

Suck

Director(s)

Ben Ketai

Director
Synopsis
Josh and Jessica's relationship has become less than ideal. She's grown impatient with his apathy. He's grown tired of her party habits. But one evening, when Jessica returns home from the bar after being bitten by a vampire, Josh is faced with difficult decisions about life, love, and removing his girlfriend's head.
Film Category

Sympathy

Director(s)

Andrew Moorman

Director
Synopsis
When a reckless bank robber and his rebellious teenage hostage hole up for the night in a bad motel, anything can happen. A mysterious stranger and dark twists of fate send this night into a descent of bloody madness in this deadly game of cat and mouse where nothing is what it seems. Lock yourself in for this critically acclaimed claustrophobic tale that is equal parts classic suspense thriller and grindhouse horror.
Film Category

Take Out

Director(s)

Bill Hall

Director
Synopsis
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. Heartpounding 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!
Film Category

Timber Falls

Director(s)

Tony Giglio

Director
Synopsis
When Mike (Josh Randall) and Sheryl (Brianna Brown) stake their tent in the rugged mountains of West Virginia the worst they expect are mosquitoes. What they get is a nightmare. Sheryl vanishes. Mike wanders through the woods searching on his own and meets a God-fearing woman who says she can help. Little does Mike know, her help is the last thing he needs. After a string of horrific events, he finds Sheryl bound to a table in a remote cabin cellar. Candles and crucifixes line the walls. God has something evil planned!
Film Category

Tooth And Nail

Director(s)

Mark Young

Director
Synopsis
It is 2020, and the world has run out of gas. Civilized countries have spiraled into looting and anarchy, and much of the world population has starved to death or killed each other. A small group of misfits known as Foragers take refuge in an empty Philadelphia hospital with plans on re-building society. On a daily foray into the city, they discover a young girl who is the victim of a brutal attack. They bring her back to the hospital, but soon discover that they were followed by a savage band of cannibals known as Rovers. The Rovers begin to kill the Foragers one by one, and the trapped survivors must find a way to outwit their stalkers.

(After Party At Tropicana: You Must
Show Your Tooth And Nail Ticket Stub For
Admittance.)
Film Category

The Tripper

Director(s)

David Arquette

Director
Synopsis
A Ronald Reagan-obsessed serial killer targets a bunch of hippies who are heading to a weekend-long concert.
Film Category

Wasting Away

Director(s)

Matthew Konen

Director
Synopsis
Zombies. You know em, you love em. But
what do they think of you?

In this hilarious twist on the Classic
Zombie Tale, we see the world through
Zombie eyes when a barrelful of Toxic Goo transforms four friends into the Walking Dead, and suddenly, it seems everyone else has gone mad.

In the most unique Zombie story in years, the Zombies embark on a bumbling quest to find the "Truth", completely unaware of their Rotting Undeadness.
After all, Zombies are people too.
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