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2011 Festival Film Guide

2011 Films

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All Men are called Robert

Director(s)

Marc-Henri Boulier

Director
Synopsis
A naked man, his body covered with bruises, is running in the woods. He stops suddenly: who is this mysterious woman calling for help? And who are those men who are trying to shoot him?
Film Category

An Evening with my Comatose Mother

Director(s)

Jonathan Martin

Director
Synopsis
Dorothy Pritchard thought she had it easy; house sit for the wealthy Poe's on All Hallows Eve while collecting a cool paycheck. That was until she was introduced to the Poe's rotting, comatose mother living upstairs. As the dark of the night comes, and as the approaching storm blacks out the neighborhood, Dorothy soon finds herself on a nightmare ride through hell that she can only beg to be woken up from.
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Bad Moon Rising

Director(s)

Scott Hamilton

Director
Synopsis
Held captive in a dark and dingy basement, a young man is repeatedly beaten. Bloodied and bruised he remains silent, defiantly not giving his captors the information they desperately want.
As the torture intensifies, he's pushed to his breaking point... and finally relents. The captors have won, and his usefulness has expired.
But is everything all what it seems?
As the full moon rises, the young man transforms into a terrifying beast. The tables have turned.
Film Category

Cassadaga

Director(s)

Anthony DiBlasi

Director
Synopsis
Devastated by the death of her younger sister, Lily Morel seeks solace at the
spiritualist community of Cassadaga. But instead of finding closure, she
contacts something else as the vengeful ghost of a murdered young woman. With
her life crumbling all-around her, Lily races to unravel the mysterious
circumstances surrounding the woman's death as a task that will bring her
face-to-face with a sadistic serial killer known only as Geppetto.
Film Category

Chained

Director(s)

Rehan Khokhar

Director
Synopsis
Peter and his father are hiding a terrible secret within the walls of their remote rural home. When Peter's repeated, monthly absences from school and the physical signs of abuse gain the unwanted attention of his teacher, the secret he and his ailing father have protected for so many years is in danger of being irrevocably exposed.
Film Category

Chillerama

Director(s)

Adam Rifkin, Tim Sullivan Adam Green, Joe Lynch

Director
Synopsis
It's the closing night at the last drive-in theater in America and Cecil B. Kaufman (HATCHET's Richard Riehle) has planned the ultimate marathon of lost film prints to unleash upon his faithful cinephile patrons. Four films so rare that they have never been exhibited publicly on American soil until this very night! What could possibly go wrong?

In the spirit of classic anthology films like CREEPSHOW and TWILIGHT ZONE: THE MOVIE and containing films that not only celebrate the golden age of drive-in B horror shlock but also span over four decades of cinema, CHILLERAMA offers something for every bad taste. With titles like WADZILLA, I WAS A TEENAGE WEREBEAR, THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANKENSTEIN, and ZOM-B-MOVIE and featuring appearances by Joel David Moore (AVATAR), Lin Shaye (INSIDIOUS), Ray Wise (X-MEN: FIRST CLASS), Kane Hodder (FRIDAY THE 13th), Eric Roberts (THE DARK KNIGHT) and more cameos than you can count, CHILLERAMA is sure to have you screaming for more. From the depraved minds of Adam Rifkin (DETROIT ROCK CITY), Tim Sullivan (2001 MANIACS), Adam Green (FROZEN), and Joe Lynch (WRONG TURN 2).
Film Category

Crawl

Director(s)

Paul China

Director
Synopsis
Crawl is a character-driven thriller set in an unknown, rural town. A seedy bar-owner hires a mysterious Croatian to murder an acquaintance over an unpaid debt. The crime is carried out, but a planned double-crossing backfires and an innocent waitress suddenly becomes involved. Now a hostage in her own home, the young woman is driven to desperate measures for survival. A suspenseful, yet darkly humorous chain of events builds to a blood-curdling and unforgettable climax.
Film Category

Deadheads

Director(s)

Pierce Brothers

Director
Synopsis
In a world of putrid zombie movies, DEADHEADS is a breath of fresh air, says horror icon Bruce Campbell about the debut feature from the sons of Bart Pierce, the special effects photographer on the classic EVIL DEAD. A return to 1980's style comedy-adventure movies like BACK TO THE FUTURE and THE GOONIES, the Pierce Brothers winning combo of gory horror action, smart humour and heartfelt emotion follows zombie slackers Mike and Brent as they travel across country to find the former's old girlfriend and love of his life. But will those nasty bounty-hunting agents with a secret agenda catch them before they do? As a zombieland Abbott and Costello, actors Michael McKiddy and Ross Kidder's chemistry and timing are superb. And you'll just love Markus Taylor as the lumbering Cheese in this Road Trip of the Living Dead that's hilarious and surprisingly sweet
Film Category

Ella

Director(s)

Dan Gitsham

Director
Synopsis
The remote countryside, a picturesque home hides a terrible secret. A mother dead on the kitchen floor, a Father with blood on his hands, not all is what it seems!
Father must come to terms with the past to deal with the present as he journeys in to the forbidden Forrest for one last HUNT!
Film Category

Enter Nowhere

Director(s)

Jack Heller

Director
Synopsis
Four strangers from different walks of life find themselves stranded and trapped in a mysterious forest. Frustrated, hungry, and battling to keep warm in a deserted cabin, everything is turned on its side when they realize what they must do to escape
Film Category

Exit Humanity

Director(s)

John Geddes

Director
Synopsis
History has a violent way of repeating itself.

How does a man deal with the loss of everything meaningful in his life, and the loss of mankind's humanity amongst chaos and despair? Set in 1870's Tennessee, Exit Humanity is the legend of Edward Young's horrific and dramatic journey through an unexplainable outbreak of the walking dead to lay to rest the most important thing in his life, his son's ashes. The bleak post-Civil War era backdrop highlights the severe divide that the United States was facing, and the true loss of hope that so many felt during this period in history.
Film Category

Fragments

Director(s)

David C. Hamelin & Neil Macdonald

Director
Synopsis
While waiting for the school bus on a dark winter morning in Canada's Yukon, a young girl witnesses a meteor explode in the sky. Searching the nearby woods, she comes across a smoldering crater with a meteorite fragment. After bringing the rock to school, the girl gradually falls ill to a strange sickness. As her symptoms deteriorate, her mother arrives and quickly discovers the illness is far worse than she ever could have imagined.
Film Category

Hail Satan!

Director(s)

John Michael Elfers

Director
Synopsis
What menacing horror lurks beneath the surface of this quaint suburban neighborhood?
Samantha's about to find out.
Blood! Flesh! Ritual violence! With a twist of... man meat?
Bust out your guyliner, fishnet shirt and faux leather pants, it's time for a cult sacrifice!
Satan help us!
Film Category

Hidden Soldier

Director(s)

Alejandro Suárez Lozano

Director
Synopsis
Hunted down and out of ammunition, Private Wilson suffers strange interferences.
Film Category

INCUBATOR

Director(s)

Jimmy Weber

Director
Synopsis
A young man wakes up in a bathtub full of ice only to discover his problems have just begun. You've heard the urban legend...this is worse.
Film Category

Infected

Director(s)

Jason R. Miller

Director
Synopsis
"Shelly can't escape the monster pursuing her, but when she fights back the real horror begins. It's Spreading!"

INFECTED stars Alexis Peters (HATCHET II) alongside Brian Collins (BLOODY DISGUSTING) as the monster with appearances by Adam Green, David Foy and A.J. Bowen. Will Barratt is the director of photography and Bear McCreary (THE WALKING DEAD) contributed the score. Robert Pendergraft and Aunt Dolly's Garage handled the creature F/X. Written & Directed by Jason R. Miller.
Film Category

The Innkeepers

Director(s)

Ti West

Director
Synopsis
The Innkeepers is set in the venerable Yankee Pedlar Inn, which is about to shut its doors for good after over a century of service. Believed by many to be one of New England's most haunted hotels the last remaining employees -Claire (Sara Paxton) and Luke (Pat Healy)- are determined to uncover proof before it shuts down for good. As the Inn's final days draw near, odd guests check in as the pair of minimum wage ghost hunters begin to experience strange and alarming events that may ultimately cause them to be mere footnotes in the hotel's long unexplained history. The film was inspired by West and his crew's unnerving experiences at a similar hotel during the shooting of The House of the Devil.
Film Category

Isolation

Director(s)

Stephen Kay

Director
Synopsis
Disoriented and weak, first-year medical student Amy Moore (Eva Amurri) wakes up quarantined in a stark hospital room with no memory of how she got there. But as her condition worsens, Amy soon realizes that she's not alone and the doctor (David Harbour) who's keeping her confined may have sinister and sadistic motives.
Film Category

Julia X 3D

Director(s)

P.J. Pettiette

Director
Synopsis
Julia is branded X in this well-wrought generic thriller fleshed out in 3D. The depth is enhanced, as well, by a multi-dimensional plot with doses of cheeky humor and verbal panache, as well as in-your-face visual thrusts that make keen use of the format.

Azlynn's willowy and aptly wayward performance as Julia laces the film with sexuality and mania. As her date (and oddly enough, sado-soul mate), Kevin Sorbo is dead-on perverse: With his weathered Fabio-like look and affection for the songs of Karen Carpenter, he's a mesmeric nutcase. Completing the terrible threesome, Alicia Leigh Willis is Lolita-ish alluring as the twisted little sister.
Film Category

Kalevet (Rabies)

Director(s)

Navot Papushado & Aharon Keshales

Director
Synopsis
A brother and sister in their twenties, run away from home after their dark secret is discovered. They find temporary refuge in a deserted nature reserve. When the sister falls into a hunting trap, set by a psychotic killer, the brother sets out in a race against time to rescue her. A forest ranger and his old dog, two apathetic cops, four tennis players and a murderer, wandering carefree amongst his traps, will all be gradually drawn into a whirlwind of misunderstandings, fears and violence.
Film Category

The Little Mermaid

Director(s)

Nicholas Humphries

Director
Synopsis
Deep in a barren, fantastical wasteland lays a dilapidated circus tent. Inside, an ominous ringmaster forces his prized act, a real live mermaid to perform for a group of grimy, working class spectators. The mermaid, though frightening, is but a lovesick, caged animal praying for release from her endless torture. Unwilling to surrender his meal ticket, the ringmaster rejects her pleas for compassion and continues to confine the mermaid to her stagnant holding tank. With nowhere to escape to, the mermaid must make the choice between holding on to the hope of freedom and putting an end to her abuse.
Film Category

Livid

Director(s)

Alexandre Bustillo & Julien Maury

Director
Synopsis
It's young Lucy's first day as a trainee in-house caregiver. She visits Mrs Jessel, an old woman who lies in cerebral coma, by herself, in her large desolate house. Learning by accident that Mrs Jessel, a former dance teacher of repute, supposedly possesses a treasure somewhere in the house, Lucy and friends William and Ben decide to search the house in the hope of finding it. At night, they get into the house, which reveals itself to be increasingly peculiar. Their hunt for Mrs Jessel's treasure leads them into a horrifying supernatural series of events that will change Lucy forever...
Film Category

Madison County

Director(s)

Eric England

Director
Synopsis
A group of college kids travel to a small, mountain town called Madison County to interview the author of a tell-all book on the accounts of several grisly murders that happened there. But when the kids get to Madison County, the author is no where to be found and the town's people act like they haven't seen him in years. They also say that the killer never existed and the murders never happened. However, when the kids start digging around to get their own answers, they find out that the stories maybe more real than the townspeople are letting on!
Film Category

Night of the Little Dead

Director(s)

Frank Ippolito & Ezekiel Zabrowski

Director
Synopsis
It's the little things that getcha.
Two old fishing buddies, Kickstand (Bill Moseley) and Bob (James Hurley), throw back a couple of beers at the local bar and bait shop while checking out the view, Sadie the busty brunette that served them (Erica Taylor). She's about to whip up their catch of the day when the doors fly open and two men covered in blood stumble in, Dan (Adam Savage) and his friend Dave-O (Penn Jillette). Bob mistakenly goes to investigate what's outside and opens the door to a little undead creature (Martin Klebba). With only fishing gear in reach, Dan and Kickstand work together to save Sadie and the town from the Little Dead.
Film Category

The Night Caller

Director(s)

Peter Podgursky & Donna Thorland

Director
Synopsis
A father's promise to read his daughter a bedtime story begins a night time descent into terror and madness for his young wife.
Film Category

No Rest for the Wicked

Director(s)

Ryan Schifrin

Director
Synopsis
Spawning from the hit comic THE DEVIL'S HANDSHAKE, this short horror-adventure romp features the title's two main characters Basil & Moebius. Basil (Ray Park) is a street tough brawler while Moebius
(Zachary Levi) plays a dashing cat burglar playboy. The partners-in-crime, who work for the mysterious and supernatural Collector, pull a daring heist during an illegal gambling party thrown by an underworld kingpin (Malcolm McDowell).
Film Category

Patient Zero

Director(s)

Jacob Chase

Director
Synopsis
Malice precedes caution in the race to cover up a fatal decision made by one doctor that could affect the fate of the world. On the hunt to figure out how to stop a peculiar disease from spreading, Dr. Sarah Lind and her attending physician, Dr. Lowenstein, face the ultimate decision of compromising themselves or the world. How far will these doctors go for the greater good?
Film Category

Picnic

Director(s)

Gerado Herrero

Director
Synopsis
Grebak, Eastern Bosnia. A father is resting with his son under a tree while the mother walks with her baby in her arms. They do not know it, but a few meters away, a dangerous and deadly enemy is awaiting.
Film Category

Psycho

Director(s)

Alfred Hitchcock

Director
Synopsis
A young woman steals $40,000 from her employer's client, and subsequently encounters a young motel proprietor too long under the domination of his mother.
Film Category

Rites of Spring

Director(s)

Padraig Reynolds

Writer-Director-Producer
Synopsis
A group of kidnappers abduct the daughter of a wealthy socialite and hide out in an abandoned school in the middle of the woods. But feelings of guilt soon overtake the kidnappers, dividing the group and putting their entire plan in jeopardy. The evening further spirals out of control when their poorly chosen hideout becomes a hunting ground for a mysterious creature that requires springtime ritualistic sacrifices.
Film Category

Road Dog

Director(s)

Racheal Cain

Director
Synopsis
Schizophrenic Rolly Lenard is hiding. Haunted by demonic creatures and rejected by the society that surrounds him, Rolly is followed throughout six-and-a-half terrifying minutes of his life. Within this short time, he encounters a store clerk whom he begs for help and a familiar local prostitute, Gemma, with whom he shares unlikely insight. A conversation between Rolly and Gemma, in Rolly's parked car, consequently steers the characters toward their impending fates.
Film Category

Roid Rage

Director(s)

Ryan Lightbourn

Director
Synopsis
Sammy Jenkins was a simple man who lived a simple life, until a genetic mutation sent his world spiraling out of control. Now, being hunted by the men responsible for his deformity, as well as the FBI, Sammy must fight back with his unique abilities in order to survive. Those unique abilities include the giant killer hemorrhoid growing out of his ass.
Film Category

Rosa

Director(s)

Jesús Orellana

Director
Synopsis
In the near future, humanity has disappeared, leaving behind a large megalopolis devoid of natural life. From the destruction awakes ROSA, a robot part of the KERNEL project, mankind's last attempt to restore the earth's ecosystem using recovered samples of long-extinct plant species. Wandering among the ruins of the lifeless city, Rosa will soon discover that she is not the only part of Kernel that has awakened.
Film Category

SECTOR 7 3D

Director(s)

Kim Ji-hoon

Director
Synopsis
Something awaits 8,000 feet under the sea off the southern tip of Jeju Island.

The Eclipse is the offshore drilling rig stationed at Sector 7, a mining area in the vast open sea located off the southern tip of Jeju Island. The oil drilling excavations end in failure and headquarters gives the order to withdraw.

Captain Jeong-man is sent to oversee the crew's withdrawal from the Eclipse. However, Hae-jun, the equipment manager (played by Ha Ji-won), is adamantly opposed to the headquarters order, as she is certain that oil will be discovered in Sector 7. Motivated by Hae-jun's conviction of finding oil, the Captain suggests conducting one last drilling exercise.

While Hae-jun and the crew are fully engaged in their final attempt, they lose communication with headquarters, and the crew is overwhelmed by the disconcerting feeling that something is out there.

As bodies begin disappearing one by one, the few surviving need to think fast and fight for their lives in a non-stop battle against the mutant monster from the sea. Survival looks unlikely, but Hae-jun and the crew are determined to take any chance to get out of Sector 7 alive.
Film Category

Singularity

Director(s)

Shian Storm

Director
Synopsis
Two friends, Erik and David find themselves cornered in the garage by something they can't identify. They try desperately to piece together what happened to them, which raises more questions than it answers. Injured and confused, they plan to wait until the thing gives up and leaves them be, but when their wounds take a turn for the worse, they are brought face to face with true terror.
Film Category

Some Guy Who Kills People

Director(s)

Jack Perez

Director
Synopsis
Ken Boyd, fresh out of the loony bin, returns to his small hometown seeking revenge on those he deems responsible for ruining his life. However, his plans are complicated when his estranged daughter shows up, looking to bond with her father, and the sheriff investigating the growing pile of bodies begins sleeping with Ken's mom.
Film Category

Stormhouse

Director(s)

Dan Turner

Director
Synopsis
Six months before the invasion of Iraq, the British military caught and imprisoned a supernatural entity at a secret base in the English countryside. This film documents the days that followed, culminating in a battle that transcends their worst nightmares.
Film Category

Time's Up Eve

Director(s)

Patrick Rea

Director
Synopsis
In the 1940s, Eve (Sharon Wright) flees shadowy figures in the bleak metropolis where she's survived since they first arrived. Though now among the hunted, Eve is one of the lucky few to avoid being dealt a dark fate by her pursuers. "It's amazing how little is left after someone loses their soul," she explains. "They feel nothing. No pain. No joy. Emptiness." Vowing she won't end up like the others, Eve attempts a daring escape from the city, armed with the one thing that still gives her life hope.
Film Category

The Tunnel

Director(s)

Carlo Ledesma

Director
Synopsis
An investigation into a government cover-up leads to a network of abandoned train tunnels deep beneath the heart of Sydney. As a journalist and her crew hunt for the story it quickly becomes clear the story is hunting them. This is the film of their harrowing ordeal. With unprecedented access to the recently declassified tapes the crew had shot in the claustrophobic subway tunnels, we soon discover the terrifying truth of their ordeal.
Film Category

Urban Explorer

Director(s)

Andy Fetscher

Director
Synopsis
Anxious to explore the mysterious hidden world under metropolitan Berlin, an international group of four urban explorers hires a local guide, Kris, who leads them into the maze of escape tunnels and subterranean fortifications under the city. When their guide has a bad fall, two of the girls in the group frantically set off to seek help while Denis, the young American, stays behind. Armin, a former East German border guard suddenly appears from nowhere. Out of sheer desperation, Denis allows Armin to lead them and their unconscious guide to safety and it is at this moment that Denis realizes he has just made the biggest mistake of his life!
Film Category

Vamperifica

Director(s)

Bruce Ornstein

Director
Synopsis
A clueless, flamboyant college kid discovers that the soul of a great vampire king resides within him. Now he must choose between his friends and his destiny.
Film Category

Wrong Turn 4: Bloody Beginnings

Director(s)

Declan O'Brien

Director
Synopsis
In 1974, Glenville Sanatorium was the site of a brutal and horrific crime, as three hideously deformed cannibals went on a merciless killing spree. Now, years later, a group of college kids having the time of their life make a fateful wrong turn, giving this family of blood-thirsty cannibals new prey to stalk. The abandoned medical wards within the sanatorium soon become killing fields as the panicked victims come face to face with a chilling choice: fight back or die.
Film Category

Y VOLVERÃ

Director(s)

Edgar Nito

Director
Synopsis
Aurora´s husband has ordered her to be killed for bringing a deformed and dead first child into the world. But the people in charge of killing her haven'´t done it right, she manages to survive and finds an old man that helps her recover.

Aurora decides to come back and use the revenge as an act of redemption, to be able to continue her life in absolute peace.
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