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World Premieres at Screamfest

The first public screening of the film in the world. 

Film Category

Hideous

Meet the Filmmaker

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

Headless Horseman

Meet the Filmmaker

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

Frayed

Meet the Filmmaker

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

Eater

Meet the Filmmaker

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

Dara

Meet the Filmmaker

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

Craw Lake

Meet the Filmmaker

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

Buried Alive

Meet the Filmmaker

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

30 Days Of Night

Meet the Filmmaker

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

Zombiemania

Meet the Filmmaker

Donna Davies

Director
Synopsis
One hour documentary that chronicles the evolution of the zombie from its roots in Haitian voodoo to is coveted role as the world's most popular monster.
Featuring : George Romero, Tom Savini, Max Brooks, Wade Davis
Film Category

Train

Meet the Filmmaker

Gideon Raff

Director
Synopsis
In Europe, a group of American college athletes unknowingly board a train that will become one deadly ride.
Film Category

Tour de Fright

Meet the Filmmaker

Ryan Levin

Director
Synopsis
Boost Mobile Shorts Competition:
A team of American cyclists discover that while competing in the Tour de France is difficult, surviving it might be impossible.
Film Category

The Tale of Haunted Mike

Meet the Filmmaker

Drew Daywalt David Schneider

Director
Synopsis
Haunted Mike makes his living trolling the internet in search of the arcane and bizarre (or, at least, extremely cheap). By concocting scary (if not entirely true) histories for the items he finds, Mike ekes out a shut-in's existence selling the things on e-Bay under the tag "haunted". His days of sniping are number, however, when he stumbles upon a genuine pants-sh*tter: an antique prosthetic arm made for a child.