Los Angeles County Premieres at Screamfest
The first public screening of the film in Los Angeles County.
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Vampire Girl Vs. Frankenstein Girl
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Transfer student Monami has a secret and a past that has caught up with Mizushima. Deceiving Mizushima into eating a token gift of chocolate, laced with her blood, he is then catapulted into Monami's vampire world of blood, death and love. Jilted girlfriend Keiko has other ideas. With a sudden twist of fate, she is then transformed into the hideous and unforgiving Frankenstein Girl, and the battle for Mizushima's heart begins.
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Vampire Birth Certificate
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Wanda is wrapping up another day at her service desk at the County Clerk's office. But when Michael, a well-meaning yet stressed-out vampire, shows up needing a copy of his 150-year-old birth certificate, Wanda is challenged to do what she fears most: help. A government employee and the living dead face off in this clash to determine which of them is the greater of two evils.
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Sinkhole
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After discovering that the Chinese have found a way to extinguish coal mine fires, a broker for a coal company sets out to a remote region of Pennsylvania to offer a deal to a mysterious landowner named Schuttmann. He finds the land ravaged by smoking sinkholes, formed by the collapse of the burning coal seams. In the end, however, Schuttmann will reveal to the broker something far worse than the coal fires.
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The Revenant
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The night after his funeral, Bart, a soldier killed in Iraq gets up out of his grave and seeks out his best friend Joey. At dawn Bart's body falls to the floor, only to reawaken the following dusk. He and his buddy decide that he is a revenant: an articulate zombie that needs to drink blood to arrest the decomposition of his body.
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Next Floor
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During an opulent and luxurious banquet, complete with cavalier servers and valets, eleven pampered guests participate in what appears to be a ritualistic gastronomic carnage. In this absurd and grotesque universe, an unexpected sequence of events undermines the endless symphony of abundance.
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The Long Night
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A young married couple has been chased through the woods, and has secured themselves into a log cabin for a week. They discover the undead is terrorizing the outside world around them, and everything changes once the wife becomes infected.
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The Human Centipede
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Two American girls are on a road trip through Europe. In Germany they end up with a broken car in the woods. They search for help and find an isolated villa. The next day they awake to find themselves trapped in a terrifying makeshift basement hospital along with a Japanese man. A German man identifies himself as a retired surgeon specialized in separating Siamese twins. However his three "patients" are not about to be separated, but joined together in an horrific operation. He plans to be the first person to connect people via their gastric system, in doing so bringing to life his sick lifetime fantasy: the human centipede.
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The House of the Devil
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From writer-director Ti West comes THE HOUSE OF THE DEVIL, a satanic thriller set in the 1980s starring Jocelin Donahue (JT Petty's forthcoming THE BURROWERS), indie ingenue Greta Gerwig (HANNAH TAKES THE STAIRS, BAGHEAD), Tom Noonan (SNOW ANGELS, MANHUNTER), Mary Woronov (EATING RAOUL, THE DEVIL'S REJECTS), AJ Bowen (THE SIGNAL) and Dee Wallace (E.T., Rob Zombie's HALLOWEEN).
Sam (Donahue) is a pretty college sophomore, so desperate to earn some cash for a deposit on an apartment that she accepts a babysitting job even after she finds out there is no baby. Mr. and Mrs. Ulman (cult actors Noonan and Woronov) are the older couple who lure Sam out to their creeky Victorian mansion deep in the woods, just in time for a total lunar eclipse. Megan (Gerwig) is Sam's best friend, who gives her a ride out to the house, and reluctantly leaves her there despite suspecting that something is amiss. Victor (Bowen) at first seems like just a creepy guy lurking around the house, but quickly makes it clear that Sam will end this night in a bloody fight for her life..."
Sam (Donahue) is a pretty college sophomore, so desperate to earn some cash for a deposit on an apartment that she accepts a babysitting job even after she finds out there is no baby. Mr. and Mrs. Ulman (cult actors Noonan and Woronov) are the older couple who lure Sam out to their creeky Victorian mansion deep in the woods, just in time for a total lunar eclipse. Megan (Gerwig) is Sam's best friend, who gives her a ride out to the house, and reluctantly leaves her there despite suspecting that something is amiss. Victor (Bowen) at first seems like just a creepy guy lurking around the house, but quickly makes it clear that Sam will end this night in a bloody fight for her life..."
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First Kill
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Rayburn has family obligations: a young wife, a son...and the violent crime family that employs him. Devoted to both families, Rayburn is reluctant when he is sent on his first contract kill with his brutal mentor, James. Isolated in an unforgiving wilderness, the men find their identities jeopardized after the messy hit is photographed by a motion detection hunter's camera. Vulnerable, Rayburn anxiously waits near the camera with a simple objective: kill the owner and collect the incriminating evidence. But things take a surprising turn when Rayburn learns the owner of the camera is a completely different kind of killer.
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Clemency
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In 1993, a sadistic killer, Arthur Poe was captured and convicted. He was sentenced to death by the state of Virginia for several gruesome murders. Days before his execution the governor granted Poe clemency based on the testimony of a psychologist from Poe's murder trial. A reporter (Maury Morgan) takes on Poe in an interview seeking to shed light on the emotionally charged topic.
What she learns can never be forgotten or forgiven.
What she learns can never be forgotten or forgiven.
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Beyond Twilight (A Traves del Ocaso)
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Chased by an armed hunter, a young man, obviously wounded, runs through a wooded area. Under this threat from his human pursuer, he will find his only means of escape in the looming twilight.