World Premieres at Screamfest
The first public screening of the film in the world.
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Dara
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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.
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Craw Lake
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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.
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Buried Alive
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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!
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!
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30 Days Of Night
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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.
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.
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Zombiemania
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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
Featuring : George Romero, Tom Savini, Max Brooks, Wade Davis
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Tour de Fright
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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.
A team of American cyclists discover that while competing in the Tour de France is difficult, surviving it might be impossible.
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The Tale of Haunted Mike
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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.
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Quietus
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Margo stares at the moon and thinks of the man she loves. He has callously ended their relationship and Margo is angry, violent thoughts swirling in her head. Meanwhile, an evil intruder is in the house, butcher knife in hand, ready to kill. Soon, Margo will be confronted by this intruder and she will have to choose what her life is worth. Will she embrace the light of life or the dark of the QUIETUS?
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Parasomnia
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Parasomnia is the latest film from acclaimed horror film director William Malone (House on Haunted Hill, Tales from the Crypt, Masters of Horror) who presents his macabre twist on the "Sleeping Beauty" legend. Parasomnia introduces the human drama of young art student, Danny Sloan (DYLAN PURCELL), who falls in love with the innocent and beautiful Laura Baxter (CHERILYN WILSON), a young woman afflicted with a rare sleep disorder. In her treacherous forays in and out of reality, she encounters a mentalist and serial killer Byron Volpe (PATRICK KILPATRICK) who tries to bend her fragile mind to his will. Using an array of hypnotic weaponry, that's manifested through his unsuspecting host s in the real world, as well as the dangerous and deadly creatures he commands on the dark imagined plane, Volpe entraps Laura and Danny in a psychotic hell so frightening that there appears to be no chance for survival. The film is a gripping peril-packed love story, one that not only taps into the zeitgeist of dark yet edgy love-driven fantasies, but also pushes the familiar slasher film landscape into a more unique story driven world of the surreal.
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Night of the Living Jews
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On the first night of Passover the residents of a remote Jewish bungalow colony are turned into flesh-eating zombies by matzo with a dark history. In the hunt for human flesh these Hasidic zombies descend on an unsuspecting gentile family in their quiet farmhouse. The loving mother and father and their mischievous son and nubile teenage daughter face an almost certain end until a mysterious stranger miraculously appears to save the day.
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Marvel Zombies The Movie
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Based on the popular Marvel Zombies comic series. This is a world where our heroes (i.e. Spiderman, Hulk, etc.) have become blood thirsty for those whom they are there to protect. The real torture comes when they have quenched their hunger. It is then they return to their normal frame of mind and must deal with the mental anguish of feasting on the ones they have cared for. Then the hunger returns.