NYC Horror Fest revealed
Nov. 5, 2009
Sweet! You know how can tell the truly dedicated horror-heads? They're the ones who press on with sick festivals and gory celebrations long after Halloween. They’re not in it for some marketable holiday tie-in, they’re doing it for the love of all things morbidly macabre. Of course, simple scheduling snafus may be the case there as well!
Either way you dice it, the 8th annual NYC Horror Film Fest (NYCHFF) lineup has been announced, and as always, there’s a good handful of doozies on the docket.
First off, logistics: The NYCHFF will take place November 18 - 22, 2009 and will be held at the Tribeca Cinemas, located at 54 Varick Street at Canal Street. The NYCHFF’s Kick-Off Gala will take place on November 18 at 8:00pm at BLVD (Spring & Bowery) and will feature five bands, 20 short films, complimentary cocktails and more.
Now on to the really fun stuff! Out of more than 50 horror and Sci-Fi features and shorts, here’s just a snippet of what’s about to go down:
CORNERED! (Dir. Daniel Maze): A serial killer is stalking the gritty streets of Los Angeles. It’s all over the news, but that doesn’t stop the crew at a local convenience store from their weekly poker game. Now, trapped inside the store with a deranged killer the group must fight to make it through the night alive. Stars Steve Guttenberg, James Duval and the hysterical Ellia English.
THE REVENANT (Dir. D. Kerry Prior): Officer First Class Bart Gregory is killed while fighting in Middle East. His body is shipped back to the United States and laid to rest, but before the lid can be put on his tomb, Bart inexplicably awakens in his coffin and climbs from his grave; A Vampire? A Zombie? No…..A Revenant! Now, this average guy must feed on human blood or rot away.
MAIDENHEAD (Dir. Jim Spanos): Poor Martin doesn’t have much of a life. He doesn’t have a girlfriend, he hasn’t been sleeping well, and he still lives at home... with his father, who is an obnoxious, bloodthirsty monster strapped to a bed. Did we mention he isn’t sleeping well? Martin (AJ Bowen of HOUSE OF THE DEVIL and THE SIGNAL) spends his days going numbly about the business of tending to his Dad’s grisly needs. Every day is just like the last, until Martin meets an innocent church-going girl named Meredith, who gives him hope of something more. But what about Dad?
SWEATSHOP (Dir. Stacy Davidson): A group of rave promoters decide to throw a party in an enormous vacant factory... But when the oversexed friends throw back a few drinks and begin setting up, they soon realize, a beastly all-seeing presence resides in this enormous place, and it drags a mammoth, inhuman weapon that serves only one purpose: to end the lives of anyone who trespasses here.
Sounding solid!
For more on the 2009 NYCHFF, where to get tickets, which other cool films will screen, etc. – click HERE.
Steve Guttenberg not piquing your interest? Meet Elizabeth Nicole of CORNERED!
Spilled Blood: Perhaps the best part of the event will be a cool Lifetime Achievement award presented to William Lustig, followed (or preceded) by a screening of one of the best slasher films (and a personal favorite of mine), his 1980 flick MANIAC.
