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SHRIEKFEST INTERNATIONAL HORROR FILM FESTIVAL
GET READY FOR A FRIGHT
Premiere Props announced today that they will be hosting a massive auction of never before seen movie props and costumes with Fangoria Entertainment for the LIVE FANGORIA ENTERTAINMENT HALLOWEEN AUCTION at the Premiere Props’ warehouse. Read the rest of this entry »
RADIOTHEATRE IN SUNDAYS WITH POE
Celebrate the Master Of The Macabre, Edgar Allan Poe’s Bicentennial (1809-2009) with the critically acclaimed, award winning Radiotheatre in a unique event as they perform live, on stage, a year-long presentation of seventeen major works by the grand master of American horror! Every month is a different program of terrifying tales to experience again and again! Adapted and Directed by Dan Bianchi and the award winning, critically acclaimed performance group, RADIOTHEATRE in concert and live on stage complete with a great cast of storytellers, special guests, an original orchestral score and a plethora of sound effects. Just bring your imagination!
STAGE BLOOD IS NEVER ENOUGH
STAGE BLOOD IS NEVER ENOUGH is a a theater spectacle paying tribute to the horror films of the 1980′s, integrating the talents of actors, dancers, clowns, and burlesque artists into a cohesive evening of creepy comedy and eccentric tragedy.
Medusa A glittery, glam rock retelling of the myth.
A Doll’s House An abusive mother finds that retribution can come clothed in… porcelain and petticoats!
Versus A reinterpretation of the Freddy Krueger and Jason Voorhees saga, as realized through an epic burlesque catfight between The Luvely Rae and Champagne Desire.
What’s in the Basket? In them days, folks’d come from miles around and pay a pretty penny to see what was inside my basket…
Feel The Burn It’s Jazzercise time! But be careful—you might get a Killer Workout!
After Prom It’s Prom Night and the kids are getting wild—dead wild.
Feed my Frankenstein A lonely Dr. Man Candy builds himself the perfect woman—only he built her out of very, very bad parts!
Unhappy Campers Anybody who says Summer Camp was all just fun and games is a goddamned liar!
Space Invaders Mysterious visitors from another planet bring a lot of Kotton Kandy, but not a whole lot of Klass!
Blood Lust A new wave nightclub filled with beautiful vampire vixens—but look out—they’re deadly!
STAGE BLOOD IS NEVER ENOUGH will play at The Duplex (61 Christopher Street at 7th Ave South) Thursday, October 22 & 29 at 9:30pm. Tickets ($8 in advance, $10 at the door) are available online at www.theduplex.com
STAGE BLOOD IS NEVER ENOUGH features works by Sean Gill, Libby Emmons, and Rachel Klein, directed by Rachel Klein, Sean Gill, Jillaine Gill, and Joe Stipek. Performed by Jillaine Gill, Sean Gill, Elizabeth Stewart*, Michael Porsche, Brian Rubiano, Preston Burger, Michele Cavellero, Meredith Dillard, Rebecca Miller, Veronica Vroom, Megan O’Connor, Kari Warchock, the Luvely Rae, Champaign Desire, Danielle Marie Fusco, Marna Kohn, Freddy Mancilla, Abigail Hawk*, Dana Perry, Robyn Neilsen, Beau Allulli, Rob Richardson, Josh Hyman, and Sapphire Jones. *Appearing Courtesy of Actors’ Equity Association
Rachel Klein most recently directed the critically acclaimed Hound as part of the inaugural Planet Connections Theater Festivity. Her work was also recently seen at La MaMa Moves! Dance Festival in May 2009. Directing credits include Go-Go Killers! a retro-futuristic, campy 1960′s girl gang deb play, All Kinds of Shifty Villains, a play that explored the merging of theatrical, slapstick, and Film Noir genres, La Enferma, an on going series of El Dia De Los Muertos inspired movement pieces, Something Weird… in the Red Room, a grindhouse style double feature of horror plays: Aenigma and Sir Sheever, Metro, an acrobat, dance, and clown show about inner thoughts while riding a subway, and The Canterville Ghost, a movement based play that she adapted from the Oscar Wilde short story. She also recently Assistant Directed John Gould Rubin in the Off Broadway production of In The Daylight. Rachel has had movement and dance pieces featured at several cabarets and nightlife events, including The World Famous Bob’s “Give Thanks!” at Galapagos Art Space in DUMBO, Parallel Exit’s “Move it!” at Manhattan Theater Source, and “Rated X–the Panty Party” at Don Hill’s. Rachel is a 2007 alumni of the International Directors Symposium with La MaMa in Spoleto, Italy and is an Associate Member of the SSDC.
Sean Gill is a playwright, filmmaker, and musician who has written over twenty plays including the absurdist Stage Blood is Not Enough, the nostalgic Our Prison, the horrific Aenigma (featured in Something Weird…in the Red Room), and, most recently, the retro-futuristic extravaganza Go-Go Killers! He has directed over thirty feature-length and short films including Thursday Night, Low Lives, the Sleepy-Time Time cycle, Highly Confidential, Go Harlem, Chewies 4, Crescendo, Chinese Pop!, and The Tragedie of Admiral Cigarette. His work has been showcased in a dozen international film festivals, and screened everywhere from Don Hill’s to the Staten Island Ferry. Gill, who holds twin BAs from Oberlin College (in Film and History) and works as a sequence editor for several television shows on the A&E network, has several film and theatrical projects in the pipeline, including the horror documentary Mather Point and the madcap sci-fi Black Hole Adventure.
Jillaine Gill is foremost an actress (but at times a musician, director, and performance artist) who has lived in New York for nearly five years. A founding member of Junta Juleil Productions, she has starred in many of their stage and film projects, including Stage Blood is Not Enough, Schizophrenic Love Cinema: Volume 5, Thursday Night, Low Lives, Crescendo, Chewies 4, Highly Confidential, and the upcoming Mather Point and Black Hole Adventure. She has collaborated with Rachel Klein Productions on the plays Aenigma, Our Prison, and Go-Go Killers! Also a burgeoning burlesque performer using the sobriquet “Kitten Kent, Girl Detective,” Jillaine has performed at Galapagos, Fat Baby, and The Slipper Room. She has written, starred in, and directed pieces for Another Urban Riff, and studied with Anthony Abeson, appearing and developing the premiere production of the scathing industry ensemble piece Your Eyebrows are Too Jersey. She holds twin BAs in theatre and psychology from Kent State University, and her print work can be found in ad campaigns and magazines worldwide. She recently completed work on Prayer to a Vengeful God, a new film by Dan Eberle.
Shriekfest 2009 Screenplay Competition
Shriekfest 2009, the 9th annual Los Angeles international horror/thriller/sci-fi/fantasy film festival and screenplay competition, has announced its more than 40 official selections and screenplay finalists.
The festival, which doesn’t discriminate between award-winning films and unrecognized films during its submission process, aims to help filmmakers of all levels gain valuable exposure.
To view a full list of the festival’s selections, visit www.shriekfest.com
After Dark Horrorfest III – The Line Up
After Dark Films has officially announced the full slate of “8 Films to Die For”, which will all hit theaters January 9th as part of next year’s After Dark Horrorfest III. This year will not only premiere some interesting acquisitions, but it will also be the first festival to incorporate original productions made specifically for the event. You can check out the full slate of films inside and comment with other Bloody-Disgusting readers about your thoughts on this year’s line-up.
AFTER DARK HORRORFEST III FULL LINE-UP! Visit the official website for ticketing info.
DYING BREED (Trailer, Images)
Director: Jody Dwyer
Writer: Michael Boughen, Rod Morris, Jody Dwyer
Starring: Leigh Whannell, Nathan Phillips, Melanie Valejo, Mirrah Foulkes, Peter Docker, Billie Brown
Inspired by the legends of a 19th-century cannibal and an extinct tiger, this brutal horror-thriller centers on four friends who find out that something—or someone—murderous lurks in the rain-slogged Australian bush.
AUTOPSY (Images)
Horror Film Festival enough to make your skin crawl
You can get a head start on Halloween over the next four days as the ninth annual Rhode Island International Horror Film Festival unspools its collection of ghouls and ghosts on movie screens from Providence to Narragansett. And the best thing is, you’ll still have time to make your trick-or-treat costume, decorate the house with spider webs and flickering lights, and fill the bowls with miniature candies.
Between the Horror Film Festival’s parade of scary movies, its walking tour that will take participants back to the 1920s world of Providence horror writer H.P. Lovecraft and a reading by the author of a new suspense novel, you will be well prepared for anything Halloween itself can dish out.
Horror Fest Slices Movies Into 66-Second Shorts
Just in time for Halloween, Fearnet cuts to the bloody chase with hyper-truncated versions of classic horror movies.
The site’s 66.6 Second Film Festival chops down fright flicks like A Nightmare on Elm Street 2, The Howling, Hostel, Candyman, Evil Dead II, Boogeyman and Leprechaun in the Hood (pictured) to their goofily gory essence.
TRICK OR TREAT HORROR FANS
FULL MOON FEATURES PRESENTS CHARLES BAND’S FULL MOON HALLOWEEN
HORROR ROAD SHOW ON THURSDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2008
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What better way to spend the night before Halloween than with one of Hollywood’s most successful and prolific cult movie impresarios, Charles Band, founder of sci fi/horror movie studio Full Moon Features. Band will stage the Halloween incarnation of his Full Moon Horror Road Show the night before Halloween with ticket proceeds to benefit the Special Olympics.
Universal Studios ups fear factor of ‘Halloween Horror Nights”
Universal Studios Hollywood has issued a dare. The Southern California theme park is looking for those who think they can go toe-to-ax with a menagerie of some of the scariest characters in film history. Park officials say patrons can “Live Your Worst Nightmare.”
The 2008 edition of Universal Studios Hollywood’s “Halloween Horror Nights” includes familiar characters from Universal films such as “Frankenstein,” “Psycho” and “The Strangers.” Joining in the weekend terrorfest this year will be some of the creepy cast members from Warner Bros. movies such as “Nightmare on Elm Street” and “The Texas Chain Saw Massacre.”
