With under two weeks until it kicks off, the Telluride Horror Show has released its second wave of films! Running from October 14-16th, the festival has revealed it will be showcasing the world premiere of #Screamers, the Colorado premieres of Sadako vs. Kayako and The Windmill, and will also be presenting several additional short horror films!

Not content with just showing people a bunch of films, the festival has also put together several events to keep people entertained, such as an Ice Cream Social, a bonfire with horror author Joe R. Lansdale reading creepy campfire tales, a pig roast, and a horror trivia night co-hosted by Brad McHargue and yours truly! Head on down for the full second wave announcement!

Three-day passes have been sold out but individual tickets will be available at the venues should seating be available. More information can be found here.

Feature Length Films

BEYOND THE WALLS

France | 2016 | 142 min | Director: Hervé Hadmar
COLORADO PREMIERE
Lisa’s fate takes a dramatic turn when she inherits a mysterious uninhabited old house left to her in the will of its deceased owner. Lisa moves into the house with no inkling of the mysteries that await her.

IBIZA UNDEAD

UK | 2016 | 95 min | Director: Andy Edwards
NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE
Three best friends – Alex, Az and Jim – head to Ibiza for their first lad’s holiday. Unfortunately, tagging along is Alex’s unimpressed ex-girlfriend Ellie. Arriving on the island, the lads dump Ellie with Alex’s sister Liz, and her friend Zara, and head to San Antonio to start their week of sun, sea and debauchery. Soon they end up in a club, run by local gangster Karl, where the attractions aren’t all alive – they’re zombies! Due to Jim’s drunken antics the zombies escape, and soon all hell breaks loose and no one on the party island is safe.

KILL COMMAND

UK | 2015 | 99 min | Director: Steven Gomez
NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE
When an elite army unit is helicoptered to a remote, off-the-grid island facility, a simple training exercise quickly descends into a terrifying battle to the death as the marines discover the island is overrun by an enemy that transcends the human concept of evil.

SADAKO VS. KAYAKO

Japan | 2016 | 98 min | Director: Koji Shiraishi
COLORADO PREMIERE
After viewing a legendary cursed videotape, Natsumi discovers she has only two days before she will be killed by the demonic entity known as Sadako. The only way to break the curse: Pitting the demon Sadako against Kayako, an accursed spirit possessing a haunted house where everyone who enters disappears.

#SCREAMERS

USA | 2016 | 88 min | Director: Dean Ronalds
WORLD PREMIERE
When an internet company decides to investigate a series of ‘Screamer’ videos, they are confronted with havoc and hell they could never expect.

THE WINDMILL

Netherlands | 2016 | 85 min | Director: Nick Jongerius
COLORADO PREMIERE
Followed by a Q&A with director Nick Jongerius
A group of unsuspecting tourists awaken a mysterious evil while on a trip through the Dutch countryside.

Shorts

DOLL

USA | 2016 | 6 min | Director: Michael Peer
WORLD PREMIERE
IN PERSON: Michael Peer
A personal fitness trainer has an unhealthy relationship with dolls.

DRYAD

France | 2015 | 11 min | Director: Thomas Vernay
The wind blows, noises of armor resound. A knight escorts a young woman athwart plains. The thunder begins to scold, clouds invade the landscape. The knight, worried, stares at the castle on the horizon. The end is close.

HARUM SKARUM

USA | 2015 | 2 min | Director: Thomas Humphreys I hope you like wetting your bed forever.

I WANT YOU INSIDE ME

USA | 2016 | 13 min | Director: Alice Shindelar
An introverted teenager loses her virginity and her boyfriend in one fell orgasm; a sensitive portrait of adolescence that builds to one helluva FX gag that’s both funny and frightening.

JUDY

USA | 2016 | 10 min | Directors: Alex Kavutskiy & Ariel Gardner
IN PERSON: Alex Kavutskiy & Ariel Gardner
A man opens a door to a robot that boasts exceptional ability and intelligence, but the man has only one thing on his mind: Practiced vulgarity that escalates to a darkly hysterical extreme.

KILL THE BABY

USA | 2015 | 58 min | Directors: Alex Kavutskiy & Ariel Gardner
IN PERSON: Alex Kavutskiy & Ariel Gardner
A man decides to kill his baby. Chaos ensues.

ORENDA

USA | 2016 | 8 min | Director: Anthony Ngo
PHANTOM SWAY 48 HOUR FILM CONTEST WINNER
Orenda is a horror short that tells the story of a babysitter who makes the frightening discovery that her latest job is anything but typical. This film won the Phantom Sway 48 Hour Film Contest in 2016.

PHOBIA

USA | 2016 | 3 min | Director: Chris Barron
WORLD PREMIERE
IN PERSON: Chris Barron
Sometimes you have a reason to be afraid.

YOU WILL NEVER FIND MY BODY

USA | 2016 | 14 min | Director: Kyle Morgan
A woman is forced to confront the horrors of the deep forest that haunt her every night.

Animated Shorts

YUL AND THE SNAKE

France | 2015 | 13 min | Director: Gabriel Harel
Yùl, 13 years old, goes with his big brother Dino to conclude a deal with Mike, a thug escorted by his Argentinian mastiff. When things go wrong, a mysterious snake appears.

Special Events

ICE SCREAM SOCIAL

Friday | Oct. 14 | 3:00PM – 4:30PM
Sheridan Opera House
(Open to 3-Day pass holders)
Free ice cream!

CREEPY CAMPFIRE TALES with JOE R. LANSDALE

Friday | Oct. 14 | 6:30PM – 7:30PM
Elks Park: Across from the courthouse
(Open to public)
Bonfire and author reading!

BOOK SIGNING with JOE R. LANSDALE

Saturday | Oct. 15 | 2:30PM – 3:30PM
Sheridan Opera House
(Open to public)
Select works by Lansdale available for purchase courtesy of Between the Covers bookstore.

PIG ROAST

Saturday | Oct. 15 | 5:00PM – 7:00PM
Oak: Located at base of gondola
(Open to 3-Day pass holders)
Free pig, cash bar.

Bloody Disgusting Presents: HORROR TRIVIA NIGHT

Sunday | Oct. 16 | 5:00PM – 7:30PM
Oak: Located at base of gondola
(Open to 3-Day pass holders)
Join us for the first annual Horror Movie Trivia Night! Presented by Bloody Disgusting, join hosts Jonathan Barkan and Brad McHargue as they take you through ten rounds of horror trivia madness and mayhem. Win prizes! Drink beer! Get angry at your friends for missing that one question they totally swore they knew! No more than six players to a team.

LAST CALL AT THE LAST DOLLAR

Sunday | Oct. 16 | 10:00PM – ???
Last Dollar Saloon
(Open to 3-Day pass holders)
If you’re still standing, join us for one last get-together!