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Nightmares Film Festival Announces Its 2016 Lineup!
Ohio’s inaugural Nightmares Film Festival is bringing loads upon loads of indie horror to the city of Columbus later this month, with 20 features and 80+ shorts playing over the course of three days. Yesterday they announced their full lineup and schedule. You will, naturally, find the schedule and the full press release below. I know very little about the films showing and honestly haven’t even heard of many of them, but that’s all part of the fun. Many of the best horror viewing experiences come from seeing films that you have no prior knowledge of and that aren’t colored by hype.
Do we have any local (or adjacent) readers planning on attending this feast of fright flicks? Give a shout in the comments section if you’re aiming to make an appearance and give the festival (and Gateway Film Center) a whirl this holiday season. If you are, maybe some of you might actually run into one another! Actual real-life interaction in this day and age? INSANITY!
THURSDAY
6:00PM – PLANK FACE
8:00PM – ABCs OF DEATH 2.5 (World Premiere w/ABCs 2 winner Robert Boocheck)
10:00PM – Horror Comedy Shorts
Midnight – QUAD X
FRIDAY
10:00AM – #SCREAMERS
12:00PM – PITCHFORK
2:00PM – Thriller Shorts B
4:00PM – CHICAGO ROT
6:00PM – Horror Shorts B
8:00PM – FAMILY POSSESSIONS (World Premiere w/dir. Tommy Faircloth & prod. Robert Zobel)
10:00PM – CIRCUS OF THE DEAD
Midnight – HOLY HELL
Midnight – Midnight Shorts A (Screen #2)
SATURDAY
10:00AM – Horror Shorts C
12:00PM – SHE WAS SO PRETTY
2:00PM – Midnight Shorts B
3:30PM – THE BLACK ROOM (World Premiere)
5:15PM – Nightmares Film Festival Awards
6:00PM – Horror Shorts A
8:00PM – THE BARN
10:00PM – THE NIGHT OF THE VIRGIN (U.S. Premiere)
Midnight – NIGHT OF SOMETHING STRANGE
Midnight – Midnight Shorts B
SUNDAY
2:00AM – DEAD SLUMBER (World Premiere)
10:00AM – Thriller Shorts A
12:00PM – DIARY OF A DEADBEAT (Intro and Q&A by director Victor Bonacore)
2:00PM – Days of the Dead Filmmaker of the Year Award
2:30PM – FRANKENSTEIN CREATED BIKERS
4:00PM – Midnight Shorts A (including festival darling Gwilliam!)
6:00PM – RHYME SLAYA (World Premiere)
8:00PM – VILE PREY (World Premiere)
10:00PM – CANNIBILLIES (World Premiere)
Nightmares Film Festival Unveils World-Class 2016 Lineup
99 films include more than a dozen premieres, international winners, local films, more
(Columbus, OH) The inaugural Nightmares Film Festival has revealed the complete schedule of films for its 2016 “Better Horror” program, Oct. 20 to 23.
The lineup of premieres, exclusive selections from around the globe, visiting filmmakers and locally created films means the four-day, 99-film festival is immediately in the class of the best genre festivals anywhere.
Thursday’s opening night film at the festival, held at the world-renowned Gateway Film Center in Columbus, Ohio (a top-20 art house in North America, according to Sundance), is the world’s first theatrical screening of ABCs of Death 2.5, an anthology of the best submissions to the “M is For” contest run for ABCs of Death 2. The winner of the contest, Robert Boocheck, will be at the festival to introduce ABCs of Death 2.5 and screen his winning film, “M is for Masticate.”
Friday night’s world premiere is Family Possessions, a genre-bending horror-thriller from Tommy Faircloth (Doll Face, Crinoline Head). Both Faircloth and producer Robert Zobel will be in attendance.
Saturday includes three feature premieres. First is The Black Room, starring Natasha Henstridge (Species), a gruesome, sexy haunted house tale. Second is Spanish gross-out horror comedy The Night of the Virgin, making its North American premiere. And finally, in a twisted late-night block designed to melt brains, the experimental horror film Deep Slumber makes its world premiere.
Sunday includes three Ohio features making their world debut: rap-slasher Rhyme Slaya, table-turning Vile Prey, and flesh fiesta Cannibillies. It will also include a four-hour block programmed by the fastest-growing horror convention in the world, Days of the Dead, presenting documentary Diary of a Deadbeat and 35mm exploitation epic Frankenstein Created Bikers.
The shorts programs include horror, horror-comedy, thriller and midnight blocks assembled from the best short work around the world. Highlights include Fantastic Fest winners Curve (best film and director) and The Stylist (best actress), not-safe-for-anyone man/goblin love midnight short Gwilliam, Sitges selection Wolves, and Academy-qualified Night of the Slasher.
“We set out to bring together the very best, most exciting, most surprising horror and genre films anywhere,” said festival co-founder Jason Tostevin. “We are thrilled with the quality of the program and believe we’re living up to our commitment to elevate horror.”
VIP and festival passes are available now at the Gateway Film Center website, http://gatewayfilmcenter.org/nightmares-film-festival.
In case you haven’t noticed, the public domain status of beloved icons like Winnie the Pooh, Cinderella and Mickey Mouse has been wreaking havoc on the horror genre in the past couple years, with filmmakers itching to get their hands on the characters and put them into twisted situations. In the wake of two Winnie the Pooh slashers, well, Pooh is about to battle Mickey.
It’s not from the same team behind the Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey films, to be clear, but Deadline reports that Glen Douglas Packard (Pitchfork) will direct the horror movie Mickey vs. Winnie for Untouchables Entertainment and the website iHorror.
Deadline details, “The film follows two convicts in the 1920s who escape into a cursed forest only to be dragged and consumed into the depths of the dark forest’s muddy heart.
“A century later, a group of thrill-seeking friends unknowingly venture into the same woods. Their Airbnb getaway takes a horrifying turn when the convicts mutate into twisted versions of childhood icons Mickey Mouse & Winnie-The-Pooh, and emerge to terrorize them. A night of violence and gore erupts, as the group of friends battle against their now monstrous beloved childhood characters and fight to break free from the forest’s grip.
“In a horrific spectacle, Mickey and Winnie clash, painting the woods in a gruesome tableau of blood—a chilling testament to the curse’s insidious power.”
Glen Douglas Packard wrote the screenplay that he’ll be directing.
“Horror fans call for the thrill of witnessing icons like the new Aliens and Avengers sharing the screen. While licensing nightmares make such crossovers rare, Mickey vs. Winnie serves as our tribute to that thrilling fantasy,” Packard said in a statement this week.
Producer Anthony Pernicka from iHorror previews, “We’re thrilled to unveil this unique take to horror fans. The Mickey Mouse featured in our film is unlike any iteration audiences have encountered before. Our portrayal doesn’t involve characters donning basic masks. Instead, we present deeply transformed, live-action horror renditions of these iconic figures, weaving together elements of innocence and malevolence. After experiencing the intense scenes we’ve crafted, you’ll never look at Mickey the same way again.”
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