The first wave of films has been announced for the 2017 Telluride Horror Show, which will take place October 13-15th in picturesque Telluride, Colorado.

Festival attendees will catch the U.S. Premiere of CREEP 2 before it is released digitally worldwide by The Orchard on October 24th. The film is directed by Patrick Brice and features Mark Duplass, who also starred in the first film – a 2014 Telluride Horror Show Official Selection.

Other anticipated films include the Colorado Premieres of JUNGLE, directed by Greg McLean (THE BELKO EXPERIMENT) and starring Daniel Radcliffe, ahead of its October 20th release date, as well as VICTOR CROWLEY (directed by Adam Green), MAYHEM (directed by Joe Lynch), and THE ENDLESS (directed by Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead).

Here’s the first wave of titles:

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USA | 2017 | 91 min | Director: Alexandre O. Philippe
The screeching strings, the plunging knife, the slow zoom out from a lifeless eyeball: In 1960, Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho changed film history forever with its taboo-shattering shower scene. With 78 camera set-ups and 52 edits over the course of 3 minutes, Psycho redefined screen violence, set the stage for decades of slasher films to come, and introduced a new element of danger to the movie-going experience. Aided by a roster of filmmakers, critics, and fans – including Guillermo del Toro, Bret Easton Ellis, Jamie Lee Curtis, Eli Roth, and Peter Bogdanovich – director Alexandre O. Philippe pulls back the curtain on the making and influence of this cinematic game changer, breaking it down frame by frame and unpacking Hitchcock’s dense web of allusions and double meanings. The result is an enthralling piece of cinematic detective work that’s nirvana for film and horror buffs.

COLD GROUND

France | 2017 | 86 min | Director: Fabien Delage
NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE
1976: Two young journalists leave for the French-Swiss border to investigate a strange case of cattle mutilations and record testimonies for a TV channel. Yet, once they get there, the scientific team they were supposed to meet has gone missing.

CREEP 2
USA | 2017 | 80 min | Director: Patrick Brice
U.S. PREMIERE
CREEP 2 stars Desiree Akhavan as Sara, a video artist whose primary focus is creating intimacy with lonely men. After finding an ad online for “video work” she thinks she may have found the subject of her dreams. She drives to a remote house in the forest and meets a man claiming to be a serial killer (Mark Duplass). Unable to resist the chance to create a truly shocking piece of art, she agrees to spend the day with him. However, as the day goes on, she discovers she may have dug herself into a hole she can’t escape.

DEAD ANT

USA | 2017 | 87 min | Director: Ron Carlson
COLORADO PREMIERE
Followed by Q&A with director Ron Carlson.
When the “one-hit-wonder” glam-metal band “Sonic Grave” embarks on a trip to Coachella in hopes of a comeback, their peyote trip pit stop in Joshua Tree incites an “unworldly” viscous attack, and they must “rock” themselves out of harm’s way.

DOWNRANGE

USA | 2017 | 90 min | Director: Ryuhei Kitamura
COLORADO PREMIERE
For six college students carpooling cross-country, a seemingly mundane blow-out is the beginning of a grueling fight for survival in this cat-and-mouse gore-packed thriller from Ryuhei Kitamura, the director behind such cult hits as Versus and The Midnight Meat Train.

EAT LOCALS

UK | 2016 | 94 min | Director: Jason Flemyng
NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE
An unwitting Essex boy’s promise of a night of passion with a ravishing cougar goes awry when he finds himself caught in the crossfire between a coven of bloodthirsty vampires and a heavily armed band of mercenaries at a remote farmhouse.

FRAZIER PARK RECUT

USA | 2017 | 71 min | Directors: Tyler Schnabel & Sam Hanover
COLORADO PREMIERE
Followed by Q&A with director Tyler Schnabel.
Two aspiring filmmakers document the mishaps of their first feature film with the guidance of their eccentric lead actor.

HOUSEWIFE

Turkey | 2017 | 82 min | Director: Can Evrenol
COLORADO PREMIERE
On a snowy night, a young Holly watches in horror as her mother murders her sister and father. 20 years later, Holly is slowly losing her grip on reality, the nightmares of her past invading her waking moments. When a renowned psychic takes interest in Holly, the line between her reality and her nightmares grows even thinner.

JUNGLE

USA | 2016 | 115 min | Director: Greg McLean
COLORADO PREMIERE
An enthusiastic young adventurer follows his dreams into the Amazon jungle with two friends and a guide with a mysterious past. Their journey quickly turns into a terrifying ordeal as the darkest elements of human nature and the deadliest threats of the wilderness lead to an all-out fight for survival.

MAYHEM

USA | 2017 | 87 min | Director: Joe Lynch
COLORADO PREMIERE
A dangerous virus, one that prevents the infected from controlling their inhibitions, is discovered in a corporate law building, the very same firm that recently cleared an infected man on murder charges. When a quarantine is issued and the building goes on lockdown, all hell breaks loose inside, while a disgruntled employee (Steven Yeun) and an irate client (Samara Weaving) must fight, and even kill, their way to the top to “have a word” with the corrupt executives who wronged them.

THE ENDLESS
USA | 2017 | 112 min | Directors: Justin Benson & Aaron Moorhead
Following their acclaimed debut RESOLUTION and their follow-up, the Lovecraftian modern cult classic SPRING, writer/directors Moorhead and Benson star as brothers who receive a mysterious message inspiring them to pay a visit to the cult they escaped as children. As unsettling events and phenomena begin to occur, the brothers are forced to question whether the cult’s supernatural beliefs might not be entirely made up – and if, now that they’ve returned, they’ll be allowed to leave again.

THE WHIP AND THE BODY
Italy/France | 1963 | 87 min | Director: Mario Bava
FROM THE VAULT
Presented in 35MM by Telluride Horror Show “Vault Keeper” Jon Davison.
A sadistic nobleman terrorizes his family, but the relief that the family members feel upon his death is short-lived when his ghost continues the reign of terror. Bava’s legendary gothic horror film will be presented in beautiful 35MM Technicolor. Print courtesy of the Jon Davison Collection at the Academy Film Archive.

“TRAILERS FROM HELL”
80 min | FROM THE VAULT
Presented in 35MM by Telluride Horror Show “Vault Keeper” Jon Davison.
Relive the glory days of the Saturday Matinee with “Trailers From Hell”, a vintage collection of outrageous horror movie trailers! Back when creature features, B movies, low budget Sci-Fi, and schlock terrorized audiences at main street movie theaters, there was one rule of thumb: The worse the movie, the more ridiculous the trailer. From vampire lovers to orgies of the living dead, giant claws to tinglers, slime people, spider islands, sun demons, horror chambers and houses, incredibly strange creatures and critters, monsters from mars, brides of beasts, screams, fears, terrors, and a curse or two, this special edition of “Trailers From Hell” promises to take you back in time for a hilarious celebration of horror’s crazy cinematic past. All in glorious 35MM! Print courtesy of the Joe Dante & Jon Davison Collection at the Academy Film Archive.

TRENCH 11

Canada | 2017 | 90 min | Director: Leo Scherman
In the final days of the First World War a shell-shocked soldier must lead a mission deep beneath the trenches to stop a German plot that could turn the tide of the war.

VICTOR CROWLEY

USA | 2017 | 83 min | Director: Adam Green
COLORADO PREMIERE
Set a decade after the events of the series’ first three films, VICTOR CROWLEY reunites Hatchet mainstays Kane Hodder (Friday the 13th 7 – X’s Jason Voorhees) and Parry Shen (Better Luck Tomorrow) for an all-new, horrifying journey into the haunted, blood-drenched bayou. In 2007, forty-nine people were brutally torn to pieces in Louisiana’s Honey Island Swamp. Over the past decade, lone survivor Andrew Yong’s claims that local legend Victor Crowley was responsible for the horrific massacre have been met with great controversy, but when a twist of fate puts him back at the scene of the tragedy, Crowley is mistakenly resurrected and Yong must face the bloodthirsty ghost from his past. VICTOR CROWLEY’s ensemble cast also features Laura Ortiz (2006’s The Hills Have Eyes), Dave Sheridan (Scary Movie), and Brian Quinn (truTV’s “Impractical Jokers”). Writer/director Adam Green proudly returns to the director’s chair of his series that, upon debuting in 2007, was energetically touted as a return to “old school American horror,” and whose maniacal fan-favorite villain quickly secured a place among slasher royalty.

WHAT THE WATERS LEFT BEHIND
Argentina | 2017 | 98 min | Directors: Luciano & Nicolás Onetti
NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE
Epecuén was one of the most popular tourist towns in Argentina. In 1985, the sea broke through the protecting embankment and the town was completely submerged under salt water. Epecuén disappeared. Thirty years later, the waters receded and the ruins of Epecuén emerged, exposing a bleak and deserted landscape. The residents never returned. A group of young people journey to the ruins to film a documentary about Epecuén. Ignoring the warnings, they find themselves stranded in the abandoned town, and soon realize they’re not alone…

The Telluride Horror Show, Colorado’s first and longest-running horror film festival, returns for its 8th edition October 13-15, 2017. Every year, the festival attracts the latest & best horror films from all over the world and attendees from all over the country for an intimate gathering of genre film fans in the world-famous mountain resort town of Telluride, Colorado. For three days and nights, experience an eclectic mix of horror, suspense, thriller, fantasy, sci-fi and dark comedy in Telluride’s historic Sheridan Opera House, Nugget Theatre, and Palm Theatre, with many of the films showing for the first time in the US. If you love horror, and film, then you can’t miss this fest. Named one of the “20 Coolest Film Festivals” by Moviemaker Magazine.