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The Nightmares Film Festival Kicks Off October 18th and These Short Nightmares Will Terrorize You
Featured image from “The Thousand Legged Terror”
The horror film festival season is upon us and I couldn’t be more excited! It’s a time when us fans of the dark, morbid, and extreme are introduced to a new group of fright flicks ripe with the potential to wet our bloody whistle. One such festival that has really bombarded the independent scene in the past few years is the Nightmares Film Festival in Columbus, OH. Attracting some of the edgiest and scariest stuff out there, Nightmares is not only an entertaining event to be a part of, but from a filmmaker’s standpoint, a beneficial one as well. Nightmares does a fantastic job of making filmmakers feel welcome and promotes a friendly environment filled with the potential for networking. “A real community is forming. People know each other and want to work together. I just want to help make sure that happens, and people aren’t left behind.” says festival organizer Jason Tostevin about the atmosphere he and his co-founder Chris Hamel have created. After being a part of the festival last year, I can certainly agree that these gentlemen have done a wonderful job of bringing us indie horror filmmakers together to rub elbows and collaborate.
Bloody Disgusting’s own short film series, World of Death has been an official sponsor of the Nightmares Film Festival for the past two years and we are stoked to see such a wide array of talent and craziness in this year’s short film categories. Horrifying imagery from shorts such as “The Thousand Legged Terror” and “Blondie” promise to keep us up late into the evening clutching at our bed sheets while the lighter side of the genre is going to have us rolling in the theater with titles like “Attack of Potato Clock”, “Alien Death Fuck”, “The Bloody Ballad of Squirt Reynolds”, and “Shit… They’re All Vampires!” And with over 100 short films programmed for the weekend, there will literally be something for everyone. WOD producers Ben Lewandowski and myself will be in attendance and are looking forward to hanging out with filmmakers and checking out all these twisted tales. And with a little luck, all of you out there will be seeing some of these shorts as part of World of Death in the near future!
Nightmares Film Festival runs from Thursday, October 18th to Sunday, October 21st at the Gateway Film Center in Columbus, OH. For more info and a full schedule of the 2018 festival, click HERE.
See you there!
“Beyond Repair”
“The Cat”
“The Mare”
“Proceeds of Crime”
“Blondie”
“Bathroom Troll”
A gnarly infection threatens to claw its way out of a moving camper in the first trailer for Shudder’s claustrophobic Hellcat.
The feature debut of writer/editor/director Brock Bodell, who previously edited the Fantasia title Ultrasound, makes its debut on Shudder on August 14.
In Hellcat, “Lena wakes up in a moving camper trailer with a horrifying wound. She’s warned by the driver that they have one hour to get to a doctor, or she’ll succumb to an unimaginably awful fate. As the pain sets in and reality begins to fray, who should really be afraid?”
Dakota Gorman (Natural Disasters) leads the cast that also includes Todd Terry (“Breaking Bad”), Liz Atwater (The Other People), Jordan Mullins (The Bikeriders), and James Austin Johnson (“Saturday Night Live”) in a voice role. Bodell also produces alongside Andrew Duensing and Nate Eggert.
Hellcat made its world premiere last summer at Fantasia. I wrote in my review, “Hellcat is a bit of a Trojan horror that defies easy classification, by design. Bodell’s sneaky debut feature is occasionally too sparse in its worldbuilding in its bid to preserve the mystery, but not enough to detract from the thrilling road thriller that transforms into a completely left-field type of horror we don’t get nearly enough of. The stripped-down tribute to a classic horror staple catches you off guard in more ways than one, marking Bodell as one to watch.”
In other words, there’s a lot more than meets the eye to Hellcat‘s simple infection setup, delivering plenty of surprises along its bumpy road of horrors.
Check out the trailer and poster below and add Hellcat to your watchlists asap.
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