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The Brooklyn Horror Film Festival Celebrates 10th Anniversary with Full Slate of Programming
The Brooklyn Horror Film Festival (BHFF) has unveiled the full program for its 2025 edition, running 10 days this year in celebration of their 10-year anniversary.
The festival will run from October 16-25, with all screenings held at Nitehawk Cinema Williamsburg.
Here are the full details, from the press release:
The Opening Night film is Tina Romero’s award-winning, Brooklyn-set horror-comedy QUEENS OF THE DEAD. The 2025 festival boasts the world premieres of Adam MacDonald’s zombie feature THIS IS NOT A TEST and Connor Marsden’s bloodsoaked thriller VIOLENCE. The Festival will also feature the North American Premiere of Johanna Moder’s paranoid motherhood horror film MOTHER’S BABY. Other highlights include Avalon Fast’s mesmerizing sophomore feature CAMP as the festival’s Centerpiece Film.
This year’s Closing Night feature is the ultra violent and fast-paced KARMADONNA from director Aleksandar Radivojevic. Additional highlights include horror/sci-fi icon Bryan Fuller’s weird and whimsical new feature DUST BUNNY; Kenichi Ugana’s strange and disturbing new feature INCOMPLETE CHAIRS; a screening of the first three episodes from season two of THE CREEP TAPES; alumni Alice Maio Mackay’s latest feature THE SERPENT’S SKIN; Robbie Banfitch’s latest found footage feature TINSMAN ROAD; and Julie Pacino’s fever dream I LIVE HERE NOW.
The festival’s signature sidebar programs return, starting with FEAR IN FOCUS: BLACK HORROR, which includes the North American premiere of James Ross’s PARASOMNIA, as well as retro screenings of DEF BY TEMPTATION and BUGGED! There will also be a sidebar for ZOMBIES!, which includes the 1974 blaxploitation film SUGAR HILL screening on 35mm, a 4K restoration of BRIDE OF RE-ANIMATOR in honor of its 35th anniversary, and the theatrical premiere of the uncut version of Tom Savini’s remake of the George A. Romero classic NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD. Animated horror gets a spotlight with DRAWING ON FEAR, featuring a trio of heavy-hitters: the 1973 Japanese masterpiece BELLADONNA OF SADNESS; the 1981 cult classic anthology film HEAVY METAL; and the remarkable Czechoslovakian stop-motion dark fantasy THE PIED PIPER.
The Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies will also return with a pair of special lectures: “Excessive Life: The Uncanny Vitality of the Zombie” from David Bering-Porter, an Assistant Professor at The New School, and “On Becoming a Horrifying Woman: Psychedelic Horror, Women’s Empowerment, and BELLADONNA OF SADNESS” from That Very Witch: Fear, Feminism and the American Witch Film author Payton McCarty-Simas.
Audiences are also in for a jaw-dropping lineup of films and events, including a special screening of Ernest Dickerson’s cult classic TALES FROM THE CRYPT PRESENTS: DEMON KNIGHT with the Leviathan Award Ceremony, honoring his film career.
Festival badges are on sale now here and a limited amount of individual tickets go on sale this Friday at 12PM EST. Read the full program lineup here.
2025 Poster: Art by Jaxon Northon
Before updating the video nasty Faces of Death, director Daniel Goldhaber and writer Isa Mazzei explored the dangers of online life in tech-thriller Cam, their feature debut that was acquired by Netflix in 2018 after making waves on the festival circuit.
At the end of last year, the Netflix exclusive quietly departed from the streaming platform, left without another streaming home.
It’s not an isolated story; Mike Flanagan’s Hush also left streaming entirely for a period until it was finally picked up on both physical media and other streaming services.
While the tech-thriller currently isn’t available to watch on Netflix, Tubi, Hulu, or any other platforms, that’s not a problem for Cam thanks to a very cool move by Goldhaber: the director has made his breakout film accessible to watch online for free via his website.
As his site notes: “CAM is unfortunately not currently available to view on any platforms, so you can watch it here if you like :).“
No subscriptions or fees necessary, just hit play.
Cam follows Alice (Madeline Brewer), who works as an online cam girl obsessed with her ranking on the cam site. The higher her ranking goes, the more it draws unwanted attention, and Alice soon finds herself replaced on her own show with a doppelganger.
Written by Mazzei, a former camgirl, it uses the horror thriller premise to examine the life of a sex worker; Alice’s career ambition is directly at odds with the shame it brings to her family, and how she tries to spare them from it by keeping them in the dark. It only compounds her danger when the doppelganger enters the equation in Goldhaber’s engaging thriller.
For a deep dive into the treacherous world of Cam, listen to Horror Queers’ episode on it now.
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