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Nightmares Film Festival ’18 Full Lineup Revealed!

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In less than a month’s time, Nightmares Film Festival will once again return to Gateway Film Center in Columbus, Ohio. This year’s lineup is even more gargantuan than the last, with NFF 2018 hosting 24 features and 164 short films over a span of four days. Among its wide assortment of chills, thrills, and blood spills, the festival will be showcasing the latest works from the makers of August Underground, Baskin, Berberian Sound Studio, Found, The FP, Goodnight Mommy, The Lure, Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich, The Rake, Thankskilling, Wyrmwood, and more!

The festivities begin on Thursday, October 18th at 7pm (EST) with a screening of Bill Lustig’s new 4K restoration of his gore-soaked classic, Maniac. Lustig himself will be in attendance. The fright-filled fun will then continue to run through the end of the night on Sunday, October 21st. In other words, go grab yourself some festival passes and stock up on your favorite energy drinks, because it’s going to be a non-stop sleepless ride of horror, genre comedies, thrillers, and midnight mindfuck cinema for the entire duration of the event.

So what exactly is playing? I’m glad you asked! Here’s the feature film lineup…

I can’t even begin to list the insane amount of shorts that will be running at the festival. Just know that they are all well worth your time if you are lucky enough to attend the festival. The short blocks are always packed to the brim with wild and interesting films that are oozing with the of the next big generation of indie filmmakers. There’s even a Stephen King block of “Dollar Babies” offerings this year! Hell, that’s why World of Death is joining forces with NFF once more to offer distribution to all award-winning shorts this year!

In less than three years, Nightmares Film Festival has grown from a grassroots event into one of the top horror film celebrations in the world. It is one of the highest-rated festivals out there among fans and filmmakers. While a lot of that has to do with their wide array of programming, I think the majority of it comes from the environment that it has created for fans and filmmakers alike. There is nothing snobby or elitist about NFF. Whether you’re a genre novice or an aging die hard fan, all are accepted and treated like family. You will be too, if you decide to pull the trigger and head over to gatewayfilmcenter.org/NFF to scoop up one of the remaining festival passes (or even just tickets to a few screenings). As I’ve stated many times already, I’ll be there covering the whole thing. Come play with us!

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’28 Years Later’ – Ralph Fiennes, Jodie Comer, and Aaron Taylor-Johnson Join Long Awaited Sequel

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28 Days Later, Ralph Fiennes in the Menu
Pictured: Ralph Fiennes in 'The Menu'

Danny Boyle and Alex Garland (Annihilation, Men), the director and writer behind 2002’s hit horror film 28 Days Later, are reteaming for the long-awaited sequel, 28 Years Later. THR reports that the sequel has cast Jodie Comer (Alone in the Dark, “Killing Eve”), Aaron Taylor-Johnson (Kraven the Hunter), and Ralph Fiennes (The Menu).

The plan is for Garland to write 28 Years Later and Boyle to direct, with Garland also planning on writing at least one more sequel to the franchise – director Nia DaCosta is currently in talks to helm the second installment.

No word on plot details as of this time, or who Comer, Taylor-Johnson, and Fiennes may play.

28 Days Later received a follow up in 2007 with 28 Weeks Later, which was executive produced by Boyle and Garland but directed by Juan Carlos Fresnadillo. Now, the pair hope to launch a new trilogy with 28 Years Later. The plan is for Garland to write all three entries, with Boyle helming the first installment.

Boyle and Garland will also produce alongside original producer Andrew Macdonald and Peter Rice, the former head of Fox Searchlight Pictures, the division of one-time studio Twentieth Century Fox that originally backed the British-made movie and its sequel.

The original film starred Cillian Murphy “as a man who wakes up from a coma after a bicycle accident to find England now a desolate, post-apocalyptic collapse, thanks to a virus that turned its victims into raging killers. The man then navigates the landscape, meeting a survivor played by Naomie Harris and a maniacal army major, played by Christopher Eccleston.”

Cillian Murphy (Oppenheimer) is on board as executive producer, though the actor isn’t set to appear in the film…yet.

Talks of a third installment in the franchise have been coming and going for the last several years now – at one point, it was going to be titled 28 Months Later – but it looks like this one is finally getting off the ground here in 2024 thanks to this casting news. Stay tuned for more updates soon!

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