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Chattanooga Film Festival 2024 to Celebrate “The Twilight Zone”, Rod Serling Centennial, and More
The Chattanooga Film Festival returns for its eleventh year, unleashing another summer camp for cinephiles from June 21-28, 2024. For this outing, the acclaimed fest is venturing into “The Twilight Zone.”
As it did in its 10th edition, the festival will be presented in a hybrid format, with in-person and virtual programming available. The festival’s in-person dates, June 21-24, will again be staged at Chattanooga’s historic haunted hotel, The Read House. Along with its dates, CFF also teased a handful of films and special events 2024 attendees can look forward to and put 2024 all-access VIP badges on sale with special Early Bird pricing and discounts in effect until March 20.
Anchoring this year’s festival is a tribute to the influential anthology sci-fi/horror series “The Twilight Zone” and the fascinating life and career of its legendary creator Rod Serling. Presiding over this salute is Rod’s daughter, author Anne Serling, who’ll be attending. Anne joins the CFF team, along with “Twilight Zone” historian/author Mark Dawidziak, for a screening of some classic episodes, along with a panel discussion on the series’ legacy and lasting influence, and a special 100th birthday celebration for Rod Serling at the gorgeous Chattanooga Whiskey Event Hall.
“Serling and The Twilight Zone’s influence will be felt in eerie ways throughout this year’s festival,” festival director Chris Dortch II said.
While the festival is gearing up to announce their lineup of programming, CFF teases a special 60th Anniversary Screening of Russ Meyer‘s insanely cool cult classic Faster Pussycat Kill Kill. Also in attendance will be author/screenwriter Adam Cesare, who’ll be guest programming a secret screening and signing copies of his popular Clown in a Cornfield novels. Will Cesare’s secret screening pick be a slasher? Tune in and find out!
These events, along with more than 30 other features and dozens of short films, live podcasts, and the fest’s now infamous nightly secret screening series, The Red Eye, are sure to please longtime fans and newcomers who can access the festival’s virtual offerings from anywhere in the U.S. Fans can take advantage of the festival’s generous Early Bird discounts for one month only by visiting the festivals site at chattfilmfest.org.
Expect to hear more on what’s in store for Chattanooga Film Festival 2024 soon.
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“I’m the Grim Reaper” – Sam Raimi Teams with ’10 Cloverfield Lane’ Writers on Gory, Funny Webtoon Adaptation
The Wattpad/Webtoons and Grave Weaver-created series “I’m the Grim Reaper” is nearing its 200th episode, and it’s also getting a new TV series adaptation with talented names behind it. Deadline reports that celebrated filmmaker Sam Raimi is teaming up with 10 Cloverfield Lane scribes Josh Campbell & Matt Stuecken on the new series.
The series follows “Scarlet, a young woman who wakes up in the ninth circle of hell with no idea how she got there. Satan offers to send Scarlet back to Earth if she’ll work as his reaper. But it doesn’t take long for Scarlet to realize that Satan’s offer is even worse than she feared.”
The story is said to fit perfectly into “Raimi’s wheelhouse, striking a deft balance between scares, gore and humor.”
Sam Raimi and Zainab Azizi will executive produce the series with Weaver, who’ll also team on the development process. Raimi may be most known for his Spider-Man and Evil Dead movies, but the filmmaker has been busy behind the scenes producing. More recently, Raimi produced this week’s action brawler Boy Kills World and last year’s 65, with Don’t Move on the way.
The “I’m the Grim Reaper” webtoon launched in 2019, delving into the humor and horrors of reaping souls in Hell. That it’s on the cusp of airing its 200th episode means no shortage of story and mythology for Campbell and Stuecken to pull from.
Stay tuned for additional details on this new series as they arrive.
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