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A Night of Horror 2009 Festival Program

(For all sessions listed as being at Dendy Newtown - tickets can now be purchased by calling (02) 9550 5699)


Saturday, March 21 - Mu-Meson Archives

7:30pm - Double Feature:
Taber Corn
- 89 Min (Australia) Director: Blake Ryan 2006 (Sydney Premiere)
Stomp! Shout! Scream! - 77 Min (USA) Director: Jay Wade Edwards 2005 (Australian Premiere)

*Includes Supper*
Stomp! Shout! Scream!


Wednesday, March 25 - Metro Screen

6:30pm - Forum: How To Make A Horror Feature Film ***SOLD OUT!!!***
Special Guests:
Doug Turner & Stacey Edmonds (I Know How Many Runs You Scored Last Summer)
Sue Brown (Family Demons)
Mike Masters (Reel Zombies)

*Followed By Meet And Greet With Free Drinks*
Mike Masters


9pm - Ozploitation Horror Shorts ***SOLD OUT!!!***
A showcase of awesome, bloody, hilarious and disgusting shorts from Australian filmmakers guaranteed to make you squirm!

Darker After Midnight - 6 Min (Michael Chrisoulakis)
Fridge Daemon - 6 Min (Peter Powell)
The Funny Man - 9 Min (Karl Madderom)
Serial Killer of the Living Dead - 3 Min (Grant Carter)
Control - 7 Min (Charles Spiteri)
Compactors - 8 Min
What If? - 8 Min (Michele Roget)
Breathing - 6 Min (Shaila Quadra)
The Evil Dog & the Lovely Pussycat - 4 Min (Lee Marquardt)
The Switch - 9 Min (Sean Rom)
Haunted Australia - 7 Min (Ian Nicholson)
Victoria - 8 Min (Gareth James)
Into the Dark - 12 Min (Amanda Bland)
Family Bizness - 10 Min (Dick Dale)

*Drink On Arrival*
What If?


Thursday, March 26 - Opening Night - Dendy Newtown

7pm - The Brøken - 88 Min (UK) Director: Sean Ellis 2008
(Australian Premiere)
Accompanied by the short films:
The Facts in the Case of Mr Hollow 7 Min - Rodrigo Gudino (Canada)
Corrections 10 Min - Bob Franklin (Australia)

*Drink On Arrival*
The Broken


9pm - I Know How Many Runs You Scored Last Summer - 85 Min (Australia)
***SOLD OUT!!!***
Directors: Doug Turner And Stacey Edmonds 2008
(Australian Premiere)

*Followed By Q&A With Directors Stacey Edmonds And Doug Turner*
I Know How Many Runs You Scored Last Summer


Friday, March 27 - Dendy Newtown

7pm - Mum and Dad - 85 Min (UK) Director: Steven Sheil 2008
(Australian Premiere)
Accompanied by the short films:
Daugher Of The Above - 12 Min Rodney Bolton (Australia)
The Ugly File - 10 Min Mark Steensland (USA)
Mum and Dad


9pm - Family Demons - 80 Min (Australia) Director: Ursula Dabrowsky 2009
(World Premiere)
Accompanied by the short film:
Hold Your Fire 8 Min - Wes Benscoter (USA)

*Followed By Q&A With Director Ursula Dabrowsky*
Family Demons


Special Midnight Screening!
11:45 Pm - Midnight Movie - 82 Min (USA) Director: Jack Messitt 2008
(Australian Premiere)
Accompanied by the short film:
Dead Bones - 18 Min Olivier Beguin (Switzerland)
Midnight Movie


Saturday, March 28 - Dendy Newtown

4pm - Shorts Programme #1:
Horror Comedies & Animations

A line-up of hilarious, disgusting, wild and wonderful horror comedies & animations from all around the world that will leave you in stitches!

Em - 8 Min Joshua Long (AU)
Shut Eye Hotel - 7 Min Bill Plympton (USA)
Soul Mates - 19 Min Tom Flynn (USA)
Little Snaps of Horror - 2 Min Graham Rathlin (UK)
Evil Twin - 4 Min Yun Wang (Taiwan / USA)
Aim for the Heart - 6 Min Fernando Huerto (USA)
Bad Reception - 7 Min Kyla Ward (AU)
C/O Flap Jackson - 6 Min John Lustig (USA)
Death in Charge - 15 Min Devi Snively (USA)
Where Nightmares Feed - 3 Min Pete Sleeper (USA)
Treevenge - 16 Min Jason Eisener (Can)
Shut Eye Hotel


9pm - Reel Zombies - 97 Min (Canada) Directors: Michael Masters & David Francis 2008
(Sydney Premiere)
Accompanied by the short film:
Kickstart My Gandhi - 10 Min Shane K (AU)

*Drink On Arrival*
*Followed By Q&A With Director Mike Masters*

Reel Zombies


Sunday, March 29 - Dendy Newtown and Club 77, Kings Cross

4pm - Shorts Programme #2:
H.P Lovecraft & Other Adapted Shorts

Join us for a line-up of shorts inspired by the legendary author H.P Lovecraft

H.P Lovecraft - 5 Min Russell Fox (Music Video - USA)
Come to Us - 3 Min Edward Martin Iii (USA)
A Mere Et Marees - 19 Min Alain Fournier (Canada)
Allure - 11 Min Ian Hunter (USA)
Casting Call of Cthulhu - 9 Min Joseph Nanni (Canada)
The Book Dealers - 8 Min Andrew Jones (USA)
H.P. Lovecraft's The Book - 11 Min James Raynor (UK)
Langliena - 7 Min Emiliano Ranzani (Italy)
Morella - 10 Min Jeff Ferrell (USA)
AM 1200 - 40 Min David Prior (USA)
AM 1200


7PM - FINALE - 94 min (USA) director: John Elfers 2009
(World Premiere)
Accompanied by the short films:
Shapes - 5 MIN Alan Brennan (IRELAND)
Still Life - 9 min Daniel McKleinfeld (USA)
Finale


9pm - A Night Of Horror @ Club 77 (Club 77, Kings Cross)
Join us at Sydney's notorious Club 77 for horror themed music videos and horror party to end all parties!
Also screening the feature film:
Burn Paris Burn - 71 Min (France) Director: Laurent Sebelin 2009

Accompanied by the short films:
Anyone There? - 10 Min Holger Frick (Germany)
Kagimiko - 13 Min Mathieu Arsenault (Canada)
The Flies - 5 Min Josh Collier (UK)
Stygian Horizon - 5 Min Evan Chan (Canada)

With horror themed music videos:
More Control - 6 Min Steve Daniels (USA)
The Beauty - 4 Min Luca Vecchi (Italy)
Hunt - 2 Min Yohei Ito (Japan)
Francois Martin By The Tenth Stage - 4 Min John Von Ahlen (AU)
The Man Who Made Monsters - 6 Min Onethirtyeight (UK)
Haunted By The Thought Of You - 6 Min Terran Schackor (USA)
Karaoke Show - 5 Min Karl Tebbe (Germany)
Crystal - 4 Min Jason Lapeyre (Canada)

*Drink On Arrival*
Burn Paris Burn


Monday, March 30 - Dendy Newtown

7pm - Plague Town - 85 Min (USA) Director: David Gregory 2008
(Australian Premiere)
Accompanied by the short film:
Una Storia Di Lupi (A Wolf's Tale) - 27 Min Cristiano Donzelli (Italy)
Plague Town


Tuesday, March 31 - Dendy Newtown

7pm - Left Bank (Linkeroever) - 102 Min Pieter Van Hees (Belgium) 2008
(Australian Premiere)
Accompanied by the short film:
Shadows - 14 Min Michael Jonathan (NZ)
Left Bank (Linkeroever)


Wednesday, April 1 - Dendy Newtown

7pm - The Dead Outside - 89 Min (UK) Dir: Kerry Anne Mullaney 2008
(Australian Premiere)
Accompanied by the short films:
H5N1, Le Jour De La Pandemie - 8 Min Jean Olivier (France)
Gasoline Blood - 9 Min David Pope (UK)
A Break in the Monotony - 4 Min Damien Slevin (Australia)
The Dead Outside


Thursday, April 2 - Dendy Newtown

7pm - Shorts Programme # 3:
F#*%ed Up People Doing F#*%ed Up Things


Excision - 18 Min Richard Bates (USA)
Red Hours - 10 Min John Fallon (Canada)
Sandik - 6 Min Can Evrenol (Turkey)
First Kill - 16 Min Micah Ranum (USA)
Consumption - 30 Min Richard Powell (Canada)
This is the Story of Ted and Alice - 16 Min Teressa Tunney (USA)
Snip - 11 Min Julien Zenier (Spain)
Snip


9pm - I'll Never Die Alone (No Morire Sola) - 86 Min (Argentina) Director: Adrian Garcia Bogliano 2008
(Australian Premiere)
Accompanied by the short films:
Loma Lynda: The Red Door - 16 Min Jason Bognacki (USA)
Fetal - 4 Min Tony Falcon (USA)
I'll Never Die Alone (No Morire Sola)


Friday, April 3- Closing Night - Dendy Newtown

7pm - Splinter - 82 Min (USA) Director: Toby Wilkins 2008
(Australian Premiere)

*Drink On Arrival*
*Followed By Awards Ceremony And After Party*

You can click here to read ANOH team member A. D. John's interview with director Toby Wilkins.
Splinter




All sessions are rated R 18+ (except I Know How Many Runs Your Scored Last Summer - rated MA 15+)


Ticket Prices:
Regular sessions: $15 / $11 concessions
Closing Night: $20 / $15 concession
Metro Screen Filmmaking Forum: $15
Club 77: $15


Dendy tickets can be booked on: 9550 5699
All other sessions, tickets only at the door.


Venues:
Dendy Cinema, 261-263 King Street, Newtown
Metro Screen, Crn Oatley Rd & Oxford Street, Paddington
Mu-Meson Archives, Crn Parramatta Rd & Trafalgar St, Annandale
Club 77, 77 William Street, Kings Cross


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