I REMEMBER YOU US PREMIERE In Iceland’s remote Westfjords, two supernatural stories are afoot. On one side of the bay, an elderly woman has hung herself inside a church, leading to a local psychiatrist’s investigation and the discovery that she had a strange obsession with the disappearance of his seven-year-old son. Across the bay, three friends ...
TO HELL AND BACK EAST COAST PREMIERE In four FRIDAY THE 13TH sequels, his brutish physicality has made his Jason Voorhees the one to beat. Dominating all four HATCHET films as the hulking Victor Crowley, he’s also given modern-day horror its own slasher icon. But how many people know the real Kane Hodder? Even the most ardent horror ...
GAME OF DEATH NEW YORK PREMIERE On the day’s agenda for a group of foul-minded teenagers: alcohol, marijuana, and fornication. Yet today also involves an old board game. To begin playing, they each have to donate blood, which triggers a countdown; then, someone’s head combusts. In order to save one’s own skull from similar annihilation, each ...
THE CRESCENT EAST COAST PREMIERE How do you get over the death of a loved one? For widowed Beth (Danika Vandersteen), it’s relocation. Along with her two-year-old son (Woodrow Graves, the director’s real-life son and one hell of an actor), Beth moves to an isolated coastal home to restart her life. Unable to shake her despair, ...
THE BOOK OF BIRDIE CLOSING NIGHT FILM NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE Introverted teenager Birdie (radiant newcomer Ilirida Memedovski) is forced to live inside a quaint, Lake-Michigan-situated convent by her concerned grandmother. Grandma’s hope is that the strict nuns will change the teen’s outlook on life. It doesn’t take long, though, for Birdie’s obsession with blood, via her inquisitive ...
SALVATION NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE Stuck in a hospital waiting to undergo open heart surgery, Cris (Marina Boti) constantly deceives her mother and the nurses to spend time with another patient named Victor (Ricard Balada) who claims to be a vampire. As the potentially deadly surgery approaches, Cris is faced with the temptation of immortality or leaving ...
RIFT NEW YORK PREMIERE Gunnar (Bjorn Stefansson) is happily in a new relationship. A phone call from an old boyfriend, Einar (Sigurdur Thor Oskarsson), however, makes him question his situation. Ready for answers, Gunnar visits Einar at the latter’s home in a scenic Icelandic outpost. The two former lovers quickly rekindle their friendship that anchored their ...
MAYHEM CENTERPIECE FILM NEW YORK PREMIERE If you think your workplace sucks, be happy you’re not Derek (THE WALKING DEAD’s Steven Yeun), a young lawyer who’s just been fired from his firm for a mistake he didn’t actually make. His partners have made a bigger one by successfully defending an accused killer infected with the “ID7 virus,” ...
INHERITANCE EAST COAST PREMIERE Out of the blue, Ryan (Chase Joilet) learns of the death of his absentee biological father by way of inheriting a 2.5 million dollar home. While staying there with his pregnant fiancé (Sara Montez) he takes the time to learn who his father actually was. The horrible truths he uncovers force him into a psychological ...
GET MY GUN WORLD PREMIERE Cleaning hotel rooms is how Amanda (a fearless Kate Hoffman) makes ends meet, but one day, she enters the wrong room. Brutally attacked and raped, Amanda is left emotionally shattered and pregnant. Looking to forge ahead, the resilient young woman has to tap into her basest survival instincts when a relentless ...