Paranormal ActivityShowtime: Thursday, October 22, 2015 - 4:30am Run Time: 1 hour 26 mins Country: USA Synopsis: After moving into a suburban home, a couple becomes increasingly disturbed by a nightly demonic presence. Directed by: Oren Peli Produced by: Jason Blum & Oren Peli Executive Producer(s): Steven Schneider Written by: Oren Peli Main Cast: Katie Featherston, Micah Sloat & Mark Fredrichs About the DirectorOren Peli is a producer and writer, known for Paranormal Activity which was discovered at Screamfest Horror Film Festival in 2007. He is also known for the Chernobyl Diaries (2012) and Paranormal Activity 3 (2011). |
The HallowLos Angeles Premiere Showtime: Thursday, October 22, 2015 - 2:30am Run Time: 1 hour 27 min Country: UK Synopsis: A family who move into a remote milllhouse in Ireland find themselves in a fight for survival with demonic creatures living in the woods.
AKA The Woods
A thrilling jolt of TERROR - Hollywood Reporter
A relentless creature feature - Bloody Disgusting
One of the most terrifying monster movies in recent history - Fangoria Directed by: Corin Hardy Produced by: Joe Neurauter Written by: Corin Hardy & Felipe Marino Main Cast: Joseph Mawle, Bojana Novakovic & Michael McElhatton About the DirectorCorin Hardy is an awarded filmmaker and music video director with a recognizable dark, beautiful visual flair that runs through most of his work. For the past 10 years Corin has been writing and developing four of his own horror-based feature film projects with production companies in UK & US these include: The Woods with Occupant Films, Refuge with Big Talk Films, Frogz Legz with Brilliant Films and F E S T with Pari Passu. Corin is also attached to direct Element Pictures teen thriller Where There's Darkness. |
SlumlordUS Premiere Showtime: Tuesday, October 20, 2015 - 4:30am Run Time: 1 hour 27 mins Country: USA Synopsis: Claire and Ryan, a newlywed couple, move into a new house across the country, only to find out that their marital issues are the least of their problems. Unbeknownst to them, Their grim and lascivious landlord has been spying on them from day one. Directed by: Victor Zarcoff Produced by: Kevin McManus, Matthew McManus, Tony Yacenda, Ethan Rosenberg, Jim Cummings and Ben Weissner Executive Producer(s): Jordan Rudman, and Andrew van den Houten Written by: Victor Zarcoff Main Cast: PJ McCabe, Brianne Moncrief, Sarah Baldwin, Jim Cummings, Heidi Niedermeyer, and Neville Archambault About the DirectorVictor Zarcoff is for hire. He accepts cash, check, and all major credit cards. |
The Girl in the PhotographsLos Angeles Premiere Showtime: Tuesday, October 20, 2015 - 2:30am Run Time: 1 hour 35 mins Country: USA Synopsis: A beautiful small town check-out girl experiences the dangers of sudden fame when she becomes the artistic focus of a pair of serial killers with a gruesome photography fetish. Directed by: Nick Simon Produced by: Thomas Mahoney, Andrea Chung Executive Producer(s): Wes Craven, Nawaf Alghanim Written by: Osgood Perkins, Nick Simon & Robert Morast Main Cast: Kal Penn, Claudia Lee, Kenny Wormald, Miranda Rae Mayo, Luke Baines, Katharine Isabelle & Mitch Pillegi |
The AbandonedThe short film Yummy Meat: A Halloween Carol screens prior. Los Angeles Premiere Showtime: Monday, October 19, 2015 - 2:30am Run Time: 1 hour 26 mins Country: USA Synopsis: THE ABANDONED is a claustrophobic thriller that follows a troubled young woman who, in a last-ditch effort at getting her life together, takes a job working nights as a security guard at an abandoned luxury apartment building. Stuck with a brusque rent-a-cop as her partner, she tries to not let her mind play tricks on her while she patrols the empty halls. But as the night progresses strange things begin to happen - and she realizes it may not all be in her head. Directed by: Eytan Rockaway Produced by: Mike Landry, Eytan Rockaway & Carlos Velazquez Executive Producer(s): Luigi Ghilardi II, Jeff Hoffman Written by: Ido Fluk & Eytan Rockaway Main Cast: Jason Patric (The Lost Boys, Narc), Louisa Krause and Mark Margolis About the DirectorAfter graduating from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, Rockaway co-founded A Matter of Substance with Ohad Maiman – a cross platform media/entertainment entity spanning the fields of Music, Film and Television. In '07 the company's focus shifted to creating a new high definition channel AMOS Television. Rockaway has directed and produced both artistic and commercial work in Film and Television. |
The LabyrinthSOLD OUT!! A conversation with James Franco follows the screening. World Premiere Showtime: Sunday, October 18, 2015 - 6:00pm Run Time: 1 hour 30 mins Country: USA Synopsis: An alcoholic father is given a final chance to redeem himself by a mysterious barkeep. A Mandroid (part man, part android) desperately searches for energy before his battery power dies. A new homeowner stumbles upon the secrets of the universe in his very own basement. The stories within The Labyrinth are sure to provoke, inspire and entertain audiences. Directed by: Kaushik Sampath, Quyen Nguyen Le, Tarek Tohme, Katrelle Kindred, Victoria Rose, Camila Tanabe, John Berado and Jessica Kaye Produced by: Nicolaas Bertelsen, Gil Marsden and Sev Ohanian Executive Producer(s): James Franco and Vince Jolivette Written by: Rosanne Flynn, Taylor Martin, Jordan Trippeer, Kristen Davila, Robert Funke, Matthew Sanchez, and Anna Musky-Goldwyn Main Cast: Josh Peck, Jason Ritter, Jim Parrack, Matt Lucas, Beth Grant, Mia Serafino, Nicole LaLiberte, Carmen Argenziano, Flavor Flav, Dale Raoul, Gary Bairos, Gina Comparetto, Angela Gulner, George Oliver Hale, Alberto Jorrin, Lindsay Lavanchy, Bob McLean, Cynthia Kaye McWilliams, Joseph P. O’Malley and James Franco himself. About the DirectorThe Labyrinth is a bold new feature-length film by James Franco and Vince Jolivette’s Rabbit Bandini Productions, made in partnership with USC’s School of Cinematic Arts. Eight students were selected to direct eight original short films as part of a class that was taught by Franco and Jolivette. Upon completion, the shorts were combined into a single, cohesive, feature-length experience, along with animated interstitial sequences created by USC Animation student Einar Baldvin. Vincent by Kaushik Sampath, Cliffside Bend by Quyen Nguyen Le, The Sweet Taste of Redemption by Tarek Tohme, Alchemy by Katrelle Kindred, Mandroid by Victoria Rose, Strings...read more |
PatchworkWorld Premiere Showtime: Sunday, October 18, 2015 - 5:00am Run Time: 1 hour 26 mins Country: USA Synopsis: Three women go out for a night on the town separately and wake up together in a decidedly compromising position. After being murdered, dissected, and reassembled into a single person, Jennifer, Ellie, and Madeleine find themselves trapped inside the body of Stitch. Frankenstein meets the Hangover as these frightful femmes piece together what happened to them and who is responsible, tearing through anyone who gets in their way. Directed by: Tyler MacIntyre Produced by: John Negropontes, Aaron Webman, Ethan Webman, Jason Klein Executive Producer(s): Jonathan Lonsdale Written by: Tyler MacIntyre and Chris Hill Main Cast: Tory Stolper, Tracey Fairaway, Maria Blasucci, with Corey Sorenson and James Phelps About the DirectorOriginally from Canada, Tyler MacIntyre is the co-founder of Infinite Lives Entertainment, working primarily as writer, director and editor. Since graduating from the American Film Institute Conservatory with an MFA in 2010, Tyler has been mentored by several leading industry icons including celebrated director/author Peter Bogdanovich, and legendary producer and Academy Award-winner Roger Corman, which helped shape his passion for crafting genre films with a unique voice. |
Game Changer: The Legacy of SawQ&A with Leigh Whannell, Mark Burg, Kevin Greutert, Darren Lynn Bousman Showtime: Sunday, October 18, 2015 - 1:00am Run Time: 1 hour 13 mins Country: USA Synopsis: Generations of movie fans have thrilled to SAW’s blood-curdling story of a serial killer who traps his victims in a sadistic game of survival. “Game Changer” takes you behind the scenes, as cast and crew reveal the stories behind the film that launched the most successful horror franchise in movie history. Produced by: Lionsgate Main Cast: James Wan, Leigh Whannell, Cary Elwes, Shawnee Smith, Tobin Bell, Mark Berg, Oren Koules and more. |
The UnravelingLos Angeles Premiere Showtime: Friday, October 16, 2015 - 4:30am Run Time: 1 hour 25 mins Country: USA/Denmark Synopsis: Michael’s heroin addiction is beginning to test his limits, but when he is kidnapped and taken into the woods, he soon discovers just how far those limits will go. Directed by: Thomas Jakobsen Produced by: Justin S. Monroe & Aaron Moore Written by: Thomas Jakobsen & Justin S. Monroe Main Cast: Zack Gold, Jason Tobias, Bennett Viso, Bob Turton, Jake Crumbine, Jake Crumbine, Cooper Harris & James C. Burns Born and raised on the eastern coast of Denmark, Thomas grew up with a love for storytelling and cinema. His dream of going to America to study film led him, strangely, to study theater in Oklahoma. After graduating Thomas moved to Los Angeles and spent the next many years working on short films, music videos and documentaries before he teamed up with Justin Monroe to write The Unraveling. The Unraveling is Thomas Jakobsen's first feature film and it had it's world premiere in April 2015 at the Copenhagen International Film Festival (CPH PIX). |
NaciyeUS Premiere Showtime: Friday, October 16, 2015 - 2:30am Run Time: 1 hour 18 min Country: Turkey Synopsis: A pregnant couple (Esin Harvey, Gorkem Mertsoz) travels for the weekend to check on the house they rented on a whim for the remainder of the pregnancy. On their first night at the secluded home, they encounter the dangerous woman (Derya Alabora Innocence, When We Leave, A Most Wanted Man) who claims to be its rightful owner. Directed by: Lutfu Emre Cicek Produced by: Lutfu Emre Cicek, Refik Zafer Cicek, Begum Malaz Executive Producer(s): Naciye Sonbay, Ekmel Sonbay Written by: Lutfu Emre Cicek Main Cast: Derya Alabora, Esin Harvey, Gorkem Mertsoz About the DirectorLutfu Emre Cicek is a filmmaker currently based out of Istanbul, Turkey. His two shorts films have premiered at Spooky Movie Film Festival and Telluride Horror Show respectively. His screenplay 'What Ever Happened to Barbara Brown? has won Atlanta Film Festival's screenplay competition and placed in the Top Ten in Showtime's Tony Cox screenplay competition, and as a finalist at Filmmakers International. 'Naciye' is his feature film debut. |