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Clown

Screens prior to Eden Lake

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World Premiere
Showtime: 
Saturday, October 18, 2008 - 4:30am
Run Time: 
6m
Country: 
USA
Synopsis: 
Boost Mobile Short Competition: 1856.... an unfortunate boy is held hostage for a number of weeks by three drunken and twisted carnival clowns. They smear clown makeup on his face as he sits bound to a chair, calling him ""broken little clown""...but he didn't break. Managing to escape his bindings while the trio of clowns were away, he moves to a mirror and peers at his new face. He picks up a straight razor from the sink, and waits. This broken little clown is a victim no more. 1896...A man known only as CLOWN, with tattered worn clown makeup, joins with a traveling sideshow...The unsuspecting Township of Fable doesn't welcome ""their kind"". It's up to Clown to protect his ""family"" from the raging religious fanatics.
Directed by: 
Tate Steinsiek
Produced by: 
Mary Jordan
Executive Producer(s): 
Stuart Braunstein
Written by: 
Tate Steinsiek
Main Cast: 
Peter Greene,Norman Reedus, Noua Phoenix, Paul Sampson & Rony Cutro

Tour de Fright

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World Premiere
Showtime: 
Saturday, October 18, 2008 - 4:30am
Run Time: 
5m
Country: 
USA
Synopsis: 
Boost Mobile Shorts Competition: A team of American cyclists discover that while competing in the Tour de France is difficult, surviving it might be impossible.
Directed by: 
Ryan Levin
Produced by: 
Michael Wormser
Written by: 
Ryan Levin
Main Cast: 
Robert E. Beckwith,Anthony Brannan, George Ketsios, Bradley Hasemeyer, Samuel Lloyd

Welcome Home

Screens prior to Keepsake
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No Premiere
Showtime: 
Wednesday, October 15, 2008 - 2:00am
Run Time: 
10m
Country: 
Israel
Synopsis: 
Adi is a teenager admitted to a mental institution due to a series of schizophrenic hallucinations. After few months, she has to choose between staying at the asylum with the weird shrink or to go back home to her threatening father. Adi decides to go home for her first vacation, bus as the night descents the residence turns into a slaughter house! Will Adi confront her worst fears and discover the truth behind her nightmares? The film was funded by the "Rotem Moria Film Fund" in memory of Rotem Moria, who had dreamed of making movies and was only 27 when he died in a 2004 terror attack in Egypt. Starring Lucy Dubnchik, an Israeli Film Academy Award winner.
Directed by: 
Lior Chefetz
Produced by: 
Tzaki Moria & Meital Margalit
Written by: 
Lior Chefetz, Tal Oren
Main Cast: 
Lucy Dubintchik, Eyal Shecter, Moshe Liber, Sigal Rabinadav, Orna Shifris & Dana Lerer

Quietus

Screens before The Disappeared

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World Premiere
Showtime: 
Tuesday, October 14, 2008 - 2:00am
Run Time: 
8m
Country: 
USA
Synopsis: 
Margo stares at the moon and thinks of the man she loves. He has callously ended their relationship and Margo is angry, violent thoughts swirling in her head. Meanwhile, an evil intruder is in the house, butcher knife in hand, ready to kill. Soon, Margo will be confronted by this intruder and she will have to choose what her life is worth. Will she embrace the light of life or the dark of the QUIETUS?
Directed by: 
Dustry DePree
Produced by: 
Angelo Schuurmans, Adrian Donaldson & Jared Rodgers
Written by: 
Dustry DePree
Main Cast: 
Yvonne Gianeschi, Angelo Schuurmans & Azure Dawn

Burying The Ex

Screens prior to The Gates of Hell
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Los Angeles Premiere
Showtime: 
Monday, October 13, 2008 - 3:00am
Run Time: 
15m
Country: 
USA
Synopsis: 
Zak (John Francis Daley) is still coming to terms with his ex-girlfriend's recent passing. Plagued with nightmares of his ex but determined to get on with his life, Zak agrees to go on a blind date with the cute and quirky Olivia (Danielle Harris) and the two hit it off instantly. Their date, however, comes to an abrupt and terrifying end when Zak's dead ex shows up with an ultimatum!
Directed by: 
Alan Trezza
Produced by: 
Brad Sykes
Written by: 
Alan Trezza
Main Cast: 
John Francis Daley, Mircea Monroe, Michael Tipps

Citizen

Screens prior to Acolytes

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Los Angeles Premiere
Showtime: 
Monday, October 13, 2008 - 1:00am
Run Time: 
10m
Country: 
USA
Synopsis: 
"In an eerie not-too-distant future, a young man tries to escape from his homeland in the dead of winter. As this teenage boy is chased by hunters through the harsh wilderness approaching the border, he recalls the perilous steps of his journey and the fateful doctor's visit that motivated his departure. Boy or Man? Hero or Traitor? Refugee or Fugitive? Citizen."
Directed by: 
James Darling
Produced by: 
Jessalyn Haefele
Written by: 
James Darling
Main Cast: 
Justin Fair, Chris Morton, Suzanne Du Charme & Frank Anderson

Fun On Earth

Screens prior to Dante 01

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Showtime: 
Sunday, October 12, 2008 - 11:00pm
Run Time: 
17m
Country: 
USA
Synopsis: 
A fresh-faced, small-town kid "EVAN“ comes to New York and gets a job at a Mexican restaurant. The joint is actually a front for an alien run tour program which arranges for an amoeba-like race of extraterrestrials to experience having human bodies, serve burritos, and, hopefully, have FUN ON EARTH.
Directed by: 
Jesse Gordon
Produced by: 
Reuben Lim, Jesse Gordon & Anthony Begonia
Written by: 
Jesse Gordon
Main Cast: 
Sterling Jones & Alexi Wasser

The Tale of Haunted Mike

Screens prior to El Rey de la Montana
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World Premiere
Showtime: 
Sunday, October 12, 2008 - 9:00pm
Run Time: 
12m
Country: 
USA
Synopsis: 
Haunted Mike makes his living trolling the internet in search of the arcane and bizarre (or, at least, extremely cheap). By concocting scary (if not entirely true) histories for the items he finds, Mike ekes out a shut-in's existence selling the things on e-Bay under the tag "haunted". His days of sniping are number, however, when he stumbles upon a genuine pants-sh*tter: an antique prosthetic arm made for a child.
Directed by: 
Drew Daywalt & David Schneider
Produced by: 
Fewdio
Written by: 
Drew Daywalt & David Schneider
Main Cast: 
Michael D'Alonzo & Thomas Rhoads

The Burrowers

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Los Angeles Premiere
Showtime: 
Sunday, October 12, 2008 - 2:30am
Run Time: 
1 hour 36 mins
Country: 
USA
Synopsis: 
The Dakota Territories. 1879. A handful of brave pioneers maintain isolated settlements in the badlands beyond civilization. Irish Immigrant Fergus Coffey is near to winning the hand of his beloved Maryanne when she is suddenly taken from him, her family brutally abducted in a nighttime attack on their homestead. Suspicion falls immediately on hostile Indians. Experienced Indian fighters Will Parcher and John Clay form a posse and set out to rescue the kidnapped settlers, taking along a naive teenager hoping to prove himself a man, an ex-slave looking for his place, and their ranch-hand, Coffey. But as men vanish in the night, and horrific evidence accumulates with the dead and dying, the group discovers that their prey is far more terrifying than anything human, and their prospects are far more terrible than death.
Directed by: 
J.T. Petty
Produced by: 
William Sherak & Jason Shuman
Executive Producer(s): 
Peter Block
Written by: 
J.T. Petty
Main Cast: 
Karl Geary, William Mapother, Sean Patrick Thomas, Doug Hutchinson, Clancy Brown, Laura Leighton, Joclin Donahue

Verboten

Screens prior to 100 Feet
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Showtime: 
Sunday, October 12, 2008 - 12:00am
Run Time: 
15m
Country: 
USA
Synopsis: 
The only beauty in Todd Gorman's life is Laura Hagen, his abusive father's bewitching girlfriend. When Todd's odd behavior drives Laura away, the lonely teenager embarks on a menacing quest for something lovely for himself.
Directed by: 
Martin Keegan
Produced by: 
Rebecca Keegan and Charles Winters
Written by: 
Martin Keegan
Main Cast: 
Tony Wilde, Ines Dali, Martin Keegan