LAEMMLE Theatre Fairfax 3 | 7907 Beverly Boulevard Los Angeles, CA 90048 | Page 8 | SCREAMFEST

In The Vault

Share
Los Angeles Premiere
Showtime: 
Sunday, October 12, 2003 - 8:00pm
Run Time: 
6m 18s
Country: 
USA
Synopsis: 
An old cemetery grounds keeper learns respect for the dead after he is locked in the corpse vault overnight.
Directed by: 
Geoffrey Clark
Produced by: 
Geoffrey Clark
Written by: 
Geoffrey Clark
Main Cast: 
Geoffrey Clark

Dead Time Stories

Share
Los Angeles Premiere
Showtime: 
Sunday, October 12, 2003 - 8:00pm
Run Time: 
8m
Country: 
USA
Synopsis: 
A young girl plagued by nightmares and voices is forced to visit her neighbors who live in the “haunted house”, only to discover the truth behind the rumor.
Directed by: 
Michael Dougherty
Produced by: 
Breehn Burns (creator), Michael Dougherty (creator)
Written by: 
Michael Dougherty
Main Cast: 
Michael Dougherty
About the Director(s): 

Michael Dougherty (born October 28, 1974) is an American film director, producer, and screenwriter. He is best known for his work with Dan Harris on the scripts for Bryan Singer's films X2 (2003) and Superman Returns (2006), as well as writing and directing the cult horror film Trick 'r Treat (2007).[1] He also directed, co-wrote, and produced the Christmas horror-comedy Krampus (2015), and co-wrote and directed Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019).

Season's Greetings

Share
No Premiere
Showtime: 
Sunday, October 12, 2003 - 8:00pm
Run Time: 
4m
Country: 
USA
Synopsis: 
A young trouble-making trick or treater creates mischief on Halloween night.
Directed by: 
Michael Dougherty
Produced by: 
Michael Dougherty
Written by: 
Michael Dougherty
Main Cast: 
Michael Dougherty

Don’t' fuck with an old lady!

Share
Los Angeles Premiere
Showtime: 
Sunday, October 12, 2003 - 7:00pm
Run Time: 
6min 
Country: 
France
Synopsis: 
A couple of robbers hide out in a shabby hotel an impulsive old hag and a silly short man. They are not really a discrete couple but when the old hag asks kindly with a 357 that her partner in crime service her in bed, it is clear that the don't mess with the old hag.
Directed by: 
Abel Ferry
Produced by: 
Benoit Vautrin
Written by: 
Abel Ferry
Main Cast: 
Dominique Pinon, Josette Stein

Timmy's Wish

Share
Los Angeles Premiere
Showtime: 
Sunday, October 12, 2003 - 7:00pm
Run Time: 
10min 
Country: 
USA
Synopsis: 
A young boy named Timmy angry with his parents, makes a wish to Jesus Christ with surprising and unexpected results.
Directed by: 
Patrick Cannon
Produced by: 
Ryan Powers, Matthew McLaughlin
Written by: 
Tom Ballatore, Patrick Cannon, Amit Itelman
Main Cast: 
Darian Weiss, Patrick Cannon,Tom Ballatore Kathleen Macdonald
About the Director(s): 

Patrick Cannon is an actor and director, known for Timmy's Wish (2002), Evidence (2007) and Bleacher Boys (2009).

Toss of the Coin

Share
World Premiere
Showtime: 
Sunday, October 12, 2003 - 7:00pm
Run Time: 
12min
Country: 
USA
Synopsis: 
Toss of the coin is a dark, ironic comedy that revolves around two otherworldly emissaries who arrive upon the death of a middle aged man. Finding that they both have the authority to collect his soul and realizing that severe consequences will ensue if either returns without it, a game of chance is played to determine an outcome.
Directed by: 
Patrick Steele
Produced by: 
Ann Rotolante
Written by: 
Patrick Steele
Main Cast: 
Morgan Lund, Steve Salge, Reg Land
About the Director(s): 
Patrick Steele was born on March 15, 1967 in Franklin, Indiana, USA. He is known for his work on True Nature (2010), Hindsight (1997) and Toss of the Coin (2002).

R.I.P.

Share
Los Angeles Premiere
Showtime: 
Sunday, October 12, 2003 - 7:00pm
Run Time: 
7min
Country: 
Netherlands
Synopsis: 
Based on the comic book strip “Do not disturb”, a deceased husband returns from the grave to do one last thing before finally laying to rest.
Directed by: 
Jan Doense
Produced by: 
Hans De Weers, Hans De Wolf
Written by: 
Jan Doense
Main Cast: 
Jan Doense
About the Director(s): 
Jan Doense is a Dutch producer, director, festival programmer and distributor. He studied law at the University of Amsterdam and film at the Netherlands Film and Television Academy (NFTA), the New York Film Academy (NYFA) and the Binger Filmlab and is a graduate of the European Audiovisual Entrepeneurs (EAVE) Producers' Workshop. He began his career in film as a journalist and was the founding director of the annual Imagine Film Festival in Amsterdam. In 2008 he was made a Knight of the Order of...read more

Sangre Eterna

Share
Los Angeles Premiere
Showtime: 
Sunday, October 12, 2003 - 4:00am
Run Time: 
 1h 48min 
Country: 
Chile
Synopsis: 
Carmilla, a journalism student who meets a young man in her philosophy class. They quickly become interested in each other and he invites Carmilla to join him and his friends in a role playing game called "Eternal Blood," a game of which the teens seem to almost live there lives by. The group of teens then venture to a party at what looks like an abandoned house, where they meet Dahmer, an unusual young man who is involved in heavy vampiristic rituals which begin to influence the group, all except of course realizes what is happening to friends and enlists the help of his philosophy professor to aid him on his quest to bring his friends back form the world of the undead.
Directed by: 
Jorge Olguin
Produced by: 
Daniel Pantoja
Written by: 
Caroline Garcia, Jorge Olguin
Main Cast: 
Juan Pablo Ogalde, Blanca Lewin, Patricia Lopez, Carlos Borquez, Claudio Espinoza
About the Director(s): 

Jorge Olguín is a Chilean director considered a pioneer of the fantasy and terror genre in Chile and Latin America. He made his feature directorial debut with Ángel negro (2000) , a slasher movie with a budget of $ 25,000, made when he was a university student. The film became a blockbuster and was credited as the first Chilean horror film. Then he made the first special effects film in Chile, Eternal Blood (2002) , the film again achieved commercial success in theaters and has become an inte...read more

The Wisher

Share
No Premiere
Showtime: 
Sunday, October 12, 2003 - 2:00am
Run Time: 
1h 30min 
Country: 
USA / CANADA
Synopsis: 
Mary is your average teen who loves horror movies. So when Mary hears about the newest scary flick, she knows that she has to see it. But when Mary catches a glimpse of the villain, a deformed killer know as "The Wisher" and she runs from the movie in terror. Unfortunately, the Wisher follows her home and begins invading her dreams and making her darkest wishes come true.
Directed by: 
Gavin Wilding
Produced by: 
Mark Reid
Written by: 
Ellen Cook
Main Cast: 
Ron Silver, Lian Balaban, Drew Lachey, Siri Baruc

A Tale Of Two Sisters

Share
US Premiere
Showtime: 
Saturday, October 11, 2003 - 11:00pm
Run Time: 
1h 55min
Country: 
South Korea
Synopsis: 
Eun-joo, the stepmother, welcomes two sisters who come back home after recovering their health, but Su-mi, the elder sister, intentionally avoids her and Su-yeon, the younger sister, shows a smack of fear for her stepmother. On their first night, Su-yeon sneaks in Su-mi's room confessing there is someone in her room and Su-mi sees a ghost of her late mother who hung herself in Su-yeon's closet. Strange things begin to happen since then; a ghost haunts the house and stepmother's birds are poisoned to death. Assuming Su-yeon is behind the inauspicious incidents, the stepmother locks her in the closet, and when Su-mi learns about the cruel punishment, conflict between the stepmother and two sisters gets bitter than ever. One day, Mu-hyun, the father goes to town and Su-mi finds there is no sign of her younger sister, Su-yeon and Su-mi sports Eun-joo dragging a big bag through the dark corridor leaving bloody stains behind her. Su-mi follows bloody trace of the bag and she confronts with Eun-joo on her way of tracking. They starts to fight vehemently and Su-mi falls down struck by Eun-joo in the end... A while later, Mu-hyun comes back to the house and founds Su-mi fallen on the floor alone and enraged Mu-hyun exclaims that Su-yeon was already dead. His exclamation awakes a series of memories and hidden secrets buried deep inside of Su-mi...
Directed by: 
Kim Jee -Woon
Produced by: 
Ki-min Oh, Jung -Wan Oh
Written by: 
Kim Jee -Woon
Main Cast: 
Kap-su Kim, Jung-ah Yum, Su-jeong Lim
About the Director(s): 

Jee-woon Kim was born on May 27, 1964 in Seoul, South Korea. He is a director and writer, known for The Good the Bad the Weird (2008), I Saw the Devil (2010) and A Tale of Two Sisters (2003).