2016 FESTIVAL

The imaginative fantasy horror movie, ‘The Master Cleanse,’ celebrated its Los Angeles premiere at the 16th annual Screamfest Horror Film Festival. The movie’s L.A. premiere at the TCL Chinese 6 Theatres took place October 22, 2016. In attendance were actor-executive producer Johnny Galecki and filmmaker Bobby Miller, who made his feature film writing and directing. Bobby Miller is a Screamfest alumni with his short film Tub that premiered in 2010. Other special guests at the screening included actors Chris Hardwick who moderated the Q& A following the screening. ‘The Master Cleanse’ follows Paul (Galecki), who was recently left at the alter, and seems destined and content to now wander through life without a clear sense of purpose. However, his outlook on life suddenly changes after he sees a television commercial that advertises a spiritual retreat in the mountains. Hoping that the retreat can deliver on its promise to inspire complete renewal in him, he visits its website to find more information. After following the website’s cryptic instructions, Paul finds himself in an anonymous corporate office. Along with a few other people who are in similar emotional situations, they’re all encouraged to discuss their deep emotional pain on camera, which serves as an audition reel for the retreat. Paul captures the attention of the retreat’s officials, so he’s soon sent into the mountains with a derisive group of individuals. The group is then introduced to their whimsical guide, Lily (Anjelica Huston). - KAREN BENARDELLO

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The revenge thriller, MY FATHER DIE celebrated its Los Angeles premiere at the 16th annual Screamfest Horror Film Festival as the closing night film.

The movie’s L.A. premiere at the TCL Chinese 6 Theatres took place October 27, 2016. In attendance were director Sean Brosnan, who made his feature film writing and directing. Other special guests at the screening included the cast and crew from the film. A Q& A followed the screening.

MY FATHER DIE was also a big winner at the closing night awards. Winning the amazing Stan Winston designed skull award for Best Editing, Best Musical Score, Best Director, and Best Picture. Sean Brosnan was in attendance to accept the awards.

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Murdering psychopath Mick Taylor (John Jarratt), one of the most terrifying killers ever depicted on the big screen, attended Screamfest on Wednesday, October 19 at 8:30 PM for the special screening of the WOLF CREEK television series: www.poptv.com/wolfcreek. Fans joined John for a complimentary cocktail reception at Sid's Bar in the theater lobby while playing horror trivia.

Jarratt whose chilling performance as the iconic character Mick Taylor in the feature films “Wolf Creek” and “Wolf Creek 2,” did a rambunctious Q&A moderated by the Festival Ambassador Lydia Hearst.

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Inspired by the cult movie—which was named one of “The 25 best horror movies since 2000” (AV Squad), one of “The 100 Best Horror films” (Time Out), and one of “The 25 Best Horror Movies Since The Shining” (Vulture)—the six-part television event, WOLF CREEK, is a psychological thriller premiering Friday nights at 10:00 PM, ET/PT (starting October 14) exclusively on cable network Pop.

This primetime event at LA Screamfest will include a screening of two back-to-back, uncut episodes followed by a one-on-one chat with WOLF CREEK star John Jarratt. Fan engagement and photos with John will take place at the TCL Chinese 6 Theatres.

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The visually stunning film, HAPPY HUNTING celebrated its World Premiere at the 16th annual Screamfest Horror Film Festival on October 21, 2016 at 9:30PM.

Happy Hunting, with its directorial debut by Joe Dietsch and Louie Gibson, stars Martin Dingle Wall, Ken Lally, Kenny Wormald, Conner Williams, and Gary Sturm. In addition to the directors, producers
Bryson Pintard and Jeff Kalligherin along with cast and crew were in attendance. Other special guests at the screening included actress Annet Mahendru of the award winning show "The Americans."
A Q& A followed the screening.

HAPPY HUNTING was also a big winner at the closing night awards. Winning the amazing Stan Winston designed skull award for Best Cinematography by Joe Dietsch.

Warren is a degenerate drifter, scraping by, suffering from debilitating alcohol withdrawals on a daily basis. On his way down to Mexico, he finds himself stranded in Bedford Flats, a one-horse town nestled deep in the American desert. It was a once-prosperous hunting community that has been reduced to an impoverished dust bowl. Unfortunately for Warren, it turns out that the town’s pastime is rounding up drifters and hunting them as part of an elaborate sporting event. To make matters worse, he’ll go into alcoholic withdrawal unless he finds a way to stay intoxicated. It all builds to a blood-soaked, live-or-die showdown deep in the desert.

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Screamfest had an amazing six blocks of short films and one block of student short films premiering at the 2016 festival. We were fortunate to have some short filmmakers in attendance for the majority of the festival who supported their fellow filmmakers. It was great getting to know these filmmakers and making new friendships. They also had the opportunity to network with other filmmakers during the ten day festival run. The winner of the Best Short award was A NEARLY PERFECT BLUE SKY by Quarxx. The winning student short was PIGSKIN by Jake Hammond.

The Shorts 1 program on Saturday 10/22 at 6pm included the short films: Oedipus, Blood Trail, Cauchemar Capitonné, Into the Mud, Consurgo, KITCHEN_REMODEL.wmv, Laura Lost and Yummy Meat: A Halloween Carol.

The Shorts 2 program on Saturday 10/22 at 2pm included the short films: The Incredible Tale of the Incredible Woman-Spider, Never Tear Us Apart, Gavage, Frozen Eye, First Like and Creatures of Whitechapel.

The Shorts 3 program on Sunday 10/23 at 2pm included the short films: Agatha, The Babysitter Murders, A Nearly Perfect Blue Sky, Reflex, Kiss the Devil in the Dark.

The Shorts 4 program on Sunday 10/23 at 12pm included the short films: Black Ring, Overtime, It’s A Boy, Death Metal, Ok Monster, In the Kitchen with…, Blue Moon, The Last Junkie on Earth, Last Resort and The Perfect Family.

The Shorts 5 program on Saturday 10/22 at 4pm included the short films: Whisper, Alien Inside, Frail, A Father’s Day, Blackbird, La Cena, Those Among Us and Monsters.

The Shorts 6 program on Sunday 10/23 at 4pm included the short films: The Sunken Convent, No Caller ID, NSFW, Little Boy Blue, Wandering Soul, Feeding Time and Scratch.

The Student program on Saturday 10/22 at 12pm included the short films: Home Education, Charlie, The Ghost, Wan Mei (Perfect), Pigskin and Bobo.

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Found Footage 3D made its Los Angeles premiere at Screamfest on October 26, 2016 in 3D!

The Director Steven DeGennaro; actors Carter Roy, Alena von Stroheim, Chris O'Brien, Jessica Perrin, Scott Allen Perry, Scott Weinberg; Producer Charles Mulford and the Cinematographer Drew Daniels were in attendance at the premiere.

Found Footage 3D is about a group of filmmakers sets out to make the first 3D found footage horror movie,
but find themselves IN a found footage horror movie when the evil entity from their film escapes into their behind-the-scenes footage.

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The EXCLUSIVE Free Screening of Fox's THE EXORCIST, Inspired by the classic movie with DVD giveaways & party courtesy of Scream Factory took place on October 21,2016.

The evening began with the screening of Chapter Five: Through My Most Grievous Fault and concluded with a Q&A moderated by Deadline's Dominic Patten which included Exorcist producer Rolin Jones, chapter 5 director Jason Ensler, and surprise guest actress Sharon Gless who plays Chris Macneil on the show. The Q&A discussed some of the technical aspects of shooting the series and how their respect of the original film is presented in the series. Actress Sharon Gless made her debut on the evenings episode screening. A party was held at Sid's Bar located in the theater lobby after the screening where everyone who signed up for the free screening was given a complimentary drink.

Starring Academy Award and Golden Globe winner Geena Davis (Thelma & Louise) Alfonso Herrera (The Chosen) and Ben Daniels (“House of Cards”), “The Exorcist” returns as a contemporary psychological TV thriller following two very different priests tackling one family’s case of terrifying demonic possession.

BloodyDisgusting says it is the " most epic episode to date." Come experience it yourself before the episode airs!

Watch The Exorcist Fridays at 9/8c on FOX.

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Fear was viral at the LA Premiere of Bedeviled on October 22, 2016 at the 16th annual Horror Festival. The Nicholl Felloship winners directors Abel and Burlee Vang were in attendance along with some of the cast members and an almost sold out crowd!

Five teenagers receive an invite to download a Siri-like app. Once they accept this app which calls itself Mister Bedevil, it begins to torment each of them by tapping into their worst fears. To stop this malevolent force, the teens must learn to trust and depend on each other’s wits and courage.

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