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ALL FILMS ARE UNRATED - PARENTAL DISCRETION IS ADVISED FOR ALL FILMS.
UNLESS OTHERWISE NOTED, ANYONE UNDER 17 WILL HAVE TO BE ACCOMPANIED BY,
OR HAVE PERMISSION FROM, A PARENT OR GUARDIAN.
THURSDAY,, OCTOBER 16 - 7:00 P.M. ($8.00)
OPENING NIGHT | BUY TICKETS!COUNT GORE DE VOL WILL BE OUR OPENING NIGHT HOST!
BACK TO LIFE - Resurrection narratives are as old as...well...you know; discovering a new twist to an old favorite, however, can be as refrshing as getting something off your chest. (3m, USA)
FOET - Pro-life housewife falls in love with the latest trend to hit New York City: handbags made out of fetal skin. FOET is a new favorite recently featured by our friends at Tromadance. (14m, USA)
THE SLEUTH INCIDENT is the story of making a stand; of picking up stakes and venturing out to experience the world ; of meeting up with old friends; of new encounters in unfamiliar terrain; of embracing your true self; and finally, finding the time to bowl. Good luck trying to forget (or explain) this marvelous film.(12m, USA)
SNIP - Glued to his television set, a man channel-surfs, zapping from one stultifying show to the other. As he grows more and more indifferent to the constant stream of violent and crude images, he stands up and engages himself in an unspeakable act of grisly self-liberation. (11m, Spain)
NO THROUGH ROAD - The serenity of a another quiet evening alone is shattered for amateur photographer, Richard. Desperate, frightened and uninvited, Samantha has taken refuge in his sprawling, suburban home. Is there substance to her fear and paranoia, or are substances the cause? Is her arrival a break-in or an escape? As she seeks salvation from savage retribution, Richard is forced to fight Samantha's battle for survival in order to save his home, his life and his sense of humanity. Only dawn will reveal the blood-soaked fallout of being alone in the middle of suburbia.
Winner of the 2008 WA Screen Awards for Best Director, Best Actor, Best Editing, and Best Sound., NO THROUGH ROAD is a modern indie masterpiece - one of the most gripping tales of terror you will see this year! (85m, Australia) MORE>>
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 17 - DOORS OPEN AT 9:45 P.M. ($12.00)
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COUNT GORE RETURNS! TO HOST OUR GRINDHOUSE NIGHT!
NIGHT OF THE HELL HAMSTERS - Everything from THE EXORCIST to early Peter Jackson is honored in Paul Campion's freakishly cool tribute to horror movies and the fans that love them. One of our favorite films finally gets a chance to be seen by a Washington, D.C. area audience. Featured on “Festival Of Horrors Volume One." (12m, United Kingdom and New Zealand)
EXCISION - Smell that teen spirit, as a neglected teenager takes refuge in her nightmares by orchestrating a shocking plan to prove her worth to her family. (18m, USA)
CRUSHED - We continue our Friday Night Grindhouse tradition in testosterone crushing overdrive with this absolutely brilliant and gorgeous movie. CRUSHED is the simple story of the intriguing-on-the-outside, twisted-and-tortured-on-the-inside young woman who sets her sights on the unassuming guy next door. When the flirting turns physical, the two have very different ideas about the state of their "relationship." A crushing conclusion for everyone - including the audience. Not to be missed! (90m, USA)
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A BREAK IN THE MONOTONY - Another "not to be missed" short! In a post-zombie holocaust world, a man laments his empty lifestyle and questions the futility of working in a corporate wasteland. (4m, Australia)
PROMBIES! - The wise man who proclaimed that "Zombies are the new Vampires" would be disturbed to discover how prophetic he was, as someone finally made THE metaphoric "zombie = sex" film. Very funny flick, set in high school, PROMBIES! tackles age-old questions, while raising new concerns regarding the developmental (and mental) state of today's youths. Shrinks and 1980s "goths" will one day agree that if this satire rings even remotely true, then this generation is fucked -- and not in the good, sexy way Vampires once represented. (7m, USA)
BRAIN DEAD is the perfect feature to end our annual grindhousesque Friday night with more of that flesh eatingly! It has it all: convicts, hikers, and a televangelist with a hot assistant, who all find themselves trapped in a deserted fishing lodge, miles from civilization, and (of course) alien controlled zombies just outside the door. BRAIN DEAD is an independent, extreme, gory, cult, zombie, horror-comedy from the director of NIGHT OF THE DEMONS and WITCHBOARD, featuring state of the art effects, gratuitous nudity, and laugh out loud humor. A mind is a terrible thing to taste! (92m, USA)
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 18 - DOORS OPEN 9:30 P.M. ($8.00)
BUY TICKETS! | Almost 3 hours of movies!HARVEST MOON - A couple on the brink of divorce struggles to rekindle their relationship while their house is being burglarized. (9m, USA)
THE BLUE RHINO VS. THE DIOBOLIC BRAIN - The long regional nightmare is over - masked wrestling superhero The Blue Rhino has returned to save Fairfax, Virginia from unspeakable unspeakableness, in this the third (and final?) part of Adam Bradley's Ed Woodian Blue Rhino Thrillogy! (20m, USA)
CHEERBLEEDERS - Goth-girl Penny and nerd boy Devon enjoy their mutual high school isolation, but things take a turn for the worse when Devon becomes an hideous evil...the popular boy. (11m, USA)
FUN ON EARTH - Boy meets Girl. Boy is from Earth. Girl is not. But can they still have fun? (16m, USA)
THE PROCEDURE - Arriving just after a completed procedure, the new guy is subjected to bizarre sightings, characters with frayed mental tethers, and an impending revelation of the true purpose of his new job. (15, USA)
THE ROOM - Our favorite films are almost always the ones that take us into familiar territory, only to abandon us right where we think we have it all figured out. THE ROOM is one of our favorites. (20m, USA)
WORLD PREMIERE: VLOG is a groundbreaking extreme-horror film from the producers of SAW. Conceived as a series of video blogs, the film chronicles Brooke Marks, an adorable webcammer who posts intimate details about her life - details that ultimately creates an obsession from one diabolical fan, who posts his own video blogs in which he stalks and butchers Brooke's friends - documenting every sick and terrifying moment along the way. As the demon child of YouTube's Lonelygirl15 scandal and the BLAIR WITCH hoax, VLOG is a wake-up call for the viral video generation, another "cautionary tale" that challenges the ideas of conventional narrative and online "reality." (71m, USA)
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 19 - 12:45 A.M. ($8.00)
MORE ABOUT "SNUFF" | BUY TICKETS!NO ONE under 17 will be admitted.
SNUFF: A DOCUMENTARY ABOUT KILLING ON CAMERA - Award winning documentarian, Paul von Stoetzel, objectively and expertly traces the "myth" from the very beginning of cinema, through interviews with former law enforcement officers, filmmakers, professors, and historians.
The first hand accounts and candid discussions cumulatively builds to a startling confessional conclusion that ultimately prove far more shattering than the extreme imagery shown. (75m, USA) MORE>>
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 19 - 12:30 P.M. ($8.00)
BUY TCKETSThis block is appropriate for 13 and over.
T0FU THE VEGAN ZOMBIE - From our friends behind the 2006 Spooky Fest classic, “Teddy Scares,” comes this toe-tappingly original animated short, featuring the voice of the one and only Billy West. (8m, USA)
BACK TO LIFE - Resurrection narratives are as old as...well...you know; discovering a new twist to an old favorite, however, can be as refrshing as getting something off your chest. (3m, USA) (ENCORE SCREENING)
ZOMBIE NIGHT THEATRE - Just when you thought you were sick of zombie films, Fairfax gets over run by creatures of the night hell bent on ruining the theatre experience. (20m, USA)
CASTING CALL OF CTHULHU - If Cthulhu wants a role in Joseph Nanni's movie, he'll have to audition just like everyone else. (9m, Canada)
THE SHADOW WITHIN - Set during World War II, THE SHADOW WITHIN is a supernatural thiller about a nine year-old boy (Maurice) who can speak to dead people - most intimately with his twin brother, Jacques, whose death during childbirth still haunts their tortured mother. As Jacques asserts himself through Maurice, he comes to the realization that they both desire the same thing: their parents' love, only Jacques does not want to return to the living: he wants his parents to join him in the afterlife. An outstanding and sobering film. Winner, Best Feature at 61 Salerno Film Festival and at 2007 Thriller! Chiller! Film Festival . (90m, Italy - In English)
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 19 - 3:00 P.M. ($8.00)
BUY TICKETS!LAWN OF THE DEAD - Taking his cue directly from George Romero himself, local filmmaker Jerry Moore II proves that zombies really do remember the most mundane tasks from their lives. Come meet Mr. Moore's alter ego ("Karlos Borloff" from Monster Madhouse Live) before this Sunday afternoon block! (7m, USA)
CRYSTL is a music video/short horror film mash up, complete with thrills, chills and a twisted, unsettling "message." (4m, USA)
A BEAUTIFUL DAY - Judgment descends on a small Oklahoma town in this experimental religio-horror short. Unforgettable, disturbing and down right creepy. (30m, USA)
PEEKERS - Based on the short story by author Kealan Patrick Burke, a man accompanies his pesky neighbor to investigate a strange phenomena. (8m, USA)
THE VAMPIRE DIARIES PART 1: THICKER THAN WATER - Lara, a precocious goth teenager with a love of Anne Rice and a hatred for her cheerleader sister, performs (in a silly "kids will be kids" moment) an intricate voodoo ritual that leads to her twins' death. The family is grief stricken, but none more so than Lara, who feels responsible - because she is. Things begin to get awkward when the un-dead sister returns, still wearing her body bag and covered in blood. Three years in the making, THICKER THAN WATER is an outstanding funny and ghoulish movie with extraordinary performances and direction. (87m, USA)
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 19 - 5:30 P.M. ($8.00)
BUY TICKETS!ATTACKZOIDS! - One woman struggles to survive in a ghostly world besieged by giant killer robots. From our buddy Brian Lonano, director of last year’s fan favorite short film ELECTRICAL SKELETAL! (7m, USA)
REFLECTIONS - Carol sees things in mirrors. Things that have happened before, as well as things that haven't happened yet. Superb and original. (16m, USA)
TRANSEREXIA - In this ultra-short, prehistoric postcard, a stop-motion T-Rex ponders the nature of love and loss with a Pterodactyl. Narrated by Richard Butler, brooding singer of The Psychedelic Furs. (1m, USA)
CAM 2CAM - A young woman's invitation to "webchat" leads to an erotic and disturbing series of events, in this frightening short. (26m, France)STRANGE GIRLS - Twin sisters, unable and unwilling to talk to anyone but each other, are released from a psychiatric institution after the shocking murder of their psychiatrist. Living on their own proves invigorating at first, but when one sister becomes infatuated with a neighbor, the other tries to rein her in, by any means necessary. Destined for cult status, STRANGE GIRLS rips apart the rotten under belly of a relationship consumed by the horror, manipulation, claustrophobia, violence, and obsession of people who can no longer stand living together, but can not survive living apart. (98m, USA)
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 19 - 8:30 P.M. ($8.00)
BUY TICKETS!DEAD BOYFRIENDS - Coyote falls for Pandora, a cursed temptress with a taste for dodgy circus performers, most of whom die in mid-act. (7m, Canada)
VANISHED ACRES - The scarecrow is the one who seems to have all of the answers, but he is also the one who should be trusted least! A glorious experience, VANISHED ACRES is one of the most honored short films that has been screened around the world in the last 3 years, and finally has an opportunity to be shown here. (30m, USA)
KIRKSDALE - In the deep south of 1960s Florida, a new arrival to Kirksdale Hospital experiences the horrific ways the institution relieves the pain of its patients. Extreme and graphic. (22m, USA)
SHUT-EYE HOTEL is a film noir murder mystery that takes place in a sleazy hotel. As cops investigate a rash of gruesome murders they become victims of an evil, unseen force. What JAWS did to swimming, SHUT-EYE HOTEL will do for sleeping, in this exceptional animated short film directed by filmmaker Bill Plympton. (8m, USA)
SPINE TINGLER! THE WILLIAM CASTLE STORY - chronicles the last great American showman, filmmaker William Castle, a master of ballyhoo who became a brand name in movie horror with his outrageous audience participation gimmicks. In the 1950s and 60s, Castle treated delighted moviegoers to buzzing seats, flying skeletons, luminescent ghosts and life insurance policies. His is a rags to riches tale of a larger than life showman who climbed his way up the Hollywood ladder by reinventing himself as a modern P.T. Barnum, all the while driven by a fear of failure and a longing to be respected by his peers. Featuring interviews with Roger Corman, Bob Burns, Forrest J. Ackerman, Joe Dante and John Waters.
MONDAY, OCTOBER 20 - 9:00 P.M. ($8.00)
CLOSING NIGHT | BUY TICKETS!MR. VIDEO - In this digital age, it is rare to find a store that only rents videos. (15m, United Kingdom)
LITTLE SNAPS OF HORROR - Don't go into the booth! (2m, United Kingdom)
WALKER STALKER - What happens when the most trusted means of ordering your life turns into the most menacing means of destroying it? (14m, United Kingdom)
BANE - Katherine awakes in an underground cell with three other women; Jane, Natasha and Elaine. With complete amnesia the four women have little time to wonder where they are before the arrival of the sadistic Dr. Murdoch, the mysterious Handsome Man and the Surgeon. Each woman must piece together the dark secret behind the experiment and survive the Surgeon's nightly visitations of pain, torture and grisly murder. Is there any way to escape? What is the purpose of the experiment and who, or what, is screaming every time the lights go out? Fantastic horror/sci-fi hybrid, enjoying its premiere with us! (115m, United Kingdom)
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PREVIEW NIGHT (OCTOBER 11) & HALLOWEEN NIGHT (OCTOBER 31)
