This year we had so many first class submissions, that even an extended film festival (5 days this year, which is up from 3 days in 2006 and 2007) couldn't get everything in. So this year the fest spills over, with programming before (PREVIEW NIGHT on October 11) and after (ALL HALLOWS SCREAM HALLWEEN PARTY on October 31). Helping us out with both nights are the owners of the local Cinema 'N' Draft House Theatres - the one in Arlington, Virginia, that everyone knows and loves, and now a brand spanking new one in Wheaton, Maryland. Sorry - you must be 21 or over to attend either of these events.
Eleven days after the Spooky Movie Film Festival begins, we get one more chance to kick up our heals, this time at the Arlington Cinema and Draft House in Arlington, Virginia. Three wonderful shorts and a feature will be just one aspect of a our exclusive party on October 31.
After the trick or treating, that is when the real fun begins! This one of a kind Halloween Party is hosted by Count Gore De Vol, and will also feature contests and music.
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 31 - DOORS OPEN AT 10:00 P.M.
YOSHIWARA CLUB - Fun at the club becomes increasingly less fun, in this modern morality play. (10m, Italy)
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 - ever - has one more chance to be seen by a Washington, D.C. area audience. Featured on “Festival Of Horrors Volume One.” (12m, United Kington and New Zealand)
THE ANNIVERSARY - Abby awakens disoriented on a kitchen floor covered in blood. A bandaged man lies lifeless on a living room sofa. No one else is around. Is she the killer or the victim? (15m, USA)
BRAIN DEAD 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)
THANK YOU (!) to everyone who came out to support our first ever PREVIEW NIGHT! Five days before the Spooky Movie Film Festival begins, we got a jump on things at the brand new Montgomery Cinema and Draft House in Wheaton, Maryland. Three Grindhousian features, with some incredible shorts, along with first hand previews of the madness that's going to be unleashed on October 16.
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 11 - 9:00 P.M.
FRONT PAGE - Two unsuccessful photojournalists travel to a quarantined island to be the first to photograph a violent epidemic. (7m, USA)
HIGH TIMES AT THE FRIZZLE CHIZZLE - From the back alley streets of Nashville, Lacy and Hal struggle to keep their newly opened restaurant above water. (15m, USA)
FEATURE: COONS! NIGHT OF THE BANDITS OF THE NIGHT! - Raccoon Creek Campground is infested with killer raccoons, hell bent on destroying not only the summers but also the lives of all humans - naturally from our loopy friends at Troma, who brought us POULTRYGEIST last summer at the Festival’s “Midsummer Night Scream. Come find out first hand why this movie appalled Christopher Lee. (82m, USA)
DEAD BONES - A bounty hunter tracking down a criminal, catches up with him in a small half-abandoned village. Co-stars Ken Foree (DAWN OF THE DEAD (1978)) (18m, Switzerland - in English)
ALL FILMS ARE UNRATED
