THURSDAY, JULY 17, 2008

THANKS TO EVERYONE who came out and joined us for a wild evening of new spooky movies! Count Gore De Vol celebrated his 10th Anniversary as the first horror host on the internet with us as he presented several shorts from the FESTIVAL OF HORRORS DVD anthologies, and the D.C. premiere of POULTRYGEIST! Check back here for photos and maybe even videos!

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THE ANCIENT RITE OF COREY McGILLIS - Director Dalibor Backovic’s award winning zombie short about a disabled teenager who tries to reunite his family builds to a frightful, and gruesome, end worthy of Fulci! Winner, Best Special Effects, 2007 Night of Horror International Film Festival in Sydney, Australia. (28 Minutes)

SEEKERS - A gorgeous modern vampire fable, Jon Jorgensen’s debut film tells the unfortunate connection between art and death. Winner, Best Cinematography, 2007 NYC Home Film Festival (15 minutes)

EIGHT THIRTY-TWO - Beautifully shot on 35mm film, director Ben McDaniel takes a step out of The Twilight Zone to tell a post modern sci-fi story of misplaced confusion centered around faith in a strangely polite little girl. Winner, Best Film, 2007 Northern California Film Festival (24 minutes)

THE MARIONETTE - Director Holly Paige Joyner tells a harrowing and grisly tale about physical and psychological torture which will keep you guessing until the very end onto who is really pulling the strings. Winner, Best Screenplay, 2006 Chicago Horror Film Festival (20 minutes)

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The Washington, D.C. Area Premiere
POULTRYGEIST: NIGHT OF THE CHICKEN DEAD - The CITIZEN KANE of zombie chicken movies, Lloyd Kaufman's most impressive tour-de-farce since the original TOXIC AVENGER has taken audiences, and critics, by storm one city, and one theatre, at a time. A cautionary tale of what happens when you build a fast food (chicken) restaurant on top of an ancient Indian burial ground, and then set it to music; POULTRYGEIST helps anchor our inaugural Midsummer Night’s Scream. In a summer over-stuffed with remakes, sequels, reboots and remakes of sequel reboots, it’s nice to know that Troma is looking out for us. Mr. Kaufman, one of the living legends in independent and underground filmmaking, will be on hand to introduce POULTRYGEIST: NIGHT OF THE CHICKEN DEAD, and will be around afterwards for Questions and Answers.

Lisa Nesselson, Variety: “It's a veritable CLUCKWORK ORANGE! It takes up where the punctured glutton in MONTY PYTHON’S THE MEANING OF LIFE left off!”

Nathan Lee, The New York Times: “Within the context of its genre – the satirical sexploitation zombie chicken gross-out musical extravaganza – it is just about as perfect as a film predicated on the joys of projectile vomiting and explosive diarrhea can be...POULTRYGEIST plays like a grindhouse analogue to the sloppy, psychosexual provocations of the performance artist Paul McCarthy and is, in its lowbrow way, every bit as liberating.”

Ain’t It Cool News:“A masterpiece! It's like FAST FOOD NATION meets SHAUN OF THE DEAD!”