FEATURE FILMS 2020

 

SCHEDULE & BLOCK INFORMATION TBD (LIKELY SPRING 2021)

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12 HOUR SHIFT (USA)

SYNOPSIS: It’s 1999 and over the course of one 12 hour shift at an Arkansas hospital, a drug-addicted nurse, her scheming cousin and a group of black market organ-trading criminals start a heist that could lead to all of their demise.

RATINGS GUIDE: Strong Violence, Strong Language, Brief Nudity, Adult Content, Intense Images

DIRECTOR: Brea Grant
CAST: Angela Bettis, David Arquette, Mick Foley, Chloe Farnworth, Kit Williamson, Nikea Gamby-Turner

GENRE: Horror, Comedy, Thriller
PREMIERE STATUS: Regional Premiere
AWARDS NOMINATIONS: TBD

DIRECTOR’S BIO: Brea Grant is a filmmaker best known for her Emmy-nominated work on the Netflix series, EastSiders, and her directorial debut, the apocalyptic road trip film, Best Friends Forever. In 2019, she wrote and directed the dark comedy heist film, 12 Hour Shift, starring Angela Bettis and David Arquette. It premiered at Tribeca in 2020. A month later, she starred in the horror film, Lucky, which she also wrote, directed by Natasha Kermani, which premiered at SXSW in 2020. She started in the film industry as an actress on shows like Heroes, Friday Night Lights, and Dexter, as well as horror films like Halloween II and After Midnight.

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DANGER! DANGER! (USA)

SYNOPSIS: It’s 1985 and adventurer, Jonathan Danger, has just crash landed onto an island off the coast of Africa, looking for a temple that may be his ticket to go back in time. Too bad the Soviets got there first.

RATINGS GUIDE: Mild Violence, Mild Language

GENRE: Sci-Fi, Fantasy
PREMIERE STATUS: Regional Premiere
AWARDS NOMINATIONS: TBD

DIRECTOR’S BIO: Danger! Danger! is the second feature film from Nick + Lexie and is a love letter to the Spielberg movies of the 1980s like Indiana Jones, The Goonies, and Back to the Future, the very films that made them want to be filmmakers in the first place.

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MEANDER (FRANCE)

SYNOPSIS: After getting a car ride from an unknown man, Lisa wakes up in a tube. On her arm is strapped a bracelet with a countdown. She quickly understands that every 8 minutes, fire burns an occupied section. She has no choice but to crawl into safe sections to survive. To know why she’s there and how to get out, Lisa will have to face the memories of her dead daughter…

RATINGS GUIDE: Violence, Language

DIRECTOR: Mathieu Turi
CAST: Gaïa Weiss, Peter Franzen

GENRE: Sci-Fi
PREMIERE STATUS: Regional Premiere
AWARDS NOMINATIONS: TBD

DIRECTOR’S BIO: Mathieu Turi is an assistant director and director, known for Hostile (2017), Inglorious Basterds (2009) and Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011).

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SISTER TEMPEST (USA)

SYNOPSIS: Anne Hutchinson’s troubled relationship with her missing sister is under alien tribunal. Meanwhile, her new roommate’s mysterious illness causes her to go on a cannibalistic killing spree.

RATINGS GUIDE: Strong Violence, Strong Language, Brief Nudity

DIRECTOR: Joe Badon
CAST: Kali Russell, Linnea Gregg, Holly Bonney, Alex Stage, Collin Galyean

GENRE: Sci Fi, Horror, Dark Comedy, Musical, Surrealist, Psychological Thriller
PREMIERE STATUS: Regional Premiere
AWARDS NOMINATIONS: TBD

DIRECTOR’S BIO: Joe Badon is a filmmaker, illustrator and musician. His first feature film, The God Inside My Ear, had an award winning festival run and was distributed through Gravitas Ventures. He has also worked as an illustrator on storyboards for a number of films and commercials including Keanu (2016), My Name is Jonah (2014).

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THE BRAIN THAT WOULDN’T DIE (USA)

SYNOPSIS: After his fiancée is killed in a car accident, a gifted surgeon revives her severed head in hopes of finding her a new body.

RATINGS GUIDE: Violence, Mild Language, Sensuality

DIRECTOR: Derek Carl
CAST: Patrick D. Green, Rachael Perrell Fosket, Jason Reynolds, Robert Blanche, Mia Allen, David Withers

GENRE: Horror, Sci-Fi, Comedy
PREMIERE STATUS: Regional Premiere
AWARDS NOMINATIONS: TBD

DIRECTOR’S BIO: Derek Carl is a director and producer based out of New York, NY. He was born in Seattle, Washington, and studied Civil Engineering at Gonzaga University. But after graduating, Derek couldn’t help but pursue his passion for film, and later moved to Portland, Oregon where he began his filmmaking career. Derek is the co-founder of Portland-based Flagship Features, and the founder of New York-based Coalition Studios. The Brain That Wouldn’t Die is Derek’s feature length directing debut.

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THE MORTUARY COLLECTION (USA)

SYNOPSIS:Desperate for work, a young drifter applies for a job in a decrepit old mortuary . A looming old house that local children only speak of in whispers. There she meets Montgomery Dark, a sinister mortician with more than a few skeletons in his closet. Montgomery chronicles the strange history of the town through a series of twisted tales, each more terrifying than the last. But the drifter’s world is unhinged when she discovers that the final story is her own!

RATINGS GUIDE: Violence, Brief Nudity, Adult Content, Intense Images

DIRECTOR:  Ryan Spindell
CAST: Clancy Brown, Jacob Elordi, Caitlin Fisher, Barak Hardley

GENRE: Horror
PREMIERE STATUS: Regional Premiere
AWARDS NOMINATIONS: TBD

DIRECTOR’S BIO: Ryan Spindell was raised in a crumbling haunted house on the  forgotten coast of Maine, so as you can imagine, his social skills are top notch. Ryan’s natural inclination toward the arts, and his obsession with The Twilight Zone led him down the dark and twisted path from which he would never recover.   After graduating with his masters from Florida State University, Ryan relocated to Los  Angeles where he founded TRAPDOOR PICTURES, a boutique production company that  specializes in “fun genre” content for film and television. Over the next several years, Ryan and his team made over a dozen short films including KIRKSDALE, THE ROOT OF THE  PROBLEM, WE COME IN PIECES and THE BABYSITTER MURDERS before shifting into  feature-length films with THE MORTUARY COLLECTION.  Most recently Ryan wrote and directed an episode of the horror anthology series 50 STATES OF FRIGHT for producer Sam Raimi, and is currently writing episodes for season two.  In his spare time Ryan enjoys road trips, Junji Ito comics and (of course) horror movies. Ryan does not enjoy writing about himself in the third person.

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THE RECKONING (UK)

SYNOPSIS:In England 1665, the year of the Great Plague, recently widowed Grace Haverstock spurns the advances of the local squire, and in reprisal she is accused of being a witch and thrown in jail. Grace must endure physical persecution at the hands of England’s most ruthless Witch-Finder and face her own inner demons as the Devil himself begins to infect her mind and she plots bloody revenge against her persecutors.

RATINGS GUIDE: Violence, Brief Nudity, Adult Content

DIRECTOR: Neil Marshall
CAST: Charlotte Kirk, Sean Pertwee, Steven Waddington, Joe Anderson

GENRE: Horror, The Beyond
PREMIERE STATUS: USA Premiere
AWARDS NOMINATIONS: TBD

DIRECTOR’SBIO: Neil has been working very successfully in both feature films and television industry since his feature debut “Dog Soldiers” in 2001. His second feature as both writer and director, “The Descent” 2005 was an even bigger critical and commercial hit, winning several awards including the BIFA for Best Director, and the Empire award for Best Horror. He followed this success with the post-apocalyptic action movie “Doomsday” 2008 and historical adventure “Centurion” 2010.   In 2012 Neil made his debut in the world of high-end television with Game of Thrones S2 Ep9 “Blackwater”, and followed that up with S4 Ep9 “The Watchers on the Wall” for which he received an Emmy Nomination. Over the past 6 years, Neil has made a considerable name for himself, working in the network, cable and streaming arenas directing projects such as the pilot episodes of “Black Sails” for Starz, DC’s “Constantine” and “Timeless” both for NBC.  Neil also directed notable episodes of “Hannibal” for Showtime and “Westworld” for HBO. Most recently, Neil developed, produced and directed the Netflix reboot of classic sci-fi series ‘Lost in Space”.

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THE RETURN (CANADA)

SYNOPSIS: After the death of his father, a brilliant college student returns to his family home where he learns that the horrors from his childhood aren’t as dead and gone as he once thought.

RATINGS GUIDE: Mild Violence, Mild Language, Sensuality, Intense Images

DIRECTOR: BJ Verot
CAST: Richard Harmon, Sara Thompson, Echo Andersson, Marina Stephenson Kerr, Zoe Fish

GENRE: Horror, Sci-Fi, The Beyond
PREMIERE STATUS: Regional Premiere
AWARDS NOMINATIONS: TBD

DIRECTOR’S BIO: BJ Verot is an award-winning writer/director/producer based in Winnipeg, Canada. He has just completed his first feature film, a sci-fi horror entitled The Return. The film stars Richard Harmon (the CW’s The 100), Echo Andersson, and Sara Thompson.  His most recent short film, Echoes In The Ice, has screened around the world, most notably as part of the Telefilm: Not Short On Talent At Cannes Program at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival. It also screened at the Toronto After Dark Festival and the Hollyshorts Film Festival. It has been acquired by DUST, a division of Gunpowder & Sky, and is currently viewable on their platforms.

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THERE’S NO SUCH THING AS VAMPIRES (USA)

SYNOPSIS: Stranger heroes, Joshua and Ariel, literally crash into each other along a dark road in the dead of night… and before long find themselves pursued across North America, the target of an unstoppable supernatural force.

RATINGS GUIDE: Mild Violence, Language, Intense Images

DIRECTOR: Logan Thomas
CAST: Josh Plasse, Raphael Sbarge, Emma Holzer, Meg Foster, Aric Cushing

GENRE: Horror
PREMIERE STATUS: Regional Premiere
AWARDS NOMINATIONS: TBD

DIRECTOR’S BIO: This is Logan’s second full length feature film. His parents come from a strong music and art direction background which lends to Thomas’ love of classical composition, design, and cinema. Along with directing ‘There’s No Such Thing as Vampires’, Logan is also the film’s composer.

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THEY LIVE INSIDE US (USA)

SYNOPSIS: Seeking inspiration, a writer spends Halloween night in a notoriously haunted house. He soon realizes he is living in his own horror story.

RATINGS GUIDE: Mild Violence, Mild Language, Intense Images

DIRECTOR: Michael Ballif
CAST: James Morris, Hailey Nebeker, Stevie Dutson, Emily Broschinsky, Emily Ashby

GENRE: Horror
PREMIERE STATUS: World Premiere
AWARDS NOMINATIONS: TBD

DIRECTOR’SBIO: Michael Ballif was born on February 3, 1989 in Provo, Utah, USA. Michael is a director, writer, cinematographer, editor, and producer. He is best known for his award-winning horror anthology “The Witching Season” (2018), a collection of short horror stories that aims to capture the spirit of the Halloween season. Michael is also the founder of Witching Season Films, a horror film production company that specializes in producing Halloween-themed content year-round.

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UNCLE PECKERHEAD (USA)

SYNOPSIS: When punk-rock band DUH finds themselves on their first tour with a man-eating hillbilly for a roadie, the “gig life” is paved with nightmares and half-eaten bodies.

RATINGS GUIDE: Strong Violence, Language, Sensuality

DIRECTOR: Matthew John Lawrence
CAST: Chet Siegel, Ruby McCollister, Jeff Riddle, David Littleton

GENRE: Horror, Comedy
PREMIERE STATUS: Regional Premiere
AWARDS NOMINATIONS: TBD

DIRECTOR’S BIO: A native New Jerseyan. A subversive cinephile. A hater of cats.

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