The Brooklyn Horror Movie Pageant Declares Full 2024 Program: “The Brooklyn Horror Movie Pageant (BHFF) declares right this moment the complete program for its 2024 incarnation, operating October 17-24 with all screenings held at Nitehawk Cinema’s Williamsburg and Prospect Park areas. Audiences are in for an unworldly lineup of movies and occasions, together with a particular screening of Larry Fessenden’s HABIT with the Leviathan Award Ceremony, honoring his movie profession.
The Opening Evening movie is the NY premiere of DEAD MAIL from administrators Joe DeBoer and Kyle McConaghy. The 2024 competition boasts the North American Premieres of thrilling new movies: Tiago Teixeira’s unsettling physique horror movie CUSTOM; a brand new documentary on horror on the flip of the millennium from Phillip Escott and Sarah Appleton, GENERATION TERROR; and New Zealand director Sasha Rainbow’s movie GRAFTED.
The competition will characteristic the world premieres of Izzy Lee’s first characteristic, HOUSE OF ASHES; the atmospheric ghost story, LILLY LIVES ALONE, and the queer sci-fi journey PSYCHONAUT. The competition’s different highlight titles embody ANIMALE, the gorgeous revenge-fantasy from French director Emma Benestan because the competition’s Centerpiece Movie; and THE RULE OF JENNY PEN starring Geoffrey Rush and John Lithgow because the Closing Evening Movie.
Further highlights embody the motion fueled revenge movie SAYARA from Turkey; Joe Begos’s newest neon drenched massacre JIMMY & STIGGS; a screening of a number of episodes of the brand new horror anthology TALES FROM THE VOID which incorporates an episode directed by John Adams and Toby Poser; a fantastical time touring romance from director Alice Lowe, TIMESTALKER; GAZER, the dreamy noir movie from Ryan J. Sloan; Mercedes Bryce Morgan’s gory erotic thriller BONE LAKE; and the nightmarish thriller SOMNIUM which premiered on the Chattanooga Movie Pageant earlier this yr.
The competition’s signature sidebar packages return, beginning with FEAR IN FOCUS: SPAIN, which incorporates the North American premiere of EXORCISMO, a documentary that focuses on the violent and smutty movie historical past of the post-Franco period of Spanish cinema; in addition to retro screenings of VAMPYRES and THE BLOOD SPATTERED BRIDE on 35mm; which ties into the Vampire sidebar that options Abel Ferrara’s THE ADDICTION and a screening of the Spanish model of DRACULA with a reside rating from The Flushing Remonstrance. MISKATONIC INSTITUTE OF HORROR STUDIES can even return to host a particular lecture by Dr. Leah Richards “Queer Vampires, Queer Liberation, Queer Futurity.
Pageant badges are on sale now right here and a restricted quantity of particular person tickets go on sale this Friday at 12PM EST. To view the complete lineup, schedule, and buy a badge, go to: https://brooklynhorrorfest.com/
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Millennial Nasties: Analyzing a Decade of Brutal Horror Movie Violence by Ariel Powers-Schaub is out right this moment!: Through Encyclopocalypse Publications – “To begin with, we might prefer to congratulate Ariel Powers-Schaub on having our Finest-Promoting Title of 2024 up to now! I am typically not one for throwing numbers round, however for our meager publishing firm, over 500 bodily copy pre-sales is one thing that is by no means occurred for us. Should you’ve picked up Millennial Nasties already, thanks a lot! Issues like this hold a scrappy little writer going and it means the world.
The lifetime of a e-book earlier than it is launched is a fairly loopy factor. Ariel Powers-Schaub approached us about 2 years in the past with this concept to research the 2000s “Torture Porn” subgenre. Ariel’s strategy was to actually change the notion of those movies in addition to the title and popularity of this subgenre.
“Millennial Nasties” was formally coined in that authentic electronic mail, and I now cannot consider a greater approach to describe these movies. Ariel has given us many related causes to simply accept this new coined phrase because the NEW title of this brutal horror subgenre, and now in 2024 we will all retire the phrase “Torture Porn” and start referring to Noticed, Hostel, and plenty of extra of those movies formally as “Millennial Nasties.”
SYNOPSIS:
Torture porn, shock-for-shock’s sake, violence that does not serve the plot, and characters you hate – what was occurring within the 2000s in horror cinema? And why have been audiences hungry for it? Millennial Nasties takes a essential however appreciative have a look at an oft-ignored subset of horror. This e-book dissects the English-language horror movies of the 2000s and the cultural occasions they have been responding to. Processing tragedy and warfare all through the world, preserving tempo with movies from different international locations, and swinging wildly away from the secure horror of the Nineties, the 2000s introduced grisly kills and surprising gore to cinema audiences and residential viewers. Movies as soon as dismissed as torture porn, their nasty slasher buddies, and the remakes of this period have discovered a brand new house, and that house is a subgenre referred to as Millennial Nasties.
Foreword by Zoë Rose Smith, founder and proprietor of Zobo With A Shotgun and former EIC of Ghouls Journal.”
For more information and to buy, go to: https://encyclopocalypse.com/merchandise/millennial-nasties
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BLUMHOUSE AND AMC THEATRES ANNOUNCE AMC’S BLUMFEST 2024 WITH ICONIC HORROR FILM SCREENINGS IN 54 CITIES EVERY WEDNESDAY IN OCTOBER: “Blumhouse, the driving pressure in horror, and AMC Theatres (NYSE: AMC) are celebrating Halloween beginning in September and operating by the tip of October with AMC’s BlumFest. Each Wednesday beginning September 25, Blumhouse followers can attend particular screenings, rating one-time-only giveaways, be the primary to see unique sneak peeks, and extra. AMC’s BlumFest marks the primary time that BlumFest, the annual October celebration of all issues Blumhouse, has included a nationwide screening program.
The six-week competition kicks off Wednesday, Sept. 25 in 54 cities and 150 AMC Theatres throughout the U.S., and options six completely different repertory movies – anchored by the fifteenth anniversary of Paranormal Exercise September 25.
Pageant-goers can catch their favourite Blumhouse movies on the massive display, with screenings every Wednesday night time at 7pm and 9pm native time, and tickets priced at a reduced price. Plus, all attendees will obtain a particular poster giveaway commemorating this yr’s lineup, plus see unique sneak peeks and unique recorded messages from administrators and expertise from the movies. Tickets are on sale right this moment, Tuesday, September 17 at on AMCTheatres.com and throughout the AMC Cell App for the next movies:
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Wednesday, September 25, 2024 – Paranormal Exercise – written and directed by Oren Peli
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Wednesday, October 2, 2024 – Lights Out – written by Eric Heisserer and David F. Sandberg and directed by David F. Sandberg
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Wednesday, October 9, 2024 – Insidious: Chapter 2 – written by James Wan and Leigh Whannell and directed by James Wan
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Wednesday, October 16, 2024 – Pleased Dying Day – written by Scott Lobdell and directed by Christopher Landon
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Wednesday, October 23, 2024 – The Black Telephone – written by Joe Hill, Scott Derrickson and C. Robert Cargill, and directed by Scott Derrickson
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Wednesday, October 30, 2024 – 5 Nights At Freddy’s – written by Scott Cawthon, Seth Cuddeback and Emma Tammi and directed by Emma Tammi
“This entire month is a love letter to Halloween and our followers, and we’re grateful to our companions at AMC for becoming a member of us for BlumFest, our annual October celebration of all issues Blumhouse. I can’t consider we’re already celebrating the fifteenth anniversary of Paranormal Exercise, as a result of it looks like we’re simply getting began,” mentioned Jason Blum, Founder and CEO of Blumhouse.
“Although AMC entertains Blumhouse movie followers year-round, the Halloween season makes horror films much more enjoyable,” mentioned Elizabeth Frank, EVP of Worldwide Programming and Chief Content material Officer at AMC Theatres. “We’re excited to convey the BlumFest celebration to the massive display with fan favourite films and distinctive further content material.”
The complete record of cities consists of: Atlanta (GA), Austin (TX), Baltimore (MD), Boston (MA), Charlotte (NC), Chattanooga (TN), Chicago (IL), Cincinnati (OH), Columbus (GA), Columbus (OH), Dallas (TX), Denver (CO), Detroit (MI), El Paso (TX), Grand Rapids (MI), Harlingen (TX), Hartford (CT), Houston (TX), Huntsville (AL), Indianapolis (IN), Jacksonville (FL), Kansas Metropolis (MO), Las Vegas (NV), Los Angeles (CA), Madison (WI), Miami (FL), Milwaukee (WI), Minneapolis (MN), Cell (AL), Nashville (TN), New Haven (CT), New Orleans (LA), New York (NY), Norfolk (VA), Oklahoma Metropolis (OK), Orlando (FL), Peoria (IL), Philadelphia (PA), Phoenix (AZ), Pittsburgh (PA), Portland (OR), Raleigh (NC), Rockford (IL), Sacramento (CA), San Diego (CA), San Francisco (CA), Seattle (WA), Spokane (WA), St. Louis (MO), Tallahassee (FL), Tampa (FL), Tucson (AZ), Tulsa (OK), Washington, D.C.”
Study extra about AMC’s BlumFest right here: http://amctheatres.com/occasions/
