Marina Antunes [Film Festival 09.04.12]



Telluride is currently hosting the film world's elite but come October, a different type of film festival will be crawling though Colorado: Telluride Horror Show. The two day event which this year runs October 12 to 14th, have released their line-up and it features a great assortment of goodies.

The fest features an excellent assortment of international titles including Stig Svendsen's tale of terror Elevator, Juan Martinez Moreno's Game of Werewolves and Valentin Javier Diment's Memory of the Dead. Also included are Greg Olliver's Devoured, Paul China's Crawl but the title that has us most excited is Adam Mason's Junkie. Mason's follow-up to Blood River (review) isn't quite finished but Telluride Horror Show attendees will be able to check out a work print of the film, presented by your very own Quiet Earth.


In addition to the excellent feature line-up, the festival also boasts an excellent line-up of short films including Matt O'Mahoney homage to 80s anthology horror movies Adjust Tracking, Richard Powell's Familiar and Jovanka Vuckovic's multi-award winning short The Captured Bird.

More titles to be annonced but for now, check out the already fantastic line-up below!

FEATURE FILMS :

CRAWL
Australia | 2011 | 80 min
Director: Paul China
A seedy bar owner hires a mysterious Croatian to commit murder, but a planned double-crossing backfires when a young waitress is taken hostage. A suspenseful, yet darkly humorous chain of events builds to a bloodcurdling climax.

DEVOURED
USA | 2012 | 92 min | IN PERSON: Director Greg Olliver
Director: Greg Olliver
Immigrant mother (Marta Milans) works as a cleaning woman at an old New York City restaurant in order to make enough money to pay for her sick son's operation. With no friends or family, she lives a lonely, desperate existence, saving every penny and sending it home for her son. As his condition worsens, malevolent forces living within the walls of the restaurant begin to torment her. She struggles to escape, and return to her son before the evil within the dark walls drives her completely mad.

ELEVATOR
USA/Norway | 2011 | 85 min | IN PERSON: Writer-Producer Marc Rosenberg
Director: Stig Svendsen
9 people stuck on an elevator - one has a ticking bomb - the other 8 will do absolutely anything to survive. The bomb cannot be defused. No escape and no promise of rescue. The unthinkable becomes the only solution. Crafted by the award-winning team of Norwegian director, Stig Svendsen and writer-producer Marc Rosenberg, they create a story as chilling as Hitchcock's "Psycho" and as demented as Polanski's "The Tenant". An amazing ensemble cast (Christopher Backus, Anita Briem, John Getz, Shirley Knight, Amanda and Rachel Pace, Devin Ratray, Tehmina Sunny, Joey Slotnick and Waleed Zuaiter) creates a pressure cooker drama you won't soon forget.

GAME OF WEREWOLVES
Spain | 2011 | 104 min | IN PERSON: Director Juan Martínez Moreno
Director: Juan Martinez Moreno
A failed writer returns to his home village in rural Spain when the locals decide to "honour" him for his work. As soon as he arrives, he realizes all eyes are on him, but not necessarily because of his literary success. It turns out that for over 100 years a monstrous werewolf has been terrorizing the village. The only way to free the place from the curse is to feed the beast with a member of the Marino family and the town's just arrived guest "happens" to be a perfect candidate for this.

INBRED
UK/Germany | 2011 | 98 min
Director: Alex Chandon
A disparate group of young urban offenders and their care workers embark on a community service weekend in the strange, remote Yorkshire village of Mortlake, which prides on keeping itself to itself. A minor incident with some local inbred youths rapidly escalates into a blood-soaked, deliriously warped nightmare for all involved.

JUNKIE
USA | 2012 | 85 min
Director: Adam Mason
A dark comedy about two drug addled brothers, from the writer/director of Broken, The Devil's Chair, and Blood River.
SPECIAL PRESENTATION : The Telluride Horror Show will screen the work print of Adam Mason's latest feature film, brought to us by Quiet Earth.

LA MEMORIA DEL MUERTO (Memory of the Dead)
Argentina | 2011 | 88 min
Director: Valentin Javier Diment
After the death of her husband, Alicia calls together his closest friends to celebrate his life. What they don't know is that they are part of a ritual prepared by Alice, to bring her husband back to life.

PARANORMAN
USA | 2012 | 93 min
Directors: Sam Fell & Chris Butler
A misunderstood boy who can speak with the dead takes on ghosts, zombies and, worst of all, grown-ups, in order to save his town from a centuries-old curse.
SPECIAL PRESENTATION : After this special screening of ParaNorman, LAIKA will take us behind-the-scenes of this summer's hit film. Production puppets from the movie will be on display. We're excited to have LAIKA, the stop-motion animation studio behind the Oscar-nominated Coraline, back at the Telluride Horror Show!

PORTRAIT OF A ZOMBIE
Ireland | 2011 | 87 min
Director: Bing Bailey
When a narcissistic American filmmaker discovers the Murphys, an Irish family with an undead son, he jumps at the opportunity to document their story. The family faces the wrath of their neighbors and a local crime boss and as riots against the family climax, the Murphys struggle to answer the question "Does blood run thicker than water?" One thing is for sure, for the zombies in Ireland, the famine is definitely over.

FROM THE VAULT :

Jon Davison, the executive producer of Robocop and Starship Troopers, returns to the Telluride Horror Show as our esteemed Vault Keeper. Mr. Davison, a horror buff with a vast collection of vintage horror films in his vault, digs out a classic for this year's festival:

KING KONG
USA | 1933 | 104 min
Directors: Merian C. Cooper & Ernest B. Schoedsack
"Kong! The Eighth Wonder of the World!" A film crew goes to a tropical island for an exotic location shoot and discovers a colossal giant gorilla who takes a shine to their female blonde star (Fay Wray, the "Queen of Scream").
Experience RKO Radio Pictures' classic monster movie on the big screen at the Telluride Horror Show! Presented in the original 35MM format with an introduction by our "vault keeper" Jon Davison.

SHORT FILMS:

88:88
USA | 2012 | 14 min
Director: Joey Ciccoline
Val has lost control of her life. Those around her deny the reality of the extraordinary experiences she feels powerless against. Realizing she must stand alone, she has only one remaining option - to find a way to fight back.

ADJUST TRACKING
Canada | 2012 | 5 min
Director: Matt O'Mahoney
The tables are turned on a miserable drunk after he rudely shuts off his stepson's gory horror video, in this grisly homage to 80's anthology horror.

THE CAPTURED BIRD
Canada | 2012 | 12 min
Director: Jovanka Vuckovic
In this dark fable, a little girl is drawn to a mysterious mansion where she witnesses the birth of five horrifying apparitions.

EMPLOYEE OF THE MONTH
Switzerland | 2011 | 14 min
Director: Olivier Beguin
Unemployed monsters, looking for jobs.

FAMILIAR
Canada | 2011 | 23 min
Director: Richard Powell
A middle-aged man grows to suspect the negative impulses plaguing his mind may not be his own.

INTRUDER
USA | 2011 | 20 min
Director: Billy Senese
A wounded soldier's wife begins the long road to recovery after her husband is released back into her care. But the strange noises next door may bring a more immediate struggle.

LA RICETTA (THE RECIPE)
USA | 2012 | 5 min
Director: Jason Noto
After a boy is confronted with death for the first time, he turns to his imagination for protection and understanding.

LOT254
UK | 2012 | 3 min
Director: Toby Meakins
A Collector discovers that a vintage cine camera bought at auction is broken. Repairing it unlocks the hidden terror of LOT 254.

MACHINES OF THE WORKING CLASS
USA | 2010 | 2 min
Directors: James & Robert Dastol
Two robotic blue-collar workers take a brief hiatus to discuss delusions of grandeur.

My Brother's Keeper (Or How Not To Survive The Apocalypse)
UK | 2012 | 6 min
Director: Jen Moss
Holed up at the end of the world with her well-meaning but dim-witted brother Jo, Jess isn't sure what will destroy her will to live first: the zombies or Jo's incessant optimism. Like they say, you can choose your friends, but you can't choose who you survive the apocalypse with...

OTHER
USA | 2011 | 14 min
Director: Daniel DelPurgatorio
Patrick is a brilliant doctor in an obsessive race to alter his own grim prognosis. During a series of unconventional experiments, he discovers a scientific loophole unlike anything he had ever imagined. In pursuit of this dark prize, Patrick will risk everything to ensure he sees his experiment to the end... even if it means accepting the sinister results.

THE OTHER SIDE
UK | 2012 | 20 min
Directors: The Santoro Brothers
When a nanny arrives at her new job on a creaky farm in the English countryside, she's caught up in the turbulent relationship of her employers. James is struggling to provide for his family and Rachel is unable to cope with the demands of her new born baby. Unaware of his wife's decision to hire help, a disgruntled James leaves them alone in the secluded farmhouse. When night falls and he fails to return, a sinister intruder invades the property, unraveling a night of gruesome blood-shed and unprecedented terror.

PERISHED
Australia | 2011 | 16 min
Directors: Aaron McCann & Stefan A. Radanovich
A man on the run finds himself locked in a shed amidst a zombie outbreak and must rebuild his inner strength to confront his fears or face starvation.

ROTTING HILL
New Zealand | 2011 | 4 min
Director: James Cunningham
It's not easy to find love, especially if you are falling apart, stinky and a little bloody around the edges. It's a love story, with a bit of a twist...

TUMULT
Scotland | 2011 | 13 min
Director: Johnny Barrington
A tribe of Norse warriors traipse across a barren land after battle. Bloodied and wounded, their chief is near death. He is about to hand over power to his son when an army of a completely different kind descends upon them.

ZOMBIE CHIC
USA | 2011 | 6 min
Director: Todd Cobery
A stuffy, upscale dinner party is interrupted by the zombie apocalypse in this gory black comedy.

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