horror_2006_v2 21/09/2006 17:49 Page 1 HORRORTHONTHE NINTH ANNUAL 26 OCTOBER UNTIL 30 OCTOBER AT THE IRISH FILM INSTITUTE HORRORTHON06 horror_2006_v2 21/09/2006 17:49 Page 2 HORRORTHON 26 OCTOBER UNTIL 30 OCTOBER AT THE IRISH FILM INSTITUTE CALENDAR Prices: The opening and closing night films THURS OCT 26th 8.30 THE HOST are €10. All other screenings are €9. 10.30 SNUFF MOVIE There are special passes available: One day pass: €36 FRI OCT 27th 2.00 FRIDAY THE 13th PART 2 Two day pass €62 3.45 PET SEMATARY Three day pass €90 5.50 FROSTBITE Four day pass €115 8.00 MASTERS OF HORROR Full festival pass (all five days) €120 John Landis’s DEER WOMAN Tobe Hooper’s DAMNED THING Festival directors: John Carpenter’s PRO-LIFE Edward King 11.30 DEMONS Michael Griffin Conor McMahon SAT OCT 28th 1.00 LIE STILL 2.40 DARKLANDS (DIRECTOR’S CUT) Acknowledgements and thanks: Matt Smith - Lions Gate U.K., 4.20 THE LOST Paddy Kelly - UIP, Edward Fletcher - 6.30 THE TORTURER Soda Entertainment, Mick Garris, 8.45 MASTERS OF HORROR Adam Goldworm, Andrew Deane, John Landis’s FAMILY Max Levine - Industry Entertainment, Dario Argento’s PELTS Clare Dundrow - Anchor Bay U.K., 11.30 GRIZZLY Dario Argento - Opera Film, Melanie Tebb - Hollywood Classics, Julian Richards & Rosana Coutinho - Jinga Films, SUN OCT 29th 1.00 COUNTESS DRACULA Chris Silverston - Silver Web Productions, 2.45 MASTERS OF HORROR Menna de Villamor - Surf Film, Park Brad Anderson’s SOUNDS LIKE Circus, Sony Pictures Europe, Eric Caidin, Takashi Miike’s IMPRINT Optimum Pictures, Roberto Di Girolamo & 5.00 NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD Maddalena Tallo - Film Export Group, Rachel Beloksky - Screamfest, Dan Berger - 7.20 SURPRISE FILM ThinkFilm, Scott Wassweman - Glen Echo 9.00 PAN’S LABYRINTH Entertainment, Jennifer Garnick - Lippin 11.15 CRUEL JAWS Group, Ted Hennessy - Xtra-vision, Lisa Richards - The Associates, Carl Daft - MON OCT 30th 13.00 GOING TO PIECES: THE RISE AND FALL OF THE SLASHER FILM Severin Films, Tony Whitehead, Tartan 15.40 BEHIND THE MASK: THE RISE OF LESLIE VERNON Films U.K., BFI, Lorcan Dillon Kelly, Conor Chaney, Mick Fox, Paul Ward, 17.20 THE DEVIL RIDES OUT Juangus Dinsmore, Alan Farrell, 19.00 CELLO Eamonn Trundle, Gareth O'Connor, 20.50 POLTERGEIST Kamila Synak, Mark Sheridan, Jason Slater, Lamberto Bava and John Exshaw. ON TOUR TO BELFAST For the first time ever, Horrorthon will be touring outside Dublin to the Queen’s Film Theatre in Belfast. A 4-days glut of scare movies, including new releases, anniversary screenings, and UK premieres, running from Friday Nov 3th to Sunday Nov 5th. Full programme information 6 Eustace Street, Temple Bar, Dublin 2. and booking details: www.queensfilmtheatre.com www.irishfilm.ie box office 01-679 5744 horror_2006_v2 21/09/2006 17:49 Page 3 THE HOST (GWOEMUL) SNUFF-MOVIE FRIDAY THE 13TH PART 2 IRISH PREMIERE IRISH PREMIERE October 26 (8.30) October 26 (10.30) October 27 (2.00) director Bong Joon-ho director Bernard Rose director Steve Miner Move over Godzilla. There’s a new The latest instalment in the weird Five years after the events in the first giant monster on the loose in Asia career of writer-director Bernard film, another summer camp has that’s bound to become a classic and Rose (Paperhouse, Candyman), the been opened on the shores of it’s Memories of Murder director Bong DV-shot Snuff-Movie is not a Crystal Lake. Soon, the usual Joon-ho’s mix of Toho-style mayhem conventional horror picture but a assortment of teenage spam shows and zesty Alien scares done in the deliriously daft, breezily gory up and the slaughter begins. This politically aware pulp style of Larry post-post-modern comedy-of- time it’s Jason himself who does all Cohen’s Q—The Winged Serpent. terrors, packed with smart-alecky the killing, not his mother. For the Formaldehyde dumped years ago cinematic in-jokes. Jeroen Krabbé most part, director Steve Miner into the Han River causes a plays Boris Arkadin (first name a nod makes the prototypical slasher humungous tadpole mutation that to Karloff, surname a nod to Orson sequel, upping the stakes in terms unfurls under South Korean bridges Welles’ Mr Arkadin), a horror movie of gore and nudity. There’s a lot of to attack Seoul natives. A distraught director who invites a quartet of violence here, including the but gormless father somehow attractive young thespians to his impalement of a copulating couple, manages to avoid military capture country mansion where they are to death by strangulation with barbed and survive a lobotomy before be “auditioned”. The actors realise wire, throat slashing, and stabbing entering the cavernous sewers to they’re under constant surveillance with an ice pick. Miner is consciously locate and save his missing from hidden video cameras, the playing with the conventions of the daughter. High drama combines results being broadcast on a pay- genre, borrowing several set-pieces with Jaws-style shocks from the per-view website. Bloody—and from Italian maestro Mario Bava and terrific CGI monster (supervised by increasingly demented— making extensive use of subjective Kevin Rafferty of Star Wars fame) in shenanigans ensue. Rose is aiming to point of view shots. Yet we’re not this corker of a Korean creature feature have his cake and eat it with this encouraged to identify with any of that will set the pulse pounding the exercise—mocking the genre’s the characters. Perhaps, as critic heart racing. A festival highlight. conventions while milking them for Scott Weinberg put it, “the fun of SOUTH KOREA, 2006. SUBTITLED. all they’re worth—and while he’s these movies is quite simply the COLOUR. DOLBY DIGITAL STEREO. clearly enjoying the feast, the fare gore, the creative carnage, the 119 MIN. won’t be digestible to all. As Rose rampant cinematic brutality.” himself admits, this is made for U.S.A., 1981. COLOUR. 87 MIN. Plus “genre aficionados” rather than THE FAIRIES OF general audiences. BLACKHEATH WOOD U.K., 2005. COLOUR. DOLBY DIGITAL director Ciaran Foy STEREO. 92 MIN. IRELAND, 2006. COLOUR. DOLBY STEREO. 4 MIN. HORRORTHON 26-30 OCTOBER horror_2006_v2 21/09/2006 17:49 Page 4 1 PET SEMATARY FROSTBITE (FROSTBITEN) MASTERS OF HORROR IRISH PREMIERE (PROGRAMME 1) October 27 (3.45) October 27 (6.00) IRISH PREMIERE director Mary Lambert director Anders Banke October 27 (8.00) Stephen King made a point of Are you ready for Sweden’s first directors John Landis, writing the screenplay for this vampire movie? Meet the Lost Girls Tobe Hooper, John Carpenter adaptation of his best-selling novel of Lapland in director Anders Deer Woman, directed by John about the horrors that befall a family Banke’s black comedy horror with Landis and written by his son Max, is when they disturb an Indian burial polar bite. When doctor Annika a humorous exploration of a Native ground close to their new home in (Petra Nielsen) moves to Norrbotten American myth about a beautiful Maine. The most interesting thing after finding work in the local half-deer, half-woman succubus who about the piece (essentially a hospital, all the signs look dismal to kills men after seducing them. When reworking of the old Monkey’s Paw her teenage daughter Saga (Grete mutilated bodies start showing up tale) is the supernatural aspect, Havnesköld). Endless nights with around Seattle, depressed detective especially the ghostly promptings nothing to do. Soon Annika notices Brian Benben finally feels motivated from the dead and the sense in the strange happenings at the hospital as to leave his desk and investigate the latter half of the story that events the tiny community is struck by brutal killings. may be heading towards a looming mysterious deaths. Frostbite features Damned Thing, directed by Tobe apocalyptic confrontation. These are top of the range special effects and a Hooper and adapted by Richard familiar features of King’s writing, whole avalanche of imaginative ideas Christian Matheson from Ambrose where prescient dreams seem to and inventive jokes—like creating Bierces classic short-story, is the hover beyond the veil of the the perfect environment for apocalyptic tale of a monstrous force mundane. Director Mary Lambert is vampires in a land without much that devastates Sheriff Kevin Reddle’s largely faithful to the spirit of the sun. The harshness of the Swedish family and his small Texas town. novel and makes good use of the language to foreign ears is also used Sean Patrick Flanery, Marisa bleak, wintry Maine locations to to great effect, giving rise to some Coughlan and Ted Raimi star. capture a sense of primal terror. fine one-liners. And when was the Pro-Life, directed by John She’s also not adverse to exploiting last time you saw vampire Carpenter, tells the story of a young the shocking image of a scalpel- impalement by garden gnome! girl trapped inside a clinic and who wielding three-year-old psycho SWEDEN, 2006. SUBTITLED. COLOUR. discovers the only thing more zombie. ANAMORPHIC. DOLBY DIGITAL STEREO. dangerous than her pursuers is the U.S.A., 1989. COLOUR. DOLBY STEREO. 98 MIN. demonic secret that she carries 103 MIN. Anders Banke will attend within her. Ron Perlman, Mark the screening. Feuerstein, Emannuelle Vaugiere and Caitlin Wachs star. U.S.A., 2006. COLOUR. DIGITAL VIDEO. 3 X 60 MIN. Series producer Andrew Deane will introduce this screening. HORRORTHON 26-30 OCTOBER horror_2006_v2 21/09/2006 17:49 Page 5 DEMONS (DÈMONI) LIE STILL DARKLANDS (DIRECTOR’S CUT) IRISH PREMIERE IRISH PREMIERE October 27 (11.30) October 28 (1.00) October 28 (2.40) director Lamberto Bava director Sean Hogan director Julian Richards Produced and co-written by Dario A kind of M R Jamesian take on Showing here in a more satisfying Argento but directed by festival Repulsion, this promising first version re-edited by the director, this guest Lamberto Bava, Demons is a feature from British writer-director impressive first feature by Julian horror flick with a terrific gimmick.