21 - 24 April 2016 DEAD by DAWN 21 - 24 April 2016 All Screenings in Cinema One
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21 - 24 April 2016 DEAD BY DAWN 21 - 24 April 2016 All screenings in Cinema One All times shown are when films actually start. Late-comers are not admitted Thursday GREEN ROOM 2030 – 2210 K-SHOP + Q&A with Dan Pringle and Adam Merrifield 2245 – 0100 Friday JACOB’S LADDER 1145 – 1340 Ignorance is Bliss Short Film Programme 1415 – 1530 YR YMADAWIAD aka THE PASSING + Q&A with Gareth Bryn and Ed Talfan 1615 – 1800 DECAY 1945 – 2130 WES CRAVEN Tribute Double Bill: NEW NIGHTMARE 2215 – 0015 THE HILLS HAVE EYES 0045 – 0215 Saturday ASTRAEA 1200 – 1340 Where the Wild Things Are Short Film Programme 1415 – 1530 DER BUNKER + Q&A with Nikias Chryssos 1615 – 1800 ANTIBIRTH 1945 – 2120 THE CORPSE OF ANNA FRITZ 2200 – 2315 Terror Triple: WE GO ON 2350 – 0120 FROM BEYOND 0145 – 0315 DEAD AND BURIED 0330 – 0505 Sunday CREATURE DESIGNERS 1230 – 1410 Apocalypse Soon Short Film Programme 1445 – 1545 SHE WHO MUST BURN 1630 – 1805 I Blame The Parents Short Film Programme 1915 – 2045 SORGENFRI 2130 – 2300 Freebies, Shit Film Amnesty, Award Winners, Thanks 2330 – 2345 MEN & CHICKEN 0000 – 0140 The Filmhouse bar has a late licence for alcohol each night of the festival until 3am. On the Saturday night, the bar will stay open beyond 3am for everything else. Please note that alcoholic drinks may not be taken in to the DEAD AND BURIED screening. I know you will be excellent to our gorgeous bar staff - they’re lovely people and would change the law for you if they could. But they can’t. Welcome to Dead by Dawn! Over the next four days we present, for your delectation, a veritable cinematic smorgasbord of evil treats! What sets this festival apart is that we go a long way to unearth exceptional talent, introducing films and directors new to the genre. This year we’re thrilled to present seven feature debuts - Dan Pringle here with K-Shop, Gareth Bryn here with Yr Ymadawiad, Nikias Chryssos here with Der Bunker and Joseph Wartnerchaney’s Decay, Danny Perez’ Antibirth, Hèctor Hernández Vicens’ The Corpse of Anna Fritz And Bo Mikkelsen’s Sorgenfri – all showing the genre to be in excellent hands. It’s also a real pleasure for us to welcome back some festival favourites – The Meza Brothers (Play Dead, The Room) return with Boniato, Ryan Spindell (Kirksdale) returns with The Babysitter Murders while Andy Mitton and Jesse Holland (Yellowbrickroad) return with We Go On. A wild, beautiful, dark and twisted collection of stories are about to unfold, the shorts mini-masterpieces in their own right, the classics offering up long-forgotten scares and the bar open to help the whole lot melt into one delicious lingering fever dream to cushion the blow of returning to real life! Whether you’re here for the first time or your favourite seat gives in all the right places, what more can I say, other than...one, two Freddy’s coming for you…three, four better lock your door…five, six grab a crucifix…seven, eight gonna stay up late… I hope you have a brilliant festival. Adèle Hartley Festival Director We’d like to thank these organisations for their support: It all starts innocuously enough. Mildly USA / 2015 / 94 mins chaotic hardcore punk band the Ain’t Director: Jeremy Saulnier Rights, played by Anton Yelchin, Alia Writer: Jeremy Saulnier Producers: Neil Kopp, Victor Moyers, Shawkat, Joe Cole and Callum Turner Anish Savjani are parked in a corn field after their Composers: Brooke Blair, Will Blair driver fell asleep. Siphoning gas to Cinematographer: Sean Porter replenish the tank, they eventually Editor: Julia Bloch Cast: Imogen Poots, Alia Shawkat, Patrick GREEN rock up for an interview and gig in a Stewart, Anton Yelchin, Mark Webber, Callum small town only to discover the show Turner, Joe Cole, Eric Edelstein, Macon is off. To make amends, the promoter Blair, Kai Lennox, October Moore, David W sets something up with a relative Thompson, Taylor Tunes, Cody Burns, Mason at a club in the middle of nowhere. Knight, Brent Werzner, Joseph Bertót, Kasey Unsurprisingly, it all goes horribly Brown, Samuel Summer, Ed Squires, Michael Draper, Audrey Walker, Jace Daniel, Colton ROOM wrong. Ruscheinsky, Lj Klink, Kyle Love, Jake Love, Jake Kasch Saulnier keeps a tight rein on proceedings for the first half before letting his beast run wild. Excess eventually becomes the name of the game, the film jumping between dark comedy and slasher horror with unerring regularity. Stakes get raised so high they start to disappear out of sight. Green Room is a mad, wild ride that even when headache inducingly over- the-top, never stops being fun. From a review by Stephen Mayne for Flickfeast WE GO ON USA / 2015 / 89 mins Directors: Jesse Holland, Andy Mitton Writers: Jesse Holland, Andy Mitton Producers: Logan Brown, Richard W King, Irina Popov Cinematographer: Jeffrey Waldron Composer: Andy Mitton Editors: Jesse Holland, Andy Mitton Cast: Justin Carpenter, Jay Dunn, Cassidy Freeman, Clark Freeman, John Glover, Laura Heisler, Annette O’Toole, Nicholas Popov, Steve Rifkin, Lucky Schwarz, Ian Sharkey, Giovanna Zacarías Able to indulge his agoraphobia Naturally he’s flooded with responses, However, amid these trials Miles thanks to a stay-at-home job editing out of which a grand total of three meets Nelson (Jay Dunn), who offers infomercials, Miles Grissom (Freeman) look interesting. to get him “into that inner circle” is afraid of just about everything, but where life and afterlife overlap. It is especially the one thing that pretty First up is Dr Ellison, an academic who not an idle promise. much everyone fears. believes the afterlife can be glimpsed when facing one’s greatest fears. Of From a review by Dennis Harvey Plagued by recurring nightmares he the others, Spanish-speaking medium for Variety decides to take a drastic step: placing Josephina (Giovanna Zacarias) seems an ad offering a huge reward to anyone simply nuts, while the third prospect who can provide reassuring proof that doesn’t play out quite as expected. there is some kind of life after death. Canada / 2015 / 94 mins Director: Larry Kent Writers: Larry Kent, Shane Twerdun Producers: Peri Creticos, Andrew Dunbar Composer: Chris Alexander Cinematographer: Stirling Bancroft Editor: Elad Tzadok Cast: Sarah Smyth, Bart Anderson, Steve Bradley, Peri Creticos, Missy Cross, Andrew Dunbar, Jim Francis, Havana Guppy, Andrew Moxham, Alan Silverman, Nancy Sivak, Jewel Staite, Shane Twerdun, James Wilson, John Ziros Canadian indie film pioneer Larry realises the political sway these twisted family, showing again what a Kent breathes fire in his most vicious misogynistic, bible-thumping versatile performer he is, while Missy film yet, a searing indictment of the terrorists have on their home turf. Cross goes for broke as his hysterically fundamentalist dogma that wages Inspired by the infamous Westboro grief-stricken sister Rebecca - who war on women’s bodies. It’s just one Baptist Church, Kent’s fictional wants all women to pay for what she component of the global right wing clan is made up of weak-willed and has lost. conflagration likely playing out on intellectually sheltered sycophants your Facebook feed as we speak – and who rally around a deluded and Beginning with 1963‘s The Bitter Ash eerily prescient given the 2015 mass tyrannical moral watchdog. They see which was banned in most of Canada shootings at the Planned Parenthood themselves as carrying out the will at the time, Kent positioned himself clinic in Colorado Springs. of the merciless god of end-times as a confrontational auteur who religions. Adding to their fervour is a would carve out his own niche, Angela (Sarah Smyth) is a nurse in a regional epidemic of infant deaths that with or without the support of the rural women’s clinic that is shut down they attribute to divine vengeance for establishment. And he’s done just that when the state caves to pressures from Angela’s alleged “sins”. for over 50 years. David Cronenberg the local religious right. When she credits Kent with inspiring him to continues to offer medical counselling Kent’s frequent collaborators Shane keep pushing for funding for his first and assistance out of her home, she Twerdun, Andrew Moxham and feature Shivers, by saying to a dejected finds herself in a stand-off with a Andrew Dunbar (also the core team of Cronenberg: “We are young, we are fanatical religious family headed up his 2011 improv film Exley and most of passionate, and we will not be denied!” by Jeremiah Baarker, who will stop at them key players in Canadian arboreal nothing to run her out of town or send horror films Black Mountainside and Larry Kent may not be young anymore, her flaming to hell. White Raven) provide their combined but he hasn’t mellowed with age. And talents to bring Kent’s story to She Who Must Burn – which won the Far from subtle, the film opens brimstone-spewing life on the screen. Barry Convex Award for Best Canadian with a bang and never relents. The Shane Twerdun plays Jeremiah Baarker, feature at the 2015 Fantasia Film performances may seem over the top, who - like Michael Parks in Kevin Festival – is the fiery proof of that. but they go from blackly comical to Smith’s Red State or Gene Jones in Ti deadly serious once the audience West’s Jonestown riff The Sacrament Review by Kier-La Janisse – is a disturbingly calm patriarch of his Denmark / 2015 / 81 mins Director: Bo Mikkelsen Writer: Bo Mikkelsen Producer: Sara Namer Composer: Martin Pedersen Cinematographer: Adam Philp Editors: Bo Mikkelsen, Niels Ostenfeld Cast: Mille Dinesen, Ole Dupont, Mikael Birkkjær, Marie Hammer Boda, Troels Lyby, Therese Damsgaard, Benjamin Engell, Rita Angela, Diana Axelsen, Ella Solgaard, Sonny Lahey, Michael Molin SORGENFRI Sorgenfri (What We Become) examines to spread.