IFI HORRORTHON IFI HORRORTHON 26-30 OCTOBER 2017 WELCOME TO THE DARK HALF (15.10) IFI HORRORTHON 2017! Romero’s adaptation of ’s novel receives its first theatrical screening Horrorthon, Ireland’s biggest and best genre festival, returns in Ireland with Timothy Hutton as a novelist to the IFI this month for another packed programme. We’re whose violent alter ego comes to life and proud to present this year’s line-up, which features new films threatens his family. from directors whose previous work will be familiar to regular Dir: George A. Romero v 122 mins attendees, as well as films from Japan, Australia, Spain, Brazil, Italy, and Vietnam, proving the global reach and popularity of TOP KNOT DETECTIVE (17.25) horror. We hope you enjoy this year’s festival. This hilarious Australian mockumentary revolves around an obscure Japanese THURSDAY OCTOBER 26TH television show that survives only on VHS, OPENING FILM: and behind the scenes of which were TRAGEDY GIRLS (19.00) stories of rivalry and murder. From the director of Patchwork comes Dir: Aaron McCann, Dominic Pearse v 87 mins one of the freshest and funniest horror- comedies of the year, in which two HABIT (19.10) teenage girls turn to serial killing in order After Michael witnesses a brutal murder in to increase their social media following. the massage parlour for which he works Director Tyler MacIntyre will take part in a post-screening Q&A. as doorman, he is drawn deeper into the Dir: Tyler MacIntyre v 90 mins club’s secrets in this gritty British horror. Director Simeon Halligan, producer Rachel DEAD SHACK (21.10) Richardson-Jones, and actor Elliot James Langridge will take A divorced dad brings his kids and new part in a post-screening Q&A girlfriend on a camping trip to an isolated, Dir: Simeon Halligan v 90 mins rundown cabin, where they discover that their neighbour hides a gruesome secret. THE ENDLESS (21.15) Dir: Peter Ricq v 85 mins From the directors of Spring (2014) comes this festival highlight, a subtle, CHARISMATA (22.45) disconcerting, and unpredictable story of A detective investigating a series of two brothers drawn back to the cult from ritualistic murders begins to unravel as which they escaped a decade earlier. she becomes obsessed with her arrogant Dir: Justin Benson, Aaron Moorhead v 111 mins and unnerving prime suspect in this frequently tense, nerve-wracking chiller. DOUBLE BILL: Dir: Andy Collier, Toor Mian v 100 mins TONIGHT SHE COMES / RUIN ME (23.15) Tonight She Comes is an irreverent WHO’S WATCHING OLIVER (22.50) slasher that entertains even as puts Forced by his domineering mother to audiences through the wringer. In Ruin commit gruesome murders of young Me, participants in the Ultimate Horror women, Oliver sees a way to wrest control Movie Experience see events become of his own life when he meets Sophia. real. Dir: Richie Moore v 87 mins Dir: Matt Stuertz / Preston DeFrancis v 84 mins / 87 mins SEQUENCE BREAK (23.00) When a reclusive arcade game technician installs a mysterious circuit board, he discovers a new game into which he soon DOUBLE BILL: finds himself becoming metaphorically ’S PRINCE OF DARKNESS and literally absorbed. / BODY SNATCHERS (23.20) Dir: Graham Skipper v 80 mins Priest Donald Pleasance invites a group of scientists to investigate a liquid that FRIDAY OCTOBER 27TH may be the embodiment of Satan. On a THE CRAZIES (13.10) military base in Alabama, people are being The first of our tributes to the late, replaced by mysterious duplicates. great George A. Romero sees a military Dir: John Carpenter / Abel Ferrara biological weapon accidentally released in v 102 mins / 87 mins a small American town, causing homicidal mayhem among the inhabitants. Dir: George A. Romero v 103 mins DOUBLE BILL: THE NIGHT OF THE VIRGIN (23.15) FREDDY/EDDY / INCARNATION (23.30) Desperate to lose his virginity, a young Stressed Freddy’s imaginary childhood man goes home with an older woman he friend, Eddy, reappears and quickly meets at a party, little realising the horrors loses control, wreaking violent havoc. that lie in store for him. Incarnation sees a man wake up Dir: Roberto San Sebastián v 116 mins repeatedly, trying to escape the assassins who kill him again and again. EVENT HORIZON (23.20) Dir: Tini Tüllmann / Filip Kovacevic Celebrating its twentieth anniversary with v 94 mins / 82 mins this 35mm screening, Event Horizon sees a rescue crew investigate the reappearance of a lost spaceship that seems to have SATURDAY OCTOBER 28TH brought something back with it. (13.00) Dir: Paul W.S. Anderson v 96 mins In tribute to another horror great who passed away this year, we present this rare FASHIONISTA (23.25) screening of Tobe Hooper’s Eaten Alive, Director Simon Rumley (Johnny Frank in which a psychotic hotel owner uses his Garrett’s Last Word) presents the story of guests as pet food. a fashion-obsessed woman’s life spinning Dir: Tobe Hooper v 91 mins out of control in a film influenced by De Palma and Roeg. 78/52 (14.45) Dir: Simon Rumley 110 mins This fascinating and hugely entertaining documentary takes a look behind the SunDAY OCTOBER 29TH scenes of one of horror cinema’s most KING COHEN: THE WILD WORLD iconic moments, the shower scene in OF FILMMAKER (13.00) Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho (1960). Featuring a veritable Who’s Who of Dir: Alexandre O. Philippe v 91 mins filmmakers, from to Martin Scorsese, this documentary pays TAG (16.30) affectionate tribute to the director of such Subversive Japanese director Sion classics as It’s Alive and Q-The Winged Serpent. Sono’s film features astonishing set Dir: Steve Mitchell v 110 mins pieces in this story of a woman fighting for survival in a series of threatening, and SHORT FILM SHOWCASE (15.10) often bizarre, circumstances. Featuring the best of emerging Irish and Dir: Sion Sono v 85 mins international talent, this popular slot presents a variety of shorts that is sure OUR EVIL (18.10) to include something for horror fans of Continuing the recent trend of strong every stripe. horror films to emerge from South America, this Brazilian film sees a father THE MIMIC (17.10) hire a serial killer to help protect his Following the disappearance of her son, a daughter from a demonic entity. woman moves to the countryside with her Dir: Samuel Galli v 92 mins family. When a lost little girl arrives on her doorstep and begins imitating the woman’s GAME OF DEATH (20.00) daughter, strange events follow. Seven friends chance upon a board Dir: Jung Huh v 100 mins game that requires them to kill 24 people in order to save their own lives in this SURPRISE FILM (19.10) breathless slice of gore. In recent years, this slot has included such Dir: Sebastien Landry, hits as The Town That Dreaded Sundown Laurence Morais-Lagace v 73 mins and The Witch. Be sure to get your tickets early for this year’s hotly-anticipated VICTOR CROWLEY (21.30) screening. The franchise is revived as returns as the titular killer, resurrected from the dead and free to embark on another killing spree in director ’s gory and very funny film. Dir: Adam Green v 93 mins 68 KILL (21.10) RETURN TO RETURN TO NUKE When a planned theft goes badly wrong, ‘EM HIGH AKA VOL. 2 (15.10) sewer worker Chip tries to rescue a Four years after our screening of Troma’s woman taken hostage, with his vengeful Volume 1, we’re delighted to present the girlfriend Liza (AnnaLynne McCord, continuing story of Lauren and Chrissy, Excision) in furious pursuit. who must defend Tromaville from Dir: Trent Haaga v 93 mins dangerous forces. Dir: Lloyd Kaufman v 72 mins ANGEL HEART (23.00) Marking its thirtieth anniversary, Alan THE LAPLACE’S DEMON (16.40) Parker’s Angel Heart sees Mickey Rourke Seeking to test a complex mathematical as a private investigator drawn into the equation, a group of scientists are dark and dangerous world of voodoo summoned to a mansion on a remote worship and Satanic practice. island, only to learn that the host has Dir: Alan Parker v 113 mins found new applications for their theory. Dir: Giordano Giulivi v 109 mins TORMENT (23.00) Prolific Irish filmmaker Jason Figgis STILL/BORN (19.10) returns to Horrorthon with Torment, which When one of her twin sons doesn’t survive sees a man buried alive in punishment for birth, new mother Mary’s recovery from a heinous crime while a couple struggles post-partum trauma is exacerbated by to come to terms with a dreadful loss. her belief that something evil wants to The screening will be introduced by director Jason Figgis. take her remaining child. Dir: Jason Figgis v 82 mins Dir: Brandon Christensen v 87 mins REPLACE (23.10) THE HOUSEMAID (20.50) Co-written by former Horrorthon guest In this beautifully made and eerie film, a Richard Stanley, Replace features Re- maid suffers the consequences when she Animator star in a film falls in love with her employer, awakening about a young woman with a strange skin the anger of his late wife’s spirit. condition for which there seems to be only Dir: Derek Nguyen v 105 mins one possible treatment. Dir: Norbert Keil v 101 mins MONDAY OCTOBER 30TH IFI FILM SHOP RE:BORN (13.00) Check out our extensive range Featuring some of the year’s most of horrifying titles at the IFI Film inventive and enthralling action scenes, Shop – from creepy classics to Re:Born sees a retired soldier forced out of modern masterpieces, we have his peaceful life caring for a young girl to everything the IFI Horrorthon flee an assassination attempt. fan needs! Dir: Yûji Shimomura v 115 mins

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