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29 March - 1 April 2012 DEAD BY DAWN 29 March - 1 April 2012 All screenings in Cinema One

Thursday THE FIELDS 2330 – 0115

Friday RED TEARS 1200 – 1335 What You Make It short film programme 1415 – 1515 1600 – 1800 Long Shorts short film programme 1900 – 2035 BELOW ZERO + Q&A with Signe Olynyk and Bob Schultz 2115 – 2315 THE PUPPET MONSTER MASSACRE 0015 – 0130

Saturday DELIVERANCE 1245 – 1445 Cutting Edge short film programme 1530 – 1715 NIGHTMARE FACTORY 1815 – 1950 LOBOS DE ARGA + Q&A with Juan Martinez Moreno 2045 – 2250

Late Night Triple Bill Bear + JUAN DE LOS MUERTOS 0000 – 0155 Infernal Nuns + DEMONS 0230 – 0405 MACABRE 0425 – 0600

Sunday 1345 – 1550 2D & Deranged short animation programme 1630 – 1740 RED NIGHTS 1830 – 2015 HAUNTERS 2100 – 2245 Freebies, Blethering, Shit Film Amnesty 2330 – 2350 2350 – 0140

Some times may be subject to slight change. Welcome to Dead by Dawn! It’s sound advice to be more afraid of the living than the dead. Sure, the dead can kill you, but at least they’re easy to spot. In this year’s programme too many of the monsters will smile when they meet you, and will still be smiling when they lock you in a meat freezer. Or encourage you onto a ledge. Or offer to share their martini.

You could try politely declining their kind offer, see how that works out...

Dead by Dawn is a discovery festival which exists to showcase potential and vibrant emerging talent, but also aims to screen the widest possible range of what can be described as horror both in feature and short form.

Dead by Dawn celebrates the film-makers who make the familiar feel fresh, reinvigorated and profoundly unsettling.

I hope you have a great festival! Adèle Adèle Hartley Festival Director

We’d like to thank these organisations for their support: HAUNTERS

Cho-in wasn’t the healthiest or happiest might leave others in pieces. It’s by pure (no stranger to inspired genre-blending, he child, with a sickly build, a prosthetic leg chance that Cho-in and Kyu-nam cross wrote the awesome “kimchi Western” The and, worst of all, a fearful and abusive paths, and while Cho-in’s powers, and Good The Bad The Weird), the occasional family. He has one strength, though, albeit the extent of his malice, are already quite narrative quirk and oddball joke (watch for a carefully hidden one – he has instant apparent, it is then that Kyu-nam’s abilities a subtle poke at da Vinci’s Last Supper in control over the mind and actions of anyone truly surface. Not only is he resistant to the junkyard), and the underlying thread who falls under his gaze, be it his violent physical , he is also the only person of solid friendship as life’s true treasure, father (who Cho-in deals with one overcast who Cho-in can’t dominate with his mind. never distract from but in fact only day in a quick but shocking manner) or And as Cho-in soon discovers, Kyu-nam is enhance the impact of this distinctive complete strangers. the type of guy who’ll stop at nothing to and intelligent film. right a wrong and protect those he cares for. Today, Cho-in is quite comfortable Rupert Bottenberg financially — mind control has its obvious No capes, masks, leotards or other fancy advantages — but is still a gaunt, brooding apparel here. HAUNTERS is a superhero loner. Kyu-nam, on the other hand, is the film that never explicitly announces itself polar opposite. He’s boyishly handsome, as such, despite its perfectly counter- outgoing, cheerful and a good buddy to balanced champion and villain. In fact, his two best friends, a pair of immigrant at first blush, it seems to owe more to the South Korea / 2010 / 100 mins workers from Turkey and Ghana with Asian horror wave, not only in its grim and Director: Min-suk Kim whom Kyu-nam kids around and whiles washed-out aesthetic but in its absolutely Producer: Yu-jin Lee away the hours at the scrapyard where they heart-stopping moments of supernatural Writer: Min-suk Kim work. He also seems surprisingly resilient, violence. Moreover, thanks to a clever DoP: Kyung-Pyo Hong Cast: Choi Deok-Moon, Jeong Eun-Chae, bouncing back quickly from accidents that script and astute direction by Kim Min-suk Soo Go, Dong-won Kang, Da-kyeong Yoon For the benefit of those living under a stuff. You know, first steps, first teeth, first UK/USA / 1976 / 111 mins rock these last 30 years, the story is as words, but it’s not long before the truth Director: follows: Robert Thorn () is about their son’s identity is revealed. It’s Producer: Harvey Bernhard Writer: David Seltzer a hotshot politician on the rise who has it then up to Robert to make yet another Music: Jerry Goldsmith all. Well, almost all. What he wants dearly tough decision – whether or not to dispose DoP: Gilbert Taylor is an heir to his proverbial throne. His of his little bundle of demonic infamy. The Editor: Stuart Baird prayers are both answered and pissed on answer to that is evident from Damien’s F/X: John Richardson, George Gibbs, Roy Field the night that his wife goes into labour. return in two sequels, but even if you Cast: Gregory Peck, , David Upon arriving at the hospital, he finds out know the ending, The Omen is still one Warner, Billie Whitelaw, Harvey Stephens, that their child, a son, was stillborn. Before hell of a ride. Patrick Troughton, Martin Benson, grief has even a moment to set in, Robert’s Robert Rietty, Tommy Duggan, John Stride, Anthony Nicholls, Holly Palance, given an interesting option. As *ahem* Top-notch acting, great camera work, an Roy Boyd, Freda Dowie, Sheila Raynor, luck would have it, that very night, in unforgettable score, and even a nice bit of Robert MacLeod, Bruce Boa, Don Fellows, that same hospital, a mother died during gore thrown in for good measure. Without Patrick McAlinney, Dawn Perllman labour and left her son without a parent. question I could spend the next ten He’s then informed by a rather dark priest minutes writing about why this film is a that nobody would ever have to know. classic, but I’m sure you already are aware. Desperate to have a child of his own and Honestly, it doesn’t get much better than not wanting to see his wife (Lee Remick) this. The Omen has it all! have to go through the agony of the night’s true dealings, Robert accepts the child into From a review by Uncle Creepy for his family as their son. dreadcentral.com

Things go pretty well for the trio that. There’s the usual bringing up baby Deliverance

“Chromium… paper tissues… It’s nice,” Adapted from a novel by James Dickey, tale of humanity vs nature in which one Jon Voight tells some hospital attendants Deliverance is a film about finding side can only win by surrendering to near the end of 1972’s Deliverance. the place where ideas mean less than the other. The construction of a dam He’s rambling, but there’s sense beneath instinct. In the least violent of the film’s destined to strip this piece of wilderness the incoherence. Coming out of a back- iconic scenes, Cox launches into a spirited away forever spurs the trip on and leads to-nature weekend gone horribly awry, guitar-vs-banjo duet with a malformed Reynolds to exclaim, “They’re drowning he must find any signs of human society teenage boy. Both appear delighted with the river.” But nothing, the film keeps comforting, even though getting away from the musical connection they make, but that suggesting, can stay submerged forever. all that comfort was the whole idea. connection ends with the last note. Cox is a tourist who only thinks he’s found a Review by Keith Phipps for The Onion AV Voight is one of four men who set out on new home. Such moments only intensify Club / avclub.com the weekend, and one of the three who as their journey progresses, the river grows make it home. They’re all the product of more challenging, and the locals become white-collar Atlanta, but in spite of their less hospitable. USA / 1972 / 110 mins common background, they have widely Director: John Boorman Producer: John Boorman different dispositions. Ned Beatty has Working from a screenplay by Dickey, Writer: James Dickey a softness that befits his girth. Ronny Boorman and cinematographer Vilmos Music: Michael Addiss Cox’s gentle, bespectacled guitar-playing Zsigmond play the parts of patient DoP: Vilmos Zsigmond character wants only to pick and grin. The observers as Voight and his friends are Editor: Tom Priestley F/X: Marcel Vercoutere most forceful personality belongs to Burt forced to adapt, or maybe devolve, to fit Cast: Jon Voight, Burt Reynolds, Ned Beatty, Reynolds, a man whose confidence and their new surroundings. Their adversaries Ronny Cox, Ed Ramey, Billy Redden, machismo are shored up by expensive are human, but they seem more like Seamon Glass, Randall Deal, Bill McKinney, hunting equipment and a lot of tough talk. extensions of the mud and foliage than Herbert ‘Cowboy’ Coward, Lewis Crone, Ken Keener, Johnny Popwell, John Fowler, But talk, they all discover, only goes so far. anything resembling civilization. It’s a Kathy Rickman Jack the Hack is a screenwriter with a minimum and instead scares the audience Canada / 2010 / 98 mins writer’s block to end all writer’s blocks. He with “What Ifs.” But what I loved the most Director: Justin Thomas Ostensen has a concept for a film, and that’s about about the movie is how self aware it is, Producers: Bob Schultz, Judy Fox, Chad Kowalchuk, Signe Olynyk, it. His agent has the idea to lock him in a almost to an indulgent sense. The writer Justin Thomas Ostensen, Laura Pursley freezer (the plot of his concept), and not isn’t shy about her influences, or her love Writer: Signe Olynyk let him out until he has a script. As the five of the horror genre in general, and calls Music: Jeff Tymoschuk days pass, the line begins to blur between out clichés and loopholes by name. It’s the DoP: Norm Li Editor: Justin Thomas Ostensen what’s reality and what’s in his head. The most in-your-face homage I think I’ve ever Cast: Edward Furlong, Michael Berryman, movie says it best in the opening sequence: seen, but it’s also the most clever. Kristin Booth, Dee Hanna, Michael Eisner, There’s nothing scarier than a blank page. Sadie Maduv A great movie filled with great Below Zero does a great job setting performances and witty, biting dialogue, Dead by Dawn is delighted to welcome Signe up its simple premise. The idea of a guy Below Zero sets out to redefine Olynyk and Bob Schultz to the festival locked in a freezer forced to come up the horror genre – putting emphasis on with an idea isn’t a particularly complex character development and a well crafted one – and it’s because of this that the story, instead of just seeing how many nude audience is completely unprepared for and busty women they can slaughter in the suspenseful, emotional roller coaster an hour and a half. It’s truly a remarkable that writer Signe Olynyk sends on. The film that will stick with you well after the seemingly simple story twists and weaves in credits have rolled. If there is a screening and out of multiple time lines and scenarios near you, I urge you to see it as many times that unfold in rapid succession, leaving you as you can. constantly wondering which reality is reality. Review by Philip Kirsner for theyayornay.com Not one for cheap thrills and shock tactics, Below Zero keeps the gore to a

Below Zero CUTTING EDGE SHORTS THE PACT As a woman struggles to come to grips with her past in the wake of her mother’s death, an unsettling presence emerges in her childhood home. Not everything has been laid to rest. USA / 2011 / 11 mins Director: Nicholas McCarthy A FUNCTION A girl sits in a classroom, solving a math quiz. If she cannot solve it in time, a horrible thing is likely to happen. The clock is ticking, and her pencil is broken. South Korea / 2011 / 9 mins Director: Hyunsoo Lee

ELLA Mother lies dead in the kitchen, her husband has blood on his hands. He takes the shotgun, loads it, carries spare ammunition and heads into the woods calling for his daughter. UK / 2010 / 9 mins Director: Dan Gitsham ESTOMAGO It might be the end of the world. A man has barricaded himself in a large abandoned hotel, the only survivor of an unnamed disaster. It isn’t long, however, before his small world starts to collapse. France / 2011 / 15 mins Directors: Camille Achour, Jean Thomas Seité THE COLDEST CALLER Mrs Evans has got something wrong with her plumbing, and the prognosis is just about as bad as it can be. Still, she’s a resourceful old girl and not one to take things lying down. UK / 2011 / 4 mins Director: Joe Tucker LAST CHRISTMAS A ten year old boy struggles to care for his bewildered grandmother when he is left alone with her on Christmas Eve. Constantly distracting her is his only hope of keeping a terrible secret. Canada / 2011 / 12 mins Director: Geoff Redknap PLAY DEAD A apocalypse unites a ragtag pack of dogs in the ruined streets of Miami. Immune to the epidemic, they must survive both the ferocious undead and human survivors. Sit. Stay. Play dead. USA / 2011 / 18 mins Directors: Andres Meza-Valdes, Diego Meza-Valdes Quedate ConmigO It’s another fight – she’s hysterical, convinced of a betrayal. He defends himself, verbally and physically, only retaliating when things get really out of hand. In the aftermath, though, there’s tenderness. Spain / 2010 / 20 mins Director: Zoe Berriatúa obosobosobos dedede argaargaarga

This gorgeous werewolf comedy from Juan Martínez Moreno is that rare thing - a L funny film that doesn’t stint on either the LL horror or the laughs.

Opening with an exquisite animation, the background to this story goes that in the small Galician village of Arga in 1910, the Marchioness of Mariño so enraged a gypsy that she and her son fell victim to an evil curse.

A hundred years later, Thomas Mariño, the last male descendent of the Marchioness’s line, is invited to Arga to receive an honour. So he’s only written one book and it wasn’t that good and no-one really read it, but what the hell – his ego isn’t remotely deterred and it’s an excuse to go back, see some old friends and be told how wonderful he is.

Arriving in town, all eyes are on him, though not necessarily for his puny literary accomplishments. He seems to be getting the most attention from one of his uncles who has appointed himself both mayor and priest without much of a murmur from the other villagers. Still, Thomas has decided that the break is an ideal opportunity to get that tricky second novel underway, and is Spain / 2011 / 103 mins not to be put off, no matter how weird the Director: Juan Martínez Moreno place is getting. Producers: Tomás Cimadevilla, Beatriz Delgado, Emma Lustres, Borja Pena Arga hasn’t changed for 100 years, but Writer: Juan Martínez Moreno there’s a reason for that, and Thomas is Music: Sergio Moure about to discover some unpleasant truths DoP: Carlos Ferro about his family. Editor: Nacho Ruiz Capillas F/X: Viviana Sánchez, Arturo Balceiro, Federico Cueva, Juan Ramón Molina, We are delighted to welcome director Juan Romasanta, Dharma Studio: Martinez Moreno to Dead by Dawn. Rodolfo Dellibarda, Raquel Guirro, Juan Serrano Cast: Carlos Areces, Luis Zahera, Juan will introduce his film and host a Q&A after Mabel Rivera, Secun de la Rosa, the screening. Gorka Otxoa, Manuel Manquiña Back in the 1980’s, in the days before Not technically a ‘zombie’ film as such but screen where it belongs. Switch your brain internet, the only source of horror movie very much so in spirit, it’s frenetic horror off and strap yourself in for one hell of a information was from various small press entertainment at its best. DEMONS is a horror ride! fanzines and from trailers of incoming fast-paced gory romp that demands you releases on VHS rental tapes. One such leave your sense of disbelief outside the Review by Alan Simpson - Sex Gore Mutant trailer that appeared (on several releases by door and delivers in spades when it comes (and Demons fanatic) Avatar Video) was for a new Italian shocker to eye-popping splatter fun. called DEMONS. Directed by and produced by , the DEMONS has the very simple premise trailer screamed ‘must see’ for any splatter- where a screening of an untitled movie loving genre fan. is taking place at the newly re-opened / 1985 / 88 mins Metropole cinema in the heart of Berlin. Director: Lamberto Bava Sadly, like most Italian horror films, Producer: Dario Argento DEMONS never made it onto the cinema The patrons attending discover that they’re Story: Dardano Sacchetti screen and was released direct to the VHS there to see a trashy horror flick (a gory Screenplay: Dario Argento, Lamberto Bava, Dardano Sacchetti, Franco Ferrini rental market. So on the day of release Italian Scooby Doo style romp) but bloody Music: Claudio Simonetti I made my way to the Video Exchange mayhem ensues as the plot is swiftly DoP: Gianlorenzo Battaglia shop near the infamous Paddy’s Market thrown out the window and all hell literally Editor: Piero Bozza, Franco Fraticelli in Glasgow and handed over £30 for a new breaks loose in a visual and aural feast that F/X: Rosario Prestopino, Sergio Stivaletti Cast: Urbano Barberini, Natasha Hovey, big box rental copy of DEMONS fresh off has made DEMONS a firm favourite with Karl Zinny, Fiore Argento, Paola Cozzo, the shelf. Once home I slotted in the tape horror fans around the world. Fabiola Toledo, Nicoletta Elmi, and pressed play, then after three back to Stelio Candelli, Nicole Tessier, back viewings I knew I had just watched With this rare festival screening, DEMONS Geretta Giancarlo, Bobby Rhodes, Guido Baldi, Bettina Ciampolini, something special. at long last makes its way onto the big Giuseppe Cruciano, Sally Day RED NIGHTS

Red Nights marks two significant The kill sequences are some of the most Hong Kong/France/Belgium / 2009 / 98 mins events: a debut and an overdue return. unique, sexualized and sadistic ever put on Directors: Julien Carbon, Laurent Courtiaud The film is directors’ Julien Carbon and screen. As the jade-clawed Dragon Lady, Producers: Philippe Carcassonne, Alexis Dantec, Patrick Quinet, Rita Wu Laurent Courtiaud’s first feature, having Ng shows she is equal parts seductress Writers: Julien Carbon, Laurent Courtiaud built their careers as screenwriters, most and psycho-sexual killer. She lures and Music: Alex Cortés, Willie Cortés notably for Johnnie To’s thriller Running traps her victims in a variety of inescapable DoP: Man-Ching Ng Out of Time. The long awaited return is “pleasure” devices. The first apparatus is Editor: Sébastien Prangère F/X: Bertrand Levallois, Jam Abelanet that of Hong Kong starlet Carrie Ng, who difficult at first to understand but it ends Cast: Frédérique Bel, Carrie Ng, is famous for her sexy and deadly presence up being a very effective snare. Later on, Carole Brana, Stephen Wong Cheung-Hing, in such films as Naked Killer and Sex and the harness contraption is not as unusual Kotone Amamiya, Maria Chen, Jack Kao Zen. These occasions blend as the perfect a piece of equipment, but it is here that ingredients for an erotic thriller evocative the act of freeing a butterfly for luck is of Dario Argento’s bloody escapades into given a new, unforgettable context. In sex and death. addition, a pause for the perfect martini is an interesting but chilling one. A box containing a white jade seal rumoured to have belonged to China’s first The music in the film is quite notable. Emperor falls into the hands of Catherine The score is provided by French composers (Frédérique Bel), a mistress who takes the Seppuku Paradigm, who are also responsible valuable artefact to Hong Kong in the hopes for the music in Martyrs and Eden Log. of selling it. It absolutely complements the graceful murder scenes in the film. In addition, the Meanwhile, in Hong Kong, Carrie (Ng), lyrical music is very captivating, particularly a wealthy patron of the arts, mounts the Elysian Fields track “Climbing My Dark a production of the opera The Jade Hair.” The opera, which mirrors Carrie’s Emperor – the tale of the first Emperor’s own fetish and obsession, is an original executioner, who used a deadly poison to piece written by Carbon and Courtiaud, paralyze his victims while simultaneously who also wrote the screenplay. enhancing their sensations. Carrie is single-mindedly obsessed with finding this Combining the styles of Italian and ancient poison. espionage thrillers, Red Nights is an intriguing journey into the exotic Far East When it becomes apparent that the white not yet seen. jade seal contains a vial of the elixir, Catherine finds herself caught in Carrie’s From a review by Sarah Gopaul for sadistic web, where bliss and pain are Toronto Film Scene blurred into a twisted, forbidden ecstasy. There is certainly an argument to be made as scraping for every peso, and he stands Perhaps the greatest surprise that Juan that the horror comedy has played itself firmly against the current regime. The of the Dead has to offer is heart. This out, but every few years something fresh zombie as metaphor for the downtrodden is is where the politics come in, but really this pokes its head out of the mire, and we not subtle, but it is effective, and if there film is about people, normal people, who all rejoice. is any complaint to be made it is that the just happen to be fighting to save politics are perhaps alienating to non- their own lives. In that regard it is very Cuban cinema is nearly as mysterious as Cuban audiences. The film doesn’t suffer similar to , and in fact everything else on the island. Very few from these digressions for long, though, and it cribs a couple of scenes almost directly Cuban films make it out, and the ones clearly has more than a political statement from that film, however I would argue that that do typically don’t make much of a in mind. Juan of the Dead makes a deeper splash. Ostensibly this is because any state emotional connection with the viewer. funded film (and most are) that leaves the Filled with clever dialogue, plenty of solid The fact that it takes the time to build island must be seen by the powers that gore and the blackest of black humour, the characters with real emotions in the midst be in the still communist government. It film doesn’t shy away from blood, guts, sex, of the explosions, gut-munching and other is miraculous, then, that Juan of the bad attitudes, foul language, also managing insane action is encouraging and really Dead has made it this far. to fit in some very inventive zombie works to its benefit. kills. The effects are all exceptional, the In Juan of the Dead, the title cinematography is inventive and beautiful, Polished and heartfelt, Juan of the character is a shiftless petty thief who has and the script is wonderful – wry and funny. Dead brings a new voice in genre made bad decisions in his life that have led filmmaking from a land hamstrung by to the severing of many potentially very politics for decades. Maybe if we’re lucky, rewarding relationships, specifically one this film will usher in a new renaissance of with his now grown daughter. He does, Cuban filmmakers making genre films. however, have a heart, and as he approaches middle age, he attempts to reconnect From a review by Josh Hurtado for twitch.com with her and turn his life around. Juan is nothing if not determined, and his resolve Spain/Cuba / 2011 / 100 mins Director: Alejandro Brugués to make himself whole again is noble. Producers: Claudia Calviño, Inti Herrera, There’s just one problem: the zombies. Gervasio Iglesias Writer: Alejandro Brugués Brugues takes the time to set the scene DoP: Carles Gusi Editor: Mercedes Cantero early on, introducing us to his Havana; a F/X: David Arguelles, Marco Antonio city populated by myriad different types, Hernández, Cristian Perez Jauregui, mostly working class, who bring a depth to Karina Espinoza Monroy, the film that is necessary to make Juan Gerardo Munoz Lopez Cast: Blanca Rosa Blanco, Elsa Camp, of the Dead work. The director clearly Alexis Díaz de Villegas, Andrea Duro, Luis takes great pride in Cuba as his home, but Alberto García, Jorge Molina, does not condone its past, and does fear Andros Perugorría, Susana Pous, for its future. He pictures its residents Eliecer Ramírez, Jazz Vilá

JUAN DE LOS MUERTOS Red Tears

There are movies so good that by the time Fast-paced and bloody, Red Tears is your Tears; the actors – Kurata in particular – the credits roll, you’ve already whipped out typical B-horror movie fare. The acting seem to be having fun and their enthusiasm your phone and texted everyone you know is overdone, and the characters are stock translates onto the screen. All in all, if that they absolutely have to watch it. And types from various crime procedurals. The you’ve got some spare time and enjoy then there are movies so bad, they border first third of the movie seems to zigzag B-films, you could do so much worse than on the hilarious and become cult classics. from B-movie camp to serious attempts Red Tears. Red Tears is not quite cult classic at a suspense thriller – tonal whiplash, if material, but it’s not too far off either. you will. Around the halfway-mark, the From a review by Victoria Song at movie throws all semblance of ‘seriousness’ japancinema.net Directed by Takanori Tsujimoto and out the window and it’s here that the produced by veteran Asian action star film begins to build up a nice rhythm of Yasuaki Kurata, Red Tears is a campy bloody, over-the-top action sequences. horror-influenced action film. The film While the fight scenes in Red Tears follows two detectives – one a cynical aren’t particularly jaw dropping, they veteran hell-bent on revenge, and the other are entertaining with a couple of bone- a young, idealistic straight shooter – as they poppingly memorable scenes. try to catch a serial killer whose calling card is the decapitated heads of his victims. As From the cheesy midi-music to the copious the detectives follow the killer’s trail, they amounts of squirting blood, Red Tears Japan / 2011 / 88 mins find that what they’re dealing with involves is one of those films where you turn off Director: Takanori Tsujimoto the supernatural and is somehow tied to a your brain and just have fun. The film’s Producers: Yasuaki Kurata, Masashi Horiuchi young woman and her invalid mother. plot is basically there to give context to Writers: Takanori Tsujimoto, Eiichi Yonekawa the action sequences – think too hard and Music: Hikaru Yoshida DoPs: Takanori Tsujimoto, Hiroaki Yuasa you’re setting yourself up for a miserable F/X: Yoshihiro Nishimura, Tomoya Ôhata, time. For its faults, it’d be easy to write Nishimura Motion Picture Model Makers Group off Red Tears as one of the hordes Cast: Yûma Ishigaki, Natsuki Katô, of terrible horror films that seem to be Yasuaki Kurata, Ayaka Morita, Masahiro Nagai, Kôji Nakamura, flooding theatres these days but for some Yôju Takashima, Karin Yamaguchi reason, there’s a definite charm to Red WHAT YOU MAKE IT

KIDZ A walk in the park should be a walk in the park, really. It’s just a shame when basic things get overly complicated. Happily, here’s a very helpful person to show how it should be done. Ireland / 2010 / 2 mins Director: Brian Folan

ALL FLOWERS IN TIME I am not from this place, declares a French cowboy. An old toothless man asks, Do you know why you’re here? Children are infected with an evil signal from a Dutch TV show. USA/Canada / 2010 / 14 mins Director: Jonathan Caouette

hope A General lies dying and his mind, accustomed to a life on the battlefield, surrenders to a stream of consciousness mixing death, brutality and finally, one last gesture of hope. Canada / 2011 / 11 mins Director: Pedro Pires

La Migala A brokenhearted man desperately wants to bring feeling back to his numb existence. So he buys a pet (of sorts) which he lets roam free around his apartment. Now every day is a life or death struggle. Spain / 2011 / 14 mins Director: Jaime Dezcallar

CANTATA IN C MAJOR Even with the animated ‘chalkboard’ introduction to explain the entire process, it’s hard to take your eyes off the visual component with that data and noise. Still, it’s therapeutic! USA / 2007 / 8 mins Director: Ronnie Cramer The cabin in thewoods

Five friends go to a remote cabin in the suggests star . “This film “The Cabin In The Woods really woods. Bad things happen. respects the audience by questioning our is what Drew and I set out to write,” says desire for horror films to begin with.” Whedon. “Our intention was to create a If you think you know this story, think two-hour experience that felt familiar to again. From fan favorites and Whedon admits he’s fascinated by this horror fans like us, but then flips it on its comes The Cabin In question. “There’s some part of us, some head, sending everyone into a fun tailspin.” The Woods, a mind-blowing deep, dark, primitive part of us that wants that turns the genre inside out. to sacrifice these people onscreen. I wanted And what should horror fans, or Joss to make a movie that explained why. And Whedon fans, expect from the film? “You’re Director Drew Goddard and co-writer and so it’s been a strange experience because gonna see some things that you’ve never producer Joss Whedon have crafted a love on the one hand, we do straight up horror. seen before in your life,” he says. “And you letter to the horror genre that pays homage We definitely love the genre and the tropes won’t believe some of the places we take to fright classics ranging from ’s of the genre but at the same time we have you. But it’ll be fun. Also bloody and angry to Dario Argento’s Suspiria. But a lot of questions about why and where it’s while it clearly respects its predecessors, going.” and horrific. That too. But mostly fun.” The Cabin In The Woods also questions the very tropes it’s re-enacting. “Drew is a true horror aficionado,” adds Whedon. “He was ready to commit to it, USA / 2011 / 105 mins “I love horror,” explains Whedon, “but ready to buy the most amount of blood you Director: Drew Goddard the plots are becoming more and more can purchase in Canada. He’s the kind of Producers: Jason Clark, Lucas D. Hill, predictable. The killings are more and horror director who’ll spend a day watching Joss Whedon more disgusting. The kids are becoming different blood splatters to find the right one.” Writers: Joss Whedon, Drew Goddard more and more expendable. And more love Music: is put into the instruments of torture and To do justice to all that blood, Goddard DoP: no love at all is put into the dialogue polish. set his sights on Peter Deming to be his Editor: F/X: AFX Studio The ritual of it is getting cheapened.” Director of Photography, who had the Cast: , , “perfect resume” for The Cabin In The , Chris Hemsworth, “I think the danger with horror films is that Woods with films like , Evil Dead Fran Kranz, Kristen Connolly, they often treat the audience as idiots,” 2, and Mulholland Drive to his credit. Anna Hutchison, Brian White, Acker 2D & DERANGED

BOBBY YEAH Bobby Yeah is a petty thug who lightens his miserable existence by brawling and stealing stuff until he steals the favourite pet of some very dangerous individuals and finds himself in deep trouble. UK / 2011 / 23 mins Director: Robert Morgan

ESCAPE FROM HELLVIEW A little boy waits until his mother has tucked him in and then draws a door on the wall. Soon he’s transported to the circus where all the fun of the fair awaits him. And clowns. Israel / 2011 / 7 mins Director: Hadas Brandes

PORK ‘N Bones Everyone’s time must come, and for this super-cute pig, it’s game over. At least, that’s Death’s plan. The pig is on his list, it should all be fairly routine. This little piggy, however, has other plans. USA / 2010 / 2 mins Director: Michael Tyler Heckman

WISDOM TEETH Maybe it’s the effects of the sedatives, maybe it’s just relief that it’s all over, but when you leave the dentist with stitches in your mouth, it’s probably best to go straight home. USA / 2010 / 6 mins Director: Don Hertzfeldt

THE EXTERNAL WORLD A mind-melting array of animation styles and references; layered, fractured and ever so slightly demented, this short is impossible to describe! Oddly poignant at times, gross at others, it just has to be seen… Germany/Ireland / 2010 / 17 mins Director: David O’Reilly

Ethereal Chrysalis A nightmare where the inter-dimensional cosmic order is consumed by dementia. Leave your mind in the ethereal labyrinth of madness where the doors of perception become the annihilation of all rational thought. Canada / 2011 / 10 mins Director: Syl Disjonk

We are delighted to welcome director Syl Disjonk to the festival. Macabre

Macabre is a film that knows exactly Head ‘crazy’ is played by a woman with the Singapore/Indonesia / 2009 / 95 mins what it is doing. It unpretentiously offers name Shareefa Daanish and her classically Directors: The Mo Brothers up a stock-standard genre set-up in order OTT brand of loony is a joy to watch. While Producera: Greg Chew, Tan Fong to give the audience what they want. And there is nothing subtle about her overly Cheng, Gary Goh, James Toh, what they want is buckets of blood. made up and arch performance, aficionados Freddie Yeo of movie psychos will have a ball with her Writers: The Mo Brothers Music: Yudhi Arfani, Zeke Khaseli So, a group of friends in the middle of a character. From her stilted delivery to her DoP: Roni Arnold poise with a chainsaw this is top grade loon. long drive back to the city stop to offer a Editor: Herman Panca stranded woman a lift home. Upon arriving Cast: Ario Bayu, Shareefa Daanish, at her isolated property she invites the Unlike a film such as Braindead for Julie Estelle, Ruly Lubis, group in for a quick bite to eat. example, Macabre is remarkably stoic Daniel Mananta, Mike Muliadro, and serious in tone. There are short bursts Arifin Putra, Dendy Subangil, After about 20 minutes the film gets down of humourous relief but for the most part it Imelda Therinne, Sigi Wimala to business and for the next 75 minutes is very straight-faced. For some audiences offers some of the bloodiest cinema I have this may make Macabre a little too seen in quite a while. The Mo Brothers, sadistic for their tastes but I felt the Mo obviously raised on a diet of American Brothers kept the whole film on the side of splatter movies, know exactly what their being entertainingly extreme. Macabre target market wants and they choreograph is an engaging, bloody horror film to be their kills with great relish. Dropping in enjoyed with friends and drinks! references to Hitchcock and Scorsese among others, The Mo Brothers escalate From a review by Richard Haridy / their set-pieces with panache as each www.richonfilm.com sequence tops the previous. TheThe PuPuppppeett MonsMonstterer MassacreMassacre

Written and directed by Dustin Mills, this to be a much darker film, it might’ve final product. The story (by Mills) is well puppet extravaganza is about a group of looked like The Puppet Monster written, the puppet work is exceptional teenagers who are challenged to spend Massacre. and the film’s visual effects are surprisingly a night in the mansion of Dr Wagner spot-on perfect. The majority of jokes (Steve Rimpici), on the edge of town. Our Charlie (Ethan Holey) lives at home land perfectly and the voice ensemble is unsuspecting teenagers don’t realize that with his grandpa (Bart Flynn). He has a uniformly strong. Wagner has concocted a monstrosity in the crush on Gwen (Jessica Daniels), but has mansion’s basement and plans to make our never worked up the nerve to do anything The Puppet Monster Massacre is teenage risk-takers the monster’s first about it. Raimi (Dustin Mills), one of our the best kind of B-movie - wild, delirious, big meal. teenagers, is obviously meant as a loving psychotic, funny, graphic, gory and just tribute to Sam Raimi and is probably the plain nuts. Reminiscent of the campy 80’s monster film’s most delightful character. flicks, The Puppet Monster In other words, you gotta see it! Massacre is likely to either completely While The Puppet Monster repulse you or leave you bent over laughing Massacre is obviously a low-budget film, From a review by Richard Propes / and horrified with it all. If Team America it’s a low-budget film that has been crafted www.theindependentcritic.com had gone way more psychotic and chosen by a talented team that cares about its

USA / 2010 / 70 mins Director: Dustin Mills Producers: Dustin Mills, Amanda Smith Writer: Dustin Mills Music: Jared Kaelber Puppet Builder: Kim Mills Editor: Dustin Mills Cast: Steve Rimpici, Jessica Daniels, Bart Flynn, Ethan Holey, Erica Kisseberth, Dustin Mills, Brandon Salkil USA / 1982 / 120 mins Director: George A Romero Producers: Salah M Hassanein, Richard The Puppet Monster Massacre P Rubinstein, David E Vogel The Puppet Monster Massacre Writer: Music: John Harrison Creepshow DoP: Michael Gornick Editors: , Paul Hirsch, George A Romero, Michael Spolan F/X: Cast: Hal Holbrook, Adrienne Barbeau, Fritz Weaver, Leslie Nielsen, Carrie Nye, E G Marshall, Viveca Lindfors, Ed Harris, Ted Danson, Stephen King, Warner Shook, Robert Harper, Elizabeth Regan, Gaylen Ross, Jon Lormer, Don Keefer, Bingo O’Malley, John Amplas, David Early, Nann Mogg, Iva Jean Saraceni, Joe King, Forrest, Chuck Aber, Cletus Anderson, Katie Karlovitz, Peter Messer, Marty Schiff, Tom Savini

Creepshow opens with a boy caught reading a comic by his dad, who promptly tears the comic from the kid’s hands and turfs it outside in the garbage. A strong wind blows, the pages flip over, and we come to the intro to our first segment…

Ed Harris stars in Father’s Day where a man returns to exact revenge on the family that mistreated him. Stephen King stars in The Lonesome Death of Jordy Verrill as a country hick who finds a meteor on his property. In Something To Tide You Over, Leslie Nielsen is driven to invent a gruesome demise for his wife and her lover. ’s Adrian Barbeau and Hal Holbrook should know better than to look in and then finally, germophobic EG Marshall loses his battle with nature in They’re Creeping Up On You.

Gory, unpleasant, icky, sticky, bizarre, cruel and hilarious, Creepshow is an absolute treat of an anthology movie. USA / 2011 / 90 mins Director: Donna Davies Producers: Donna Davies, Kimberlee McTaggart, Dan Stewart Writer: Donna Davies Music: Asif Illyas, Shehab Illyas DoP: Robert Zimmerman Editor: Dennis Bradley Nightmare Cast: Gabriel Bartalos, , Steve Biodrowski, Everett Burrell, , Gino Crognale, , , Laurie Holden, Chela Johnson, Robert Kirkman, John Landis, Mike McCarty, Gregory Nicotero, Factory Norman Reedus, George A Romero, Tom Savini, Andy Schoneberg, , Cerina Vincent, Jesse Wente, Elijah Wood

KNB FX is a name that every genre geek effects for that series. Nightmare out of business, it has certainly changed should know. Factory doesn’t forget to show where their work in other ways. Many times, they all came from, and how they got to be practical effects have to work with digital The documentary takes you into the lives such an important part of the industry. effects. Examples show how KNB has of , Howard Berger and embraced the use of CGI, enhancing the to show how they created Nicotero, Berger, and Kurtzman come from work that they’ve created. As everyone what is now one of the most respected and a time when kids got their monsters from involved in the film remembers the recognized effects companies. the pages of magazines, something that brotherhood that existed in days gone by, I they talk about quite a lot in the film. It’s couldn’t help but wonder what the future Think of this one as a gorehound’s fantasy. also a point that provides a bit of sadness holds. Everything always seems better Interviews are cut in with shot after shot as well. They wonder where the next when you look back on it. Almost everyone of behind the scenes work at KNB. The generation of monster kids will come from, in the film agrees that the industry doesn’t documentary probably has more gore than and discuss how they don’t think there feel the same way, but will that change in some of the films these guys work on. Most is the same sort of love for creatures that 30 years when we’re looking back again? of this footage is taken by Greg Nicotero, there used to be. I’m not so sure that it’s who has been documenting his work since the kids that have changed, I think it’s the No matter what happens in the future, he was on Evil Dead 2. monsters that are different. Villains are Nightmare Factory shows us how much more human than they used to be. great the present is. KNB has created some Not only do you get a behind the scenes We’re not treated to radioactive ants or the of the greatest creatures history has ever look at how KNB works, but also many mummy anymore. Hannibal Lecter is a known and it’s obvious from the doc that behind the scenes moments on films like great villain, but not the same way that The they’ve got plenty more to come. Evil Dead 2, , From Dusk Creature was. Till Dawn, and Kill Bill. There does seem Review by Will Brownridge / www.the-filmreel.com to be a large focus on The Walking Dead, The documentary also explores changes in as I’m sure the film was being made while the industry. Many movies rely on digital KNB was hard at work on their impressive effects now, and while it won’t put KNB MAIN SHORTS

infernal nuns Pope Innocentius VIII is dying and Marie Claire, an innocent nun, is ready to sacrifice everything. But her devoted love will be her downfall. Abused and left for dead, she decides to take REVENGE! Germany / 2011 / 3 mins Directors: Roland Petrizza, Alex Eslam

BEAR This is the sequel to Nash’s film Spider, which we screened in 2008. Jack is a guy who means well, but he doesn’t always think things through. Sometimes the best intentions have the worst consequences. Australia / 2011 / 11 mins Director: Nash Edgerton

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Murderabilia A truly grim, atmospheric film that plunges into the seedy underbelly of a profoundly macabre market – the buying and selling of murder-related collectibles – following a compulsive collector as he tracks down a specific artefact. USA / 2010 / 30 mins Director: David Matthews

the unliving In the wake of the apocalypse, a zombie virus has spread over Sweden. Survivors live in gated communities. Politicians have approved the use of experimental drugs to control the undead for menial work. It’s a brave new world. Sweden / 2010 / 28 mins Director: Hugo Lilja

An Evening with My Comatose Mother Dorothy Pritchard seems to have it pretty easy, house-sitting for a wealthy couple on All Hallows Eve. There’s a cool paycheck in it, too. Then she’s introduced to Mrs Poe’s mother. USA / 2011 / 33 mins Director: Jonathan Martin The Fields

It’s 1973 and Bonnie and Barry are a couple Already troubled by ongoing news of the Based on writer B Harrison Smith’s in trouble. He’s got the temper of a maniac capture of Charles Manson and some of personal recollections of summers of and doesn’t like her friends, she likes his ‘family’, Steven is even more intimidating and inexplicable events at his to stay out drinking when she could be unsettled by the occasional run-in with a own grandparents’s farm, this home taking care of their young son. It all van load of hippies who are upsetting is a story full of unsettling escalation and implodes when Barry puts a gun to Bonnie’s pretty much everyone in the vicinity by the absolute terror of helplessness. head as a way of trying to win an argument. squatting on nearby land and stealing food from the locals. She bundles Steven (the seriously impressive Joshua Ormond) into the car When his curiosity gets the better of him, and – after making it clear to her own Steven ignores his grandmother’s advice parents that they’re even less fit to care for and repeatedly ventures into the corn him than she is – takes him out to Barry’s fields – which are only made creepier by parents farm. Lucky Steven is now in the the fact they border an abandoned funfair care of Gladys (Cloris Leachman, swearing – but with each trip he seems to encourage like a trooper) and Hiney (Bev Appleton) something unpleasant to follow him home. while mom and dad get back to the serious USA / 2011 / 99 mins Directors: Tom Mattera, David Mazzoni business of knackering their marriage from Despite the budgetary limitations, The Producers: Faust Checho, George the inside out. Fields is a beautiful film, both to see Englund Jr, Tom Mattera, David Mazzoni, and hear and it presents an interesting Harrison Smith The farm is bordered by corn fields and experience for horror fans. While we’re Writer: Harrison Smith as all horror fans know, nothing good has used to children being conduits for evil or Music: John Avarese ever happened in a corn field. Grandma outright victims, here Ormond reminds us DoP: Daniel Watchulonis Gladys explains to the child that he should what it is to be knee-high to a world we Editors: Tom Mattera, David Mazzoni Cast: Tara Reid, Cloris Leachman, stay out of the fields otherwise they’ll don’t yet fully understand, and to be at the Brian Anthony Wilson, Karen Ludwig, never find him and “you’ll be all dead and of a comment or random encounter Miles Williams, Max Antisell, Joshua black and swollen and smelly and it’ll be or joke all of which may be Ormond, Faust Checho, Justin Cade just terrible.” meaningless, but which can seem predatory Accardi, Jane Tarica, Tom McCarthy, Bev and threatening. Appleton, Louis Morabito Shit Film Amnesty

Every year, Dead by Dawn provides a golden opportunity to offload the very worst dreck from your DVD shelves. All you have to do is own up to how this atrocity ever got house-room in the first place (you can do this anonymously, if you like) and we’ll ask the audience to decide just which film is the very worst of the worst. Should you be lucky enough to...”win”... then your prize is not just your own movie back again, but all the other entries too. Woohoo!! We strongly advise Promoting Horror online since 1999 winners to walk home past a skip! Reviews, Interviews and more! Not sure if your rubbish is maybe too good for the Amnesty? Here’s a reminder of some of the shameful cack that has been offered up over the years...

In The Woods / Elektra / House of Wax (with Paris Hilton) / The Private Gladiator / Monsturd / The Incredible Melting Man / Shooting Stars (with William Shatner & Harry Hamlin) / Open Water / (with Nicolas Cage) / Erotic Nights of the / Dumpster Baby / The Erotic Witch Project / Murder on Flight 502 (with Farrah Fawcett) / Antropophagus / Aquanoids / When a Stranger Calls / Blonde Emmanuelle (complete with 3D glasses) / Dark Devil / Hard Rock Zombies / Plughead Rewuired: Circuitry Man II / Zombie Chronicles / Curfew / There is a Secret in my Soup (Hong Kong literal translation: Human Head Tofu Soup) / Frankenstein Reborn & The Werewolf / Porn of the Dead / Embalmed (VHS) / The Slime (VHS) / Weihnachten mit den Peanuts WWW.SEXGOREMUTANTS.CO.UK (VHS) / Hexed (VHS, with Claudia Christian) and Night of the Day of the Dawn of the Son of the Bride of the Return Proud to Support of the Revenge of the Terror of the Attack of the Evil, Mutant, Hellbound, Flesh-Eating Subhumanoid Zombified Living Dead, Part 3 in shocking 2D (Fake submitted on an old Betamax head cleaner)

My thanks to all those without whom…

Estrella Araiza, Maria Arroyo, Lydia Beilby, Zoe Berriatua, Kaleigh Black, Ali Blaikie, David Boyd, Hadas Brandes, Alfredo Calvino, Grace Chan, Rose Chang, Ali Clark, Justin Cook, Ronnie Cramer, Donna Davies, Mitch Davis, Marjolein Denbakker, Jaime Dezcallar, Syl Disjonk, Craig Docherty, Donna du Carme, James Dudelson, David Duncan, Nash Edgerton, Lauren Edwards, Andreas Fock, Brian Folan, Jayne Fortescue, Dan Gitsham, Dominko Gudelj, Marie Guegan, Lauren Hawkins, Diane Henderson, Guillaume Heulard, Robert Howie, Kier-la Janisse, Rachel Joo, Sonya Kim, Rachael Koczan, Nana Kurata, Jenny Leask, Frazer Lee, Hyunsoo Lee, Danny Lennon, Gorka Leon, Jessica Levick, Andy Lobban, Seth McAnespie, Nicholas McCarthy, Ally McCrum, James MacFarlane, James McKenzie, Allan MacRaild, Jonathan Martin, Lara Matthews, Andres & Diego Meza-Valdes, Dustin Mills, Juan Martinez Moreno, Dustin Mills, Richard Moore, Robert Morgan, David O’Reilly, Signe Olynyk, Emily Perowne, Josep Prim, Richard Propes, John Ramchandani, Irene Ramon, James Rice, Rosaura Romero, Ryan Roy, Richard Rubinstein, Erin Schroeder, Sarah Schuerhoff, Bob Schultz, Francesco Simeoni, Alan Simpson, Bruce Harrison Smith, Matt Smith, Beth Studer, Evi Tsiligaridou, Michael Usry, Hal Weaver, Jonathan Webb, Katie Weekley, Rod White, Edith Young and the SB, of course.

Thanks also to all the Front of House and Bar staff at Filmhouse cos they are just magic. And thanks to you for making the effort to be here. To anyone I’ve missed out – your help and support does not go unnoticed or unappreciated.