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Tigers Are Not Afraid AUGUST 17–23 • TICKETS: FILMLINC.ORG New York’s Top Horror Festival ringing you the genre’s best from around the globe, BScary Movies is back for another wicked week of hair- raising premieres and rediscoveries, guest appearances and giveaways. The 11th edition launches with the delightful yet blood-soaked holiday-set high-school musical Anna and the Apocalypse, followed by a Zombie Christmas Party, before turning darker with another yuletide end-of-days offering, Await Further Instructions. This year’s lineup also includes a trio of creepy Latin American offerings featuring possessions, dark fairy tales, and haunted hospitals; a selection of new indie horror at its most promising, Hurt, Boogeyman Pop, Blood Paradise, and The Witch in the Window; the retrospective sidebar “Tainted Waters,” featuring a quartet of 35mm titles whose horrors take place above or below the surface, or sometimes come creeping onto the land; and a brand new edition of Glass Eye Pix’s acclaimed live radio-play series Tales from Beyond the Pale, brought to you by the dynamic duo of Glenn McQuaid and Larry Fessenden. Plus, last year’s fast-working closing-night director Colin Minihan returns with What Keeps You Alive, and we conclude with Jonas Åkerlund’s harrowing black-metal tragedy Lords of Chaos.

Programmed by Laura Kern and Rufus de Rham Sponsored by IFC Midnight The Witch in the Window Opening Night Followed by a Zombie Christmas Party!

NEW YORK PREMIERE ANNA AND THE APOCALYPSE John McPhail, UK/USA, 2017, 92m As Anna (Ella Hunt) nears the end of high school, an unexplained plague begins spreading in her tiny Scottish town before Christmas break, and she and her class- mates must battle hordes of zombies in order to make it to graduation. Oh and they sing and dance, too… A highly accomplished musical, full of infectious songs and performance setpieces, and, like one of its clear inspirations Shaun of the Dead, Anna and the Apocalypse features merriment and menace in per- fect balance. An Orion Pictures release. Ticket holders are invited to our post- screening Zombie Christmas Party, with booze & food. Come in costume!

Friday, August 17 7:30pm Q&A with John McPhail

SCARY MOVIES XI Followed by a Zombie Christmas Party!

NEW YORK PREMIERE WORLD PREMIERE AWAIT FURTHER INSTRUCTIONS BLOOD PARADISE Johnny Kevorkian, UK, 2018, 91m Patrick von Barkenberg, USA/Sweden, Nick brings his girlfriend Annji home for 2018, 82m, with some subtitles the holidays after three years of avoiding Reeling after her latest novel flops, his massively dysfunctional family. They best-selling crime writer Robin Richards attempt to leave early Christmas morning (Andréa Winter) is sent by her publisher to only to discover that a metallic substance the Swedish countryside to regain inspi- has surrounded the house and there ration. There alone, she comes across an is no way out. The only clues to what’s assortment of peculiar characters, includ- happening come through the television, ing her driver and most obsessive fan, his which, in the first of many cryptic mes- explosively jealous wife, and the progres- sages, tells them to “STAY INDOORS sively more unhinged man who owns the AND AWAIT FURTHER INSTRUCTIONS.” farm that’s hosting her. Totally out of place Familial tensions and paranoia escalate in her new surroundings, Robin discovers into blood-soaked chaos in this ever- just how dangerous these oddballs may relevant chiller that contemplates the be. The unpredictable debut feature by state of today’s technology-ruled world. Patrick von Barkenberg (who also appears A Dark Sky Films release. as Robin’s boyfriend) is bathed in dreamy atmospherics and streaked with offbeat Monday, August 20 7:00pm humor, but remains grounded throughout by Winter, who holds your attention rapt.

Saturday, August 18 9:30pm Q&A with Patrick von Barkenberg and Andréa Winter

FOR TICKETS: FILMLINC.ORG NEW YORK PREMIERE NEW YORK PREMIERE BOOGEYMAN POP HURT Brad Michael Elmore, USA, 2018, 90m Sonny Mallhi, USA, 2018, 93m Tony dreams of escaping his small town Halloween in New Caney, Texas, is slow but finds release in drugs—until a friend and quiet. Rose (Emily van Raay, in a strik- gives him a pill called Wendigo and he ing debut performance) is having trouble can’t remember what he did the night connecting with her husband, Tommy, who before. Meanwhile, Danielle, who likes recently returned from military deploy- Tony, spends her night taking care of her ment and is struggling with PTSD. Rose’s drugged-out friends at a punk club and sister and her husband urge them to head getting tied up with the town dealer, who to the town’s haunted hayride to relive old is trading in something much darker and traditions and maybe try to rekindle their more sinister than pills. And three kids from relationship. The fairgrounds are filled with Danielle’s neighborhood have a run-in masked monsters and fake blood and with a bat-wielding, black Cadillac–driving, death. Tommy runs off and the night grad- masked killer. This trio of perspective- ually descends into chaos. Sonny Mallhi’s shifting stories intersect in a maelstrom of exquisitely realized third feature digs up murder, adolescent angst, sex, drugs, and the violence bubbling under the modern black magic. Set over the course of one American experience and serves up a summer weekend, this indie film has punk- smart treatise on trauma. This truly grue- rock energy to spare and a distinct cine- some and terrifying slasher flick reminds matic vision that transcends its budget. us that death is very real, and it’s not only the monstrous villains who wear masks. Sunday, August 19 7:00pm Q&A with Brad Michael Elmore, Saturday, August 18 7:30pm actresses Dominique Booth and Alix von Renner, and producer Joshua Petersen

@FILMLINC NEW YORK PREMIERE NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE IMPOSSIBLE HORROR THE INHABITANT Justin Decloux, Canada, 2017, 75m Guillermo Amoedo, Mexico/Chile, 2017, Following a bad breakup, an aspiring 92m, with subtitles filmmaker, Lily (Haley Walker), struggles In an attempt to secure some quick cash, with a crippling creative block. Unable three sisters break into the home of a to sleep, she begins hearing a sinister super-wealthy family—and get a whole scream outside her window every eve- lot more than they bargained for. If ning. Convinced she needs to help, she this sounds tediously familiar, have no heads out into the dark night and meets fear: The Inhabitant is no simple take Hannah (Creedance Wright), a veteran on the old home-invasion-gone-wrong scream hunter obsessed with stopping scenario. The film has serious political the creepy occurrence. The two women undertones—the house the women tar- team up to try and locate the source get belongs to a high-profile, and highly before they become the scream’s next corrupt, senator—and its action opens up victims. As much a horror movie as a to also make room for a child possession movie about the horror of creation, tale like no other. Uruguayan-born, Chile- Justin Decloux’s ultra-indie second based filmmaker Guillermo Amoedo has feature references everything from made a name for himself working on Asian horror to giallo, and the film’s screenplays for Eli Roth projects (The DIY spirit and eerie underlying dread Green Inferno, Knock Knock, Aftershock), secures its place as a small but mighty but this one outshines them all, featuring genre discovery. genuine chills and higher-gloss produc- tion values than usually found within such Sunday, August 19 9:30pm confined spaces. A Pantelion release. Q&A with Justin Decloux and producer/ composer Emily Milling Monday, August 20 9:00pm

FOR TICKETS: FILMLINC.ORG Schedule

FRIDAY, AUGUST 17 MONDAY, AUGUST 20 Opening Night 7:00 Await Further Instructions

7:30 Anna and the Apocalypse 9:00 The Inhabitant Followed by a Zombie Christmas Party! TUESDAY, AUGUST 21 SATURDAY, AUGUST 18 7:00 Tigers Are Not Afraid 1:00 Shock Waves 9:00 The Trace We Leave Behind 3:00 Alligator 3:00 Free Talk: Soundscape of Fear (Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center) WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 22 5:00 What Keeps You Alive 7:30 Tales from Beyond the Pale 7:30 Hurt (Live Audio Show) 9:30 Blood Paradise

THURSDAY, AUGUST 23 SUNDAY, AUGUST 19 Closing Night 1:00 Dagon 7:00 Lords of Chaos 3:00 Dead Calm 5:00 The Witch in the Window 7:00 Boogeyman Pop

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The Trace We Leave Behind NEW YORK PREMIERE NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE TIGERS ARE NOT AFRAID THE TRACE WE LEAVE BEHIND Issa López, Mexico, 2017, 83m, with J.C. Feyer, Brazil, 2017, 96m, with subtitles subtitles In the midst of a world plagued by gang João (a commanding Rafael Cardoso) is a violence, 10-year-old Estrella (Paolo Lara) doctor coordinating the removal of patients is left to her own devices after her mom from a Rio de Janeiro public hospital that, disappears. As a protection measure—or despite protests from the community, is is it a stroke of the supernatural?—Estrella scheduled to close due to Brazil’s recession. believes to have been granted three On the night of the transfer, a 10-year-old girl wishes, and she uses one to bring her disappears without a trace and João must mom back, failing to mention that she find her, even if just to prove to his pregnant wanted her alive. Haunted by the dead wife, Leila, that he can be a dependable shell of her mother, she leaves home and father. The more he searches, the deeper ends up taking up camp with a group of he is drawn into a world he wishes he never local orphan boys in their small Mexican entered. Long-kept secrets are unearthed village. A fantastical tale steeped in hard- and João struggles against the darkness bitten realities, Issa López’s alternately that is closing in around him. Is the hospital heart-wrenching and chilling film inev- haunted? Is he losing his mind? The feature itably elicits Guillermo del Toro com- debut by J.C. Feyer—a strong case for the parisons, mostly for its ability to extract resurgence of Brazilian horror—is relentless believable performances from its young in both its dedication to scaring the pants cast, but stands firmly on its own as off the audience and to shining a light on inspired cinema. A Shudder release. the country’s social unrest.

Tuesday, August 21 7:00pm Tuesday, August 21 9:00pm

@FILMLINC NEW YORK PREMIERE U.S. PREMIERE WHAT KEEPS YOU ALIVE THE WITCH IN THE WINDOW Colin Minihan, Canada, 2018, 98m Andy Mitton, USA, 2018, 77m The follow-up to Colin Minihan’s It Stains A divorced dad (Alex Draper) takes his 12- the Sands Red, a closing-night selection year-old son (Charlie Tacker) to the farm- of last year’s Scary Movies, offers another house he’s purchased to flip in middle-of- twisty thrill ride starring the always com- nowhere Vermont. It was cheap—and for a pelling Brittany Allen. Here, she plays reason: there is an old witch haunting the Jules, who heads to a lakeside cabin with premises, mainly planted in a chair by an her wife, Jackie (Hannah Emily Anderson), upstairs window. At first her presence seems to celebrate their one-year anniversary. harmless, but as the renovations continue, it The tranquil setting—the nearest neigh- becomes more apparent that she, the pre- bors are Jackie’s childhood friend and her vious owner, has no interest in sharing her husband across the lake—quickly turns home. As in the two prior features he co- terrifying, but to say anything more would directed, YellowBrickRoad and We Go On, spoil the surprises. Audacious and unspar- Andy Mitton’s solo directorial debut proves ing, the film veers into pitch-black comedy that big scares can come in small packages, to keep the bloodletting and betrayal and his latest, refreshingly character-driven fun and boasts impressive cinematog- film, which sees a father desperately trying raphy that captures both the beauty and to protect a child he wants to reconnect isolation of its remote environment and with and the house he has always fanta- the ferocious violence that unfurls within. sized about, has more on its mind than it An IFC Midnight release. initially lets on. A Shudder release.

Saturday, August 18 5:00pm Sunday, August 19 5:00pm Q&A with Colin Minihan and Q&A with Andy Mitton, Alex Draper, Brittany Allen and Charlie Tacker

FOR TICKETS: FILMLINC.ORG ALLIGATOR DAGON Lewis Teague, USA, 1981, 35mm, 91m Stuart Gordon, Spain, 2001, 35mm, Twelve years after a little girl’s alligator is 98m, with some subtitles flushed down the toilet by her father, body Horror master Stuart Gordon has often parts start showing up at the local sewage looked to H.P. Lovecraft as an inspiration, treatment plant. David Madison (Robert and this adaptation of “The Shadow Over Forster) is the detective (haunted by his Innsmouth” ranks as his second finest—fol- past, of course) assigned to the case, lowing the inimitable Re-Animator—even if who must contend with his captain, city it never received a proper U.S. theatrical hall, the tabloids, an unscrupulous phar- release. The modern-day set Dagon sees maceutical company, and male pattern two couples’ sailing getaway descend into baldness, all while a giant gator is picking hell. Their boat hits stormy waters and in off cops and sewer workers, and starting the process of finding help on shore, Paul to chomp its way up the socioeconomic (Ezra Godden) is mysteriously separated ladder. David teams up with herpetolo- from his travel mates. Alone, he learns gist Marisa Kendall (Robin Riker)—the girl that the Spanish island, infested with fish- who bought the alligator now all grown men, is under the worship of Dagon, who up—to try and stop the rampaging reptile. demands blood sacrifices and women Featuring notable character actors (Henry to procreate with in return for the town’s Silva chewing his way through the scenery prosperity, and makes the acquaintance as the big-game hunter brought in to han- of Uxia (the great Macarena Gómez of dle the beast is a particular highlight) and past Scary Movies selections Sexykiller a script from John Sayles that’s smarter and Shrew’s Nest), a mermaid who has than it has any right to be, this is one of appeared in his dreams—which increas- the all-time creature-feature classics. ingly become a terrifying reality.

Saturday, August 18 3:00pm Sunday, August 19 1:00pm

@FILMLINC DEAD CALM SHOCK WAVES Phillip Noyce, Australia, 1989, 35mm, 96m Ken Wiederhorn, USA, 1977, 35mm, 85m Mourning the tragic loss of their young son, The same year he appeared as Grand Rae and John Ingram (Nicole Kidman and Moff Tarkin in Star Wars, Peter Cushing Sam Neill) take to the open seas with their also played another grand villain in dog for some peace and healing. Aboard Shock Waves: a former SS commander their yacht mid-Pacific, they cross paths with involved in the creation of aquatic the Orpheus, a sinking schooner whose Nazi zombies as secret weapons. The sole survivor, Hughie (Billy Zane), takes ref- “Death Corps” project was a failed uge with them. Loosely based on Charles endeavor to say the least, and now, Williams’s crackerjack 1963 novel—also the after their boat begins to sink, a group source of Orson Welles’s unfinished film of tourists find themselves stuck on the The Deep—Dead Calm is the ultimate in island where the reclusive, aging com- edge-of-your-seat suspense, as John mander and the water-based menaces becomes trapped on the submerging still reside. With a cast that also includes vessel while investigating Hughie’s sus- Brooke Adams and Jack Halpin as pect account of the his crew’s demise, two of the shipwrecked vacationers as his wife is left alone with a man who and John Carradine as the acerbic cap- becomes progressively more unhinged. tain, this odd, atmospheric little shocker Featuring spectacular direction, cinema- by writer-director Ken Wiederhorn (who tography (by the Oscar-winning DP Dean dabbled again with the walking dead Semler), and performances, particularly for 1988’s Return of the Living Dead a gorgeously natural Kidman in an early Part II), started a long tradition of breakthrough role, the film is a true terror Nazi zombie flicks, and it still remains treat, not to be missed on the big screen. the finest.

Sunday, August 19 3:00pm Saturday, August 18 1:00pm

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NEW YORK PREMIERE TALES FROM BEYOND LORDS OF CHAOS THE PALE Jonas Åkerlund, UK/Sweden, 2018, 112m Larry Fessenden and Glenn McQuaid’s Norwegian black-metal band Mayhem “Tales from Beyond the Pale” returns to the experienced a rise and fall so notorious Film Society of Lincoln Center for a double that it’s provided the subject of multiple bill of contemporary audio dramas. Now in books and documentaries. And now a its eighth year, the primarily spooky show, dramatization of their tragic tale makes it produced by Glass Eye Pix, has taken cues to the screen courtesy of Swedish music from the likes of Inner Sanctum Theatre video and film director extraordinaire and the Mercury Theatre Company while Jonas Åkerlund. It’s a devastating portrait putting its own rich spin on the format. of youth mixed with power in dangerous Observations both personal and political doses, yet it humanizes its antiheroes in are often deeply entangled with whatever unexpected ways, in part due to memo- creature, creep, or ghoul Fessenden and rable performances from Rory Culkin as McQuaid conjure up. Two new “Tales” will Euronymous, Mayhem co-founder and a be performed live with actors, foley art- key black metal figure; Emory Cohen as ists, sound designers, and musicians; it’s Varg Vikernes, his bandmate and eventual quite a sight, and if you dare to close your murderer; and Jack Kilmer as Mayhem’s eyes, quite a listen! Previous shows have ultra-melancholic first lead singer known featured the vocal talents of Ron Perlman, as Dead. Like the best of Åkerlund’s vid- Michael Cerveris, Lance Reddick, Doug eos and his dynamite 2002 film Spun, Jones, Vincent D’Onofrio, Sean Young, Lords of Chaos is profoundly disturbing and Alison Wright… so you never know but with a macabre, comic touch. who might show up.

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