THE 12th ANNUAL SCREAMFEST HORROR FILM FESTIVAL OCTOBER 12TH - 21ST, 2012 L.A. LIVE REGAL CINEMAS DISCOVERING THE NEW BLOOD OF HORROR & HONORING THE MASTERS Cover Art ©Rachael Mueller. All rights reserved. www.RachaelJMuellerPhotography.com " HELLO KIDDIES! I'M BACK ." TV’s Original Late Night Host is Back, Serving Up All 7 Seasons of the Classic, Emmy-Nominated Series. PREMIERES OCTOBER 5 FRIDAYS, 10PM-12AM ET Call 1-877-FEAR-247 to find FEARnet in your area. @FEARnet facebook.com/FEARnet fearnet.com ©2012 Horror Entertainment, LLC. All Rights Reserved. UAL TWELFTH ANN AMERICAN MARY Starring Katharine Isabelle (GINGER SNAPS), AMERICAN MARY follows medical student Mary Mason as she becomes increasingly broke and disenchanted. The allure of easy money sends Mary into the twilight world of body modification and underground surgeries where obsessed flesh artists will pay anything and go through any pain to get their unusual Starring: Katharine Isabelle, Antonio Cupo, Julia Maxwell, Tristan Risk, Paula procedures done. But Lindberg, John Emmet Tracy, David Lovgren & Twan Holliday Mary soon finds that her new 'profession' leaves SCREAMFEST® Directed By: Jen Soska & Sylvia Soska Written By: Jen Soska & Sylvia Soska more marks on her own psyche than on her freakish clientele.! Produced By: Evan Tylor & John Curtis ! SCREAMFEST HORROR FILM FESTIVAL 2012 ! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ! ! THE COLLECTION From the writing-directing team Marcus Dunstan Starring: Josh ! and Patrick Melton (Saw IV, V and VI) comes The Stewart, ! Collection, a suspense horror film with nonstop Christopher thrills at every turn. Directed by Dunstan and McDonald & Erin starring Josh Stewart (The Dark Knight Rises, The Way Collector), Emma Fitzpatrick (The Social Network) and Christopher McDonald (“Boardwalk Empire,” Requiem for a Dream), the film centers on a Directed By: traumatized man forced to help rescue a beautiful Marcus Dunstan woman who has become the latest obsession of a crazed killer who “collects” humans in a booby- Written By: trapped house of horrors. When ELENA Marcus Dunstan & (Fitzpatrick) is talked into attending an Patrick Melton underground rave party with her friends, she finds herself caught in a nightmarish trap where the revelers are mowed, sliced and crushed to death Produced By: by a macabre series of contraptions operated by a Liddel masked psychopath. When the grisly massacre is Entertainment & over, Elena is the only survivor. But before she can Fortress Features! escape, she is locked in a trunk and transported to an unknown location. Fortunately for Elena, one ! ! man—ARKIN (Stewart)—knows exactly where she’s headed, having just escaped from there with his life and sanity barely intact. Going back is the last thing on Arkin’s mind, but Elena’s wealthy father (McDonald) hires a crack team of mercenaries to force Arkin to lead them to the killer’s lair. But even these hardened warriors are not prepared for what they encounter: an abandoned hotel-turned-torture-chamber, rigged with deadly traps and filled with mangled corpses. Can Arkin and the team get to Elena before she too becomes part of his gruesome “collection”?! CRAWLSPACE Courtesy of IFC Starring: Peta Midnight Sergeant, Nicholas Bell & Amber Clayton CRAWLSPACE follows a squad of Directed By: Justin Dix elite soldiers sent to infiltrate and extract the lead Written By: Justin Dix, science team Eddie Baroo & Adam from Pine Gap, Patrick Foster Australia's top secret Produced By: Justin underground military Dix, John Finemore & Nicholas Sherry! compound, after it comes under attack from unknown forces.! FEATURE FILMS ! DISCOVERING THE NEW BLOOD OF HORROR AND HONORING THE MASTERS ! EDDIE THE SLEEPWALKING CANNIBAL Onetime art star Lars Starring: Thure Olafssen is all washed up. Lindhardt, Dylan Too uninspired to paint, he Smith and accepts a teaching stint at a Georgina Reilly small-time art school in Podunk Koda Lake, Canada, where he does Directed By: double duty as caretaker for Boris Rodriguez the offbeat town's neighborhood weirdo, Eddie. Written By: Eddie doesn't speak, doesn't Alex Epstein, have any friends, and is Jonathan generally regarded by the Rannells townsfolk as a harmless loon, but to Lars he quickly becomes a trusted Produced By: companion. As their unlikely Michael A. friendship evolves, a dark Dobbin & Boris and violent secret about Rodriguez! Eddie's nocturnal impulses begins to surface. A secret that stirs long-dormant artistic urges in the creatively stunted Lars. A secret that he feels compelled to nurture… Excision Based on writer/director Starring: Anna Richard Bates, Jr.’s short Lynne McCord, film of the same name Traci Lords, Ariel that screened in Winter, Roger Screamfest in 2008, Bart, Jeremy Excision follows a Sumpter, Matthew disturbed and delusional Gray Gubler, Ray high school student, Wise, John Pauline (Anna Lynne Waters, Malcolm McCord). Pauline, with McDowell, & aspirations of a career in Marlee Matlin medicine, goes to extremes to earn the Directed By: approval of her Richard Bates, Jr. controlling mother (played by Traci Lords). Written By: While dealing with both Richard Bates, Jr. being an outcast teenager and having an Produced By: obsession over curing Dylan Hale Lewis her sister’s cystic fibrosis, Pauline becomes increasingly deranged as her fascination with surgery and flesh and blood grows into ! something compulsive FEATURE FILMS ! and demonic, if not epic.! SCREAMFEST HORROR FILM FESTIVAL 2012 ! THE FACTORY Present. Buffalo. The Starring: John unforgiving winter. A Cusack, Jennifer killer roams the Carpenter, Dallas streets, abducting Roberts, Mae women on cold, quiet Whitman, Sonya nights. All prostitutes, Walger & missing persons with MageinaTovah no one to miss them. He leaves behind no traces, no clues; Directed By: nothing. Detective Morgan O’Neil Mike Fletcher (John Cusack) is the one Written By: cop on the force bent Morgan O’Neil & on bringing him to Paul A. Lleyden justice. Mike sees the tragedy in all of this: that these poor Produced By: women are alone in Joel Silver, life, and in death. Susan Downey & They have no one to David Gambino! stand up for them – no one except him.! FEAR OF WATER Rosalie Richard is found Starring: Pierre- raped and dead at the Francois Legendre foot of a cliff. She is the (Andre Suprenant), first victim ever of a Brigitte Pogonat gruesome murder in (GenevièveSavoie), Magdalen Islands. The Normand D’Amour shy and subdued (Denis Gingras), Sergeant, André PascaleBussieres Surprenant, will go on a (Elise), Stephanie hunt for the murderer Lapointe (Rosalie even though his marriage Richard), Paul Doucet is crumbling, his teenage (Bernard Duval). daughter tells him to screw off and his Directed By: Gabriel psychologist tries to help Pelletier him overcome his fears. Someone wants to push him aside and give the Written By: Gabriel investigation to Sergeant- Pelletier & Marcel Detective Gingras, Beaulieu brought in from Montreal. Surprenant will discover investigative talents that Produced By: Nicole Robert! he didn't know he had and will finally open his eyes on his world and the corruption that's eating away at him.! FEATURE FILMS ! DISCOVERING THE NEW BLOOD OF HORROR AND HONORING THE MASTERS ! NIGHTMARE FACTORY In 1989, Greg Nicotero quit Starring: Greg Nicotero, medical school and headed Howard Berger, George A for Hollywood to pursue a Romero, Quentin Tarantino, dream of making monsters. John Carpenter, Frank Together with gore masters Darabont, Robert Rodriguez Howard Berger and Robert Kurtzman, Nicotero went on Directed By: Donna Davies to create KNB EFX Group, one of the most prolific make-up effects studios in Written By: Donna Davies the world. Nightmare Factory delves inside the high-stakes Produced By: Donna world of special FX make-up Davies & Dan Stewart! and creature design through the eyes of one of the industry’s key players.! ON AIR A man (Markus Starring: Markus Knuefken) runs the Knuefken Charles pirate radio Rettinghaus Ronald "Nighthawk" from the NitschkeJasmin basement of his Lord Jessica Ginkel house, and every Wolfgang Pampel Saturday night he goes "On Air" as Doc Directed By: Rock. Unexpectedly CarstenVauth & a serial killer "The Marco J. Riedl Night-Slasher" (Charles Rettinghaus) calls in Written By: Marco on his show, and J. Riedl now…Doc has to stop him from killing Produced By: his next victim. The struggle for survival is Daniel Polster & ON…AIR.! Christian Pohl ! FEATURE FILMS ! SCREAMFEST HORROR FILM FESTIVAL 2012 ! OUTPOST: BLACK SUN The year is 1945, the closing Starring: Richard stages of WWII, and a Coyle, Clive German scientist is working Russell and on a frightening new Michael Byrne technology that has the power to create an immortal Nazi Directed By: army. Flash forward to Steve Barker present day, and a NATO task force is deployed to Eastern Europe, where a sinister Written By: Steve enemy is mercilessly killing Barker, Rae everything in its path. But this Brunton is no ordinary foe…it is a super-human army of zombie Produced By: Nazi Stormtroopers. Defying Arabella Page overwhelming odds, a small band of soldiers venture deep Croft & Kieran Parker behind enemy lines to uncover the source of this evil power and prevent the rise of ! the Fourth Reich.! PRINCE OF DARKNESS A sinister secret has been kept in the basement of an abandoned Starring: Donald Los Angeles church for many Pleasence, Lisa years. With the death of a priest Blount and Jameson belonging to a mysterious sect, Parker another priest opens the door to the basement and discovers a vat Directed By: John containing a green liquid. The Carpenter priest contacts a group of physics graduate students to investigate it. Unfortunately, they discover that Written By: John the liquid contains the essence of Carpenter Satan himself, and they also discover that he will release HIS Produced By: Larry J. father - an all-powerful Anti-God! Franco! The liquid later comes to life itself, turning some of the students into zombies as the Devil comes forward to release his father.