NEWS – After Dark Horrorfest 2010

Published on: 19th December, 2009

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There aren’t enough horror festivals out there, and with the genre being as diverse as it is it’s always good news to fans when there is new blood.

After Dark Horrorfest is about to enter its fourth year, kicking off nationwide across America for one week from January 29, 2010, and the latest movie to be featured has been announced.

After Dark Films has sent us images and information about the seven movies that have so far been lined up, including The Graves, Hidden, ZMD: Zombies of Mass Destruction and, most recently, The Reeds.

First created by filmmaker Courtney Solomon (An American Haunting) back in 2006, the event has frown from strength to strength with each passing year and 2010 looks set to be the most exciting yet.

Check out the details below or visit After Dark’s site for more information…

DREAD
Director: Anthony DiBlasi
Writer: Anthony DiBlasi
Starring: Jackson Rathbone, Shaun Evans, Paloma Faith, Hanne Steen, Laura Donnelly
Running time: 108 minutes
Rating: R.
The latest adaptation of the literary works of Clive Barker is Dread, based on the short story that was first published in Volume 2 of 1984’s Books of Blood. Written and directed by Anthony DiBlasi, whose previous connection to the author had been as a producer of The Plague, Book of Blood and The Midnight Meat Train, the movie stars Jackson Rathbone (who turns twenty-five on Monday), previously known for his work on S. Darko and the Twilight franchise.

SKJULT (aka HIDDEN)
Director: Pål Øie
Writer: Pål Øie
Starring: Arthur Berning, Knut Morten Brekke, Gabriel August Gjønnes, Agnes Karin Haaskjold
Running time: 96 minutes
Rating R.
Returning to the home he abandoned nineteen years earlier after hearing about the passing of his mother, Kai Koss (Kristoffer Joner, who had previously worked with Øie on 2003’s Villmark/Dark Woods) is forced to face his dark past when a series of murders begin to plague him.

LAKE MUNGO
Director: Joel Anderson
Writer: Joel Anderson
Starring: Talia Zucker, Rosie Traynor, David Pledger, Martin Sharpe, Steve Jodrell
Running time: 89 minutes
Rating: R.
The body of sixteen year old Alice Palmer (Talia Zucker) is found and a verdict of accidental drowning is declared. But once laid to rest, her family begin to feel an ominous presence and seek the help of psychic Ray Kemeny (played by TV director Steve Jodrell). But his investigations reveal a secret life that Alice had been living and lead her family to the mysterious Lake Mungo.

THE FINAL
Director: Joey Stewart
Writer: Jason Kabolati
Starring: Marc Donato, Jascha Washington, Whitney Hoy, Justin Arnold, Travis Tedford
Running time: unknown
Rating: unknown.
Having worked as an assistant director on everything from Walker, Texas Ranger to Slap Her… She’s French, Joey Stewart finally makes his official directorial debut with The Final, which he describes as ‘about being picked on, bullied, and tormented, and the retaliation and revenge that it incurs.’

THE GRAVES
Director: Brian Pulido
Writer: Brian Pulido
Starring: Bill Moseley, Tony Todd, Jillian Murray, Amanda Wyss, Clare Grant
Running time: unknown
Rating: R.
Having first gained recognition for his work on the comic book series Evil Ernie back in the 1990s, Brian Pulido eventually took his surreal imagination to the screen with the 2004 short There’s Something Out There, which picked up awards at the Cine-Macabre and Rhode Island International Horror Film Festival. The Graves marks his first feature film and boasts a cast of genre veterans that includes Bill Moseley (The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2, The Devil’s Rejects), Tony Todd (Candyman, Final Destination) and A Nightmare on Elm Street’s Amanda Wyss.

ZMD: ZOMBIES OF MASS DESTRUCTION
Director: Kevin Hamedani
Writers: Kevin Hamedani, Ramon Isao
Starring: Janette Armand, Doug Fahl, Cooper Hopkins, Bill Johns, Russell Hodgkinson
Running time: 92 minutes
Rating: R.
The post-modern zombie apocalypse continues with ZMD: Zombies of Mass Destruction, in which Port Gamble, Washington is besieged by a rising of the undead, forcing Iranian student and suspected terrorist Frida (Janette Armand) to lead a group of survivors against the invading force.

THE REEDS
Director: Nick Cohen
Writers: Chris Baker, Simon Sprackling
Starring: Scarlett Alice Johnson, Geoff Bell, Emma Catherwood, O.T. Fagbenle, Will Mellor
Running time: 90 minutes
Rating: unknown.
Based on a story by Chris Baker and adapted with the help of Simon Sprackling, Nick Cohen’s British horror The Reeds tells of a boating trip in the Norfolk Broads that becomes a desperate struggle for survival for a group of young friends that includes EastEnders veteran Scarlett Alice Johnson, RocknRolla’s Geoff Bell, Holby City’s Emma Catherwood and Will Mellor of Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps.

Visit After Dark Horrorfest’s official site.

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