4 DAYS
50+ FILMS
FILMS FROM 11 COUNTRIES
OPENING NIGHT FILM
Shadowland (USA)
Dir: Wyatt Weed trailer
Cat: Vampire Feature
10/23 7:30pm
http://www.shadowlandthemovie.com/
Laura crawls from a pit at a construction site, beaten and bloody, apparently left for dead. With no memory of who or where she is, she sets off into the night, looking for answers and a way home. Soon she finds herself hunted by a mysterious young man named Julian, and it isn't clear if he intends to help her - or kill her.
The Kiss (USA) World Premiere
Dir: Scott Madden
Cat: Vampire Feature
10/23 3:00pm
The high school outcast heeds the pleas of Santa Maria - the queen of the Snake Clan of Vampyres - left for dead under a neighborhood house by her arch rival, Queen of the Bat Clan. He lovingly brings her back to life with the blood of neighborhood pets. Her love brings him back to life as well, until she begins to feed on his high school friends. Our hero is left with a choice: Is seeing her in all her hideous vampyric glory more than he can stand?Or will he ask for Santa Maria's 'kiss' and learn that love really does suck.. and it bites... forever.
VAMPIRE FILM FESTIVAL
FEATURE FILM PROGRAM
The Revenant (USA)
Dir: Kerry Prior
Cat: Vampire Feature
10/24 4:30pm
trailer
Bart Gregory is killed in the Middle East and his body is returned to the United States, where services are held. But before the lid is put on his tomb Bart awakens, confused, shocked-- a moldy, putrefying living corpse. He goes to the house of his best friend, JOEY, who is also shocked and disgusted by his return. They soon learn that he must consume human blood to keep from decomposing. As their delicate world collapses upon them, they must confront issues of morality, immortality, and the bounds of friendship, and the nature of evil, while living in the margins of darkness, at the edge of the earth.
The Death of Alice Blue (Canada)
Dir: Park Bench
Cat: Vampire Feature
10/24 7:00pm
http://www.alicebluethemovie.com
Alice Blue is the new creative intern at Raven Advertising. Unfortunately for her it’s run by vampires. Her co-workers seem zombified, her boss strangely menacing, and there’s a pervasive atmosphere of doom. But advertising’s an exciting and glamourous profession, isn’t it? A group of misfits inform her that management is evil and she should help them put things right. Alice is torn between the glamour of Stephen and advertising and the suspicion that the kooks might be right. To make things worse she’s contracted some sort of odd illness which for all the world makes her think she’s either turning into a vampire or losing her mind.
Mangal Sutra (Canada)
Dir: Manjit Singh
Cat: Mythic Feature
10/24 9:30pm
A young South Asian couple move into their new home which is haunted by an old indian curse. The MangalSutra is a necklace that bonds a groom to his bride, some ancient traditions never die!
Strigoi (United Kingdom)
Dir: Faye Jackson
Cat: Vampire Feature
10/26 2:00pm
STRIGOI is a Vampire movie that defies categorization. Shedding a fantastic light on a post-communist Romanian village, the film introduces us to an ancient myth: Strigoi, the souls that rise again after death to seek justice if they’ve been wronged, their appetites intensified by a hunger for blood.
Let Me Die Quietly (USA)
Cat: Gothic Feature
10/26 4:30pm
http://www.myspace.com/letmediequietly
The life flashing before his eyes is not his own! Mario is an alcoholic psychic who is able to relive the last moments of a victim's time on earth. An encounter, a location, or even a touch can bring him the last sensations of a dead victim. But because no one believes him--and he himself is unsure if he is going insane--Mario becomes an exquisite pawn in a sinister murder plot.
