We're not wasting any time starting up the scares for 2012! On Friday, February 17 (at our home base Relix Variety Theatre) we'll be presenting our first film of the year, Ti West's haunted hotel yarn THE INNKEEPERS. The KHFF team are all enormous fans of West's HOUSE OF THE DEVIL (seriously, check it out) and we're thrilled to be bringing its followup to Knoxville for two exclusive showings at 7:30pm and 10pm. As usual the film will be preceded by some video goodies, including some sneak peeks at other Spring 2012 KHFF events!
Check out Mayra Fersner's chilling artwork below, and the trailer for the film below that.
First and foremost an enormous thank-you to each and every horror film fan that joined us over the weekend of our third Knoxville Horror Film Festival. We hope you could tell how much the support of a lively audience means to us, and it's because of you that we continue to gain momentum as a festival and a force for cinema culture in Knoxville.
KHFF 2011's competetive program featured 32 short films, and ten of them walked away winners:
The 2011 Knoxville Horror Film Festival could not have happened without the following people: Daniel Schuh & the staff of Relix Variety Theatre ; Mayra & Daniel Fersner, Cody & Tara Gentry, April Snellings, Jami Garner, Betsey Rochelle, Carly Dorsey, Ben Tramer, Jennifer Toland, Eric Dawson, John Puckett, Katy Greene, Kim Huinker, Summer Shelton, and Travis Gray; our sponsors at Raven Records, Comics Exchange, Rue Morgue, Grim Limos, Jupiter Entertainment, Old City Java, Magpies, Disc Exchange, Tales From Beyond The Pale, Plainview Digital, and the wonderful artists at WORK HORSE; and all the local filmmakers who contributed to both our competition and the KHFF Grindhouse Grind-Out. we're enormously pleased with how things turned out, and are energized to make 2012 even bigger and better.
Only a few more days! Our 2011 festival events kick off tomorrow night (10/19) with our KHFF PREVIEW NIGHT, then Saturday & Sunday mark the main event! Here's a breakdown of what's going on this weekend:
Saturday night is dedicated exclusively to our KHFF SHORTS PROGRAM, and we've split up the 31 competing films into six competetive categories:
PALM D'GOREAll Men Are Called Robert(Marc-Henri Boulier, France)Brutal Relax(David Munoz, Spain)Curtain(Dennis Widmeyer, USA)Dirty Silverware(Steve Daniels, USA)Incubator(Jimmy Weber, USA) |
CHILLSDeviling(Michael Sharpe, USA)The Human Nature(Tore Frandsen, Denmark)Ocho(Raul Cerezo, Spain)Profile(Timo Pierre Rositzki, Germany)Teufelsnacht (Night of the Devil)(Florian Puchert, Germany) |
ANIMATEDBedtime for Timmy(Thomas Nicol, USAFitness Class Zombie(Christopher Walsh, Canada)The Lady Paranorma(Vincent Marcone, Canada)Nursery Crimes(L. Whyte, UK)Path Of Blood(Eric Power, USA)A Zombie Claymation(Lee Hardcastle, France) |
DEEP CUTSThe Dungeon Master(Rider & Shiloh Strong, USA)Rotting Hil(James Cunningham, New Zealand)The Auburn Hills Breakdown(Geoff Redknap, Canada)Time's Up Eve(Patrick Rea, USA)Legend of Beaver Dam(Jerome Sable, USA)Nightshift of the Vampire(William Justin Crooks, Australia) |
CLOSE TO HOMEDame Tu Carne(Matthew Culbert & Kyangho Cho, Knoxville)Fair Chase(Jeremy Bolden, Powell)The Heir(Brian McKnight & Carl Lyon, Sevierville)You Belong To Me(Hayley Huckaba, Knoxville) |
ODDBALLBon Appetit(Kate Shenton, UK)Decapoda Shock(Javier Chillon, Spain)Hold The Mayo(Jeffrey Williams, USA)Thank You, Jesus!(Timothy Rhodes, USA)Zombie Spores From Space(Bryan Davis, Knoxville) |
The fun doesn't end there: another opportunity arose after we'd already locked in our lineup, so we'll be giving your Halloween weekend a healthy dose of psychosis as well with exclusive Knoxville screenings of Tom Six's HUMAN CENTIPEDE 2: FULL SEQUENCE at Relix Variety Theatre on Thursday 10/27 (7pm & 9pm) and Saturday 10/29 (8pm & 10:30pm). Join us if you think you can handle it!
The October 1st deadline is very quickly approaching, but if you need some extra time to put the finishing touches on your film remember that we are accepting late submissions through October 10th for an extra $5 fee. (Late submissions MUST include exhibition-ready media.) We've still got a few spots we're hoping to fill with local/regional content, so give it a shot!
We're also pleased to announce that this year's KHFF PREVIEW NIGHT will be held following the Grindhouse Grind-out Wrapup on October 19 at the Pilot Light in Knoxville's Old City. In addition to showing old KHFF favorites and sneak peeks at a few of this year's films, we will be presenting the Knoxville premiere of MONDO SEXXXX: THE TERRY KOBRAH STORY, the twisted feature debut of TUMBLEWEED HOLOCAUST director Logan Myers. (Word is it's pretty sick...be warned.) And following the films we'll all zone out to the southern sludge of Cookeville's HELLBENDER! (Check out their website for a bunch of free, excellent tunes.)
Films start at 9pm sharp, and cover is only $3. In the meantime, check out the MONDO SEXXXX trailer:
We were already pretty excited about our feature presentation `, and there's finally a trailer to confirm all our most wonderful fears. (Pretty NSFW, by the way.) Looks like it'll go nicely with the films from our GRINDHOUSE GRIND-OUT filmmaking competition on Sunday, October 23.
We'd also like to point menacingly in the direction of the reconceived KNOXHORRORFEST tumblr page, where we've been posting trailers (and in some cases full short films) for films from our past festivals... and occasionally a first look at as-yet-unnanounced films you can see at this year's Knoxville Horror Film Festival.
The KNOXVILLE HORROR FILM FEST will present its third annual program of shocking shorts on October 22 & 23 at Relix Variety Theatre, once again bringing in dozens of exclusive films from around the region and around the world! (Click Mayra Fersner's wonderful poster art above for a link to the Facebook event page.)
Saturday night is the KHFF main event, with more than four hours of fresh scares split between self-reliant Southeastern filmmakers and highlights from the international festival circuit. While the full lineup won't be announced until early October (submissions are welcome through October 1) some of the buzzed-about films already confirmed for 2011 include Javier Chillon's DECAPODA SHOCK, David Munoz's BRUTAL RELAX and Rider & Shiloh Strong's THE DUNGEON MASTER.
Awards for the best and bleakest of Saturday's films will be presented on Sunday night, followed by our feature presentation of CHILLERAMA, a taboo-busting new anthology film from indie horror all-stars Adam Green (Hatchet, Frozen), Tim Sullivan (2001 Maniacs), Adam Rifkin and Joe Lynch (the upcoming Knights Of Badassdom.)
And since such an outrageous film deserves an equally twisted opening act, Sunday night will also feature a batch of fake B-movie trailers resulting from KHFF’s new GRINDHOUSE GRIND-OUT filmmaking competition, in which teams from around Knoxville are given six days and sixty-six minutes to conceive and produce a four-minute exploitation-style movie in a style of our choosing. Aspiring schlockmeisters of all stripes are invited to meet at Relix for the Grindhouse Grind-Out kickoff event at 6pm on Thursday, October 13; teams will soon also be able to pre-register through the KHFF website for a reduced fee of $20.
Admission to the 2011 Knoxville Horror Film Festival will cost $10 per night, with two- night passes available for $18. Advance tickets will be available starting in early October at select local businesses.
Dreamworks' perhaps ill-advised remake hits on August 19, and the staunch cinematic traditionalists at KHFF are offering Knoxville a chance to compare and contrast with a screening of Tom Holland's 1985 cult classic FRIGHT NIGHT the very next evening!
Traditionalism isn't always such a pretty thing, however, which is why the screening will double as a benefit for IT'S OK TO SAY GAY, a group in active opposition to homophobic educational policy being pushed by Knoxville-area State Representative Stacey Campfield. (You can read more about the proposed legislation here.)
So come hear Rue Morgue's April Snellings discuss queer themes in Holland's film, look at a fun the movie through a new lens, stick around for some revelry and lend your support to an important cause! Check out our Facebook Event Page for up-to-the-minute info, and let us know if we'll see you there!
Well, we had so much fun at the HOBO WITH A SHOTGUN screening that we went ahead and booked some more genre fun in the form of André Øvredal's TROLL HUNTER, which will screen at 8pm and 10pm on July 13 at Relix Variety Theatre. In short it's a little bit like BLAIR WITCH, except that instead of doom and gloom there's some serious wit, and instead of not-really-any-witches there are HELLA TROLLS.
For up to the minute info on the screening, check out our Facebook Event Page and let us know if we'll see you there! Check out the trailer below, and stay tuned for news on our August and September events, as we ditch the new stuff for now and focus on some old favorites!
We've still got a few months before submissions for KHFF 2011 are even due, but we wouldn't want to have to go all summer without sharing some seriously bonkers extreme cinema with you, so on May 25 we'll be hosting two showings of Jason Eisener's HOBO WITH A SHOTGUN at Relix Variety Theatre. The KHFF crew caught a midnight showing at Asheville's ACTIONFEST earlier this month and knew we had to give Knoxville an opportunity to see it on the big screen. For up to the minute info on the screening, check out our Facebook Event Page and let us know if we'll see you there!
If the title isn't enough to rile up your bloodthirst for this twisted exploitation throwback, check out the trailer below!
Before we set a date, before we plan out our special events, Knoxville Horror Film Festival relies on short film submissions from around the region and around the world. Check out our SUBMISSIONS PAGE for information on our varying categories and minimal entry fees.
You can view old news items from 2010's festival HERE.
11.13.11 - DEAD ALIVE at Relix
