Telluride Horror Show 2014 Reveals Second Wave of Films
Steve Barton
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The fifth annual Telluride Horror Show is getting set to kick off in Telluride, Colorado, and right now we have the second batch of announced films for your perusal.
From the Press Release
The Telluride Horror Show is excited to announce its second batch of films for the 5th annual film festival, scheduled for October 10-12, 2014, in beautiful Telluride, Colorado. Spanning the globe, features include CREEP starring Mark Duplass, Canadian film THE EDITOR, ABCs of DEATH 2, and horror comedy GRAVY, which includes Sarah Silverman.
Here’s the complete rundown of the second wave of films, including shorts and features.
FEATURES
ABCs OF DEATH 2
Various Countries | 2014 | 125 min | Directors: Aharon Keshales & Navot Papushado, Alejandro Brugués, Bill Plympton, Chris Nash, Dennison Ramalho, Erik Matti, Evan Katz, Hajime Ohata, Jen & Sylvia Soska, Jerome Sable, Jim Hosking, Juan Martinez Moreno, Julian Barratt, Julian Gilbey, Julien Bustillo & Alexandre Maury, Kristina Buozyte & Bruno Samper, Lancelot Imasuen, Larry Fessenden, Marvin Kren, Robert Boocheck, Robert Morgan, Rodney Ascher, Soichi Umezawa, Steven Kostanski, Todd Rohal, Vincenzo Natali.
Fresh off of Fantastic Fest, ABCs OF DEATH 2 is the follow-up to the most ambitious anthology film ever conceived with productions spanning from Nigeria to UK to Brazil and everywhere in between. It features segments directed by over two dozen of the world’s leading talents in contemporary genre film. The film is comprised of twenty-six chapters, each helmed by a different director assigned a letter of the alphabet. The directors were then given free rein in choosing a word to create a story involving death.
AMONG THE LIVING
France | 2014 | 90 min | Directors: Alexandre Bustillo & Julien Maury
In its only screening since SXSW…
Victor, Dan, and Tom skip school to wander around an abandoned amusement park. They stumble upon a horrific vision: A woman in chains is dragged through the field by a man wearing a clown mask. The masked man catches a glimpse of the boys, who scramble to run away. But, before they can escape, they see something which has been hidden for years, something they were not meant to see. Terrified of having been seen by the masked man, the boys try to alert the police. Unfortunately, their past record of unruly behavior discredits them and the police do not follow up on their tipoff. That night someone breaks into their homes, seeking to eliminate them…one after another. They are going to meet Klarence…
THE BOXTROLLS
USA | 2014 | 100 min | Directors: Anthony Stacchi & Graham Annable
SPECIAL PRESENTATION
The Boxtrolls, a stop-motion feature, is a comedic fable that unfolds in Cheesebridge, a posh Victorian- era town obsessed with wealth, class and the stinkiest of fine cheeses. Beneath its charming cobblestone streets dwell the Boxtrolls, foul monsters who crawl out of the sewers at night and steal what the townspeople hold most dear: their children and their cheeses. At least that’s the legend residents have always believed. In truth, the Boxtrolls are an underground cavern-dwelling community of quirky and lovable oddballs who wear recycled cardboard boxes the way turtles wear their shells. The Boxtrolls have raised an orphaned human boy since infancy as one of their dumpster-diving and mechanical junk-collecting own. When the Boxtrolls are targeted by a villainous pest exterminator who is bent on eradicating them as his ticket to Cheesebridge society, the kind-hearted band of tinkerers must turn to their adopted charge and an adventurous rich girl to bridge two worlds amidst the winds of change – and cheese. After this special screening of The Boxtrolls, LAIKA’s Mark Shapiro will take us behind-the-scenes with production puppets from the film and rarely seen images and time lapses.
CREEP
USA | 2014 | 80 min | Director: Patrick Brice
Looking for work, Aaron (Patrick Brice) comes across a cryptic online ad: “$1,000 for the day. Filming service. Discretion is appreciated.” Low on cash and full of naiveté he drives to a cabin in a remote mountain town where he meets Josef (Mark Duplass), his cinematic subject for the day. Josef is sincere and the project seems heartfelt, so Aaron begins to film. But as the day goes on, it becomes clear that Josef may not be who he says.
THE EDITOR
Canada | 2014 | 99 min | Directors: Adam Brooks & Matthew Kennedy
Rey Ciso was once the greatest editor the world had ever seen. Since a horrific accident left him with four wooden fingers on his right hand, he’s had to resort to cutting pulp films and trash pictures. When the lead actors from the film he’s been editing turn up murdered at the studio, Rey is fingered as the number one suspect. The bodies continue to pile up in this absurdist giallo-thriller as Rey struggles to prove his innocence and learn the sinister truth lurking behind the scenes.
GRAVY
USA | 2014 | 93 min | Director: James Roday
It’s All Hallow’s Eve. A trio of costumed misfits with very special dietary requirements seizes a Mexican cantina and force the staff to engage in a late night of gaming, food and libations. The only caveat is what’s on the menu. GRAVY includes Sarah Silverman.
WORLD OF DEATH
Various Countries | 2014 | 55 min | Directors: Gus Krieger, Matt Cairnes & Brandon Pickering, Tony Wash, Félix Catala, Neil Mackay, Daniel Pizá Ruiz, Marc Schießer, Martin Vrede Nielsen, Paul Campion, Jordan Wippell, William Prince, MJ Blackman, Craig Stewart, Matthew Corbett, Dan Frantz.
This is an hour long “sampler” of the World of Death compilation. World of Death brings together the talent of over 200 filmmakers from more than 20 different countries in a compilation of short horror films that will terrorize, astonish, disturb, and excite genre fans across the globe.
SHORTS
ALONE
France | 2013 | 10 min | Director: Didier Philippe
Claire lives alone in a large apartment. Her fear of the outside world stops her from going out and letting people in. One day, she discovers evidence revealing that a man lives in her home. The presence of that man becomes more and more threatening…
A(R)MEN
Norway | 2013 | 14 min | Director: Thomas Lunde
Arne loses an arm in an accident, but miraculously a new arm appears. This new arm’s got a will of its own and turns his life upside down. Void is replaced with joy, but miracles have a price.
AUTUMN HARVEST
Norway | 2014 | 17 min | Director: Fredrik S. Hana
Devastated by his wife’s death, a fisherman plans to put an end to his own life. His attempted suicide is interrupted by a mysterious sea creature that offers him a deal: Recover his lost love in exchange for carrying out a series of gruesome acts.
BOX ROOM
Ireland | 2013 | 15 min | Director: Michael Lathrop
Jerry is a strange and solitary boy who lives alone with his young neglectful mother in a run-down apartment. Behind the bedroom wall he discovers a seductive alien creature with which he has sex. After the creature becomes pregnant, Jerry is filled with panic and guilt and attempts to abort the alien creature, leading to a horrific outcome which neither himself nor his mother will ever forget.
DARKNESS COMES
Australia | 2013 | 7 min | Director: John Marsh
A desperate man, a derelict farmhouse, an ever-present menace: What happens when DARKNESS COMES?
DEAD FUCK
USA | 2014 | 6 min | Director: K.W. Roach
Dead Fuck divulges to the audience an otherwise private and esoteric act. It agitates the notion of necrophilia by way of displacing that which is innately abject, the act of copulating with the dead, and forcing upon it the aesthetic treatment of the beautiful and living. The perversion can be viewed under a new pretense–untethered by the preconceptions of abjection. The image is conceived with the quiet contemplation of a nature morte, transcending the physical vility of necrophilia while arousing the parameters of beauty.
FOUND
USA | 2014 | 4 min | Director: Rebekah McKendry
A mockumentary that reveals the modern day origins of found footage horror films.
THE GAS MAN
UK | 2014 | 14 min | Director: Matt Palmer
Sometimes, the gas man needs to read the meter. Sometimes, he has other things in mind.
GET SOME
UK | 2014 | 15 min | Directors: Adam & Joe Horton
After a viral pandemic takes its grip on the planet turning humans into flesh craving mutants, TV adventurer Hunter Smith fights back by presenting “Get Some”, a show in which he tracks and kills the infected for the entertainment of the surviving population.
PET PEEVE
USA | 2013 | 6 min | Director: Paul von Stoetzel
A short horror comedy film focusing on a filmmaker’s aggravation with film contests and their constraints to subject matter.
SHE
UK| 2014 | 15 min | Directors: Mark Vessey & Chelsey Burdon
A tragic couple are stuck in a loveless and silent relationship until an anniversary dinner when SHE plans a brutal act of revenge that will leave them both forever changed.
SILK
USA | 2014 | 14 min | Director: Rob Himebaugh
After acquiring a jar of rare silk from the vast desert expanse of Afghanistan, a CIA field operative is impregnated by the spider hiding inside.
THE SOUND OF TRAINS
USA | 2014 | 11 min | Directors: Travis Champagne & Jordan Bradley
Jacob, a middle-aged hermit, discovers an otherworldly goo that triggers an evening of disturbing events. These events lead to visitations by curious beings, causing Jacob to question his sanity and whether we really are alone in this universe.
THE TOUR
UK | 2014 | 15 min | Directors: Alex Mathieson & Damon Rickard
U.S. PREMIERE
Darkmoor Manor is England’s most haunted house, its doors closed to the public. It is now just part of a tour which helps attracts visitors to a struggling town. That is until the tour guide, trying to impress two attractive American tourists, promises to get them inside. But none of them could be prepared for what was waiting within the shadows of the house.
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