HorrorHound Weekend’s H2F2 Film Festival Returns This Fall, Lineup Announced
Max Weinstein
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The H2F2 Film Festival was relegated to virtual-only status in 2020, but is now set to return as part of HorrorHound Weekend this fall. The event will make its re-entry into the circuit at the newly renovated Sharonville Convention Center in Cincinnati, Ohio, September 10-12, 2021.
Under festival director R. Zoe Judd and programmer Jay Kay, H2F2’s fall edition will showcase over 50 shorts and features. Judd is new to the fest and joins its team from the F3: Frankly Film Festival. Kay, a HorrorHound contributor, now extends his reach from features programming to H2F2’s virtual film market.
“With this being our first Cincinnati show since March of 2019, my team and I are excited to present the newest and best in indie horror out there,” says Judd. “We can’t wait to join the fans, celebrities, and filmmakers in a celebration of horror films globally.”
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In addition to the virtual film market, H2F2’s two screening rooms will host some 14 features, four short film blocks, three workshops, three panels, filmmaker Q&As, and an awards ceremony. Among the titles in the shorts blocks are Minsun Park & Teddy Tenenbaum’s “Koreatown Ghost Story,” Anthony Williams’s “Wich,” and Venita Ozols-Graham’s “Who Wants Dessert?” Michael Squid’s Dice and Akira Suzuki’s Horror of the Underworld are two of eight titles that will have world premieres at the fest.
Other screenings of note include The Silver Stream, a COVID-era horror concert film in which cult favorite Bill Moseley plays himself, and Tombs of the Blind Dead, the 1972 gem that Synapse Films has fully restored in time to show at the fest. H2F2 will also host a midnight screening of Troma’s Shakespeare Sh*itstorm with filmmaker Lloyd Kaufman in attendance.
See HorrorHound’s H2F2 2021 features line-up below:
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Canvas – Ryan Guiterman (75:00/USA)
When a demon known as ‘The Painter’ comes to Earth, FBI agent George Rohan finds himself tasked with covering up The Painter’s multiplying murders. Meanwhile a journalist, Reila Martin works to unveil George’s growing web of lies.
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Dark Night of the Scarecrow 2 – J.D. Feigelson (85:00/USA)
Chris Rhymer and son Jeremy move to a small town, unaware of the horror that occurred there forty years earlier. While seeking Jeremy, Chris finds an old weather-beaten scarecrow and tells her troubles to the limp figure. Then the town’s horror begins again, as the scarecrow becomes her unseen protector.
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Don’t F**k In the Woods 2 – Shawn Burkett (77:00/USA)
The counselors of Pine Hills Summer Camp are getting the grounds ready for the season. While they set up, a mysterious girl enters the camp after a night of bloodshed. And there are things following her as well.
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Forgotten – Richard Turke (106:00/USA)
A deranged man kills a prostitute, then kidnaps her babies to appease his wife. As time goes by, he continues to kill to hide the truth of what he did until their home burns to the ground. It appears as if all of them perish, and their secrets are lost forever until years later, when a young woman flees to her uncle’s cabin and away from her abusive boyfriend. After she arrives at the cabin, she begins to hear a child’s voice looking for her mother. As the young woman and a
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retired detective dig deeper, they will realize this series of closely related tragedies can no longer remain forgotten.
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Fresh Hell – Ryan Imhoff and Matt Neal (79:00/USA)
In the dog days of 2020, a year in which every hour brought a new horror, a group of old friends stumble across a very different flavor of terror. Blood. Chuckles. Very cool 😉 Built to capture the spirit of a damned era: the horror of it all, the forced smiles and over eager laughter over Zoom, the collective anxiety of a world gone mad, Fresh Hell is a brutal, absurd, and strange tale. Much like 2020.
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I Dream of a Psychopomp – Danny Villanueva Jr. (80:00/USA):
A widower haunted by the distressed ghost of his recently deceased wife is visited in his dreams by a psychopomp who teaches him about the spirit world and soul guiding through stories of death and the supernatural.
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Mareld – Ove Valeskoo (95:00/Sweden):
A film team sets off on a catamaran to make a thriller. They come across surprises and in the end, you can’t distinguish between reality and fiction. In the film, we follow the fictional and documentary events in parallel.
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Red Snow – Sean Lynch (77:00/USA)
A struggling vampire romance novelist must defend herself against real-life vampires during
Christmas in Lake Tahoe.
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Shakespeare Sh*tstorm – Lloyd Kaufman (80:00/USA):
Two decades after “Tromeo and Juliet”, Lloyd Kaufman and The Troma Team go Back to The Bard for a TROMAtic adaptation of Shakespeare’s “The Tempest”.
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Shelter in Place – William Malamut (50:00/USA):
All out of pills, an aspiring screenwriter with mental illness is trapped in his home with a sinister
imaginary friend from his troubled past.
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The Bloody Man – Daniel Benedict (133:00/USA):
In the 1980s, and after the death of his mother, Sam is struggling with family, friends, school, and the evilest being he can imagine – The Bloody Man, who is unknowingly summoned and will stop at nothing to destroy everything Sam holds dear.
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The Parker Sessions – Stephen Simmons (72:00/USA):
A troubled young woman with a disturbing past goes to see a counselor about her night terrors. Shot in high contrast black and white and split up into four acts. This nightmarish plot will keep the audience guessing until the final act.
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The Silver Stream – Myles Erfurth (99:00/USA):
Spencer Charnas and his fellow band members of the band Ice Nine Kills are stalked and hunted by a masked psychopath during their covid-19 livestream concert hosted by none other than Bill Moseley.
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Tom and His Zombie Wife – Kevin Short (79:00/UK)
Tom vows to love and protect his Zombie Wife til death do they part. So Shall It Be.
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Tombs of the Blind Dead (Restoration Presented by Synapse Films) –
(101:00/Spain)
Medieval knights executed for their black magic rituals come back as zombies to torment a group of vacationing college kids.
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HorrorHound’s H2F2 Film Festival runs September 10-12, 2021. For more information, visit its website.
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