Brooklyn Horror Film Festival Announces Full 2023 Program
The Brooklyn Horror Film Festival recently announced their full program for their 2023 edition! This year, the festival will run from October 12 to October 19 with all screenings held at Nitehawk Cinema’s Williamsburg and Prospect Park locations. From creepy world premieres to a J-horror-focused sidebar, audiences won’t want to miss this year’s festival. Plus, this year, the festival presents the inaugural Leviathan Award, to NYC horror legend William Lustig at a special 35th-anniversary screening of Maniac Cop, followed by a post-screening conversation with Lustig.
The Opening Night of the festival is the World Premiere of Kill Your Lover from directors Alix Austin and Keir Siewert. The 2023 festival boasts the World Premieres of three more exciting new films: director Jaco Bouwer’s Breathing In, Aimee Kuge’s debut Cannibal Mukbang, and Tyler Chipman’s debut The Shade.
The festival’s perennial international-cinema-focused sidebar, Fear in Focus, will include the 1926 silent masterwork A Page of Madness, featuring a live original score from The Flushing Remonstrance; a 35th-anniversary presentation of 1988’s forgotten home invasion shocker Door; a 25th-anniversary screening of 1998’s essential Ringu; the North American premiere of The J-Horror Virus; and a special lecture presented by The Miskatonic Institute Of Horror Studies, with Professor Sigmund Shen about Ringu and Gojira as allegories to reckon with a traumatic past.
Brooklyn Horror Film Festival will also show a selection of anniversary screenings, including 50th-anniversary screenings for Messiah Of Evil and Torso, along with a 40th-anniversary screening of 1983’s Angst.
Brooklyn Horror Film Festival badges are on sale now here and a limited amount of individual tickets go on sale this Friday at 12PM EST.
Check out the full lineup for the Brooklyn Horror Film Festival below!
KILL YOUR LOVER
World Premiere
UK | 2023 | 77 Min. | Dir. Alix Austin, Keir Siewert
Dakota has had enough of her unhealthy and toxic relationship with Axel, but the feeling isn’t mutual. As she tries to end things, Axel begins turning into something different, something monstrous. Both an uncompromising breakup film and a wild new entry into the body horror canon, co-directors Alix Austin and Keir Siewert’s debut feature roars with a punk edge and killer practical effects and soars via dynamite performances from newcomers Paige Gilmour and Shane Quigley-Murphy.
RED ROOMS
East Coast Premiere
Canada | 2023 | 118 Min. | Dir. Pascal Plante
A serial killer is put on trial for the gruesome murders of three little girls while an enigmatic stranger searches for the missing snuff video needed to indict him.
THE SACRIFICE GAME
East Coast Premiere
USA | 2023 | 97 Min. | Dir. Jenn Wexler
Yuletide terror invades a Catholic school as two teenagers spend the holidays with their teacher.
ALL YOU NEED IS DEATH
East Coast Premiere
Ireland | 2023 | 91 Min. | Dir. Paul Duane
A secret organization seeking out obscure songs unleashes a series of supernatural events when they come across the wrong tune in this uniquely creepy work of Irish folk horror.
BLACKOUT
NYC Premiere
USA | 2023 | 103 Min. | Dir. Larry Fessenden
After a string of grisly murders rocks his small town, tortured artist Charley (Alex Hurt) starts to suspect that he transforms into a werewolf during his frequent drinking binges.
BOOGER
U.S. Premiere
USA | 2023 | 78 Min. | Dir. Mary Dauterman
A woman undergoes a strange transformation following the sudden death of her roommate and best friend.
BREATHING IN
World Premiere
South Africa | 2023 | 105 Min. | Dir. Jaco Bouwer
GAIA director Jaco Bouwer returns with a moody, quietly unsettling chamber piece, adapted from a South African play, in which a wounded General at the turn of the 20th century looks for help inside the wrong home.
CANNIBAL MUKBANG
World Premiere
USA | 2023 | 100 Min. | Dir. Aimee Kuge
An introverted nerd finds himself dangerously deep inside the crazy world of mukbanging after he falls head over heels for a mysterious woman.
CONANN
NY Premiere
Belgium, France, Luxembourg | 2023 | 105 Min. | Dir. Bertrand Mandico
Genre cinema’s incomparable auteur Bertrand Mandico returns to Brooklyn Horror with his craziest work yet, a time-jumping and visually wild riff on the Conan the Barbarian story.
CRUMB CATCHER
NYC Premiere
USA | 2023 | 105 Min. | Dir. Chris Skotchdopole
Shane and Leah’s already fraught honeymoon takes quite a turn for the worse when they are bombarded with an unexpected visit from an ill-intentioned inventor and his wife.
FEMME
NY Premiere
UK | 2023 | 99 Min. | Dir. Sam H. Freeman, Ng Choon Ping
After suffering a brutal homophobic attack, drag queen Jules emerges back on the scene in this propulsive and ferocious revenge thriller, co-starring George MacKay (1917).
THE J-HORROR VIRUS
North American Premiere
UK | 2023 | 95 Min. | Dir. Sarah Appleton, Jasper Sharp
More than two decades ago, a group of Japanese directors including Hideo Nakata, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, and Takashi Shimizu ushered in a new wave of horror cinema that completely changed the game.
MONOLITH
NY Premiere
Australia | 2022 | 94 Min. | Dir. Matt Vesely
With her career on the ropes, a journalist (Lily Sullivan, EVIL DEAD RISE) happens upon a disturbing mystery involving a black brick destroying the lives of those who come across it.
ONLY THE GOOD SURVIVE
NYC Premiere
USA | 2023 | 92 Min. | Dir. Dutch Southern
A burglary gone horribly sideways leaves one survivor to tell the tale in this refreshingly unpredictable and vibrant genre mash-up of horror, comedy, and heist film.
PROPERTY
NY Premiere
Brazil | 2023 | 101 Min. | Dir. Daniel Bandeire
On the verge of losing their only source of work and shelter, tensions erupt as a community of exploited farmhands wage bloody rebellion against their employers.
SATAN WANTS YOU
NY Premiere
Canada | 2023 | 88 Min. | Dir. Steve J. Adams, Sean Horlor
The shocking true story of how one book released in 1980 sowed the seeds for an unimaginable fear and sparked the Satanic Panic.
THE SHADE
World Premiere
USA | 2023 | 132 Min. | Dir. Tyler Chipman
Following the tragic loss of their patriarch, the Beckman family must fight like hell against a corrosive malevolent entity and put an end to a cycle of suffering.
SLEEP
NY Premiere
South Korea | 2023 | 95 Min. | Dir. Jason Yu
Increasingly disturbing sleepwalking behavior puts a pregnant wife and her loving husband at hellish odds when his nocturnal affliction threatens their unborn child.
SO UNREAL
East Coast Premiere
USA | 2023 | 95 Min. | Dir. Amanda Kramer
Transgressive narrative filmmaker Amanda Kramer switches to documentary for this fascinating and comprehensive look back at the age of cyber cinema, narrated by Debbie Harry.
STOPMOTION
East Coast Premiere
UK | 2023 | 93 Min. | Dir. Robert Morgan
With its powerful blend of haunting stop-motion animation and devastating woman-on-the-edge storytelling, short film veteran Robert Morgan’s feature debut follows a young animator who’s losing her mind and succumbing to homicidal urges.
T BLOCKERS
Australia | 2023 | 74 Min. | Dir. Alice Maio Mackay
Transphobia spreads as a parasitic infection in a small Australian town in which two filmmakers lead the fight against this pervasive, and ever-present, enemy.
TIGER STRIPES
Malaysia, Taiwan, France, Germany, Netherlands, Indonesia | 2023 | 95 Min. | Dir. Amanda Nell Eu
The confusion from her first period leads to a 12-year-old girl’s transformation into something monstrous in this creative and lively coming-of-age horror fairy tale.
VINCENT MUST DIE
East Coast Premiere
French | 2023 | 108 Min. | Dir. Stephan Castang
Vincent is an unassuming man whose life is drastically altered when people start to violently attack him for no apparent reason.
WHERE THE DEVIL ROAMS
NY Premiere
USA | 2023 | 93 Min. | Dir. Toby Poser, Zelda Adams, John Adams
A murderous family of sideshow performers happens upon the key to eternal life, which boosts their act…but naturally has gruesome consequences.
WILDER THAN HER
NYC Premiere
USA | 2023 | 88 Min. | Dir. Jessica Kozak
A reunion camping trip for three friends, following the death of their bestie, leads to an entertaining and subtly unnerving examination of dysfunctional relationships and unspoken resentments.
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