Horror Selections Announced for 2015 Los Angeles Film Festival
John Squires
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The annual Los Angeles Film Festival kicks off this coming June, and a slew of horror films are set to world premiere at the event. They’ll be collected together in the festival’s new “Nightfall” section, and they’ll each be eligible for the Nightfall Award. Read on for all the details!
From the Press Release:
The Los Angeles Film Festival runs June 10 through June 18, and the full Festival lineup will be announced on May 5.
Jennifer Cochis, Senior Programmer, had this to say about the Nightfall section: “We created Nightfall to celebrate films that will make audiences squirm. Ranging from the creepy to the sinister, homages to 80s and 90s era horror, psychodramas, and waking nightmares.”
From the bizarre to the horrifying, these are films to watch after dark.
Caught, dir. Maggie Kiley, USA – A desperate housewife discovers her husband is having an affair and kidnaps his unsuspecting mistress, but what starts as a prank quickly spirals out of control.
The Confines, dir. Eytan Rockaway, USA – Set in a vast vacant residential complex amidst a recession, the shops and rooms have all been abandoned, and the underbelly of the building has been left to decay. A struggling single mother works as a security guard for the corporation that owns the structure along with her brusque, rent-a-cop partner, Cooper (Jason Patrick). As the night progresses, the building, Cooper, and a vagrant in the area (Mark Margolis) toy with her sadistically. Her curiosity to find the truth leads her on a dangerous path into the depths of the building, where she becomes trapped in the dark catacombs of the structure and her sanity is terrorized.
Crumbs, dir. Miguel Llansó, Spain/Ethiopia/Finland – Set against the background of spectacular post-apocalyptic Ethiopian landscapes, the film finds a strange-looking scrap collector, Gagano (played by the charismatic Daniel Tadesse). Alternately gripped by daydreams and constant fears, the diminutive Gagano has had enough of collecting the priceless crumbs of decayed civilization, including the most valuable: merchandise from Michael Jackson and Michael Jordan. When a spaceship that has been hovering high in the sky for years starts showing signs of activity, Gagano has to overcome his fears – as well as a witch, Santa Claus, and second-generation Nazis — to discover things aren’t quite the way he thought.
Crush the Skull, dir. Viet Nguyen, USA – The feature follows the story of Ollie and Blair – a young couple who happen to be burglars for a living. In an attempt to pay off their debts, Blair and Ollie decide to do one last job at a secluded house in the mountains. However, once the couple and their burglary crew break in, they discover that the house is a vicious death trap and find themselves trapped inside with an unseen serial killer.
Dude Bro Party Massacre III, dir. Tomm Jacobsen, Michael Rousselet, Jon Salmon, USA – In the wake of two back-to-back mass murders on Chico’s frat row, loner Brent Chirino must infiltrate the ranks of a popular fraternity to investigate his twin brother’s murder at the hands of the serial killer known as “Motherface.”
Plan Sexenal, dir. Santiago Cendejas, Mexico – Mercedes’ fantasy becomes a nightmare. Juan’s greatest fear takes the shape of a strange man that comes to his house. The city has fallen into chaos and anarchy so getting ice for the drinks is going to be hard, but tonight Mercedes is an object of desire to men so nothing else matters.
Ratter, dir. Branden Kramer, USA – Emma, a graduate student living alone in NYC, becomes the focus of a growing obsession when a stalker hacks into her personal technology and records her most intimate moments.
Shut In, dir. Adam Schindler, USA – Anna Rook is isolated from human contact in nearly every way, which is exactly how she likes it. Suffering from crippling agoraphobia and holed up in an old Victorian on the outskirts of town, the people in Anna’s life can be counted on two fingers: her terminally-ill love, Conrad, and the charismatic Meals-on-Wheels driver, Dan. Until her home is invaded by a trio of small-time criminals.
Passes are available to the general public as of Tuesday, April 21. In addition to access to screenings and events (even after they sell out), Festival passes provide access to a series of networking receptions and entry to the Festival Lounge, where Festival pass holders can interact with Festival filmmakers and professionals in the film community. General admission tickets to individual films go on sale to Film Independent Members beginning Thursday, May 14, and to the general public beginning Tuesday, May 19. Contact the Ticket Office for passes, tickets, and event information by calling 866.FILM.FEST (866.345.6337) or visit lafilmfest.com.
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