UPCOMING EVENTS
DESTROY ALL NEIGHBORS
FRIDAY OCTOBER 17TH 7PM
Join Writer Charles Pieper and Director Josh Forbes for the horror comedy film, Destroy All Neighbors for a Q&A after the film!.
William Brown, a neurotic, self-absorbed musician determined to finish his prog-rock magnum opus, faces a creative roadblock in the form of a noisy and grotesque neighbor named Vlad. Finally working up the nerve to demand that Vlad keep it down, William inadvertently decapitates him. But, while attempting to cover up one murder, William’s accidental reign of terror causes victims to pile up and become undead corpses who torment and create more bloody detours on his road to prog-rock Valhalla.
Part of the Tucson Terrorfest Horror Film Festival
For more information visit www.tucsonterrorfest.com
HORROR SHORTS
SATURDAY OCTOBER 18TH 3PM
Dormant
A man cares for his comatose wife at home. After a transgression, he fears somethingsinister has awakened in her.
Directed by Niels Bourgonje / 9 min / Netherlands
Grunge
In 1992, the rising rock band “Le Slouch” is on the verge of stardom. With a scorching new single lighting up the airwaves, and their debut music video premiering on MTV’s “Headslammers Bash,” everything seems to be falling into place – until disaster strikes. Following a sudden and tragic turn of events, the band is thrust into a violent psychedelic spiral, leading them down a blood soaked path of death and destruction.
Directed by Rene Rivas / 15 min / USA
Viscerate
Experiences a time warp as two creeps take their bad behavior one step too far and end up in another reality where there’s only one decision to make: life or death. Featuring a original score by Richard Band.
Directed by Michael Shawn Foree and John Mason Vredenburg / 10 min / USA
You Can Do It Alone
Pablo faces his first time peeing in a public men’s restroom while being harassed by monsters he will have to confront if he wants to return to his family.
Directed by Silvia Pradas / 9 min / Spain
Love Me or Die
When three estranged sorority sisters reunite for a weekend at a remote cabin, old wounds resurface- and hidden obsessions ignite. Marie wants closure. Tessa wants peace. Megan wants control.
Directed by Elizabeth Jane Findley / 7 min / USA
That Companions
A young couple walks down the street, they have left the children at home and are going out to dinner. A crowd gathers around something.
Directed by Jose Maria Flores / 12 min / Spain
The Waking Call
Late at night, a mysterious radio show echoes through the airwaves, a voice offering solace to those who can’t sleep.
Directed by Riccardo Suriano / 13 min / USA
Tomorrow Undead
Five years after a global infection incident Secure Zones are privatized and survival is for sale. Grant Franklin’s only hope is a payout to secure his family’s future. Enter Frameshift Cyto Technologies (FCT)—a rogue biotech company funding its cure through a brutal exchange: fresh bite victims for research. Picked up, processed, and led through an unfamiliar procedure, Grant soon realizes the true cost of his sacrifice.Tomorrow Undead is a chilling story of desperation, duty, and the price of survival.
Directed by Dale Thomas Cizmadia / 19 min / USA
Part of the Tucson Terrorfest Horror Film Festival
For more information visit www.tucsonterrorfest.com
NIGHT SHIFT
SATURDAY OCTOBER 18TH 5PM
Based on the chilling Puppet Combo Video Game Night Shift is a slasher film set in a 24 hour convenience store w/ a relentless serial killer.
Debra reluctantly takes the night shift at her new gas station clerk job after a co-worker mysteriously disappears. What begins as routine shelf-stocking and floor-sweeping soon spirals into a heart-pounding descent into paranoia, dread, and blood – soaked madness as a relentless killer closes in.
Part of the Tucson Terrorfest Horror Film Festival
For more information visit www.tucsonterrorfest.com
AN EVENING WITH MICK GARRIS W/ SLEEPWALKERS
SATURDAY OCTOBER 18TH 7PM
An Evening with Mick Garris and a screening of the cult classic Sleepwalkers followed by a Q&A
We are proud to welcome Mick Garris to this year’s Tucson Terrorfest!
He will be presenting his cult classic film Sleepwalkers with a Q&A after the film.
A Master of Horror title fits well for our special guest this year. Everything from Stephen King adaptations to those furry round-eating machines in Grover’s Bend.
Mick Garris has been directing, writing, acting, and creating in the world of horror, sci-fi, and the supernatural for over 40 years. His body of work is prolific.
SLEEPWALKERS, CRITTERS 2,
THE SHINING (TV), FLY II,
HOCUS POCUS, THE STAND (TV),
NIGHTMARE CINEMA just to name a few
Part of the Tucson Terrorfest Horror Film Festival
For more information visit www.tucsonterrorfest.com