Friday, September 23, 2011

All Things Horror presents "SHUDDER FEST" October 14th & 15th

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Friday October 14th & Saturday October 15th
Somerville Theater, Somerville MA

When Chris and I started the "All Things Presents..." screening series nearly two years ago, our goal was to bring the best independent feature and short films to genre fans in the city of Boston every month. Along the way we've had more hits (Dawning, Long Pigs, Pig Hunt, Dead Hooker in a Trunk, The Commune, Satan Hates You, El Monstro Del Mar, Morris County, Fugue, The Disco Exorcist) than misses (there was one month where we watched a packed house dwindle down to Chris, Andre from The Horror Digest & myself by the midway point). It has little to do with Chris and myself and everything to do with the directors and their generous permission that allows us to show their work.

Lately I've found it hard to set aside the time to seek out movies for our events. External forces-increased demands and travel from work, helping my wife cope with her father's terminal illness and wanting to be the best dad in the world to Ada while enjoying almost every second of fatherhood-put the squeeze on both seeking out and devoting the time to promote our events. I needed a kick in the ass to keep going, or pull the plug and thank folks for the nice run.

Doc Marten in the Keester #1 came in the shape of the awesome lineup Chris put together for this weekend presentation of The Viscera Film Festival. Chris ambition and scope of the screenings far exceeded anything we've ever done, and promoting this event got me jazzed up about finding movies to screen again.

Doc Marten in the Keester #2 comes from the fact that Halloween is right around the corner. Everybody is thinking about horror movies, but at the end of the day, one can only stomach so many Jeepers Creepers 2 showings on SyFy. With the days winding down, I wanted to challenge myself to find four movies that had me chomping at the bit to screen. All killer, no filler. I targeted four films that I thought would be right up our audience's alley, sent out a round of emails and got my hands on screeners (in one case I'd seen one of the targets at an earlier festival). I had a couple backup movies in mind, but the four I asked about were the ones I really wanted.

Someone must really like me because I'm proud to announce that this October's SHUDDER FEST Consists of all my first choices. The feature lineup we're presenting October 14th and 15th at the Somerville Theater represent some of the best genre films we've ever gotten in our inbox, let alone been privileged enough to screen. The pedigree of these films is amazing, having won multiple awards and played festivals such as Fantasia, Fantastic Fest, ShriekFest and the Bram Stoker International Film Fest among others. We'd be luck to present these films in consecutive months, let alone evenings.

In the coming days we'll update this post with ticket information, the eight short films we'll screen along with the features, poster art and more. For the time being, we're proud to announce the feature lineup of the first ever All Things Horror presents....Shudder Fest 



Friday October 14th 7:30pm

Feature: THE CORRIDOR
Friends on a weekend excursion take a path into a forest that leads to death and destruction.

Official Selection 2011 FANTASTIC FEST
Official Selection 2011 FANTASIA Film Festival
Official Selection 2011 BOSTON UNDERGROUND FILM FESTIVAL


Friday October 14th 10pm

Feature: ABSENTIA
A woman and her sister begin to link a mysterious tunnel to a series of disappearances, including that of her own husband.

Official Selection 2011 FANTASIA Film Festival
Official Selection 2011 Bram Stoker Film Festival
Winner  2011 TABLOID WITCH Film Festival Best Feature, Best Actress, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Sound
Honorable Mention 2011 FARGO FILM FESTIVAL


Saturday October 15th 7pm

Feature: I DIDN’T COME HERE TO DIE
The story of six young volunteers working on a humanitarian project in the woods. Horrific accidents, rash decisions and the unpredictability of human nature leads them all to the same disturbing conclusion. Volunteer work can be a killer.
  • “In 10 or 20 years fans will be looking back upon I DIDN’T COME HERE TO DIE with the same kind of fondness and affection we now have for films like Evil Dead, Dead Alive and Texas Chainsaw Massacre” Dread Central
  • “Is one of the best horror film debuts since Sam Raimi unleashed Evil Dead upon the world” Bloody Disgusting


Saturday October 15th 9:30pm

Feature: ASHES
An obsessive doctor working on a cure for AIDS unwittingly creates an aggressive new bacteria that deteriorates the body and enrages the mind.

Official Selection 2011 Chicago Horror Film Festival (Up for Best Horror Picture, Director & Lead Actor)
Winner 2010 SHRIEKFEST  Best Horror Feature
Winner 2011 INTERNATIONAL HORROR & SCIENCE FICTION Film Fest Best Horror Screenplay  

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