Starring: Lauren Last, Lewi Dawson, Toshiro Glenn, Etcetera Etcetera, Lisa Fanto
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Alice Maio Mackay gives us the transgressive, queer, meta, political and gooey horror film we need with her third feature film (at just 19!), T Blockers. When dangerous parasites begin to take over the body and minds of men, the queer community in a small Australian town must fight back…again.
Centering on filmmakers Spencer and Sophie, along with their team of bigot fighters, Mackay gets to the reality of our reality in which the queer community is repeatedly threatened with new horrors by those in power. T Blockers is low budget fun, destined to be a cult classic. – Caryn Coleman
Preceded by:
MONSTERDYKË (Kaye Adelaide, Mariel Sharp, 2021)
A transgender sculptress who is unhappy with her experiences dating men, has a lesbian awakening when a monster sculpture she is making comes to life and rocks her world. 4 min.
New York premiere
Mommy issues are only the beginning of the darkness plaguing Ella Blake (Aisling Franciosi), a stop-motion animator whose desire to make something truly special has her on the edge of sanity. When the right idea finally strikes, though, it sets off a chain of psychologically disturbed and homicidal events that she can’t stop.
Blending haunting stop-motion animation with excellent character work, acclaimed short film veteran Robert Morgan graduates to features in grand fashion with this bleak and powerful horror debut. —Matt Barone
Starring: Debbie Harry
New York premiere
Back when the Internet introduced itself to the world, American filmmakers quickly embraced its possibilities in a long string of cyber-minded films, most of which used genre tropes to show the Internet’s darker sides. Covering everything from popular entries like The Net and TRON to lesser-known sci-fi/horror examples like Brainstorm, avant-garde filmmaker Amanda Kramer uses her first foray into documentary filmmaking to give that moment in time a transfixing and hypnotic evaluation, anchored by essayistic narration from pop culture icon Debbie Harry. —Matt Barone
Intimate body horror, wild forays into the supernatural, and a first-class giallo homage fuel this year’s edition of Brooklyn Horror’s popular queer horror celebration.
Ringing Rocks, dir. Gus Reed (USA)
High Fun, dir. Adesh Prasad (India)
Pool Party, dir. Ellie Stewart (Canada)
In Your Hands, dir. Luigi Sibona (UK)
The Angels, dir. Abby Rae Cornelius, Cheri Green (USA)
La Vedova Nera, dir. Fiume, Julian McKinnon (France)
Vibrator Girl, dir. Kara Strait (USA)
Starring: Chris Galust, Laura Benanti, Dylan McTee, Mariel Molino, Germain Arroyo, Brendan Sexton III, Manny Dunn, Charlotte Stickles
World premiere
A malevolent entity that once plagued his older brother is now tormenting Ryan. Already hurting from the tragic loss of their patriarch, the grieving Beckman family must fight like hell to discover the root of this corrosive evil and put an end to a cycle of suffering.
An outstanding debut that does for mental illness what Relic did for dementia, Tyler Chipman’s The Shade gives tangible shape to the darkness that so many suffer from in silence. —Joseph Hernandez
Starring: Mena Massoud, Olivia Scott Welch, Chloe Levine, Gus Kenworthy, Madison Baines, Derek Johns, Laurent Pitre, Georgia Acken
New York premiere
Jenn Wexler gets into the home invasion holiday horror spirit with her sophomore feature film set in the 1970s, The Sacrifice Game. It’s Christamastime at the Blackvale School for Girls and everyone has gone home except for students Samantha and Clara and their teacher Miss Tanner. All are prepared for an uneventful Christmas with their teacher, Rose, at their deserted school when supernatural evil knocks on the door. Like her first feature, The Ranger, Wexler gives revelations in the power of teen girls but in The Sacrifice Game there’s more at play than just the evils of humans. Expect a good old bloody Christmas story…with a demon.
Compelled to follow the trial of a serial killer and the gruesome murders of three little girls, the captivatingly enigmatic Kelly-Anne conducts her own covert search for a crucial piece of missing evidence needed to indict him—a snuff video of one of the victims—recklessly putting her own life and sanity at risk.
A pitch black and stylish blend of unsettling courtroom drama and disturbing cyber-thriller that will rattle you to the bone. Jury award winner of best feature, screenplay, score and performance at Fantasia International Film Festival. —Joseph Hernandez
Starring: Malu Galli, Zuleika Ferreira, Tavinho Teixeira, Samuel Santos, Edilson Silva
New York premiere
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. Taking the landowner hostage and forcing his wife to blockade herself in their armored smart car, a violent battle of wills ensues in a brilliantly staged depiction of real-world class warfare. Make no mistake, this politically charged survival horror with a body count is as savage and bleak as they come. —Joseph Hernandez
Starring: Masao Inoue, Yoshie Nakagawa, Ayako Iijima
Right up there with The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Teinosuke Kinugasa’s fascinating 1926 masterwork A Page of Madness is one of the silent film era’s most distinctive horror films. Long lost and unseen, the film, in which a newly hired janitor in a mental hospital is put through a hallucinogenic and mentally disturbed ringer, is more than worthy of a new fandom. Brooklyn Horror is proud to present a special screening accompanied by a live score from The Flushing Remonstrance. —Matt Barone
