Starring: Tipper Newton, Robert Longstreet, Kynzie Colmery, George Sample III, Steve Little
An X-Rated descent into demented comedy and maniacal horror, as a desperate mother drags an innocent stranger into an absurd, filthy nightmare beyond comprehension. An unflinchingly loyal adaptation of transgressive artist Johnny Ryan’s joyfully disgusting comic book. Adults only.
Starring: Idris Elba, Rebecca Ferguson, Gabriel Basso, Jared Harris, Tracy Letts, Anthony Ramos, Greta Lee
When a single, unattributed missile is launched at the United States, a race begins to determine who is responsible and how to respond.
Starring: Maren Heary, Jim Kaplan, Karsen Liotta, Dominic Bogart, Tenley Kellogg, Emily Hall
The FOFIF presents a special Brooklyn screening of its second release, Sierra Falconer’s debut feature film, SUNFISH (& OTHER STORIES ON GREEN LAKE). Includes a Q&A with cast members Adam LeFevre and Marceline Hugot. To make an additional $10 donation to The Future of Film is Female, select the “Event + Donation” ticket on the checkout screen.
Cradled by the woods and water of Green Lake, Michigan, SUNFISH (& OTHER STORIES ON GREEN LAKE) unfolds over the course of a summer where the intertwined stories of locals and visitors linger at the edge of personal transformation.
Sierra Falconer’s assured directorial debut casts a steady, sun-dappled gaze on the interconnected summers of a fourteen year-old girl at her grandparents’ lake house, a young virtuoso at music camp, a listless bartender, and two sisters running a bed and breakfast; fleeting moments imbued with humanity and introspection. Like the birds and the trees quietly observing life around the lake, Falconer’s sensitivity as a director allows the characters to be studied in all their restlessness and yearning for connection.
Starring: Raul Julia, Anjelica Huston, Christopher Lloyd, Christina Ricci
Come join The FOFIF and The Addams Family for the most hilarious, devious scarefest of the season. To make an additional $10 donation to The Future of Film is Female, select the “Event + Donation” ticket on the checkout screen.
When long-lost Uncle Fester (Christopher Lloyd) reappears after twenty-five years in the Bermuda Triangle, Gomez (Raul Julia) and Morticia (Anjelica Huston) plan a celebration to wake the dead. But Wednesday (Christina Ricci) barely has time to warm up her electric chair before Thing points out Fester’s uncommonly “normal” behavior. Could this Fester be a fake, part of an evil scheme to raid the Addams fortune? Querida Mia.
THE ADDAMS FAMILY was co-written by Caroline Thompson (screenwriter of EDWARD SCISSORHANDS, CORPSE BRIDE and director of BLACK BEAUTY) and co-edited by the great Dede Allen whose “split-second sharp” editing helped define the film’s distinctive style and snappy pacing.
A hand-picked, amazing selection of short films from all over the world, exhibiting the talent of filmmakers who show the spirit of independent filmmaking.
Shock-a-go-go Film Festival features genre films such as horror, sci-fi, animation, music videos, cult movies, and more. Running in Los Angeles for over 20 years, past guests include Roger Corman, David F. Friedman, Ted V. Mikels, Stuart Gordon, Jim Wynorski, Lynn Lowry, Richard Elfman, Joe Dante, Brian Yuzna, Jackie Kong, Larry Fessenden, and many more.
Program:
Bloody Tears of Slaughterina, Dir Marina M
Death Is a Favor, Dir Cecilia Kim
The Feast of the Serpent, Dir Craig M Baurley
Painter, Dir Dan LoBrace
Kitsch, Dir Spencer James Hugo
Something Unforgivable, Dir James Bowen
Sasquatch Roommate, Dir Eric Rivera
The Worm, Dir Stephen Pantess
Summon of the Gravedigger, Dir Ryan Barri
Parasomnia, Dir David Lantz Jr
Ladybug, Dir Sofia Wolfe
Squelch, Dir Xiao Xiao
Killer Grannies, Dir Jack Truman
HeartEaze, Dir Olivia Martini
Warning: Images are not from the movies we’re showing. Trust us, you can’t imagine what we’re showing!
Politics served with a side of whupass, Hong Kong’s greatest living action director delivers a period wu xia movie that leans hard on style. An attempt to show Wong Kar-wai that you could make a movie utilizing slo mo, step printing, fast forward, and all his favorite stylistic tricks while still delivering blood-boiling, limb-shearing, neck-severing action, this tale of political loyalties being stressed and tested by razor sharp steel feels like an old school Shaw Brothers flick getting an injection of bone-cracking, modern day action. Rarely seen, and never screened, we managed to unearth an unsubtitled print and will be doing live subtitles so you won’t get a chance to see this one in all its gory glory again.
Starring: Jessie Buckley, Paul Mescal
From Academy Award-winning writer/director Chloé Zhao, Hamnet tells the powerful story of love and loss that inspired the creation of Shakespeare’s timeless masterpiece, Hamlet.
Starring: Indy, Shane Jensen, Arielle Friedman, Larry Fessenden
A loyal dog moves to a rural family home with his owner Todd, only to discover supernatural forces lurking in the shadows. As dark entities threaten his human companion, the brave pup must fight to protect the one he loves most.
Starring: Boris Karloff, Elsa Lanchester, Colin Clive, Valerie Hobson
Prepare to be haunted, hypnotized, and maybe a little hysterical. For one night only, the delightfully deranged Spook Show with Zabrecky takes over Nitehawk Prospect Park, blending vintage spook show vibes, surreal stage magic, and a screening of the 1935 gothic horror masterpiece Bride of Frankenstein.
Zabrecky; part magician, part absurdist, part ghost of vaudeville past, is a seven-time Magic Castle award-winner and a bona fide cult figure in the world of theatrical séances and experimental magic. Think: David Lynch meets Harry Houdini by way of Steven Wright.
This midnight mash-up mixes mind-bending illusions, dark comedy, and audience interaction with the iconic black-and-white beauty of James Whale’s Bride of Frankenstein, a film as weird and wonderful as Zabrecky himself.
A multidisciplinary force, Zabrecky has left his eerie fingerprints across indie film and TV, with scene-stealing turns in A Ghost Story, A Desert, Lost River and on series like Strange Angel, Fallout and GLOW. He’s also a musician, because of course he is.
If you like your magic strange, your horror classic, and your horror movies full of left-field spectacle, this is the one to crawl out of your crypt for.
And for those wondering what exactly a Spook Show is: from the 1930s through the 1960s, macabre themed magic shows, presented together with horror films, played in movie theaters at midnight throughout the United States. They were known as Spook Shows. Today they are nearly forgotten.
Starring: Anne Parillaud, Anthony LaPaglia, Robert Loggia, David Proval, Rocco Sisto, Chazz Palminteri, Tony Sirico
Print courtesy of the John Landis Collection at the Academy Film Archive
She’s a thirsty vampire intent on only feeding on criminals, and this time she’s going out for Italian!
When bloodsucking Marie (Anne Parillaud) starts picking off members of the Pittsburgh mafia, she fails to finish the job with ruthless capo Sal “the Shark” Macelli (a gloriously over-the-top Robert Loggia). Transformed into a vampire, Sal wreaks havoc on the city, and Marie enlists the help of Detective Joseph Gennaro (Anthony LaPaglia) to stop the bloodletting.
Featuring some of your favorite paisans (including Tony Lip and Tony Sirico), plus a slew of fun cameos, Innocent Blood is a gore-soaked extravaganza with a demented sense of humor and gorgeous cinematography that will look incredible onscreen from director John Landis’s personal archival print.
