Larry Fessenden‘s profession in horror movies can be honored on the 2024 Brooklyn Horror Film Festival (BHFF).
The indie filmmaker, who launched his profession with a Frankenstein story in 1991’s “No Telling,” can be celebrated with the Leviathan Award to mark his cinematic achievements. A particular screening of Fessenden’s 1996 film “Behavior” may even be a part of the ceremony. Fessenden will take part in a Q&A with BHFF alum Jenn Wexler.
The Leviathan Award, Brooklyn Horror’s first and solely tribute award, was created in 2023 to honor the luminaries of horror and acknowledge their monstrous contributions to the genre.
Fessenden is credited by the pageant for being an “irreplaceable” voice in filmmaking. Fessenden is the founding father of Glass Eye Pix, which has sustained indie horror in New York for 3 many years and counting.
“Larry Fessenden is precisely the sort of trailblazing and enduring artist we need to have a good time, one whose distinct mark on the business and on numerous filmmakers is plain,” a consultant for the pageant acknowledged.
The 2024 Brooklyn Horror Movie Competition will happen from October 17 by 24 at Nitehawk Cinema’s Williamsburg and Prospect Park places. The pageant will open with the New York premiere of “Lifeless Mail” from administrators Joe DeBoer and Kyle McConaghy, and shut with “The Rule of Jenny Pen” starring Geoffrey Rush and John Lithgow.
Emma Benestan’s “Animale” is the Centerpiece Movie.
Programming highlights embody the world premieres of Izzy Lee’s first characteristic “Home of Ashes,” “Lilly Lives Alone,” and queer sci-fi journey “Psychonaut.”
The pageant’s signature sidebar packages additionally return, beginning with “Worry in Focus: Spain” which incorporates the North American premiere of documentary “Exorcismo,” in addition to retrospective screenings of “Vampyres” and “The Blood Splattered Bride” on 35mm.
Abel Ferrara’s “The Habit” and the Spanish model of “Dracula” will display with a reside rating from The Flushing Remonstrance.
The Brooklyn Horror Jury consists of filmmakers Edoardo Vitaletti and Toby Poser, in addition to Govt Vice President of MPI Justin DiPietro.
Take a look at the total lineup beneath.
DEAD MAIL
OPENING NIGHT FILM
New York Premiere
US | 2024 | 106 Min. | Dir. Joe DeBoer, Kyle McConaghy
A blood-stained observe arrives at a county put up workplace, main its skilled “useless letter” mailroom clerk and his associates down a deadly path to find its origins. In the meantime, an entrepreneurial synthesizer engineer enters a precarious partnership with an overbearing investor. Completely capturing an genuine retro aesthetic, Joe DeBoer and Kyle McConaghy’s indie horror-synth thriller is a complete gem and may launch this directing workforce into the stratosphere.
ANIMALE
CENTERPIECE FILM
East Coast Premiere
France | 2024 | 98 Min. | Dir. Emma Benestan
As a French city’s annual bull racing competitors approaches, a string of grisly murders dedicated by a wild bull ignites the neighborhood right into a frenzy.
THE RULE OF JENNY PEN
CLOSING NIGHT FILM
East Coast Premiere
New Zealand | 2024 | 103 Min. | Dir. James Ashcroft
John Lithgow vies for “Greatest Villain of the Yr” honors enjoying a deranged nursing house resident terrorizing a brand new fellow resident (performed by Geoffrey Rush) on this twisted and mean-spirited gem.
HABIT
LEVIATHAN AWARD
Introduced by Arrow Video
United States | 1995 | 112 Min. | Dir. Larry Fessenden
On a drunken downward spiral following a breakup and the current dying of his father, Sam’s troubles solely multiply when he meets the enigmatic Anna who simply could be a vampire. This particular screening of HABIT can be adopted by the Leviathan Award presentation and Q&A w/ Larry Fessenden, moderated by BHFF alum Jenn Wexler.
BIRDEATER
East Coast Premiere
New Zealand | 2023 | 113 Min. | Dir. Jack Clark, Jim Weir
Louie invitations his fiance Irene to affix him at his bachelor occasion, however as alarming particulars of their relationship emerge, the evening free falls into full-on insanity.
BLACK EYED SUSAN
NYC Premiere
United States | 2024 | 85 Min. | Dir. Scooter McRae
In a world more and more counting on AI expertise, one firm experiments with BDSM intercourse dolls to supply to their most violent shoppers.
BONE LAKE
New York Premiere
United States | 2024 | 94 Min. | Dir. Mercedes Bryce Morgan
Hoping to get out of their romantic rut, a pair rents out a scenic cabin, however their plans are disrupted after they discover one other couple has additionally rented the identical cabin.
CUSTOM
North American Premiere
United Kingdom | 2024 | 76 Min. | Dir. Tiago Teixeira
A pair produce their very own erotic movies for cash however after they tackle a brand new shopper they change into embroiled in one thing darkish and sinister.
DEAD TALENTS SOCIETY
New York Premiere
Taiwan R.O.C. | 2024 | 106 Min. | Dir. John Hsu
To keep away from getting kicked out of the underworld, a ghost joins a small haunting expertise company and units out to change into the scariest city legend of all of them.
THE DEAD THING
East Coast Premiere
United States | 2024 | 95 Min. | Dir. Elric Kane
Disillusioned by empty hookups, Alex lastly connects with a charismatic man who appears value her time, solely to be taught that he’s harboring a nightmarish secret.
GAZER
NYC Premiere
United States | 2024 | 114 Min. | Dir. Ryan J. Sloan
An ingenious and difficult marriage of noir and horror, this singular characteristic debut finds a younger mom with a time-distorting psychological situation compelled to drag off a heist to supply for her daughter.
GENERATION TERROR
North American Premiere
United Kingdom | 2024 | 100 Min. | Dir. Phillip Escott, Sarah Appleton
Era Terror seems to be on the international results of the flip of the millennium had on horror and the slew of movies it ushered in.
GRAFTED
North American Premiere
New Zealand | 2024 | 96 Min. | Dir. Sasha Rainbow
Physique horror will get an excessive, bubblegum-poppy makeover on this humorous and ugly characteristic debut, by which a university scholar’s analysis into pores and skin ailments helps her obtain reputation in essentially the most perverse method possible.
HOUSE OF ASHES
World Premiere
United States | 2024 | 95 Min. | Dir. Izzy Lee
Whereas beneath home arrest, a grieving widow questions whether or not she’s dropping her thoughts or if she’s the sufferer of one thing supernatural after an previous pal strikes in to assist curb her loneliness.
JIMMY & STIGGS
East Coast Premiere
United States | 2024 | 80 Min. | Dir. Joe Begos
Trapped in a Los Angeles condominium, two greatest pals guzzle booze and lay waste to a small military of relentless extraterrestrials in Joe Begos’s newest dose of unadulterated, modern-day grindhouse carnage.
THE LAST SACRIFICE
East Coast Premiere
United Kingdom | 2024 | 92 Min. | Dir. Rupert Russell
Half movie historical past and half true crime documentary, this riveting and unsettling doc examines an notorious 1945 homicide in England that impressed your favourite British folks horror movies and stays draped in thriller.
LILLY LIVES ALONE
World Premiere
United States | 2024 | 93 Min. | Dir. Martin Melnick
The ten-year anniversary of a tragic accident sends a guilt-ridden girl over the sting, plunging her right into a drug and booze fueled fever dream of conspiring townsfolk and supernatural terrors.
PSYCHONAUT
World Premiere
Netherlands | 2024 | 87 Min. | Dir. Thijs Meuwese
With the assistance of a futuristic therapeutic machine, Maxime should traverse into the darkish recesses of her dying girlfriend’s thoughts so as to find the “important reminiscence” that would save her life.
RITA
United States Premiere
Guatemala | 2024 | 107 Min. | Dir. Jayro Bustamante
A younger woman runs away from her abusive father solely to finish up in a protected home, the place she finds the fantasy and horrors that await her.
SAYARA
East Coast Premiere
Turkey| 2024 | 98 Min. | Dir. Can Evrenol
Brooklyn Horror alum Can Evrenol (Housewife, 2017) combines his private model of utmost horror with brutal martial arts motion on this story of blood-soaked revenge, following a girl’s mission to avenge her sister’s homicide.
SOMNIUM
New York Premiere
United States| 2024 | 92 Min. | Dir. Racheal Cain
Gemma strikes to LA within the hopes of constructing it as an actress however when she takes a job at a mysterious sleep clinic it has unusual results on her.
THE SOUL EATER
East Coast Premiere
France, Belgium | 2024 | 108 Min. | Dir. Alexandre Bustillo, Julien Maury
Soar-started by a perplexing homicide scene of absolute carnage and a gaggle of lacking kids, two investigators from completely different departments are despatched down the identical darkish and unforgiving path.
TALES FROM THE VOID (Season 1 Episodes 4-6)
World & New York Premieres
United States | 2024 | 79 Min. | Dir. Maritte Lee Go, Francesco Loschiavo, John Adams and Toby Poser
Followers of short-form horror are in for a deal with with this trio of episodes from Screambox’s new Reddit-derived anthology sequence, two of that are BHFF World Premieres and the third directed by indie horror stalwarts John Adams and Toby Poser.
TIMESTALKER
Introduced by The Way forward for Movie is Feminine
New York Premiere
United Kingdom | 2024 | 96 Min. | Dir. Alice Lowe
A karmic journey that sees the hapless heroine Agnes reincarnated each time she makes the identical mistake: falling in love with the mistaken man.
WHO’S WATCHING
East Coast Premiere
United States | 2024 | 86 Min. | Dir. Tim Kasher
Cursive frontman Tim Kasher delivers an impressively nihilistic directorial debut with this seedy take a look at a mentally disturbed social misfit who takes his infatuation with a feminine co-worker to disturbing heights.
WAKE IN FRIGHT (4K Restoration)
East Coast Premiere
Australia | 1971 | 109 Min. | Dir. Ted Kotcheff
A masterwork of pure cinematic insanity, Ted Kotcheff’s wild and disturbing Wake in Fright, which follows a schoolteacher as he loses his thoughts amidst drunken Aussie locals, receives an excellent 4K restoration.
THE ADDICTION
United States | 1995 | 82 Min. | Dir. Abel Ferrara
On this ’90s cult traditional from New York director Abel Ferrara, a doctoral scholar turns into a vampire and makes an attempt to adapt to her new life-style and thirst for blood.
FEAR IN FOCUS: SPAIN
Worry in Focus is again with a particular Spain version! The pageant’s perennial sidebar, as soon as once more introduced by Arrow Video, which celebrates a selected area’s distinctive work inside horror, turns its eyes to one of many unique and most enduring purveyors of the style.
Program highlights embody the North American premiere of EXORCISMO, a documentary exploring the post-dictatorship interval of Spanish cinema when style filmmakers had been producing essentially the most wildly taboo difficult work the nation had ever seen, and repertory screenings of queer vampire necessities THEBLOOD SPATTERED BRIDE, screening on 35mm, and VAMPYRES, celebrating its fiftieth anniversary. The lesser identified–and superior to some–Spanish manufacturing of DRACULA, made the identical yr because the Bela Lugosi traditional, may even be screened with a model new reside rating from The Flushing Remonstrance.
Rounding out the choices can be a particular FEAR IN FOCUS: SPAIN shorts block, spotlighting an thrilling new wave of Spanish horror.
Exorcismo
North American Premiere
Spain | 2024 | 122 Min. | Dir. Alberto Sedano
EXORCISMO dives into the post-Franco period of Spanish cinema that noticed administrators free of censorship and creating a few of the most erotically express horror and style movies of all-time.
Vampyres – fiftieth Anniversary
Spain | 1974 | 87 Min. | Dir. José Ramón Larraz
A pair of ravenous femme vampires creep across the British countryside trying to find males to convey again to their creepy mansion the place they fuck and feed on them.
The Blood Spattered Bride (35mm)
Spain | 1972 | 100 Min. | Dir. Vicente Aranda
Sexually charged horror doesn’t get significantly better, or kinkier, than this cult traditional a few newly married girl who can’t stand her husband and falls for an attractive, long-dead woman vampire.
Dracula (Spanish Model w/ Reside Rating)
United States| 1931| 104 Min. | Dir. George Melford
An unsung gem, Common’s different 1931 Dracula manufacturing receives a long-overdue highlight at this particular screening with a reside rating from The Flushing Remonstrance.
Worry in Focus: Spain Shorts Program
Brooklyn Horror is proud to dedicate this yr’s Worry in Focus sidebar to the superb style movies of Spain. This particular shorts program of recent Spanish frights consists of tales of cruel revenge, spine-chilling supernatural terrors and gut-wrenching physique horror.
Be Proper Again, dir. Lucas Paulino, Gabe Ibáñez; Apotemnofilia, dir. Jano Pita; Nap, dir. Javier Chavanel; The Customer, dir. Tony Morales; Don’t Discuss to Strangers, dir. Imanol Ortiz López; Voyager, dir. Pablo Pagán; Berta, dir. LucÃa Forner Segarra
SHORT FILMS
NIGHTMARE FUEL
Sleep no extra after witnessing the phobia on show on this chilling block of purely scary horror, full with Ouija board mishaps, techie ghouls, and cult rituals gone awry.
Dream Creep, dir. Carlos A.F. Lopez (USA); Pop, dir. Josh Jones (USA); Agonist, dir. Annie Marie Elliot (USA); Stop to Exist, dir. Taylor Nodrick (Canada); The Awakening, dir. Al Campbell (UK); Taboo, dir. Almog Avidan Antonir (USA); Inked, dir. Kelsey Bollig (USA); Mr. Static, dir. Mike Williamson (USA); Transylvanie, dir. Rodrigue Huart (France)
HEAD TRIP
Brooklyn Horror’s signature celebration of genre-bending horror returns with a contemporary crop of short-form innovation, together with sexual darkness, animalistic transformations, and coming-of-age supernaturalism.
Evil, I, dir. Vanessa Beletic (USA); Izzy, dir. Yfke van Berckelaer (Netherlands); Poppy’s Saturn, dir. Nicole Tegelaar (Belgium); Calf, dir. Jamie O’Rourke (Eire); Faces, dir. Blake Simon (USA); Kneading, dir. Lulu Syracuse, Augie Syracuse (USA); Tight, dir. Jessica Barr (USA); Femme, dir. Nina Noël Raaijmakers (Netherlands)
SLAYED: LGBTQ Horror Shorts
Introduced by Horror Press
As soon as once more, Brooklyn Horror Fest is again with its Slayed shorts block which focuses on LGBTQIA+ filmmakers and themes. And as all the time, the choice lives as much as the title.
Seaside Logs Kill, dir. Haley Z. Boston (USA); Girl Elements, dir. Ariel McCleese (USA); Unsettled, dir. Bella Thorne (USA); Dream Manufacturing facility, dir. Alex Matraxia (UK); Rat!, dir. Neal Suresh Mulani (USA); Stink, dir. Matias Breuer (USA); Women, dir. Julien Hosmalin
LAUGH NOW DIE LATER
Introduced by Tooth: The Musical
What’s higher than being scared? Laughing your ass off on the identical time, which you’ll do because of this batch of raucous horror-comedies that includes private trainers, house invasions, and sexual dysfunction.
Cheat Meal, dir. Drew Bierut (USA); The Final Factor She Noticed, dir. Anthony Cousins (USA); Imply Ends, dir. Émile Lavoie (Canada); Erection and Destruction, dir. Eddie Mullins (USA); Make Me a Pizza, dir. Talia Shea Levin (USA); Roger is a Serial Killer, dir. Don Swaynos (USA); Maintain Up, dir. Ori Guendelman (USA)
HOME INVASION #1
Again like we by no means left, our annual showcase of NYC native shorts returns with a buffet of style movie goodness.
Crimson Flag, dir. Malin Barr, Cleo Handler; Be Unhealthy, dir. Lauren Hart; By The Window, dir. Case Avron; Wild Animals, dir. David B Jacobs; I Favor Monsters, dir. Dylan Brown; Tinkerhell, dir. Noah Sterling; Hammer, dir. Alejandra Parody, Ben Sottak; Stigmata, dir. Ben Gordon; Soar Lower, dir. James Martin Morrison
HOME INVASION #2
Spherical two of our annual native shorts program, simply in case you wanted a reminder that NYC style movies are constructed completely different.
The Sacrifice, dir. Christopher Werener; VHX, dir. Alisa Stern, Scott Ampleford; Unintentional Stars, dir. Emily Bennett; The Retreat, dir. Emmett Kerr-Perkinson; The Shadow Wrangler, dir. Grace Rex; Implied Monsters, dir. Christine Nyland; Unusual Creatures, dir. Nicholas Payne Santos; Woman With the Gray Eyes, dir. Kara Grace Miller; Don’t F*ck With Ba, dir. Sally Tran
SPECIAL EVENTS
Remaining Examination Horror Trivia
Introduced by Darkish Sky Movies
Do you assume you already know extra about horror movies than the remainder of Gotham? Then it’s time to show it by way of 5 blistering rounds of professional degree creepy trivia with hosts Ted Geoghegan (director of WE ARE STILL HERE and Shudder’s BROOKLYN 45) and journalist Michael Gingold (of Fangoria and Rue Morgue fame)! Meet new pals, win superb prizes, and be taught extra about horror cinema completely at Remaining Examination!
Licensed Forgotten Podcast
Licensed Forgotten is a 60-minute bi-weekly horror film podcast with a concentrate on underseen movies. Hosts Matt Donato and Matt Monagle converse with creators, filmmakers, and critics about their lifelong relationships to the horror style. Every episode additionally highlights one other distinctive style title with ten-or-fewer evaluations on aggregator web site Rotten Tomatoes that’s picked by the visitor, letting them champion every episode’s title to their coronary heart’s content material.
Miskatonic Institute of Horror Research Lecture: Queer Vampires, Queer Liberation, Queer Futurity with Dr. Leah Richards
As any vampire scholar, and most vampire followers, will let you know, the determine of the vampire is inherently queer. John Polidori primarily based Lord Ruthven (“The Vampyre,” 1818) on the indiscriminately licentious Lord Byron; J. Sheridan Le Fanu’s Carmilla (“Carmilla,” 1872) nonetheless dominates the lesbian vampire style; and Bram Stoker’s Dracula (Dracula, 1897) tells his three brides that Jonathan Harker “is mine”. Their non-normative copy, the pleasure that they soak up penetration and feasting, their seduction of victims into voluntary acquiescence, and their capes and ruffles and air of languid dissipation…vampires are queer. However so what?
This lecture will first set up cinematic vampires as nearly universally queer-coded and discover the importance of this particular intersection of monstrosity and sexuality. The discuss will then discover the alignment of vampire cinema with the queer liberation motion of the Nineteen Sixties-70s, protecting movies corresponding to Hammer’s Karnstein trilogy (The Vampire Lovers [1970], Lust for a Vampire [1971], and Twins of Evil [1971]) and its a lot gayer non secular relations together with Daughters of Darkness (1971), The Blood Spattered Bride (1972), and Vampyres (1974), in addition to current titles like Bit (2019), Thirst (2020), and So Vam (2021).
By the work of queer theorists together with Lee Edelman, Jack Halberstam, and José Esteban Muñoz the lecture will discover the ways in which vampires can contribute to discourses round queer id, modes of being, and futurity.
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