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Wanderlost (92min- USA) Trailer Buy Tix
Date: 10/28 5pm
Dir: David Kabler
Cat: Vampire Feature
Jacob is a train hopping drifter, alone in the world, isolated by years of ritual abuse and life on the fringe. He returns to his father's grave to break the family curse that haunts him. Here he sees salvation in a beautiful young artist who could be his key to freedom. But curses don't die so easily.
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Kiss the Abyss (87min-USA) Trailer Buy Tix
Date: 10/27 7pm
Dir: Ken Winkler
Cat: Vampire Feature
When a young woman (Nicole Moore) is brutally killed by an intruder, her husband (Scott Wilson) and estranged father conspire to bring he back from the dead with the help of a mysterious desert dweller (Douglas Bennett). Soon after she awakens, she begins to realize that something is horribly wrong...
Nightlife (82min-USA) Trailer Buy Tix
Date: 10/28 11pm
Dir: Tim Sanderson
Cat: Vampire Feature
http://www.nightlife-themovie.com/
Being a vampire kinda sucks. At least that's the premise of this mockumentary comedy in which a small film crew follows six of the undead in their night-to-night lives.
Daylight Fades (108min-USA) Trailer Buy Tix
Date: 10/29 9pm
Dir: Brad Ellis
Cat: Vampire Feature
Seth abandons his pregnant girlfriend for Raven, a seductive woman who reveals herself to be a vampire. Twenty-five years later, a now immortal Seth tries to make amends by turning his daughter's dying boyfriend.
The Sanguinarian (103min-USA) Trailer Buy Tix
Date: 10/27 11pm
Dir: Analisa Ravella
Cat: Vampire Feature
http://www.thesanguinarian.com/
“The Sanguinarian” is a drama/thriller centered around Christoph, a gaunt, pale young man with rakish blond hair and piercing blue eyes. He is a suicidal vampire, solitary in his steps through a post-industrial, sensual, and surreal world. He is wary, uneasy, and dangerously sharp. Drawn, again and again, to the vibrant, decadent lot who dance at an underground blood bar. As Christoph stays one step ahead of his own damnation, the pseudo-Shakespearean language of the vampires plays out the unfolding tragedy. It is the heart-stopping and violent diplomacy of the damned, an unconventional tale of the seductions of evil.
Sea of Dust (90min - USA) Trailer Buy Tix
Date: 10/29 3pm
Dir: Scott Bunt
Cat: Gothic Feature
Less a horror movie than a psychedelic fairytale, the multi-award winning SEA OF DUST has the look of a Hammer film on acid. The story of a nineteenth century medical student battling other-worldly forces jumps backwards and forwards in time and through multiple levels of reality, creating a film that is “at once a black slapstick comedy, a twisted horror tale, a stylish period piece and a biting religious satire” (Fangoria).
Starring genre icons Tom Savini (FROM DUSK TIL DAWN, GRINDHOUSE), Ingrid Pitt (THE VAMPIRE LOVERS) and Stuart ‘Multiple Miggs’ Rudin (SILENCE OF THE LAMBS), SEA OF DUST’s satire of post-9/11 America is truly unlike anything in contemporary cinema. It‟s violent. It’s sexy. It’s oddly humorous. And to quote acclaimed director Ken Russell, it’s a “substantially mythic treat.”
DemiUrge Emesis (3min-USA) Buy Tix
Program: A Gothic Blend of Terror 10/30 5:30pm Encore Show Just Added
Dir: Aurelio Voltaire Vampire Fest Alumnus
Cat: Gothic Short
A mummified cat is tormented by the skeletons of past meals. Directed and animated by MTV and Sy Fy Channel veteran Aurelio Voltaire and narrated by Danny Elfman.
Delusion (9min- Russian Federation) Buy Tix
Program: A Gothic Blend of Terror 10/30 5:30pm Encore Show Just Added
Dir: Alexander Markov
Cat: Gothic Short
The artist is trying to realize his fantasies on the canvas. He fails, but imagination leads him through new ideas over and over again.
Suddenly the character becomes alive and starts to live his own life. There are no more borders between reality and imaginary.
Sacrifice (9min -Australia) Trailer
Program: Vampire Fantasies 10/27 9pm or 10/31 1pm
Dir: Robert Jukic
Cat: Vampire Short
In this Gothic Vampire short film, a race against time leads an unsuspecting victim into the path of an ancient evil. Who will survive this unholy encounter and who will become the next sacrifice?
By Her Hand She Draws You Down (26min -USA) Trailer
Program: Vampire Fantasies 10/27 9pm or 10/31 1pm
Dir: Anthony G. Sumner
Cat: Vampire Short
Based on the short story by acclaimed author Douglas Smith, BY HER HAND, SHE DRAWS YOU DOWN is a creepy and suspenseful tale of a boardwalk portrait artist who struggles with a powerful dark hunger, and the man who, through loving her, must come to grips with his own inner demons. Brought to life by director Anthony G. Sumner and Co-Producer Alan Rowe Kelly on the desolate beaches of the off-season Jersey Shore, BY HER HAND, SHE DRAWS YOU DOWN is a beautiful, compelling, horrifying and ultimately tragic film
The Latest Vampire (5min -Lebanon & France)
Program: The Thirst for Blood a Collection of Vampire Shorts 10/28 3pm or 10/29 7pm
Dir: Bane Saleh
Cat: Vampire Short
'The Latest Vampire' is the journey of a lonely being thirsty to find a prey. As the spectator accompanies him through his hunt, he falls with affection and compassion for this unconventional and extremely familiar creature, to which he finally identifies. The latest vampire could be you, me, or anyone
You Are So Undead (6min - Canada)
Program: The Thirst for Blood a Collection of Vampire Shorts 10/28 3pm or 10/29 7pm
Dir: Alex Epstein
Cat: Vampire Short
You are so undead is a teen vampire sex comedy. Teenage Mary Margaret no longer reflects in the mirror, she let her vampire boyfriend Drew ''go all the way'' and now she's undead.
MA,rke Sjeler (Dark Souls) (95min - France, Norway) Trailer Buy Tix
Date: 10/30 9pm
Dir: Cesar Ducasse, Mathieu Peteul
Cat: Mythic Horror Feature
http://www.morkesjeler.com/
A revengeful father embarks on a dark thrill ride of lost memories, conspiracy and zombie-like symptoms. Finding the mysterious darkness within is the source of the bizarre world he has uncovered.
The Lost Island of Laveau (17min - USA) Trailer Buy Tix
Program:Midnight @ Vampire Fest 10/29 12am Encore Show Just Added
Dir: Jason Wood
Cat: Voodoo Short
Following a massive hurricane, a group of climatology students go into the Gulf of Mexico to search for some lost equipment. Instead, they stumble upon a mysterious island that has been keeping a long-buried and deadly secret of Voodoo Queen Marie Laveau.
Backyard Cult (5min - USA) Buy Tix
Program: A Gothic Blend of Terror 10/30 5:30pm Encore Show Just Added
Dir: Allen Rueckert & Mitch Yapko VFF ALUMNI
Cat: Gothic Short
Larry can't stand his neighbors. They are loud, noisy and messy. And now they have gone too far and it's time to take action. When they open the gates of hell in his backyard, only Larry can fight the demons to save his lawn.
Demon Walk (4min - USA) Buy Tix
Program:Midnight @ Vampire Fest 10/29 12am Encore Show Just Added
Dir: Allen Rueckert VFF ALUMNI
Cat: Mythic Horror Short
Real estate Brent gets more than he bargains for when he sells a house with a murderous history. The demons will stop at nothing until they have his soul.
The Return of Shotgun George (10min - USA) Buy Tix
Program:Midnight @ Vampire Fest 10/29 12am Encore Show Just Added
Dir: Mitch Yapko VFF ALUMNI
Cat: Mythic Horror Short
When four former students break into their old high school to party, they find an unexpected guest who died when the Dillinger gang murdered him 75 years ago. Now he wants revenge from beyond the grave.
The Unwelcomed (11min - USA)
Program: The Thirst for Blood a Collection of Vampire Shorts 10/28 3pm or 10/29 7pm
Dir: Michael Taranto
Cat: Vampire Short
Three stranded friends plan whether or not they will run for their lives or hide inside and possibly face the unknown 'things' that are after them.
La Reina Vampira ( (11min - Brazil, USA)
Program: Vampire Fantasies 10/27 9pm or 10/31 1pm
Dir: Paulo J. Maia
Cat: Vampire Short
As he attempts to confront his own issues, a writer is absorbed and dominated by the world he creates, where a lonesome beautiful girl awaits the fate he wrote for her: becoming The Vampire Queen.
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Citizen Zombie (33min - South Korea) Buy Tix
Program:Midnight @ Vampire Fest 10/29 12am Encore Show Just Added
Dir: Woo-Hyuk
Cat: Mythic Horror Short
The citizen zombies have been lived quietly at the underground. However a number of cases occurred that the humans were attacked by unknown species of zombies. The government of Humans issue an order to the zombies that depart from the underground.
Statt Coven (19min- USA) Buy Tix
Program: A Gothic Blend of Terror 10/30 5:30pm Encore Show Just Added
Cat: Gothic Short
A cannibal love story.