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Competition: REAPER

B-movie icons Danny Trejo (Machete Kills, TV’s Sons Of Anarchy) and Vinnie Jones (X-Men: The Last Stand, TV’s Elementary) star in this inventive slasher that follows a death row inmate who survives execution and returns as a supernatural force known as Reaper. Descending on an isolated hotel which happens to be the meeting place of some very dangerous players, the Reaper’s thirst for blood is only matched by one wily girl’s thirst for survival.

Horrorthon are giving away three DVD copies of REAPER. To enter the draw, just send an e-mail containing your name and postal address to competition@horrorthon.com

Competition closes 30th September 2014

Reaper is released by Signature Entertainment on October 6th

IFI Horrorthon 2014

IFI HORRORTHON FILM FESTIVAL 2014 (October 23rd - 27th)

Hi all! Well, it's that time again, so here is a little taste of what is in store for next month's festival. As the Horrorthon team finalises this year's programme we are delighted to announce that our guests include cult horror Writer / Director Frank Henenlotter, as well as Scream Queen Actress / Writer / Director Jessica Cameron. We will be screening three of Frank Henenlotter's classics Basket Case, Brain Damage & Frankenhooker along with his new documentary That's Sexploitation. Jessica Cameron's Directorial debut is the multi award winning controversial festival hit Truth or Dare. This one is not for the faint of heart. Ms. Cameron has even promised to bring along some "Sick Bags" to hand out to audience members!

Also, this year the team felt that the festival needed some exciting new additions to the event, so we've introduced a new category where we will honour a horror icon each year, and we kick off by honouring the late great Vincent Price. We will be showing three of his classic movies, The Abominable Dr. Phibes, The Fall of the House of Usher, as well as a glorious 35mm print of Theatre of Blood. Another new addition will be horror story readings from the work of Ireland's greatest horror writers which is in association with The Bram Stoker Festival. Plus a screening of the silent movie Häxan : Witchcraft Through the Ages with a live music accompaniment.

We are also delighted to announce our fantastic opening and closing films. Opening night October 23rd we start with this year's most anticipated critically acclaimed horror hit The Babadook, and we close this year with the brilliant crowd pleaser What We Do in the Shadows.

We will be bringing you the full programme next week once everything is all finalised. We hope this whets your blood thirsty appetite for now!!!

Ed King

Competition: WEREWOLF RISING

Horrorthon are giving away three DVD copies of the brand new horror film Werewolf Rising.

Desperate for a break from big city life, Emma heads to her family’s cabin deep in the Arkansas hills. As she settles in for some much-needed R&R, she learns that something unspeakable lurks in the surrounding darkness. As the full moon rises, a bloodthirsty werewolf emerges from the shadows, slaughtering everyone in its path and revealing a sinister underworld Emma never knew existed. Thrown into a fight for her life, and her very soul, Emma will need to escape these big bad woods before it’s too late.


To enter the competition, just send an e-mail to horrorthon_info@horrorthon.com including your name and postal address. Winners will be notified by the end of the week. Best of luck!

Werewolf Rising is released on 22nd September

COMPETITION IS NOW CLOSED 

Competition: CAMP DREAD

Horrorthon are giving away three DVD copies of the great new slasher film Camp Dread, starring Eric Roberts and Horrorthon's 2012 guest of honour Danielle Harris.

‘A splatterific, 1980s style summer camp horror ride’
MMMM
Billy Chainsaw, Bizarre

‘Twists and turns caught me off guard…a cut above’
Dreadcentral

‘The first slasher in decades that has a satisfying oh wow ending’
Necropology

Imagine a reality show where the contestants – a succession of unpleasant characters – are eliminated not by standard ejection but by hanging, drowning, strangling, beheading and all manner of murderous methods. Welcome to Camp Dread.

A group of misguided young adults – amongst them killers, blackmailers, sex offenders – have been sent to the camp as part of a new reality show. This is their last chance to avoid prison or rehab and if they avoid elimination they could win $1 million along the way.

Manipulating the contestants is down-at-heel horror director Julian Barrett played by Oscar nominee Eric Roberts, using the same set as his old horror franchise Summer Camp. And as the competition progresses, it becomes more than just a battle to win. It’s a desperate, gut-wrenching fight for survival. 

All you have to do to enter the competition is e-mail your name and address to horrorthon_info@horrorthon.com and then cross your fingers. Best of luck!

COMPETITION IS NOW CLOSED

Call for Submissions

Horrorthon would like to invite submissions for the short film section of this year's IFI Horrorthon in Dublin, the weekend of 24th October 2014.

To submit a short film you have three options:

1. Send a link to an online screener to festival@horrorthon.com

2. Use the tool provided at http://www.clickforfestivals.com/horrorthon-film-festival

3. Post a DVD, blu-ray or memory stick to:
Horrorthon Submissions, Irish Film Institute, Eustace St., Dublin 2, Ireland 

Notes:

• There is no restriction on running time within reason, but less than 15 minutes is preferred
• This is not a competition, but there may be an audience prize for the favourite film
• Submissions are free of charge
• We do not offer any screening fee
• Selected films will be shown as part of a dedicated short film programme during the festival in IFI
• Please include a cover note containing contact details, biographical info, synopsis, running time and any other relevant details
• Closing date is 5th September 2014 

Competition: OCULUS

Competition is now closed
 
Dare to join us for Oculus…..into the 13^th event!

We’ve teamed up with Warner Bros. Pictures to offer you the chance to win tickets to new horror movie Oculus at a special late night preview that will take you into Friday the 13^th!

Join us in the Light House Cinema, Smithfield at 10.15pm on Thursday June 12^th if you dare!

Co-writer/director Mike Flanagan’s Oculus introduces audiences to a new kind of terror:  the eerily inscrutable Lasser Glass.  This beautiful antique mirror is no ordinary villain.  Though the mirror’s true origins have been lost with its victims, it carries the name of its first recorded owner, Philip Lasser.  Its seemingly harmless reflections hold a malevolent supernatural force that infects the mind of the viewer, leading to paranoia, distorted visions, and eventually, possession.  The mirror’s most recent owners, adult siblings Kaylie (Karen Gillan) and Tim (Brenton Thwaites), are struggling to rebuild their relationship after the violent demise of their parents ten years earlier. Kaylie suspects that past tragedy was caused by the Lasser glass and as she gets closer to the truth, history begins to repeat itself.  The siblings turn on each other, unsure of what is real and what isn’t...until they realize the Lasser glass has gotten a hold of them, too. 

Oculus opens in cinemas Friday the 13^th of June.

Cert: 16

To enter the draw for a pair of tickets simply send an email to horrorthon_info@horrorthon.com and include the word Oculus in the subject

Competition: THE RAID 2

The Raid 2 opens in Irish cinemas 11 April, certificate: 18

“One of the great action films of recent memory” – Indiewire
“Brutal, beautiful and brilliant” – Total Film
***** - Loaded

Breaking out of the tower block and into Jakarta’s criminal underworld, and featuring some of the most breath-taking and bone-crunching fight scenes ever committed to film, THE RAID 2 is set to be the must-see action film of 2014.

He thought it was over. After fighting his way through a seemingly impenetrable building filled with gangsters and madmen, rookie Jakarta cop Rama (Iko Uwais) thought his mission was done and he could live a normal life. He couldn’t have been more wrong.

His brutal and bloody victory has attracted the attention of the top level underworld kingpins. With his family now in danger, Rama has only one choice to protect them: he must go undercover, infiltrate the criminal organisation that runs the city and work his way to the top until he reaches the corrupt politicians, police and gang bosses who secretly pull the strings.

THE RAID 2 is directed by Gareth Evans who follows up his original smash hit The Raid, expanding the mythology of Rama’s world, increasing the level and complexity of fight choreography and introducing us to a glorious new gallery of villains, from crime lords Bangun and Goto, and mysterious assassin Prakoso, to the iconic Hammer Girl and Baseball Bat Man.




Horrorthon are giving away tickets to a special preview screening of The Raid 2 in Cineworld Dublin on Monday April 7th at 6.30pm. To enter the draw just send an e-mail containing your name to raid2@horrorthon.com

Winners will be notified on Friday. Good luck!
COMPETITION IS NOW CLOSED

AUDIENCE REQUIRED for a screening of a new horror film

Calling horror fans in Ireland!

AUDIENCE REQUIRED for a screening of a new horror film

Attendees must be over 18 years old, and will be required to complete an anonymous questionnaire at the end of the film, your opinion will be required on the Film’s Poster, Trailer and the Film itself.

This FREE screening will be held March 19th at 6.30pm sharp in Cineworld Dublin. Seating is limited and RSVP registration for seats is essential.

The use of mobile phones or recording devices will NOT be permitted during the screening.

Please email testscreening14@gmail.com to register for your invite, subject: HORROR

Competition: BLACK WATER VAMPIRE

COMPETITION NOW CLOSED
Who or what is responsible for a series of brutal killings, where the victims’ bodies have been found drained of blood in Black Water Creek? A young journalist and her team investigate in Black Water Vampire.

Raymond Banks, has been locked up and certified criminally insane for the murders of four women whose bodies were brutalised and dumped in the woods, but Andrea Adams thinks the police have got it wrong and she’s taking her film crew to find out the truth.

What they find there can only be told by the footage left behind. There are darker forces at work than anyone outside of Black Water can know…or will ever live to tell. Blood wrenching, soul-shattering terror waits for those who dare enter these woods in search of the Black Water Vampire.

Black Water Vampire is a first for found footage as vampires invade the genre in this slick, atmospheric horror that builds to a truly chilling climax. It makes its UK DVD debut on 24 March 2014 from Image Entertainment.

To enter the competition for a DVD of Black Water Vampire, just send an e-mail with your name and postal address to horrorthon_info@horrorthon.com and put Black Water Vampire in the subject. Good luck!

Competition Time: BLOODY HOMECOMING

COMPETITION NOW CLOSED
Death stalks the halls of Winston High and for its young students Homecoming will never be the same, in brand new teen slasher Bloody Homecoming which makes its UK DVD debut from Image Entertainment on 10 March 2014.



Horrorthon have 3 DVDs of Bloody Homecoming to give away. To enter the competition, send an e-mail containing your name and postal address to horrorthon_info@horrorthon.com and put Bloody Homecoming in the subject.

Competition Time: FRANKENSTEIN: THE TRUE STORY

One of the most acclaimed versions of Mary Shelley’s classic Frankenstein: The True Story, featuring a stellar all-star cast including James Mason and Leonard Whiting, makes its UK DVD debut thanks to Second Sight Films.

Made in 1973 this much lauded film also stars David McCallum (The Man From U.N.C.L.E.), Jane Seymour (Live and Let Die), Tom Baker (Doctor Who), Ralph Richardson (The Fallen Idol), John Gielgud (Ghandi) and Peter Sallis (Last of the Summer Wine) and will be released for the first time on DVD on 10 March 2014.

If you'd like to enter the draw for a free copy, send an e-mail containing your name and postal address to horrorthon_info@horrorthon.com with the subject "Frankenstein". Good luck!

Horrorthon Xmas Party

The Horrorthon Xmas party will be held on the 28th of December in Mac Turcaills Pub, Dublin from 8pm onwards! Hope to see you there :)

Horrorthon Film Festival 24-28 October 2013

IN FEAR (Q&A with Director Jeremy Lovering)
WE ARE WHAT WE ARE (2013)
HATCHET 3 (with Short Film ALTERNATIVE MODEL)
THE HUMAN RACE 
THANATOMORPHOSE
THE BORDERLANDS
CHASTITY BITES
DELIVERY
DARK TOUCH
NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD (1990)
CREEPSHOW 
NOSFERATU (1922 - Restored)
GOLDBERG & EISENBERG
THE APPARITION
JASON & THE ARGONAUTS (50th Anniv.)
HANSEL & GRETEL GET BAKED 
THE STRANGE COLOUR OF YOUR BODY'S TEARS
DISCOPATH
ODD THOMAS
ARMY OF DARKNESS (20th Anniversary)
MIDNIGHT MAN
DAY OF NIGHT
RITUALS
RETURN TO NUKE EM' HIGH
THE MUMMY (1959)
SURPRISE FILM
HAUNTER (with Short Film THE BODY)
LIFEFORCE
THE BATTERY
FOR ELIZA
SHORT FILM SHOWCASE
VIDEODROME (30th Anniversary)
THE STATION
JOHN CARPENTER'S CHRISTINE (30th Anniversary)
ANTI-SOCIAL
BIG BAD WOLVES (with Short Film DON'T MOVE)

For screening times and booking visit:
http://irishfilm.ie/horrorthon

Download festival brochure (.pdf 6MB)

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Horrorthon Short Film Showcase 2013

Ella (UK, 9 mins)
A Mother dead in the kitchen. A Father with blood on his hands. Not all is what it seems. Anthony Head (Buffy) stars in this bleak but beautifully shot and haunting tale.

The Gloaming (Ireland, 7 mins)
Ireland, 1849. The Great Famine. As a church bell tolls and the gloaming descends, a father and son working the land are forced to confront an ancient evil.  
 
Shocker (Ireland, 7 mins)
Impressive visual effects belie the low budget of this Dublin set sci-fi short about a man with the power to summon electricity and a burning hatred of the human race. Don’t let him near the spire... too late!

The Crimes of All Hallow’s Day (Spain, 22 mins)
Based on the true story of a series of brutal murders on the island of Ibiza in the 50s and 60s, this film presents new evidence to suggest that the man executed for the crimes was innocent and that an even more disturbing story lay behind the headlines. After a documentary style introduction by Spanish filmmaker Antonio Isasi, the final murder is dramatised in the style of a grindhouse horror film which could hold it’s own against Texas Chainsaw Massacre for sheer brutality.

Mother Died (UK, 7 mins) 
A young woman manages one last act of defiance in the face of the zombie apocalypse.

Shell Shocked (UK, 12 mins)
Two soldiers from opposing sides seek salvation from the battle field. A tense, life or death stand off at gun point ensues with a growing realisation... they were safer where they were. Dominic Brunt (Paddy Kirk in Emmerdale) directs

How Olin Lost His Eye (Ireland, 6mins)
An abandoned house, a boarded-up window, and a little boy who can’t resist having a peek. The latest scare from Irish horror auteur Damian McCarthy.

Suckablood (UK, 7 mins)
Creepy gothic horror in which a wicked stepmother calls down a terrible curse on a little girl to stop her from sucking her thumb.

Fist of Jesus (Spain, 14 mins)
Things don’t go to plan for Jesus when he tries to resurrect Lazarus and unwittingly sets off a zombie holocaust. Viz magazine meets Sam Raimi in this masterpiece of sacrilegious splatter.

Bloodlust of the Druid Overlords (US, 29 mins)
We all know about Saint Patrick and the snakes, but the true story of his battle against the Druid Overlords has never been told, until now. This low budget B-movie homage by artist Michael X. Rose features flaxen-haired maidens pursued through the woods and sacrificied to the old gods by papier-mache headed druids, and builds to a spectacular climax as Saint Patrick arrives from across the sea to foil the evil druids by launching fireballs from his crozier, all set to an original psychedelic rock soundtrack. Horrorthon is proud to present this very idiosyncratic and amusing example of trash cinema.

Surprise Ending (Ireland, 26 secs)
A nagged husband (Gerard McSorley) picks a most inappropriate moment to murder his wife in this micro-short.

The Horrorthon Short Film Showcase screens at the IFI on Monday 28th October 2013 at 11am

Competition Time: INSIDIOUS CHAPTER 2

To celebrate the release of INSIDIOUS:CHAPTER 2, Horrorthon are giving away 10 double passes for a special double-bill of INSIDIOUS and INSIDIOUS: CHAPTER 2

The screening will take place in Cineworld at 615pm on Wednesday September 11th 2013

To be in with a chance of winning, just send an e-mail to insidious_tickets@horrorthon.com and include your name and phone number in the e-mail.

INSIDIOUS: CHAPTER 2 opens in Irish cinemas on September 13th

Competition time: AFTERSHOCK

This competition is now closed.

Horrorthon are giving away 30 double tickets to a special preview screening of the new movie AFTERSHOCK.

In the middle of a night of wild partying, a hapless American tourist (HOSTEL director Eli Roth) and his friends are suddenly plunged into a living hell when a powerful earthquake rips through the coastal town of Valparaíso, Chile.

The screening will take place in the Light House Cinema at 1030pm on Friday 16th August 2013 and all you have to do to win double tickets is send an e-mail containing your name and phone number to horrorthon_info@horrorthon.com and put AFTERSHOCK as the subject.

The draw will take place on Monday 12th August and winners will be notified that evening.

AFTERSHOCK is released in Irish cinemas on 16th August.

Competition time

Win tickets to a special preview screening of the No.1 US Horror Smash THE CONJURING

To celebrate the release of this year’s No.1 US horror “The Conjuring”, Horrorthon and Warner Bros Pictures have joined forces to offer you the opportunity to see this truly frightening film ahead of anyone else. A special late night preview screening will take place at the IFI on Thursday 1^st August at 1030pm and we have lots of double passes to give away!

To enter the competition, just send an e-mail containing your full name and phone number to theconjuringtickets@horrorthon.com

Before there was Amityville, there was Harrisville.  Based on the true life story, “The Conjuring” tells the tale of how world renowned paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren were called upon to help a family terrorized by a dark presence in a secluded farmhouse. Forced to confront a powerful demonic entity, the Warrens find themselves caught in the most horrifying case of their lives.

From New Line Cinema comes a feature film drawn from the case files of married demonologists Ed and Lorraine Warren.  “The Conjuring” stars Academy Award® nominee Vera Farmiga (“Up in the Air,” TV’s “Bates Motel”) and Patrick Wilson (“Insidious”) as the Warrens, and Ron Livingston (“The Odd Life of Timothy Green”) and Lili Taylor (TV’s “Hemlock Grove”) as Roger and Carolyn Perron, residents of the house.

“The Conjuring”. Cert 15A, opens across Ireland on 2 August, 2013.

www.theconjuringmovie.co.uk

 f/theconjuringmovie

© 2013 Warner Bros. Ent. All Rights Reserved.

Horrorthon at Skibbereen

Skibbereen Arts Festival (26th July - 3rd August 2013) will be screening a selection of short horror films selected by Horrorthon.

The selection is a sample of short films that have screened at the Horrorthon festival from 2010-2012 and comprises the following gems:

Out There (Ireland) 17mins
In the Night in the Dark (Ireland) 2mins
Hungry Hickory (Ireland) 7mins
Night of the Devil (Germany) 15mins
Game (Canada) 8mins
Speed Kills (Ireland) 6mins 
Love Bug (UK) 13mins
Banana Motherfucker (Portugal) 16mins
Akerbeltz, The Witches and the Inquisitor (Spain) 10mins
Toilet (Ireland) 2mins

The screening takes place in Skibbereen town hall at 11pm on Wednesday 31st July.

http://www.skibbereenartsfestival.com/

Grindhouse presents ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK at the Light House Cinema