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

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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