The organizers of the New York City Horror Film Festival have announced the movies they’re presenting in the 2009 edition. The fest runs Thursday-Sunday, November 19-22 at the Tribeca Cinemas (54 Varick Street at Canal Street), with an opening-night party Wednesday the 18th at 8 p.m. at BLVD (199 Bowery near Spring Street).
• BLOOD NIGHT: THE LEGEND OF MARY HATCHET, Frank Sabatella’s urban legend-inspired teen-terror feature co-starring Bill Moseley and Danielle Harris
• CORNERED!, directed by Daniel Maze, in which a group of poker-playing buddies are trapped and slaughtered in a convenience store by a masked slasher
• MAIDENHEAD, from writer/director James Spanos, starring THE HOUSE OF THE DEVIL’s A.J. Bowen as a young man dealing with a new love and a very bad dad (Michael Parks)
• MUST LOVE DEATH, a black-comic shocker about a suicidal man embroiled with homicidal maniacs, shot in English by German scripter/director Andreas Schaap
• ORLOK THE VAMPIRE, a 3-D presentation of F.W. Murnau’s silent classic NOSFERATU
• THE REVENANT, a different kind of vampire feature from FX-artist-turned-director D. Kerry Prior (see our review here)
• THE SHADOW WITHIN, directed by Silvana Zancolo, about a 9-year-old boy who can communicate with the dead—particularly his twin brother, who died at birth
• SWEATSHOP (pictured), Stacy Davidson’s gory “smasher film” about a hulking killer taking out youthful ravers with a giant hammer
“We received more entries than ever before this year and are thrilled by the high caliber of excellent films submitted for this year’s festival,” says festival founder Michael Hein. “The 2009 NYCHFF will prove to be one of the best years of the festival for film aficionados and general horror fans.”
In addition, there will be a screening of the gore favorite MANIAC by William Lustig, who will be receiving this year’s Lifetime Achievement Award, a whole mess of horrific short films, a filmmaker panel discussion on the 22nd and an awards ceremony that night, a sneak peek at the outrageous feature WON TON BABY! and more. The opening-night bash will feature live performances by Hayley Griffiths, Witches in Bikinis and The Tarantinos and still more short movies. For further details, see the festival’s official website here.
