This month, NOLA Horror Film Fest celebrates its 10th year with a real-time virtual online festival chock-full of fear-fare delights. The superb new occult feature The Reckoning from director Neil Marshall, the mind-blowing sophomore feature Sister Tempest from director Joe Badon of The God Inside My Ear fame, and U.K. supernatural outing The Unfamilar are just a few of the outstanding feature-length and short films on tap for the festival. Following is the official press release from NOLA Horror Film Fest.
In its tenth year, NOLA Horror Film Fest will be a virtual online festival experience hosted live in real time when presented Central Standard Time on September 25-27, 2020. This year’s official selections include 54 films and 50 screenplay finalists from all over the world, chosen from 865 national and international submissions exclusively through FilmFreeway.
Through three days of the best horror & sci-fi programs (Features & Film Shorts Screenings and Zoom Panel Discussions) the NOLA Horror Film Fest will be a virtual weekend to remember!
Opening, Closing and Notable Feature Films and Shorts
Opening Night Feature Film:
The Unfamiliar
Feature Film
United Kingdom
A British Army doctor comes back from a war, thinking that she has PTSD, only to discover that there is a more daunting malevolence at work, making the life that she knew, unfamiliar.
Closing Night Feature Film:
The Reckoning
Feature Film
United Kingdom
The Reckoning is directed by Neil Marshall (Dog Soldiers, The Descent, Game of Thrones). A woman is falsely accused of witchcraft in England in 1665, the year of the Great Plague. While enduring a brutal trial in which she is tormented by demons both real and spiritual, her persecutors attempt to break her will , while she plots violent revenge against them.
Other Notable Features:
Sister Tempest
Feature Film
United States – Louisiana
Anne Hutchinson’s troubled relationship with her missing sister is under alien tribunal. Meanwhile, her new roommate’s mysterious illness causes her to go on a cannibalistic killing spree.
Hawk & Rev: Vampire Slayers
Feature Film
United States
Philip “HAWK” Hawkins doesn’t just dream about killing vampires . . . He eats, sleeps, drinks and freakin’ breathes it! But when blood-sucking vampires actually do appear, Hawk enlists the help of the one person who kind of believes him . . . Revson “REV” McCabe, a dimwitted, vegan-pacifist groundskeeper. Together they join forces to save the whole freakin’ world! Well . . . At least their hometown anyway.
Notable Shorts:
Love Bite
Film Short
United States
Taking refuge in an abandoned cargo truck during the Zombie Apocalypse, a dysfunctional couple (and their dog) find their lives on the line when they make a deadly bet over how the undead virus spreads. Is a simple love bite now a death sentence? And how far will someone go to be proven right?
Smiley Death Face
Film Short
United States
A young girl stumbles into a text message conversation with an anonymous person that communicates entirely in Emojis.
Azrahel
Film Short
United States
When Dr. Lopez brings Vivian to the morgue to identify her son, she learns that there is no limit to what a mother will do — and no force she will not turn to — to bring back her child.
Changeling
Film Short
United Kingdom
A new mother becomes increasingly mesmerized and appalled by the strange transformations happening around her baby. She instinctively hides them, unaware they are building towards a final metamorphosis — hers.
$trip
Film Short
United States
It’s Penny’s first night stripping at an underground club. Will she go all the way? And what happens to her if she doesn’t?
Exit
Film Short
Russian Federation
A trio of construction workers discovers an impossible spatial anomaly in the house they’re renovating: a regular closet has turned into a hallway into the darkest unknown. Led by its foreman, who isn’t the sharpest tool in the shed, the team decides to brave the anomaly on their own: a choice that spirals the status quo out of control and straight into the realm of the bizarre.
Morbus
Film Short
Canada
Written by composer Mark Korven (The Witch, The Lighthouse) and directed by Kerim Banka (Into the Other-Side) the film follows a young couple traveling down an isolated road where a hidden evil threatens to contaminate them.
Polybius
Film Short
United States
Polybius stars Tom Atkins (The Fog, Night of the Creeps, Halloween III: Season of the Witch) Based on the urban legend, a teenage girl tries to convince the local Sheriff that a mysterious new game cabinet caused her brother to commit suicide.
Cybolica
Film Short
United States
In the dystopian 1970’s world of “superpredators,” the United States votes to reform the juvenile justice system by using young troubled males (mostly of color) as part of a plan to create a new type of weapon to aid the military. In the world’s most volatile penitentiary, three inmates work together to escape their chains and fight the lethal creature on the loose.
Wererock
Film Short
United States
Wererock stars Noah Segan (Knives Out, Looper, Brick)
A troubled but handsome German man, Victor, reveals to his true love, Monique, a horrible secret, that on a full moon he turns into a werewolf. Only she knows the painful truth, that the monster inside him is only a rock.
The Hand of the Devil
Film Short
United States
A desperate man disobeys a mysterious fortune teller and becomes possessed by the devil as he attempts to win back the love of his life. It’s got milk chugging! Knife throwing! Diaper flying! It’s everything you’re looking for, plus a bunch of stuff you’ll wish you’d never seen!
OverKill
Film Short
United States
OverKill is a film with a comedic take on a familiar setup: when too-woke-for-their-own-good college kids are terrorized by an unstoppable masked killer, the final girl must outsmart him to survive. Only in this movie, the killer literally cannot be stopped (or killed).
Single screening tickets, day passes and full weekend passes are available for purchase online at: haps://nolahff.com/ 2020-buy-passes/
▪ Full Weekend Pass: $60 ($36 savings)
▪ Friday Day Pass: $18
▪ Saturday Day Pass: $30
▪ Sunday Day Pass: $24
▪ 5 Ticket Pack: $30
▪ Single Tickets: $8
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About NOLA Horror Film Fest
The NOLA Horror Film Fest is a festival created by horror filmmakers for horror fans. It’s no small wonder – and no great surprise – that so many of today’s top directors got their start in “low budget horror”. With determination and imagination, these artists have created some truly memorable work that has encouraged and inspired a new generation of filmmakers. Our goal is the promotion of Genre Filmmaking in Louisiana, as well as nationally and internationally. The NOHFF is committed to celebrating the craft and advancing the art form of Genre Films.
2020 NOLA Horror Film Fest Schedule
Friday, September 25, 2020
6:00pm
Shorts Block: Horror Shorts One
▪ Succor (USA)
▪ Toe (USA)
▪ AnYque (Norway)
▪ Insania (Spain)
▪ Seven Levels Deep (Germany)
▪ Love Bite (USA)
▪ The Fourth Wall (France)
▪ Dissonance (USA)
▪ Suspense (USA)
▪ Smiley Death Face (USA)
8:30pm
Feature Film: The Unfamiliar (UK)
11:00pm
Feature Film: Sister Tempest (USA – Louisiana)
Saturday, September 26, 2020
11:30am
Shorts Block: Long Form Shorts
▪ Limerence (USA)
▪ Mr. Sam (USA)
▪ Exhibit Man (Canada)
2:00pm
Feature Film: Goodbye Honey (USA)
4:30pm
PANEL DISCUSSION
6:00pm
Shorts Block: Sci-Fi Shorts
▪ Oxygen (Belgium)
▪ Sentris (USA)
▪ The MalfuncYon (USA)
▪ Horizon (Italy)
▪ Jeff Drives You (USA)
▪ Polybius (USA)
▪ Cybolica (USA)
8:30pm
Feature Film: Hawk & Rev: Vampire Slayers (USA)
11:00pm
Shorts Block: Horror Comedy Shorts
▪ Live Forever (Sweden)
▪ Connor Is Dead Right? (USA)
▪ Unholy ‘Mole (USA)
▪ Flick (USA)
▪ Grave Sight (Canada)
▪ Wererock (USA)
▪ Washed (USA)
▪ Livin’ After Midnight (USA)
▪ Imagine a World (Canada)
▪ The Hand of the Devil (USA)
▪ OverKill (USA)
Sunday, September 27, 2020
11:30am
Shorts Block: Horror Shorts Two
▪ Azrahel (USA)
▪ A Burial (USA)
▪ The Farmhouse (UK)
▪ The Rougarou (USA – Louisiana)
▪ Butterfly (USA)
▪ Ferine (Italy)
▪ Eyes of Eidolon (USA)
▪ Keep Mum (UK)
▪ Changeling (UK)
2:00pm
Feature Film: Parable (South Africa)
4:30pm
PANEL DISCUSSION
6:00pm
Shorts Block: Horror Shorts Three
▪ Malakout (Iran)
▪ Deathyard (USA)
▪ Night Crawl (USA)
▪ $trip (USA)
▪ Bloodshed (Canada)
▪ The History of Monsters (USA)
▪ Exit (Russia)
▪ Morbus (Canada)
8:30pm
Feature Film: The Reckoning (UK)
