Irish Film Institute -HORRORTHON 2017

HORRORTHON 2017

IFI HORRORTHON: TRAGEDY GIRLS
Director Tyler MacIntyre will take part in a post-screening Q&A. From the director of Patchwork, one of the hits of last year’s festival, comes one of the highlights of this…
Thursday 26th Oct 2017 19.00
IFI HORRORTHON: DEAD SHACK
A divorced dad brings his kids and new girlfriend on a budget camping trip to an isolated and rundown cabin, where they discover that their neighbour hides a gruesome secret.…
Thursday 26th Oct 2017 21.10
IFI HORRORTHON: CHARISMATA
Toor Mian (co-writer/director), Ross Scaife (producer), Sarah Beck Mather (actor), Andonis Anthony (actor), Johnny Vivash (actor), David Peel (actor) will intro the film.  A detective investigating a series of ritualistic murders begins to unravel as…
Thursday 26th Oct 2017 22.45
IFI HORRORTHON: SEQUENCE BREAK
When a reclusive arcade game technician installs a mysterious circuit board, he discovers a new game into which he soon finds himself becoming metaphorically and literally absorbed. This film is…
Thursday 26th Oct 2017 23.00
IFI HORRORTHON: WHO’S WATCHING OLIVER
Forced by his monstrously domineering mother to commit a series of gruesome murders of young women, Oliver sees a way to wrest control of his own life when he meets…
Thursday 26th Oct 2017 23.00
IFI HORRORTHON: THE CRAZIES
Our tribute to George A. Romero also includes a screening of The Dark Half. Click here for info.  The first of our tributes to the late, great George A. Romero…
Friday 27th Oct 2017 13.10
IFI HORRORTHON: THE DARK HALF
Our tribute to George A. Romero also includes a screening of The Crazies. Click here for info.  Romero’s adaptation of Stephen King’s novel receives its first theatrical screening in Ireland…
Friday 27th Oct 2017 15.00
IFI HORRORTHON: TOP KNOT DETECTIVE
Read our interview with co-director Aaron McCann here. This hilarious Australian mockumentary revolves around an obscure Japanese television show that survives only on VHS, and behind the scenes of which…
Friday 27th Oct 2017 17.25
IFI HORRORTHON: HABIT
Director Simeon Halligan, producer Rachel Richardson-Jones, and actor Elliot James Langridge will take part in a post-screening Q&A Adapted from the novel by Stephen McGeagh, Simeon Halligan’s Habit is set…
Friday 27th Oct 2017 19.10
IFI HORRORTHON: THE ENDLESS
The directors of Spring (2014) return with a surprising and unpredictable film that burrows its way under the viewer’s skin. Two brothers struggling to make ends meet receive a videotape…
Friday 27th Oct 2017 21.15
IFI HORRORTHON DOUBLE BILL: TONIGHT SHE COMES & RUIN ME
Tonight She Comes is an irreverent slasher that entertains even as it puts audiences through the wringer. In Ruin Me, participants in the Ultimate Horror Movie Experience see events become…
Friday 27th Oct 2017 23.15
IFI HORRORTHON DOUBLE BILL: JOHN CARPENTER’S PRINCE OF DARKNESS & BODY SNATCHERS
Priest Donald Pleasance invites a group of scientists to investigate a liquid that may be the embodiment of Satan. On a military base in Alabama, people are being replaced by…
Friday 27th Oct 2017 23.20
IFI HORRORTHON DOUBLE BILL: FREDDY/EDDY & INCARNATION
Stressed Freddy’s imaginary childhood friend, Eddy, reappears and quickly loses control, wreaking violent havoc. Incarnation sees a man wake up repeatedly, trying to escape the assassins who kill him again…
Friday 27th Oct 2017 23.30
IFI HORRORTHON: EATEN ALIVE
In tribute to another horror great who passed away this year, we present this rare screening of Tobe Hooper’s Eaten Alive, in which a psychotic hotel owner uses his guests…
Saturday 28th Oct 2017 13.00
IFI HORRORTHON: 78/52
This fascinating and hugely entertaining documentary takes a look behind the scenes of one of horror cinema’s most iconic moments, the shower scene in Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho (1960). This film…
Saturday 28th Oct 2017 14.45
IFI HORRORTHON: TAG
Subversive Japanese director Sion Sono’s film features astonishing set pieces in this story of a woman fighting for survival in a series of threatening, and often bizarre, circumstances. This film…
Saturday 28th Oct 2017 16.30
IFI HORRORTHON: OUR EVIL
Continuing the recent trend of strong horror films to emerge from South America, this Brazilian film sees a father hire a serial killer to help protect his daughter from a…
Saturday 28th Oct 2017 18.10
IFI HORRORTHON: GAME OF DEATH
Seven friends chance upon a board game that requires them to kill 24 people in order to save their own lives in this breathless slice of gore. This film is…
Saturday 28th Oct 2017 20.00
IFI HORRORTHON: VICTOR CROWLEY
The Hatchet franchise is revived as Kane Hodder returns as the titular killer, resurrected from the dead and free to embark on another killing spree in director Adam Green’s gory…
Saturday 28th Oct 2017 21.30
IFI HORRORTHON: THE NIGHT OF THE VIRGIN
Desperate to lose his virginity, a young man goes home with an older woman he meets at a party, little realising the outrageous horrors that lie in store for him.…
Saturday 28th Oct 2017 23.15
IFI HORRORTHON: EVENT HORIZON
Celebrating its twentieth anniversary with this 35mm screening, Event Horizon sees a rescue crew investigating the mysterious reappearance of a lost spaceship that seems to have brought something back with…
Saturday 28th Oct 2017 23.20
IFI HORRORTHON: FASHIONISTA
Director Simon Rumley (Johnny Frank Garrett’s Last Word) presents the story of a fashion-obsessed woman’s life spinning out of control in a film influenced by De Palma and Roeg. This…
Saturday 28th Oct 2017 23.25
IFI HORRORTHON: KING COHEN: THE WILD WORLD OF LARRY COHEN
Featuring a veritable Who’s Who of filmmakers, from Mick Garris to Martin Scorsese, this documentary pays affectionate tribute to the director of such classics as It’s Alive and Q-The Winged…
Sunday 29th Oct 2017 13.00
IFI HORRORTHON: SHORT FILM SHOWCASE
Featuring the best of emerging Irish and international talent, this popular slot presents a variety of shorts that is sure to include something for horror fans of every stripe. FILM…
Sunday 29th Oct 2017 15.10
IFI HORRORTHON: THE MIMIC
Following the disappearance of her son, a woman moves to the countryside with her family. When a lost little girl arrives on her doorstep and begins imitating the woman’s daughter,…
Sunday 29th Oct 2017 17.10
IFI HORRORTHON: SURPRISE FILM
In recent years, this slot has included such hits as The Town That Dreaded Sundown and The Witch. Be sure to get your tickets early for this year’s hotly-anticipated screening.…
Sunday 29th Oct 2017 19.10
IFI HORRORTHON: 68 KILL
AnnaLynne McCord (Excision, 2012) plays Liza, a former stripper who persuades her boyfriend, sewer worker Chip, to help her steal $68,000 from her landlord’s home. When the plan goes wrong,…
Sunday 29th Oct 2017 21.10
IFI HORRORTHON: ANGEL HEART
Marking its thirtieth anniversary, Alan Parker’s Angel Heart sees Mickey Rourke as a private investigator drawn into the dark and dangerous world of voodoo worship and Satanic practice. This film…
Sunday 29th Oct 2017 23.00
IFI HORRORTHON: TORMENT
The screening will be introduced by director Jason Figgis and star Bryan Murray.  Prolific Irish filmmaker Jason Figgis returns to Horrorthon with Torment, which sees a man buried alive in…
Sunday 29th Oct 2017 23.00
IFI HORRORTHON: REPLACE
Co-written by former Horrorthon guest Richard Stanley, Replace features Re-Animator star Barbara Crampton in a film about a young woman with a strange skin condition for which there seems to…
Sunday 29th Oct 2017 23.10
IFI HORRORTHON: RE:BORN
Featuring some of the year’s most inventive and enthralling action scenes, Re:Born sees a retired soldier forced out of his peaceful life caring for a young girl to flee an…
Monday 30th Oct 2017 13.00
IFI HORRORTHON: RETURN TO NUKE ‘EM HIGH VOL. 2
Four years after our screening of Troma’s Volume 1, we’re delighted to present the continuing story of Lauren and Chrissy, who must defend Tromaville from dangerous forces. This film is…
Monday 30th Oct 2017 15.10
IFI HORRORTHON: THE LAPLACE’S DEMON
Director Giordano Giulivi and producer Silvano Bertolin (who also appears in the film) will attend this screening.  Seeking to test a complex mathematical equation, a group of scientists are summoned to a…
Monday 30th Oct 2017 16.40
IFI HORRORTHON: STILL/BORN
When one of her twin sons doesn’t survive birth, new mother Mary’s recovery from post-partum trauma is exacerbated by her belief that something evil wants to take her remaining child.…
Monday 30th Oct 2017 19.10
IFI HORRORTHON: THE HOUSEMAID
In this beautifully made and eerie film, a maid suffers the consequences when she falls in love with her employer, awakening the anger of his late wife’s spirit. This film…
Monday 30th Oct 2017 20.50