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Nightmares Film Festival Releases Full Schedule for 2018

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6 years ago

September 24, 2018

Nightmares Film Festival has released their full schedule of films for this year’s festival in Columbus, Ohio, and if possible, it might even be better than last year’s fest!

NFF has been dedicated to #BetterHorror from the beginning, and they continue to search for films that are both terrifying and relevant.

“We’re on a never-ending, worldwide quest to discover the films that are reshaping the boundaries of horror — bold voices, new visions of terror, films that haunt you,” said co-founder and programmer Jason Tostevin. “That’s how we build every Nightmares, and this may be our best lineup yet.”

The slate is stacked with both World and North American Premieres, and a host of amazing short films broken into blocks throughout the weekend. Look for the Recurring Nightmares which will feature festival alums and fan favorite Midnight Mind Fuck on the full schedule below!

In addition to the schedule, Nightmares co-founders Jason Tostevin and Chris Hamel also revealed the finalists in both of their screenplay competitions for the weekend and a panel which will cover Distribution as well as the return of last year’s successful Social Progress Through Horror panel.

Nightmares Film Festival will run October 18-21, 2018 at the Gateway Film Center in Columbus, Ohio! There are still advance tickets available online!

Nightmares Film Festival Full Schedule

Thursday, October 18, 2018

7 pm (House 1): Maniac 4K Restoration with Filmmaker Bill Lustig in Attendance w/ short film Marta

9 pm (House 1): World Premiere Skeletons in the Closet w/ short film The Party’s Over

11 pm (House 1): Horror Comedy Shorts (Amigos, Netflix and Chill, Attack of Potato Clock, Foxwood, Rattle, Bitten, Heavy Flow, Sell Your Body, The Infection, Blood Sisters, Shit … They’re All Vampires, Late, There’s One Inside the House)

Friday, October 19, 2018

9 am (House 1): Clementina w/ short film A Thing of Dreams

11 am (House 1): Alive w/ short film Mother of a Sacred Lamb

1 pm (House 1): World Premiere Haven’s End

3 pm Break for Filmmaker/Screenwriter Meet and Greet

4 pm (House 1): World Premiere Kill Ben Lyk w/ short film What Metal Girls

4 pm (House 2): Recurring Nightmares A (Killing Giggles, The Unbearing, Let’s Play, Amy’s in the Freezer, One Hundred Thousand, Anniversary, Apartment 402, Enough, E-Bowla, Vampiras Satanicas II: The Death Bunny, 42 Counts)

6 pm (House 1): North American Premiere Book of Monsters w/ short film Dual

6 pm (House 2): Horror Shorts A (Ayuda, Bathroom Troll, Don’t Drink the Water, The After Party, Masks, Here There Be Monsters, Don’t Look Into Their Eyes, Heartless, El Cuco is Hungry)

8 pm (House 1): World Premiere The Bad Man

8 pm (House 2): Thriller Shorts A (4EVR, Nocturne, The Noise of the Light, Short Leash, Instinct, Where’s Violet, Tutu Grande)

10 pm (House 1): The FP 2: Beats of Rage

10 pm (House 2): Horror Shorts B (Little, Save, Childer, Conductor, All You Can Carry, Made You Look, The Desolation Prize, Doggy See Evil, Spectres, Goodbye Old Friend, There’s a Monster Behind You, Blondie)

Midnight (House 1): Be My Cat w/ short films My First Time and Canine

Midnight (House 2): Midnight Shorts C (Tears of Apollo, Nightmare, The Mare, Mother Rabbit, Lipstick, Human Resources, Blood and Moonlight, Suicide Note, Enjoy the View, Freelancer)

Saturday, October 20, 2018

10 am (House 1): Confessions of a Serial Killer

10 am (House 2): More Blood! w/ short films Best of Me and Phototaxis

12 pm (House 1): North American Premiere The Head w/ short film Latched

12 pm (House 2): Social Progress Through Horror Panel

1 pm (House 2): Distribution Panel

2 pm (House 1): Livescream w/ short film Offerings (featuring live music!)

2 pm (House 2): Recurring Nightmares B (Galmi, Syphvania Grove, Rites of Vengeance, The Scarlet Vultures, Music Lesson, Thousand-Legged Terror, BFF Girls, Gut Punched, Basoan)

4 pm (House 1): Never Hike Alone

4 pm (House 2): Stephen King’s Dollar Babies (I am the Doorway and The Things We Left Behind)

5:15 pm (House 1) NIGHTMARE AWARDS

6 pm (House 1): Midwest Premiere The Field Guide to Evil

6 pm (House 2): Horror Shorts C (Ding Dong, Oscar’s Bell, Red Mosquito, Goodnight Gracie, Baghead, Wyrmwood, Avulsion, House Guests, The Last Seance, Three)

8 pm (House 1): North American Premiere The Night Sitter w/ short film Jingle Hell

8 pm (House 2): Thriller Shorts B (Lady Hunters, Smiley’s, Headless Swans, A Death Story Called Girl, Dead Cool, You’ll Only Have Each Other)

10 pm (House 1): World Premiere The Final Interview w/ short film Arret Pipi

10 pm (House 2): Horror Shorts D (The Bloody Ballad of Squirt, The Chains, One Dark Night, Fears, Midnight Delivery, I Beat It, Mama’s Boy, Alien Death Fuck, Hell of a Day, Vonnis, The Dark Ward, Mystery Box)

Midnight (House 1): Midnight Mind Fuck Trauma

Midnight (House 2): Midnight Shorts B (Imagine, Fetish, The Jerry Show, Proceeds of Crime, Television, Mother Fucker, Ding-Dong, Night Terrors, The Thang, Rift, Häxan)

2 am (House 1): Midnight Mind Fuck La Puta es Ciega w/ short films Entropia and Helminth

2 am (House 2): Midnight Shorts A (CLAW, Mayday, The Hex Dungeon, I Am Not a Monster, Gentlewoman’s Guide to Dom., Blood Highway, Sock Monster, The Monster Within, Viral Blood, No Monkey)

10 am (House 1): Thriller Shorts C (The Box, Salvatore, Witch’s Milk, Post Mortem Mary, Spurn, Esther, They Eat Your Teeth They Wait for Us)

12 pm (House 1): Camp Death III in 2D w/ short film Cabin Killer

2 pm (House 1): The LaPlace’s Demon

4 pm (House 1): Ohio Shorts A (The Borrower, Below the Trees, The Sewing Circle, The Choice, What Comes Out, Beyond Repair, Occupied, Hell to Pay, Who’s There)

6 pm (House 1): Dark Iris w/ short film American Undead

8 pm (House 1): Ohio Shorts B (Down the Hatchet, The Green Lady, Not From Around Here, Den, The Cat, House of Hell, Dodo, Cry Baby Bridge)

10 pm (House 1): Betsy w/ short film Thing About Beecher’s

Short Screenplay Finalists:

Boo – Rakefet Abergel
Mourning Meal – Jamal Hodge
Hiking Buddies – Megan Morrison
Living Memory – Stephen Graves
#dead – Derek Stewart
The Burning Dress – Sam Kolesnik
For Good Behavior – Ron Riekki
Air – Dalya Guerin
Invidia – Vanessa Wright
Minotaur – Michael Escobedo
Pancake Skank – Savannah Rodgers
The Callback – Sophie Hood
The Farm – Cate McLennan

Feature Screenplay Finalists

Patience of Vultures – Greg Sisco
People of Merrit – Adam Pottle
The Shame Game – Greg Sisco
Rise of the Gulon – Matt Wildash
Left Of The Devil – Stephen Anderson
Bartleby Grimm’s Paranormal Elimination Service – Dan Kiely
Kelipot – Seth Nesenholtz
The Coldest Horizon – Jeffrey Howe
Throwback – Rachel Woolley
Resurrection Girl and the Curse of the Wendigo – Nathan Ludwig
The Caul – Sophia Cacciola & Michael J. Epstein
The Devil’s Gun – James Christopher
Residual – Tyler Christensen

Don’t forget iHorror will be at this year Nightmares Film Festival! We hope to see you there!

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Maybe it’s because The Exorcist just celebrated its 50th-anniversary last year, or maybe it’s because aging Academy Award-winning actors aren’t too proud to take on obscure roles, but Russell Crowe is visiting the Devil once again in yet another possession film. And it’s not related to his last one, The Pope’s Exorcist.

According to Collider, the film titled The Exorcism was originally going to be released under the name The Georgetown Project. Rights for its North American release were once in the hands of Miramax but then went to Vertical Entertainment. It will release on June 7 in theaters then head over to Shudder for subscribers.

Crowe will also star in this year’s upcoming Kraven the Hunter which is set to drop in theaters on August 30.

As for The Exorcism, Collider provides us with what it’s about:

“The film centers around actor Anthony Miller (Crowe), whose troubles come to the forefront as he shoots a supernatural horror movie. His estranged daughter (Ryan Simpkins) has to figure out whether he’s lapsing into his past addictions, or if something even more horrific is occurring. “

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Original Blair Witch Cast Ask Lionsgate for Retroactive Residuals in Light of New Film

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April 21, 2024

Cameron McFarland

Jason Blum is planning to reboot The Blair Witch Project for the second time. That’s a fairly large task considering none of the reboots or sequels have managed to capture the magic of the 1999 film that brought found footage into the mainstream.

This idea has not been lost on the original Blair Witch cast, who has recently reached out to Lionsgate to ask for what they feel is fair compensation for their role in the pivotal film. Lionsgate gained access to The Blair Witch Project in 2003 when they purchased Artisan Entertainment.

However, Artisan Entertainment was an independent studio before its purchase, meaning the actors were not part of SAG-AFTRA. As a result, the cast are not entitled to the same residuals from the project as actors in other major films. The cast doesn’t feel that the studio should be able to continue to profit off of their hard work and likenesses without fair compensation.

Their most recent request asks for “meaningful consultation on any future ‘Blair Witch’ reboot, sequel, prequel, toy, game, ride, escape room, etc., in which one could reasonably assume that Heather, Michael & Josh’s names and/or likenesses will be associated for promotional purposes in the public sphere.”

At this time, Lionsgate has not offered any comment about this issue.

The full statement made by the cast can be found below.

OUR ASKS OF LIONSGATE (From Heather, Michael & Josh, stars of “The Blair Witch Project”):

1. Retroactive + future residual payments to Heather, Michael and Josh for acting services rendered in the original BWP, equivalent to the sum that would’ve been allotted through SAG-AFTRA, had we had proper union or legal representation when the film was made.

2. Meaningful consultation on any future Blair Witch reboot, sequel, prequel, toy, game, ride, escape room, etc…, in which one could reasonably assume that Heather, Michael & Josh’s names and/or likenesses will be associated for promotional purposes in the public sphere.

Note: Our film has now been rebooted twice, both times were a disappointment from a fan/box office/critical perspective. Neither of these films were made with significant creative input from the original team. As the insiders who created the Blair Witch and have been listening to what fans love & want for 25 years, we’re your single greatest, yet thus-far un-utilized secret-weapon!

3. “The Blair Witch Grant”: A 60k grant (the budget of our original movie), paid out yearly by Lionsgate, to an unknown/aspiring genre filmmaker to assist in making theirfirst feature film. This is a GRANT, not a development fund, hence Lionsgate will not own any of the underlying rights to the project.

A PUBLIC STATEMENT FROM THE DIRECTORS & PRODUCERS OF “THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT”:

As we near the 25th anniversary of The Blair Witch Project, our pride in the storyworld we created and the film we produced is reaffirmed by the recent announcement of a reboot by horror icons Jason Blum and James Wan.

While we, the original filmmakers, respect Lionsgate’s right to monetize the intellectual property as it sees fit, we must highlight the significant contributions of the original cast — Heather Donahue, Joshua Leonard, and Mike Williams. As the literal faces of what has become a franchise, their likenesses, voices, and real names are inseparably tied to The Blair Witch Project. Their unique contributions not only defined the film’s authenticity but continue to resonate with audiences around the world.

We celebrate our film’s legacy, and equally, we believe the actors deserve to be celebrated for their enduring association with the franchise.

Sincerely, Eduardo Sanchez, Dan Myrick, Gregg Hale, Robin Cowie, and Michael Monello