Buffalo , New York - The 2nd Annual Buffalo Screams Horror Film Festival has announced its film selections and schedule. The festival will host a 30th anniversary screening of the slasher classic The Burning, which was filmed in North Tonawanda . Other non-competition, showcase features include Street Trash, The Definitive Document of the Dead, and Swirlee, all hosted by special guest Roy Frumkes; the stoner comedy Trippin’, which will be introduced by Alternative Cinema’s Paige Davis; and the world premiere of the zombie anthology Decayed, written and directed by Emil J. Novak, who co-founded Buffalo Screams with author and filmmaker Gregory Lamberson (Slime City Massacre, “The Jake Helman Files”). In all, 48 films will screen at the five-day festival, which runs from Wednesday, Oct. 26th – Sunday, Oct. 30th at the Screening Room Cinema Cafe in Amherst, New York.
Features competing for awards include Absentia, which just won the top prize at Shriekfest; the cannibals vs. giant monster movie The Millenium Bug; the depraved psycho drama The Super; the science fiction themed The Black Box; and the post apocalyptic thriller The Collapsed; the motorcycle thriller Rage and Die Farbe, a German adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft’s story “The Color Out of Space.”
“We’re showing some truly stunning films with a great deal of diversity,” says Lamberson. “Independent cinema is where the best horror films can be found today, and we’re really proud of our program and the filmmakers who are represented;
Among the medium short and medium length films screening are the outrageous Mexican horror film Cosas Feas (“Nasty Stuff”); the Italian thriller Il Marito Perfetto (“The Perfect Husband”); Bart Masterondi’s interpretation of The Tell Tale Heart, starring Debbie Rochon; the Middle Eastern Envy of the Dead; and Stuart Simpson’s Acid Spiders, which will open the fest.
A number of Buffalo area productions will screen, including Something After Midnight, by Sam Qualiana, who helmed the upcoming creature feature Snow Shark: Ancient Snow Beast after winning last year’s “Filmmaker to Watch” award; Lost in Falsity by newcomer Daniel James; Gagsters: The Movie by Aleksander Ivicic; Off Campus, a comedy by X-Strike Studios; Black Guy on a Rampage by Adam R. Steigert; and The Final Night and Day, co-directed by Steigert and Stephanie Andrews.
Additional guests include actress and filmmaker Melantha Blackthorne;
The complete five-day schedule:
Wed, Oct. 26th
5:00 – 7:00
Acid Spiders
Jack’s Present
The Backroad
Rage
7:20 – 9:20
Something After Midnight
Absentia
9:45 – 12:00
Inbred and Undead – 37 mins
The Burning (feature) 91 mins
Thurs, Oct. 27th
5:00 – 6:50
Waffle
Ouija
The Collapsed
7:15 – 9:15
An Evening with My Comatose Mother
The Final Night and Day
9:40 – 12:00
Paige Davis Q & A
Cosas Feas (“Nasty Stuff”)
Trippin’
Friday, Oct. 28th
5:00 – 6:40
Sadist
Alister
The Black Box
7:10 – 9:35
Monster Bed
World Premiere: Decayed
10:00 – 12:00
Swirlee
The Millenium Bug
Sat, Oct. 29th
12:00 – 2:00
Special Report: Is Williamsburg Dead?
Silent Control
Enter the Dark
Die Farbe (“The Color Out of Space”)
2:30 – 5:00
Raven’s Hollow
Betania
Gagsters
Il Marito Perfecto (“The Perfect Husband”)
Artist Tony Mauro Presentation
5:30 – 8:30
A Change of Plans
The One That Got Away
Street Trash
9:00 – 12:00
The Focus Box
The Tell Tale Heart
The Super
Sun, Oct. 30th
12:30 – 3:00
Yardbird
Banks of Vlatvia
Ambition of Love
The Last Broadcast
The 5 Second Rule
Lost in Falsity
Off Campus
Black Guy on a Rampage
For Love of Zombies
3:30 – 6:00
Hassad Al Mota (“Envy of the Dead”)
Paddy and Me
The Definitive Document of the Dead
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The BUFFALO SCREAMS Film Festival is a annual event designed to attract horror fans and filmmakers from around the world and shine a light on filmmaking in Western NY. We have long range plans for making this event Buffalo’s premiere film festival.
