Bruce Campbell Horror Film Festival Announces Full Lineup, Closing night film 'Siren'

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Bruce Campbell Horror Film Festival
Bruce Campbell Horror Film Festival
ROSEMONT, Ill. - July 20, 2016 - PRLog -- Bruce Campbell's Horror Film Festival today announced the full lineup for its third annual festivities on August 18-21, in conjunction with Wizard World Chicago. Sponsored by Shudder and Bloody-Disgusting.com, the festival will open with the critically acclaimed nail-biter Don't Breathe and close with the chilling Siren. Among many other events and screenings, the festival will feature Bruce Campbell's Last Fan Standing game show, and actress Barbara Crampton as the "Guest of Honor," who will host a 30th anniversary screening of From Beyond along with her new film, Beyond the Gates.

"You can have your rom-coms, your indie darlings and your blockbusters," said Bruce Campbell. "I'll take a good old-fashioned horror movie any day or night of the week!"

Opening night will kick off with the highly anticipated shocker, Don't Breathe, from director-producer-writer Fede Alvarez (Evil Dead) and produced by Sam Raimi and Rob Tapert. Alvarez and star Stephen Lang (Avatar) will be in attendance. Sony Pictures is set to release Don't Breathe on August 26, 2016. Closing night will feature the Chicago Premiere of Siren, a feature adaptation of the segment "Amateur Night" from the 2012 critically acclaimed horror anthology "V/H/S", with director Gregg Bishop and star Chase Williamson in attendance.

The festival will offer Bruce Campbell's all-new game show, Last Fan Standing—a quiz show based on sci-fi, horror, fantasy, and superheroes. Last Fan Standing is the ultimate test of pop-culture knowledge. Four fans are put through their paces by host and Con-favorite Bruce Campbell, battling through devilish speed rounds and a nerve-wracking Final Confrontation until only one remains, and a Last Fan Standing is crowned. The game show will take place at the Donald E. Stephens Convention Center on Friday at 3 p.m. and Saturday at 11 a.m.

Writer/director Fred Dekker is slated to receive the inaugural "Groovy as Hell" award, and the festival will host a 30th anniversary screening of the cult classic Night of The Creeps and a very special screening of The Monster Squad with actors Andre Gower (Sean) & Ryan Lambert (Rudy) also in attendance.

Popular stand-up comic and host of the Doug Loves Movies podcast, Doug Benson, will host a very special 'Doug Benson Movie Interruption' of Army of Darkness, with guest interrupter Bruce Campbell!

Benson and Campbell, along with mystery comedians, will riff on the film live from the front row, and say whatever hilarious thoughts that pops into their heads. Single tickets for this show are SOLD OUT, but you can still guarantee a seat with the purchase of a festival badge.

BCHFF is also thrilled to present a 25th anniversary celebration of everyone's favorite time-traveling metalhead slackers, a screening of Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey with director Peter Hewitt in attendance, along with Death himself, William Sadler!

The festival will also mark the World Premieres of Found Footage 3D, the long-awaited satirical horror film produced by Kim Henkel (The Texas Chainsaw Massacre) and directed by Steven DeGennaro, and Show Yourself, a haunting & remarkablegenre-bending feature debut from Billy Ray Brewton (subject of the wonderful award-winning 2014 documentary Skanks, and programmer for Slamdance Film Festival).

Fans in the region will also experience the Chicago premieres of:

The Greasy Strangler - The most hilariously disturbing film of the year. From Elijah Wood's Spectrevision, Drafthouse Films, & Ant Timpson.
Here Alone - Winner of the 2016 Tribeca Audience Award.
Abattoir - From Darren Bousman, the director of Saw 2, 3, 4, Repo: The Genetic Opera, Mother's Day, and The Devil's Carnival. Darren will be in attendance to present the film.
Pet - The SXSW hit starring Dominic Monaghan (Lord of The Rings Trilogy).
I am Not a Serial Killer - Starring Christopher Lloyd in yet another career defining performance.
Beyond The Gates - Winner of the midnight audience award at Los Angeles Film Festival.
Antibirth – Premiered at the Sundance Film & starring Natasha Lyonne & Chloe Sevigny.
Short Trip To Hell (Shorts Block) – A stunning collection of premiere shorts that will scare you senseless!

The Bruce Campbell Horror Film Festival jury this year includes a few dignitaries well-known to horror fans: Tom Holland (writer/director, Fright Night, Child's Play); Barry Bostwick (Rocky Horror Picture Show); Cerina Vincent (Cabin Fever); and Zach Hagen (producer, He Never Died).

"I could not be any more thrilled with this year's lineup," said festival director Josh Goldbloom. "There's something here for every bloodthirsty horror fanatic: Haunted houses, serial killers, satanic board games, home invasions, monsters with demon wings, possessed guitars, portals to hell, killer clown cookie jars, and last but not least, greasy stranglers. Buy a ticket and I promise you'll see something you won't forget."

Festival badges are $100, and are on sale now at http://wizardworld.com/comiccon/brucecampbellhorrorfilmfe....

The festival and all screenings will be held at the Carmike Muvico Rosemont 18.

Fans can visit http://wizardworld.com/comiccon/brucecampbellhorrorfilmfestival for full details and additions to the slate as they happen and dates and times for each screening. Follow the festival on Twitter: @groovyfest

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