Cover artwork by Mark Reusch for Wolfmen of Mars' new album, Warp Suburbium, aims to depict the album's theme: liven up a suburban neighborhood with fun Halloween mayhem. Also in today's Highlights: program details for the 8th Annual Knoxville Horror Film Fest 2016, the Satanic Panic Room at Fantastic Fest, and the HellsGate Haunted House opening.
Wolfmen of Mars' Warp Suburbium Release Details: From Wolfmen of Mars: "We wanted the album to have a Twilight Zone / Halloween vibe. Artist Mark Reusch (http://misterreusch.com) took the concept of skeletons causing gremlin-esque chaos in an old suburban neighborhood on Halloween night, and came up with the album art."
To learn more about Warp Suburbium, visit:
The latest album from Wolfmen of Mars, Warp Suburbium will be released on iTunes, Amazon, Spotify, and more on Friday, September 16th, and it is now available on Bandcamp.
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Knoxville Horror Film Fest 2016 Lineup: Press Release: "KNOXVILLE, TN (August 30, 2016) - The Knoxville Horror Film Fest (KHFF) will return for its eighth annual celebration of sinister cinema on October 21 - 23, 2016 at Regal Cinemas Downtown West 8 and Scruffy City Hall.
Dedicated to bringing the genre film festival experience to East Tennessee, KHFF 2016 will once again showcase a weekend’s worth of premier indie horror features and startling short films from around the world, in addition to parties, special guests, and other fun.
This year’s lineup is headlined by ten feature films, each preceded by a selection of shorts:
● PHANTASM (dir. Don Coscarelli) – 1979’s beguiling indie horror classic returns to the big screen in Bad Robot’s revelatory 4K restoration.
● PHANTASM: RAVAGER (dir. David Hartman) – The long-awaited fifth and final installment in the Phantasm series promises the ultimate showdown with the Tall Man (Angus Scrimm, RIP).
● THE GREASY STRANGLER (dir. Jim Hosking) – Bewildered buzz out of Sundance and SXSW has put this depraved comedy on the fast track to midnight movie notoriety... and KHFF will be Knoxville’s only chance to experience it with an audience.
● TRASH FIRE (dir. Richard Bates Jr) – Adrian Grenier leads an unsuspecting girlfriend into the jaws of domestic horror in the riotously bleak new film from KHFF favorite Bates (Excision).
● BEYOND THE GATES (dir. Jackson Stewart) – Two brothers chase their inheritance into a devilish VHS board game hosted by scream queen Barbara Crampton (ReAnimator).
● SADAKO V KAYAKO (dir. Kôji Shiraishi) – The ghostly gals from Ringu and Juon: The Grudge face off in Japanese horror’s answer to Freddy Vs Jason.
● THE MASTER CLEANSE (dir. Bobby Miller) – Johnny Galecki attends an unusual spiritual retreat in the cutely creepy feature debut of KHFF alumni Bobby Miller (Tub).
● FURY OF THE DEMON (dir. Fabien Delage) – A coy documentary-style look at a legendarily violence-inducing lost short by silent film wizard Georges Méliès.
● RED CHRISTMAS (dir. Craig Anderson) – Genre legend Dee Wallace (The Howling, ET) is a matriarch with secrets in this boundary-pushing Australian holiday chiller.
● BAD BLOOD (dir. Tim Reis) – The creators of Goat Witch (winner of “Weirdest Film” at KHFF 2014) return with their wildest creature feature yet, presenting an amphibious twist on the werewolf flick. (Filmmaker in attendance.)
Other events include Saturday night’s premiere of the 2016 Grindhouse Grind-out Filmmaking Contest (KHFF’s unique film event challenging locals to create wild, grindhouse-style fake movie trailers) and Sunday evening’s Awards Ceremony recognizing the festival’s best films.
KHFF 2016 programming will run Friday night and all day Saturday at Regal Cinemas Downtown West 8, then all day Sunday at Market Square’s Scruffy City Hall. Further details will be announced through September, with the festival schedule and full slate of short films to follow in October.
Discounted weekend passes are now available for only $60 on KHFF’s IndieGoGo presale site at https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/knoxville-horror-film-fest-8-pre-sale-campaign#/.
KHFF will also host a free KHFF8 PREVIEW NIGHT on October 6 at Scruffy City Hall, featuring trailers & shorts teasing this year’s festival plus the premiere of locally-produced horror feature Something’s in the Woods, based on a trailer created for the first Grindhouse Grind-out contest in 2009. And on Thursday, October 20 horror fans are invited to warm up for KHFF with the KNOXFERATU silent film celebration at Scruffy City Hall, featuring The Unknown (1927), Nosferatu (1922) and more.
Submissions for this year’s Knoxville Horror Film Fest remain open through September 29 via FilmFreeway.com, with special discounts for films produced in Tennessee. Knoxville-area filmmakers are also invited to compete in the Grindhouse Grind-out contest (kicking off September 30) which gives teams six days to produce their own horror themed short film or trailer for competition during KHFF’s main event on Saturday night. Registration information & more can be found on the KHFF website.
ABOUT THE KNOXVILLE HORROR FILM FEST:
Founded in 2009 by genre enthusiasts William Mahaffey and Nick Huinker, Knoxville Horror Film Fest has grown from a single night program at Knoxville’s Pilot Light to a multi-venue, weekend-long event known for its expert curation and endless entertainment value. Over the course of eight festivals and countless standalone events, KHFF has presented hundreds of short films by up and coming filmmakers and strived to bring the best in current and classic horror cinema to fans who value the theatrical experience. For more information, visit KnoxvilleHorrorFest.com
KHFF is proudly sponsored by Shudder, Regal Entertainment Group, Scruffy City
Entertainment, Cherokee Distributing, Knoxville Mercury, Jupiter Entertainment and many other beloved partners throughout the Knoxville community.
Tickets are available here now: http://igg.me/at/KHFF8"
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Alamo Drafthouse and The Highball's Satanic Panic Room at Fantastic Fest: Press Release: "Austin, TX - Friday, September 9, 2016 - Alamo Drafthouse's Fantastic Fest and The Highball are proud to unleash their first-ever escape room challenge, the Satanic Panic Room, where thrill-seekers find themselves at the mercy of the Devil himself. Produced by Bottleneck Immersive, the Satanic Panic Room will open to the public for daily bookings during Fantastic Fest at The Highball beginning Friday, September 23rd, and will continue on weeknights and have full weekend hours throughout October for the perfect Halloween season experience.
Escape rooms are physical, real life race-against-the-clock adventures. In the Satanic Panic Room, a group of four victims -- er, players -- are locked in and have to find their way out. These would-be Devil's disciples will be cloaked in ritual garb, blindfolded, and led to a dimly lit chamber. There they'll be shackled and given 45 minutes to solve a series of exciting, innovative and demonically difficult puzzles in a room steeped in Satanic cult atmosphere. It's up to each group to search for clues, crack codes and work as a team to win over the Dark Lord and rule by his side -- or fail and become the demon's next sacrifice.
"Every year we try to innovate new signature events to be a part of the Fantastic Fest experience," says Fantastic Fest founder Tim League. "Over the last couple of years, our team has become obsessed with escape rooms and set out this year to reimagine the concept with a decidedly demented Fantastic Fest flavor."
The Satanic Panic Room has been lovingly (and demonically) engineered by critically-acclaimed designers Bottleneck Immersive to create a heart-pounding, fun and memorable experience.
The Satanic Panic Room is located within the bowels of The Highball, next to the Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar at 1120 South Lamar Boulevard in Austin, TX.
For bookings and more information, visit SatanicPanicRoom.com. Be sure to check out the FAQ section there as well.
For the latest developments and ticketing information, visit the Fantastic Fest official site FantasticFest.com and follow us on Facebook & Twitter.
For information on Bottleneck Immersive, visit BottleneckImmersive.com
About Fantastic Fest
Fantastic Fest is the largest genre film festival in the U.S., specializing in horror, fantasy, sci-fi, action and just plain fantastic movies from all around the world. In years past the festival has been home to world premieres of BONE TOMAHAWK, JOHN WICK, FRANKENWEENIE, MACHETE KILLS, RED DAWN, THERE WILL BE BLOOD, APOCALYPTO, ZOMBIELAND and RED while the guest roster has included such talent as Tim Burton, Nicolas Winding-Refn, Lilly and Lana Wachowski, Robert Rodriguez, Rian Johnson, Mel Gibson, Bill Murray, Keanu Reeves, Martin Landau, Winona Ryder, Edward Norton, Ryan Reynolds, Patrick Wilson, Matthew Fox, Karl Urban, Josh Hartnett, The RZA, Dolph Lundgren, Paul Rudd, Bill Pullman, Paul Thomas Anderson, Kevin Smith, Jon Favreau, George Romero, Darren Aronofsky and Mike Judge. Fantastic Fest also features world, national, and regional premieres of new, up-and-coming genre films. Fantastic Fest has seen the acquisition of many titles, including BULLHEAD, KILL LIST, MONSTERS, KLOWN, THE FP, PENUMBRA, HERE COMES THE DEVIL, NO REST FOR THE WICKED, VANISHING WAVES, COMBAT GIRLS and I DECLARE WAR. Fantastic Fest is held each year at the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema in Austin, Texas. Alamo Drafthouse has been named the best theater in the country by Entertainment Weekly, Wired and TIME. Variety included Fantastic Fest in a list of "10 Film Festivals We Love," and was also named one of the "25 coolest film festivals" by Moviemaker Magazine.
About Alamo Drafthouse
Tim and Karrie League founded Alamo Drafthouse Cinema in 1997 as a single-screen mom and pop repertory theater in Austin. Nineteen years later, the now 24-location chain has been named "the best theater in America" by Entertainment Weekly and "the best theater in the world" by Wired. The Alamo Drafthouse Cinema has built a reputation as a movie lover's oasis not only by combining food and drink service with the movie-going experience but also introducing unique programming and high-profile, star studded special events. Alamo Drafthouse Founder & CEO, Tim League, created Fantastic Fest, a world renowned film festival dubbed "The Geek Telluride" by Variety. Fantastic Fest showcases eight days of genre cinema from independents, international filmmakers and major Hollywood studios. The Alamo Drafthouse's collectible art gallery, Mondo, offers breathtaking, original products featuring designs from world-famous artists based on licenses for popular TV and Movie properties including Star Wars, Star Trek & Universal Monsters. The Alamo Drafthouse Cinema is expanding its brand in new and exciting ways, including Drafthouse Films which has garnered two Academy Award nominations in its short three-year existence and Birth.Movies.Death., an entertainment content platform edited by veteran journalist Devin Faraci.
About Bottleneck Immersive
Bottleneck Immersive is a new experiential design company that specializes in interactive games and events for both branded content and original productions. Bottleneck games use the real world as their canvas to create radically new experiences. Recent productions include pop-up happenings, escape rooms, story-driven parties and the company's signature multi-day game. The Bottleneck team has been pioneering immersive adventures for over ten years, blurring fiction and reality to produce live events that combine elements of video games, interactive theater, viral pranks, haunted houses, and more to put players at the center of stories that aren't just played - they're lived. Learn more at Bottleneckimmersive.com"
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HellsGate Haunted House Details: Hidden deep in the woods, HellsGate Haunted House is a multi-level mansion filled with secret passages, giant slides, ghastly secrets, undead abominations, really nervous groundskeepers and a darkness that the Gate can no longer contain! This is not just a haunted house, it's an adventure!
Since you were a kid, you've heard about the haunted house with the giant slide, the one hidden out in the woods, the one where you can win your money back, but you were never able to find it... until now! It's HellsGate Haunted House, and it has returned.
This October, Zombie Army Productions, the creative team that brought you the award-winning Statesville Haunted Prison and Zombie Containment at Navy Pier, have joined forces with Legacy Events to resurrect the Legend. The Zombie Army is known for its highly aggressive interactive experiences that leave customers feeling as if they had just walked through a horror movie. This October, they are raising the bar at HellsGate. After the shuttle bus takes the audience down a dark and desolate road, they will be dropped in a vacant lot and instructed to venture on to the torch-lit path through the forest and cemetery, in order to find HellsGate Haunted House. This October, challenge yourself to a truly terrifying interactive experience, where you must not only find the haunted house in the forest, but you must then find your way out. And for those who are able to keep their wits about them while trapped in the dark, if you find the key, your ticket is free.
This October, don’t just go to a haunted house, go on an adventure of fear.
WHAT: HellsGate Haunted House, http://www.hellsgate.com
WHEN: Open at 7:00 pm every Thursday through Sunday, October 6-30, as well as October 26 & Halloween night, closing at 11:00 pm on Fridays & Saturdays, 10:00 pm all other nights.
WHERE: Guests’ adventure begins at the parking lot located at 1300 South State St. Lockport, Illinois 60441, where the HellsGate shuttle will pick up and drop off.
COST:
$25 General Admission
$35 Speed Pass
$20 Group Tickets
Coupons available at HellsGate.com"
Tamika hails from North Beach, Maryland, a tiny town inches from the Chesapeake Bay.She knew she wanted to be an actor after reciting a soliloquy by Sojourner Truth in front of her entire fifth grade class. Since then, she's appeared in over 20 film and television projects. In addition to acting, Tamika is the Indie Spotlight manager for Daily Dead, where she brings readers news on independent horror projects every weekend.
The first horror film Tamika watched was Child's Play. Being eight years old at the time, she remembers being so scared when Chucky came to life that she projectile vomited. It's tough for her to choose only one movie as her favorite horror film, so she picked two: Nosferatu and The Stepford Wives (1975).
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