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Telluride Horror Show: Press Release: "TELLURIDE, CO - The Telluride Horror Show has announced its second wave of films and a conversation with John Carroll Lynch for its 2015 film festival, which will take place October 16-18th from the picturesque mountain town of Telluride, Colorado (elevation 8,750 ft.).

The festival will feature several premieres and Official Selections of Toronto International Film Festival and Fantastic Fest. "We're excited to be hosting numerous premieres this year, with many of the films coming to Telluride fresh off their bows at Toronto and Fantastic Fest," said Telluride Horror Show director Ted Wilson. He added, "We're proud that the Telluride Horror Show is now an important stop on the festival circuit for top-tier indie genre films."

Feature films in the second wave include new indie favorites DARLING (director Mickey Keating), which was recently picked up at Fantastic Fest, and the Colorado premiere of THE MIND'S EYE (director Joe Begos). Both filmmakers will be in attendance. Official Selections also include the North American premiere of III, US premiere of THE INTERIOR, Colorado premiere of SENSORIA, and THEY LOOK LIKE PEOPLE, which is getting a considerable buzz.

Actor John Carroll Lynch has also been added to the lineup and will take part in a conversation with Devin Faraci of Birth. Movies. Death. after THE INVITATION (announced in the first wave). Lynch's resumé boasts more than 200 titles, including FARGO, ZODIAC, SHUTTER ISLAND, GRAN TORINO, CRAZY STUPID LOVE, AMERICAN HORROR STORY: FREAKSHOW (as "Twisty the Clown") and Telluride Horror Show Official Selection THE INVITATION. A Colorado native, Lynch is one of the most reputable supporting actors in the film business, having worked directly with Oscar winners and nominees such as Clint Eastwood, Reese Witherspoon, Leonardo DiCaprio, Steve Carrell, and Robert Downey, Jr.

Several new international short films have been added to the program, including HAPPY BIRTHDAY, THE SESSION and the world premiere of FLUSH.

The complete second wave of films is listed below. According to Ted Wilson, it's the Telluride Horror Show's "darkest and grittiest lineup to date."

GUEST ACTOR
JOHN CARROLL LYNCH
John Carroll Lynch's resumé boasts more than 200 titles, including FARGO, ZODIAC, SHUTTER ISLAND, GRAN TORINO, CRAZY STUPID LOVE, AMERICAN HORROR STORY: FREAKSHOW (as "Twisty the Clown") and Telluride Horror Show Official Selection THE INVITATION. A Colorado native, Lynch is one of the most reputable supporting actors in the film business, having worked directly with Oscar winners and nominees such as Clint Eastwood, Reese Witherspoon, Leonardo DiCaprio, Steve Carrell, and Robert Downey, Jr. Following THE INVITATION, join us for a conversation with actor John Carroll Lynch, moderated by Devin Faraci, editor-in-chief of Birth.Movies.Death.

FEATURES

BODY
U.S.A | 2015 | 75 min | Directors: Dan Berk & Robert Olsen
A night out turns deadly when three girls break into a seemingly empty mansion.

DARLING
U.S.A | 2015 | 78 min | Director: Mickey Keating
Followed by a Q&A with director Mickey Keating in person.
DARLING follows a lonely young woman who moves into an old, mysterious Manhattan mansion. Hired as caretaker, it's not long before she discovers the estate's haunted reputation and troubling past- stories that slowly transform into a backdrop for her twisted and violent descent into madness....

THE HALLOW
UK/Ireland | 2015 | 97 min | Director: Corin Hardy
After moving into a remote country house in Ireland, a family finds themselves in a fight for survival with demonic creatures living in the woods.

HOWL
U.K. | 2015 | 95 min | Director: Paul Hyett
Make-up effects master Paul Hyett (Dog Soldiers, The Descent) creates a horror tale about a group of passengers on a midnight train who find themselves under attack by a terrifying pack of werewolves.

III
Russia/Germany | 2015 | 80 min | Director: Pavel Khvaleev
NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE
During the outbreak of a mysterious epidemic devastating a rural European village, sisters Ayia and Mirra promise their dying mother to look after each other. When Mirra falls victim to the epidemic, Ayia in desperation realizes that conventional medicine will not save her sister. At the local priest's house Ayia discovers a collection of Shamanic books containing a ritual for spiritual healing which she believes will save her sister. The Shamanic cure involves a complete immersion into the patient's mind, a journey into the deepest most hidden depths of their subconscious where terrifying monsters and demons await.

THE INTERIOR
Canada | 2015 | 79 min | Director: Trevor Juras
US PREMIERE
After receiving a distressing medical diagnosis, a listless young man flees the crushing tedium of Toronto city life, trading it all for the wilderness of the British Columbian Interior. When his whims go awry, he is reduced to petty thievery just to survive. Fearing his misdeeds will catch up with him, he retreats further and further into the woods only to gradually find himself the target of increasingly inexplicable and disturbing manifestations, which point to a frightening truth: he is not alone.

THE MIND'S EYE
U.S.A | 2015 | 87 min | Director: Joe Begos
COLORADO PREMIERE
Followed by a Q&A with director Joe Begos in person.
A scientist formulating a synthetic telekinetic serum sends a group of telekinetic assassins to track down a rougher drifter with exceptional psychokinetic abilities.

SENSORIA
Sweden | 2015 | 81 min | Director: Christian Hallman
COLORADO PREMIERE
"SENSORIA" follows Caroline, a woman in her late thirties, who has lost everything she cares for in the world. In search of a new beginning, she moves into an old apartment and quickly begins to realize that she is not as alone as she thought she was...

THE RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD
U.S.A | 1985 | 91 min | Director: Dan O'Bannon
When two bumbling employees at a medical supply warehouse accidentally release a deadly gas into the air, the vapors cause the dead to rise again as zombies.

Join us for a special 30th Anniversary screening of (and behind-the-scenes look at) THE RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD, the best zombie comedy ever made. We will be showing the RARE original print of Dan (ALIEN) O'Bannon's film, with its original dialogue and punk soundtrack intact! Presented by Paul M. Sammon (author of Future Noir: The Making of Blade Runner), who worked on ROTLD in 1985 as Orion Pictures' Special Projects Manager. Paul will host a special Q&A session after the screening, accompanied by a unique slide show. Just remember - More Brains!!!

THEY LOOK LIKE PEOPLE
U.S.A | 2015 | 80 min | Director: Perry Blackshear
Suspecting that people are transforming into malevolent shape-shifters, Wyatt flees to New York City to seek out his estranged childhood friend Christian. As the mysterious horrors close in on Wyatt, he questions whether to protect his only friend from an impending war, or from himself. A genre-bending story about love, loyalty and living nightmares.

SHORTS

A TRICKY TREAT
Canada | 2015 | 3 min | Director: Patricia Chica
A man is kidnapped by a very strange family and his fate is held in the hands of two kids.

CHAINSAW MAID
Japan | 2007 | 7 min | Director: Takena Nagao
A sexy maid fights against zombies.

FLUSH
U.S.A | 2015 | 6 min | Director: Matt Cooper
WORLD PREMIERE
In Person: Matt Cooper (Director)
A self-obsessed business traveler comes back down to earth during a routine pit-stop in an airport restroom when he is confronted by an entity that challenges his need for control, and his will to survive.

GUN SHY
U.S.A | 2014 | 3 min | Director: Sam Goetz
Every cop has that one event, that one memory, they just can't shake...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY
USA | 2014 | 4 min | Director: Erin Stegeman
In Person: Erin Stegeman (Director)
Sophia is turning six, and her cardigan-clad parents have put together the perfect party, including a very special surprise.

I AM UNDONE
Australia | 2014 | 9 min | Director: Rebecca Thomson
U.S. PREMIERE
A cosmetic therapist suffers grotesquely from oversampling her own products.

MOTHER
U.S.A | 2014 | 2 min | Director: Zeke Pinheiro
An expectant mother's sonogram reveals more than she was expecting.

MR. HENDRIX
U.S.A | 2014 | 5 min | Director: Zeke Pinheiro
A newlywed realizes his step-daughter is being traumatized by the same boogieman who tormented him as a child.

NO SERVICE
U.S.A | 2015 | 5 min | Director: Kholi Hicks
After finally getting service on her phone while out in the wilderness, a writer discovers a sinister event has transpired.

PANDY
Slovakia/Czech Republic | 2013 | 11 min | Director: Matús Vizár
After millions of generations, they have a good chance of becoming another extinct species. But one day, an all-too-active primate called the human being found them and they became a pawn in man's game.

THE ROOT OF THE PROBLEM
U.S.A | 2013 | 13 min | Director: Ryan Spindell
In the candy-colored world of 1950s suburbia, a reluctant housewife suspects that the friendly neighborhood dentist is hiding a horrible secret... but is it just the anesthesia, or is something more sinister hiding just below the surface?

SELF-ASSEMBLY
Ireland | 2014 | 12 min | Director: Ray Sullivan
In a self-assembly cabinet, bereaved parents find a monstrous substitute for their dead son.

THE SESSION
France | 2015 | 12 min | Director: Edouard de la Poeze
Paris, 1899. The sultry Countess of Castiglione entrusts a last portrait of her to her talented photographer. Under the prying eye of the divine aristocrat's servants, the session will prove to be more disturbing than expected.

SILENT NIGHT
Australia | 2014 | 11 min | Director: Nastassja Djalog
In an unsustainable city in the not so distant future, a young woman struggles to detach from the task assigned her to ensure the survival of the fittest.

SISTER HELL
Norway | 2015 | 15 min | Director: Fredrik S. Hana
A nun absconds from her monastery and embraces a more hedonistic lifestyle, but the sisters she left behind are soon hot on her heels in a bid to save her soul. Only it might not be her soul that needs saving.

SUPERVENUS
France | 2013 | 3 min | Director: Frédéric Doazan
A plastic surgeon creates in real time the new goddess of beauty.

THE TRAP
U.S.A | 2015 | 6 min | Director: Dick Grunert
A man invites his friend over one night to show off his latest invention: A trap for catching aliens.

UNBELIEF
U.S.A/Canada/France | 2015 | 13 min | Director: Fabien Martorell
Unbelief is the story of two men meeting in a park in NYC. It's Christmas Eve. Kane is an assassin, on his way to do a job which means more to him than the usual killings he is paid to do. This time it's personal."

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Now out on Hulu is the new horror film The Cutting Room:

"College students Raz, Charlie and Jess are about to start work on their end of year Media Studies project... unaware of a malevolent force lurking deep below their sleepy town.

A recent wave of apparent Cyberbullying and the disappearance of two local girls lead the group to an abandoned army barracks situated deep in the forests that surround the college. What they find there is a terrifying labyrinth of tunnels from which there seems no escape... and a dark figure hell bent on tormenting them. Hunted, frightened and lost, Raz, Charlie and Jess must now escape the barracks or suffer the unspeakable fate that awaits them."

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