After Dark Horrorfest

Template:Future 8 Films To Die For (a.k.a. "Horrorfest") is a 3-night horror film festival featuring eight independent horror movies, all produced by After Dark Films. The festival will run from November 17-19 2006 in 500 different theaters around the United States.

According to the trailer, the content of these films are considered too graphic, too disturbing, and too shocking for general audiences.

The Movies

The movies showing are:

Penny Dreadful: Young Penny goes on a retreat with her psychologist. The intention is to help her overcome her phobia of cars. But events find her in a nightmarish situation where her worst fears come true.
The Gravedancers: A group of friends' lives are invaded by a trio of hostile ghosts after they engage in a drunken bout of gravedancing during a wake for an old chum.
The Abandoned: A film producer who was adopted as a baby and sent to America returns to her native Russia and the family farm. Once there, strange things begin to happen.
The Hamiltons: A picture-perfect American family is always kind, loving and respectful to their neighbors… except that they usually wind up killing them.
Reincarnation: A film from the director of The Grudge and The Grudge 2.
Unrest: A med student collapses upon sensing a "presence" about her cadaver. Her fears are strengthened by a mysterious death. She must discover the connection before an angry spirit can wreak further vengeance.
Dark Ride: Ten years after he brutally murdered two girls, a killer escapes from a mental institution and returns to his turf, the theme park attraction called "Dark Ride".
Wicked Little Things: Recently widowed Karen Tunny and her two daughters, Sarah and Emma, move to a remote mountain home which Karen has inherited from the family of her late husband. However, she is unaware that the home is situated near an old mine, the site of an early 20th century tragedy in which many children were buried alive.
Snoop Doggs Hood of Horrors: A bonus ninth movie is available for purchasers of the eight movie pass. Details have yet to be released.

Miss Horrorfest 2006

A contest for the 'official spokeswoman' of the film series and for After Dark Films was announced in Late September on YouTube. Participants auditioned both online and in person at Los Angeles and New York locations, and were later flown to those cities to appear on The Fuse/Fangoria Chainsaw Awards, The Dee Snider Radio Show, and a short series of reality-style movies featured on YouTube. The four finalists were Chieko, MsBlackBetty, DarkSpider, and MaryAnne. Internet voting ended on November 9th. It was announced that the winner will be named on December 20th. This is a bit confusing, given that the movie festival takes place a full month before that.

Pre-HorrorFest Celebration

On Thursday, November 16, 2006, Dark Delicacies, a horror-themed bookstore in Burbank, CA will host a signing event with about 30 filmmakers and talents from the movies.^[1]

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