Dead by Dawn programme announced
With the 13th Dead by Dawn fast approaching, the programme is mutating rather nicely and has some seriously unpleasant treats in store.
With the features, they have the world Premiere of Blood Trails - the first ever mountain bike stalker movie. And some of the cast and crew will be on hand to answer for themselves.
There is also Adam Mason’s stunning indie feature Broken - the story of a mentalist survivalist who seems to play by rules that mean only he can win.
In The Last Supper a charming Japanese plastic surgeon revered on daytime telly for being domesticated, good-looking and a damn fine cook turns out to be a hungry little freak. It’s never a good sign when your date has a lockable fridge in his kitchen and girls, it’s really not good news when he says he wants to eat you…
In Haze, Shinya Tsukamoto gets claustrophobic in a big way. Prepare to squirm.
In Severed, a bunch of tree-hugging hippies get it in the neck as the highly toxic, illegal and unnatural chemical experiments of an unethical logging company somehow somehow turns everyone into slavering, flesh-craving zombies. Soon the woods are full of the undead, and what do loggers have lots of? Chainsaws!
The classics programme includes Nicolas Roeg’s Don’t Look Now, and the welcome return of a little seen movie Grim Prarie Tales starring Brad Dourif and James Earl Jones.
The shorts programme goes from strength to strength too. As ever there’s the Cutting Edge short film competition for debut and emerging film-makers, there’s the main shorts programme and, after the success of last year’s selection, the What You Make It programme returns too. This year so far it includes a mother to make you realise your parents ain’t so bad after all, a WWII game of cat and mouse and a tale of a bogeyman so bad that even keeping your socks on won’t help you make it through the night.
Amongst the other shorts are the quickest protruding-jaw reduction imaginable, a disgruntled Welsh turkey-impregnator with a power tool, self-inflicted cruelty, psychological torture, yet more claustrophobic nightmares and a yogi in a blender. And there’ll be so much more, too!
Dead by Dawn - Scotland’s International Horror Film Festival
- runs from 20th to 23rd April in Edinburgh.
Saturday 25 Mar 2006 | Paul | Film Festivals and Events
