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A NIGHT OF HORROR WAS A DARK AND BLOODY TREAT!

April 27th 2010 05:21

The blood has been shed and the guts have been spilled for another year, and now I want to make a short gush to thank the Sydney organisers and local and overseas participants in this year’s A Night Of Horror International Film Festival; co-directors Dean Bertram and Lisa Mitchell, programmer Shane K., the esteemed judges for the film and screenplay competitions, and to all the filmmakers and horrorphiles who supported the festival! It was both a delight and an inspiration, and a drunken hoot (the pub crawl following the awards ceremony on closing night).

Although I didn’t get to see all the movies I did see some great stuff, and will hopefully catch up with the ones I missed further down the track. My three favourites of the festival were the atmospheric 70s-esque UK shocker The Children (2008), the black-as-a-putrid-corpse undead buddy comedy, The Revenant (2009) from the States - which won best international feature and director - and the uber-brutal Aussie revenge flick The Horseman (2009) - which took out best Australian feature and director. I also thoroughly enjoyed Triangle (2009) and The Haunting in Connecticut (2009), both at the commercial end, but very well made and highly effective.

Unfortunately I missed the Lovecraftian Tales (now an annual fixture), the Homegrown Horror showcase (another fixture), and the Zombie Apocalypse short films programs. But I did get down to the Vampire Den, where several short films tickled my fetid fancy; The Night Life, 2:22, and The Familiar, all from the US, and Scary Therapy, an animated farce from down under. Perhaps you might be lucky enough to find them on youtube …

This year’s festival was also of note for me, as I won 2nd place in the short film screenplay competition for a science fiction earth-bound nightmare entitled Stranger. I was well stoked. Thank you once again judges’ panel! For a complete list of the award winners please visit the A Night Of Horror official website.

I’m already salivating for next year’s festival. May A Night of Horror never end!

A NIGHT OF HORROR WAS A DARK AND BLOODY TREAT!

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