"'I go from a demure co-ed to a whip-cracking dominatrix from hell. There are savage, scale-eyed zombies, virgin sacrifices and demonic possessions, and when I turn into a gorgeous, va-voom woman I say the line I've always wanted to say, 'Behold the new queen of hell!' And I say it with relish.'- Brinke Stevens on Teenage Exorcist"
Horror by Women at Fantastic Fest '09: 'Rite', 'Kaifeck Murders', 'Inside', 'Cropsey', and 'Dos Manos'
By Superheidi on August 11th, 2009
Trailers:
Fantastic Fest 2009, which takes place in Austin, Texas, USA Sept 24-Oct 1, 2009 has a bunch of female-directed horror films, both shorts and features, that rock! Celia Rico's Dos Manos Zurdas y un Racimo de Ojos Manchados de Gris, Tracie Laymon's Inside, Alicia Conway's Rite, Barbara Brancaccio's documentary Cropsey, and Esther Gronenborn's Kaifeck Murders are all screening this year. Find out synopses and more below...
Dos Manos Zurdas y un Racimo de Ojos Manchados de Gris
(dir. Antonio Trashorras and Celia Rico, Spain, 19 min)
A love letter to the surreal, bloody classic giallos, by the screenwriter of The Devil's Backbone.
Inside (dir Tracie Laymon, USA, 13 min)
What do you do when there's something growing inside of you? You get rid of it.
Rite (dir. Alicia Conway, USA, 9 min)
Blossoming to adulthood is no picnic. A dreamish, jarring vision of growing up.
Cropsey
(dir. Barbara Brancaccio and Joshua Zeman, 2009, USA)
Cropsey is a documentary about a real-life murder case in Staten Island, New York. A disturbed transient named Andre Rand was convicted of murdering two kids, but did he actually commit the crimes? Cropsey digs deep into the case, and in the process, exposes the weird, secret underbelly of Staten Island.
Kaifeck Murder
(dir. Esther Gronenborn, 2009, Germany)
Marc appears to be having a breakdown, the stern man now plagued by visions and prone to walking in his sleep, a situation that set in when he arrived in the village of Kaifeck with his young son. But could there be truth to Marc’s visions? And is history about to repeat?
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I know the answer is
I know the answer is "probably not," but do you think Tuesday Knight will be there? I'll attend any convention where I can get her autograph and talk her into singing the first few bars of Nightmare while I record it with a friend's cell phone and experience horror nerd euphoria.
LOL probably not. But we can
LOL probably not. But we can hope!
I'm still waiting for Punky Brewster to show up at a Comic Con in San Diego. That'll be my dream come true!