These next two posts deal with the first two waves of announcements for Fantastic Fest 2014 that takes place on September 18-25th in Austin, Texas at the newly reopened Alamo South Lamar and Highball. The festival will open with the US premiere of Kevin Smith's new film "Tusk". After "Tusk", they will have the world premiere of "The ABC's of Death 2".
For more information's on what films were announced as part of the first wave, you can scroll down to the bottom of the press release.
Press Release:
Celebrating its 10th anniversary, Fantastic Fest is excited to announce the first wave of events, special guests and film programming. Fantastic Fest 2014 takes place September 18-25th in Austin, Texas at the newly reopened Alamo South Lamar and Highball.
Fantastic Fest is thrilled to open the fest
with the US Premiere of Kevin Smith's dark horror-comedy TUSK. Smith
will be in attendance for a red carpet gala screening and Q&A.
Immediately following TUSK, the world premiere of ABCs OF DEATH 2 will unveil 26 devilishly diabolical tales at Fantastic Fest
with multiple directors from the horror anthology sequel in attendance,
including: Alejandro Brugués, Robert Boocheck, Lancelot Imasuen, E.L.
Katz, Jerome Sable, Jen and Sylvia Soska, Jim Hosking, Larry Fessenden,
Chris Nash, Steven Kostanski, and Julian Barrett. Following the
premiere, guests are invited to attend 'A Bodacious Celebration: 26 Ways to Party' culminating in an epic food fight curated by Thu Tran of Food Party fame.
"My personal challenge each year is making Fantastic Fest
the best week of the year for like-minded genre film obsessive's," says
festival founder Tim League. "With the resonance of a round number
anniversary, all reasonable fetters are discarded. In 2014, we are
taking no prisoners. This festival is going to set new boundaries of
decadence, destruction and debauchery."
For its 10th anniversary, Fantastic Fest
is also going all out with celebratory events and special programming,
including two tent pole showstoppers. Legendary film critic and
historian Leonard Maltin joins proceedings as head of the comedy jury
and to play "MALTIN'S," a game tournament of movie trivia twenty years
in the making. "My brother and I were obsessed with Leonard Maltin's
Movie Guide at an early age," said MALTIN'S creator and festival alum
Ant Timpson. "His reviews shaped our own language and view of film. How
could we be even closer to our God? How could we become Leonard Maltin?
MALTIN'S was the answer." Complete rules and information on how to
enter can be found at fantasticfest.com.
Elevating the comedic quota of Fantastic Fest
programming is the addition of Comedy Central's breakout stand-up show
"The Meltdown with Jonah & Kumail." Hitting Austin for its
first-ever Fantastic Fest
performance, host comedians Jonah Ray and Kumail Nanjiani explained why
they want to be a part of the festivities, "We want to watch films,
drink, and make people laugh."
Fantastic Fest
also marks an important milestone for the Alamo Drafthouse theater
chain with the grand reopening of its flagship destination at South
Lamar and the all-new Highball. Under construction for the past two
years, the new theaters boast three new screens (9 total), and
completely rebuilt Highball bar, and 7 custom-designed karaoke rooms
that are sure to melt the mind.
See below for the initial lineup of programming at this year's festival.
ABCs OF DEATH 2
Various, 2014
World Premiere, 125 min
Directors
- Larry Fessenden, Marvin Kren, Todd Rohal, Jim Hosking, Julien Maury
and, Alexandre Bustillo, Julian Gilbey, Soichi Umezawa, Lancelot
Imasuen, Jerome Sable, Robert Boocheck, Aharon Keshales and Navot
Papushado, Bill Plympton, Rodney Ascher, Erik Matti, Juan Moreno, Steven
Kostanski, Alejandro Brugués, E.L. Katz, Julian Barratt, Hajime Ohata,
Vincenzo Natali, Chris Nash, Jen and Sylvia Soska, Dennison Ramalho,
Robert Morgan, Kristina Buozyte and Bruno Samper
In
2013 the craziest anthology ever created was released to an
unsuspecting public. It immediately divided audiences. Some claimed it
was a much-needed adrenaline shot to the heart of genre film, while
others claimed it was reprehensible and the death knell of cinema as we
know it.
In 2014 it's happening again. This time with an all-new line-up of international directors.
For more information about ABCs OF DEATH 2, please visit http://www. magnetreleasing.com/ theabcsofdeath2/,"like" the film on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/ theabcsofdeath or follow on twitter @ABCsofDeath.
ALLELUIA
France/Belgium, 2014
US Premiere, 95 min
Director - Fabrice Du Welz
A lonely woman and a psychotic gigolo find love through murder in the latest film from the director of CALVAIRE and VINYAN.
BABADOOK, THE
Australia, 2014
Texas Premiere, 94 min
Director - Jennifer Kent
In
this impressive horror debut, Amelia thought her biggest problems were
her son's violent behavioral problems and her own depression. That was
before something came knocking at the door...
BRO's BEFORE HO's
Netherlands, 2013
US Premiere, 88 min
Directors - Steffen Haars & Flip van der Kuil
A unashamedly offensive bromance from the killer comedy team behind NEW KIDS TURBO and NEW KIDS NITRO.
CLOSER TO GOD
United States, 2014
Texas Premiere, 81 min
Director - Billy Senese
Dr.
Victor Reed finds himself in the middle of an ethical, legal and
religious storm after conducting the first successful human cloning in
this fiercely intelligent indie thriller.
DANGER 5 - SERIES 2
Australia, 2014
World Premiere, 75 min
Director - Dario Russo
When
Adolf Hitler surfaces posing as a 1980s high school student, there can
be only one response! The crack team of Danger 5 are pressed back into
service to eliminate the Nazi threat once and for all!
HIGH FIVE (RELOCOS Y REPASADOS)
URUGUAY - BRASIL, 2013
World Premiere, 98 min
Director - Manuel Facal
It's a stoner comedy from Uruguay. What else do you need to know?
HORSEHEAD (FIEVRE)
France, 2014
World Premiere, 89 min
Director - Romain Basset
A stunning exploration of a young woman's nightmares.
THE INCIDENT (EL INCIDENTE)
Mexico, 2014
North American Premiere, 100 min
Director - Isaac Ezban
A cosmic event disrupts life on Earth in this sci-fi mind-bender.
JACKY IN THE KINGDOM OF WOMEN (JACKY AU ROYAUME DES FEMMES)
France, 2013
Texas Premiere, 87 min
Director - Riad Sattouf
Women hold the power while men cower in this scathing dystopian satire starring Charlotte Gainsbourg.
KUNG FU ELLIOT
Canada, 2014
Fantastic Fest Premiere, 88 min
Director- Jaret Belliveau & Matthew Bauckman
A hilarious and disturbing documentary about a man's quest to become an international action star.
MALTIN'S GAME TOURNAMENT
Created by Fantastic Fest
alum and film producer, and self-described Leonard Maltin's Movie Guide
convert, Ant Timpson circa the early 90s, MALTIN'S is a movie lover's
version of game night favorite Balderdash. Someone starts as "Maltin"
and chooses a title from Leonard Maltin's Movie Guide, a film that no
one knows. The other players then all write down a fake synopsis based
on the title. Players attempt to trick each other into believing that
their synopsis is the real one while trying to decipher the true Leonard
Maltin's Movie Guide synopsis.
LOCAL GOD (DIOS LOCAL)
Uruguay, 2014
World Premiere, 88 min
Director - Gustavo Hernandez
While
filming music videos in an abandoned gold mine, a rock group is
tormented by an evil spirit in this new film from the director of LA
CASA MUDA.
THE MAN IN THE ORANGE JACKET
Latvia/Estonia, 2014
US Premiere, 71 min
Director - Aik Karapetian
A laid-off harbor worker wages a private war on the rich in this surrealistic Latvian horror film.
THE MELTDOWN WITH JONAH & KUMAIL
The
Meltdown with Jonah and Kumail hails all the way from the back of a
comic book store in Los Angeles, where not only has it been crowned one
of the best standup shows in LA by LA Weekly, LA Times, and Hollywood
Reporter, but it's now a TV show! Comedy Central filmed eight
documentary-style episodes of The Meltdown with Jonah and Kumail for a
brand new type of standup show that airs Wednesday nights starting July
2014. Come see why this is the only existing live standup show to get
its own TV show as hosts Jonah Ray and Kumail Nanjiani charm your pants
off and welcome some very special guests!
NORWAY
Greece, 2014
US Premiere, 74 min
Director - Yiannis Veslemes
A vampire dances his way through '80s era Athens in this fantastic film from the production team behind DOGTOOTH.
STILL LIFE (NATURALEZA MUERTA)
Argentina, 2014
North American Premiere, 97 min
Director - Gabriel Grieco
Meat is murder in this brutal Argentinian slasher with an animal rights edge.
TOMBVILLE
Belgium, 2014
North American Premiere, 94 min
Director - Nikolas List
Young
David awakens battered and disoriented on the edge of town, knowing
only one thing: He wants to get away. But no matter what he tries, he's
always led back to the same dark, disturbing place. Welcome to
Tombville.
TOMMY (TommyMer)
Sweden, 2014
North American Premiere, 95 min
Director - Tarik Saleh
Tommy
is coming home, or at least that's what his wife Estelle desperately
needs people to believe when she returns after a year in exile. And if
he doesn't get what's his, there's going to be hell to pay.
TUSK
United Stats, 2013
US Premiere, 102 min
Director - Kevin Smith
From
the singular mind of writer/director and podcaster Kevin Smith, and
conceived from one of Smith's own Smodcast's, TUSK is a story unlike
anything that has ever been committed to screen before. A tale that is
equal parts hilarious and horrifying, TUSK will stay with you long after
the credits roll. Starring: Justin Long, Michael Parks, Genesis
Rodriguez, and Haley Joel Osment
V/H/S VIRAL
US, 2014
US Premiere, 98 min
Directors - Marcel Sarmiento, Gregg Bishop, Nacho Vigalondo, Justin Benson & Aaron Moorhead
Fantastic Fest
alumni Nacho Vigalondo & Marcel Sarmiento join several other genre
filmmaking greats in this 3rd installment of the twisted found footage
horror anthology franchise.
WYRMWOOD
Australia, 2014
World Premiere, 92 min
Director - Kiah Roache-Turner
The
undead rise again in this raucous feature debut from Australia's
Roache-Turner Brothers, who deliver one of the most balls-out, gonzo and
just plain fun entries into the zombie canon in years.
Look for more film & event programming announcements for Fantastic Fest in the weeks ahead.
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