AFTER DARK ORIGINALS: HORRORFEST comes to UK!

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Contributor; London
AFTER DARK ORIGINALS: HORRORFEST  comes to UK!
After 4 years in the US After Dark: Horrorfest is coming to the UK with 7 new and previously unseen horror films screening from 4th-6th March 2011. Empire Cinemas will be hosting the mini-festival in major cities across UK and Ireland in partnership with G2 Pictures.

You can find out more at their Facebook page and check out the full line up below.




AFTER DARK ORIGINALS: HORRORFEST LINE UP

HUSK

Writer/Director: Brett Simmons Cast: Wes Chatham (Brian), C.J. Thomason (Chris), Devon Graye (Scott), Tammin Sursok (Natalie)

When a murder of crows smashes into their car windshield, a group of young friends are forced to abandon the vehicle, leaving them stranded beside a desolate cornfield. Hidden deep within the cornfield they find a crumbling farmhouse - but they soon discover that instead of a sanctuary, the house is actually the centre of a terrifying supernatural ritual that they are about to become a part of...

PROWL

Writer: Tim Tori (Hysteria, Trespassers) Director: Patrik Syversen (Manhunt) Cast: Bruce Payne (Bernard), Courtney Hope (Amber), Saxon Trainor (Veronica)

Amber dreams of escaping her small town existence and persuades her friends to accompany her to find an apartment in the big city. When their transportation breaks down, she and her friends gratefully accept a ride in the back of a semi. But when the driver refuses to stop and they discover the cargo is hundreds of cartons of blood, they panic. Their panic turns to terror when the truck disgorges them into a dark, abandoned warehouse where blood-thirsty creatures learn to hunt human prey, which, the friends realize, is what they now are...

SECONDS APART

Writer: George Richards Director: Antonio Negret (Towards Darkness) Cast: Orlando Jones (Det. Lampkin), Gary & Edmund Entin (Seth & Jonah Trimble)

Seth and Jonah are murderous twins who share an evil kinship. Damned from the moment of their births, the brothers possess a gruesome talent for telekinesis - a power they use in the most horrific ways imaginable. As their fellow students meet gory fates, the local law enforcement begins to suspect the twins' connection to the depraved murders. What started as a jealous rage escalates into a supernatural showdown - pitting brother against brother, evil against evil.

SCREAM OF THE BANSHEE

Writer: Anthony C. Ferrante (House of Bones, Headless Horseman, Boo) Director: Steven C. Miller (Automaton Transfusion) Cast: Lauren Holly (Prof. Whelan), Lance Henricksen (Broderick Duncan)

When a college Professor opens up a strange, ornate box discovered in the basement of a University, she and her students hear a horrifying scream belonging to that of a bloodthirsty banshee. They think nothing of it, until that scream begins to haunt all that heard it in strange and surreal ways. According to Irish lore, if you hear a Banshee scream, you will die - which is what starts happening to them one by one, as the creature starts taking their lives...

FERTILE GROUND

Writers: Adam Gierasch & Jace Anderson Director: Adam Gierasch (Autopsy, Night of the Demons) Cast: Gale Harold (Nate), Leisha Hailey (Emily), JoNell Kennedy (Brittany)

Emily and Nate Weaver leave the city for the rural comfort of Nate's ancestral home in the country. Once there, Emily is plagued by horrifying visions and haunted by the ghosts inhabiting their isolated new home. When Nate's behaviour undergoes a strange and fearful metamorphous, Emily fears she might be the latest target in a murderous tradition.

THE TASK

Writer: Kenny Yakkel Director: Simon Fellows (Malice in Wonderland, Blessed) Cast: Texas Battle (Dixon), Alexandra Staden (Connie), Adam Raynor (Taylor)

Something diabolical is taking place on the set of "The Task" a new reality show in which players complete terrifying missions within the confines of an abandoned prison hoping to win a hefty cash prize. As six young students explore their new environment, malicious spirits make their presence known in the most gruesome ways imaginable, unable to escape the labyrinthine prison, the contestants become unwitting pawns caught at the centre of a blood-soaked night of terror.

51

Writer: Kenny Yakkel Director: Jason Connery (Pandemic, The Devil's Tomb) Cast: Bruce Boxleitner (Col. Martin), John Shea (Sam Whitaker), Jason London (Shoes), Rachel Miner (Sgt Hannah)

Due to political pressure from the American public, the Air Force has decided to allow two well-known reporters limited access to the most secretive base on the planet. But when one of the base's "long-term visitors" exploits this unprecedented visit as a chance to liberate himself and his fellow alien captives, Area 51 turns from a secure government base to a horrifying destination of terror.

Participating EMPIRE cinemas:
London Leicester Square/ Basildon/ Newcastle/ Poole/ Sunderland/ Swindon/ Eire (tbc)



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