South African Horrorfest 2022: THE HARBINGER, KING OF SCREEN And LIFE WITH CHUCKY Highlight African Genre Fest Lineup

 

The 18th annual

 

South African HORRORFEST Film Festival

 

18 - 30 November

 

 

In cinema at The Labia Theatre, Cape Town 

 

& Streaming Across SA via Quicket 

 

www.horrorfest.info 

 

Surviving the pandemic and making international “Best Horror Film Festival” lists like that of US publications Movie Maker Magazine and Dread Central, the South African HORRORFEST enters its 18th edition!

 

(This year the original Halloween-season dates have moved on a touch, to 18 - 30 November)

 

Again bringing Horror fans an amazing batch of new, indie, rare, classic movies and short films from around the world (which they’re unlikely to see anywhere else in the country), in cinema and streaming. 

 

Near all of the new releases will have their Africa / South Africa premiere at the HORRORFEST.

 

All Horrorfest social media links can be accessed at: https://linktr.ee/SAhorrorfest

 

 

CINEMA & STREAMING

 

A dozen in-cinema shows will screen at the SA HORRORFEST’s long standing venue partner, The Labia Theatre in Cape Town (where your drink from the bar can be taken into the cinema), while those outside of the city and across the rest of South Africa can also access the event with the streaming option consisting of 11 movies and 5 short film collections (via Quicket).

 

Full line-up listed below - but for full cinema show list, info & booking, head to: https://www.quicket.co.za/organisers/576-south-african-horrorfest

 

The streaming options (including a full on-line festival pass) can be accessed at: https://www.quicket.co.za/events/194020-horrorfest-streaming-chapter

 

HIGHLIGHTS

The festival opens with the return of the silent film soundtrack performance, for an in-person show of the Makabra Ensemble’s live score for Nosferatu’s centenary screening ; there’s a special 16mm projection of Bela Lugosi’s classic Dracula ; a Rocky Horror Picture Show audience participation screening ; South African feature film Pou with cast & crew attending for a Q&A ; 4 documentaries include subjects like Stephen King and Chucky ; Horror / Fantasy literature fans will get another dose of authors reading from their original work (streaming at the YouTube channel’s Bloody Parchment playlist - https://www.YouTube.com/TheHorrorfest ), and much more.

 

TRAILERS

Watch all movie trailers at The Horrorfest channel : https://www.YouTube.com/TheHorrorfest (subscribe while you're there and hit notifications to stay in the loop when all new content gets added, including movie reviews by festival creators Paul Blom and Sonja Ruppersberg).

 

JURY

The 2022 Horrorfest’s international jury members include Chris Alexander (filmmaker, musician, Fangoria- and Delirium magazine editor), Kat Ellinger (editor in chief of Diabolique Magazine, horror cinema aficionado and writer, and cohost of their Daughters of Darkness podcast), Nicholas Vince (actor known as the Chatterer Cenobite in Clive Barker’s Hellraiser, Hellbound: Hellraiser II, and Kinski in Nightbreed), and Horrorfest creators Sonja and Paul.

 

PRIZES & GIVE-AWAYS

Prizes and give-aways will include DISNEY+ subscriptions, tattoos from MR LUCKY’S CAPE TOWN TATTOO, PENGUIN BOOKS, UIP movie merch and more to be announced.

 

FULL 2022 SA HORRORFEST LINE-UP:

 

IN CINEMA

18 - 24 November at the Labia Theatre, Cape Town Tickets

 

HALLOWEEN ENDS (14 Oct, 8pm)

Special warm-up pre-release premiere screening

 

NOSFERATU (18 Nov, 9pm)

Centenary with a live Makabra Ensemble soundtrack performance

 

THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW (19 Nov, 9pm) 

Audience participation screening

 

DRACULA (20 Nov, 6:15pm)

Special 16mm film projection of the Bela Lugosi classic 

 

MAD HEIDI (20 Nov, 8:30pm)

Wild new take on the Swiss culture icon

 

INFLUENCER  (21 Nov, 6:15pm)

Careful who you follow…

 

POU (21 Nov, 8:30pm)

New Afrikaans film with cast & crew attending

 

THE HARBINGER (22 Nov, 6:15pm)

An intriguing blend of the pandemic era with demonic forces

 

LIVING WITH CHUCKY (22 Nov, 8:30pm) 

Documentary on the legacy of this killer doll

 

EATING MISS CAMPBELL (23 Nov, 6:15pm)

Troma madness, not for the easily offended

 

KING ON SCREEN (23 Nov, 8:30pm)

Fantastic new Stephen King documentary

 

GHOSTS OF THE OZARKS (24 Nov, 6:15pm)

Post-Civil War terror feat. David Arquette

 

TERRIFIER 2 (24 Nov, 8:30pm)

Art the crazy clown’s intense new sequel

 

 

STREAMING

18 - 30 November via Quicket

 

 

Includes cinema titles 

 

GHOSTS OF THE OZARKS

 

THE HARBINGER

 

EATING MISS CAMPBELL 

 

plus :

 

FEED ME 

Very black cannibal comedy

 

EXTRANEOUS MATTER 

Surreal Japanese sci-fi-horror trip

 

NIX 

Sharknado’s director gets more serious

 

ON THE EDGE 

The Soska sisters’ new dark psycho-sexual chiller (adults only)

 

RAZZENNEST 

Almost too unique a concept to describe!

 

A LIFE ON THE FARM 

Jaw-dropping real found footage documentary

 

FOLLOW THE DEAD 

Irish zom-com

 

AGATHA

Surreal live action / animation blend

 

RONDO AND BOB 

Documentary on Texas Chain Saw Massacre art director Robert Burns and character actor Rondo Hatton

 

SHADOW REALM SHORT FILMS 

5 feature length volumes of innovative, ambitious, unique and mind-blowing shorts from all parts of the globe, compiled into 5 streaming volumes, including:

 

BUG BITES, TWO SISTERS, ANGEL CITY HORROR, ABLE BODIES, 665, HUNGER, PART FOREVER, INTRUDER, RISE & SHINE, UNDER THE ICE, THE ABYSS OF THE SOUL, LISTEN TO ME, THE PEY, THE PIT AND THE PENDULUM - A Musicabre, ZMIENA, …LOVEHOTEL…~The Guide to Japanese Midnight Culture~, KICKSTART MY HEART, ALIEN DICK, LETHALOGICA, ESCALATION, UNHEIMLICH, GROUNDED, THE LAST CHRISTMAS, SINK AWAY, TUNNEL RAT, DEATH IN A BOX, IVI ELV, TERATOMA, EAT THE RICH, THE ORDER, GAS STATION LULLABY, BELFAST 1912, MAGGOT PARTY, WHY WE DON'T VISIT ANYMORE, THE MICROSCOPE, STUCK, FROM BEYOND, FEAR ABIDES NIGHTLY GLISTENS, ULFHEDNAR, RUTA, INSANE ESCAPE, CUT IT OUT, TERMINATRYX “Suiker” 

 

See you at the movies! (or in the stream)