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.
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 here.
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.
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).
FESTIVAL 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.
TICKET HOLDER 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.
