You can get a head start on Halloween over the next four days as the ninth annual Rhode Island International Horror Film Festival unspools its collection of ghouls and ghosts on movie screens from Providence to Narragansett. And the best thing is, you’ll still have time to make your trick-or-treat costume, decorate the house with spider webs and flickering lights, and fill the bowls with miniature candies.
Between the Horror Film Festival’s parade of scary movies, its walking tour that will take participants back to the 1920s world of Providence horror writer H.P. Lovecraft and a reading by the author of a new suspense novel, you will be well prepared for anything Halloween itself can dish out.
Be forewarned, however. These are not classic horror films. Adam Short, producing director of the Rhode Island International Film Festival, which has presented the event for the past eight years, said the collection of feature films and shorts being shown were submitted by independent filmmakers. These are films that have not played many places theatrically and are mostly unknown quantities. Then again, it would be hard to resist films with the titles Eel Girl, Trailer Park of Terror or Christian Vampires from Suburbia.
