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The Indie Horror Film Festival will be going on March 23-25 at the historic Portage Theater in Chicago for a weekend of blood, mayhem, and wicked horror. The festival was formally known as The Indy Horror Film Festival, which was brought back from the dead by Spook Show Entertainment in 2010. Spook Show Ent. is an active component in Chicago’s indie horror scene is nearly every aspect. They also put on Indie’s sister festival, The Chicago Horror Film Festival (the longest running film festival in Chicago). This year the festival will be hosted by lifelong horror enthusiast and stand-up comic, Chris May.
Ari Lehmen will be one of the festivals special guests, who played Young Jason is the original Friday the 13th and is still a working genre actor and member of the band, First Jason. Other guests include horror novelist, John Everson, and gothic illusionist and actor, Ron Fitzgerald. The festival doesn’t solely focus on films though. It also showcases the morbidly intriguing “Horror of Art” display, a blood curdling scream contest, and after hours events so the bloody good fun never has to stop.
The Indie Horror Film Festival is full of the best of indie horror around from gritty and intense to eerie and more socially-charged films. There are a number of films that will be making their world premiere at the festival including the creature feature Ed & The Awakening, the supernaturally charged That’s My Girl, and the powerful dark thriller, Hand of Glory. Other films include What They Say, Afraid of Sunrise, Dorthy, Dream Lover, Raymond Did It, House of Mirrors, Vamperifica, Below Zero, Deadline, Plastic, Not Another B Movie, The Curse, The Hitchhiker, The Barn, Slash in the Box, The Duty of Living, Alistair, Betania, Fractured Minds, 8, Incubator, Divination, Love Bug, Purity, Ritual, The Fear, and Mind of a Mad Man.
The festival will end with an award ceremony to give special acknowledgement to the best of the best. Particularly notable films, receiving the Special Recognition Award who have been nominated in 5 or more categories are The Duty of Living, What They Say, Vamperifica, and Below Zero.
A full list of the nominees in all categories can be found at the websites below.
The 2012 Indie Horror Film Festival
Friday March 23rd – Sunday March 25th 2012
The Portage Theater
4050 N. Milwaukee Ave.
Chicago, IL 60115
www.IndieHorrorFest.com
www.SpookShowEntertainment.com
