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South African HORRORFEST 10th Anniversary!

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This year the South African HORRORFEST Film Festival and Halloween event celebrates its 10th year!

The only festival of its kind in the area, what started out as a small annual cult event has grown exponentially to include a week of all Horror delights in both Cape Town and Johannesburg.

Created by Paul Blom and Sonja Ruppersberg, this includes screenings of new and classic films from around the world (premieres, indies, rarities, classics and sneak previews of new releases), wild and innovative short films from every corner of the globe, the Bloody Parchment literary chapter, live soundtrack performance to a classic silent film by The Makabra Ensemble, Halloween dress-up competition, an alternative market and much more.

While geographically disadvantaged at the southernmost tip of Africa, this hasn’t stopped filmmakers to make the trip down there to attend screenings of their films.

Submissions for feature- and short films are open – all details (and festival history) at https://www.horrorfest.info

Bloody Parchment has a short story competition attached with the best ones compiled into an anthology (thus far three of these have been published in print and e-book form).

More details at https://bloodyparchment.blogspot.com

The HorrorFest creators have also expanded the event into additional affiliated festivals like The X Fest Extreme Film Festival and Celludroid Sci-Fi / Fantasy event.

https://www.xfest.org
https://www.celludroid.net

The 2014 poster is currently in production, and as with all the years before, features hot festival co-creator Sonja (also vocalist of Terminatryx).

Stay up to date by following the HorrorFest on Twitter at https://www.twitter.com/SAhorrorfest and joining the Facebook group page at https://www.facebook.com/groups/SouthAfricanHorrorFest

See you in the dark theatre!

Mitchell Wells

Founder and Editor in Chief of Horror Society. Self proclaimed Horror Movie Freak, Tech Geek, love indie films and all around nice kinda guy!!

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