JOHN CARPENTER ALUM TOM ATKINS JOINS SEAN CUNNINGHAM FOR THE 14TH NEW YORK CITY
HORROR FILM FESTIVAL! FULL SCHEDULE ANNOUNCED!
Oct. 14, 2015 - New York, NY – Tom Atkins will join Sean Cunningham during the 14th
New York City Horror Film Festival at new location Times Scare to receive the
Michael J. Hein Award for Personal Achievement in Acting on Saturday, Nov. 14, for
his contributions to horror cinema. Sean Cunningham will be presented with his
Lifetime Achievement Award on Friday Nov. 13th after a screening of his
series-leading film FRIDAY THE 13TH.
Tom Atkins, a performer since the 1960s, has brought his craft to classic genre
films including John Carpenter’s THE FOG and ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK, William Peter
Blatty’s THE NINTH CONFIGURATION, George Romero’s CREEPSHOW, Tommy Lee Wallace’s
HALLOWEEN III: SEASON OF THE WITCH, William Lustig’s MANIAC COP, and more favorite
roles. Mr. Atkins will be on hand to receive the Michael J. Hein Lifetime
Achievement Award on Saturday, November 14th, at Times Scare.
14 features and 34 short films make up this year’s festival, running on two screens
at Times Scare. The festival opens Thurs Nov. 12 with the New York premiere of the
IFC Midnight release of Tara Subkoff’s #HORROR, an online social media game that
turns a moment of cyberbullying into a night of insanity, starring Natasha Lyonne
(ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK) and Chloe Sevigny (AMERICAN HORROR STORY), followed by
Anthony DiBlasi’s MOST LIKELY TO DIE, a modern slasher. Other features include
Michael Bafaro’s WRECKER, from the producer of AMERICAN MARY, a tale of two best
girl friends taking a road trip… to Hell. And from Russian filmmaker Pavel Khvaleev,
III. A bevy of short films accompany the features, with new works including Jeremiah
Kipp’s PAINKILLER and Michael Turney’s THE LITTLE.
The festival runs Nov. 12–15, 2015, at Times Scare, 669 8th Avenue., right on Times
Square’s famed 42nd Street, aka “The Deuce.” Times Scare is enhanced with
custom-built designs and elegant macabre décor including a state-of-the-art haunted
house and skeletal bar. The venue’s history traces back to the crematorium that
operated there in the roaring ’20s and the dark echoes of old Times Square’s bawdy
past.
The NYC Horror Film Festival was born in 2002 by filmmaker Michael J. Hein as a
venue for newer independent horror filmmaking. After Michael’s passing in 2011, the
festival created the Michael J. Hein Achievement Award to celebrate the hard work
and perseverance of creators in the field. George Romero was the first recipient of
the festival’s Lifetime Achievement Award, followed by other classic scaremeisters
including Rob Zombie, Tobe Hooper, Roger Corman, Herschell Gordon Lewis, Frank
Henenlotter, Robert Englund, Angus Scrimm, Stuart Gordon, and the beloved late Wes
Craven.
The full schedule for the New York City Horror Film Festival is here:
https://nychorrorfest.com/schedule/
