The South African HORRORFEST is the only event of its kind in the country (if not the continent)
featuring new, classic and rare movies, literature, live soundtrack performance, Halloween dress-up, give-aways and more.
The 2017 South African HORRORFEST featured an exciting range of movies and short films,
a live soundtrack performance to sci-fi classic Metropolis by The Makabra Ensemble,
the Bloody Parchment live literary night and more.
The 13th Annual SOUTH AFRICAN HORRORFEST
HALLOWEEN SEASON
25 October - 3 November
Labia Theatre (68 Orange Str, Gardens, Cape Town)
MOVIES / LITERATURE / LIVE SOUNDTRACK PERFORMANCE /
SHORT FILMS / HALLOWEEN ACTIVITIES / GIVE-AWAYS
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2017 South African HORRORFEST
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
FEATURE FILM ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:
BEST FEATURE FILM
Hostile (France)
BEST DIRECTOR: Chad Archibald
The Heretics (Canada)
BEST ACTRESS: Paola Bontempi
The Glass Coffin (Spain)
BEST ACTOR: Frederick Koehler
The Evil Within (USA)
BEST DOCUMENTARY
Sputnik! (Spain)
BEST ANTHOLOGY FEATURE FILM
Galaxy Of Horrors (Canada)
BEST FOUND FOOTAGE FEATURE FILM
Living Among Us (USA)
SOUTH AFRICAN GENRE EXPANSION AWARD
Siembamba
BEST POSTER
Nightworld (USA)
SHORT FILM ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:
2017 BEST SHORT FILM
I Love Eva Marsh (France)
BEST SOUTH AFRICAN SHORT FILM
Apocalypse Now Now
2017 BEST SHORT FILM DIRECTOR: Pierre Teulières
The Plan (France)
BEST ANIMATED SHORT
Fierce (France)
BEST ZOMBIE SHORT
Last Memory (Spain)
BEST SCI-FI SHORT
I Am The Doorway (Czech Republic)
BEST COMEDY SHORT
Lunch Ladies (USA)
BEST CREATURE
Into The Mud (Spain)
STYLISTIC AWARD
Red Tale (France)
Special Mention: BEST AFRIKAANS SHORT
Valiant (South Africa)
The 2017 S.A. HORRORFEST line-up endeavours to bring you as many genre variants
as possible, from vampires, aliens and demons, to serial killers and the psychologically unhinged,
as well as documentaries, classics,
dozens of short films & more. Most movies will make their African & South African premiere.
Click the poster images to jump to specific titles, or scroll down for a chronologic browse.
SIEMBAMBA
Cape Town premiere with Director in attendance
The horrific story behind the age old tale, brought to life by the academy award nominee, Darrell James Roodt.
Darrell will attend his new horror film's Cape Town premiere to introduce the movie and chat with the audience.
Starring Reine Swart, Deanre Reiners, Brandon Auret, Thandi Puren
Written by Tarryn-Tanille Prinsloo
Directed by Darrell James Roodt
BLOODY PARCHMENT LITERARY NIGHT
THURSDAY 26 OCTOBER, 6-8pm
Come join local authors as they read from their chilling tales, buy their books, have it autographed, have a snack & drink, walk of with thrilling Penguin book prizes & more.
Fancy being part of the 2017 HorrorFest's BLOODY PARCHMENT literary event?
This year's theme is "Dreadful Drabbles" (a short story of exactly 100 words) that is either dark SF, fantasy or horror.
If you think you've got what it takes to share your story before an audience, submit your piece to Nerine at nerinedorman@gmail.com
by October 16 *.
Please clearly mark your submission with "Submission: Dreadful Drabbles" in the subject line.
The annual Bloody Parchment event will be taking place at the Labia Theatre on October 26th, 6pm, as part of the South African Horrorfest.
* Limited slots available, so submission is not a guarantee of entry.
Participants will be notified upon acceptance and this is conditional on their being able to attend the event on the night.
For over 12 HorrorFest events we've screened hundreds of some of the most amazing short films you're unlikely to see on any cinema (or home) screen in South Africa.
The first of three exciting feature length short film collections will include an eclectic batch of unmissable movies:
Room For Rent (Spain)
Terminatryx - "Medusa" (South Africa)
Last Memory (Spain)
Apocalypse Now Now (South Africa)
Sol (Brazil)
Fierce (France)
Fried Barry (South Africa)
I Am The Doorway (Czech Republic)
Lunch Ladies (USA)
I Love Eva Marsh (France)
THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW
Audience Participation Screening
For over 4 decades, the cult classic musical film the Rocky Horror Picture Show has thrilled audiences around the globe. Still as irresistibly fun and fresh as always, the phenomenon is not waning. Join us to kick off the exciting 2017 Halloween weekend with an audience participation screening to get your evening started.
The rousing party atmosphere of this gem will light up the Labia Theatre, the audience encouraged to arrive dressed as any of the Rocky Horror characters, or anything wild, exotic, crazy, Halloween-related or not, and bring the various accessories needed to interact with the scenes on screen (from rice and newspapers, to water pistols and toast). For those who don't have time to accumulate these, The Lovecraft Experiment will be on hand with a stall outside the cinema where you can buy kits with everything you may need to join in.
If you're a newcomer or need a refresher, CLICK HERE for all you need to know
Somewhere in an undetermined time and place, Jasper, a solitary soul, wanders around his port town. He comes across a young woman left for dead. He decides to take her home and look after her. Unaware that this encounter will change his life as fantasy and the supernatural intersect.
Directed by Julien Nicaud
LIVING AMONG US Work In Progress Print - Test Screening
When Vampires come out of the shadows, they want to integrate - a family hires some filmmakers to bring their story to the world with... devastating results.
Starring: John Heard (Home Alone), Esmé Bianco (Game of Thrones), Thomas Ian Nicholas (American Pie), William Sadler (Iron Man 3), Andrew Keegan (10 Things I Hate About You)
Directed by Brian Metcalfe
METROPOLIS
Live MAKABRA ENSEMBLE Soundtrack Performance
In this incredible futuristic vision (of 1927), the vast city of Metropolis has the suffering working class live, work and struggle underground, while the privileged bask high up in their towers. But the son of the city's mastermind falls in love with a working class prophet who predicts the coming of a savior to mediate their differences (but it won't come without chaos and destruction!)
With fantastic sets and amazing cinematography, this film was decades ahead of its time, still resonating today - here on 28 October enhanced with a live original soundtrack at the South African HorrorFest.
This will be in conjunction with the well-established HorrorFest Halloween dress-up event, prizes of which will include
R6,000 worth of tattoo prizes from Mr Lucky Tattoos, Cape Town
Horror DVDs from Next Entertainment
A creepy Annabelle doll from The Horror Archives
Beard products from Dark Waters
The second chapter of this killer short film selection will include:
Hidden Devil (Spain)
La Perrera (Spain)
Born Of Sin (USA)
The Death Of Daryl Grey (South Africa)
Parallelism (Spain)
Astrid (USA)
Room Service (Spain)
The Plan (France)
Bride Of Frankie (USA)
Claire & Bruno (France)
Do you honestly believe that you are a good person?
On the way to an awards ceremony, a successful actress becomes the centre of a dark and harrowing ordeal as she’s trapped inside a high tech limo, at the mercy of the voice over the speaker...
A slick Spanish movie fusing Art- & Shock cinema.
In this classic German chiller (by Metropolis director Fritz Lang), serial killer Hans Beckert (played by Peter Lorre) preys on children, and becomes the focus of a massive Berlin police manhunt. Beckert's heinous crimes are so repellant and disruptive to city life that he is even targeted by others in the seedy underworld network.
With both cops and criminals in pursuit, the murderer soon realizes that people are on his trail, sending him into a tense, panicked attempt to escape justice.
A notorious cult kidnaps a young girl and sacrifices themselves by the light of the locust moon. The next morning the girl awakes, caked in dried blood and surrounded by corpses but safe – or so she thinks.
Years later, the locust moon is about to rise again and the girl is captured once more by a surviving member of the cult. She is taken to a remote cabin where she learns that a demon has been growing inside of her all these years and before the dawn it will rise.
A former LAPD officer takes a job as head of security at an old building in Bulgaria.
After bizarre and terrifying events he delves into the building's sinister history and its shadowy owners but is confronted by a malevolent force fighting to be set free.
This fascinating, dark and twisted tale has the demonic reflection of a mentally damaged man (in an antique mirror) urge him to commit shocking acts of murder.
An equally intriguing story lies behind it: directed by oil heir Andrew Getty, he obsessed over each frame for years, spending his fortune & dying before its completion.
Starring: Frederick Koehler (Death Race), Sean Patrick Flanery (The Boondock Saints), Michael Berryman (One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest) Brianna Brown (General Hospital), Dina Meyer (Starship Troopers), Kim Darby (True Grit)
Written and directed by late Andrew Getty
Produced by Eric Berliner, Michael Luceri
Set within the neon drenched rain swept underbelly of Manchester, where the addicted prey on the lost and the lonely, a young unemployed man is drawn into a dark world where lust for flesh goes one step further.
Based on the cult novel by Stephen McGeagh
Directed by Simeon Halligan
Juliette is a lone survivor of an apocalyptic era, fighting to survive against hunger, thirst, a broken leg and strange disturbing creatures that only come out at night. Amid her ordeal trapped in an overturned vehicle with the creature trying to get in, she remembers a bitter-sweet past that leads to a big revelation.
Written & Directed by Mathieu Turi
(a French - Belgian - Chinese - Moroccan - USA co-production)
In this British psychological horror film a police detective feels like her sanity is starting to unravel as she investigates a series of brutal ritualistic murders.
But it becomes evident that they're hunting far more than a mere killer.
9 stories of cosmic fear!
Trapped in a damaged cryogenic pod, a man is forced to experience a series of horrific science-fiction tales while his life support systems run out. Featuring nine intense stories of the unknown and other-worldly, equally wonderful and terrifying.
This third and final chapter in the short film collections include another great batch, including:
Red Tale (France)
I See You Everywhere (Spain)
Valiant (South Africa)
i-Medium (Spain)
Altre (Italy)
Into The Mud (Spain)
Bye Bye Baby (Spain)
The Scottish Play (UK)
Run Runner Run (Spain)
L'incroyable histoire de l'Incroyable Femme-Araignée (France)
New Flesh (Spain)
While Catalonia is currently in the news with a call for independence from Spain, SPUTNIK! looks at independence of a whole different kind.
Jacint loves horror, gore and trash movies, for years making low budget indie short films whenever he can.
And now he has a dream: make a full length feature film!
With little money but a whole lot of energy, tenacity and passion, he set out to make Zombi Infection in his Spanish Catalonian home town, with friends, family and half the town pitching in to make it a reality.
An inspiring, entertaining and very often funny documentary on guerrilla filmmaking with interviews including Jacint, his many collaborators and a wide range of other genre filmmakers and enthusiasts (some including filmmakers whose movies have screened at past South African HorrorFest events).
(While we only have the SA HorrorFest here at home) the filmmakers also look into the many popular Horror film festivals across Spain, the enthusiasm infectious.
2 0 1 7 - F E S T I V A L - N E W S - & - U P D A T E S All updates for the 2017 South African HORRORFEST and other relevant Horror news will appear here as it gets released
2017 SA HORRORFEST POSTER REVEAL!
The Makabra Ensemble's live soundtrack performance will be for Fritz Lang's timeless classic
M E T R O P O L I S
(celebrating its 90th anniversary)
Prolific director Darrell James Roodt will attend the Cape Town premiere of his new chiller
SIEMBAMBA as the opening screening of the
13th S.A. HORRORFEST (Wed 25 Oct, 8:4pm) Book Here
His work has crossed genres from political (Winnie) & musical (Sarafina), to military (The Stick), social (Academy Award nominated Yesterday), horror (Dracula 3000), Afrikaans movies (Seun) and more.
He will introduce SIEMBAMBA and have an
audience Q&A.
Fancy being part of the 2017 HorrorFest's BLOODY PARCHMENT literary event?
This year's theme is "Dreadful Drabbles" (a short story of exactly 100 words) that is either dark SF, fantasy or horror.
If you think you've got what it takes to share your story before an audience, submit your piece to me at nerinedorman@gmail.com
by October 16 *.
Please clearly mark your submission with "Submission: Dreadful Drabbles" in the subject line.
The annual Bloody Parchment event will be taking place at the Labia Theatre on October 26th, 6pm, as part of the South African Horrorfest.
* Limited slots available, so submission is not a guarantee of entry.
Participants will be notified upon acceptance and this is conditional on their being able to attend the event on the night.
SA HorrorFest's Paul Blom visited the set of RESIDENT EVIL: THE FINAL CHAPTER
for cast & crew interviews.
Check out his article at Coming Soon right here
HORRORFEST-linked movies featured at the first FLAMEDROP FILM FESTIVAL
(9 - 15 December 2016, The Bioscope, Johannesburg)
All info at www.flamedrop.com/filmfest
2016 S.A. HORRORFEST WINNERS
FOR 2016
FEATURE FILM & SHORT FILM
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS HEAD HERE
FOR FULL DETAILS ON THE 2016 HORRORFEST, CLICK HERE
MOVIE SUBMISSIONS
2017 South African HORRORFESTFeature- & Short Film Film Submissions Are Now CLOSED
For future submission links: Submit Here or via Click For Festivals andFestHome
2017 HORRORFEST LINE-UP
This year's line-up will be as exciting as always!
Titles will be revealed as they're confirmed:
The silent film for a live soundtrack performance will be for the 90th anniversary
of Fritz Lang's landmark masterpiece METROPOLIS
by resident Makabra members Sonja Ruppersberg, Simon Ratcliffe, Matthijs Van Dijk Paul Andre Blom and Sean Ou Tim, with special guest Ronnie Belcher.
There may be another exciting audience participation screening of the legendary
ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW
We're working on sneak previews of new releases
HORRORFEST GUESTS
We always try our best to get interesting local and international filmmakers, authors or anyone who can enhance
the festival experience to attend as guests and interact with the audience via Q&As, signings and more.
(Past guests have included Resident Evil franchise producer-director team Paul W.S. Anderson and Jeremy Bolt (UK / USA),
documentarian & lecturer Calum Waddell (UK), Cosmesis special make-up FX master Clinton Smith (ZA),
actress Fiona Horrigan (USA), producer Yash Patniak (India) and more.
2017 our special guest is director Darrell
James Roodt.
The Bloody Parchment live literary event is now at the hub of the HorrorFest activity,
inside the Labia Theatre cinema 2, with local author readings, special guests, snacks / drinks /
mingling / networking, give-aways and more.
Author Nerine Dorman will oversee the live literature night!
Get all 4 HorrorFest Bloody Parchment short story anthologies at Amazon, GoodReads and SmashWords.
Access the Bloody Parchment web page HERE
FILM FEST LIST
S.A. HORRORFEST made this Top 100 Horror / Fantasy Film Festival list see it here
This
DVD
contains
the
full
1922
silent
vampire
classic Nosferatu with
its
new,
original
soundtrack
as composed
and
performed
live
to the
screen
at the
2006
festival
by Terminatryx and
very
special
guests
(Simon
&
Sean
from Lark,
Francois
from K.O.B.U.S. & Voice
Of Destruction,
and
Matthijs
from Dawntreader).
The
DVD
also
contains Terminatryx music
videos,
photo
galleries, HorrorFest extras,
and
the
short
film imPERFECTION. ORDER
HERE !
a
Flamedrop
Productions
/ ENT
Entertainment
release
HorrorFest Sticker packs include:
SkullMoon Logo / Crest Design / HorrorFest Text
Various thrilling prizes and give-aways valued at over R10,000 will include:
R6,000 in tattoo vouchers from MR LUCKY CAPE TOWN TATTOOS
(Welcoming Bronwyn Lady Luck to their stable)
a 0.5m tall Annabelle doll from THE HORROR ARCHIVES
(worth R2,000)
Dozens of chilling books from PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE
incl. many autographed copies:
Dan Brown, Samuel Bjork, Lee Child, Robert Harris, Kathy Reichs, Steve Hofmeyr
(valued at around R5,000)
DVDs from NEXT ENTERTAINMENT
including Annabelle, Wolves At The Door, Victor Frankenstein, Poltergeist
(valued around R1,500)
Beard Products from DARK WATERS
(valued at R1,000)
Get in the mood for Halloween and watch the short film "Marked", made by the HorrorFest organizers.
(all festival info further down)
OFFICIAL
HORRORFEST
PROMO CLIP
[ director:
paul blom
/ star: sonja
ruppersberg
/ make-up
fx: clinton
smith / dop:
marnus tredoux
/ editor:
leon visser
]
> this clip is beeen expanded into the short film "Marked", and the Terminatryx "Virus" music video <
Browse the
scrolling
gallery below
for some
of movies
screened at
past S.A.
HORRORFEST
events.
Buy them from
Amazon by
clicking on
the movie
of your choice.
Search
Amazon below
for the Horror
movies of
your choice
ABOUT THE SOUTH AFRICAN HORRORFEST
In 2004 Paul Blom and Sonja Ruppersberg decided to rectify the issue of the absence of a dedicated Horror event in South Africa.
The first S.A. HorrorFest (then also known as the Horror Festacular) launched in 2005.
Besides being a Horror / Chiller / Thriller film festival (screening feature films and short films from around the world),
from the start it made a point of expanding into a broad Halloween event by incorporating
new live soundtrack performances to classic silent films by The Makabra Ensemble,
the Bloody Parchment literary chapter, Halloween dress-up competition, a night market and more.
HorrorFest organizers Sonja & Paul at the Zombie Walk, with their boy Zoltan
