2007 Festival Information
Location:
The Colonial Theatre
3522 Stockton Blvd
Sacramento, CA 95820
The Colonial Theatre
Special Guests:
The 2007 Sacramento Horror Film Festival PROUDLY announces our special guests!
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Tony Moran
Tony Moran is best known for being the unmasked face of "Michael Myers" aka "The Shape" in John Carpenter's HALLOWEEN (1978). Images of Tony Moran portraying the Shape in the film are amongst the top selling horror film posters of all time. Some trivia! Tony is the brother Erin Moran who portrayed "Joanie" on the tv show "Happy Days".
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Tony Todd and Tony Moran will be in attendance October 19th through the 21st at the Sacramento Horror Film Festival. These icons of horror will be signing autographs, judging films, participating in audience Q & A, and taking pictures with festival attendees!
Hosts:
Mr. Lobo and The Queen of Trash will be hosting the 2007 Sacramento Horror Film Festival!
"Mr. Lobo is the best thing going." - Legendary Horror Host Bob Wilkins
Mr. Lobo
Just as Cinema Insomnia features timeless late-night films, host Mr. Lobo possesses a timeless quality that has gotten him to the place he is today - hosting bad movies on late night TV. Shrouded in the obsidian mystique of a formless void, Mr. Lobo will continue to lord over Cinema Insomnia proceedings (from the regal heights of the finest rocking chair that 1971 had to offer) until he is caught doing something undeniably illegal. Outside of Cinema Insomnia, you would assume Mr. Lobo is just another man, but no. He is also head creative director and a founding member of the humor/media collective known as FAL (Filmmaker At Large).
Feared by women and annoyed by children, America's greatest tea-toddling humorist has also penned the infamous radio show The Last Thanksgiving, stage productions (Radio Is Dead and (The Moe Bettermann Show), comic books (Nuke Nova, FAL Brand Funny Pages), trading cards (Sac Blows) and magazines (Planet X and 62) both locally and abroad. Yes, folks - Mr. Lobo is a dork. But did we mention he's an enigmatic dork? - courtesy of Cinema Insomnia ( http://www.cinemainsomnia.com ).
The Queen of Trash
The Queen of Trash is an entertainer of many trades. Pro wrestler, make up artist, writer, model, comic book hero, and actress are among the many talents this Queen of Trash brings to her throne. Please visit http://www.queen-of-trash.com to discover more about this talented performer.
Music Guests:
Blackweed
Blackweed hails from Grass Valley, CA. This four piece band has developed a style that formulates a sound influenced by Metallica, Sepultura and Pantera. Blackweed will be performing LIVE...(or Dead?)...at the 2007 Sacramento Horror Film Festival this fall.
"We got into this to have some fun and to give our town the thing it's missing- a sore neck." - Blackweed.
http://www.myspace.com/blackweedband
The Common Men
Call it post-punk, call it new wave, call it indie - hell, call it a combination of the above - but whatever you call The Common Men, say it with respect. This hook-drenched musical group is guaranteed to provide all the entertainment you'll need. Prepare to be glutted with aural satisfaction. The Common Men truly are a gift to the world of rock and roll music, laying out tunes that are bound to galvanize even the toughest critic, sending the heart into a blood-pumping frenzy that can only be quelled with even more music and perhaps the mighty pumping of a fist in the air.
The Phantom Jets
Lookout! cuzz headin' your way in rev-o-phonic sound--it's the Phantom Jets! They're all new, and they're what are happening now in the Capital City. Coming at you with a style of beat music borrowing from the wyldest groups of the 60's, but also incorporating the hi-energy styles of today, the Phantom Jets play songs reverberating with the sounds of minor-key 60's garage pop, fuzzed-out punkers, and just a bit of reverb-drenched spooky surf thrown into the mix. They are a group with a single mission....to get peoples feet moving with rockin' sounds! No need to keep your eyes and ears peeled for the Phantom Jets, you'll hear their brand of Fuzz 'n' Farfisa-fueled rock'n'roll from miles away!
The Phantom Jets
(Sacramento) Punk Band Zombi Libre is now working to bring you further sounds of horror and the squared circle.
Vocals: JesseGuitar: Steve
Bass: Rob
Drums: Ramon
Additional Guests:
Take a step into the twisted minds of Northen California special effect specialists MORB-X!
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Hailing from Grass Valley, MORB-X is a special effects company committed to making all of the magic of imagination a reallity. MORB-X can design, fabricate, construct and produce just about any creature or fx gag imaginable. MORB-X specializes in make-up effects and appliance design, custom mask making, life casting and human likeness reproduction, creature and puppet design, rigging and puppeteer work. MORB-X have worked with the likes of Marilyn Manson and George A. Romero. Please visit them on myspace at http://www.myspace.com/morbx.
Horror Author Nicholas Grabowski confirmed for the 2007 Sacramento Horror Film Festival!
Nicholas Grabowsky has been hailed by fans of horror/fantasy throughout the world for bestselling novels under the pen name of Nicholas Randers as well the macabre aliens-among-us epic The Everborn, The Rag Man, Pray Serpent's Prey, The Wicked Haze, Halloween IV (and its special edition), and Diverse Tales, with a body of work extending to short stories, screenplays, poetry, songs and a wide variety of nonfiction. He was born in Southern California and spent his upbringing in and around the Anaheim and Los Angeles areas, where he studied acting and music. Aside from his writing career, he has been in the limelight as a radical gospel preacher and rock vocalist, teacher, lecturer and activist.
Currently, Mr. Grabowsky is a resident of the Sacramento, California area, where he is at work on new and exciting novels and projects including RED AFTERWORLD, a two-part graphic novel for AMERICAN CARNEVIL, The Sirens of Knowland, The Downwardens, an Everborn sequel and comic books, and has developed the small publishing firm of Diverse Media.
Music composer Mars confirmed for the 2007 Sacramento Horror Film Festival!
Mars is a multi-instrumentalist who began performing professionally at the age of 13. He has played with Symphony Orchestras, as well as Jazz, Goth & Metal bands on tours through Europe, Canada, and the United States.
Having grown weary of the road; Mars turned his attention towards composing film scores by combining his two greatest loves: music and horror films. Thus was born Dead House Music; a company dedicated to providing high quality, original scores to genre films.
Since founding Dead House Music in 2005, Mars has worked with genre veterans like "Puppetmaster" creator Kenneth J. Hall ("The Halfway House", and "Night Visit" starring genre legend/actress Lynn Lowry), and up and coming talent like directors Scott Goldberg ("All I want for X-mas", "Nightmare", and the upcoming "The Forest Hills"), as well as the independent feature films "Prison of the Psychotic Damned" , "Rise Of The Ghosts" (co-scoring with the brilliant Gothic duo MIDNIGHT SYNDICATE), "Countess Bathoria's Graveyard Picture Show" and "Dead Soul, A Fairy Tale" , as well as working for Lurker Films on the "Weird Tales" & "Edgar Allen Poe Collection" DVD's Not to mention creating music for Horror web-sites DREAD CENTRAL, DARK SPIDER'S WEB, HOWLING HORROR THEATRE, THE BLOODLETTING HOUR and more.
He has recently been confirmed as the composer for THE difinitive documentary on HP Lovecraft: "Fear Of The Unknown".which features interviews with genre legends John Carpenter,Guillermo del Toro ,Neil Gaiman, and many more.
The combination of passion and professionalism are serving to build a solid reputation for Dead House Music within the horror community, and Mars has been featured in online & print publications such as About.com, Rue Morgue magazine,Dread Central, and Horrorpark.
Mars is hopeful about the future." I feel like a man on a mission. I've had a life-long love affair with things that go bump in the night." says Mars, "A great movie score can stand on it's own, without the relying on flavor-of-the month bands to attract interest. I'm doing my best to return the horror score to it's rightful place as genuinely well crafted and respected music ".
Website:
http://www.deadhousemusic.com
Films:
Click here for the official full schedule of films for the 2007 SHFF.
WORLD PREMIERE ... Chris R. Notarile's 'METHODIC':
The film stars the very talented, Niki Notarile (star of the online "Catwoman" fan series, "Disquiet", "Eat Your Heart Out" and "Last Rites of the Dead"), horror scream queen, Rachael Robbins (star of "Bikini Blood Bath", "Screaming Dead" and "Body Shop") and veteran actor Brandon Slagle (star of "Polycarp", "Subject 87" and "Plasterhead").
At the helm of this project is the prolific everyman of filmmakers, Chris .R. Notarile. Notarile is most known for his Halloween fan films, "The Nightmare Ends on Halloween" and "Friday the 31st : Michael vs Jason" as well as his comic inspired short films. Co-written by Notarile and Slagle, "Methodic" tells the story of a boy who becomes demonically possessed by an ominous presence known as "The Dollman". Forced to obey his dark half, the boy ultimately murders his parents on his birthday and is sentenced to a life under a microscope at the state mental hospital. But evil cannot be contained so easily. Instead, "The Dollman" simply bides his time, dwelling within the boy- waiting for the day when he will become powerful enough to completely take over his human host. And when that day comes, god help us all.
The Sacramento Horror Film Festival presents the WORLD PREMIERE of 'METHODIC'. Director Chris Notarile will be in attendance for a Question and Answer session.
WORLD PREMIERE ... Rick Barnhill's 'SUSPENSE OF BELIEF':
Suspense of Belief
Directed by Rick Barnhill
Mantis Productions (Sacramento, CA)
Dexter was a normal ten-year-old boy with one exception; he was fascinated with horror movies. Unfortunately, Dexter paid for his love of the macabre with terrible nightmares. At the age of ten, Dex suffers the tragic loss of his parents and his nightmares begin to manifest when he is awake. At seventeen, and ready to graduate from high school, Dex decides to make his own horror movie with the help of his friends, and begins to shoot what he hopes will be his first movie. But the nightmares and visions begin to take on new life as Dexter tries to focus on his project, and old memories begin to surface. Are all of his nightmares in his head, or is there something more to these visions.
Suspense of Belief Premieres Sunday October 21st at 1:00pm. Tickets are $5.00 at the box office the day of the event.