HorrorFest 2007

[Kaotikitty]

Is anyone else excited about these movies releasing tomorrow? I made sure to have all 3 of my movies mailed back by Saturday so I had 3 open slots today, and I'm getting Crazy Eights, Borderland, and Mulberry Street. Has anyone seen these yet? I saw Deaths of Ian Stone in the theater and really liked it. I know last year I had to wait a while to finally see all of them, I assume Netflix doesn't buy a ton of these titles. (But I eventually got them and am happy - this is not a complaint post!) Just wanted to open up discussion on the HorrorFest titles and see if I'm the only one geeked for their dvd release. :-)

[Kiya]

They are 1 through 8 in my queue. I really enjoyed the Horrorfest movies last year which was the first year I had ever seen the movies. I am really looking forward to watching them this year.

[2McAbre]

Same here!

[Microwaved]

I'm looking forward to Mulberry Street. I heard good things about that one.

[Kiya]

I didn't realize it but After Dark Horrorfest started in 2006 as an annual celebration of the horror genre. So if you watched the movies from last year you are on your way.

Penny Dreadful
The Unrest
The Gravedancers
Wicked Little Things
Dark Ride
Reincarnation
The Abandoned
The Hamiltons

I am into these types of films therefore I would suggest watching them all. But i would have to say my favorite was Reincarnation.

[B-Independent.com]

I have to agree, REINCARNATION was oen of the better ones. My favorite was THE ABANDONED, with WICKED LITTLE THINGS right behind it. After that, I thought the rest blew.....and not merely because I had to pay $10 per ticket per movie for Direct-to-DVD quality produce....

[B-Independent.com]

to be honest, after having been let down by most of last year's fest, I haven't even bothered to look at this year's titles.

let me see if i can track 'em down.

[Headcheese]

Supposedly Borderland is the most competant and the best of these After Dark's but since I haven't seen any of the new ones, I'm going by word of mouth only.

[James Miscavish]

Horrorfest is definitely NOT a "celebration of the horror genre."

It's mostly a "we have these 8 movies that are too crappy to get actual theatrical releases, so, instead of going straight-to-dvd, let's promote this horrorfest to goad people into seeing them. Oh, and let's not give out any actual festival passes, so people will have to pay full movie price for anything they want to see. So, it's really not a festival at all, just us releasing a bunch of bad movies at once and marketing it as a 'festival.'"

Thanks a lot Afterdark.

[Headcheese]

lmao So true.

[NetflixJunkie]

I haven't seen any of these. I have just added them to my queue. Some have fairly high ratings, so there may be some lower-budget gems here.

Thanks for the list.

[John]

Nightmare Man should be shipping today.

[Headcheese]

I have seen all of the 2006 After Dark Horrorfest titles and the best one was The Abandoned by Nacho Cerda, The Hamiltons was decent done by The Butcher Brothers. I enjoyed Penny Dreadful but most people didn't. The thing with the After Dark's promotion was that they were to scary, to gory for general release but I have found that is definitely not the case. Go ahead an queue up the subject matters that you find interesting. There is really nothing in any of them that was taboo or to gory or scary. They are really just like any other horror film and so if you like horror, you are bound to find one out of the eight that you find interesting. I also made sure to have 3 slots open and I'm getting Borderland and Mulberry Street and I don't even remember what the other title is but I'm still more than interested in seeing all eight again this year.