HORROR HAPPENS RADIO SHOW FILM FEST PRESS RELEASE !!!
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Press Release: Horror
Happens Film Festival
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, PLEASE CONTACT
FOR QUESTIONS,
QUOTES, INTERVIEWS AND PROMOTION:
DIVERSITY IN FILMMAKERS,
HORROR GENRE & BOTH SHORT AND
FEATURE INDIE HORROR FILMMAKING COMES TO THE
HISTORIC
WASHINGTON THEATRE IN
WASHINGTON, NJ (WARREN COUNTY) ON
SATURDAY AUGUST 23RD STARTING AT
NOON WITH THE HORROR
HAPPENS FILM FESTIVAL
Working to
give indie horror films a home on the big screen and helping to aid and
support
the nearly 90 year old Washington Theatre
(thewashingtontheatre.com) in its
upkeep and restoration, The Horror
Happens Radio Show (heard weekly live on
Tuesday nights at 4 PM EST only on
HomegrownradioNJ.com) and the Washington
Theatre located in Warren County at 165 E. Washington Avenue, Washington,
NJ have
partnered to bring creative, diverse, intense and entertaining indie
horror filmmaking
together in the first Horror Happens Film Festival.
This event
will showcase a variety of the horror genres best including 13 short films
and 4
feature films in different sub-genres from the United States, Canada and Spain
for one day and nearly 12 hours (12:30
PM to 11:30 PM EST) with doors opening
at Noon on Saturday August 23rd.
Plus the Horror Happens Film Festival will a
showcase a variety of filmmakers
involved in Q & As including filmmakers Jeremiah
Kipp (Baggage), Skip Shea (Ave
Maria), Evan and Liam Makrogiannis (Blood Mask),
Jack
Thomas Smith (Infliction) and Mike
O’Mahony (A Dark Place Inside) with
possibly more.
The film
schedule will be diverse and a horror fans buffet including sub genres of
thrillers,
gore, psychological, supernatural, found footage, spiritual and slasher. The
feature
films selections will include famed Rue Morgue Magazine founder Rodrigo
Gudino’s critical acclaimed spiritual
film The Last Will and Testament of Rosalind
Leigh. Kansas based filmmaker
Patrick Rea with the thriller Nailbiter
and his short
film Counter Parts plus an encore presentation of New
Jersey based Jack Thomas
Smith’s dark
psychological drama Infliction. This is highlighted by our closing night
feature the disturbing A Dark Place Inside by Philadelphia based Michael O’Mahony.
The short
films will showcase the martial arts/comedy/gore fest Fist of Jesus out
of
Spain, from Montreal the multiple award winning project Ceramic Tango
by talented
filmmaker Patricia Chica. Horror
Happens Film Fest is proud to present short film
based on the written work of
Carol Joyce Oates’s in Zombie
featuring the talented Bill
Connington.
Visiting from the New England area, Massachusetts filmmaking minds
Skip Shea with historic and
controversial film Ave Maria and Izzy
Lee with the
powerful Picket and Legitimate also California
feature film director L Gustavo Cooper
with the moving Velvet Road, Philadelphia psychological filmmakers Rob
Dimension and Jeremiah Kipp with Hitchcock style thriller in Baggage. They
will be
also joined by New York City filmmakers Manny Serrano of Mass Grave
Pictures
with the ABC’s of Death 2
entry M for Mastectomy, Justin
Morales’s return back to
classic filmmaking with Blessed Are the Poor,
and the throw back to good old school
VHS horror gore fest with Liam Makrogiannis’s Blood Mask
plus New Jersey’s own
Thomas Ryan
with his psychological survival short film Day 9 and the great state of
Texas features Billy Pon’s slasher classic short with Doll Boy!
Tickets will run $15 for whole day
viewing pass with $5 ticket per film blocks
(Blocks 1-4) also available. All tickets can be purchased the day
of the film festival at
the Washington
Theatre box office. Ticket sales will help to support the restoration of
The Washington Theatre. For more
information and updates, please check out
Horrorhappensff.wix.com/hhffnj
or to thewashingtontheatre.com also on Twitter
@horrorhappensff. Parking is available in the surrounding areas,
various restaurants
are within a ½ mile from the theatre plus food and concessions
at the theatre are
available. Recommend 18 and over for film festival viewings.
Thanks for your
support!
