The Brooklyn Horror Film Festival Announces Full 2024 Program
Festival opens with Joe DeBoer, Kyle McConaghy’s TIFF hit DEAD MAIL and Honors Larry Fessenden with this year’s Leviathan Award, reveals new poster art
Highlights also include FEAR IN FOCUS: SPAIN sidebar, World Premiere of Izzy Lee’s HOUSE OF ASHES, director Joe Begos’ JIMMY & STIGGS, Jayro Bustamante’s RITA and closing night film THE RULE OF JENNY PEN
[Brooklyn, NY] The Brooklyn Horror Film Festival (BHFF) announces today the full program for its 2024 incarnation, running October 17–24 with all screenings held at Nitehawk Cinema’s Williamsburg and Prospect Park locations. Audiences are in for an unworldly lineup of films and events, including a special screening of Larry Fessenden’s Habit with the Leviathan Award Ceremony, honoring his film career.
The Opening Night film is the NY premiere of Dead Mail from directors Joe DeBoer and Kyle McConaghy. The 2024 festival boasts the North American Premieres of exciting new films: Tiago Teixeira’s unsettling body horror film Custom; a new documentary on horror at the turn of the millennium from Phillip Escott and Sarah Appleton, Generation Terror; and New Zealand director Sasha Rainbow’s film Grafted.
The festival will feature the world premieres of Izzy Lee’s first feature, House of Ashes; the atmospheric ghost story, Lilly Lives Alone, and the queer sci-fi adventure Psychonaut. The festival’s other spotlight titles include Animale, the beautiful revenge-fantasy from French director Emma Benestan as the festival’s Centerpiece Film; and The Rule of Jenny Pen starring Geoffrey Rush and John Lithgow as the Closing Night Film.
Additional highlights include the action fueled revenge film Sayara from Turkey; Joe Begos’s latest neon drenched bloodbath Jimmy & Stiggs; a screening of several episodes of the new horror anthology Tales from the Void which includes an episode directed by John Adams and Toby Poser; a fantastical time traveling romance from director Alice Lowe, Timestalker; Gazer, the dreamy noir film from Ryan J. Sloan; Mercedes Bryce Morgan’s gory erotic thriller Bone Lake; and the nightmarish mystery Somnium which premiered at the Chattanooga Film Festival earlier this year.
The festival’s signature sidebar programs return, starting with Fear in Focus: Spain, which includes the North American premiere of Exorcismo, a documentary that focuses on the violent and smutty film history of the post-Franco era of Spanish cinema; as well as retro screenings of Vampyres and The Blood Spattered Bride on 35mm; which ties into the Vampire sidebar that features Abel Ferrara’s The Addiction and a screening of the Spanish version of Dracula with a live score from The Flushing Remonstrance. Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies will also return to host a special lecture by Dr. Leah Richards “Queer Vampires, Queer Liberation, Queer Futurity.
You can visit the festival site for more a full lineup, scheduling and ticket information.
Originally published at http://behindtherabbitproductions.wordpress.com on October 6, 2024.
