LATE NIGHT DOUBLE FEATURE - Hamilton Premiere (FNTFF 2015)

LATE NIGHT DOUBLE FEATURE

|| Hamilton Premiere! ||

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Saturday, September 26, 2015

8:00pm - The Staircase Theatre (27 Dundurn St. N.)
Doors and Seating @ 7:00pm

ONE SCREENING ONLY!

Directed by Navin Ramaswaran, Zach Ramelan and Torin Langen.

(CANADA) 2014, 89 mins

Principal Cast: Jamie Elizabeth Sampson, Nick Smyth, Colin Price, Jeff Sinasac, Caleigh LeGrand, Mike Donis, Sandra DaCosta and Brian Carleton.

Screens With Short Film: INVADERS || (dir. Jason Kupfer)

Admission

• $10.00 (advance) BUY ONLINE
• $12.00 (at-the-door, cash only)

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FEATURE: DESCRIPTION

At a down and out television studio where dreams of Hollywood go to die, the late night show “Dr. Nasty’s Cavalcade of Horror” goes live to air...and bloody chaos ensues. In between screening two films, the cannibal super-thriller “Dinner for Monsters” and “Slit,” an art house foray into the world of a human cutter for hire, the Dr. Nasty cast and crew find themselves battling off-screen antics, blown out egos, and a deranged killer who refuses to stay in the shadows any longer.

SHORT: DESCRIPTION

A pair of home invaders consider their potential character choices just prior to their planned invasion.

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SEP 19: SCARY SH*T (Competitive Short Films)

SCARY SH*T
|| competitive short film night ||

Saturday, September 19, 2015

8:00pm - The Staircase Theatre (27 Dundurn St. N.)
Doors and Seating @ 7:00pm
Admission: $10.00

DESCRIPTION

Can you handle some seriously SCARY SH*T? Fright Night Theatre dares you to survive six of our most terrifying, petrifying, and mentally scarifying short films of the season. When the lights go down, you will find out exactly what goes bump in the night.

Due to the terminally frightening nature of this screening, the FNTFF has chosen to offer the following perks to protect you and those you love should you be foolish enough to experience our Scary Sh*t.

- DEATH INSURANCE: $1000 in case of Death By Fright*
- COWARD REFUND at intermission**
- SHOCK BONUS: A special prize... if you survive

SPONSORED BY FANGORIA AND THE HAMILTON FILM FESTIVAL

SHORTS

THE SEAMSTRESS (2015) || WORLD PREMIERE || 5:24 min.
Dir. Tyler Mann

USA

A young woman and her dog encounter something supernatural while she's working in her garage...

THE WHISPERERS (2015) || CANADIAN PREMIERE || 17:10 min.

Dir. Jason Miller

USA

On a quiet night in October 1995, two young brothers, home alone and grounded for fighting, must uncover the source of strange, unintelligible whispers slowly surrounding their family's isolated country home.

THE DOLL (2014) || CANADIAN PREMIERE || 3 min.

Dir. Adam Gambrel

USA

A young girl wraps a doll as a gift, but perhaps the doll has other plans.

THE OUTER DARKNESS (2015) || ONTARIO PREMIERE || 24:51 min.

Dir. Anthony Melton and Ben Franklin

UK

A young, tormented woman in a support group for survivors of the strange and bizarre shares her personal story about a game of chance that sealed the fate of her family…

POSTPARTUM (2015) || ONTARIO PREMIERE || 6:09 min.
Dir. Izzy Lee

USA

"Not everyone is meant to be a mother." Good intentions lead to disastrous results when a woman visits a new mom with a secret.

EL GIGANTE (2014) || 13:42 min.

Dir. Gigi Saul Guerrero and Luke Bramley

CANADA

After attempting to cross the US/Mexico border in search of a better life, Armando finds himself locked in a life-or-death struggle with the most terrifying villain of all: GIGANTE!

THE EDITOR & BLOODY KNUCKLES (Oct 10 - Fright Night Double Feature)

The Fright Night Theatre Film Festival is thrilled to announce yet another exciting double bill of hilarious Canadian horror just in time for the Halloween season.

OCTOBER 10: Astron-6's acclaimed giallo spoof THE EDITOR will screen with the vulgar underground Canadian horror comedy BLOODY KNUCKLES

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Saturday, October 10, 2015

The Staircase Theatre (27 Dundurn St. N.)

Double Feature Admission -- Order Tickets Online

• (The Editor @7:00pm w/ Bloody Knuckles @ 9:30pm): $15.00

Single Film Admission -- Order Tickets Online

• $10.00 (advance)
• $12.00 (at-the-door, cash only)

== CONTEST == 

All ticket-holders will be entered to win ticket for two to HORROR-RAMA: Toronto's Only All-Horror Fan Event (Oct 17 & 18) and CARNIVALE: Haunted Hamilton's 14th Annual Halloween Costume Ball (Oct 31)

THE EDITOR
7:00pm
|| Hamilton Premiere!||
Directed by Adam Brooks and Matthew Kennedy

(CANADA) 2014, 95 mins

Principal Cast: Paz de la Huerta, Adam Brooks, Matthew Kennedy, Conor Sweeney, Udo Kier, Laurence R. Harvey

Screens With Short Film: MASSACRE AT FEMUR CREEK || (dir. Kyle Hytonen)

Rey Ciso (Adam Brooks) was once the greatest editor the world had ever seen. Since a horrific accident left him with four wooden fingers on his right hand, he's had to resort to cutting pulp films and trash pictures. When the lead actors from the film he's been editing turn up murdered at the studio, Rey is fingered as the number one suspect. The bodies continue to pile up in this absurdist giallo-thriller as Rey struggles to prove his innocence and learn the sinister truth lurking behind the scenes.

From ASTRON-6, the team that created Father's Day and Manborg, The Editor is a hilarious and charmingly spot on spoof of 70's Italian slashers by masters such as Dario Argento and Mario Bava featuring all the gory and gratuitous eroticism of classic giallos with the unique ASTRON-6 eye for the absurd.

BLOODY KNUCKLES
9:30pm
|| Hamilton Premiere!||
Directed by Matt O'Mahoney

(CANADA) 2014, 85 mins

Principal Cast: Adam Boys, Kasey Ryne Mazak, Gabrielle Giraud, Dwayne Bryshun

Screens With Short Film: ROID RAGE (Ryan Lightbourn)

When Travis, an underground comic book creator with a penchant for obscene caricatures, offends a Chinese crime boss, the crime lord responds by chopping of Travis's right hand. In the wake of his dismemberment, Travis spins out into a drunken depression and abandons his art until his severed hands returns from the dead to help lift Travis back on his feet and get revenge. Together with the help of a gay S&M vigilante and fan of Travis's work, Travis and his hand set out rid the city of evil. BLOODY KNUCKLES is a deliriously offensive, gory, and happily un-PC horror-comedy.

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CANCELLED: Kung Fu Double Feature (June 6)

It is with great disappointment that Fright Night Theatre must cancel tonight's Kung Fu Double Feature of Police Story: Lockdown and Kung Fu Killer.

As director of Fright Night Theatre, I apologize to everyone who was excited to see this double-bill tonight and made plans to join us. Those of you who bought tickets will of course be refunded in full.

At Fright Night Theatre Film Festival, we pride ourselves on putting on a good show and bringing movies to Hamilton that you won't see anywhere else in the city. Unfortunately, some last-minute technical issues with our screening materials meant that we would have to compromise video and audio quality tonight in order to proceed. We worked with the distributor to try and find a solution, but, sadly, nothing could be done despite their best efforts. Although we had to cancel tonight's presentation, we have a lot of amazing films and screening events lined up for the coming Summer and Fall season. Please stay tuned to this site for news and follow us on Facebook and Twitter.

Both of tonight's films are now available on VOD, however, so you can still seek them out for some top-notch Hong Kong action entertainment.

If you have any issues or concerns with this cancellation, please contact me at aaron@frightnighttheatre.com.

- Aaron Allen

Director: The Fright Night Theatre Film Festival

CIRCUS OF THE DEAD to Make Canadian Premiere at Fright Night Theatre

On May 9, Fright Night Theatre is sending in the clowns for the Canadian Premiere of the gory killer clown epic CIRCUS OF THE DEAD

Straight from the blood-soaked indie film world of Texas, Circus of the Dead is the ferocious feature-film debut from Billy Pon (DOLLBOY). To celebrate the Canadian debut of this gruesome new horror picture, Fright Night Theatre will be transforming the lovely Staircase Theatre into a Bloody Big Top Experience for a night of killer clowns and creepy circus thrills.

SYNOPSIS

After a night at the circus, a family man must fight for his life when a marauding troupe of sadistic clowns led by the deviant Papa Corn (Bill Oberst Jr.) ensnares him in an all-night crime spree through oil-soaked West Texas. Armed with guns, knives, and a 68 Camaro, Papa Corn and his insane clown posse bring blood, gore, and mayhem to all they encounter.  Circus of the Dead is the Devil's Rejects meets Texas Chainsaw Massacre of killer clown movies. If you're not already afraid of clowns, you will be.....

THE GORIEST SHOW ON EARTH featuring...

* CREEPY CLOWN MAKEUP CONTEST!
* DISCOUNT ADMISSION FOR CLOWNS!
* CIRCUS GAMES!
* PRIZE RAFFLES sponsored by FANGORIA!
* LICENSED VENUE!

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Saturday, May 09, 2015

8:00pm - The Staircase Theatre
(27 Dundurn St. N.)
Doors and Seating @ 7:00pm

ONE SCREENING ONLY!
FOR MATURE AUDIENCES ONLY

Screens With Short Film: CLOWN & OUT || North American Premiere ||  (dir. Tom Lox)

Admission

• $10.00 (advance) BUY ONLINE
• $12.00 (at-the-door, cash only)
• $2.00 DISCOUNT at-the-door for attendees in clown makeup

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YOU GOTTA SEE THIS! Praise for CIRCUS OF THE DEAD

“There’s a TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE vibe to this entire film as the level of lunacy reaches a fever pitch early on in this film and doesn't let up until the end.” - Ain’t It Cool Horror

"[A] phenomenal film that will be damned hard to beat.” - Horror Society

“With it’s unflinching and unapologetic display of the blackest, most evil of capabilities that can exist in people, Circus of the Dead does what we ultimately want a horror film to do…it horrifies.” - Legless Corpse

"If you are prepared to see a film so menacing it will stay with you for days, "Circus of the Dead" is a must!” - Horror News Network

"This might be the bad guy horror fans have been waiting for. Billy Oberst Jr's performance as Papa Corn is one of the most exciting things I have seen in an indie horror film in the last few years.” - Nathan Thomas Milliner, Horror Artist

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Werewolf Double Feature - A Howling Success!

There was no full moon in the sky on March 21st, but The Staircase Theater was packed nonetheless with howling fans for Fright Night Theatre's Werewolf Double Feature of LATE PHASES and WOLFCOP! Not only did fans come out en masse for hairy, scary werewolf thrills but also to support real live wolves. 

WEREWOLF DOUBLE FEATURE - Support the Eastern Wolf!

Purchase tickets to LATE PHASES & WOLFCOP and help protect the Eastern Wolf!

In our shared mythology, the wolf is a monster. It haunts our popular culture as a symbol of the carnivorous wild that has terrified human kind since prehistoric times as much as it represents the inner beast within us all. Especially in the horror genre, the wolf has been long associated with evil, terror, blood lust, and horror. But the wolf is not the monster of our medieval imaginations. It is an important species that, sadly, is under threat by a truly dangerous species: humanity.

That is why Fright Night Theatre has pledged to use our March 21st double-bill of werewolf films LATE PHASES and WOLFCOP to help support the Eastern Wolf of Ontario and Canada. After costs, we will be donating 50% of all ticket sales to the Bring Back the Wild™ project which aims to support Eastern wolf research and education.

TICKET PURCHASE LOCATIONS

* ONLINE (Visa or Mastercard)

* HAMMER CITY RECORDS (cash-only): 228 James St N Basement @ Rear Off Robert St. Hamilton, Ontario

* CRASH LANDING (cash-only): 1189 Cannon Street East. Hamilton, Ontario

Donated funds will be used to:

• Support telemetry research by Dr. Brent Patterson of the Ministry of Natural Resources to learn more about this apex predator’s movement patterns, current distribution and habitat use in Algonquin Provincial Park

• Help verify a possible second Ontario eastern wolf population in the Queen Elizabeth II Wildlands

Eastern wolves were once plentiful in the forests of eastern North America, but human development has squeezed their population into smaller and smaller numbers. As a species of Special Concern in Canada, the eastern wolf is threatened by habitat loss, forest degradation and hunting

By supporting research of the eastern wolf and its habitat needs, initiatives like Bring Back the Wold will help the eastern wolf survive and expand in the future.

WEREWOLF DOUBLE FEATURE: LATE PHASES & WOLFCOP (March 21)

WEREWOLF DOUBLE FEATURE

== Late Phases (7:00pm) & Wolfcop (9:30pm) == 

Poster by Pat Sparrow

This March, unleash your inner beast at Fright Night Theatre! On Saturday, March 21st, we're bringing you a hairy and scary double feature of howling good modern werewolf films: the man vs. werewolf horror-drama LATE PHASES followed by the hilarious Canadian cult phenomenon WOLFCOP. Thanks to our awesome sponsors FANGORIA and SHOCK STOCK we'll be giving away monstrous prizes all night long, including free weekend passes to the SHOCK STOCK 2015 horror and exploitation weekend (April 24 - 26, 2015). in London, ON. Read on for full details and purchase your tickets early to avoid disappointment. 

Saturday, March 21, 2015

The Staircase Theatre (27 Dundurn St. N.)
Hamilton, ON

DOUBLE FEATURE ADMISSION
$15 (LATE PHASES & WOLFCOP)

SINGLE FILM ADMISSION
$10 (advance)
$12 (at the door, cash-only)

* LCBO LICENSED VENUE!
* FANGORIA PRIZE RAFFLES!
* WOLFCOP BINGO!

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LATE PHASES - 7:00pm
Directed by Adrián García Bogliano
(USA) 2014, 95 mins

Principal Cast: Nick Damici, Ethan Embry

Screens With Short Film: THE MAN WHO CHOKED || Canadian Premiere ||  (dir. Ross Jameson)

Seating from 6:30pm

When a wounded war veteran (Nick Damici, STAKELAND) moves in to the retirement community of Crescent Bay, he discovers that residents are dying in a series of grisly attacks. But his take-no-prisoners attitude is just what he needs to survive as it becomes clear that the increasingly violent and horrific attacks are being caused by beasts that are neither animal nor man, and the tight-knit community of Crescent Bay is harboring something truly sinister in its midst. Also starring Ethan Embry (CHEAP THRILLS, EMPIRE RECORDS). LATE PHASES is the English language film debut of director Adrián García Bogliano (HERE COMES THE DEVIL).

THE MAN WHO CHOKED

An elderly patient in an institution encounters a sadistic nurse.

WOLFCOP - 9:30pm
Directed by Lowell Dean
(CANADA) 2014, 95 mins

Principal Cast: Leo Fafard, Amy Matysio, Sarah Lind

Screens With Short Film: THIS NEIGHBORHOOD || Canadian Premiere ||  (dir. Jerry Ochoa)

Seating from 9:15pm

It's not unusual for alcoholic cop Lou Garou (Leo Fafard) to black out and wake up in unfamiliar surroundings, but after Garou finds himself at the center of an occult conspiracy, his life begins to get a lot hairier. When the moon is full, Lou becomes a rage-filled, booze swilling, pistol-slinging werewolf cop with a hunger for justice. With the help of his friends, he sets out to clean up his town and become a better man...one transformation at a time.

THIS NEIGHBORHOOD

A deeply disturbed man stalks his neighbors, believing God has instructed him to murder everyone around him in order to save mankind.

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THE BABADOOK SELLS OUT

Fright Night Theatre's Hamilton Premiere of THE BABADOOK has now officially SOLD-OUT. 

Due to overwhelming demand, all tickets to the Hamilton Premiere of The Babadook and the World Premiere of The Shutterbug Man, all have been purchased or claimed as of this posting.

In the event that any tickets are returned or not picked up, they will be made available at the door on the night of February 7th, 2014, but Fright Night Theatre can not guarantee the availability of any door tickets at this time. Thanks to everyone for supporting Horror In The Hammer and Fright Night Theatre in our efforts to bring this amazing horror film to Hamilton.

Stay tuned to this site or the official Horror in the Hammer Facebook page for any future announcements about potential door tickets and rush lines.

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS - 2015 Season

Horror in the Hammer's FRIGHT NIGHT THEATRE is now accepting short and feature film submissions for its 2015 screening programmes.

Fright Night Theatre is a not-for-profit and fan-driven competitive horror film and cult movie festival in Hamilton, ON, Canada. Each season, Fright Night Theatre selects some of the best horror and genre feature films and short films from Canada and around the world for a year-long screening series that culminates in our Fright Night Theatre Awards. Previous official selections include such genre hits as Lloyd Kaufman's Return to Nuke'Em High (Vol. 1), Don Coscarelli's John Dies at the End, and Astron-6's Father's Day.

Fright Night Theatre is now accepting submissions for its 2015 competitive season. Films will screen in February, March, May, June, September, and November 2015.

Wave One (February, March, May, 2015)
Deadline - January 01, 2015

Wave Two (June, September, November 2015)
Deadline - May 01, 2015



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Established in 2009, Fright Night Theatre is a year-round screening program that combines the best aspects of a film festival with the intimate and interactive atmosphere of grassroots revival cinema. Fright Night Theatre is not just a scary night at the movies – it’s a celebration of fringe film-making, controversial cinema, tongue-in-cheek B-movies, and the art of the macabre.

Fright Night Theatre's mission is to bring back the fun, communal atmosphere, and showmanship of going to the movies by showcasing shocking, scary, schlocky, and scintillating independent and mainstream horror / genre films to our die-hard genre film audience in and around the Hamilton, Ontario region. As the hybrid between a film festival and repertory movie house, we offer:

 No submission or entry fees!
 Press and reviews!
 Devotion to grassroots promotion of your film!

Canadian and International filmmakers and distributors are invited to submit feature and short films (both current and classic) in the horror, cult, and exploitation genres.

November 22: BAG BOY LOVER BOY (ONTARIO PREMIERE)

- Fangoria

Fright Night Theatre is excited to debut the Ontario Premiere of BAG BOY LOVER BOY as our final official selection in our competitive 2014 season.

BAG BOY LOVER BOY 

|| Ontario Premiere! ||

Directed by Andres Torres
(USA) 2014, 77 mins

Hot off its World Premiere at the Fantasia International Film Festival, Bag Boy Lover Boy is the new underground cult film that the The Hollywood Reporter raves is "tailor-made for the midnight crowd." Oddball hotdog vendor and love-lorn loser Albert is shocked to find himself thrust into the world of perverse fetish art photography when  an an enigmatic NYC photographer named Ivan plucks him from obscurity to be his bizarre new muse and model. However, when Ivan accidentally leaves Albert with the keys to his studio, Albert decides that his best way to woo women is to become a freelance photographer. Soon, Albert is luring call girls and drunken women away from parties with the promise of modelling gigs that in his inept hands soon turn deadly and increasingly depraved. But what will happen when he, unable to distinguish sleazy art from reality, finally convinces the girl of his dreams to get behind the camera? Melding dark humour with shocking violence, Bag Boy Lover Boy serves up a morbid satire of New York's pretentious art scene and gallery culture. "A true and daring piece of underground cinema" (All Things Horror)

Principal Cast: Jon Wachter, Theodore Bouloukos, Kathy Biehl, Kara Peterson

Screens With Short Film: REMEMBER ME (dir. Jean-Francois Asselin)

SCREENING DETAILS

Saturday, November 22, 2014

9:30pm - The Staircase Theatre (27 Dundurn St. N.)

ONE SCREENING ONLY!

$10 (advance) / $12 (at the door - cash only)

Advance Tickets: BUY ONLINE

Door Tickets from: 9:00pm.  Join Facebook Event

BAG BOY LOVER BOY - TRAILER

 


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