Each year, the Hexploitation Film Festival places the power to choose the festival's top award winners in the hands of its audience members. Audience members in attendance vote for every short and every feature, and the the film from each category with the highest score is crowned BEST SHORT or BEST FILM of the festival.
We are proud to announce the following Audience Choice Winners for our 2018 season.
BEST SHORT *AUDIENCE CHOICE*
Camille Monette, Roxane De Koninck, Keenan Poloncsak, 2017
Four douche-bags embark on a weekend of partying and debauchery at a cabin in the woods, unaware that they will be disturbing the humanoid-termite mutant: Termitator.
WINNER OF MOST GORE FILM @ SPASM FILM FESTIVAL 2017 IN MONTREAL
WINNER OF PUBLIC'S CHOICE INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION @ COURTS MAIS TRASH 2018 IN BRUSSELS
BEST FILM *AUDIENCE CHOICE*
Brendan Steere, 2017
After losing his parents, a priest travels to China, where he inherits a mysterious ability that allows him to turn into a dinosaur. At first horrified by this new power, a hooker convinces him to use it to fight crime. And ninjas.
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.....
“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
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)
Fright Night Theatre invites you to a night of Canadian Premieres full of shocking scares, terrifying twists, and petrifying prizes!
Fright Night Theatre is proud to announce a double-bill of Canadian debuts: Saturday, June 28th at the Staircase Theatre. Our feature RADIO SILENCE (dir. Marco Riedl and Carsten Vauth)is a pulse-pounding horror/thriller from Germany that recently picked up the awards for Best International Thriller and Best Directors at the 2013 Buffalo Dreams International Film Festival.
Our official short selection will also be making its Canadian premiere: director Jill Sixx Gevargizian's CALL GIRL is a violent voyeuristic vignette starring Laurence Harvey (Human Centipde 2) and Tristan Risk (American Mary).
DATE: Saturday, June 28, 2014 ONE SCREENING ONLY!
TIME: Doors @ 7:00pm / Films @ 8:00pm
CLUB ABSINTHE - $5.00 w/ Fright Night Theatre ticket
38 King William St
Hamilton, Ontario L8N 1B3
But that's not all! Courtesy of our sponsors Fangoria, Raven Banner Entertainment, and Horror in the Hammer, we'll be holding a horror prize raffle at Fright Night Theatre as a fundraiser for the All Out For Ang Cancer Benefit.
All proceeds from the following raffle prizes will be donated to the All Out for Ang Fundraiser. Raffle Tickets: $1 for 1, $2 for 3, $5 for an arm's length, $10 for a body's length.
Angela Orchard, the drummer for the punk band The Rotten, has been battling breast cancer for the last four years. After undergoing a double mastectomy and hysterectomy in hopes of stopping the disease, Angela was given a terminal prognosis but continues to fight! Her friends in the local music community have put together an amazing fundraiser benefit show to raise money to help Angela with the cost of standard and usual medical treatments such as chemotherapy/radiation/etc as well as alternative treatment(s). To read her story: http://www.dontstopbelieving.ca
Fright Night Theatre Presents HORROR SHORTS SHOWCASE 4
Canadian and Ontario premiere screenings with select filmmakers in attendance
We at Fright Night Theatre love horror shorts, and so do our fans! We are proud to announce that our international shorts series HORROR SHORT FILM SHOWCASE is back by popular demand with a new programme of hand-picked terror tales guaranteed to have you laughing, screaming, and squirming in your seats.
Join us in the intimate, relaxed, and casual screening environment of the Elaine Mae Theatre for a cinematic buffet of the bizarre from around the world.
Event Details
Saturday, March 29, 2014
Admission: $5.00 at the door (cash only)
Shorts @ 3:30pm
Doors and Seating from: 3:00pm. Join Facebook Event
The Elaine Mae Theatre
(25 Dundurn St. N.)
OFFICIAL SELECTIONS
Banat Triangle (2012) || CANADIAN PREMIERE || 6 min.
In July 1987, three patients escape at the same time from three different mental institutions in Serbia. A few hours later, they were caught in Banat fields. This case became one of the most bizarre that ever happened in Serbia and is better known as BANAT TRIANGLE.
Dir. Marko Backovic
SERBIA
Christmas Eve Pet Massacre (2013) || CANADIAN PREMIERE || 6:30 min.
* Filmmakers in attendance *
A family's quiet Christmas turns to Hell when the pets decide to overthrow their abusive masters. Outrageous carnage follows in the style of Treevenge.
Dir. Daniel Whidden
CANADA
Dystopia St. (2011) || ONTARIO PREMIERE || 11 min.
Lost in a nightmare world, a man must unravel the mystery of his plight, in order to find the key to his escape in this surreal and unnervingly atmospheric short.
Dir. Dave Cave
UK
Fodder (2013) || 9 min.
* Filmmakers in attendance *
In a post-apocalyptic undead world, a mysterious young woman must stand-up to her captors and horrible medical experiments in an underground military lab.
Dir. David Dollard
CANADA
A Certain Kind of Monster (2012) || 22:55 min.
A young runaway named Beth is rescued from a violent storm by an unusual man named Ben. Soon, she finds herself agreeing to go home with this stranger to wait out the storm. But what begins as a pleasant evening in good company, quickly and unexpectedly becomes a night of unthinkable horror.
Dir. Mike Moring
CANADA
Lively (2013) || 11 min. * Filmmakers in attendance *
While looking after a precocious young boy, Amy learns that a vicious serial killer has escaped from a nearby prison in this “babysitter in peril” tale. A great twist on the slasher formula!
Dir. Jay Clarke
CANADA
Killer Kart (2012) || 14:50 min.
The shopping cart. Four wheels, one basket, and tonight, for the closing crew of a small-town grocery store, a blood-splattered aluminum nightmare. It's JAWS in a grocery store as an evil shopping cart picks off its helpless victims one by one.
Dir. James Feeney
USA
Torturous (2012) || 6 min.
When an employment counselor and a professional torture artist cross paths, the "torture porn" genre takes a new twist blending gore, humour and irony into a deft cinematic mix.
Dir. Angus Swantee
CANADA
Shelter (2012) || 7:52 min.
A battered woman finds an unusual way out of her problems during a night of cosmic justice at an animal shelter.
