2015 Fright Night Theatre Awards Announced

The competitive portion of the 2015 Fright Night Theatre Film Festival has officially wrapped, and our fans and selection committee have cast their votes. Out of the nine competitive feature films and 38 competitive shorts we screened this season, we are thrilled to announce this year's Fright Night Theatre Award Winners 

AUDIENCE CHOICE AWARDS

As voted by the in-attendance audience

BEST FILM

Wolfcop

(Director - Lowell Dean / Producers - Sean Buckley, Bernie Hernano, J. Joly, Bill Marks, Deborah Marks, Danielle Masters, Hugh Patterson, Brian Wideen)

BEST SHORT

Dead Hearts
(Director - Stephen W. Martin / Producer - Alex Glua)

SELECTION COMMITTEE AWARDS

As voted by the Fright Night Theatre programming team

== FEATURE FILMS ==

SCARIEST FILM

The Babadook (dir. Jennifer Kent)

MOST SHOCKING FILM

Circus of the Dead (dir. Billy Pon)

FUNNIEST FILM

Bloody Knuckles (dir. Matt O'Mahoney)

BEST DIRECTOR

Jennifer Kent (The Babadook)

BEST ACTOR

Nick Damici (Late Phases: Night of the Lone Wolf)

BEST ACTRESS

Essie Davis (The Babadook)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Conor Sweeney (The Editor)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
TIE - Paz de la Huerta (The Editor) & Amy Matysio (Wolfcop)

BEST SCREENPLAY

The Babadook - Jennifer Kent

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

The Babadook- Radek Ladczuk

BEST SPECIAL EFFECTS
Late Phases: Night of the Lone Wolf

BEST MUSICAL SCORE

The Editor - Jeremy Gillespie, Norman Orenstein, Claudio Simonetti, Vercetti Technicolor, Trevor Tuminski, Brian Wiacek

BEST SONG
Killer Rack - "Fun Bags"

BEST VILLAIN
Circus of the Dead -Bill Oberst Jr. as PAPA CORN

ACHIEVEMENT IN MAKEUP FX
Wolfcop - Emersen Ziffle

BEST MONSTER
TIE  - The Babadook and the Killer Rack

 == SHORT FILMS ==

BEST HORROR SHORT

This Neighborhood (dir. Jerry Ochoa)

MOST SHOCKING SHORT

El Gigante (dir. Luke Bramley an Gigi Saul Guerrero)

BEST COMEDY SHORT

Invaders (dir. Jason Kupfer)

BEST SCI-FI SHORT

La Caja de Pandora aka. Pixel Theory: Pandora's Box (dir. Daniel Hernández Torrado)

BEST ANIMATED SHORT

The Waldgeist & Me (dir. Joe Bichard)

BEST FANTASY SHORT

Extreme Pinocchio (dir. Pascal Chind)

CONTEST: HAUNTED HAMILTON COSTUME BALL & HORROR RAMA WEEKEND TICKETS

When you buy tickets to our October 10th double-feature of THE EDITOR and BLOODY KNUCKLES, you will be automatically entered to win one of two hot-ticket horror event prize packs:

1.) HORROR-RAMA WEEKEND TICKETS

Win a weekend pass for two to Horror-Rama: Toronto's only ALL HORROR fan event (October 17-18). Presented by Suspect Video, Fangoria magazine, and Anchor Bay Entertainment, HORROR-RAMA raises hell at the GOREgeous Hyatt Regency Hotel on King St. West, right in the heart of downtown Toronto. Exciting and rare horror and cult film guests and vendors await you at Horror-Rama (a $90.00 value).

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2.) HAUNTED HAMILTON HALLOWEEN BALL TICKETS


If you've got it, haunt it at CARNIVALE: Haunted Hamilton's 15th annual Halloween Costume Ball, this year rocking out Oct 31 in the Grand Central Ballroom at historic Liuna Station (a $90.00 value).

We are giving away tickets for two to the hottest costume party in Hamilton, hosted by Haunted Hamilton Founder & Owner, "Stephanie Spooky Queen" Lechniak and featuring:

* Special Guest MC, Mysterion the Mind Reader (https://www.facebook.com/MysterionThe...)
* With Special Musical Guests, Ginger St. James & SnowHeel Slim (www.gingerstjames.com)
* Opening Act by Frankie & Jimmy (http://frankieandjimmy.bandcamp.com)
* A Spooky Act by Contortionist Troy James
* Performance by Fire Artist HOT CARL
* An EXTREME performance by VOODOO RAY (warning, NOT for the faint of heart!)
* HUGE DJ DANCE with jumbo video screen, fog and special FX lighting
* Over $5,000 worth of best costume prizes
* Live entertainment
* Full Cold Buffet & Desserts
* 2 stocked Cash Bars

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Purchase your tickets for THE EDITOR & BLOODY KNUCKLES (Oct 10) today and you could win! >> ADVANCE TICKETS <<

BUY TICKETS: The Editor & Bloody Knuckles FNTFF Double Feature

Don't get left on the cutting room floor!

Purchase your online advance tickets for October 10th's big double feature presentation of Astron-6's acclaimed THE EDITOR (7pm) and the hilariously vulgar Canadian horror-comedy BLOODY KNUCKLES (9:30pm) before they sell out.

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Praise for THE EDITOR

"... do absolutely anything that you can to get yourself in front of THE EDITOR" - Fangoria

"‘The Editor’ Is a Hilarious Giallo Homage and Instant Cult Classic!" - Bloody-Disgusting.com

“The Editor expertly lampoons a grisly, guilty pleasure...” - Globe & Mail

"Loud and proud and gloriously silly" - THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER

"... the best thing that Astron-6 has ever made ... " - COLLIDER

Buzz for BLOODY KNUCKLES

"A welcome throwback to the grindhouse days” - Rue Morgue Magazine

“A five-finger exercise in fun frights!” - Fangoria

“A bloody, funny blast!” - Bloody-Digusting.com

“Vulgar, violent, and very funny” - Quiet Earth

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

 BUY TICKETS

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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