Zombie X-Mas Short O COME ALL YE ZOMBIES Wins Big at HZSFF!

On Saturday, October 18th, hardcore zombie fans and the recently reanimated flocked to the HAMILTON ZOMBIE SHORT FILM FESTIVAL (presented by Fright Night Theatre) to celebrate and vote on some of the best and bloodiest zombie short films from Canada and around the world. The ghouls in attendance made their voices known, and the votes have been counted. The winners of our Zombie Choice Awards are.......

Dominating this year's festival with decisive wins in five out of eight of our eligible voting categories, O COME ALL YE ZOMBIES was (severed) hands down the people's choice! Directed and written by Greg Kovacs, O COME ALL YE ZOMBIES reunites the hilarious zombie cast of characters from The Post-Lifers (2011) for a gory and laugh-a-minute holiday special. O COME ALL YE ZOMBIES stars Lindsay Smith, Stephanie Christiaens, Rich Piatkowski, John Cross, John Williams, Darren Hutchings, Nathan Hawkins, Nicole Bonin, and Greig Graham. This is the second win for Greg Kovacs, who picked up BEST SCRIPT last year for The Post-Lifers companion short COOKIN' THE SHIT OUTTA THINGS WITH MIKE. This is the first win for special makeup artist Mitchell Stacey.

Not to be outdone by the Canadians, Rickey Bird's grind-house-inspired NAKED ZOMBIE GIRL tickled funny bones, turned stomachs, and turned on gore hounds in this American short pitting a naked protagonist with a chainsaw against a horde of grisly ghouls. This is a first win for Rickey Bird and his film-making team who pick up awards for BEST GORE and BEST ZOMBIE KILLS.

If you were looking for hardcore zombie action, the HZSFF was the place to be. Zachary Ramelan's kinetic and award-winning zombie mini-epic DEAD RUSH, filmed from the point of view of a survivor in the zombie apocalypse as he runs and fights for his life, thrilled the audience of the HZSFF to the tune of a decisive victory in the category of BEST ACTION.

Congratulations to all our official selections and to everyone who came out to support the second annual Hamilton Zombie Short Film Festival. We'll see you next year! Until then, shoot for the head and protect your braaaiiiins.

For more screenings of the best in Canadian and international horror, check out the Fright Night Theatre film schedule.

REVEALED: Official 2014 Hamilton Zombie Short Film Festival Lineup

Calling all Zombie fans! Fright Night Theatre is as giddy as a ghoul at a brain buffet to finally announce the official lineup of the 2014 Hamilton Zombie Short Film Festival.

This year, the Hamilton Zombie Short Film Festival celebrates the best in Canadian and International zombie films with a premiere-studded brain-blasting programme of zombie shorts with filmmakers in attendance.

OFFICIAL SELECTIONS

PERIOD PIECE (dir. James McLellan) || WORLD PREMIERE!

12 mins. Canada

If you thought making a movie was difficult now, try it as the world is crumbling around you. Sweeping and majestic romance crashes headlong into apocalyptic violence in this beautiful short about a film director struggling to use movie magic to bring the power of love back to a brutal and uncaring world.

LINCOLN WITH A KNIFE 2: THE DECAPITATION PROCLAMATION (dir. Todd Lazlow) || WORLD PREMIERE!
3 mins. Canada

Lincoln is back from the grave and out for blood. This time he has only one thing on his mind: To liberate your head!

YOU MIGHT BE WEARING PYJAMAS WHEN THE ZOMBIES ATTACK (dir. Kevin McMillan) || WORLD PREMIERE!
3 mins. Canada

Imagine you are called upon to fight for your life against your family, friends, and loved-ones who have suddenly been turned into shambling, moaning, flesh-eating ghouls. Are you prepared for the zombie apocalypse?

O COME ALL YE ZOMBIES (dir. Greg Kovacs) || CANADIAN PREMIERE!

10 mins. Canada

The zombie gang from THE POST-LIFERS reunites for a holiday feast only to discover that their meal has a bit more life in it than they thought. Hilarious squabbling quickly ensues. It may just take an X-Mas miracle to make things right.

NAKED ZOMBIE GIRL (dir. Rickey Bird) || ONTARIO PREMIERE!

28 mins. USA

A woman loses her dress but gains a chainsaw in this greasy and cheesy throwback to 1970s grindhouse and exploitation shockers filled with blood, gore, and nudity.


ANGER OF THE DEAD (dir. Francesco Picone)

15 mins. Italy.

subtitled in English

Alice and Nicholas survived an epidemic that ravaged the world, now only inhabited by the undead. But the nightmare is not over...


DEAD RUSH (dir. Zach Ramelan)

9 mins. Canada

Filmed from the point of view of a single survivor, experience the horror of waking up in the middle of a zombie uprising and fighting up close with the undead for your very survival.

CARGO (dir. Ben Howling and Yolanda Ramke)

7 mins. Australia

Stranded in the midst of a zombie apocalypse, a man sets in motion an unlikely plan to protect the precious cargo he carries: his infant daughter.

FARM GIRL STRONG (dir. David Briggs)

10 mins. Canada

A beautiful farm girl's country bliss is threatened when a big-city tax collector comes a' knocking. With no money, what's an innocent farm girl to do? The tax-collector has some ideas...but little does he realize this farm girl has some naughty ideas of her own! A genre-bending lesson in expecting the unexpected from Distant Field Productions.

FODDER (dir. David Dollard)

9 mins. Canada.

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.

Audience members will also participate in our Zombie Choice Awards by voting for their favorite films in categories such as BEST FILM, BEST KILLS, and BEST GORE.

SCREENING INFORMATION

Saturday, October 18, 2014

6:00pm - The Staircase Theatre (27 Dundurn St. N.)

$8.00 (zombies) / $10.00 (regular) 

Advance Tickets:  BUY ONLINE 
or purchase cash-only at the door.

ONE NIGHT ONLY!
Filmmakers in Attendance

Door Tickets from: 5:00pm / Seating from: 5:30pm.

Hamilton Zombie Short Film Festival -- CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS!

Fright Night Theatre is proud to announce that it will be presenting the 2nd annual HAMILTON ZOMBIE SHORT FILM FESTIVAL (HZSFF) as part of this year's Hamilton Zombie Walk.

Started in 2013 for the Hamilton Zombie Walk in Hamilton, ON, the HZSFF is a competitive one-night short film festival celebrating the best in zombie short films with an audience of die-hard zombie fans and dedicated zombie walkers. Whether they be scary, funny, or just plain gory, all films officially selected for the HZSFF will screen on Saturday, October 18th at the beautiful Staircase Theatre and will be eligible to receive award distinction in our audience Zombie Choice Awards. Click here for last year's winners.

Submissions are now open!

Final deadline: September 18, 2014.

Please write "HZSFF" on your submission form

As with all Fright Night Theatre screenings, we charge no entry fees and maintain no premiere requirements or prior online screening restrictions. All screenings are not-for-profit and open to the public.