When March rolls around, we know that spring is on it’s way. The winter months get long with all the snow and cold, so the change in the weather is welcomed. Aside from temperatures warming up and the snow start to disappear, the weather can also be a little foggy, a little misty and… Wait a minute! Foggy? Misty? That sounds like a great idea for March’s House of Horrors!
Starting out the night will be John Carpenter’s The Fog,which marks the fourth Carpenter film shown at House of Horrors, but considering his catalog, can you blame us? The Centenary of the small sea town, Antonio Bay, is approaching. While the townsfolk prepare to celebrate, the victims of the crime that founded the town rise from the sea to claim retribution. Under cover of the fog, they carry out their vicious attacks, searching for what is rightly theirs. Featuring a great cast of Adrienne Barbeau, Tom Atkins, Jamie Lee Curtis, Janet Leigh and Halbrook, The Fog is a terrific telling of a classic ghost story.
Starting his film career as a co-writer of A Nightmare on Elm St. 3: Dream Warriors, The Blob and The Fly II, Frank Darabont finally directed his first horror feature in 2007 with The Mist, based on the novel by Stephen King. After a violent storm attacks a town in Maine, an approaching cloud of mist appears the next morning. As the mist quickly envelops the area, a group of people get trapped in a local grocery store. The people soon discover that within the mist lives numerous species of horrific, unworldly creatures. As the world around them manifests into a literal hell-on-earth, the horrified citizens try desperately to survive this apocalyptic disaster. We will be showing The Mist in black and white, the way Darabont wanted to release the film but the studios said otherwise.
Be sure to check out the trailers below and mark your calendars. As always, House of Horrors is free and open to the public, so bring your friends!
Sure, Drive Angry doesn’t fall into the horror category, however, by the looks of it, this is offering enough mayhem to satisfy gorehounds of all types (and Tom Atkins is in it!). Plus, we have 10 passes for a free advanced screening in Milwaukee on Thursday, February 24 that we want to give away… got your attention now?
Actually, we have more than 10, we have 20 passes, but we are going to give 10 out in this contest and the other 10 will be given out next week through a different contest. Oh, each pass is good for two admissions, so the lucky winners can bring their significant others, friends, brothers, sisters, parents… hell, you can bring anyone you want! Enough with the rambling, onto the contest!
We want you to email us one of your craziest driving stories. In 200 words or less, tell us any ridiculous driving story you want. Share a story that’s real, or make one up, it doesn’t matter. Just make it as good as you possibly can.
All submissions must be received by 11:59pm on Wednesday, February 16. Only one submission per contestant (you can participate in next weeks contest, though), and the story MUST be 200 words or less. Any entries over 200 words will automatically disqualified (yes, we will be checking the word counts). Contestants must be 17 or older. We will be selecting the 10 winners so entertain us! Each winner will be contacted Thursday, February 17.
DRIVE ANGRY CONTEST must appear in the subject, all emails must be sent to info@oshkoshhorror.com
This Saturday Apple Blossom Books is hosting their first Undead Valentine’s Bash. The evening will consist of undead author Emily Luebke signing her latest book, Phoenix, as well as plenty of “gross” food, trivia and even some horror flicks in the background. So dress up with your undead date or come on your own to share your undead love!
Saturday, February 12 7-9pm
Apple Blossom Books
200E City Center
Oshkosh, WI 54901
House of Horrors is all about getting people together to celebrate our love for the horror genre. Over the past three and a half years, we’ve seen so much of what the horror genre has to offer. Part of the fun at House of Horrors is not only viewing the movies we all love, but showing a title or two that perhaps you haven’t seen. This month we are focusing on two titles, we feel, might be under the radar and/or overlooked. Plus,… this is our first haunted house double feature!
Starting out the night will be The Changeling (not the Angelina Jolie flick directed by Clint Eastwood), starring George C. Scott as composer John Russell, who loses his wife and daughter in a car wreck, and seeks solace by renting a secluded estate outside Seattle. But the mansion is haunted by the presence of a child who died there more than 80 years ago. Now, Russell must find out who that child was — and why there seems to be a cover-up about his existence.
Following The Changeling will be The Legend of Hell House, based on the novel by Richard Matheson. A team of four paranormal investigators accepts an invitation for a week’s stay in a mansion rumored to be haunted. Depending on their viewpoints, the group members either intend to prove the presence of ghosts or are determined to debunk the myths. Previous guests of Hell House are known to have gone mad… Will this group survive the week?
On top of the movies, we will be hosting another round of horror movie trivia, so start studying for your chance to win all sorts of goodies!
Be sure to check out the trailers below and mark your calendars. As always, House of Horrors is free and open to the public, so bring your friends!
We felt that it would only be fitting to start out 2011 with a fierce line-up for House of Horrors. Lots of ideas were tossed around, and as we all know, January can be damn cold and since there’s nowhere as cold as outer space, it’s time to go for a journey. For the month of January, House of Horrors will be having it’s first sci-fi horror double feature!
Starting out the night will be Event Horizon. Starring Sam Neil, Laurence Fishbourne, Kathleen Quinian and Sean Pertwee, Event Horizon takes place in the year 2047 when a group of astronauts are sent to investigate and salvage the long lost starship, Event Horizon. The ship disappeared mysteriously 7 years before on its maiden voyage and with its return comes mystery as the crew of the Lewis and Clark discover the real truth behind its disappearance and something even more terrifying.
January’s main feature is the one and only Alien, Ridley Scott’s masterpiece of sci-fi terror. When a mining ship lands on a planet to investigate upon a suspected SOS, the entire crew are unaware of the terror which they would unleash upon their ship. When an alien life-form attaches itself to the face of a crew member, the rest of the team act fast to try and separate the two organisms. Unbeknown to everyone, this is the start of the terror which would affect every member of the seven person crew.
Be sure to check out the trailers below and mark your calendars. As always, House of Horrors is free and open to the public, so bring your friends!
It’s been somewhat of a tradition for us to show food-related movies for November’s House of Horrors, in honor of that one day. We’re still keeping up with that tradition this year, but also throwing in a little treat. Oh, and double features are back, yes!
There’s a lot of holiday inspired horror movies, but for some reason Thanksgiving has gotten the shaft. There’s been a select few who have tried, even Eli Roth tackled the sub…ject with his faux trailer for Thanksgiving, but last year Kevin Stewart and Jordan Downey released the “ultimate low budget experience”, ThanksKilling. The plot of ThanksKilling is quite simple, a fowl-mouthed homicidal turkey axes off college kids during Thanksgiving break. That’s it. But really, do you need more to a movie when it’s a killer turkey that’s a hand puppet? We think not. Plus, the tagline is “Gobble, Gobble, Motherfucker!” Don’t kid yourself, you’re sold.
For our second feature, we are taking the idea of eating to a different level. Cabin Fever tells the story of five college graduates who rent a cabin in the woods and begin to fall victim to a horrifying flesh-eating virus, which attracts the unwanted attention of the homicidal locals. Get it? Flesh-eating virus…eating…Thanksgiving…November… Yeah, we thought it was pretty clever, too. Cabin Fever introduced the horror world to writer/director Eli Roth in 2002, with Peter Jackson saying Cabin Fever is “an unrelenting, gruesomely funny blood bath. I loved it!”
Be sure to check out both trailers below and mark your calendars. As always, House of Horrors is free and open to the public, so bring your friends!
It’s now been a few days since the first Oshkosh Horror Film Festival came to an end. Being that this was the first time Oshkosh had an independent horror event, let alone a 12 hour event, we weren’t exactly sure what to expect. Suffice to say, we were blown away by the attendance and response. The doors opened at 11:30am and right away eager fans walked down the aisles to claim their seats, and as the day went on more and more people passed through the doors. All the films seemed to have gone over well, the Q+As were not only informative, but entertaining and inspiring as well. By the looks of it, it seems like the filmmakers established great friendships with each other and have possible plans to collaborate.
People came from all over the Fox Valley, Green Bay, Baraboo, Milwaukee and as far as Chicago for the OHFF, and everyone had a blast, whether they stayed for one film or endured the whole 12 hours. Also, we raised over $900 for the non-profit Time Community Theater, which is just amazing! Right as the last film ended people began asking if there will be another OHFF, and by the great turnout and response we received you can count on there being an Oshkosh Horror Film Festival 2011.
At this point it’s only fitting to close with an enormous THANK YOU to all that attended, showed their films, helped spread the (good and bloody) word and helped us make the first Oshkosh Horror Film Festival happen. It was not possible without you. Continue to support independent horror!
We are now two days out, the Oshkosh Horror Film Festival is THIS SATURDAY! 12 hours of Wisconsin made independent hour for only 5 bucks, come and go as you like. It’s going to be one crazy day, folks. Doors open at 11:30am and the Festival will begin right at noon. Support independent horror!
12:00 – 12:05 : Introduction to the OHFF
12:05 – 1:40 : Fenris Unchained
1:40 – 1:50 : Fenris Unchained Q+A with director Kristopher Bishop and writers Kristopher Bishop & Jeremy Head
1:50 – 2:00 : INTERMISSION
2:00 – 2:15 : Between Fathers And Sons
2:15 – 2:25 : Between Fathers And Sons Q+A with writer/director Derrick Carey
2:25 – 3:50 : The Last Summer
3:50 – 4:00 : The Last Summer Q+A with writer/director Bob Ekdahl
For a horror fanatic there’s really no better time of year than October. It seems that every year we wait and wait for October to show it’s horror-filled face, and then before you know it Halloween’s over, and we now have 11 more bland months to wait to bask in the (blood-soaked) glory that is October.
This year, we at Oshkosh Horror want to make the most of our beloved month. 31 days make up October, so why not have 31 Days of Horror?
Here’s our proposal: we want you to (attempt to) watch 31 horror movies in the month of October. If you can accomplish such a feat, you will be rewarded. Doesn’t this sound awesome? I mean, come on, you are getting goodies for watching movies. You maybe wondering, “How does this all work?!” Well, onto the guidelines! (more…)
This Saturday we’re going to showcase some outstanding french horror with HIGH TENSION. I haven’t confirmed this with John just yet, but I’m fairly certain this will be presented in it’s original French language format with English subtitles (the way foreign films should be viewed), so get your reading eyes on.
In recent years, France has shown the horror world that they know how to make brutal, yet solid, horror films. Titles like Inside, Frontiers, Sheitan, Them and The Ordeal are proof that there are French filmmakers that we as horror fans need to keep an eye on. Perhaps the front-runner of this French wave of horror is Alexandre Aja’s High Tension, a 2003 release (2005 here in the States). Combining shear tension (hence the title) with extreme violence and gorgeous cinematography, High Tension not only created a name for French horror, but reestablished and defined the modern day slasher film.
Students Marie and Alex have no idea of the horrors that await them when they head off to a remote country home to study for their upcoming exams and a psychopathic stranger attacks turning their quiet getaway into an evening of pure terror.
Originally rated NC-17 in the USA for Strong Graphic Violence, a few graphic shots were cut from the final version of the U.S. release to get it down to the R rating (the original NC-17 cut was released in some theaters). However, the original cut (referred to as an unrated version) is available on DVD. The film finally Rated R for Graphic Bloody Killings, Terror, Sexual Content, and Language.
All of the effects are created by renowned horror make-up artist Giannetto De Rossi, a favorite of late director Lucio Fulci.
Check out the trailer below and join us for a night of horror!
