The 18th annual South African HORRORFEST Film Festivl 18 – 30 November
In cinema at The Labia Theatre, Cape Town & Streaming Across SA via Quicket
Surviving the pandemic and making international “Best Horror Film Festival” lists like that of US publications Movie Maker Magazine and Dread Central, the South African HORRORFEST enters its 18th edition!
(This year the original Halloween-season dates have moved on a touch, to 18 – 30 November)
Again bringing Horror fans an amazing batch of new, indie, rare, classic movies and short films from around the world (which they’re unlikely to see anywhere else in the country), in cinema and streaming.
Near all of the new releases will have their Africa / South Africa premiere at the HORRORFEST.
All Horrorfest social media links can be accessed at:
https://linktr.ee/SAhorrorfest
Event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/644409047212013
CINEMA & STREAMING
A dozen in-cinema shows will screen at the SA HORRORFEST’s long standing venue partner, The Labia Theatre in Cape Town (where your drink from the bar can be taken into the cinema), while those outside of the city and across the rest of South Africa can also access the event with the streaming option consisting of 11 movies and 5 short film collections (via Quicket).
Full line-up listed below – but for full cinema show list, info & booking, head to: https://www.quicket.co.za/organisers/576-south-african-horrorfest
The streaming options (including a full on-line festival pass) can be accessed at: https://www.quicket.co.za/events/194020-horrorfest-streaming-chapter
TRAILERS
Watch all movie trailers at The Horrorfest channel:
JURY
The 2022 Horrorfest’s international jury members include Chris Alexander (filmmaker, musician, Fangoria- and Delirium magazine editor), Kat Ellinger (editor in chief of Diabolique Magazine, horror cinema aficionado and writer, and cohost of their Daughters of Darkness podcast), Nicholas Vince (actor known as the Chatterer Cenobite in Clive Barker’s Hellraiser, Hellbound: Hellraiser II, and Kinski in Nightbreed), and Horrorfest creators Sonja and Paul.
PRIZES & GIVE-AWAYS
Prizes and give-aways will include DISNEY+ subscriptions, tattoos from MR LUCKY’S CAPE TOWN TATTOO, PENGUIN BOOKS, UIP movie merch and more to be announced.
FULL 2022 SA HORRORFEST LINE-UP:
IN CINEMA
18 – 24 November at the Labia Theatre, Cape Town
Tickets: https://www.quicket.co.za/organisers/576-south-african-horrorfest
- HALLOWEEN ENDS (14 Oct, 8pm)
Special warm-up pre-release premiere screening - NOSFERATU (18 Nov, 9pm)
Centenary with a live Makabra Ensemble soundtrack performance - THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW (19 Nov, 9pm)
Audience participation screening - DRACULA (20 Nov, 6:15pm)
Special 16mm film projection of the Bela Lugosi classic - MAD HEIDI (20 Nov, 8:30pm)
Wild new take on the Swiss culture icon - INFLUENCER (21 Nov, 6:15pm)
Careful who you follow… - POU (21 Nov, 8:30pm)
New Afrikaans film with cast & crew attending - THE HARBINGER (22 Nov, 6:15pm)
An intriguing blend of the pandemic era with demonic forces - LIVING WITH CHUCKY (22 Nov, 8:30pm)
Documentary on the legacy of this killer doll - EATING MISS CAMPBELL (23 Nov, 6:15pm)
Troma madness, not for the easily offended - KING ON SCREEN (23 Nov, 8:30pm)
Fantastic new Stephen King documentary - GHOSTS OF THE OZARKS (24 Nov, 6:15pm)
Post-Civil War terror feat. David Arquette - TERRIFIER 2 (24 Nov, 8:30pm)
Art the crazy clown’s intense new sequel
STREAMING
18 – 30 November via Quicket
https://www.quicket.co.za/events/194020-horrorfest-streaming-chapter
Includes cinema titles
- GHOSTS OF THE OZARKS
- THE HARBINGER
- EATING MISS CAMPBELL
- FEED ME
Very black cannibal comedy - EXTRANEOUS MATTER
Surreal Japanese sci-fi-horror trip - NIX
Sharknado’s director gets more serious - ON THE EDGE
The Soska sisters’ new dark psycho-sexual chiller (adults only) - RAZZENNEST
Almost too unique a concept to describe! - A LIFE ON THE FARM
Jaw-dropping real found footage documentary - FOLLOW THE DEAD
Irish zom-com - AGATHA
Surreal live action / animation blend - RONDO AND BOB
Documentary on Texas Chain Saw Massacre art director Robert Burns and character actor Rondo Hatton
SHADOW REALM SHORT FILMS
5 feature length volumes of innovative, ambitious, unique and mind-blowing shorts from all parts of the globe, compiled into 5 streaming volumes, including:
BUG BITES, TWO SISTERS, ANGEL CITY HORROR, ABLE BODIES, 665, HUNGER, PART FOREVER, INTRUDER, RISE & SHINE, UNDER THE ICE, THE ABYSS OF THE SOUL, LISTEN TO ME, THE PEY, THE PIT AND THE PENDULUM – A Musicabre, ZMIENA, …LOVEHOTEL…~The Guide to Japanese Midnight Culture~, KICKSTART MY HEART, ALIEN DICK, LETHALOGICA, ESCALATION, UNHEIMLICH, GROUNDED, THE LAST CHRISTMAS, SINK AWAY, TUNNEL RAT, DEATH IN A BOX, IVI ELV, TERATOMA, EAT THE RICH, THE ORDER, GAS STATION LULLABY, BELFAST 1912, MAGGOT PARTY, WHY WE DON’T VISIT ANYMORE, THE MICROSCOPE, STUCK, FROM BEYOND, FEAR ABIDES NIGHTLY GLISTENS, ULFHEDNAR, RUTA, INSANE ESCAPE, CUT IT OUT, TERMINATRYX “Suiker”
See you at the movies! (or in the stream)
