{"id":5347,"date":"2017-10-19T22:58:38","date_gmt":"2017-10-19T20:58:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/?p=5347"},"modified":"2017-10-19T22:58:38","modified_gmt":"2017-10-19T20:58:38","slug":"south-african-horrorfest-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/blog\/2017\/10\/19\/south-african-horrorfest-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"South African Horrorfest 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"

25 October – 3 November<\/strong>
\nLabia Theatre<\/strong>
\n(68 Orange Str., Gardens, Cape Town, ZA)<\/strong>
\nwww.horrorfest.info<\/a><\/p>\n

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13\u2026 an unlucky number for some\u2026<\/em>
\nBut not for the South African HorrorFest!<\/em><\/p>\n

S.A.’s ultimate 10-day Halloween event is celebrating its 13th annual edition across 25 October – 3 November, bringing\u00a0\u00a0you movies and short films from around the world which you’re unlikely to see on any other local big (or small) screen. With vampires, demons, serial killers, aliens, cannibals, mad men (and women), the scares just keep on coming! Most will make their African \/ South African premiere.<\/p>\n

As from the very start of the festival’s first event in 2005, the screening venue is the Labia Theatre (68 Orange Street, Gardens, Cape Town)<\/p>\n

The festival opens on Wednesday 25 October with Academy Award nominated director Darrell James Roodt’s new local Horror movie\u00a0Siembamba\u00a0<\/strong>(he’ll be attending this Cape Town premiere for an audience Q&A).<\/p>\n

For those who like their chills and thrills on the written page, the\u00a0Bloody Parchment<\/strong>\u00a0literary night is happening on Thursday 26 October, with local authors reading from their work, book give-aways and more.<\/p>\n

Rocky Horror Picture Show<\/strong>\u00a0veterans and newbies alike can come do the timewarp again with an audience participation screening! The LoveCraft Experiment will have participation packs on sale for those who don’t know what to bring or don’t have time to get all the bits together (Friday 27 October)<\/p>\n

Saturday 28 October there is\u00a0The Makabra Ensemble<\/strong>‘s customary live soundtrack performance (this year for the legendary 1927 Fritz Lang sci-fi classic\u00a0Metropolis<\/strong>, celebrating its 90th anniversary).\u00a0\u00a0This night is also the Halloween dress-up competition with great prizes attached.<\/p>\n

Across the 10-day festival we’ve again scattered 3 feature length chapters of the\u00a0Shadow Realm<\/strong>\u00a0short film collection, bringing you amazing shorts from around the world, from the USA, UK and France, to Brazil, the Czech Republic, Spain and South Africa, these are not to be missed.<\/p>\n

Thousands of Rands in audience prizes and give-aways include:<\/p>\n