Directors' Statement
On behalf of the entire festival team, we welcome you to the 4th annual A Night of Horror International Film Festival. What began as an idea for a one-night event (hence the festival's name) now spans for 9 days, and includes 16 feature films and over 50 shorts and music videos, along with special international guests, parties, a filmmaking forum, and a screenplay competition.
We are delighted with the quality and range of films in this year's program: supernatural chillers, monster movies, revenge flicks, zombie/vampire comedies, and even a documentary about horror fan culture! While there will always be some self-appointed guardians of public taste who seem to take a perverse glee in denigrating the genre (one suspects that this originates from their own psychological maladjustments), horror cinema continues to thrive. This year's program demonstrates the diversity, shocking originality and complex themes that it has to offer. But the genre also appeals at a deeper level: People will always want to sit in the dark and be scared, and sometimes enlightened, by films that explore the shadowy depths of the psyche.
To everyone who supports the festival - from our sponsors and venues, through the press and our volunteers, to the filmmakers and festival audience - we offer our profound thanks.
We'll see you at the grindhouse!
Dean Bertram PhD
Lisa Mitchell
At A Night of Horror's special Halloween DYING BREED screening.
(L to R: Nathan Phillips, Dean Betram, Lisa Mitchell, Jody Dwyer, Leigh Whannell and Melanie Vallejo)
