We thought we would hold off for another week before sharing our top picks for the LA Film Festival. We mean their site isn't even fully up with trailers. We're not even confirmed press until Monday. We were wrong, so very wrong. Our top pick for horror, Beyond The Gates, which doesn't even have a trailer online is already rush line!
Beyond The Gates was our top pick, only at this point because of its great concept:
"Two estranged brothers reunite at their missing father’s video store to
liquidate the property and sell off its assets. As they dig through the
store, they find a VCR board game that holds a mysterious connection to
their father’s disappearance—and deadly consequences for anyone who
plays it."
So it'll be a clusterf*ck of 80's horror movies in one movie. We don't even know how capable the director is. We only warned our friends to save the date, sheesh.
It isn't the only film that's already set for rush line.
Abattoir, sounds like a fun real estate horror movie, LA's real estate market is a real horror show.
"Julia, an investigative reporter with the style and confidence of a young
Bacall, happens upon a series of gruesome murders tied to real estate
mysteries, where entire rooms have been dismantled and pulled from their
foundations. The fact that those rooms were the exact settings for
heinous tragedies sets Julia and hardboiled cop Joe on a search for the
unimaginable. The stakes go up when it suddenly becomes very personal in
this stylized and increasingly horrifying modern-noir."
Checkout the
Nightfall section for the strange and scary films, before it's too late! We want to see a trailer for
Officer Downe about an over-the-top cop in LA fighting crime.
"A young rookie cop is tasked with shadowing Officer Downe, an LAPD cop
waging a war to clean up the streets of Los Angeles. Officer Downe’s
foes comprise of a cadre of super villains, including the criminal
syndicate of humanoid beasts dubbed the Fortune 500, Mother Supreme and
her gun-toting nuns, and kung fu overlord Zen Master Flash. The rookie
soon learns that you can’t keep a good cop down, as Office Downe takes a
licking and keeps on ticking, again, and again, and again…"
Last year, one of our favorite new horror comedies, Dude Bro Party Massacre III was so loved at the festival it got a second screening. We hope we can get another screening for what already seems to be a crowd favorite.
Film festival dudes and dudettes, make the right choice and give us a second screening of
Beyond The Gates...and tell me first, so I can get tickets for all my friends.
