THE FILMS
Feature Films
BADASS Film Festival: Blackout
1:30PM - SUNDAY, OCT 15, 2023
Horror directing (and lately acting) legend Larry Fessenden returns with his brand new werewolf film Blackout, a follow-up of sorts to his 2022 Frankenstein film Depraved; kind of a rural upstate alcohol & lycanthropy counterpoint to his cool gritty urban New York vampire and drugs film The Addiction (1995). Starring Alex Hurt (son of the late William Hurt -who appears, in a way, as the main character's father), the film is about a fine arts painter who is convinced that he is a werewolf wreaking havoc on a small American town under the full moon.
Sunday, October 15
Doors 1:00 pm | Movie 1:30 pm *Start time subject to change. Please arrive on time.
Blackout (2023, dir Larry Fessenden, BC premiere) Art, alcohol, a love story, mob and gory monster violence collide in Blackout, whose stinger hints at the connections between Fessenden’s modern monster series. (USA, 143m, Western North American Premiere).
Introduction: David Aboussafy
BADASS Film Festival: Where the Devil Roams & Dark Carnie show.
1:30PM - SUNDAY, OCT 15, 2023
Dark Carnies! Tristan Risk and Burns the Dragon (Live!) & Where the Devil Roams (2023, dir Adams Family (Hellbender), BC Premiere)
The Badass 9 Dark Carnies show starts with live sideshow performances from Burns the Dragon and Tristan Risk (American Mary, The Editor, Ayla, Frankenstein Created Bikers, Amazon Hot Box, Odyssey of the Dead, Reptile House) returning to Vancouver for a rare live performance after several years in New Zealand!
Where the Devil Roams is a 1930s set body horror film that follows a family of carnies on a travelling murder spree. It’s Nightmare Alley meets Bonnie and Clyde by way of American Mary & Possessor.
Excellent practical effects bring the shocking gore, the family rock band brings the killer score, and the natural light camera work and effective shifts from colour to black and white helped make the film that deservedly won the award for Best Cinematography recently at Fantasia Fest 2023 (USA, 93m Western Canadian / US premiere).
BADASS Film Festival: Shorts, Awards & Sideshow Spectacular
7:00PM - 11pm - SUNDAY, OCT 15, 2023 (DOORS AT 6:30)
Hosted by Nhi Do & Jesse Inocalla, killer new horror shorts with filmmakers Q&As, magic from Aleister Crane, Costume Contest, Film & Script Awards, Melody Mangler burlesque & Caravan of Curiosities (Fire act & Snakes Burlesque!)
Sunday, October 15
Doors 6:30 PM | Show 7:00 pm *Start time subject to change. Please arrive on time.
Films playing:
Block 1 (Twisted Animation, Fansasy & Slaughter!)
Cat with Glasses (Dirk Verschure, Germany ) 3.54m
Cranberry Juice (Rebecca Spiegel) 3:50
Donut Time (Morning M. Wu, USA) 3:42
Dude, Where is my Ship? (Kial Natale & Rob Hunt) 5:22
Reincarnation of Puke Pixie (Cheree Lang) 4:05
Order of the Black Eyes (Rob Hunt) 8:38
Gnomes (Ruwan Heggelman, Holland) 5:49
Second Hand Slaughter (Tate Diachuk) 12:28
Lovely Mary (Ryan Jinn, Filip Zivanovic) 4:30
Maceration (Clayton Holmes) 26:07
Block 2A (Sexy and scary)
Tiger by the Tail (Sharai Rewels) 15:35m
The Second Coming (Alison Chang,
Sierra Wilson-Furr) 4:23m
Wreck Room (Becca Kozak) 4:27
Beware of D. (Warren Dean Fulton) 5:50
Seed (Jacob Weldon) 15:45
Garbage Collection (Dallas Harvey) 5
Block 2B: (Trauma, Terror, & Tearing it up...)
It Gets Dark Too Early (Rebecca Spiegel) 9:19m
Blink (Julie Bruns, Steven Kammerer) 4:30
Spiked (Ben Dextraze) 4:14
Moshpit (Logan Charron) 6:45
Time Travelling Toilet Punk (Nadine L'Esperance) 9:36
Let's End the Night Here (Jo Gaffney) 4:30
Sleep (Martin Michael) 4:13
Bye Bye (Freddy Chávez OImos) 3:52
