"'I always believed in following the advice of the playwright Sardou. He said, ‘Torture the women!’ The trouble today is that we don’t torture women enough.' - Alfred Hitchcock"
Dorothy Street
Short Horror by Women at the NYCHFF
By Superheidi on November 6th, 2009 11/18/2009
11/22/2009
The 2009 New York Horror Film Festival (November 18 thru 22) at the Tribeca Cinemas in New York City, USA has a great lineup of shorts and features directed and produced by women this year.
Short horror by women at the New York Horror Film Festival 2009
By Superheidi on November 6th, 2009The 2009 New York Horror Film Festival (November 18 thru 22) at the Tribeca Cinemas in New York City, USA has a great lineup of shorts and features directed and produced by women this year. The creepy spin on the Van Helsing tale Abraham's Boys (Dorothy Street), dark fairy-tale White Radishes (Christina Won), Together (Gigi Romero), award-winning short Death in Charge (Devi Snively) and claymation feminist horror short Barbee Butcher (Sophie Lagues) all follow feature film The Shadow Within by Silvana Zancolo.
Horror produced by women at the fest includes The Familiar (Jennifer Snick), Must Love Death (Anna Wendt), and Sweatshop (Katherine Banks, Kristi Boul and Laura Bryan.)
Women-directed flicks at Chicago Horror Film Fest: 'Everything I Needed to Know About Zombies I Learned From the Movies' and 'Abraham's Boys'
By Superheidi on September 15th, 2009 09/25/2009
09/27/2009
Everything I Needed to Know About Zombies I Learned From the Movies (directed by Sherezada Kent) and Abraham's Boys (directed by Dorothy Street) are screening at the 2009 Chicago Horror Film Festival September 25th-27th, 2009 in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Everything I Needed to Know About Zombies I Learned From the Movies synopsis: When three co-workers (Jesse Mueller, Michael Carlisi, and Mary Webb) find themselves trapped in their office basement by shambling zombies, the unlikely trio attempts to devise a plan of escape...
Women-directed flicks at Chicago Horror Film Fest: 'Everything I Needed to Know About Zombies I Learned From the Movies' and 'Abraham's Boys'
By Superheidi on September 15th, 2009Everything I Needed to Know About Zombies I Learned From the Movies (directed by Sherezada Kent) and Abraham's Boys (directed by Dorothy Street) are screening at the 2009 Chicago Horror Film Festival September 25th-27th, 2009 in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Everything I Needed to Know About Zombies I Learned From the Movies synopsis: When three co-workers (Jesse Mueller, Michael Carlisi, and Mary Webb) find themselves trapped in their office basement by shambling zombies, the unlikely trio attempts to devise a plan of escape...
Women-directed flicks at Terror Film Fest: 'Abraham's Boys' and 'Marcello and Sofia'
By Superheidi on September 15th, 2009 10/20/2009
10/24/2009
The Terror Film Festival October 20-24th, 2009 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA will screen two new horror shorts by women!
Abraham's Boys, directed by Dorothy Street, is about Abraham van Helsing - infamous, angry, brilliant - a man haunted by the darkest of secrets... secrets that he will, one cold night just after the turn of the century, unfold at last to his two sons, Maximilian and Rudolph.
Heather Henderson's short Marcello and Sofia is a mock-cautionary tale about a young couple who fall prey to the seductive fetish fantasies of two dominatrix hell-bent on corrupting their innocence. Watch the trailer!...
Women-directed flicks at Terror Film Fest: 'Abraham's Boys' and 'Marcello and Sofia'
By Superheidi on September 15th, 2009The Terror Film Festival October 20-24th, 2009 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA will screen two new horror shorts by women!
Abraham's Boys, directed by Dorothy Street, is about Abraham van Helsing - infamous, angry, brilliant - a man haunted by the darkest of secrets... secrets that he will, one cold night just after the turn of the century, unfold at last to his two sons, Maximilian and Rudolph.
Heather Henderson's short Marcello and Sofia is a mock-cautionary tale about a young couple who fall prey to the seductive fetish fantasies of two dominatrix hell-bent on corrupting their innocence. Watch the trailer!...
