Telluride Horror Show ’15 Delivers the Goods with 2nd Wave

USA | 2015 | 75 min | Directors: Dan Berk & Robert Olsen

A night out turns deadly when three girls break into a seemingly empty mansion.

USA | 2015 | 78 min | Director: Mickey Keating

Followed by a Q&A with director Mickey Keating.

DARLING follows a lonely young woman who moves into an old, mysterious Manhattan mansion. Hired as caretaker, it’s not long before she discovers the estate’s haunted reputation and troubling past— stories that slowly transform into a backdrop for her twisted and violent descent into madness…

UK/Ireland | 2015 | 97 min | Director: Corin Hardy

After moving into a remote country house in Ireland, a family finds themselves in a fight for survival with demonic creatures living in the woods.

UK | 2015 | 95 min | Director: Paul Hyett

Make-up effects master Paul Hyett (Dog Soldiers, The Descent) creates a horror tale about a group of passengers on a midnight train who find themselves under attack by a terrifying pack of werewolves.

Russia/Germany | 2015 | 80 min | Director: Pavel Khvaleev

During the outbreak of a mysterious epidemic devastating a rural European village, sisters Ayia and Mirra promise their dying mother to look after each other. When Mirra falls victim to the epidemic, Ayia in desperation realizes that conventional medicine will not save her sister. At the local priest’s house Ayia discovers a collection of Shamanic books containing a ritual for spiritual healing which she believes will save her sister. The Shamanic cure involves a complete immersion into the patient’s mind, a journey into the deepest most hidden depths of their subconscious where terrifying monsters and demons await.

Canada | 2015 | 79 min | Director: Trevor Juras

After receiving a distressing medical diagnosis, a listless young man flees the crushing tedium of Toronto city life, trading it all for the wilderness of the British Columbian Interior. When his whims go awry, he is reduced to petty thievery just to survive. Fearing his misdeeds will catch up with him, he retreats further and further into the woods only to gradually find himself the target of increasingly inexplicable and disturbing manifestations, which point to a frightening truth: he is not alone.

USA | 2015 | 87 min | Director: Joe Begos [Modern Horrors Review]

Followed by a Q&A with director Joe Begos.

A scientist formulating a synthetic telekinetic serum sends a group of telekinetic assassins to track down a rougher drifter with exceptional psychokinetic abilities.

Sweden | 2015 | 81 min | Director: Christian Hallman

“SENSORIA” follows Caroline, a woman in her late thirties, who has lost everything she cares for in the world. In search of a new beginning, she moves into an old apartment and quickly begins to realize that she is not as alone as she thought she was…

USA | 1985 | 91 min | Director: Dan O’Bannon

When two bumbling employees at a medical supply warehouse accidentally release a deadly gas into the air, the vapors cause the dead to rise again as zombies.

Join us for a special 30th Anniversary screening of (and behind-the-scenes look at) THE RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD, the best zombie comedy ever made. We will be showing the RARE original print of Dan (ALIEN) O’Bannon’s film, with its original dialogue and punk soundtrack intact! Presented by Paul M. Sammon (author of Future Noir: The Making of Blade Runner), who worked on ROTLD in 1985 as Orion Pictures’ Special Projects Manager. Paul will host a special Q&A session after the screening, accompanied by a unique slide show. Just remember – More Brains!!!

THEY LOOK LIKE PEOPLE USA | 2015 | 80 min | Director: Perry Blackshear [Modern Horrors Review]

Suspecting that people are transforming into malevolent shape-shifters, Wyatt flees to New York City to seek out his estranged childhood friend Christian. As the mysterious horrors close in on Wyatt, he questions whether to protect his only friend from an impending war, or from himself. A genre-bending story about love, loyalty and living nightmares.