Portland Horror Film Festival is bringing the blood to your living rooms! From June 6-13th, audiences anywhere in the U.S. can watch over 27 hours of new international independent horror films in the streaming edition of the festival!
Continuing their mission to present a diverse and inclusive program of the best independent horror films, this year’s streaming lineup includes over 50 short and feature films from 16 countries, including films from Black, Asian, Latinx, and Queer filmmakers, with nearly half of the films directed by women!
The streaming edition of the festival includes 7 Feature Films, including the World Premieres of the religious horror feature IN THE NAME OF GOD (Sweden) by Ludvig Gür, and Portland-made shot-on-video horror feature HIDING HENRY by Sean Whiteman, the US Premieres of road trip/giallo slasher, ROAD TO THE MOUTH OF HELL (Brazil) by Julio César Napoli Filho, and DASTUR (Kazakhstan) by Kuanysh Beisek. Dastur tells the story of oppressed women in Kazakhstan through a horror lens; a young woman is forced to marry her assaulter in accordance with local traditions, and revenge is swift and supernatural.
Audiences can revel in some hilarious blood and gore in the JURASSIC PARK homage THE INVISIBLE RAPTOR by Mike Capes and Johnny Wickham (featuring Sean Astin!), take a deep dive into the psyche of a woman managing her life with Dissociative Identity Disorder in the horror thriller DID I? by Sarah Tice, and get some early Holiday Horror/Mystery sleuthing in with Aussie filmmaker Alice Maio Mackay’s latest feature CARNAGE FOR CHRISTMAS.
A bevy of short films rounds out the programming, boasting some notable talent, including Zach Galligan (Gremlins) in Charles de Lauzirika’s “Honk”, Barbara Crampton (Jakob’s Wife) in Brea Grant’s “MLM”, and Andrea Bang (Fresh) in Allison Miller’s “Hollow”.
International short film highlights include the visually stunning and harrowing journey of “Juggernaut” from Italy, Icelandic holiday horror “Krampuss”, “Poppy’s Saturn”, a terrifying Lynchian nightmare from Belgium by Nicole Tegelaar, “Dead End” an allegoric queer horror from Russian filmmaker Dima Barch, and “The Pencil”, a supernatural folk horror from Kazakhstan.
The infamous Shorts Gone Wild caps off the program with the weirdest, most hilarious, and uncanny short films of the festival! Look for “The Connoisseur” by Seattle filmmaker Eric Morgret, and the deliciously weird and darkly funny “Yummo Spot” by Ashley Brandon.
The streaming edition is available through the Portland Horror Film Festival’s Eventive portal, and begins Thursday June 6th (available anywhere in the US only).
Horror fanatics who want to experience the festival in person can attend screenings June 5th-9th at the Hollywood Theatre and Clinton Street Theater.
For ticket information, the full schedule, film listing, and more, please visit https://portlandhorror.eventive.org/welcome
