Announcement - NWFF 2024 First Wave of Films
SCARED SHITLESS | 76 min | 2024 | Canada
Directed by Vivieno Caldinelli
Starring: Steven Ogg, Daniel Doheny, Chelsea Clark, Julian Richings, and Mark McKinney
A plumber and his germophobic son are forced to get their hands dirty to save the residents of an apartment building when a genetically engineered, blood-thirsty creature escapes into the plumbing system. This outrageously entertaining Canadian creature feature, featuring stellar effects work from the great Steven Konstanski (Psycho Goreman, The Void), is guaranteed to be one of the best times you'll have at the movies all year, and it's a film best seen with a big, boisterous, crowd!
FESTIVALS: 2024 Fantasia Film Festival, FrightFest UK
CHAINSAWS WERE SINGING | 117 min | 2024 | Estonia
Directed by Sander Maran
Starring: Karl Ilves, Sarah Niils
CHAINSAWS WERE SINGING is an absolutely bonkers action-horror-musical-comedy B-movie epic from Estonia. This love letter to crowd-pleasing exploitation cinema is equal parts Monty Python and early Peter Jackson (think Meet the Feebles or Dead Alive), and Edmontonians will be among the first audiences to experience the film that has had festival crowds cheering with glee.
FESTIVALS: 2024 Fantasia Film Festival, Fantastic Fest
PHANTOM OF THE PARADISE 50th Anniversary | 91 min | 1974 | United States
Directed by Brian DePalma
Starring: Paul Williams, Jessica Harper, William Finley, Gerrit Graham
Brian DePalma’s epic rock opera/tragic love story was a box office flop when it was released by 20th Century Fox in November of 1974. Well…everywhere but Winnipeg, where it played non-stop for months and months and is still revered there to this day! But here we are, 50 years later, and the film remains a bonafide classic to cult and genre film lovers everywhere!
PAUL WILLIAMS in Attendance for this screening.
FRIDAY THE 13th: THE FINAL CHAPTER 40th Anniversary | 91 min | 1984 | United States
Directed by Joseph Zito
Starring: Kimberly Beck, Peter Barton, Crispin Glover, and Corey Feldman
Back in 1984, we were all naive enough to think this was the final chapter in Jason’s reign of terror. 40 years later, we’re awaiting a Crystal Lake TV series! Experience the film that Kevin Martin (star of NorthwestFEARFest 2023 Closing Night Film, The Last Video Store) calls the greatest horror sequel ever made. Final Chapter is also notable for being one of Corey Feldman’s first significant film roles.
THE BIRTHDAY: Fully restored edition 20th Anniversary | 100 min | 2004 | Spain
Directed by Eugenio Mira
Starring: Corey Feldman, Erica Prior, Jack Taylor
20 years after he appeared in F13: Final Chapter, Corey Feldman nabbed the role of a lifetime in this truly one-of-a-kind comedic thriller that premiered at Fantastic Fest and Sitges… and then promptly disappeared, presumably forever. Luckily, Drafthouse Films has lovingly restored this odd (but undeniably mesmerizing) cult oddity, featuring an impeccably unconventional performance by Mr. Feldman. See it once. Remember it forever!
FESTIVALS: 2024 Fantastic Fest