Founded
in 2009 by film nerd bozos William Mahaffey and Nick Huinker, the Knoxville Horror Film Fest has
grown from a one-evening block of shorts at the Pilot Light to become East
Tennessee's most notable genre film festival. Over the course of six years our
scope has grown to include:
Monthly
screenings of new and classic genre films;
Special
film events like July's Terror In The Woods at Ijams Nature Center;
Our
popular Grindhouse Grind-Out filmmaking competition;
And,
of course, an ever-expanding annual Festival featuring a weekend of shorts
& features.
We're proud to have built KHFF on an independent mindset that honors
filmmakers and filmgoers alike by keeping submission fees and ticket prices as
low as possible. And thanks to an ever-growing base of local film and horror
aficionados, our labor of love has become mostly self-sustaining. But as our
scope continues to expand, we again find ourselves in a position to ask for
your support.
KHFF666
(October 24-26) will present the majority of its programming at Regal Downtown
West 8, from our double-sized Opening Night event on Friday straight through
another all-day horror marathon on Saturday. (Adding up to five feature
films, dozens of hand-picked horror shorts and the Grindhouse Grind-Out, that's
as much movie madness in two days as we fit in an entire weekend last
year!) Then on Sunday we'll cross town to our new home at Market
Square's Scruffy City Hall,
wrapping up the 'Fest with two bonus feature presentations and the KHFF666
Awards Party!
That's right, we've once again expanded our programming to include to a
total of seven feature films, selected as always from the best independent
horror 2014 & 2015 have to offer: fest favorite Richard Bates, Jr’s
buzzed-about dark comedy Suburban Suburban Gothic; horror
anthology sequels VHS Viral and The ABCs Of Death 2;
Gerard Johnstone’s crowd-pleasing horror laffer Housebound; renowned Canadian collective
Astron-6’s meta-giallo The Editor;
Axelle Carolyn’s moody ghost story Soulmate;
and Matt O’Mahoney’s splatter comedy Bloody Knuckles. And as
with last year's festival, each screening will be preceded by a themed
selection of short films.
Additionally:
Submissions
of short films up to 30 minutes in length will be accepted through our late
deadline of October 1. Submit your film here.
Our
fourth annual Grindhouse Grind-Out filmmaking competition runs October 2-8,
with online registration opening up September 1 and limited to thirty teams. Register here.
Please click the pic, and get your tickets today! They also have
posters, t-shirts, sponsorships, and much more available!
For
more information, please visit:
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