Do you like scary movies?
Running from Thursday 26 to Monday 30 October in the Irish Film Institute in Temple Bar in Dublin, there are 35 films being shown across the five days, with a mixture of classics and newbies.
You can check out the
full line-up right here, but here are our 5 picks of the scary flicks:
Did you know we love Event Horizon? In case you didn't know, we LOVE Event Horizon. We wrote about it on
the 20th anniversary of its release a few weeks back, and how critics got it so very wrong at the time. Looking back at The Shining In Space movie now, it is clearly brilliant, and needs to be seen on the big screen with a packed hours.
A mix of high-school comedy and super-violent slasher, this one deals with two best friends who run a social media account dedicated to serial killers before deciding that committing murders themselves will only increase their online popularity. Which is better than trying to make "Fetch" happen, we guess...
- Double Bill: PRINCE OF DARKNESS & BODY SNATCHERS
You haven't done the Horrorthon properly unless you've done a double-bill. While you can choose your own two movies to do back-to-back, the organisers have done the hard work for you here, putting together John Carpenter's 1987 Satan-as-a-liquid cult hit with the 1993 take on the Invasion Of The Body Snatchers classic.
Gotta support the Irish contingent! Torment tells the story of a man buried alive in punishment for a heinous crime while a couple struggles to come to terms with a dreadful loss. Expect to feel uncomfortable watching this pretty much from the get-go.
We don't know what it is. You won't know what it is. It could be amazing. It could be terrible. That's the joy of going to the Surprise Movie. Previous surprise screenings included recent horror classic The Witch (months before it was released in cinemas) and The Devil's Candy (which you've never heard of because it was awful and never got a cinema release here). Them's the breaks!
