HorrorFest strikes 12 this Halloween

Running over 10 days, the festival will feature movies, short films, a live movie soundtrack performance, as well as a Halloween dress-up event and a mini-market.

The majority of the movies in this 12th edition of the HorrorFest will be making their African premieres including Ouija: Origin of Evil on 27 October. The Makabra Ensemble's live movie soundtrack performance this year, on 29 October, will be for the 1932 French-German classic Vampyr, and will be linked with the audience Halloween dress-up competition and mini-market outside the cinema.

The festival opens on Wednesday, 26 October, from 6pm-8pm with the free Bloody Parchment literary evening, including local authors reading from their works.

12th South African HorrorFest lineup:

Wednesday, 26 October
6pm-8pm - Bloody Parchment (free literary event)

Thursday, 27 October
8:30pm - Ouija: Origin of Evil

Friday, 28 October
6:15pm - Shadow Realm Short Films Vol. 1
8:30pm - Rocky Horror Picture Show (audience participation screening)

Saturday, 29 October
Mini-market Day from 12pm-9pm
1:45pm - Attack of the Giant Leeches
4pm - Presagio (Omen)
8:30pm - Vampyr (Makabra Ensemble live soundtrack performance and Halloween dress-up competition)

Sunday, 30 October
1:45pm - Mania
4pm - Land of Smiles
6:15pm - Shadow Realm Short Films Vol. 2
8:30pm - Lights Out

Monday, 31 October
6:15pm - Peelers
8:30pm - Southbound

Tuesday, 1 November
6:15pm - Night Of The Virgin (La Noche Del Virgen)
8:30pm - Found Footage (2D screening)

Wednesday, 2 November
6:15pm - The Phantom Of Soho
8:30pm - Let Her Out

Thursday, 3 November
6:15pm - Shadow Realm Short Films Vol. 3
8:30pm - Bed of the Dead

Friday, 4 November
6:15pm - Lady Frankenstein
8:30pm - Fury of the Demon

Tickets cost R45 each (except live Vampyr soundtrack performance: R60).
Book online at www.quicket.co.za or call the Labia on 0214245927.

A segment of the movie lineup will also run at The Bioscope in Johannesburg in December.

For more info, go to www.horrorfest.info.