Selection of Shorts Vol. I
“Welcome To Our Nightmare”

CLEAN BREAK (USA 2010: Written/Directed by Ryan Lieske. 3 mins)
A teaser for the latest weirdness from Michigan’s Collective Studios starring the skeleton of your dreams, J.D. Strickland.

OFF SEASON (USA 2009: Written/Directed by Jonathan van Tulleken. 13 mins)
What is that alcoholic man and his dog doing raiding winter-empty vacation homes? And who or what is the sinister shape in the mysterious house? Chilling! Creepy!

THE DEVIL’S TOY (USA 2010: Written by Chris Keaton/Directed by Alex Lugones. 9 mins)
The GIs thought they were out to kill Nazis, but now they have to fight a Satanic menace. A taut WWII-set scare story.

SINKHOLE (USA 2009: Written/Directed by Eric Scherbarth. 13 mins)
The broker thought it would be an easy deal buying up the strange, smoldering, abandoned coal mines, but what exactly is he buying?

2.22 (USA 2009: Written by Eric Saavedra and Steven Shea/Directed by Shea. 9 mins)
Girls’ night out. Hot chicks, a hot, new club – and a hot new man to die for. (And yes, Virginia, there will be blood. Lots of blood…)

REMOTE (Canada 2008: Written/Directed by Marc Roussel. 20 mins)
Television. A  live temporal connection with the past. Can a man stop a murder which took place 30 years ago?

FATHER’S DAY (Canada, 2010: Written/Directed by Astron-6. 4 mins)
The sickest, most insane short you’ll see all festival; the trailer for a forthcoming retro-grindhouse feature coming in 2011, made by the Astron-6 maniacs from Winnipeg, Manitoba. Not to be missed! (But you might want to close your eyes.)

OPENING FEATURE – Plus Special Surprise Short!
AMP ENERGY JUICE PRESENTS

Terry Gilliam’s
THE LEGEND OF HALLOWDEGA

**WORLD THEATRICAL PREMIERE**
Starring David Arquette
Buried Alive is proud to present, in conjunction with sponsor Amp Energy Juice,  the first ever theatrical screening of this new short by the irrepressible Terry Gilliam. The host of a paranormal investigations TV show (Justin Kirk) meets a crack-pot techno-geek redneck (a totally demented David Arquette), who tries to convince him that the reason for all the spectacular car crashes at the Talladega Superspeedway is because it is built atop an ancient Native American Indian burial mound and haunted by pissed off ghosts. Creepy, hilarious – only Gilliam could make NASCAR this creepy and funny! Watch out for the bananas…

SHE WOLF RISING – Southeast Theatrical Premiere
(USA 2010. Written/Directed by Marc Leland. 89 mins)
Starring: Tiffany Shepis, Tim Mandala. With Debbie Rochon, Ruby Larocca.
SHE WOLF RISING is part mystery, part balls-to-the-wall horror flick and a strange love story with off-kilter humor – all wrapped up in a supernatural thriller which keeps its audience on edge. Actress Gina Sklar (Shepis), reigning Scream Queen of low-budget horror, lures ardent fan, Jake Bubar (Tim Mandala), into a world of illusion, lies and violent death when footage from her greatest film – the movie which may be her big ticket to mainstream success – is stolen. Film “reality” bleeds into reality, but which reality is really real? Weird, whacky, sexy, gory: SHE WOLF RISING will keep you guessing until its bloody end.

Trailer

http://www.shewolfrising.com/

Philip Nutman’s Nightmares: My Favorite Horror Shorts

LANGLIENA (Italy 2009: Written/Directed by Emiliano Ranzani. 7 mins)
A bloody tribute to the gory Italian horror movies of the 80s, Ranzani’s film is a short, sharp trip to hell.

THE DEMONOLOGY OF DESIRE (Canada 2007: Written/Directed by Rodrigo Gudino. 22 mins)
The most bizarre, demented, disturbing short I’ve seen this decade. Unclassifiable weirdness from award-winning Canadian filmmaker Rodrigo Gudino, one of the founders of RUE MORGUE magazine.

FOET (USA 2007: Written/Directed by Ian Fischer. 15 mins)
Fischer’s multiple award-winning adaptation of F. Paul (THE KEEP) Wilson’s classic short story will put you off handbags for life.

SADNESS (Brazil 2010: Written/Directed by Andre Paim. 9 minutes)
– followed by a 10 min Q & A with the filmmaker.
A deeply disturbing meditation on loss, madness and murder by a rising talent of Brazilian cinema.

The Penny Dreadful Fever Dreams of Ashley Thorpe (UK 2008-2009)
THE SCREAMING SKULL (10 mins), SCAYRECROW (11 mins), THE HAIRY HANDS (11 mins)
– followed by 10 min Q & A with the filmmaker.

Three award-winning shorts from the most unique British filmmaker since Clive Barker unleashed his macabre visions upon the world. Artist Ashley Thorpe’s stunning blend of live action and animation is unlike anything you’ve seen before. Miss at your peril!

PLAGUE (Australia 2009: Written by Matt Simpson/Directed by Joseph Avery & Simpson. 17 mins)
Bored by zombies? (Yawn!) Not after you experience Australian writer/co-director Matt Simpson’s disturbing, scary, existential award-winning vision of the undead apocalypse.

Terry Gilliam’s
THE LEGEND OF HALLOWDEGA
Starring David Arquette

Buried Alive is proud to present, in conjunction with sponsor Amp Energy Juice,  the second  ever theatrical screening of this new short by the irrepressible Terry Gilliam. The host of a paranormal investigations TV show (Justin Kirk) meets a crack-pot techno-geek redneck (a totally demented David Arquette), who tries to convince him that the reason for all the spectacular car crashes at the Talladega Superspeedway is because it is built atop an ancient Native American Indian burial mound and haunted by pissed off ghosts. Creepy, hilarious – only Gilliam could make NASCAR this creepy and funny! Watch out for the bananas…

FANGORIA PRESENTS:

SATAN HATES YOU – Southeast Premiere
(Written/Directed by James Felix McKenney. 94 mins)
Starring: Don Wood, Christine Spencer, Angus Scrimm, Reggie Bannister, Larry Fessenden. With Michael Berryman and Debbie Rochon.

Sex, drugs, rock n roll, abortion, gay-bashing – the Devil made me do it!!! SATAN HATES YOU is a funny/creepy pastiche of classic Christian “cautionary” films like Ron Ormond’s IF FOOTMEN TIRE YOU… Marc (Wood) is a homicidal maniac driven by demons; Wendy is a fast and loose rock ‘n’ roll, drug-snorting slut who thinks nothing of the consequences of her actions. Their paths will cross, but will it be on the road to salvation or the highway to Hell? “Weird and wild…a subversive work of art.” – Shock Cinema magazine. (Caution: do not eat while watching the abortion scene!)

Trailer
http://www.monsterpants.net/shyfangtrailer.html

Selection of Shorts Vol II – “The Good, The Weird And The Ugly”

PAPA WRESTLING (Portugal 2009: Written by Fernando Alle & Andre Silva/Directed by Fernando Alle. 9 mins)
Your inner bully will think twice about picking on people after seeing this bollock-busting, head-crushing slice of luchagor lunacy from Portugal. Splatstick at its hilarious best.

FRANK DANCOOLO: PARANORMAL DRUG DEALER (USA 2010, Andrew Jones, 8mins)
In the annoyingly sparkly futurescape of Neo-Mega-Ultra Tokyo, reporter Holly Malone tracks a murderous urban legend. A trippy comedy featuring a brutal blend of computer-generated overkill, cartoon physics and stop-motion monsters.

MASSACRATOR (Canada 2009: Written/Directed by Pierre Ayotte.  4 mins)
Elvis is back from the grave to fight Massacrator. Who will win? Originally filmed in something called “Super-8.”

WHEELS OF DEATH (Ireland 2008: Written/Directed by Edward & Rob Kennedy.  6 mins)
Wendy returns home to an empty house after being involved in a hit and run only to find that she hasn’t come back alone.

BEING JASON (USA 2010: Written/Directed by Mike Doyle. 8 mins)
The ennui of being Voorhees. When he’s kicked out of his Christian support group, Jason has a life crisis until an old friend intervenes.

GET OFF OF MY PORCH (USA 2010: Written/Directed by Patrick Rae. 13 mins)
Beware of strange, creepy little Girl Scouts offering strange, creepy cookies.

TUB (USA 2009. Written/Directed by Bobby Miller. 12 mins)
Paul jerked off in the shower. Paul just impregnated his bathtub. (Need we say more? Think Cronenberg and Lynch joining the Farrelly Brothers for a celluloid gang-bang.)

THE UNITED MONSTER TALENT AGENCY (USA 2010: Written/Directed by Greg Nicotero. 8 mins)
A “lost” Movietone News story about the rise of monsters in Hollywood in the 1940s and their talent agency. Yes, the Gill-Man and the Werewolf were real! Guest-starring directors Frank Darabont, Eli Roth and Robert Rodriguez. Features the best creature effects you’ll see this year!

APATHY BREEDS CONTEMPT (USA 2007: Written/Directed by Rory Abel.  9 mins)
A pig-masked psychopath. A basement torture room. An almost naked male victim. Why are you watching this?

Buried Alive Film Festival Film-Makers’ Fright-time:

Featuring Special Guest Film-Makers –
From Great Britain, Ashley Thorpe, and Michigan-based Collective Studios’ Ryan Lieske, Rick Reed, Daniel Falicki, Stephen Grey and actor Joseph Scott Anthony.
And live in the bones! Star and world-famous skeleton author, J.D. Strickland!!!

Films:
The Penny Dreadful Fever Dreams of Ashley Thorpe:
THE SCREAMING SKULL, SCAYRECROW, THE HAIRY HANDS (UK, 2008-2009; 32 mins)
Three award-winning shorts from the most unique British filmmaker since Clive Barker unleashed his macabre visions upon the world. Artist Ashley Thorpe’s stunning blend of live action and animation is unlike anything you’ve seen before. Miss at your peril!

Q & A with Ashley Thorpe
Trailer
http://www.imdb.com/video/wab/vi4229366553/

Followed by

Breaking Bones with J.D. Strickland and Collective Studios:
CLEAN BREAK (USA, 2010; 30 mins)
J.D. Strickland is a bestselling author, who also happens to be a skeleton. He has fame, money, and runaway success. However, he isn’t feeling creatively fulfilled. He wants to leave behind his popular series of “Skeleton Books” (“Skeleton In Space,” “Skeleton of the Sahara,” etc.) and write a novel about real people, living real lives; he longs to finally be what he’s always dreamed of being: “a voice for those in the world who have no voice to tell their own stories.” His publisher, though, is none too happy about this. Will our bony, literary hero find a way to appease his creative spirit, or will he be forced to sell out by those who control his creative strings?

Q & A with co-writer/director Lieske, exec. producer/editor Rick Reed, plus designer/film-maker Daniel Falicki, puppeteer Stephen Grey and actor Joseph Scott Anthony – if J.D. will let them speak!

Trailer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSOyfRs1yoY

Selection of Shorts Vol.III – Local Shorts

SUMMER’S GONE and I REMEMBER DYING ON HALLOWEEN
(USA 2010. Written/Directed by Eddie Ray. 10 mins)
In SUMMER’S GONE, find out what Jason Voorhees does with himself after the campers have all gone home. And in his most recent short, Ray weaves a charming tale of two ghosts who become friends on Halloween.

NECROMANCE
(USA 2010. Written/Directed by Matt Munson. 29 mins)
Donald tries to save his boyhood hero from a crazy zombie film crew.

SHADOW PUPPETS (USA 2010. Written/Directed by Sam Carter. 16 mins.)
A great puppet monster conspiracy movie from the director who received Honorable Mention in the 2009 Buried Alive Film Fest!

BERRY SCARY (USA 2010. Written/Directed by Andrew Shearer. 6 mins.)
While trying to relax in her home, a woman is sent running through the house, haunted by the most unlikely of ghosts

FEATURE: Buried Alive Presents a Special FUNIMATION ENTERTAINMENT Screening of ROBOGEISHA  – Southeast Premiere

More Japanese madness from the Nippon maniacs who brought you TOKYO GORE POLICE, THE MACHINE GIRL and the recently released VAMPIRE GIRL VS. FRANKENSTEIN GIRL. Not as blood-drenched as TGP or MACHINE GIRL, but just as demented: sprays of acid breast milk, face melting, ninja ass swords, robots, giant building monsters, high-rises that bleed… Yes, there’s a plot, but do you care? Lots of cute Japanese girl in bikinis with samurai swords kicking ass, dicing and slicing yakuza, and old people with weapons implants. Forget ROBOCOP– ROBOGEISHA!! Paul Verhoeven, eat your heart out!

PLUS!
BLARGHAAAHRGARG – American Premier!
(15 mins)  Mutant snot, pussy (cat) eating, Grandma-gobbling – more grue and spew from nutty Portuguese director Fernando Alle and his crazy gang at Clones, the people who brought you the insane PAPA WRESTLING (screening earlier Saturday).

Trailers:

Robogeisha:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wo-gGes6qig

BLARGHAAAHRGARG:

http://www.clonespt.com/blarghaaarhrgarg.html

FEATURE: SOMETHING WEIRD VIDEO PRESENTS

Frank Henenlotter& Jimmy Maslon’s
HERSCHELL GORDON LEWIS: THE GODFATHER OF GORE
– Southeast Premiere
(USA, 2010. Written/Directed by Frank Henenlotter & Jimmy Maslon. 110 mins.)
Frank (BASKET CASE) Henenlotter & Jimmy Maslon’s fascinating documentary on legendary low-budget moviemaker Lewis, father of the splatter film and the man responsible for such Southern exploitation bargain-basement classics as JUST FOR THE HELL OF IT, BLAST-OFF GIRLS and early nudie-cuties. Featuring director and Lewis fan John Waters, Joe Bob Briggs, legendary exploitation producer David F. Friedman, Lewis himself, and irrepressible pin-up queen Bunny Yeager. The documentary contains numerous rare out-takes, tons of cheesecake cuties and all the gore Lewis fans love.

Trailer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dctVt2pDXJg

SPLATTER CINEMA PRESENTS A MIDNIGHT MADNESS FEATURE

Original 35mm print of….

TWO THOUSAND MANIACS!

(USA 1964. Written/Directed by Herschell Gordon Lewis. 87 mins).

What can or needs to be said about Lewis’s classic splatter-fest tale other than the South will rise again and that it’s BRIGADOON with buckets of blood? Stars Playboy’s June 1963 Playmate Connie Mason, with a hoard of Georgia hicks with murder on their minds.

Trailer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CP7ROBiljt4

Beyond the Grave Art Show & Buried Alive!

After Party at the Highlander, 931 Monroe Drive, Atlanta, GA