Buried Alive Horror Film Festival
October 23rd-25th, 2008

The modern age of digital filmmaking has flooded the market with tons of films, especially horror films, one indistinguishable from the next. This is your chance to prove your film's worth. Feature and short, slasher, ghost story, zombie, horror-comedy, suspense, and horror documentary films are accepted. So submit your film to be seen by some of the industry's top professionals in the center of film making for the southeast. Awards are to be given based on various categories for the best films screened at the festival.
Our film festival is operated and judged by the people who bring you Splatter Cinema and The Silver Scream Spook Show in collaboration with FestivalLeague.com, the amazing independent organization who operates several great film festivals such as the Atlanta Underground Film Festival, Docufest, Animation Attack!, and the Montezuma International Film Fest in Costa Rica.

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2007 AHF AWARDS

Best Feature Film:
Evil Keg
Dir. Allen Wilbanks

Best Local Feature:
Bad Land
Dir. Ron Mclellen

Best Director:
Yfke van Berckelaer, Zombie Love

Best Documentary:
Blood, Boobs, and Beast
Dir. John Paul Kinhart

Best Horror-Comedy Feature:
Blood Car
Dir. Alex Orr

Best Schlock-Horror Film:
Come Get Some More
Dir. Steven Grainger

Best International Feature:
Gritos En El Pastillo(Going Nuts)
Dir. Manuel Cristobal

Best Short Film:
Of Darkness
Dir. Gary Irwin

Best Horror-Comedy Short:
Zombie Love
Dir. Yfke van Berckelaer

Best Local Short:
Jump Rope With Guts
Dir. Blake Myers

Best International Short:
Happy Birthday 2 You
Dir. David Alcalde

Best Animation:
Cannibal Flesh Riot
Dir. Gris Grimly

Best Cinematography
Of Darkness
Dir. Gary Irwin

Best Special FX:
W.O.R.M.
Dir. Anthony Sumner

 

2007 MOVIE SCHEDULE

Venues: Tickets:

The Highland Inn - Oct. 4-6
THE HIGHLAND INN NOW HAS A LIQOUR LISENCE

The Earl - Oct. 7 (closing party)


day pass films and vendors @ Highland Inn: $10


day pass Lenny's Bar: $10

day pass The Earl: $10


all access festival pass: $30

General Info:
email: atlantahorrorfest@yahoo.com

Warning: many all of these films contain violent and sexually explicit content.

These films are not suitable for children under the age of 17 without parental consent,

THE CREEPSHOW REELS
Thursday, October 4, 2007 @ The Highland Inn Ballroom

5:00pm - Horror Shorts Program 1  
BY APPOINTMENT ONLY -  20 min
Dir. Jon Faust  (USA)  
A grave situation that spirals deeper into the kind of shocking and twisted tale from which urban legends are born.
 

CRAZY LOVE - 5 min
Dir. William Van Cuyck (CA)
Charlie believes in love at first sight. From the moment his eyes fixed on Brenda, he knew she had to be his girl. Now, Charlie must overcome all obstacles on his way to winning Brenda’s heart.

 

GO ASK ALICE - 4 min
Dir. Shannon Lark (CA)
What Alice really saw at teatime.

 

ALL BECAUSE OF YOU - 8 min
Dir. Gary Lynch (GA)
A female first Internet date is with a serial killer that has a grudge with one of her roommates.

 

 

MISCREANT – 40 min
Dir. Christopher DiNunzio (MA)
A young columnist moves into her first apartment and soon becomes riddled with paranoia when she and her girlfriend become stalked by a man who believes that he is doing the work of God.

 

 

THE DOLLHOUSE - 26 min
Dir. C. Mark DeGaetani (MD)
The graceful old house by the creek may seem like the perfectly wholesome setting for beautiful Wendy White and her angelic six-year-old daughter, Lilly. While Lilly enjoys playing with her dolls, her mother delights in toying with the men she draws to her door. But things aren't always what they seem... You see, deep down inside, Wendy is a very bad girl.

 

7:00 - Feature Films  

THE CREEK  - 85 min
Dir. Eric Soulliard (NJ)
On the fifth anniversary of the death of their friend Billy, six friends are forced back together by his ghost. Billy’s death was officially considered an accident but old suspicions and conflicts return. When people start dying they all must ask themselves if it’s his ghost, one of them, or because they returned to the creek?

 

9:00  

MIYUKI - 95 min
Dir. Immanuel Martin (CA)
An affluent American family takes in a Japanese exchange student with a dark past…

 

10:45  

BLOOD CAR –
Dir. Alex Orr (GA)
In the near future gas prices have reached astronomical highs nearing $40 a gallon. One man, Archie Andrews, an environmentalist elementary school teacher, is trying to discover an alternate fuel source. While experimenting with wheat grass, Archie accidentally stumbles upon a solution. That solution turns out to be blood. HUMAN BLOOD!

 

   

 

 

 

MONSTERS, DEMONS, CREEPS, AND FREAKS
Friday, October 5, 2007 @ The Highland Inn Ballroom

5:30 - Horror Shorts Program 2

THE LYCANTHROPE – 10 min
Dir. Tony Quinn (TX)
After waking up in bed next to an eviscerated female corpse, Jonah becomes convinced that he is a Werewolf that goes on murderous, flesh-eating binges during the full moon. Desperate to end the cycle of killing, Jonah calls his best friend, Harris, and asks him to kill him to prevent the slaughter of any more innocent victims.

 

 

MONSTER MOVIE INSURANCE - 4 min
Dir. Jordan Albert (CA)
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THE CRAVING – 26 min
Dir. Kenneth Hurd(AL)
It is Christmas Eve and Claire is on her way home when she picks up a hitchhiker. As their trip progresses, Claire learns the dark secret of the hitchhiker, he is a werewolf.

 

 

A DARK AND LONELY KNIFE – 13 min
Dir. Rusty Robot (WI)
A sadistic model maker must fight for his life against one of his own creations

 

6:30 - Feature Films  

BLOOD, BOOBS, AND BEAST – 74 min
Dir. John Paul Kinhart  (MD)
Filmed shortly before his death, this is the compelling story of Don Dohler, whose b-horror and sci-fi movies have been called everything from oddly brilliant to some of the worst films of all time.

7:45  

GRITOS EN EL PASTILLO (GOING NUTS) - 75 min
Dir. Manuel Cristobal (Spain)
A prestigious fairytale illustrator is hired by a psychiatric hospital director. His job there will be to decorate the hospital walls with his drawings to improve the place’s atmosphere. It seems like an easy task but things get complicated when the sketcher discovers a dark corridor from where chilling screams come out.

 

9:00  

BADLAND – 88 min
Dir. Ron Mclellen (GA)
7 college students pledging their respective fraternity and sorority houses are taken out on a day trip to complete the final phase of their initiations. Led Astray, they find themselves trapped on private property, and hunted by a family of vicious hillbilly’s who will stop at nothing to preserve their horrifying secret.

 

10:30  
RAZORTOOTH - 90 min
Dir. Patricia Harrington (CA)
Four college students travel deep into the Florida Everglades to earn some extra credit for their biology class. Little do they know, the reason they're there is not to research eels; their professor has created a genetically modified super-eel, and they must capture it, or kill it. Meanwhile, Dr. Soren's old friend, Delmar, is also on the trail of the eel, while Delmar's ex, the sheriff, is chasing after two escaped convicts. When all of these groups converge, the results are exciting... and deadly!

 

 

THERE COMING TO EAT YOU ATLANTA
Saturday, October 6, 2007 @ The Highland Inn Ballroom

5:00 - Horror Shorts Program 3  

W.O.R.M. - 28 min
Dir. Anthony Sumner (IL)
William is a small machine in the big wheel that is N.I.M.R.O.D. Corporation. But everything is about to change, when he stumbles upon a discarded Nano-marketing application that allows him to engineer the way people think. Bizarre and titillating, sick and twisted, W.O.R.M. is the ultimate visceral extravaganza that remains as funny as it is disturbing.

 

LOOK AT US NOW - 7 min
Dir. ZombieCat  (GA)
A young woman is talking to her friend who is locked in the bathroom, turning into a zombie.

 

NIGHT OF THE HELL HAMSTERS – 16 min
Dir. Paul Campion (England/New Zealand)
On a dark and stormy night a young babysitter and her boyfriend fool around with the occult and summon up a demon which possesses the family hamsters, suddenly they find themselves fighting for their lives against a tiny furry bloodthirsty evil from the very pits of hell.

 

JUMP ROPE WITH GUTS – 3 mins
Dir. Blake Myers (GA)
Need we say more.

 

 

ATM – 5 min
Dir. Lucas Godfrey (GA)
All Logan wanted was some cash for some booze, now only blood can quench his thirst.

 
6:00 - Feature Films  

ZOMBIE LOVE – 37 min
Dir. Yfke van Berckelaer (USA/Netherlands)
The musical Zombie Love tells the story of Dante, a 200 year old zombie, who falls in love with Claudia, a mortal girl, after he saves her from an attack by two grave robbers. Thinking that a zombie could never win her love, he changes his flesh-eating ways in order to win the girl of his dreams.

6:40  

THE FOREVER DEAD – 105 min
Dir. Christine Parker (NC)
A crazed rabbit escapes from a lab infecting the townspeople turning them into zombies. It follows the stories of 6 people affected by the outbreak who end up in an old creepy house struggling with their own inner demons as well as those outside.

 

8:30  

COME GET SOME MORE – 60 min
Dir Steven Grainger (GA)
The evil U-Ned-A Corporation is selling the living dead as the ultimate source of cheap labor. Repeatedly having to clean up the aftermath when the zombie workers go berserk, the HUDS(Human Undead Defense Service) call in the "Last Resort" to take U-Ned-A down. More Action. More Gore. Less IQ. Come Get Some More

 

9:30 - Intermission

 
 
10:00  
EVIL KEG – 93 min
Dir. Allen Wilbanks (GA)
Marcus Colby's family brewery, Col-Brew Brewing, is knee deep in financial trouble when Beer Mistress Vivian develops a revolutionary zero calorie beer. Unfortunately her late night experiments reveal a slight side effect; any one who drinks it turns into a flesh eating freak. When Marcus finds out about the bad beer he immediately sends Vivian home. The sexy evil beer mistress decides to get even and uses her invention for evil and world domination. She seizes Marcus' brewery and cooks up enough libations to infect the entire town. It's up to Marcus to save the family business, the townspeople, the love of his life, his father and the world.

 

GHASTLY GHOULS 1.5 hrs
Sunday, October 7, 2007 @ The Earl
$10
The Earl is a 21+ venue

6:00 - Short Film Program 4  

A THOUSAND WORDS: BLOODLINE - 26 min
Dir. J. Michael Lewis & Jerod Brennen (OH) 
Ian, a voyeuristic serial killer with a penchant for photography, protects his son, Steven, as the youngest boy struggles to win the heart of the girl next door.

 

OF DARKNESS – 21 min
Dir. Gary Irwin (PN)
While cleaning out their recently deceased grandfather’s belongings, a group of kids inadvertently stumble upon an ancient book; one of mysterious and malevolent origin.
Seizing the opportunity, the gang uses the book as a scare tactic against their favorite target and youngest member. He opens the book and unwittingly unleashes a malicious entity.  An unseen force that has chosen to target the boys...an evil that has chosen the form ‘of Darkness’.

 

ELECTRICAL SKELETAL - 6 min.
Dir. Brian Lonano (NY)
Winner, best Sci-Fi Short, Atlanta Underground Film Festival 2007
A refreshing return to black and white B Horror and Sci-Fi films of the 50's.

 

HAPPY BIRTHDAY 2 YOU - 14 min.
Dir. David Alcalde (Spain)
Winner, Best Horror Short, Atlanta Underground Film Festival 2007
Clara is going to discover a dark secret in this story about obsession, cats and birthday presents.

 

 

KASTING – 2 min
Dir, Alyosha Saari  (England)
Monica goes to an audition for a part to die for.

 

 

CALLOUS SENTIMENT – 13 min
Dir. Vincent Grashaw (CA)
A boy observes random and bizarre acts of violence that takes place inside an abandoned playground.

 

 

CANNIBAL FLESH RIOT - 29 min
Dir. Gris Grimly (CA)
Back comedy about unusual friendships, culinary tastes, and the repercussions for feasting on the dead. A stylish modern film that mixes verbal wit, stop motion and B-horror from the 50’s drive-in era.

8:00 - Special Events  

SILVER SCREAM SPOOKSHOW-
Check out a special live performace with your favorite horror host - Professor Morte. As well as live burlesque from Atlanta's own BLAST OFF BURLESQUE!!!

9:00 - Live Music