The 16th annual Philadelphia Film Festival has announced its lineup, including a number of notable fright features in its genre-centric Danger After Dark sidebar. Among the movies showing between April 5-18 are Douglas Buck’s remake of SISTERS (pictured); the anthology TRAPPED ASHES, with segments directed by Ken Russell, Sean S. Cunningham, Joe Dante, Monte Hellman and John Gaeta; S&MAN, J.T. Petty’s dark look at horror subcultures; TRIGGER MAN, the hunters-becoming-the-hunted opus from THE ROOST’s Ti West; Simon Rumley’s truly disturbing family psychodrama THE LIVING AND THE DEAD; Chris (CREEP) Smith’s satirical slasher SEVERANCE; and Maurice ($LA$HER$) Devereaux’s subway shocker END OF THE LINE.
And that’s just the English-language stuff; foreign-speaking entries include the terrifying ILS (THEM) by French filmmakers David Moreau and Xavier Palud; Japan’s UNHOLY WOMEN, a three-part fright fest from writer/directors including Keita (ZEIRAM) Amemiya, and the SAW-esque WICKED FLOWERS, scripted and helmed by Torico; Pavel Ruminov’s Russian vengeful-ghost drama DEAD DAUGHTERS; THE UNSEEABLE, a period Thai chiller helmed by TEARS OF THE BLACK TIGER’s Wisit Sasanatieng; HELL’S GROUND, the first zombie movie from Pakistan; and the Hungaria carnival of the grotesque TAXIDERMIA, directed and co-scripted by György Pálfi.
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