“The Beast”
Day 13 of the 2023 31-Days of Horror
The first film of a double feature to kick off the 2023 Sawdust City Fright Fest.
On vacation with his family in the countryside, a young city boy is forced to participate in wild boar hunts in the cornfields. Naive and fearful, he lives in constant fear of a mysterious beast that adults say lives in the countryside.
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Day 6 of the 2023 31-Days of Horror
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Two girls disappear into the woods then are discovered in a barn 30 miles away three days later with no memory of where or how long they were missing. It is quickly evident that there is something very wrong with the girls. The father of one of the girls, realizing that there is something sinister going on, reaches out to Chris MacNeil, whose recently published book discusses the same symptoms that the two girls are exhibiting. Soon, the families and community pull together to try to save the girls from the evil that has possessed them.
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Day 5 of the 2023 31-Days of Horror
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This prequel to The Exorcist, set in 1949, recounts Father Merrin’s first encounter with Pazuzu in Kenya, largely explaining the entire opening scene of that original movie. At a period in his life when Fr. Merrin has left the church and the priesthood and simply wants to be an archeologist, he is hired to excavate a mysterious find.
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Day 4 of the 2023 31-Days of Horror
This prequel to The Exorcist, set in 1949, recounts Father Merrin’s first encounter with Pazuzu in Africa, largely explaining the entire opening scene of that original movie. At a period in his life when Fr. Merrin has left the church and the priesthood and simply wants to be an archeologist, he is hired to excavate a mysterious find in Africa.
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Day 3 of the 2023 31-Days of Horror
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15 years have passed since the night of Regan MacNeil’s exorcism, the night both Father Merrin and Father Damian Karras (Jason Miller) died. Lt Kinderman (George C. Scott) is currently investigating a series of murders that exhibit all the hallmarks of a 17-year deceased serial killer. His investigation leads him to a psychiatric ward and Patient X, who arrived mysteriously 15 years ago.
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Day 2 of the 2023 31-Days of Horror.
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Picking up 4 years after the events of The Exorcist (1973), Regan (Linda Blair), who is 16 now, is undergoing psychotherapy to help her deal with the bad dreams from the memories she has repressed of her possession. With her actress mother on set making a movie, her nanny, Sharon (Kitty Winn), and her psychiatrist, Dr. Tuskin (Louise Fletcher), are her primary guardians. Meanwhile, Father Lamot (Richard Burton) is assigned to look into Father Merrin’s death, which occurred during Regan’s exorcism.
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Day 23 of the 2021 31-Days of Horror
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Jane Austin’s classic story of love and relationships between different classes … with a twist.
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Day 21 of the 31-Days of Horror
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Honestly I misread the title on the cover art as “Sausage Vows”, but decided to check it out anyway.
Mark lost his wife in a car accident, so, after the funeral, his friends (and Mark Polonia) decide to stay with him for the weekend as support. Turns out, they may not be such good friends.
“Bad Ben”
Day 2 31-days of horror 2022
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Tom Riley (Nigel Bach, who also wrote and directed the movie) purchases a house from a sheriff’s auction and as he begins to go through the belongings left behind to flip the house, he discovers why it was up for auction.
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Movie #1 of the 2022 31-days of horror.
This sequel was released 8 years after the first Wyrmwood. Where the first was a horror comedy that introduced its audience to some memorable characters and a creative new twist on the zombie genre, this one dropped most, if not all, of the comedy. It, instead, focused on how the survivors and the zombies had adapted and evolved post apocalypse.
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