Sean Parker
Revered as a “Top 100 Film Festival” by FilmFreeway and “One of the Best Horror Film Festivals in the World” by Dread Central, Nevermore Film Festival is a leader among the world’s genre festivals, gaining popularity and prominence since its inception in 1999. Nevermore has announced their lineup for their 23rd film festival weekend, set to begin over the final weekend in February.
The festival will be a hybrid. Physical attendees can participate in festivities happening at the Carolina Theatre in Durham, North Carolina, from the 25th to the 27th. Virtual attendees will have the option to view films until March 3 through the Eventive app available on AppleTV, Fire TV, and Roku devices or streamable through IOS and Android devices via Chromecast. However, the festival will be limited to the residents of North Carolina, South Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Virginia.
Films showing at this year’s festival include Horror Obsessive favorites Crabs!, Kratt, and Dawn Breaks Behind the Eyes. Other feature-length films include Human Resources, a mystery about disappearing employees at an eerie hardware store, Manfish, a rom-com about a man and sea creature that develop feelings for each other. Death Cast, where a group of young hopefuls joins a slasher film that’s actually occurring. And The Andy Baker Tape, which shows the last known footage of a food blogger and his half-brother. Viewers can also check out a host of short films, including the US Premieres of Tristan Shepard’s Viral, Luis Enrique Vanegas Obando’s Elena, and the World Premiere of Wesley Wang’s Mute. See all of the films on the Nevermore festival website.
As with most hybrid festivals, some of the films will only be playing during the physical portion of the Nevermore festival, so be sure to check the events page before you make any plans. Physical attendees can buy tickets to individual showings via Ticketmaster at thirteen dollars and thirty-five cents per ticket, or a ten-ticket pass can be purchased by calling the Carolina Theatre box office. Eighty dollars buy an all-access pass to the entire virtual festival, or you can buy tickets to individual showings through Eventive for ten dollars plus fees.
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