The Ultimate Guide To Brooklyn Horror Film Festival 2022

Saturday, October 15

Something in the Dirt

(USA | 2022 | 116 Min. | Dir. Justin Benson, Aaron Moorhead) Screen #1 11:30 AM

Two neighbors in a future Los Angeles join forces to record and document an otherworldly phenomenon taking place in one of their apartments. Now major players in the Marvel Universe sandbox, genre film darlings Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead (Spring, The Endless) have returned to their independent sci-fi roots, adding another cosmic mindfuck to their resume. An XYZ Films Release. (Joseph Hernandez)

Miskatonic Institute Of Horror Studies: A Splinter in the Eye, a Cat in the Brain: The Films of Lucio Fulci

Screen #7 1:00 PM

Lucio Fulci is one of the most (in)famous directors of Italian horror cinema, helping define the look and feel of Italo-horror over the span of his decades-long career. In this presentation, we’ll take a look at his body of work from the early-career slapstick comedy to his groovy giallo contributions and on to the mind-melting gore operas of his Gates of Hell trilogy. This event will be hosted by Tenebrous Kate, writer, artist, and cohost of the podcast Bad Books for Bad People.

Shorts: Slayed LGBTQ+ Horror Shorts

Screen #6 1:10 PM

Always a BHFF crowd favorite, the fest’s signature celebration of queer horror is back with a wide range of styles and moods, ranging from chilling psychological menace to vibrant experimentation.

Shorts: Head Trip

Screen #7 2:30 PM

BHFF’s annual gathering of the year’s best genre-bending shorts returns with an excellent barrage of subversion, including unconventional looks at body horror, extraterrestrial macabre, and socially minded descents into madness.

Sinphony

(USA | 2022 | 88 Min. | Dir. Jason Ragosta, Steven Keller, Haley Bishop, Sebastien Bazile, Nichole Carson, Wes Driver, Kimberley Elizabeth, Michael Galvan, Mark A. Pritchard, Jason Wilkinson) Screen #6 3:25 PM

Ghosts, witches, parasites, and more populate the nine segments in this ambitious and uniquely conceived anthology. Born out of the social audio app Clubhouse, SInphony introduces a new crop of horror filmmakers who pack as much energy and unpredictability as possible into their respective shorts, resulting in a lively omnibus that never lets up. A Dark Sky Films Release. (Matt Barone)

Shorts: Creeping Terror

Screen #7 4:45 PM

Sit back and prepare to not relax with this collection of terrifying and meticulously paced exercises in patient dread, punctuated by folk horror and familial paranoia.

Mother Superior

(Austria | 2022 | 71 Min. | Dir. Marie Alice Wolfszahn) Screen #6 5:40 PM

Sigrun Fink, an anesthesiologist-in-training, agrees to work as an in-home nurse for an aging Baroness in her dilapidated manor. The old woman, once director of an Aryan maternity ward, might be able to help Sigrun locate her real parents—a mystery she’s been tormented by her entire life. Although answers quickly begin to reveal themselves, they come at a high price, one of dangerous folk magic and insidious occult ideals. From the incredibly stylish opening credits to the gorgeous gothic imagery and dynamic storytelling, you’d never guess this is director Marie Alice Wolfszahn’s first feature. A remarkable debut. (Joseph Hernandez)

Terror Train

(US/Canada | 2022 | 91 Min | Dir. Philippe Gagnon) Screen #7 7:15 PM

Free screening presented by Tubi!

Lovers of ’80s slasher cinema know all about the Jamie-Lee-Curtis-led favorite Terror Train (1980). Now, 42 years later Tubi is set to thrill horror fans with a contemporary reimagining of this cult classic. Keeping many of the original’s elements, including the killer’s clown mask obsession, intact, Tubi’s rambunctious and blood-drenched new remake takes place during a Halloween-themed bash, where college seniors on board a party train soon find themselves amidst locomotive-bound carnage en route to its body-count-heavy final destination. A Tubi Original

The Beyond: Composer’s Cut

(1981 | Dir. Lucio Fulci) Screen #6 7:30 PM

The second entry into Fulci’s Gates of Hell trilogy, this may be the director’s true magnum opus, a disorienting and, let’s face it, narratively confusing but nevertheless wonderful piece of nasty dream logic horror. An unlucky woman inherits a rundown Louisiana hotel that just so happens to be the doorway to Hell and its zombie masses. For the film’s latest edition, original composer Fabio Frizzi has arranged a brand-new score that brings new life to Fulci’s undead classic. (Matt Barone)

Calvaire HD Re-Master

(Belgium, France, Luxembourg | 2004 | 88 Min | Dir. Fabrice Du Welz) Screen #7 9:15 PM

The setup is basic enough: A guy, lost in an unfamiliar town, is taken in by a seemingly kind stranger after his van breaks down. Everything after that, however, is anything but basic. One of the most underrated of all early 2000s horror films, Fabrice Du Welz’s (Vinyan, Alleluia) debut feature is mesmerizingly unclassifiable, merging the weird with the creepy and the flat-out vicious to form a beautiful stew of insanity. And with this new restoration, Du Welz’s bizarre masterwork has never looked better. A Yellow Veil Pictures Release. (Matt Barone)

Content Warning: This film contains graphic sexual content and violence.

Falcon Lake

(Canada, France | 2022 | 99 Min. | Dir. Charlotte Le Bon) Screen #6 9:30 PM

Caught between childhood and adulthood, Bastien and Chloè spend their summer vacation with their families at a haunted lake cabin in rural Quebec. Tropes of drowning, ghosts, and death linger throughout the assured debut by actor turned director Charlotte Le Bon that follows two teens whose few days together will ultimately change them forever. (Justin Timms)