Fantastic Fest 2009, which takes place in Austin, Texas, USA Sept 24-Oct 1, 2009 has a bunch of female-directed horror films, both shorts and features, that rock! Celia Rico's Dos Manos Zurdas y un Racimo de Ojos Manchados de Gris, Tracie Laymon's Inside, Alicia Conway's Rite, Barbara Brancaccio's documentary Cropsey, and Esther Gronenborn's Kaifeck Murders are all screening this year. Find out synopses and more below...
Inside (dir Tracie Laymon, USA, 13 min)
What do you do when there's something growing inside of you? You get rid of it.
Rite (dir. Alicia Conway, USA, 9 min)
Blossoming to adulthood is no picnic. A dreamish, jarring vision of growing up.
Cropsey
(dir. Barbara Brancaccio and Joshua Zeman, 2009, USA)
Cropsey is a documentary about a real-life murder case in Staten Island, New York. A disturbed transient named Andre Rand was convicted of murdering two kids, but did he actually commit the crimes? Cropsey digs deep into the case, and in the process, exposes the weird, secret underbelly of Staten Island.
Kaifeck Murder
(dir. Esther Gronenborn, 2009, Germany)
Marc appears to be having a breakdown, the stern man now plagued by visions and prone to walking in his sleep, a situation that set in when he arrived in the village of Kaifeck with his young son. But could there be truth to Marc’s visions? And is history about to repeat?
LOL probably not. But we can hope!
I'm still waiting for Punky Brewster to show up at a Comic Con in San Diego. That'll be my dream come true!
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