Peoria’s Drunken Zombie Film Festival Starts November 4th!

For those of you that have followed us long enough, you know that we were a podcast (new format/episodes coming in November) before a full website. Our friends over at the Drunken Zombie podcast have an annual film festival and they are celebrating their forth year.  Check out the details below and support Drunken Zombie & independent cinema.

From the Press Release:

We are happy to announce our line up for the 2011 Drunken Zombie Film Festival November 4^th and 5^th inPeoria,IL. This is the fourth year we have done the film festival and it just continues to get bigger every year. We bring independent horror films to fans that might otherwise have not seen them. This year we are teaming up with Landmark Cinemas to bring you to the best experience yet for the Drunken Zombie Film Festival. Just before the festival they are expanding their back lobby concession stand. They will be offering a whole new menu with an awesome selection of food. We will be having vendors at this year’s festival. Awesome companies like Megazombie and the locally owned Blunt Force Cinema will be on hand to sell merchandise to the film festival attendees. We’ll be having give aways from companies like Chemical Burn, The Asylum, Alternative Cinema, Acme Comics, and Crazy Dog Shirts. We’re also happy to be teaming up with WAOE-TV MY59 as a media partner. They run a horror host program called The Creepy KOFY Movie Time every Saturday night at midnight.

 

This year we will be screening 9 feature films and 13 short films. Of which 3 of those films are locally filmed. Everything from horror comedies, psychological terror, creature features, animated zombies, stop motion undead, slashers, ghosts, and even unicorns will be at this year’s event. Everyone will be able to find something they like. Tickets are $10 for Friday Night, $15 for Saturday Night, or you can get a weekend pass for $20. For any inquires feel free to go to www.drunkenzombiefilmfestival.com

 

November 4th

Friday 7P-12A:

7PM Skew

8:30PM Sed De Luz

8:40PM True Nature

10:20PM Le Blanc C’est Le Meilleur

10:30PM Toxic Lullaby

5:21PM I hate Zombies

 

November 5th

Saturday 12P-12A

12PM Zombeak!

1:30PM The Feed

3:00PM El MonstrodelMar!

4:30PM – Shorts:

4:30PM Thy Kill Be Done

4:50PM Cell Phone Psycho

4:55PM Night Of The Intruder

5:00PM Fitness Class Zombie

5:01PM Giant Rubber Monster Movie

5:26PM The Transient

5:56PM Unicorns

5:58PM A Chance In Hell

6:28PM Sleep Tight

6:33PM Whisper

7PM The Selling

8:40PM Dead Bodies Everywhere

10:00PM The Taint

 

Feature Films:

Skew:

When Simon, Rich, and Eva head out on an eagerly anticipated road trip, they bring along a video camera to record their journey. What starts out as a carefree adventure slowly becomes a descent into the ominous as unexplained events threaten to disrupt the balance between the three close friends. Each one of them must struggle with personal demons and paranoia as friendships are tested and gruesome realities are revealed…and recorded.

 

True Nature:

The Pascal family has it all – wealth, power, privilege – but their picture perfect lives change forever when their college-athlete daughter Marianne disappears one night while running. She mysteriously returns a year later with no memory of what happened to her. Despite being haunted by strange visions and nightmares that encroach upon her waking hours, Marianne struggles to resume a normal life. But other forces are at work and the world the Pascals have built starts to unravel the closer Marianne gets to discovering that somewhere between life and death, lies the truth. A gripping combination of family drama and supernatural thriller, TRUE NATURE harkens back to the edgy fare of Polanski, Kubrick, and American films of the 1970s. This chilling tale of the American Dream gone awry examines the destructive power of guilt and the desire for redemption in a modern-day family that has been blessed with every advantage, but pays a heavy price for its comfort.

 

Toxic Lullaby:

It’s the story of Eloise, who wakes up in a destroyed, life-threatening world after a bad drug trip. Separated from her friends, she learns to survive in a bizarre reality. The world around her is chaotic. She learns that this situation originated in a financial crisis and the following speculations about the last food resources – and the complete destruction of the latter. In addition, the use of biological weapons spread a virus among the human species – causing them to become dangerous mutants (sleepers). In this desperate situation, she joins a group of people, who, like her, are motivated by the longing to flee this nightmare

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Zombeak:

On the darkest night of the year, when Satan is allowed free reign to walk the earth, a  motley crew of Satanists kidnap a sharp tongued southern waitress to be a given up as the Dark One’s bride and mortal host of the antichrist. But when her rowdy redneck friends botch up the ritual in a violent rescue attempt, all power of hell is inadvertently transferred into the most unlikely of hosts: a sacrificed chicken! Now, the Satanists and

rednecks battle one another as an evil most fowl threatens to swallow their souls and transform them into a demonic army of the walking dead! Who will survive the terror of Zombeak!?

 

The Feed:

Having secured what appears to be the ultimate venue in the form of the historic Brenway Movie Theatre, the Ghost Chasers, a team of reality TV paranormal investigators, are confident that their annual live broadcast will be one of their best shows to date. However, when the sleepy Central Pennsylvania movie house turns out to be a bit more active than they had anticipated, the prospect of record-breaking ratings quickly takes a back seat to the basest of all human instincts: Survival.

 

El Monstro Del Mar:

Three gorgeous but deadly hired killers, Beretta, Blondie and Snowball, hole up in a small beachside community to keep a low profile. But this town has a dark secret. The local old sea baron, Joseph, tries desperately to warn them to never go into the water. But these crazy vixens listen to no one, especially no crazy assed old fool. So the Kraken awakes! Now,along with Joseph and his beautiful grand daughter, Hannah, they must

fight for their lives against this furious creature of the deep as the sea rises in a tidal wave of blood.

 

The Selling:

Richard Scarry is too nice. He’s a real estate agent who tries to talk people out of buying houses they can’t afford. When his business partner Dave Ross comes up with a scheme to flip an old house for profit he only agrees because he needs to find a way to pay for his sick mother’s medical bills.

As Richard and Dave start fixing up the house for buyers, it becomes obvious why their real estate nemesis Mary Best was so eager to pass the house along to them. Disembodied voices tell them to leave, walls bleed, and a portal to the spirit realm opens in an upstairs closet. In short, the house is haunted. Leveraged to the hilt, Richard must figure out a way to get rid of the house before its ghostly inhabitants ruin his life. He enlists the aid of his intimidating old Sunday school teacher Father Jimmy to perform an

exorcism and a Ghost Right’s Activist named Ginger Sparks to conduct a seance, each with disastrous results. As the pressure mounts, Richard finds someone to take possession of the house. But when an evil spirit decides to move out of the house and into Richard’s body, he soon discovers he has a whole new set of possession problems.

 

Dead Bodies Everywhere (Local Film):

A group of seven friends embark on a weekend getaway. When they get there, things seem a bit off. They come across Arthur Grigsby, a brutal serial killer who has one goal: Kill Everyone.

 

The Taint:

The water is tainted. The Taint poisons the minds of men. It turns them into raging misogynists: monsters who want nothing more than to crush women’s heads with rocks (or other objects). When society is transformed into a land of sadistic violence and horrible brutality, it is up to Phil O’Ginny and his hot friend, Misandra, to combat the horrible evil that is The Taint. Can they survive a world brimming with castration and endless head crushing?!

 

Short Films:

 

Sed De Luz:

A man comes home to find his house broken into. He thinks everything in his life may be lost but everything is never as it seems.

 

Le Blanc C’est Le Meilleur:

When you are a zombie used to eating businessmen on prestigious golf courses and that you have never come across a black man, you might think twice before eating a lost wanderer with darker skin … But cooking is yet again a field of discovery and creativity… So … let’s forget about habits and fork out!

 

Thy Kill Be Done:

In a city overrun with crime, St. Catherine’s Church is the last bastion of good, but when the benevolent Monsignor priest is killed by a gang of no-good hoodlums and their drug lord leader, the nuns in the chuch’s clergy vow bloody revenge. But these are no ordinary nuns…

 

Cell Phone Psycho:

Have you ever talked on your cell phone in a movie theater? If so beware as someone may come to take revenge when you least expect it.

 

Night Of The Intruder:

After falling asleep in the bathroom a young guy wakes to think that someone else may be in his house. What is a guy to do?

 

Fitness Class Zombie:

A zombie joins a fitness class.

 

The Giant Rubber Monster Movie:

An evil vegetarian from the year 25,000,000 A.D., Dr. Sigmund Zoid, steals a time machine and travels back to the present day. His mission: Destroy all of the Earth’s edible animals using the giant monsters under his control. Fortunately, Miko – a young stowaway on Zoid’s ship – escapes to help the Earthlings. With his new serial killing friend Ken at his side, Miko commandeers one of Zoid’s giant monsters to fight for the Earth!

 

I Hate Zombies:

The problems with zombies are explored in this fun little animated zombie short.

 

The Transient (Local Film):

Homeless gadget-laden vigilante hero and his case worker, Steve, are embroiled in a new web of staggeringly improbable intrigue! This time, Vampire Abraham Lincoln and his gang of stereotypical 1980′s street punks are trying to kidnap four score and seven virgins.

 

A Chance In Hell:

Faced with defeat as the Allied forces push through the German front, Hitler commissions his top scientist, Herr Bucher (Chad Meyer) to create a new breed of super soldier. With a seemingly endless supply of concentration camp captives, the doctor victimizes his helpless subjects with never-ending tests that stretch the boundaries of genetic experimentation. When the test unexpectedly works, the doctor and his soldiers are not prepared and the facility is overrun! Shortly after, a group of American soldiers, led by Sergeant Draper (Kyle Silviera) happen upon the facility during a recon mission and are forced to fight for their lives against a horde of animalistic creatures whose only desire is flesh and blood! Meanwhile, a few miles away the rest of the American soldiers have created a temporary base in a small village. As Draper and his crew fight their way back to the rest of their comrades, the creatures overrun the village and the company finds themselves struggling against an unknown enemy that is faster, stronger and crazier than anything they’ve ever seen. Non-stop action and gore are sure to please any genre fan and the implementation of the war as a backdrop to this period piece sets A Chance in Hell apart from every other Nazi Zombie movie out there!

 

Sleep Tight:

Two horror convention goers experience the horror of sleeping in a bed that is not your own.

 

Whisper (Local Film):

Mike moves into a new dorm room and quickly begins to hear a strange whispering sound in his closet. He begins to search for who or what could be disturbing his sleep and if he should be afraid to close his eyes.