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Terror Film Festival selected films ANNOUNCED!

PHILADELPHIA, PA – Were Baaaaaack... Terror Film Festival has announced their 2009 SELECTED FILMS to be screened this year in the upcoming fourth edition of Terror Film Festival. The festival will once again be held at the prestigious and gothic Ethical Society Building at Rittenhouse Square in Philadelphia from October 20-24, 2009, and the event will again include filmmakers and screenwriters from around the world, as well as, celebrities, actors, distributors, and many other industry professionals. Plus, our world-class Screenwriting Competition, sponsored by InkTip.com  Every film and script has an opportunity to win a coveted "Claw Award". And, it is all hosted by the star of the festival, Princess Horror.

SHOWTIMES are Tuesday through Friday 5pm, 6:45pm, and 8:30pm. Saturday 1:30pm, 3:15pm, 5 pm, and the Claw Awards at 9 pm.

TICKETS for TFF have been SLASHED to $10, and $70 for a Bad-Azz VIP Pass (good for the entire festival). Tickets are available on the TFF web site at http://www.terrorfilmfestival.net/

Live Your Dreams!! Or at least, YOUR NIGHTMARES…

Claw, Festival Director

Terror Film Festival

Horror, Fantasy, Sci-fi, Thriller, Drama, Screenplay

Ethical Society Building

October 20-24, 2009 | Philadelphia, PA USA

Website: http://www.terrorfilmfestival.net/

Imagine...it is a cold, eerie night. Outside, the wind is howling. The clock strikes midnight. You hear a knock at the door. Carefully...cautiously...you open the door and find...Terror Film Festival calling!! Get your tricks and get your treats, because it is the coolest and scariest Halloween event on the entire East Coast!! Move over Edgar Allan, step aside Vlad, and keep your shirt on Mr. Incredible Hulk...because there's a NEW scary in town. And it is waiting for you at...Terror Film Festival.

Terror Film Festival is a world renowned international independent film festival that runs every October in the heart of Philadelphia PA at the prestigiously creepy Ethical Society Building (right across from beautiful Rittenhouse Square). It is Halloween Cinematic!! And the energy level of having so many creative artists in one place is a life changing experience that will fill your heart with warmth for years to come. Plus, our Claw Awards ceremony on Saturday night is one of the most exciting live award shows on the East Coast. Hosted by the lovely, Princess Horror. It is an event you do not want to miss.

Each year, filmmakers, screenwriters, producers, actors, and directors from around the world attend the festival and the fans get to hang with them all. It is a very cool environment where you can meet and chat the night away with the next Robert Rodriguez, Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, Alfred Hitchcock, George Romero, Sid Haig, Michael Berryman, M. Night Shyamalan, John Carpenter, Kevin Smith, Tony Todd, and so many more.

So get your family and friends together and live the excitement and glamour of the 4th annual Terror Film Festival. It is a spectacular event you will never forget.

Live Your Dreams!! Or at least...YOUR NIGHTMARES...

24 hours of horror movie madness at the Music Box Theatre!

Can you survive the Massacre?!

The Music Box Massacre has become one of the largest horror film festival events in the country. Be a part of our 24-hour horror movie marathon filled with horror classics both old and new. This year's special guest is Stuart Gordon (Re-Animator). Films include Roger Corman's Bucket of Blood, the Chicago theatrical premiere of Pontypool, and Stephen King's Carrie and Maximum Overdrive.

One admission lets you come and go as you please. Dress in costume or bring your pajamas. See an audience filled with horror movie maniacs gone mad from too much excitement and terror.

2pm Saturday, October 10th until 12pm Sunday, October 11

Advance Tickets: $27

Day-of Tickets: $33

Tickets available through BROWN PAPER TICKETS

Following the success of Rob Zombie’s initial reinvention of John Carpenter’s smash cult horror film HALLOWEEN which premiered number one at the box office breaking all Labor Day Weekend 2007 records, comes the sequel, HALLOWEEN II, hitting theatres nationwide on August 28, 2009 from Dimension Films.

With the enormously popular horror movie series back, writer-producer-director Rob Zombie, once again puts his own twisted twist on the soundtrack. Halloween II – Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (Hip-O/UM^{e), released August 25, 2009, and co-produced by Zombie, manages to bring together dialogue from the film as well as music from Motorhead, The Moody Blues, Scream (sans future member Dave Grohl), Rod Stewart, the MC5 and Foghat, alongside new psychobilly band Captain Clegg and the Night Creatures.}

Frightmaster Zombie helmed 2007’s ninth installment in the HALLOWEEN franchise that began in 1978. HALLOWEEN II, which debuts August 28, picks up where HALLOWEEN left off, and focuses on the struggles of Laurie Strode (played by Scout Taylor-Compton) and killer Michael Myers (played by Tyler Mane).

The new recordings on Halloween II – Original Motion Picture Soundtrack include "Transylvania Terror Train" and "Honky Tonk Halloween" from Captain Clegg and the Night Creatures, who appear in the film. The band’s leader, Jesse Dayton, an Austin, Texas-based singer-guitarist who has played with Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, and Willie Nelson, was part of the duo Banjo & Sullivan that performed in Zombie’s 2005 flick The Devil’s Rejects and simultaneously released an album. Similarly, Rob Zombie Presents Captain Clegg And The Night Creatures (Stag/Zombie A Go Go) will be issued August 28.

Also new are "Laurie’s Theme" from John 5 produced by Bob Marlette, (Alice Cooper and Ozzy Osbourne); "Nurse Killa" from score composer Tyler Bates (Watchmen, 300, Halloween, The Devil’s Rejects); and a cover of Nazareth’s 1976 hit "Love Hurts" from singer Nan Vernon, who covered "(Don’t Fear) The Reaper" and "Mr. Sandman" for HALLOWEEN.

The classic tracks range from The Moody Blues’ 1966 psychedelic gem "Nights In White Satin" and 10cc’s cheery 1977 hit "The Things We Do For Love" to Rod Stewart’s 1972 cover of The Temptations’ "(I Know) I’m Losing You," Foghat’s 1972 take on Willie Dixon’s "I Just Want To Make Love To You" and the MC5 proto-punk masterpiece "Kick Out The Jams," which was recorded live in Detroit on Devil’s Night/Halloween 1968. The lesser-known vintage tracks hail from the early ‘80s: "Amerarockers" by hardcore punkers Scream, "The Chase Is Better Than The Catch" by metal’s Motorhead and "Time To Die" by hardcore/metal band Void.

Prior to entering the film world, hard rocker Zombie scored a series of multiplatinum albums--1992’s La Sexorcisto, 1995’s Astro-Creep: 2000, and 1998’s Hellbilly Deluxe --as well as platinum with 2001’s The Sinister Urge and 2003’s greatest hits collection Past, Present & Future.

In addition to his recording career, Rob Zombie has written and directed several successful feature films including House of 1000 Corpses, the sequel, The Devil’s Rejects, and is the is the producer, writer and director of the forthcoming animated film The Haunted World of El Superbeasto, based on his comic book series, The Adventures of El Superbeasto.

TRACK LISTING:

01 CAST - "HE’S F****** DEAD"

02 THE MOODY BLUES - NIGHTS IN WHITE SATIN

03 Cast- "HALLOWEEN IS COMING"

04 10cc- THE THINGS WE DO FOR LOVE

05 CAST - "WHO’S LEE MARVIN?"

06 SCREAM - AMERAROCKERS

07 CAST - "JAM & JELLY"

08 Mc5 - KICK OUT THE JAMS

09 CAST - "ASS GOOD"

10 ROD STEWART - (I KNOW) I’’M LOSING YOU

11 CAST - "D-E-A-D"

12 MOTORHEAD - THE CHASE IS BETTER THAN THE CATCH

13 CAST - "I’M ANGEL MYERS"

14 JOHN 5 - LAURIE’S THEME

15 CAST - "I WANT TO PARTY"

16 CAPTAIN CLEGG AND THE NIGHT CREATURES - TRANSYLVANIA TERROR TRAIN

17 CAST - "JACK-O-LANTERN AND A BLONDE"

18 CAPTAIN CLEGG AND THE NIGHT CREATURES - HONKY TONK HALLOWEEN

19 CAST - "BRING YOUR BABY BACK HOME"

20 FOGHAT - I JUST WANT TO MAKE LOVE TO YOU

21 CAST - "SNAPPED ON BY WEIRD AL"

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Haunting Kira Gives Horror Movie Actress Something To Scream About

Rachel Grubb looks forward to new female-directed zombie project being shot in Las Vegas

Scream Queen Rachel Grubb has nabbed the lead role in the upcoming Teresa Fahs' film "Haunting Kira," which will shoot in Las Vegas in early 2010. The official announcement was made the day after Comic Con International in San Diego wrapped.

Grubb, the star of the indie horror films "Terror Overload," "Tales of the Dead," "13 Hours in a Warehouse," "Strip Club Slasher," "Camp Kill" and "Cave Women on Mars," said she can't wait to get started on the project.

"I love the script," Grubb said. "It's funny and original with lots of gorey goodness."

With close to 30 projects under her belt already and being a fan of the works of David Cronenberg, Dario Argento and Debbie Rochon, Grubb knows a thing or two about horror films. So fans can trust her when she says "Haunting Kira" is unlike any other zombie feature.

"Seriously, it's nothing like the majority of zombie movies," Grubb said. "Most zombie movies are about the world being chased by animated corpses, and the living having to fight to stay alive. This is only about one zombie, and it's not an epidemic. Instead, it's about a spirit who's discovered a way to infiltrate a corpse. It's a zombie, but this time, the audience has this relationship with his mind. He feels what's happening to him in the rotting vessel and we experience that along with him."

Fahs, a special FX makeup artist for the past decade, has said the script was partly inspired by the works of Stanley Kubrick, Wes Craven and George Romero. Grubb said, she can definitely see that.

"The gore is oozing from every page, and it keeps getting weirder," Grubb said. "The whole time I was reading it, I was imagining the awesome FX work (Fahs) could do on it."

Fahs is the CEO of Gorify.com, a one-stop special effects make-up resource for the do-it-yourself zombie. She has written and is currently seeking funds for "Haunting Kira," which she plans to direct in January and release theatrically on Mother's Day.

"I'm excited about working with a female director on a horror feature," Grubb said. "There needs to be more of that."

Grubb, who is in David Byron's latest book "Queens of Scream: The New Blood" along side Brenna Lee Roth ("Killer Biker Chicks"), Bianca Barnett ("Albino Farm"), Nikki Homicide K ("Zen: Hunter"), Seregon O’Dassey ("Ghost Watcher 2"), April Monique Burril ("Chainsaw Sally") and Monique Dupree ("Bachelor Party in the Bungalow of the Damned"), will be co-producing the film through one of her two production companies in association with Fahs' Gorified Films and Chad Clinton Freeman's Polly Staffle Films.

Fahs is ecstatic to have Grubb on board her directorial debut, which she says will be not only bloody, but also sexy.

"I had the pleasure of working with Rachel on a short project a few months ago, and I'm thrilled to have such a talented horror actress as my lead," Fahs said.

Fahs, dubbed the Godess of Gore by her fans, has described her film as a ghost story, a zombie film, a gorefest, and a strange trip that is like "Being John Malkovich" meets "The Shining" meets "Night of the Living Dead."

She has also promised the film will be filled with paranormal activity, re-animated and decaying corpses, painfully realistic gore, frenzied and meaningful kills, thought-provoking nudity and an ending that she hopes will make audiences want to see it all again and again.

Already the film has been offered distribution and is getting quite a bit of buzz online, including genre site ArrowintheHead.com, which has said the film has "major potential."

Fans can haunt Kira on Myspace:

http://www.myspace.com/HauntingKira

And Facebook:

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Haunting-Kira/109687279816?ref=s

For more information or to set up and interview with Teresa Fahs or Rachel Grubb, please email Teresa at teresa.fahs@gorify.com  or contact Chad Clinton Freeman at ccf@pollystaffle.com

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