The Staircase Theatre (27 Dundurn St. N, Hamilton, ON)
Admittance restricted to people 18 years of age or older (unless otherwise specified).
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THU. FEB 20 @ 7:00pm
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| Career Achievement in Genre Film Award Presentation: Art Hindle |
Gemini-Award winning actor/director/producer Art Hindle (Black Christmas, The Brood, Invasion of the Body Snatchers) will be in attendance to receive the HXFF's inaugural Career Achievement in Genre Film Award. A short Q&A will follow. |
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THU. FEB 20 @ 8:00pm
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| DEATHCEMBER || CANADIAN PREMIERE The ultimate Advent Horror Anthology Movie: A collection of 24 films that take a look at the dark side of the festive season. Made by 24 international directors with the most diverse ideas and styles; linked by short animated segments that deal with the Advent calendar itself. |
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FRI. FEB 21 @ 8:00pm
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| TO YOUR LAST DEATH || CANADIAN PREMIERE |
| screens with UNHOLY 'MOLE In this groundbreaking 2D animated feature film, Miriam -- the sole survivor in a deadly revenge game set up by her wealthy industrialist father to punish his children -- receives an offer from a supernatural entity to go back in time and try again. Now, Miriam must survive both her father’s bloodlust and the extra-dimensional Gamemaster’s ever-changing rules to save her siblings as she relives the worst night of her life. |
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FRI. FEB 21 @ 10:00pm
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| BULLETS OF JUSTICE || CANADIAN PREMIERE |
| screens with FIVE COURSE MEAL During World War III, the American government initiates a secret project to create super soldiers by crossbreeding human beings with pigs. 25 years later, the world is a post-apocalyptic wasteland in which human/pig hybrids called "Muzzles" dominate the top of the food chain by eating and farming humans like animals. Rob Justice, an ex-bounty hunter working for the last line of human resistance, and his mustachioed sister lead a high-octane mission to infiltrate the Muzzle stronghold and destroy them all. |
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| SLAUGHTERHOUSE SLUMBER PARTY || CANADIAN PREMIERE |
| screens with HORRORSCOPE What started as the debauched annual slumber party for a tight knit group of gal pals becomes a fight for their lives when supernatural evil threatens to destroy the world--and even worse, ruin the one night of the year the ladies get to have a nude pillow fight. Trapped by magic, surrounded by evil, and very underdressed, will they survive the night? Or will this slumber party become a slaughterhouse? |
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SAT. FEB 22, 2020 @ 1:30pm
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| HORROR SHORT FILM SHOWCASE |
A collection of the best in indie horror, exploitation, and cult films from Canada and around the world.  |
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| DIABLO ROJO (PTY) || CANADIAN PREMIERE |
| screens with DEAD TEENAGER SÉANCE In Panama City (abbrev. PTY), a bus driver, his assistant, and two cops falls victim to a mysterious spell and end up lost in the Jungles of Chiriquí where they will have to survive from the creatures of the night, with only the old bus (one of the city's fabled Diablo Rojo) as refuge. Diablo Rojo (PTY) is a trip to the depths of the unknown that explores the traditional folk monsters of Panama's cultural interior: witches and demons which have been passed down in tales for generations by oral tradition and appear for the first time on film in what is being billed as Panama's first horror film. |
| Preview & Tickets SAT. FEB 22, 2020 @ 5:30pm |
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| MAKING MONSTERS || HAMILTON PREMIERE screens with BEST FRIENDS FOREVER |
| When a celebrity couple famed for their YouTube scare-prank channel are invited to a friend’s converted church in the countryside for a weekend getaway, a series of startling events unfold that spiral them into an inexplicable nightmare. |
SAT. FEB 22, 2020 @ 7:30pm |
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| HUNTER'S MOON || HAMILTON PREMIERE | ||||
| screens with THE PROBLEM WITH LADY WEREWOLVES At a lavish launch party for a new Werewolf-themed gaming app, things go sideways when guests turn up murdered in the same fashion as depicted in the game. Mass paranoia erupts between the survivors as they believe the killer is more beast than man. They must work together to survive the night and uncover the true identify of the monstrous murderer. |
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SAT. FEB 22, 2020 AFTER-PARTY
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