The Final Hex: Hexploitation Film Fest Farewell Tour - Dates and Events Announced!
After 15 years of thrills, chills, and kills, Hamilton, Ontario's Hexploitation Film Festival is being retired. To send off Hamilton's longest-running festival and screening program dedicated to horror and genre films, we invite you to The Final Hex: Hexploitation Farewell Tour with dates across the month of April. The Final Hex is the distillation of what we do best: curating entertaining B-Movie oddities, showcasing bold new independent horror and genre films from local filmmakers, hosting interactive prize giveaways, and bringing bona fide horror classics to the big screen.
To celebrate the Hamilton community, The Final Hex is rolling out in partnership with other film screening series and across multiple venues and including Farside Hamilton, The Staircase Studio Theatre, The Way of the Sword Film Talk Series at The Westdale, Crypt Cinema at Doors Pub, and the historic Playhouse Cinema.
We are offering both free, pay-what-you-can, and ticketed film events. Our final schedule of cinematic monsters, maniacs, and murder and venue / ticket information is below:
The Hexploitation Film Festival brings back it interactive B-Movie Bingo game to The Farside Hamilton! Witness He-Man and Skeletor battle for the universe while filling out custom-made Bingo cards featuring dialogue or events that happen in the film. Create a straight line and win a prize! One Bingo-card per attendee.
A rowdy pro-wrestler filling in for his girlfriend on a babysitting job gets more than he bargained for when a cult of masked intruders descends on the home. "Here For Blood may possibly be the best horror comedy wrestling movie done yet. It’s a heart-pounding roundhouse punch of a good time." - Film Threat
A fascinating and funny documentary-style look at the obscure and hilariously insane Japanese TV show "Top Knot Detective" that became a cult hit in Australia in the 90s, bringing to light for the first time the shocking "true" crime behind-the-scenes drama. A love letter to lost media and cult TV and film oddities.
A deranged killer is murdering people over the phone with deadly sound waves while a local professor rushes around Toronto trying to stop him. When the killer calls on-screen, randomly chosen audience members will receive a call to their own cellphones and a chance to win prizes! If you die, you get a runner-up prize! If you survive, you walk away with the grand prize!
Long heralded as one of the greatest, most influential horror films of all time, this ferocious cinematic shocker has been one of the most requested theatrical revival titles from fright fans the world over for the last 30+ years. Unlike other cinematic favorites, George A. Romero’s DAWN OF THE DEAD (1978) is still not available on any streaming platform, nor on cable, and has been out-of-print on DVD and BluRay in the U.S. for over a decade, so the hunger to watch it just keeps growing among its ravenous fans. Furthermore, the cult following for the film has grown exponentially since its release and is so large now it is estimated that over 80% of DAWN OF THE DEAD’s fans have never experienced this legendary epic in a theatre. That all changes starting this year!
First Jason Live at Doors Pub! Movie screening with Live commentary by the Ari Lehman -- the first Jason Voorhees himself. Followed by live sets by First Jason and musical guests Blood Opera & 30 immolated ; 16 returned
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