Frightful Flicks
The Overlook Film Festival will return to the
Prytania Theatres at Canal Place and in Uptown from April 3-6 to celebrate all things horror. The festival
recently announced its initial slate of events.
The festival will open with Drop, a
thriller about a widowed mother terrorized by a series of threatening anonymous
drops on her phone while she is out on a first date. Director Christoper
Landon, who shot Happy Death Day in New Orleans, will be on hand at the
screening.
While other new horror films will
screen during the festival, there will be a number of screenings of horror
oldies. David Lynch's Lost Highway, a 4K restoration of Stuart Gordon's
Re-Animator, Robert Zemeckis' Death Becomes Her, and Neil Marshall's
The Descent will play at the festival.
Director
Ernest Dickerson will be on hand to receive the festival's Master of Horror
award during a 30th anniversary screening of Tales from the Crypt: Demon
Knight.
Panel discussions will include a
conversation with Joe Hill, the horror writer responsible for Horns, NOS4A2,
and The Fireman. Hill is also the son of horror legend Stephen King.
Additional events and screenings may be announced before the festival. For more information or to purchase passes, visit overlookfilmfest.com.
