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Screamfest 2008 Lineup

October 10-18, 2008

By Mark H. Harris, About.com

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The Season (2008)
Director: Adam Edward Brooks
Starring: AJ Bowen, Julianne Mason, Nya Kadenge, Douglas Simon
Plot: A stranded group of people in rural Iowa find themselves held captive by a deranged, excommunicated Amish family.
Trailer
Screening Times and Tickets

Spine Tingler! The William Castle Story (2008)
Director: Jeffrey Schwarz
Starring: John Waters, John Landis, Stuart Gordon, Joe Dante, Roger Corman, Fred Olen Ray, Leonard Maltin, Marcel Marceau, Forrest J. Ackerman
Plot: A documentary of William Castle, showman extraordinaire, who used all kinds of gimmicks to promote his horror movies, including 13 Ghosts, House on Haunted Hill and The Tingler.
Trailer
Screening Times and Tickets

Splinter (2008)
Director: Toby Wilkins
Starring: Shea Whigham, Paulo Costanzo, Jill Wagner
Plot: During a camping trip, a young couple is carjacked by another couple, but the foursome encounters a bigger problem in the form of a parasitic creature that absorbs the corpses of its victims.
Trailer
Screening Times and Tickets

Train (2008)
Director: Gideon Raff
Starring: Thora Birch, Gideon Emery, Derek Magyar, Gloria Votsis, Kavan Reece
Plot: Started as a remake of the '80s slasher Terror Train, Train has taken on a life of its own and evolved into a plot about American college students in Europe who board a train that turns into a moving slaughterhouse.
Trailer (NSFW!)
Screening Times and Tickets

Trick 'r Treat (2008)
Director: Michael Dougherty
Starring: Dylan Baker, Anna Paquin, Brian Cox, Rochelle Aytes, Tahmoh Penikett, Lauren Lee Smith
Plot: Five interwoven stories occur one Halloween night in the small town of Warren Valley, Ohio: a couple learns the dangers of blowing out a Jack-o-Lantern before midnight; a school principal hides a dark secret; four women encounter a costumed stalker; pranksters discover the horrifying truth behind in a local legend; and a grumpy recluse is visited by a strange trick-or-treater.
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