Just two days till opening night, and the lineup for the Pioneer Schlocktober Horror Film Festival is finally complete!



Some late-addition highlights:



THE WILD MAN OF THE NAVIDAD (2008)

Oct. 10 & 11



Official Selection - Tribeca Film Festival 2008

Official Selection - Fantastic Fest 2008



'Wonderfully retro! It's time to go back to the Drive-In!'

-Merle Bertrand, Film Threat



'A creepy, southern fried creature feature'

-Scott Foy, Dread Central



'Independent fillmaking of a distinctly cool kind...WILD MAN is the best parts of TWIN PEAKS, X-FILES & THE LEGEND OF BOGGY CREEK'

-Nick Redfern, Fortean Times





From Greeks Productions and Kim Henkel, the producer of the original 70's horror classic THE TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE comes THE WILD MAN OF THE NAVIDAD. This vintage horror tale is based on the real-life journals of Dale S. Rogers. Shot in a 70's style B-movie aesthetic, Mr. Roger's veracious accounts are brought to vivid, chilling life in this intelligent retelling of an old rural legend involving a small Texas community terrified for years by a mysterious creature inhabiting the nearby woods.









PLAGUE TOWN (2008)

Oct. 10



NY Premiere!



'Evokes the genuine feeling of a nightmare captured on celluloid'

-Michael Gingold, Fangoria





A dysfunctional American family visiting their Irish roots accidentally stumbles on a horde of bloodthirsty mutant (andd decidedly homicidal) children.



As co-founder of the UK’s Exploited label, David Gregory became one of the home video industry’s most defiant warriors in the BBFC’s war on ‘video nasties’. As co-founder of the UK/US Blue Underground, he produced many of the genre’s most widely acclaimed DVDs. Gregory also produced the feature film The Manson Family, and wrote, produced and directed the IFC original production The Spaghetti West.







H.P. Lovecraft's COLOUR FROM THE DARK (2008)

Oct. 19



World Premiere!

Director Ivan Zuccon, Star Debbie Rochon, & Cast and Crew In Person!







From the imagination of H.P. Lovecraft and the vision of director Ivan Zuccon comes a new tale of cinematic terror. Based on the classic story "The Colour Out of Space", COLOUR FROM THE DARK is the follow-up to Ivan's forthcoming film, NYMPHA.



The 1940's, and World War II is raging. Pietro (Michael Segal) and Lucia (Debbie Rochon) live on an isolated farm with Alice, Lucia's younger sister (Marysia Kay). Alice is a 15 year old who suffers from severe mental problems. Poor farmers, they live tilling the soil. Pietro is a good worker and a strong man who, unlike his three brothers, is not at war because of a deformed knee.



Lucia is a beautiful and reserved woman dedicated to her family. Their life is peaceful and good, in spite of the hard work. One day, while drawing water from the well, Pietro and Alice produce a casual and apparently insignificant incident, which frees something from Earth's womb.

A strange and alien colour flashes underwater, at the well's bottom, then disappears. From that moment on, inexplicable events start happening all around the farm, and by night the surrounding vegetation glitters with a sinister glow.



The colour soon takes hold of the whole farm, and dwelling inside Pietro and his family's minds, it brings them into its sick world of pain, blood and death...







BAD BIOLOGY (2008)

Oct. 30





Just when you’ve had it up to here with the latest watered-down horror remake, indie gore maestro Frank Henenlotter (Basket Case, Frankenhooker) returns to the low-budget sexploitation horror scene after 16 years with a twisted new feature, Bad Biology, which plants itself definitively outside of the mainstream. The story follows a young man and women who separately indulge their most lurid biological desires, pushing the envelope in their quest for sexual fulfillment. When they finally meet, their perversions kick into overdrive...



Produced by rapper and rabid horror-movie fan R.A. “The Rugged Man” Thornburn (who co-wrote the script with Henenlotter), the film stars newcomers Anthony Sneed and Charlee Danielson and features an original score by Grammy winner Prince Paul. Make-Up Special Effects by Henenlotter vet Gabe Bartalos (Basket Case 2 & 3, Frankenhooker).



www.dreadcentral.com/story/first-look-full-bad-biology-trailer







BLOODSUCKING FREAKS (1976)

Oct. 30



Q&A with Director Joel M. Reed!

Beautiful 35mm Print!





Join The Fun!... Human Dart Boards... "Home Style Brain Surgery"... Dental Hijinks!

Shot under the title Sardu: Master of the Screaming Virgins, it was retitled The Incredible Torture Show during its original theatrical run. Film distributor Troma Entertainment retitled the film Blood Sucking Freaks (sometimes spelled Bloodsucking Freaks) upon their acquisition of it.



The full schedule can be found at www.twoboots.com/pioneer.