The Los Angeles Film Festival has announced the eight titles in their genre-centric Nightfall slate, including Maggie Kileys Anna Camp-starrer Caught, 5 Second Films slasher comedy Dude Bro Party Massacre III, Mexican thriller Plan Sexenal and more.
Jennifer Cochis, Senior Programmer at LAFF, says, We created Nightfall to celebrate films that will make audiences squirm. Ranging from the creepy to the sinister, homages to 80s and 90s era horror, psychodramas and waking nightmares.
Its an exciting slate for its discovery potential, from tech stalker horror Ratter to Shut In, a home invasion thriller starring Beth Riesgraf, Martin Starr and Rory Culkin. Find the eight titles below. The Los Angeles Film Festival runs June 10-18, 2015. For badge and ticket info, visit LA Film Fest.
LAFF Nightfall
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LAFF Nightfall #1
Caught, dir. Maggie Kiley, USA, World Premiere
A desperate housewife discovers her husband is having an affair and kidnaps his unsuspecting mistress, but what starts as a prank quickly spirals out of control.
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LAFF Nightfall #2
The Confines, dir. Eytan Rockaway, USA, World Premiere
Set in a vast vacant residential complex amidst a recession, the shops and rooms have all been abandoned and the underbelly of the building has been left to decay. A struggling single mother, works as a security guard for the corporation that owns the structure, along with her brusque, rent a cop partner, COOPER (Jason Patrick). As the night progresses, the building, Cooper, and a vagrant in the area (Mark Margolis) toy with her sadistically. Her curiosity to find the truth leads her on a dangerous path into the depths of the building, where she becomes trapped in the dark catacombs of the structure and her sanity is terrorized.
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LAFF Nightfall #3
Crumbs, dir. Miguel Llansó, Spain/Ethiopia/Finland, North American Premiere
CRUMBS is set against the background of spectacular post-apocalyptic Ethiopian landscapes, where the film finds a strange-looking scrap collector, Gagano (played by the charismatic Daniel Tadesse). Alternately gripped by daydreams and constant fears, the diminutive Gagano has had enough of collecting the priceless crumbs of decayed civilization, including the most valuable: merchandise from Michael Jackson and Michael Jordan. When a spaceship that has been hovering high in the sky for years starts showing signs of activity, Gagano has to overcome his fears – as well as a witch, Santa Claus and second-generation Nazis — to discover things aren’t quite the way he thought.
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LAFF Nightfall #4
Crush the Skull, dir. Viet Nguyen, USA, World Premiere
he feature follows the story of Ollie and Blair – a young couple who happen to be burglars for a living. In an attempt to pay off their debts, Blair and Ollie decide to do one last job at a secluded house in the mountains. However, once the couple and their burglary crew break in, they discover that the house is a vicious death trap and find themselves trapped inside with an unseen serial killer.
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LAFF Nightfall #5
Dude Bro Party Massacre III,dir. Tomm Jacobsen, Michael Rousselet, Jon Salmon, USA, World Premiere
In the wake of two back-to-back mass murders on Chico's frat row, loner Brent Chirino must infiltrate the ranks of a popular fraternity to investigate his twin brother's murder at the hands of the serial killer known as "Motherface."
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LAFF Nightfall #6
Plan Sexenal, dir. Santiago Cendejas, Mexico, North American Premiere
Mercedes’ fantasy becomes a nightmare. Juan’s greatest fear takes the shape of in a strange man that comes to his house. The city has fallen into chaos and anarchy, so getting ice for the drinks is going to be hard; but tonight, Mercedes is an object of desire to men, so nothing else matters.
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LAFF Nightfall #7
Ratter, dir. Branden Kramer, USA, LA Premiere
Emma, A graduate student living alone in NYC, becomes the focus of a growing obsession when a stalker hacks into her personal technology and records her most intimate moments.
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LAFF Nightfall #8
Shut In, dir. Adam Schindler, USA, World Premiere
Anna Rook is isolated from human contact in nearly every way, which is exactly how she likes it. Suffering from crippling agoraphobia and holed up in an old Victorian on the outskirts of town, the people in Anna’s life can be counted on two fingers: her terminally-ill love, Conrad, and the charismatic Meals-on-Wheels driver, Dan. Until her home is invaded by a trio of small-time criminals.
