Twisted Dreams Film Festival 2018 Schedule

Friday April 13th, 2018

7 pm - Twisted Wisconsin Shorts - 86 minutes -Wisconsin has some great filmmakers and also some really twisted ones.  From murdering kids, to songs you can’t get out of your head, to corn.  These films will leave you scared, laughing, and in awe of the immense talent we have here in Wisconsin.

• Adopted- Dir. Hannah Christensen
• An Ordinary Woman - Dir. Debra Zarne
• Becoming Undead II - Dir. Ron Purtee
• Billy Balfoor -Dir. Grant Wilson
• Corn- Dir. Nicklas Hendrickson
• Earworm - Dir. Kathryn King
• Elle - Dir. Melonie Gartner
• Field of Screams​ - Dir. Natalie Pohorski
• Home Invasion - Dir. Benjamin Mead
• Love You to Pieces- Dir. Zacharia Hornes
• NeoFerals - The Gathering - Dir. Vito Valenti
• Pharma Lab Training Video 1 - Dir. Joe Bowes
• The 45 Second Fortune Teller - Dir. Earl Martin
• The Mundane Life of The Infurious David McMiller - Dir. Kris Schulz and Jonathon Shoemaker

9:30 pm - Opening Night Party Featuring H1Z1 and Glamour Junkies Burlesque (pass holder or purchased ticket for any session required for entry into opening night party)

11 pm - Bong of the Living Dead - Dir. Max Groah - 81 minutes​
Bong of the Living Dead is the story of five friends who share both a love of pot and a lifelong dream to see the zombie apocalypse become reality. But when the undead actually rise to gruesomely (and hilariously) eat the living, the group discovers it's not all corpse-killing montages and mall raids ... and that their relationships will be pushed to the limit if they're going to survive.

Saturday April 14th, 2018

12 pm - Ashface - Dir. Ricardo Tenorio - 103 minutes
A serial killer with a split personality gets involved with a mysterious masked organization that lurks in the shadows of the underground world. In order to survive he must fight and maybe learn the hidden truth about himself.

2 pm - PANEL DISCUSSION -Politics in Horror - 45 minutes

3:15 pm - Twisted Reality Short Block - 103 minutes
People love movies to take them to different worlds, but some worlds you might not want to go to.  These films take you to the dark realms where devils like to play, people are kept as pets, or a dystopian  future where your only friend is a robot.  

• An American Attorney in London - Dir. Darrell Alden
• Devil Down - Dir. Nick Barrett 
• Esperanto Android Has a Message From the Future - Dir. Stephen Quinlan
• Stretch - Dir. Stephen Larson
  
• The Devil's Due -Dir. Ryan LaPlante
  
• The Ingress Tapes -Dir. Michael Fausti
• The Manual - Dir. Wil Magness
• Up and Arise - Dir. Raanan Berger

5:30 pm - The Moose Head Over the Mantel -Dir. Rebecca Comtois, Bryan Enk, Matt Gray, Jessi Gotta, Shannon K. Hall, and Jane Rose -  88 minutes
Lillian Hoffhienze-Bachman and her family move into the previously abandoned Hoffhienze ancestral home, where their hopeful new start becomes tainted by the discovery of a century's worth of abuse, dysfunction and violence. Lillian becomes consumed by her sordid ancestry, terrified that the past might dictate her son's future.
The grisly events of the past 100 years are revealed through the eyes of the family's victims... including the moose head hanging on the mantel wall.

8 pm  - The Slashening - Dir. Brandon Bassham - 82 minutes
Best friends Lucy, Eva, Ashley, Beth and Margot throw a slumber party .... BUT MURDER NEVER SLUMBERS!!!!! It's a timeless tale of friendship, betrayal, madness, and the search for some decent dick.

10:30 pm - Twisted Dreams Spook Show - 240 minutes
Featuring 

• The Fiendish Phantoms
• Sanjula -Master of the vaudevillian circus sideshow

• The craziest, and the most bizarre and disturbing films from around the world
  • Bonk Bonk - Dir. JE Smith 
  • Cuddle Sticks - Dir. Mike Geiger
  • Dolphinman Battles the Sex Lobsters - Dir. John Brennan
  • Fried Barry - Dir. Ryan Kruger
  • Glory! - Dir. Mike Frazier
  • Holy Fuck - Dir. Chris Chalklen
  • Hush Hush - Dir. Thomas Nolle
  • Nudist of the Living Dead - Dir. Joseph Terhaar
  • The Foodies​ ​- Dir. Julien De Volte and Armaud Tabarly

Sunday April 15th, 2018

​12 pm - Twisted Tales From Females  - 99 minutes
Why should the boys have all the fun?  Women can tell just as nasty, bizarre, and disturbing films as well as any of the men and this block proves it.

• Adam Peiper - Dir. Monica Mateo
• Bride of Frankie - Dir. Devi Snively
• Delirium - Dir. Amanda Abicalaffe
• Entropia - Dir. Marinah Janello
• Sarah's Dream - Dir. Wendy Keeling
• The Candle - Dir. Rene Ashton Prod. Richard Joel and Rene Ashton​
• The Vicar - Dir. Chanelle Eidendenz

2 pm - PANEL DISCUSSION- Women in Horror  - 45 minutes

3:15 pm - The Nursery - Dir. Jay Sapiro and Chris Micklos  - 83 minutes
When college freshman Ranae agrees to babysit for a family with a tragic past, her run-of-the-mill Saturday night quickly turns into a confrontation with unspeakable horror. Stalked by a sinister presence and haunted by ghosts from her own past, Ranae and her friends must confront an angry, evil spirit determined to hunt them down one-by-one on a deliberate march toward its ultimate prey in THE NURSERY

5:15 pm - Twisted Terror Short Block - 84 minutes
Like your terror in short doses?  Well this is the block for you.  These spine tingling films will have you on the edge of your seat or cowering in the corner.  Not for those who that are easily scared.

• An Elder Man - Dir. Jacob Strunk
• Below Decks - Paul A. Brooks
• Don't Go into the Pool at Night - Dir. Nic Thorson
• Is Someone There? - Dir. Alexander F.C. Mroz
• Photokill - Dir Lance J. Reha
• Porcelain Stare - Dir. Robin Rippmann
• The Dark Hunger - Dir. Anthony Williams
• What's for Dinner? - Dir. Nathan Ludwig, Chad Farmer, and Charles Devin Hill

7:15 pm - Interstellar Civil War (North American Premiere) - Dir. Albert Pyun -102 minutes
A rebellion erupts on the far edge of the Imperial Empire, a government that rules the known universe. The rebellion is commencing on a distant Imperial planet. the Bu-Tess a religious order seeks to contain the rebellion. They have placed a cyborg spy into the rebel command and ow seek to rescue the spy on the first day of the civil war. The spy has information that can crush the rebellion in the first 24 hours of the war. To rescue the spy, the Empress No-Bu enlists the her elite Star Warfare Rangers.

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 Tickets $10 for each session.  Individual tickets will go on sale soon.  Day and weekend passes currently on sale.