Halloween maybe over, but the glorious horror of it all is hardly yesterday's news.
After Dark Horrorfest 2007 film festival pays homage to the goriest of all film genres, horror, and starts tomorrow, Friday, Nov. 9 and runs through Sunday, Nov. 18.
The festival, which is the first of its kind, premieres "8 Films to Die For," that run the spectrum of horror, from thrillers to gore to the supernatural.
This year's films are "The Deaths of Ian Stone," "Nightmare Man," "Crazy Eights," "Unearthed," "Borderland," "Mullberry Street," "Tooth and Nail" and "Lake Dead." You can watch trailers for all of these films on the Horrorfest Web site.
In 2006, After Dark Horrorfest became the first film festival in history to break into the top 10 at the national box office, grossing over 2.5 million dollars, on only a quarter of the screens of any other film in the top ten that weekend.
It's a national festival, but you can catch these films at a variety of locations around Wisconsin: In Appleton at College Avenue 16, In Ashwaubenon and Bay Park 16, in Madison at Eastgate 16, in Menomonee Falls at Marcus 18 and in Oak Creek at South Shore 16.
OnMilwaukee.com staff writer Julie Lawrence grew up in Wauwatosa and has lived her whole life in the Milwaukee area.
As any “word nerd” can attest, you never know when inspiration will strike, so from a very early age Julie has rarely been seen sans pen and little notebook. At the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee it seemed only natural that she major in journalism. When OnMilwaukee.com offered her an avenue to combine her writing and the city she knows and loves in late 2004, she knew it was meant to be. Around the office, she answers to a plethora of nicknames, including “Lar,” (short for “Larry,” which is short for “Lawrence”) as well as the mysteriously-sourced “Bill Murray.”
