The ninth annual GenreBlast Film Festival takes over the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema in Winchester, Virginia for three days beginning on Friday, August 29, and we’ve got the full lineup featuring eleven feature films and roughly ninety short films from around the world! The GenreBlast Film Festival continues to champion truly independent genre cinema and this […]
The ninth annual GenreBlast Film Festival takes over the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema in Winchester, Virginia for three days beginning on Friday, August 29, and we’ve got the full lineup featuring eleven feature films and roughly ninety short films from around the world!
The GenreBlast Film Festival continues to champion truly independent genre cinema and this year features an eclectic lineup of cross-genre films. With horror, science-fiction and fantasy, action, and offbeat cult and transgressive midnight offerings, the fest prides itself on being an eccentric mixtape of genres and filmmakers.
Of the eleven features selected this year, there are five world premieres, one international premiere, one North American premiere, one east coast premiere, one regional premiere, one Virginia premiere and a special advance screening.
Ricky Umberger’s latest found footage horror film, THE MAN WITH THE BLACK UMBRELLA, makes it’s world premiere at GenreBlast IX. Other world premieres include Brian K. Williams and Scott Schirmer’s psychosexual horror/thriller GUSH along with local sci-fi flick INTER-STATE, directed by Sam Gorman.
The world premieres are rounded out by Michael Smallwood’s end times sci-fi drama TONIGHT AND MAYBE TOMORROW and Michelle Iannantuono’s experimental meta comedy FIRST DRAFTS: THE OUTCASTS.
Becca Kozak’s splatterpunk gut punch SUGAR ROT will be an international premiere outside of Canada and Mark Beal’s practical FX-heavy folk horror nightmare MARGINALIA screens as a North American premiere. UK pulp thriller BURNT FLOWERS, directed by Michael Fausti, is an east coast premiere.
MEAT MACHINE, Jeffrey Garcia’s whacked out midnight movie sleazefest has a regional premiere and Izzy Lee’s trauma horror tour-de-force HOUSE OF ASHES is a Virginia premiere.
A special advance screening of Cranked Up Films’ vampire action western noir BLOOD & RUST, directed by Jeremy Herbert, screens Saturday night, August 30th.
The fest runs from Friday, Aug. 29th through Sunday, August 31st at the Alamo Winchester concluding with a livestreamed awards ceremony followed by the GB Aftermath After Party. Script table reads and a live comedy show will also be on the schedule during the fest.
