Telluride Horror Show Day 1 Recap
Ever wanted to watch a horror movie in the most beautiful place on Earth? Here's what that's like.
The Telluride Horror Show kicked off yesterday, opening three days of scary movies, scary stories and extremely good people in the gorgeous mining town of Telluride, Colorado. This is the 16th year of the fest, and I'm happily back for the first time since 2019, serving as guest host.
Day One started with the event that launches the Horror Show every year: the ice cream social. It's a perfect representation of the friendly, wholesome nature of this particular horror fest: the whiskey flows and the blood spurts, but also there's ice cream, and black-billed magpies, and quaking aspens, and everyone's smiling all the damn time because it's just such a nice place to be.
The first day's movies included a riotous 40th anniversary screening of Lamberto Bava's Demons, in which absolutely disgusting things take place in a (German!) cinema, making it the most fun kind of cinema viewing possible. Man Finds Tape, from Peter Hall and Paul Gandersman (I know them!), Brock Bodell's Hellcat, Zak Hilditch's We Bury the Dead, Emily Bennett and Justin Brooks' Blood Shine, Randolph Zaini's A Woman Called Mother, Todd Rohal's Fuck My Son!, Rod Blackhurst's Dolly, and Grégory Morin's Flush rounded out the day's features. Plus we got two 16mm secret screenings that shall remain secret, even now.
