Telluride Horror Show Day 2 Recap

Photos courtesy of Volz Media

We've wrapped up Day Two of Telluride Horror Show (read the day one recap here), which means we only have one day left of the best weekend of the year. But there's still an enormous amount of fun and frights left in store, so leave your Sunday Scaries at the door. Only regular scaries are allowed here.

Day 2 was rainy, VERY rainy, but that didn't keep Horror Show fans at home or in their hotels. We braved rushing rivers and puddly sidewalks to stand in line for the day's features lineup: David Kittredge's Boorman and the Devil, Martín Mauregui's Crazy Old Lady, Alexander Ullom's It Ends, Jason Lei Howden's Deathgasm 2: Goremageddon, The Adams Family's Mother of Flies, plus repeat screenings of Man Finds Tape, Hellcat, Fuck My Son! and Flush were among the titles grabbing eyeballs and melting minds Saturday. There were also two more 16mm secret screenings from the Jon Davison archives, and a charity screening for fan-favorite Good Boy from Ben Leonberg, raising funds for Second Chance Humane Society and Telluride Humane Society.

As host, I was honored to invite onstage Emily Bennett and Justin Brooks for their sophomore feature playing THS, the graceful yet absolutely ruthless folk horror Blood Shine. Bennett and Brooks' first film, Alone With You, won the FANGORIA Chainsaw Editorial Eye on the Future award, and Blood Shine is even more sophisticated and haunting. I also hosted the filmmakers behind the fantastic Sinister Stories Shorts Block, seven short films handing out dread, malevolence and jaw-dropping creativity with every brief minute they had. (The other shorts block of the day was Uncanny Tales, and you can read about those films here. By all accounts, they were hugely well received, like all shorts blocks at Telluride Horror Show.)