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Movie Review: “Alison’s Birthday” (NIGHTSTREAM)

Australian folk horror feature Alison’s Birthday (1981) is receiving its first release with the online NIGHTSTREAM film festival since its original VHS release. It’s a supernatural chiller that offers plenty of intriguing sequences and is worthy of finding a new audience. Writer/director Ian Coughlan’s film opens with 16-year-old Alison (Joanne Samuel of Mad Max) and two friends experimenting with a makeshift Ouija board, which results in Alison’s dead father contacting her by possessing one of the other girls, warning Alison to beware of her 19th birthday, before a bookshelf falls on the girl and kills her. If that’s not enough to hook you, parentless Alison reluctantly goes back to her hometown with her disc jockey boyfriend Peter (Lou Brown) to visit her Aunt Jennifer (Bunney Brooke) and Uncle Dean (John Bluthall) to celebrate said 19th birthday, and discovers a Stonehenge-like structure in the land behind their backyard. You can guess that business picks up from there, and you would be

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Nov 22, 2021

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Invite Monsters, Demons, and UFO Cult Members into Your Home with NIGHTSTREAM Online Film Festival

After joining together last year to present the NIGHTSTREAM online-only film festival, the four film festivals behind that project — Boston Underground, Brooklyn Horror, North Bend, and Overlook — have banded together again to present a 2021 edition from October 7th-13th. With 31 feature films and 4 blocks of short films scheduled, the virtual festival offers everything from world and virtual premieres of horror, science fiction, and other genres to a mouth-watering selection of retro fright-fare titles. Following is the official press announcement. NIGHTSTREAM is thrilled to unveil its program of films and special events set to take place virtually next month for U.S. audiences. Returning for a second edition, the celebrated online-only event formed as a banner uniting multiple U.S. genre festivals — Boston Underground, Brooklyn Horror, North Bend, and Overlook — will take place from October 7th-13th. All proceeds from the upcoming edition of NIGHTSTREAM will be shared with the filmmakers and artists involved, and further allocated toward

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Joseph Perry

Sep 30, 2021

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Movie Review (Nightstream Film Festival): Bloody Hell

A man who wants to escape the attention of being a local infamous celebrity in Boise, Idaho, packs his bags for Finland, only to find himself getting more horrific and deadly attention there in director Alister Grierson’s U.S./Australian coproduction Bloody Hell. The film delivers strongly in both the fright-fare and humor departments, rating as a must-see for horror comedy fans. Rex (Ben O’Toole) foils a bank robbery by killing the criminals, but during the event, a bank employee is shot dead. Having to agree to a deal, Rex spends eight years in prison and finds himself hounded by paparazzi and citizens because some consider him a hero while others blame the employee’s death on his recklessness. Looking to get away from it all, Rex flies to Finland but on the way, a creepy couple states that he is “perfect for their son.” Soon, Rex finds himself hanging from a rope in a cellar, with one of his legs cut off.

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Joseph Perry

Oct 13, 2020

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Five Fantastic U.S. Genre Film Festivals Announce Collective Virtual Event NIGHTSTREAM for October

Film festivals around the world have had to make the difficult choice of either canceling or experimenting with digital versions this year because of the COVID-19 pandemic. With several fests finding success and in some cases wider audiences with online formats, the trend is growing stronger. Now five highly regarded U.S. horror and genre film themed festivals are joining together to create NIGHTSTREAM with an online launch planned for October. Following is the official press release. Artwork by Sister Hyde In response to the many challenges impacting the film community amid the Covid-19 pandemic, and the concerns of safety and security that presently come with physical exhibition and festivals, a collective online initiative will be launched by organizers of a number of American genre festivals for the upcoming fall season to offer a singular experience for U.S. audiences. Together the Boston Underground Film Festival (MA), Brooklyn Horror Film Festival (NY), North Bend Film Festival (WA), the Overlook Film Festival (LA),

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Joseph Perry

Aug 13, 2020

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