No matter how you like your horror, this year’s Mile High Horror Film Festival has something to frighten your fancy. Not only are there plenty of new films like Dead Snow 2: Red vs. Dead, V/H/S: Viral and Exists to please hardcore horror fans, but this year a plethora of classics will offer old-school thrills for those who feel that filmmakers don’t make horror flicks like they used to. “There are a lot of [film] anniversaries this year and that’s going to be huge,” says Danielle Nelson, festival marketing director. “It’s a broad spectrum of films that I hope will draw a good mix of people out to the festival.”
That mix includes a fortieth- anniversary showing of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre with Leatherface himself, actor Gunnar Hansen, in attendance, a sixtieth-year anniversary screening for Creature from the Black Lagoon with creature designer Julie Adams on hand, and a fifteenth-anniversary celebration for The Blair Witch Project with directors Dan Myrick and Eduardo Sanchez appearing in person; there will also be a ninety-year-old silent horror film with a live score.
The festival starts tonight with a pair of special presentations and continues through Sunday, October 12, at the Alamo Drafthouse, 7301 South Santa Fe Drive in Littleton. Individual tickets start at $11; for tickets, festival passes and more information, visit milehighhorrorfestival.com.
Oct. 9-12, 2014
