We announce the Official Selections of the category BEST FEATURE FILM of DarkVeins Horror Fest 2020, festival dedicato al cinema horror e che quest'anno è giunto alla sua quarta edizione.
The following feature films were selected from the competition films:
- Bad Candy (USA - 2020) di Scott Hansen e Desiree Connell;
- Stranger (Ucraina - 2019) di Dmitriy Tomashpolskiy;
- Diablo Rojo (Panama - 2019) di Sol Moreno
Below is more info on the three feature films finalists competing for the award BEST FEATURE FILM:
Directed by Scott Hansen (The Possession Experiment) and Desiree Connell, Bad Candy is a fun horror film about Halloween whose story takes place in the small town of New Salem, a place where a little girl has the power to give life to everything she draws by wreaking havoc.
Bad Candy boasts the presence in the cast of Zach Galligan (Gremlins, The Chair) e Corey Taylor, il frontman degli Slipknot. Quest'ultimo ha sostituito Sid Haig dopo la sua tragica scomparsa nel 2019.
Desiree Connell also appears on the film crew as producer and screenwriter while Derek Russo, Ryan Kiser, Kenneth Trujillo, Mike Milligan, Haley Nicole Leary, Bill Pacer and Alexandra Lucchesi complete the cast.
Photography is by Scott B. Hansen and Blake Studwell while the soundtrack is by Chris Dudley.
Wayne Anderson, on the other hand, handled the special effects.
Plot: radio DJs Chilly Billy (Corey Taylor) and Paul (Zach Galligan) spend Halloween night telling their radio listeners the terrifying stories that have occurred over the years on October 31 in the New Salem community. Stories in which children and adults have been slaughtered at the hands of murderers, demons, entities and zombies, all under the leadership of a diabolical Halloween-loving clown.
The trailer for Bad Candy:
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Written and directed by Dmitriy Tomashpolskiy, the surreal Stranger (aka Storonniy) is a science fiction mystery film in which a detective will take an interest in two cases: that of the disappearance of a synchronized swimming team right during a performance and that of a hydrotherapy clinic patient who vanished into thin air while bathing. How are these cases connected? The search will lead the woman to shed light not only on the unsolved cases but also on herself.
The film is a mix of The cure from wellness and La forma dell'acqua with reminders to the works of Howard Phillips Lovecraft.
In the cast: Anastasiya Yevtushenko, Darya Tregubova, Maria Bruni, Anna Sukhomlyn, Sergey Kalantay and Mariya Motorna.
The photography of Stranger is by Serhii Smychok
The trailer for Stranger:
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Produced and written by Jota Nájera and directed by Sol Moreno, Diablo Rojo è il primo horror girato a Panama. La storia del film affonda le radici nella stregoneria e, soprattutto, nel folklore dando spazio alla Tulivieja, personaggio leggendario della Costa Rica e del Panama che viene descritto come un fantasma femminile, un'entità  con il seno gonfio e turgido (a volte gocciolante di latte) che si trasforma in un mostro.
Trama: nella città di Panama, un autista di autobus cade vittima di un incantesimo. L'uomo finirà  per perdersi lungo i sentieri nei boschi, trascinando nella sua folle e impressionante avventura l'assistente, due agenti di polizia e un prete. Insieme, i quattro uomini dovranno sopravvivere alle creature della notte, sfruttando il vecchio mezzo come unico rifugio.
The trailer for Diablo Rojo PTY:
