The 2014 edition of the European Horror Convention, the festival that was established last year and embraces all forms of entertainment related to the sphere of horror in an all-round way. The event is conceived and organized by a large group with experience in the field of music and entertainment consisting of Latvians, Danes, Poles and Italians.
The dates to set on the calendar are those from the Aug. 15 to 17 at the Palais Fontaine, in a sinister Soviet-era factory located in the city of Liepaja, Latvia. These three days of intense horror will witness not only events related to the world of cinema, genre literature and video games, but there will also be live concerts, there will be tattoo booths, art exhibits and extreme forms of entertainment such as body modification performance.
Among the guests: filmmakers, writers and videogamers from all over the world. Film seminars such as one on low-budget horror films by VLM (Venomous Little Man Productions) will also be held.
La European Horror Convention, in collaboration with the Fontaine Festival in Latvia and Ink On Wheels in Poland, aims to cater to a wide audience of fans of the horror genre. Partners of the event are the production companies Silent Studios, Venomous Little Man Productions, Empire Video (Alex Visani), Cloudcover Films.
In the festival area are: the Gypsy Camp, an open space where you can watch performances and drink cold beer; the Fontaine Palace; the Fire Bar; and the Prison Bar, the latter of which resembles a prison with cages designated for dancers.
As of today's date, July 20, the confirmed titles as far as cinema is concerned are.:
- Eaters and Zombie Massacre by Luca Boni and Marco Ristori
- Lights Out by David F. Sandberg
- Hypnagogy by Lars-Erik Lie (Violence Production)
- House of Last Things by Michael Bartlett (Cloudcover Films)
- Hollows End (AbandonHope Films)
- Wild Zero By Tetsuro Takeuchi
- Man Behind the Sun by T.F. Mous
- Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky by Ngai Choi Lam
- Nekromantik by Jörg Buttgereit
- Kill List by Ben Wheatley
- The Human Centipede and The Human Centipede 2 by Tom Six
Videogame:
- Dementium 2
- Depths of Fear: Knossos from Digital Tribe Games
Graphic Arts:
- Firman Hatibu Artwork
The same days of the European Horror Convention will also be held on the Fontaine Festival devoted to music (ranging from the blues genre to metal).
Artists involved:
Adam Bomb, All Day Long, Bloody Heels, Bulletsize, Blinded Memory, Gagarin Brothers, Inokentijs Marpls, Karmafree, Kuadra, Lapko, Latvian Blues Band, Manzana, Mary Jane, Nasty Smile, Palace On Wheels, Pete Anderson, Gjutjärn, HalfChicken, Kings Of The Sun, Sacramental, Starlight Searchers, Strauss, The Briefing, The Coco'nuts, Voyeur, Žoržs Siksna, and Rusa.
For more info we leave you to the official page of the European Horror Convention and we invite you to take a look at the 2014 event promo:
