A Look at the Sundance Film Festival Midnight Lineup

Oh what a dream, to be able to attend the Sundance Film Festival! This year’s lineup for the Park City at Midnight category has an interesting selection. The festival runs January 21-31 in Park City, Salt Lake City, Ogden and Sundance, Utah and is the largest indie film festival in the US. Many now famous horror flicks had their premiere at the festival including The Blair Witch Project and Saw. Check out the lineup below plus a few trailers and let me know what you think.

Buried

Spain/USA

Director: Rodrigo Cortes; Screenwriter: Chris Sparling
A U.S. contractor working in Iraq awakes to find he is buried alive inside a coffin. With only a lighter and a cell phone it’s a race against time to escape this claustrophobic death trap. Cast: Ryan Reynolds. World Premiere

Frozen

USA

Director and Screenwriter: Adam Green
Three skiers are mistakenly stranded on a chairlift, forced to make life-or-death choices that prove more perilous than staying put and freezing to death. This comes from the director of the popular cult slasher Hatchet. Cast: Emma Bell, Shawn Ashmore, Kevin Zegers. World Premiere

Splice

France/USA

Director: Vincenzo Natali; Screenwriters: Vincenzo Natali, Antoinette Terry Bryant, and Doug Taylor
From the director of Cube. Clive and Elsa are young, brilliant, and ambitious. The new animal species they engineered has made them rebel superstars of the scientific world. In secret, they introduce human DNA into the experiment. Cast: Adrien Brody, Sarah Polley, Delphine Chaneac, David Hewlett. North American Premiere

Tucker & Dale vs. Evil

Canada

Director: Eli Craig; Screenwriters: Eli Craig and Morgan Jurgenson
Two West Virginian hillbillies go on vacation at their dilapidated mountain cabin, but their peaceful trip goes horribly awry. Cast: Tyler Labine, Alan Tudyk, Katrina Bowden, Jesse Moss. World Premiere

The Violent Kind

USA

Directors and screenwriters: The Butcher Brothers a.k.a. Mitchell Altieri and Phil Flores
Fro the director of the indie smash The Hamiltons, a group of rowdy young bikers party it up at a secluded farmhouse when, tormented by a mysterious force, things take a turn for the worst. Cast: Taylor Cole, Christina Prousalis, Tiffany Shepis, David Fine, Joseph McKelheer. World Premiere.

7 Days (Les 7 Jours du Talion)

Canada

Director: Daniel Grou; Screenwriter: Patrick Senecal
A doctor seeks revenge by kidnapping, torturing and killing the man who murdered his young daughter. Cast: Rémy Girard, Claude Legault, Fanny Mallette, Martin Dubreuil, Rose-Marie Coallier. World Premiere

HIGH School

USA

Director: John Stalberg, Jr.; Screenwriters: Erik Linthorst and John Stalberg, Jr.
A random drug test coincides with a high school valedictorian’s first hit of pot. Cast: Sean Marquette, Matt Bush, Adrien Brody, Michael Chiklis, Colin Hanks, Mykelti Wiliamson, Andrew Wilson, Yeardley Smith, Michael Vartan, Curtis Armstrong, Erica Phillips. World Premiere

The Perfect Host

USA

Director: Nick Tomnay; Screenwriters: Nick Tomnay and Krishna Jones
A criminal on the run cons his way into the wrong dinner party where the host is anything but ordinary. Cast: David Hyde Pierce, Clayne Crawford, Helen Reddy, Nathaniel Parker. World Premiere

The Killer Inside Me

USA

Director: Michael Winterbottom; Screenwriter: John Curran
Deputy Sheriff Lou Ford is a pillar of the community in his small Texan town; patient, polite and well liked, until he starts killing people. Cast: Casey Affleck, Kate Hudson, Jessica Alba, Simon Baker, Elias Koteas. World Premiere

All My Friends Are Funeral Singers

USA

Director and screenwriter: Tim Rutili
Probably not a film to be covered here on Bloody Disgusting, but it does involve ghosts and our beloved Angela Bettis (May). In the film a fortune teller lives and works in and old house crowded with ghosts. When a mysterious light appears in the woods, the ghosts realize they are trapped and begin to rebel. Cast: Angela Bettis. World Premiere