Three horror movies have been announced for HÕFF, Estonia’s genre festival, an off-shoot of the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival. The Haapsalu Horror and Fantasy Film Festival will take place later this month with three feature film premieres and the Méliès D’Argent Short Film Competition. The side programme consists of special screenings, a retro section and fresh Estonian short films. It takes place from 26 to the 28th April.
Chainsaws Were Singing will open the festival this year which is described as “a shameless action-horror-musical-comedy”. The film was in production for almost 10 years, and includes inventive kills, a chainsaw solo, exploding cars, romance, cute animal attacks, and even a supernatural Bukkake fridge.
Then there’s Crimson Snout, Luu Thanh Luan’s film which draws on Vietnam’s tradition of eating dog meat as a delicacy, and the growing debate about ending it. It is the most popular Vietnamese horror film of all time, earning $4.5 million at the domestic box office. The head of a butcher’s family, whose butchery sells dog meat, dies in suspicious circumstances. His family, torn apart by internal strife, begins to see ghosts that leave no doubt that there is a curse – karma bites and it hurts!
Finally, Hi, EU! revolves around a Kyrgyz grandfather, Tolembai and the babushka Shaken, who hitchhike from Asia to Europe to attend the graduation ceremony of their beloved grandson, Jermek. They could fly, but Tolembai has a heart condition – the only option is a road-trip. On their incredible journey, the two oldsters are constantly caught up in cultural conflicts that only humour can resolve.
Other highlights include screens of the upcoming international release Boy Kills World, Trey Parker’s Cannibal The Musical, Stopmotion, Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey 2 and retro screenings of Frankenhooker and Friday The 13th: Part II, among others.
A full programme can be viewed here.
