{"id":148781,"date":"2025-09-11T11:14:14","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T11:14:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/148781\/"},"modified":"2025-09-11T11:14:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T11:14:14","slug":"the-brooklyn-horror-film-festival-celebrates-10th-anniversary-with-full-slate-of-programming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/148781\/","title":{"rendered":"The Brooklyn Horror Film Festival Celebrates 10th Anniversary with Full Slate of Programming"},"content":{"rendered":"

The\u00a0Brooklyn Horror Film Festival<\/a> (BHFF) has unveiled the full program for its 2025 edition, running 10 days this year in celebration of their 10-year anniversary.<\/p>\n

The festival will run from\u00a0October 16-25,\u00a0with all screenings held at\u00a0Nitehawk Cinema Williamsburg.<\/p>\n

Here are the full details, from the press release:<\/p>\n

The Opening Night film is Tina Romero<\/a>\u2019s award-winning, Brooklyn-set horror-comedy\u00a0QUEENS OF THE DEAD. The 2025 festival boasts the world premieres of Adam MacDonald<\/a>\u2019s zombie feature\u00a0THIS IS NOT A TEST\u00a0and Connor Marsden\u2019s bloodsoaked thriller\u00a0VIOLENCE. The Festival will also feature the North American Premiere of Johanna Moder\u2019s paranoid motherhood horror film\u00a0MOTHER\u2019S BABY. Other highlights include Avalon Fast\u2019s mesmerizing sophomore feature\u00a0CAMP\u00a0as the festival\u2019s Centerpiece Film.<\/p>\n

This year\u2019s Closing Night feature is the ultra violent and fast-paced\u00a0KARMADONNA\u00a0from director Aleksandar Radivojevic. Additional highlights include horror\/sci-fi icon Bryan Fuller\u2019s weird and whimsical new feature\u00a0DUST BUNNY; Kenichi Ugana\u2019s strange and disturbing new feature\u00a0INCOMPLETE CHAIRS; a screening of the first three episodes from season two of\u00a0THE CREEP TAPES; alumni Alice Maio Mackay\u2019s latest feature\u00a0THE SERPENT\u2019S SKIN; Robbie Banfitch\u2019s latest found footage feature\u00a0TINSMAN ROAD; and Julie Pacino\u2019s fever dream\u00a0I LIVE HERE NOW.<\/p>\n

The festival\u2019s signature sidebar programs return, starting with FEAR IN FOCUS: BLACK HORROR, which includes the North American premiere of James Ross\u2019s\u00a0PARASOMNIA, as well as retro screenings of\u00a0DEF BY TEMPTATION\u00a0and\u00a0BUGGED!\u00a0There will also be a sidebar for ZOMBIES!, which includes the 1974 blaxploitation film\u00a0SUGAR HILL\u00a0screening on 35mm, a 4K restoration of\u00a0BRIDE OF RE-ANIMATOR\u00a0in honor of its 35th anniversary, and the theatrical premiere of the uncut version of Tom Savini\u2019s remake of the George A. Romero classic\u00a0NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD. Animated horror gets a spotlight with DRAWING ON FEAR, featuring a trio of heavy-hitters: the 1973 Japanese masterpiece\u00a0BELLADONNA OF SADNESS; the 1981 cult classic anthology film\u00a0HEAVY METAL; and the remarkable Czechoslovakian stop-motion dark fantasy\u00a0THE PIED PIPER.<\/p>\n

The Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies will also return with a pair of special lectures: \u201cExcessive Life: The Uncanny Vitality of the Zombie\u201d from David Bering-Porter, an Assistant Professor at The New School, and \u201cOn Becoming a Horrifying Woman: Psychedelic Horror, Women\u2019s Empowerment, and BELLADONNA OF SADNESS\u201d from\u00a0That Very Witch: Fear, Feminism and the American Witch Film\u00a0author\u00a0Payton McCarty-Simas.<\/p>\n

Audiences are also in for a jaw-dropping lineup of films and events, including a special screening of Ernest Dickerson\u2019s cult classic TALES FROM THE CRYPT PRESENTS: DEMON KNIGHT with the Leviathan Award Ceremony, honoring his film career.<\/p>\n

Festival badges are on sale now here\u00a0<\/a>and a limited amount of individual tickets go on sale this Friday at 12PM EST. Read the full program lineup here.<\/a><\/p>\n

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2025 Poster: Art by Jaxon Northon<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The\u00a0Brooklyn Horror Film Festival (BHFF) has unveiled the full program for its 2025 edition, running 10 days this…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":148782,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[92128,92129,88,206],"class_list":["post-148781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-brooklyn-horror-film-fest-2025","tag-brooklyn-horror-film-festival","tag-entertainment","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148781\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}