VHS 2023 BURNABY Edition
October 20-22 at Cineplex Metropolis in Burnaby
INTRODUCING THE VHS BURNABY EDITION!
VHS is partnering with The Burnaby Halloween Festival for VHS: The Burnaby Edition. The all-ages festival will take place as a part of Burnaby Halloween Festival and will run October 20 - 22 in Auditorium 8 at Cineplex Cinemas Metropolis at Metrotown, 4700 Kingsway, Burnaby, BC. The Burnaby edition will offer fresh programming complete with three feature films and two shorts blocks, filmmaker Q&As as well as our VHS Talks Panel Series, sponsored by UBCP/ACTRA. The Burnaby Edition will screen 3 features and 21 shorts.
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October 20 - 7:00 PM
She Came from the Woods
Canadian Premiere
USA - 1 hr 26 min
Directed by Erik Blumqvist
Starring Cara Buono, Clare Foley, Spencer List & William Sadler
In 1987, a group of counselors accidentally unleashes a decades' old evil on the last night of summer camp.
October 21 - 5:00 PM
VHS Talks -- Villains, Vixens & victims : females on screen
Join us again this year for the annual VHS Talks Panel discussion, sponsored by UBCP/Actra. VHS is honoured to welcome Enid-Raye Adams (Actress, writer and UBCP Chair of Women’s Committee), Dr. Kelly Doyle (Feminist horror scholar from Kwantlen Polytechnic University) and filmmakers Lisa Ovies (Puppet Killer, Sleep Tight) & Gigi Saul Guerrero (V/H/S/85, La Quinceañera, Bingo Hell) to join Artistic Director and moderator Meghan Hemingway to discuss women on screen. This is a free event.
October 21 - 6:30 PM
Shorts Program III
The Knowing | Stop Dead | In Too Deep | Camp| Unkind Cut | HIMS | Follow Me |
Blink | Conflict | Second Hand Slaughter | Fuse
The Knowing | Erin Lovett | After several failed rounds of IVF, an artist seeking solitude encounters a nightmarish presence outside her remote cabin in the woods, forcing both a confrontation and a choice.
Stop Dead | Emily Greenwood | When a workaholic city police officer and her laid-back partner try to stop a dishevelled girl staggering down the middle of a country road, they discover she’s being stalked by some unseen entity with a horrifying ultimatum: you stop moving, you die.
in too deep | Chris Overton | Mourning the death of his young daughter, a grieving father goes to extreme measures, using A.I technology to relive their fondest memories.
Camp | Bronson Michael Shea Allen | A trio of young campers seek to contact the spirit of a dead woman via their homemade "Weeja Board".
Unkind Cut | Marc Pitre | A vasectomy consultation goes awry as an unsure patient faces a quirky doctor and aggressive medical staff who don't want him to remain intact.
HIMS | Krsy Fox | Jo and her three year old daughter Lulu struggle to adjust to life alone after her divorce. The worst is yet to come, when an evil force inhabits Lulu's bedroom.
Follow Me | Kevin Ang | A wanna-be social media influencer follows a mysterious, far more popular doppleganger.
Blink | Julie Bruns | A 1940s housewife struggles with the Sisyphean task of a violent marriage.
Conflict | François Charette | A forest. A man in his forties sinks in, alone, abandoning his car on the side of the road. It sinks gradually, more and more hollow, suggesting to make peace with himself. The savagery of nature attracts him, without really knowing why. Insidiously, a metamorphosis begins, both moral and physical. The man finally transcends the forest.
Second Hand Slaughter | Tate Diachuk | Two life-long friends Matt and Blaze are new owners of a thrift shop where your new outfit might be your last.
Fuse | Will Dennies | An electrician finds himself stalked by a ghostly presence as he attends a night call at an elderly woman’s house.
October 21 - 9:30 PM
Everyone will burn
SPAIN - 2 hr 5 min
Directed by David Hebreros
Starring Macarena Gómez & Rodolfo Sancho
A strange girl may be linked to a local legend about stopping an impending apocalypse.
October 22 - 1:00 PM
Shorts Program IV
White Noise | Demon Box | We Forgot About The Zombies | The Unquiet Dead | The Island | I Can't Go On | The Walk | The Queue | Bye-Bye | Gravid |
White Noise | Tamara Scherbak | Ava's debilitating hyper-sensitivity to sound is becoming unliveable. When her attempt at suicide fails, her doctor enrolls her in an experimental trial involving an anechoic chamber: the world's quietest room.
Demon Box | Sean Wainsteim | After festival rejections, a director revises his intensely personal short film about trauma, suicide, and the Holocaust, and transforms it into a painful, blunt and funny dissection of the film and his life.
We Forgot About The Zombies | Chris McInroy | Two dudes think they found the cure for zombie bites.
The Unquiet Dead | John Gray | A therapist treats an unstable young woman who claims to be harassed by an assortment of malevolent spirits who are demanding something from her.
The Island | Camille Corbett | Zora, a young black woman, discovers that her father has been murdered during her family’s luxury vacation in Caribbean. Suddenly the vacation they are on becomes increasingly sinister and Zora doesn’t know who to trust outside of her family, especially the hotel owner Martisha...
I Can't Go On | Brenna Goodwin-McCabe | An alienated young woman discovers a body in her apartment elevator, left to fester under the heels of her unconcerned neighbours.
The Queue | Michael Rich | An internet content moderator confronts the darkness within the videos he screens.
Gravid | Laura Jai Smith | A woman discovers something repulsive growing inside her. She fears it's a manifestation of the secret she is keeping from her boyfriend: she doesn't want children. He does. And he's delighted because he thinks she is pregnant.
October 22 - 4:00 PM
V/H/S/85
Canadian Theatrical Premiere
19+ Event
Short film Bye-Bye by Freddy Chávez OImos will screen beforehand.
The Vancouver Horror Show Film Festival (VHS) is thrilled to announce the exclusive Vancouver premiere of the wildly anticipated feature film V/H/S/85. Vancouver’s very own internationally celebrated queen of horror, director Gigi Saul Guerrero delivers on the sixth installment of the wickedly popular VHS found footage horror anthology film franchise. An ominous mixtape blends never before seen snuff footage with nightmarish newscasts and disturbing home video to create a surreal, analog mashup of the forgotten 80s. The latest chapter in the iconic franchise stars Freddy Rodriguez and James Ransone.
Director Gigi Saul Guerrero, producer Raynor Shima, cinematographer Luke Bramley, composer Blake Matthew and actor Marcio Moreno will join us for an exclusive Q&A hosted by Joel McCarthy. Audiences will have a chance to learn about the making of this film, how the local team behind it have earned their way to the top of the horror industry in Hollywood, and even have a chance to ask questions themselves.
Bye-Bye directed Freddy Chávez OImos
In the eerie silence of a deserted subway station, Karla and her partner Hannah await a train late at night. Unsettling whispers soon emerge, revealing that they are not alone. Inspired by a chilling urban legend from around the world.