SCHEDULE
THURSDAY, MAY 2
Horror Trivia: Witches
w. Trivia Time Bitch
7:00 pm
Koto
FRIDAY, MAY 3
Welcome Reception
4:00 pm
Hallowed Ground
Underground Lounge: Body Horror
5:00 pm
Hallowed Ground
Listening Party: John Carpenter’s Lost Themes: Noir
6:00 pm
Residency Records
Meltdown: A Nuclear Family’s Ascension Into Madness • Filmmaker in attendance
8:00 pm
Die With Your Boots On
Dance of the Damned with the Low Lives, DJ Brian L
9:30 pm
Koto
I Will Never Leave You Alone
Filmmaker in attendance
9:45 pm
Die With Your Boots On
Day of the Dead (1985)
11:59 pm
Coolidge Corner Theater
SATURDAY, MAY 4
Filmmaker Breakfast
9:30 am
Salem Access Television
Wicked Shorts II
10:30 am
Salem Access Television
The Grudge (2004)
12:00 pm
Peabody Essex Museum
Sigil
1:00 pm
Hallowed Ground
Interludes
Salem Access Television
Horror Queers
1:40 pm
Peabody Essex Museum
The Judgment
2:30 pm
Peabody Essex Museum
Book Talks
Alyssa Alessi, JW Ocker, Brandon Perras-Sanchez, Catherine Scully, Katherine Silva
Die With Your Boots On
The Vizitant
Short: The Devil on Derby Street
Filmmakers in attendance
3:30 pm
Salem Access Television
Purgatory Jack
Hallowed Ground
Horror Arcade Meetup
4:00 pm
Bit Bar
Underground Lounge: Beauty Queens
5:00 pm
Hallowed Ground
It’s Not Paint
Short: The Surrogate
6:00 pm
Salem Access Television
Happy Hour
Notch Brewery
Ghost Game
8:00 pm
Die With Your Boots On
Decade: 80’s Prom
9:30 pm
Koto
Carnage for Christmas
9:45 pm
Die With Your Boots On
Land of the Dead (2005)
Coolidge Corner Theater
SUNDAY, MAY 5
Filmmaker Breakfast
9:30 am
Salem Access Television
Wicked Shorts I
10:30 am
Salem Access Television
Tales from the Crypt: Demon Knight
12:00 pm
Peabody Essex Museum
Girl, That’s a Massacre
1:30 pm
Peabody Essex Museum
Liminal
Short: Don’t Fall From Grace
Filmmakers in attendance
Salem Access Television
Black Lake: Director’s Cut
Filmmaker in attendance
2:30 pm
Peabody Essex Museum
Peabody Essex Museum
4:00 pm
The People’s Joker’s
THURSDAY, APRIL 25
Doors Open
7:30 pm
Peabody Essex Museum
Opening Night with Linnea Quigley
The People’s Joker (2024)
8:00 pm
Peabody Essex Museum
FRIDAY, APRIL 26
Welcome Reception
4:00 pm
Hallowed Ground
Underground Lounge: Aquatic Horror
5:00 pm
Hallowed Ground
Listening Party with Linnea Quigley
6:00 pm
Residency Records
It Doesn’t Get Any Better Than This
Filmmaker in attendance
8:00 pm
Die With Your Boots On
Dance Party : Scream Queen
with Linnea Quigley
9:30 pm
Koto
Livescreamers
Filmmaker in attendance
9:45 pm
Die With Your Boots On
Night of the Living Dead
Introduction by Suzanne Desrocher-Romero
Coolidge Corner Theater
SATURDAY, APRIL 27
Filmmaker Breakfast
9:30 am
Salem Access Television
Wicked Shorts I
10:30 am
Salem Access Television
Cat People (1942)
12:00 pm
Peabody Essex Museum
Faculty of Horror
1:00 pm
Peabody Essex Museum
Interludes
Salem Access Television
My Mother’s Eyes
1:30 pm
Hallowed Ground
Secret Screening with Cinematic Void
2:15 pm
Peabody Essex Museum
Book Talks
Sara Farizan, Bracken MacLeod, Errick Nunnally, Alexandra West
2:30 pm
Die With Your Boots On
Sins of the Father
3:00 pm
Hallowed Ground
Sweet Relief
Short: POSSUM
Filmmakers in attendance
3:30 pm
Salem Access Television
Horror Arcade Meetup
4:00 pm
Bit Bar
Underground Lounge: Co-Ed Killers
with Linnea Quigley
5:00 pm
Hallowed Ground
Happy Hour
6:00 pm
Notch Brewery
Young Blondes, Stalked and Murdered
Filmmaker in attendance
8:00 pm
Die With Your Boots On
DARQ Salem
9:30 pm
Koto
Faceless After Dark
Filmmaker in attendance
9:45 pm
Die With Your Boots On
Dawn of the Dead (1978)
Coolidge Corner Theater
Heidi Hawthorne House
7:00 pm
The Lords’ Dinner
SUNDAY, APRIL 28
Filmmaker Breakfast
9:30 am
Salem Access Television
Wicked Shorts II
10:30 am
Salem Access Television
Stephen King’s Dollar Babies
Filmmakers in attendance
12:00 pm
Peabody Essex Museum
Welcome Week: A College Horror Anthology
Short: Tuonela | Boston
Filmmakers in attendance
1:30 pm
Salem Access Television
Book Talks
Christa Carmen, Kayla Cottingham, Christopher Golden, Rob Smales, Trisha Woolridge
2:30 pm
Die With Your Boots On
Stay
Filmmaker in attendance
2:45 pm
Peabody Essex Museum
George A. Romero’s Resident Evil
Special Presentation with filmmaker in attendance
3:00 pm
Peabody Essex Museum
Secret Screening
6:30 pm
Bit Bar
May 3 - May 5, 2024
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