SCHEDULE
THURSDAY, APRIL 25
6:00 pm
7:00 pm
VIP Meet and Greet with Kathy Najimy
Opening Night with Kathy Najimy
Hocus Pocus (1993)
Peabody Essex Museum
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
Filmmaker 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
Filmmaker in attendance
1:30 pm
Salem Access Television
Stay
2:30 pm
Peabody Essex Museum
Book Talks
Christa Carmen, Kayla Cottingham, Christopher Golden, Rob Smales, Trisha Woolridge
Die With Your Boots On
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
THURSDAY, MAY 2
Horror Trivia: Witches
w. Trivia Time Bitch
9:30 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
Filmmaker in attendance
3:00 pm
Salem Access Television
Purgatory Jack
3:30 pm
Hallowed Ground
Horror Arcade Meetup
4:00 pm
Bit Bar
Underground Lounge: Beauty Queens
5:00 pm
Hallowed Ground
It’s Not Paint
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
Heidi Hawthorne House
7:00 pm
The Lords’ Dinner
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
Black Lake: Director’s Cut
2:30 pm
Peabody Essex Museum
Liminal
Salem Access Television
April 26 - April 28, 2024
Grants access to all screenings, lectures, podcasts, parties and more. All sales final. Includes official SHF 2024 lapel pin.