This Junes Etheria Film Night, a showcase and celebration of women in genre filmmaking, has added two special guests to its already stacked feature and shorts lineup. Director Axelle Carolyn (Soulmate) will present Grim Grinning Ghost, her segment for the upcoming highly anticipated Tales of Halloween anthology, while Oculus and Doctor Who star Karen Gillan will premiere her directorial debut, Coward.
Both films will screen Saturday, June 13th at 4:00 p.m. before Etherias feature selection, the Australian horror film Inner Demon. Later that evening, the shorts lineup gets underway with the likes of El Gigante from director Gigi Saul Guerrero and Amber Bensons Shevenge.
Carolyns Grim Grinning Ghost stars Barbara Crampton, Alex Essoe (Starry Eyes) and Insidious Lin Shaye and tells the story of a woman who hears mysterious footsteps on her way home from a Halloween party. Carolyn also serves as producer on the short and Tales of Halloween anthology, which will feature segments from directors Darren Lynn Bousman, Adam Gierasch, Andrew Kasch & John Skipp, Lucky McKee, Mike Mendez, Neil Marshall, Dave Parker, Ryan Schifrin and Paul Solet.
Gillans film, Coward is about two people who bond over the mutual experience of murder, and stars iZombies Rose McIver. Coward is produced by Fun Size Horrors Mali Elfman and Mikey May.
Etheria Film Night gets underway Saturday, June 13th at the Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood. Below, find a gallery with the full lineup. Dread Central premiered the photos from Grim Grinning Ghost and Coward.
Etheria 2015
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Etheria 2015 #1
Coward (Dir. Karen Gillan)
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Etheria 2015 #2
Grim Grinning Ghost (Dir. Axelle Carolyn)
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Etheria 2015 #3
Inner Demon (dir. Ursula Dabrowsky)
INNER DEMON tells the nightmarish tale of Sam, a teenager abducted by a serial killer couple. Sam manages to escape and find refuge in an isolated house only to discover that it is home to greater terrors and a malevolent spirit. Hiding in a cupboard, bleeding to death, and waiting for her chance to escape, Sam is propelled into a struggle for survival – one that will push her to the limits not only physically and emotionally, but spiritually.
Partly inspired by the true story of David and Catherine Birnie, the serial killing Perth-based couple, INNER DEMON features a stunning performance from newcomer Sarah Jeavons as “Sam.”
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Etheria 2015 #4
De noche y de pronto (dir. Arantxa Echevarria)
Home alone in a deserted apartment building during the Christmas season, Maria is startled to receive a visit from a desperate man claiming to be her upstairs neighbor whose apartment has been broken into by thieves.
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Etheria 2015 #5
El Gigante (dir. Gigi Saul Guerrero)
After attempting to cross the US/Mexico border in search of a better life, Armando awakens in an unknown room, his body broken down and a Lucha Libre mask sewn into his neck. He attempts to escape, but is surrounded by a sadistic family, who watch him with hungry eyes. The only chance for Armando’s survival in this hellish nightmare is to last in a wrestling match against the most terrifying villain of all: GIGANTE!
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Etheria 2015 #6
Gödel, Incomplete (dir. Martha Goddard)
Gödel Incomplete is a time-travel love-story between one of the great minds of the 20th century, Kurt Gödel, and a lonely particle physicist, Serita Cedric, a research student working at the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland. Their affair becomes the trigger for his theory on time as one event feeds into the next and it becomes impossible to tell which came first.
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Etheria 2015 #7
Sheila Scorned (dir. Mara Gasbarro Tasker)
Sheila Scorned follows the violent misadventure of Sheila Johnson, a jaded and quick tongued dancer at a gentleman’s club. One night, after noticing an old flame in the crowd, Sheila seduces her ex, Charlie…and kills him. But her plans to get home are interrupted when Charlie’s tie to a local gang of misfits comes back to bite her. Now abducted and trapped in a warehouse, Sheila has to fight her way free from their violent and sexual advances. Unluckily for the men, Sheila’s got a penchant for ass kicking. And she can turn into a bit of a psychopath when she feels slighted.
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Etheria 2015 #8
Shevenge (dir. Amber Benson)
From Buffy the Vampire Slayer’s Amber Benson comes this twisted, darkly comedic, genre-bending tale of revenge. A revenge of the worst kind – Shevenge!
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Etheria 2015 #9
Slut (dir. Chloe Okuno)
A dark, coming of age thriller about a 16-year-old misfit named Maddy who lives alone with her grandmother in a small town in Texas. When Maddy crosses paths with an older, charismatic Stranger- a fellow misfit who’s passing through town- her quiet, monotonous life takes a dangerous turn.
