Join us for a 3-week celebration of the best of horror with IHSFF’s curated series Faith, Fear and Film. Each week, we will show a film that sparks a conversation about how faith can instill fear and how those both make for some amazing film!
After each film, Monte Yazzie and Matt Robinson will be on hand to discuss the themes, the filmmaking and the film’s impact in the horror community.
This is all leading up to the special screening of A24’s newest horror film, Saint Maude at the 2020 International Horror and Sci-Fi Film Festival!
Best yet, tickets are FREE to our Faith, Fear and Film screenings!
The Witch
Directed by: Robert Eggers
Starring: Anya Taylor-Joy, Ralph Ineson, Kate Dickie, Harvey Scrimshaw, Ellie Grainger and Lucas Dawson
Synopsis: New England, 1630. Upon threat of banishment by the church, an English farmer leaves his colonial plantation, relocating his wife and five children to a remote plot of land on the edge of an ominous forest within which lurks an unknown evil. Strange and unsettling things begin to happen almost immediately — animals turn malevolent, crops fail, and one child disappears as another becomes seemingly possessed by an evil spirit. With suspicion and paranoia mounting, family members accuse teenage daughter Thomasin of witchcraft, charges she adamantly denies. As circumstances grow more treacherous, each family members faith, loyalty and love become tested in shocking and unforgettable ways.
In this exquisitely made and terrifying new horror film, the age-old concepts of witchcraft, black magic and possession are innovatively brought together to tell the intimate and riveting story of one family’s frightful unraveling in the New England wilderness.
The Wicker Man (1973)
Directed by: Robin Hardy
Starring: Edward Woodward, Christopher Lee, Diane Cilento
Synopsis: A puritan Police Sergeant is sent to a Scottish island village in search of a missing girl who the townsfolk claim never existed; stranger still are the pagan rites that take place there.
The Conjouring
Directed by: James Wan
Starring: Patrick Wilson, Vera Farmiga, Ron Livingston and Lili Taylor
Synopsis: Before there was Amityville, there was Harrisville. The Conjuring tells the horrifying true story of Ed and Lorraine Warren, world renowned paranormal investigators, who were called to help a family terrorized by a dark presence in a secluded farmhouse. Forced to confront a powerful demonic entity, the Warrens find themselves caught in the most terrifying case of their lives. Oscar® nominee Vera Farmiga (The Departed) and Golden Globe nominee Patrick Wilson (Insidious) play the investigators while Golden Globe nominee Ron Livingston (Band of Brothers) and Emmy® nominee Lili Taylor (Six Feet Under) play the Perron family plagued by sinister spirits in this dark chiller from the writers of The Reaping and the creator of the Saw films.
