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Knoxville Horror Film Festival 666

The Knoxville Horror Film Fest will present its sixth annual weekend of scare-friendly cinema on October 24-26, bringing the genre film festival experience to East Tennessee with a slate of premier indie horror features and a barrage of unique shorts from around the region and around the world.

This year's festival will kick off Friday night at Regal Downtown West, return for an all-day marathon of screenings on Saturday, then wrap up across town on Sunday afternoon with two additional film screenings and an awards ceremony & costume party at Market Square's Scruffy City Hall.

KHFF has upped the ante each year since its single-evening 2009 debut, and 2014 will be no exception, packing the weekend tighter than ever before with seven handpicked feature presentations. This year's lineup includes fest favorite Richard Bates, Jr's buzzed-about dark comedy Suburban Gothic; horror anthology sequels V/H/S Viral and The ABCs Of Death 2; Gerard Johnstone's crowdpleasing horror laffer Housebound; renowned Canadian collective Astron6's meta-giallo The Editor; Axelle Carolyn's moody ghost story Soulmate; and Matt O'Mahoney's splatter comedy Bloody Knuckles. As with last year's festival, each feature presentation is preceded by a themed selection of short films competing for prizes at Sunday's Awards Party. (2014's short film lineup will be announced along with the final festival schedule in early October.)

Saturday night will also premiere the locally-made trailers comprising the fourth annual Grindhouse Grind-Out Filmmaking Contest. The de facto main event of KHFF for many of Knoxville's wildest creative types, the Grind-Out pits two dozen teams against each other to produce over-the-top movie trailers based on a lottery of genres from 'Spaghetti Western' to current media darling 'Sharksploitation'. The audience is invited to vote for their favorites, with winners announced alongside a variety of jury awards on Sunday night... as well as a special award from Lloyd Kaufman, of the legendary Troma Films!