15th Annual Telluride Horror Show: Program + Tickets/Passes Now!

02 Oct 15th Annual Telluride Horror Show: Program + Tickets/Passes Now!

The Telluride Horror Show has just announced the line-up for its 15th edition, October 11-13, 2024 in world-famous Telluride, Colorado.

15th edition features world premieres, highly anticipated horror titles.

Since 2018, Telluride Horror Show has sold out in advance. Horror fans are encouraged to buy passes now in order to secure a space at the 2023happening, which is sure to sell out again with box office numbers outpacing previous years.

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The best horror weekend of the year returns to high altitude! Telluride Horror Show is back for its 15th edition, announcing its entire lineup and schedule for October 11-13, 2024, in the world-famous mountain resort town of Telluride, Colorado.

Showcasing an international program of more than 50 films, this year’s lineup brings the latest and best in horror to Telluride, including NEON’s highly anticipated PRESENCE; IFC Films/Shudder’s THE CREEP TAPES; THE RULE OF JENNY PEN with John Lithgow and Geoffrey Rush; and GET AWAY, written by Nick Frost of HOT FUZZ and SHAUN OF THE DEAD – as well as Sony Pictures International Productions’ DEAD TALENTS SOCIETY and the North American Premiere of FRÉWAKA.

Directed by Steven Soderbergh, PRESENCE closes the 2024 Telluride Horror Show as a special NEON SPOTLIGHT. A haunted house thriller, the film features an all-star cast led by Lucy Liu, Julia Fox, and Chris Sullivan.

Director, Writer and Executive Producer Patrick Brice will return to the festival with an advanced three-episode preview screening of THE CREEP TAPES, the new series based on the found footage horror hits CREEP and CREEP 2, both past Telluride Horror Show official selections. Writer and Executive Producer Mark Duplass reprises his leading role in the six-episode series debuting Friday, November 15, 2024 on Shudder and AMC+.

An annual celebration of indie horror, the Telluride Horror Show welcomes many of this year’s festival circuit favorites, from the craziest Joe

Begos movie yet (JIMMY & STIGGS) to the latest sinister thriller from Alexandre Bustillo and Julien Maury (THE SOUL EATER). Along with a diverse line-up of features, the festival continues its popular and carefully curated short film blocks.

Telluride Horror Show is also proud to announce its largest lineup of guest authors, including Rachel Harrison, Jeremy Robert Johnson, and New York Times-bestsellers Paul Tremblay, Grady Hendrix, Daniel Kraus, and Colorado’s own Stephen Graham Jones. Along with conversations and book signings, fans of horror fiction will enjoy readings around an actual bonfire as authors share excerpts of their works at Creepy Campfire Tales – a fan favorite special event and an annual first night tradition.

The Horror Show will take over the historic town of Telluride with numerous special events, including Jon Davison’s Horror Vault, Ice Scream Social, Pig Roast, Fright or Wrong Horror Trivia, Horror Summit and Horror Book Fair, Grady Hendrix’s Final Girl Support Group, Horror Show Social Hall, and the Annual Meeting of the Secret Horror Society: Telluride Chapter.

SPECIAL GUESTS

Rachel Harrison
GUEST AUTHOR

Rachel Harrison is the national bestselling author of So Thirsty, Black Sheep, Such Sharp Teeth, Cackle, and The Return, which was nominated for a Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a First Novel. Her short fiction has appeared in Guernica, Electric Literature’s Recommended Reading, as an Audible Original, and in her debut story collection Bad Dolls. She lives in Western New York with her husband and their cat/overlord.

Grady Hendrix
GUEST AUTHOR
Grady Hendrix is the New York Times-bestselling author of How To Sell a Haunted House, The Final Girl Support Group, My Best Friend’s Exorcism, and many more. His history of the horror paperback boom of the ’70s and ’80s, Paperbacks from Hell, won the Stoker Award for Outstanding Achievement in Nonfiction. His books have been translated into 23 languages and sold over two million copies, which means he is guaranteed a seat on the space ark when the earth becomes uninhabitable.

Jeremy Robert Johnson
GUEST AUTHOR

Jeremy Robert Johnson is the author of The Loop, Skullcrack City, In the River, and Entropy in Bloom. His fiction has been praised by The Washington Post and Publishers Weekly, authors such as David Wong, Chuck Palahniuk and Jack Ketchum, and has appeared internationally in numerous anthologies and magazines. A long-time member of the Telluride Horror Show family, Jeremy is “a defining name within the [bizarro] genre. His work is most aptly described as a mixture of all these things — thrillers that become bloodbaths, horrors that blend into fantasies, and apocalypses that transcend into high art” (Los Angeles Review of Books).

Stephen Graham Jones
GUEST AUTHOR

Stephen Graham Jones is the New York Times-bestselling author of nearly thirty novels and collections, and there’s some novellas and comic books in there as well. Most recent are I Was a Teenage Slasher, The Angel of Indian Lake and the ongoing Earthdivers. Up before too long are True Believers and The Buffalo Hunter Hunter. Winner of four Bram Stoker Awards, three Shirley Jackson Awards, six This is Horror Awards and countless other accolades. He’s also the guy who wrote Mongrels, The Only Good Indians, and My Heart is a Chainsaw.

Stephen lives in Boulder, Colorado.

Daniel Kraus
GUEST AUTHOR

Daniel Kraus is a New York Times-bestselling writer of novels, TV, and film. The latest novel, Pay the Piper, is a terrifying tale of supernatural horror from the minds of legendary director George A. Romero and Kraus. His recent novel Whalefall received a front-cover rave review in the New York Times Book Review, won the Alex Award, and is L.A. Times Book Prize Finalist. With Guillermo del Toro, he co-authored The Shape of Water, based on the same idea the two created for the Oscar-winning film. Also with del Toro, Kraus co-authored Trollhunters, which was adapted into the Emmy-winning Netflix series. He also cowrote The Living Dead with George A. Romero. Kraus has won the Bram Stoker Award, Scribe Award, two Odyssey Awards, and more. Kraus’s work has been translated into over 20 languages. He lives with his wife in Chicago.

Paul Tremblay
GUEST AUTHOR

Paul Tremblay has won the Bram Stoker, British Fantasy, and Massachusetts Book awards and is the author of Horror Movie, The Pallbearers Club, Survivor Song, The Cabin at the End of the World, Disappearance at Devil’s Rock, A Head Full of Ghosts, and the crime novels The Little Sleep and No Sleep Till Wonderland. His essays and short fiction have appeared in the Los Angeles Times, Entertainment Weekly online, and numerous year’s-best anthologies. He has a master’s degree in mathematics and lives outside Boston with his family.

Jon Davison
VAULT KEEPER

Jon Davison, producer of RoboCop and Starship Troopers, returns to the Telluride Horror Show as host of the Horror Vault. Pulling from his vast collection of movies, Mr. Davison presents six horror classics on glorious 16MM film! Located in the program room at Wilkinson Public Library in downtown Telluride.

FEATURES

1978
Argentina | 2024 | 78 min | Directors: Nicolás Onetti, Luciano Onetti
COLORADO PREMIERE

During the World Cup final between Argentina and Holland, in times of military dictatorship, a group of torturers violently breaks into a home and kidnaps a group of young people to take them to a clandestine detention center. What begins as an inhumane interrogation turns into a true martyrdom: the wrong group of people have been kidnapped. They turn out to be part of a macabre cult guided by an unknown supernatural force. The clandestine detention center will become hell itself…

A DESERT

USA | 2024 | 103 min | Director: Joshua Erkman
COLORADO PREMIERE
IN PERSON: Joshua Erkman

A past his prime photographer heads out on a road trip across the American Southwest to recapture the magic and success of his previous work. Instead, he finds himself thrust into the dark and chaotic underbelly of America and unwittingly drags his wife and a shady private detective down into this nightmare world with him.

AGFA Videodreams: NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD (1986 Colorized Version)
USA | 1968 | 96 min | Director: George A. Romero
SPECIAL INTRODUCTION BY DANIEL KRAUS

A staple of late night TV in the 1980s, this colorized version of George A. Romero’s NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD is a treat for the senses. The movie’s eerie mood, bold messaging, and haunting visuals are transformed into an impressionistic netherworld – one filled with green zombies, pink skies, and neon-red gore. Preserved from the original 1986 VHS release by AGFA. Special introduction by guest author Daniel Kraus, known for his collaborations with George A. Romero and an expert on all things NOTLD!

BLACK SPINES
USA | 2024 | 100 min | Director: Jordon Foss
IN PERSON: Jordon Foss with cast members Jan Luis Castellanos, Tiana Le, Nicole Berger, Casey Mills, and Henry Frost III (The Pill).

Inspired by true events, Black Spines centers on a chilling Detroit legend of a man in a long red coat known as “The Pill,” rumored to be responsible for numerous disappearances, including children like the Kroger heir. One fateful night, this legend became terrifyingly real for the director’s father when, as a child, he was left handcuffed to a swing set, when a dark, frightening figure approached…and tried to take him. Ironically those same handcuffs saved his life, preventing The Pill from claiming him – and instilling a lasting fear that haunted him for years. This terrifying encounter sets the stage for Black Spines. The film transports us to the sleepy town of Page Hollow, where a string of gruesome murders shatters the quiet community. Shortly after the first killings, outcast high school photographer Cameron discovers a collection of mysterious VHS tapes that may contain cryptic clues to the murders. His discovery launches him into a harrowing race against time, down a path of terrifying revelations – where the killer may be closer than he ever imagined.

DADDY’S HEAD
UK | 2024 | 97 min | Director: Benjamin Barfoot
Special Theatrical Presentation courtesy of IFC Films and Shudder

In the wake of his father’s untimely death, a young boy is left in the eerie solitude of a sprawling country estate with his newly widowed stepmother. His stepmother, struggling to navigate the overwhelming task of parenthood, grows distant, leaving their fragile bond at risk of collapse. Amidst the growing tension, the boy begins to hear unsettling sounds echoing through the corridors. Soon, he is haunted by the presence of a grotesque creature bearing a disturbingly familiar resemblance to his late father. But as the boy’s warnings are dismissed as the imagination of a grieving child, the sinister entity tightens its grip on their crumbling lives.

DARK MATCH
Canada | 2024 | 94 min | Director: Lowell Dean

A small-time wrestling company accepts a well-paying gig in a backwoods town only to learn, too late, that the community is run by a mysterious cult leader with devious plans for their match. The latest feature from the director of WolfCop (2014 Telluride Horror Show)!

DEAD TALENTS SOCIETY
Ireland | 2024 | 103 min | Director: Aislinn Clarke
NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE

Haunted by a personal tragedy, home care worker, Shoo, is sent to a remote village to care for an agoraphobic woman who fears the neighbors as much as she fears the Na Sídhe – sinister entities who she believes abducted her decades before. As the two develop a strangely deep connection, Shoo is consumed by the old woman’s paranoia, rituals, and superstitions, eventually confronting the horrors from her own past.

FRÉWAKA
Ireland | 2024 | 103 min | Director: Aislinn Clarke
NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE

GET AWAY
UK | 2024 | 86 min | Director: Steffen Haars
COLORADO PREMIERE

A family’s vacation to a remote getaway takes an unexpected turn when they discover the island they’re on is inhabited by a serial killer. From IFC Films and Shudder, a slasher comedy written by Nick Frost, who stars alongside Aisling Bea, Sebastian Croft, and Maisie Ayres.

JIMMY & STIGGS
USA | 2024 | 80 min | Director: Joe Begos
COLORADO PREMIERE
IN PERSON: Joe Begos, Josh Ethier

A shitstorm of bad news sends out of work filmmaker Jimmy Lang (Joe Begos) spiraling into an out of control bender in which he claims to have been abducted by aliens. Fearing they’ll come back, he contacts his old friend Stiggs (Matt Mercer) to help him gear up for war. When the sun sets, the duo are thrown into a hallucinatory explosion of aliens, drugs, booze, and all out carnage. The latest, and craziest, from the director of Christmas Bloody Christmas, VFW, and The Mind’s Eye, all past Telluride Horror Show official selections.

PÀRVULOS
Mexico | 2024 | 119 min | Director: Isaac Ezban
COLORADO PREMIERE

A family moves into a suburban house and becomes convinced they’re not alone.
NEON presents Steven Soderbergh’s PRESENCE, starring Lucy Liu, Chris Sullivan, Julia Fox, Eddy Maday, Callina Liang, and West Mulholland.

STRANGE HARVEST: OCCULT MURDER IN THE INLAND EMPIRE
USA | 2024 | 94 min | Director: Stuart Ortiz
COLORADO PREMIERE

A true-crime horror documentary about two detectives pursuing an infamous serial killer named Mr. Shiny, who terrorized Southern California for almost two decades.

THE CREEP TAPES
USA | 2024 | 75 min | Director: Patrick Brice
SPECIAL PRESENTATION
COLORADO PREMIERE
IN PERSON: Patrick Brice

The Creep Tapes continues to unravel the mind of a secluded serial killer who lures videographers into his world with the promise of a paid job documenting his life. Unfortunately, as the tape rolls, the killer’s questionable intentions surface with his increasingly odd behavior and the victims will learn they may have made a deadly mistake. Director, Writer and Executive Producer Patrick Brice returns to the festival with an advanced three-episode preview screening of the new series based on the found footage horror hits CREEP and CREEP 2, both past Telluride Horror Show official selections. Writer and Executive Producer Mark Duplass reprises his leading role in the six-episode series debuting Friday, November 15 on Shudder and AMC+.

THE RULE OF JENNY PEN
New Zealand | 2024 | 103 min | Director: James Ashcroft
COLORADO PREMIERE

An arrogant judge (Geoffrey Rush) suffers a near-fatal stroke, leaving him partially paralyzed and confined to a retirement home. Resistant to the staff and distant from his friendly roommate, the ailing judge soon clashes with a seemingly gentle resident (John Lithgow) who secretly terrorizes the home with a sadistic game called “The Rule of Jenny Pen” while wielding his dementia doll as an instrument of cruelty. What begins as childish torment quickly escalates into far more sinister and disturbing incidents.

THE SEVERED SUN
France | 2024 | 111 min | Directors: Alexandre Bustillo, Julien Maury
COLORADO PREMIERE
IN PERSON: Dean Puckett

Magpie lives in an isolated church community ruled over by her father, The Pastor. When a man is murdered, paranoia sets in, and people start to whisper about a strange ‘Beast’ that lives in the forest. Short film alum Dean Puckett (The Sermon, 2018 Telluride Horror Show) joins the festival in person with his debut feature.

TRIZOMBIE
Belgium | 2024 | 78 min | Director: Bob Colaers
COLORADO PREMIERE
IN PERSON: Bob Colaers

What if a virus turns everyone on Earth into zombies? Everyone except those with a DNA mutation. Everyone except people with trisomy-21, also known as Down syndrome.

SHORTS…

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