Beyond Fest 2014 Features 'Starry Eyes,' 'Nightcrawler' And 4K 'Halloween' With John Carpenter And Jamie Lee Curtis

Beyond Fest 2014 Features ‘Starry Eyes,’ ‘Nightcrawler’ And 4K ‘Halloween’ With John Carpenter And Jamie Lee Curtis

For those who live in LA, October is a great month. Several theaters really orient the month’s programming to horror, the supernatural, and the strange. One of the best recent events in town isBeyond Fest, which in 2014 runs from September 25 to October 4. (Leaving fans the rest of October to enjoy horror at other venues!)

This year, the Beyond Fest lineup lives up to its name, with a new 4K transfer ofHalloween, for which John Carpenter and Jamie Lee Curtis will be in attendance. There’s the local premiere of the Hollywood horrorStarry Eyes;the Jake Gyllenhaal thrillerNightcrawler;Horns, the Daniel Radcliffe film from Alexandre Aja; the remake ofThe Town That Dreaded Sundown;and aFight Clubretrospective screening with Chuck Palahnuik and Jim Uhls in attendance.

Beyond the big-ticket items, many of the fest’s screenings are free. Films such asThe ABCs of Death 2,The Editor,Norway, andFuture Shock! The Story of 2000ADwill all be LA premieres that won’t cost you a dime. Check out the full Beyond Fest 2014 lineup below.

Here’s the fest trailer.The official site will have more info; in the meantime, the list of films and guests follows.

At the EGYPTIAN THEATRE

NIGHTCRAWLER presented by Backstory

dir. Dan Gilroy

United States

117 minutes

Dan Gilroy in person

THE WORLD OF KANAKO / KAWAKI – LA Premiere – FREE SCREENING

dir. Tetsuya Nakashima

118 minutes

THE TOWN THAT DREADED SUNDOWN presented by Shock Till You Drop and Blumhouse Productions – FREE SCREENING

dir. Alfonso Gomez-Rejon

85 minutes

FIGHT CLUB presented by Backstory

dir. David Fincher

139 minutes

FIGHT CLUB author Chuck Palahniuk and screenwriter Jim Uhls in person

STARRY EYES presented by Bloody Disgusting – LA Premiere

Dir. Kevin Kölsch, Dennis Widmyer

98 minutes

Cast and crew in person

POSSESSION

dir. Andrezj Zulawski

France / West Germany

124 minutes

V/H/S VIRAL + V/H/S Shorts presented by Bloody Disgusting – LA Premiere

dir. Todd Lincoln, Nacho Vigalondo, Marcel Sarmiento, Gregg Bishop, Justin Benson & Aaron Moorhead

Multiple Countries

20,000 DAYS ON EARTH

dir. Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard

97 minutes

TOKYO TRIBE – LA Premiere

dir. Sion Sono

116 minutes

SNOWPIERCER – A Vis a Vis Event presented by the French Consulate, Meltdown Comics and RADiUS

dir. Bong Joon-ho

South Korea

126 minutes

Snowpiercer creator Jean-Marc Rochette and DC Comics Publisher Jim Lee in person

HORNS presented with Fantastic Fest – LA Premiere

dir. Alexandre Aja

United States / Canada

123 minutes

A Night at the Movies with THE MELTDOWN WITH JONAH AND KUMAIL featuring THE MONSTER SQUAD

dir. Fred Dekker

82 minutes

Jonah Ray, Kumail Nanjiani, Fred Dekker and guests in person

TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE presented by Death Waltz Recording Company with live re score by Antoni Maiovvi & Umberto

dir. Tobe Hooper

88 minutes

HOUSE OF THE DEVIL presented by Death Waltz Recording Company

dir. Ti West

95 minutes

HALLOWEEN 4K REMASTER presented by Humans From Earth

dir. John Carpenter

90 minutes

John Carpenter and Jamie Lee Curtis in person

ONLY GOD FORGIVES

dir. Nicolas Winding Refn

Denmark / France

Nicolas Winding Refn in person

MY LIFE DIRECTED BY NICOLAS WINDING REFN – LA Premiere

dir. Liv Corfixen

58 minutes

Liv Corfixen and Nicolas Winding Refn in person

At the EL REY’S ‘THE PEOPLE’S NETWORK’ THEATRE / SPIELBERG THEATRE

ABC’S OF DEATH 2 – LA Premiere – Free screening

dir. Larry Fessenden, Marvin Kren, Todd Rohal, Jim Hosking, Julien Maury & Alexandre Bustillo, Julien Gibney, Soichi Umezawa, Lancelot Imasuen, Jerome Sable, Robert Boocheck, Aharon Keshales & Navot Papushado, Bill Plympton, Rodney Ascher, Erik Matti, Juan Moreno, Steven Kostanski, Alejandro Brugues, E.L. Katz, Julian Barratt, Hajime Ohata, Vincenzo Natali, Chris Nash, Jen & Sylvia Soska, Dennisison Ramalho, Robert Morgan, Kristina Buozyte and Bruno Samper

125 minutes

THE EDITOR – Free Screening – LA Premiere

dir. Matthew Kennedy, Adam Brooks

102 minutes

HYENA – Free Screening – LA Premiere

dir. Gerard Johnson

United Kingdom

FUTURE SHOCK! THE STORY OF 200AD - Free Screening – LA Premiere

dir. Paul Goodwin

LOST SOUL – THE DOOMED JOURNEY OF RICHARD STANLEY’S ISLAND OF DR. MOREAU – Free Screening – LA Premiere