Things definitely went bump in the night last Thursday at the Frank G. Pogue University Theater. John Lyons, director of the Edinboro Film Series and Greg Ropp, president and director of the Eerie Horror Film Festival, presented the best films of the Eerie Horror fest.
As soon as the first film of the evening played, "Sinkhole," the audience knew right away that they had no idea what they had gotten themselves into. Filmed in the abandoned Pennsylvania town of Centralia, the setting of "Sinkhole"?aided to the eerie-factor of the movie.
Centralia has been abandoned ever since the Sixties when a coal mine beneath the town caught on fire and was never extinguished. Throughout the film, smoke rose from the earth and really added to the horrific feeling of the movie.
In the film, which earned the "Best Short" award at the Eerie Horror Fest, a Realtor is trying to purchase the property of an older man. Trying to seal the deal, the Realtor agrees to go for a spooky walk through Centralia with the older man and eventually, they end up talking in a one-room shack in the middle of nowhere.
The other two short films "Mamá" and "À Mère et Marées" were foreign features dealing with themes of motherhood but in two drastically different ways. "Mamá," produced by "Pan's Labryinth" director Guillermo del Toro, follows two girls in a gothic home who are running away from their possessed mother. In "À Mère et Marées", a French Canadian film directed by Alain Fournier, a mother tries to help her teenage son after she finds that he is turning into an amphibious creature. "Mamá" was the scariest out of the two, and it really had students jumping in their seats and screaming at the top of their lungs. The fast-motion camera effects in "Mamá" were also very a impressive touch for a powerful film that clocks in at under three minutes.
The main feature of the evening was the full-length Australian film, "Storage" which earned Michael Craft the "Best Director" award at the Eerie Horror Fest. Full of twists and turns, the main plot focuses on the characters trying to figure out if a murderer is hiding incriminating evidence in a unit of an underground storage facility.
If you feel like you missed out on all of the excitement of the Best of the Eerie Horror Fest, no need to be frightened. The Edinboro Film Series will be showing the dark-comedy "Delicatessen", a French film about a landlord that serves cannibalistic meals to his tenants, on Thursday, Nov. 5 at 8:30 p.m. in the Frank G. Pogue University Theater.
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