The Pest Control Film Festival is shining its spotlight on horror filmmakers in what it hopes to be an annual celebration of independent horror cinema.
Set for noon to 8 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 19, at the Historic Howell Theater, the festival will feature a diverse lineup of films — produced both locally and and from around the world — that celebrate the “creepy, bizarre, and just plain weird.”
Attendees will be able to choose from three film blocks for $10 each. Each block will feature three short films and one feature length.
Horror film lovers can also attend all three film blocks for $20.
“Our goal is to bring together a community of filmmakers and movie lovers,” said Jack Pratt, co-founder of Pest Control Film Collective. “Our goal is to support independent voices in the film industry, and give them. Platform to share their stories with a wider audience.”
Block 1 (noon to 2:30 p.m.):
• A ghastly graveyard shift.
• An overachiever confronted by a hammer-wielding assailant.
• A young man trapped in a maze of psychopaths.
• Past crimes, revenge, and obsessive love collide.
Block 2 (3-5:30 p.m.):
• A neurotic man teams up with a reckless veteran for revenge.
• Robbed, shot, and left for dead, Lizzy just wants her keys.
• A titillating tapestry of balloon-oriented entertainment.
• A mythical book that unlocks new choices.
Block 3 (6-8 p.m.):
• A paranormal investigation at an abandoned psych ward.
• A filmmaker documents his own subtropical parasitic disease.
• The last survivors of a lost culture seek spiritual bonds in a hellish reality show.
• Eight souls infected by a mind-controlling, eldritch STI.
Pest Control Film Festival is a Michigan-based festival committed to screening the horrific, the bizarre, the esoteric, and all other disquieting cinematic sub-genres. Our brand has a wide range suited for equally wide reach: traditional horror, B-movie schlock, experimental oddities, grind-house glory, animated aberrations, and the like.
