MOTELx Film Festival: Where Horror is Welcome – 7-10 September 2011

By Victor B | September 7, 2011 at 4:52 pm | No comments | Events, Lisbon | Tags: av da liberdade, events, film, film festival, Lisbon

If you’re walking down Avenida da Liberdade the next few days, and you happen upon a zombie, alien or hatchet-murderer, have no fear. The MOTELx Horror Film Festival invades the São Jorge Theater, 7-11 September.

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Presented by the Cineclube de Terror de Lisboa, MOTELx aims to bring the best of horror films from recent years to terror-aficionados in Portugal. The genre of films offered range from supernatural to gore, psychological horror to the monster mayhem, blockbuster to indie, classic to experimental and cult to new concepts.

Some of the biggest names in horror films will be presented, including John Landis’ Burke & Hart and John Carpenter’s The Ward. Also, some recent films of significance to this genre will screen including Jim Mickle’s apocalyptic epic Stake Land, and Lucky McKee’s controversial Sundance Film Festival entrant The Woman.

Two important horror directors will be honored with retrospectives. American horror master Eli Roth, well known for his Cabin Fever and Hostel films, will be present a Master Class. And films of Japanese auteur Sion Sono will be screened (see below).

A complete program of MOTELx Program can be found here. And, a MOTELx 2011 Schedule of Screenings & Events is here. Following is a list of feature films screening at this year’s event:

Barão, O – (Portugal, 2010), Edgar Pêra
Burke & Hare – (UK, 2010), John Landis
Cabin Fever – (USA, 2001), Eli Roth
Cannibal – (Belgium, 2010), Benjamin Viré
Cartas de Amor de uma Freira Portuguesa – (Germany/Switzerland, 1977), Jess Franco
Cold Fish – (Japan, 2010), Sion Sono
Confessions – (Japan, 2010), Tetsuya Nakashima
Corridor, The – (Canada, 2010), Evan Kelly
Deadball – (Japan, 2011), Yudai Yamaguchi
Dream Home – (Hong Kong, 2010), Pang Ho-Cheung
Exte: Hair Extensions – (Japan, 2007), Sion Sono
Forbidden Door, The – (Indonesia, 2009), Joko Anwar
Frozen – (USA, 2010), Adam Green
Hostel – (USA, 2005), Eli Roth
Hostel: Part II – (USA, 2007), Eli Roth
Kidnapped – (Spain/France, 2010), Miguel Angel Vivas
Little Deaths – (UK, 2011), Sean Hogan, Andrew Parkinson, Simon Rumley
Mother’s Day – (USA, 2010), Darren Lynn Bousman
Outcast – (UK/Irland, 2010), Colm Mccarthy
Phase 7 – (Argentina, 2011), Nicolás Goldbart
Prey – (France, 2010), Antoine Blossier
Sennentuntschi – (Switzerland/Austria, 2010), Michael Steiner
Shrine, The – (Canada, 2010), Jon Knautz
Stake Land – (USA, 2010), Jim Mickle
Strange Circus – (Japan, 2005), Sion Sono
Suicide Club – (Japan, 2001), Sion Sono
Troll Hunter, The – (Norway, 2010), André Øvredal
Violent Kind, The – (USA, 2010), The Butcher Brothers
Wake Wood – (Irland/UK/Sweden, 2010), David Keating
Walking Dead, The – (USA, 2010), Frank Darabont, Michelle Maclaren, Gwyneth Horder-Payton, Johan Renck
Ward, The – (USA, 2010), John Carpenter
We Are What We Are – (Mexico, 2010), Jorge Michel Grau
Who R U – (Thailand, 2010), Pakphum Wongjinda
Woman, The – (USA, 2011), Lucky Mckee

This year, festival organizers will also be offering the MOTELxAward to the Best Portuguese Horror Short Film. This will be the only completion section of the festival. A record number of films were submitted for consideration. 12 have been selected to screen for the public and a jury made up of actor, director, and producer Nicolau Breyner, and director Frederico Serra.

For a special treat, a marathon of the hit USA TV series The Walking Dead will run beginning at 00:30 on Sunday, September 11.

For more information, visit the MOTELx website.

Cinema São Jorge
Avenida da Liberdade, Nº 175
Lisbon

Reservation & Information:
Phone: +351 217 941 400
E-mail: info@motelx.org

Tickets:
Standard Ticket: €3.50
Discount Tickets: €3.00 (under 25 and over 65 years old)
Short Films at Lunch Tickets: €1.50

Purchase at:
■ Online – www.ticketline.sapo.pt
■ Cinema São Jorge (At the festival beginning at 13:00 until the start of the last screening)
■ Retail Outlets: Fnac, Worten, El Corte Inglés (Lisboa e Gaia), C. C. Dolce Vita, Casino Lisboa, Galerias Campo Pequeno, Agência Abreu, C. C. MMM, C.C. Mundicenter