Final Girls Berlin Halloween Extravaganza!
W…w…what? It’s Halloween already? Let’s celebrate one of the unholiest (AKA best) nights of the year together at City Kino Wedding on October 31st!
Here’s what we have in store for you…
18:30 Halloween Shorts 1
Sweet Tooth (25:40)
Directed by Josephine Hopkins, France, 2023
Young Madeleine accompanies her mother, a nail beautician, to meet new clients. As she arrives in the stately home, three girls invite her downstairs to play a ruthless board game…
Thread Tension (13:00)
Directed by Ruby Mastrodimos, UK, 2023
A sweatshop somewhere in England, 1987. Management is desperate to dispel the mysterious phenomenon spreading amongst the seamstresses: full-body possessions.
Mosquito Lady (13:20)
Directed by Kristine Gerolaga, US, 2023
Gemma, a sheltered Filipina American teenager, has been hiding her pregnancy for far too long. As abortion restrictions make it impossible for her to get help without telling her parents, she turns to a dangerous solution. Gemma seeks out a manananggal, a fetus-eating creature from Filipino folklore, to make a deal, but their encounter doesn’t go as planned.
Nian (6:27)
Written and directed by Michelle Krusiec, US, 2023
A Chinese American girl stands up to her racist bully armed with a Chinese demon mask and the help of the Nian, a mythological creature said to eat rotten children.
Said of a Deer that Sheds Its Antlers (19:51)
Directed by Salomé Crickx, Belgium, 2023
A rural dystopia with a wacky nihilism that takes us to the heart of the annual Shedding ceremony, where the old is discarded to make way for the new.
20:00-20:30 Costume Contest
20:30 Jennifer's Body (2009, dir. Karyn Kusama)
Our Halloween centerpiece this year is Karyn Kusama’s new cult favorite JENNIFER’S BODY starring Megan Fox as a teen succubus living her best undead life and Amanda Seyfried as the straight edge (and not straight) best friend trying to stop her!
22:30 Halloween Shorts 2
All Is Lost (7:00)
Written and directed by Carla Pereira & Juanfran Jacinto, Spain, 2022
The Pérez are an almost normal family, albeit with somewhat dysfunctional behaviour. The couple is considering fertilizing an egg she laid last night.
Olga's Eyes (22:06)
Written and directed by Sarah Carlot Jaber, Belgium, 2023
Olga, a music-loving octogenarian, is tired of killing humans. Could it be the vampire blues? For her daughter Simone, she’s just being picky! Olga is placed in a care home where she can deal with those “who have one foot in the grave”…
Vibrator Girl (13:12)
Directed by Kara Strait, US, 2023
An isolated young woman uses her vibrator compulsively — until it starts deforming her body in disturbing ways. To regain control and change the way she masturbates, she goes on a journey through a lurid underground of corporate neurologists and orgasm gurus, none of whom seem to have her best interests in mind.
Chomp (8:54)
Directed by Suki-Rose & Cricket Arrison, US, 2023
A news studio is the perfect breeding ground for a new kind of monster.
Bowling 4 Eva (14:19)
Directed by Aelfie, US, 2023
A troubled teen girl spends her time trolling men online and bowling with her grandfather while becoming increasingly medicated.
Content warning: suicide
Fck’n Nuts (11:55)
Directed by Sam Fox, US, 2023
Sandy is grievously forced to break it off with the boy of her dreams in order to avert him from meeting her unusual parents.
If you want to watch our entire program, you can purchase our special Halloween ticket at the cinema counter for just 22€!
Any Horror Specialists Around?
We're looking for horror specialists and workshop leaders for our 2025 festival edition (March 5-9) in Berlin / our Brain Binge event in the summer!
If you have something in mind (ideally connected to women* in horror), please send us your pitch, which should be around 2-3 paragraphs long, by November 15 2024!
Our email address is finalgirlsfilmfest@gmail.com
Monsters - The Final Part of Our Embroidery Trilogy
MONSTERS is a collaborative art project between visual artist Rebecca Agnes and Final Girls Berlin Film Festival.
Do you like to draw? Do you like monsters? Artist Rebecca Agnes is collecting different monster drawings in order to create a needle-work that shows how we imagine or depict them. All of the collected drawings will be hand embroidered by the artist on fabric, creating an embroidery that will be exhibited in Berlin during the 2025 edition of Final Girls Berlin Film Festival.
If you would like to contribute to the project, you can send a picture of your monster drawing to finalgirlsfilmfest@gmail.com with your name or pseudonym. Please note that the drawing must only be an outline and drawn with black marker on a white background.
All of the submitted drawings will be shown on the socials of Final Girls Berlin and Rebecca Agnes after the Final Girl Berlin's special Halloween 2024 event. Please give us your IG or FB name too if you would like to be tagged. Submitting the design means that you consent to your image being embroidered and to the distribution of your image on social networks. The deadline is October 31.
Send Us Your Horror!
This is your last chance to submit to next year’s festival!
FGBFF EVENTS
October 31, 2024 - Final Girls Berlin Halloween, City Kino Wedding, Berlin
October 31, 2024 & November 1, 2024 - Best of 2024, Cineding, Leipzig
March 5-9, 2025 - FGBFF Edition 10, City Kino Wedding
...and more to come!
Jess’ Corner - the horror-adjacent pick-me-up we all need
Why hey there glorious goblins and sexy cenobites, tis nearly All Hallows Eve, and the membrane betwixt our world and the other is thinning - soon the magical night will be upon us where we can dance, unencumbered through the graveyards of Wedding on our way to the Final Girls Halloween extravaganza. This year I even bought a costume in a brave attempt at eschewing my Autumnal outfit of an overwhelming reluctance to leave the house. Yeah you're welcome.
I'm old enough to remember a time when my Spooky Season wasn't interrupted continuously by the stinky final gasp of late stage capitalism morphing into its final level boss of threatened fascism, but luckily for us there's a movie cure to help when you're in the deepest throes of not-getting-out-of-bed-until-someone-fixes-this-bloody-world.
Obviously I'm talking about “The Craft: Legacy”.
I was a young teen when the original “The Craft” came out, and while I really wanted to like a film about teen witches which starred my beloved Fairuza Balk - the ending always messes it up for me. The teen witches are corrupted by their powers and then all fall out with each other like they're characters on Vanderpump Rules. (TV series idea - Vanderpump Rules only where the women are witches and hex any men who cheat on them in Vegas).
I get the feeling it was one of those movies - like “Girl Interrupted” where the feminist nugget was worn down by studio executives until the true meaning of the film was “nice girls do what the men say”, and that was not what little Riot Grrl me wanted to hear.
“The Craft : Legacy” - on the other hand, rights those wrongs. If you are feeling a little pissed off with the world and want to watch a jumper-clad David Duchovny playing a Jordan Peterson type being bested by badass teenagers with witchy powers, this movie is here for you.
And I'm here for you too my gorgeous little Freaks. I'll see you on Halloween. I'll be the one wearing an actual costume that cost me 5 euros from Temu.
If you want to read more of my unhinged and uninvited film ramblings, check out my Substack: https://substack.com/@thejesssweetman
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