We just got the official Midnight movie line-up for Tribeca Film Festival 2009! Included in the line-up is the world premiere of FEARnet blogger and horror filmmaker Ti West’s House of the Devil (check out more details on this in Ti’s blog) and something called Midgets vs. Mascots which has to be good, right? Check out the full line-up after the jump!
From the Official Tribeca MIDNIGHT movie line-up:
Exciting and eclectic films that push the boundaries of creativity and genre, the seven films in the Midnight section are all world premieres and offer great action, spine-tingling horror, imaginative alternative realities and outrageous humor. From a savage game of paintball to uncovering an urban legend to a babysitting job gone awry, this set of films, although frightful and eerie, are crowd pleasers.
- Cropsey, directed by Joshua Zeman and Barbara Brancaccio, written by Zeman. (USA) - World Premiere, Documentary. Urban legends—we either dismiss them or accept that they have some grain of truth. Directors Zeman and Brancaccio attempt to uncover one such urban myth as they investigate five missing children and the real-life boogeyman linked to their disappearance in Staten Island during their youth. Will this terrifying journey resolve what has haunted them since childhood?
- The House of the Devil, directed and written by Ti West. (USA) - World Premiere, Narrative. Set in the early ’80s on the night of a lunar eclipse (and all the more shocking for being “based on true unexplained events”), this simmering retro suspense thriller centers on a cash-strapped college girl who answers a babysitting ad only to gradually unravel the horrifying secret behind why she was truly hired. Featuring Jocelin Donahue, Tom Noonan, Mary Woronov, and Greta Gerwig.
- Hysterical Psycho, directed and written by Dan Fogler. (USA) - World Premiere, Narrative. In this side-splitting horror send-up, a theater troupe takes a trip to a country cabin, but its nearby lake is full of lunar radiation, and one of the troupe members is straight-up crazy. Put them together and you get one psycho thespian! Full of bloody, fun-filled kills, a deaf-mute chick, and some big boobs, Hysterical Psycho is a helluva trip.
- Midgets vs. Mascots, directed by Ron Carlson, co-written by Kevin Andourian. (USA) - World Premiere, Narrative. Two teams risk life, limb, and maybe jail time while pushing the boundaries of decency to score the fortune of a deceased little person, a former mascot turned porn mogul. Outrageous outcasts and out-of-control antics abound in this bawdy Jackass-meets-Road Rules mockumentary, featuring a cautionary tale in which milk does not do a body good and the long-awaited big-screen comeback of Gary Coleman.
- Newsmakers (Goryachie novosti), directed by Anders Banke, written by Sam Klebanov and Aleksandr Lungin. (Russia, Sweden) - World Premiere, Narrative. In this fast-paced remake of Johnnie To’s Breaking News, the public confidence of the police force is compromised after they botch catching a gang of robbers and it gets captured on camera. In retaliation, the police chief and PR director decide to create a live reality show with a search-and-destroy operation against the gang they let get away. This crime thriller is loaded with loud gunfights and action that takes the term “media war” to a whole new level. In Russian with English subtitles.
- Paintball, directed by Daniel Benmayor, written by Mario Schoendorff. (Spain) - World Premiere, Narrative. Eight strangers convene in a remote forest for an expensive experts-only paintball retreat. They enter the game at full throttle, but already something’s not right. The rules have changed and more is at stake than they expected. This frenetic thriller is akin to a live-action videogame, but getting to Level 10 doesn't seem to guarantee anything. In English.
- The Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia, directed by Julien Nitzberg. (USA) – World Premiere, Documentary. Shoot-outs, robberies, gas-huffing, drug dealing, pill popping, murders, and tap dancing — what do these all have in common? The White Family. From executive producers Johnny Knoxville and Jeff Tremaine comes a shocking portrait of Boone County, West Virginia’s most notorious and surly family. Nitzberg spends a year with multiple generations of the White family in this outlandish doc featuring the family’s dancing muse, Jesco White (star of the cult classic documentary Dancing Outlaw). Also with Hank Williams III.