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OCTOBER 16 - 20, 2024
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• • • SEPTEMBER 1, 2024 • • •
KHFF 2024 Tickets Now On Sale
The Knoxville Horror FIlm Fest is back for its sixteenth annual installment Wednesday October 16 thru Sunday October 20, and tickets are now on sale! (Visit FilmFreeway for details.)
WEDNESDAY at CENTRAL CINEMA
This year's event kicks off on Wednesday, October 16 at Knoxville’s Central Cinema as we spotlight area filmmakers with our Tennessee Terrors competitive short film program, presented for the first time as a semi-standalone primetime event to ensure that filmmakers, friends & family get a chance to see local talents shine on the big screen! (Lineup and details TBA; single-program tickets for non-passholders will be available in the runup to the event.)
THURSDAY at the PARKWAY DRIVE-IN
The festival then kicks into high gear on Thursday, October 17 as we return for our fifth year at Maryville’s Parkway Drive-In! Thursday’s programming begins with some choice touring short films alongside the 2024 KHFF Grindhouse Grind-out Filmmaking Contest, which pits teams of local creatives against one another to see who can create the wildest fake movie trailer. (This year's shoot runs 9/19 - 10/3; registration details will be announced soon.) And once the dust settles on the Grind-out showdown, we're thrilled to be topping off the evening with one of the greatest horror films of all time: John Carpenter's stir-crazy 1982 special effects feast The Thing!
FRIDAY at the PARKWAY DRIVE-IN
But Thursday night's just half of the drive-in fun this year… we'll be headed back to the Parkway on Friday, October 18 to present a triple-anniversary lineup celebrating a pivotal decade in the career of legendary writer/director Wes Craven, pairing 1984's game-changing supernatural slasher A Nightmare on Elm Street with his 1994 return to the franchise for meta mic-drop New Nightmare... plus a rare screening of 1989's underrated, not-unrelated Shocker! (Single-evening admission to our Parkway Drive-In events, as well as a two-night combo ticket, is available separate from the all-inclusive Festival Pass.)
FRIDAY - SUNDAY at CENTRAL CINEMA
KHFF's drive-in programming is just part of the fun, of course... weekend passholders will also enjoy three days and two nights of exclusive scares Friday, October 18 thru Sunday, October 20 at Central Cinema, our festival home base and Knoxville’s only independent movie theater!
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The bulk of the weekend will be dedicated as usual to our 2024 feature film competition, showcasing exciting under-the-radar indies from across the horror spectrum. This year's lineup includes Jill Gevargizian’s haunted Stylist followup Ghost Game, film podcast heavyweight Elric Kane’s solo narrative debut The Dead Thing, Carl Fry & Maxwell Nalevansky’s uproarious stoner oddity RATS!, Joshua Erkman's twisted neo-noir A Desert, Yannis Veslemes's surrealist time-bender She Loved Blossoms More, and Sarah Tice's dissociative identity disorder nightmare DID I?
And that's still not all: our Central Cinema programming also includes the bulk of KHFF's short film competition (comprising hours of the year's best touring short films from around the world) and a pair of gonzo repertory treats in the form of Elm Street-inspired Bollywood epic Mahakaal (1994) and VHS-era DIY cult shocker Hauntedween (1991), produced in Bowling Green, Kentucky.​ We'll be announcing special guests, bonus fun and a detailed short film lineup in the weeks to come... so stay tuned, and rest assured we've got another great festival in store for our sweet sixteenth year!​​​​
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ALL ABOUT KHFF
Launched in 2009 with a single evening program of local & touring short films, the Knoxville Horror Film Fest has grown into a four-night extravaganza of exciting features and unmissable short films, including special events like live podcasts, trivia sessions and our annual Grindhouse Grind-out filmmaking competition. We’re proud to be not only East Tennessee’s longest-running film festival but also one of the Southeast’s premier annual genre film events.
After a decade of screening at local venues like the Pilot Light, Relix Variety Theatre, Scruffy City Hall and Regal Cinemas Downtown West 8, the KHFF crew in 2018 opened single-screen moviehouse Central Cinema, which now serves as the festival’s home base. Between our theater’s intimate 88-seat setting and high-profile festival screenings at larger venues like Downtown West, the Bijou Theatre and Maryville’s Parkway Drive-In, hundreds of horror fans from around the region enjoy KHFF’s offerings every October.
Despite its ever-growing scale, KHFF remains a DIY labor of love for the small crew that puts it on each year, and we like to think the result is a film festival clearly run by fans, for fans.