THE BETA TEST co-director, co-writer, and star PJ McCabe will be participating in an audience Q&A following the screening on October 16 at AMC River East 21. In-theater exclusives of the Chicago International Film Festival After Dark include Jim Cummings and PJ McCabe's comedy horror THE BETA TEST, in which a hot-shot Hollywood agent becomes ensnared in a web of conspiracy and paranoia and Taiwanese horror film THE SADNESS from director Rob Jabbaz, following a young couple's journey through unimaginable chaos as they attempt to reunite with one another and escape the deadly hordes of the infected. In-theater and virtual screening highlights of this year's After Dark program include wholly original werewolf tale THE HOUSE OF SNAILS from director Macarena Astorga, and master creature-maker Phil Tippet's wildly imaginative stop-motion animation adventure MAD GOD. The film is also available for virtual screenings via the Festival's streaming app.Īudiences at this year's Chicago International Film Festival After Dark will experience hair-raising thrills at the drive-in at ChiTown Movies in Pilsen with freaky coming-of-age occult horror film HELLBENDER from Toby Poser, Zelda Adams, and John Adams and ANTLERS, from visionary director Scott Cooper (CRAZY HEART, HOSTILES) and horror maestro Guillermo del Toro (PAN'S LABYRINTH, THE DEVIL'S BACKBONE). (CRAZY RICH ASIANS, GLEE) to the Music Box Theatre for a presentation of Chicago-set BROADCAST SIGNAL INTRUSION, a throwback thriller brilliantly channeling 70's paranoid cinema.

On Thursday, October 14, the Chicago International Film Festival After Dark welcomes director Jacob Gentry (THE SIGNAL) and star Harry Shum Jr. HALLOWEEN KILLS, from Universal Pictures, Miramax, and Blumhouse, arrives in theaters and streaming on Peacock on October 15.

Sponsored by Dark Matter Coffee, After Dark at the Chicago International Film Festival showcases shock-filled, spine-tingling, and wildly strange visions that will keep audiences up late into the night.

HALLOWEEN KILLS will screen at the Music Box Theatre Octoas part of the Festival's After Dark program. The Chicago International Film Festival to present the Opening Night After Dark feature, HALLOWEEN KILLS, the new chapter in the iconic four-decade horror franchise starring Jamie Lee Curtis and co-written and directed by David Gordon Green.

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