WEIRD FILM HALLOWEEN 2024!

Once again we bring you an evening of strange cinema from around the world!

Join us in the Comfy Chairs at the New Parkway Theater in Oakland, California, on Oct. 28:  * TICKETS *

PROGRAM

DRACULA’S SUPER SCARY HALLOWEEN

A vampire goes up against (gasp!) the health care system

THE PARCEL

A serial killer needs a reliable mail service

WANT

An offer of immortality - what could go wrong?

THREE SIXES

Resurrecting a ghost - what else could go wrong?

THE COMPATIBILITY INDEX

A really creepy job interview

THE STRANDED

An astronaut goes bonkers in her bunker

LUPE Q & THE GALACTIC CORN CAKE

Will punk rock and Grandma’s home cooking save Earth?

THE IMAGE SELLER

Why play with real things when you can look at a screen?

THE JOB

What happened to all the previous caretakers?

KILLING TIME

He didn’t make callbacks - and he’s really angry

THE OUTSIDER

A beautiful stop-motion take on the Lovecraft story

A GREEN AFFAIR

Secret lover - or Tasmanian plant monster? Or both? 

SKY PRIESTESS

A war story from the beyond

Program for Halloween 2023

Selections have been made and once more we bring you an evening of strange cinema from around the world!

Join us in the Comfy Chairs at the New Parkway Theater in Oakland, California, on Oct. 23:  * GET TICKETS HERE  *

PROGRAM

BIGFOOT UNLEASHED PART VII (Don Swanson, USA) 

Bigfoot vs. destroyers of the environment

SINCOPAT (Pol Diggler, Spain)

A playlist for your brain, whether you like it or not

FIRST TIME BUYERS (Lauren Blackwell, UK)

The price is right, so ghosts be damned!

SIRIUS LEE AND THE MULTI-VERSE MIXUP (Theo Hollingsworth, USA)

Featuring Oakland’s own rapping quantum physicist!

CLOSING TIME (Hector Perez-Aguilar, RWS Johnson, USA)

A night at the truck stop of the damned

LAST DAY ON EARTH (Rajko Radovic, Serbia)

What would you do with your last minutes of life?

TEMP7 (Marco Goi, Italy)

The stakes in this video game are very high.

CRAZY MEL’S AUTO EMPORIUM (Kevin Maher, Australia)

An ad with TMI

SILHOUETTE SOAP OPERA (Ted Hogeman, USA)

Who needs writers when we’ve got AI?

DAMNED SUPPER (Ariel Hansen, Canada)

Wannabe witches conjure up more than they bargained for.

ILLUMINAGENTS: THE MUSICAL (Herman Wang, Canada)

Singing to avoid surveillance

… AND BLOOD (Caitlin Stow, USA)

Zombies just keep on coming. 

BACILLUS (Brad McClane, USA)

Mom’s home… or is she?

JACQUES AND BARNABUS (Georgiy Marvelas, Australia)

Stuck under the sea with a mischievous monkey

BATH TIME (Dave Inglis, UK)

Vampires need down time too

UN TACO (Antonio Rotunno, Mexico)

Mocking the poor could go very badly.

THURSDAY (Murray Toews, Canada)

A surreal walk with a surreal man 

ALPHABET SOUP (Romina de la Puente, USA)

An edible message from the beyond

Submissions open for Halloween 2023

 The Weird Film Fest is back for a ninth year of short horror, sci-fi, fantasy & just plain weird films from around the world - screening this year at the luxurious New Parkway Theater in Oakland, California. We’ve seen Argentine zombie bikers, Slovak werewolves, revenant Mississippi clowns and dancing Finnish cavemen, and we want more! Open for submissions and waiting for your weirdness:

https://filmfreeway.com/WeirdFilmFest