The Watching Hour at the 32nd Starz Denver Film Festival

These films played at the 32nd Starz Denver Film Festival November 12 - 22, 2009!
Take a walk on the razor’s edge with our fine selection of alternative fare. Not for the squeamish, the subtle, or the unimaginative, these cult treats are too deviant to be shown during prime time, airing instead at the darkest hour – perfect for watching as well as witching.
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Films and Events in Program...

Best Worst Movie
USA , 2009 , 93 min.
Director: Michael Paul Stephenson Digital presentation - Alabama dentist George Hardy’s brief flirtation with acting comes back to haunt him – playfully – in this documentary about Troll 2, the horrifyingly inept horror movie that popular movie website Rotten Tomatoes rates at zero. Not a sequel to Troll, the bad-enoug... more
Cinema Q: Zombies of Mass Destruction
USA , 2009 , 90 min.
Director: Kevin Hamedani The idyllic town of Port Gamble is already beset by gay marriage (sweet Jesus!), environmentalism (recycling is hard!), Muslim immigrants (terrorists?), and the left wing (right is right!) – and now it looks like everyone’s becoming a zombie.... more
Cropsey
USA , 2009 , 84 min.
Director: Barbara Brancaccio , Joshua Zeman Digital presentation - In the summer of 1987, Jennifer Schweiger, a 13-year old girl with Down Syndrome, disappeared from her neighborhood in Staten Island, New York, leaving the close-knit community in shock. As far as her peers were concerned, only one person could have taken her – Cropsey.... more
The Revenant
USA , 2009 , 117 min.
Director: D. Kerry Prior MUST END Thursday, September 6th at the Denver FilmCenter/Colfax Shows DAILY at 5:00 9:40 Digital presentation - A horror comedy in the vein of SHAUN OF THE DEAD and ZOMBIELAND, the film tells the story of a soldier (David Anders, from TV's 24 and Vampire Diaries) who is killed in Ir... more
The Watching Hour: Troll 2
USA , 1990 , 95 min.
Director: Claudio Fragasso Archival 35mm presentation - The shelves of hell’s own video store are surely lined with copy after VHS copy of Troll 2, a 1991 horror movie that raises one profoundly compelling question: “What the #*@% is going on here!?” For a new generation of moviegoers determined to find answers,... more
Truffles
Canada , 2008 , 73 min.
Director: Kim Nguyen Global warming causes a small Canadian town to overflow with delicious truffles, and Charles has the best nose for sniffing them out. But why are the owners of a strange furriery – along with their fuzzy minions – so interested in him and his schnozz?... more