The Watching Hour at the 31st Starz Denver Film Festival

The line-up of films for our 3rd year of late-night genre delights.

Films and Events in Program...

Chocolate
Thailand , 2008 , 90 min.
Director: Prachya Pinkaew Actress Jija Yanin Vismitananda trained for five years to play an autistic girl who learns martial arts by watching a kung fu movie marathon—then sets out to exact revenge upon the criminals who’ve cheated her mother. No stunt double. No wires. All action!... more
Donkey Punch
Great Britain , 2008 , 99 min.
Director: Olly Blackburn 35mm presentation - Open water has served as the backdrop for many a taut thriller, from Polanski’s Knife in the Water to Phillip Noyce’s Dead Calm and even Spielberg’s Jaws. The more endless the expanse of blue, the more crowded the boat, the more the claustrophobic tens... more
Eden Log
France , 2007 , 98 min.
Director: Franck Vestiel A man awakens deep in the bottom of a cave with no idea of how he got there or what happened to the dead man next to him. His only means of escape is scrambling back up to the surface—and through a futuristic cemeterylike world called Eden Log.... more
His Name Was Jason: 30 Years of Friday the 13th
USA , 2008 , 90 min.
Director: Daniel Farrands Settle around the campfire (or into a theater seat) and you shall hear the story of Jason Voorhees—that icon of Hollywood horror born of the Friday the 13th series. Complete with interviews from every Jason, the girls that survived him, and those who knew him best.... more
Not Quite Hollywood
USA , 2008 , 98 min.
Director: Mark Hartley This fast-paced, hilarious doc argues that American exploitation films of the 1970s and 1980s had nothing on their Australian counterparts—which boasted double the gore, triple the sex, and 100 times the fetishistic car chases. Oh, and boars. Giant, blood-crazy boars.... more
Surveillance
USA , 2008 , 90 min.
Director: Jennifer Chambers Lynch The daughter of auteur David Lynch (serving here as executive producer) spins a starkly sinister yarn about two FBI agents (Bill Pullman and Julia Ormond) interrogating three survivors of a brutal mass murder—all of whom harbor their own dark secrets.... more