'Horrorfest IV' Sweepstakes Launched
Celebrate '8 Films To Die For' with a chance to win Blu-ray player
To celebrate another "8 Films To Die For," the Horrorfest IV DVD Sweepstakes/Giveaway is now underway through March 28.
Participants could win a Blu-ray and DVD player after registering at HorrorFestSweeps.com.
After Dark Films launched 8 Films To Die For: After Dark Horrorfest in November 2006 as an annual weekend-long theatrical event. The festival featured eight never seen before horror films in 500 theatres across the country.
The tradition continues in 2010 with eight more films for Horrorfest IV, which hits DVD and digital download March 23.
This year's films include: 
Dread

Starring: Jackson Rathbone, Shaun Evans, Laura Donnelly, Hanne Steen

Synopsis: This is the second in Clive Barker's "Books of Blood" franchise. Three college students make a documentary about what people dread in life. But they have no idea that their partner Quaid witnessed his parents being murdered by an axe-wielding lunatic and now wants to make others experience his own personal horror.
The Final

Starring: Marc Donato, Jascha Washington, Whitney Hoy, Justin Arnold

Synopsis: Dane, an awkward student with a deadly vendetta and suicidal tendencies, leads a group of outcasts who plot to avenge the years of humiliation they faced by the popular students at Hohn High School. Employing ideas inspired both from their classes as well as from horror films they watched, the outcast turn the tables on the popular students who made sport of them.
The Graves

Starring: Clare Grant, Jillian Murray, Bill Moseley, Tony Todd

Synopsis: On their last weekend together, Megan and Abby Graves are lost in a remote part of the Arizona desert where they are lured to Skull City Mine, an abandoned mine town. But they soon learn Skull City is anything but abandoned, and theres no way out. The sisters are now prey, forced to unleash their most primitive instincts in a desperate, all-out battle for survival against unspeakable horrors, both human, and supernatural.
Hidden

Starring: Arthur Berning, Knut Morten Brekke, Gabriel Gjonnes

Synopsis: Kai Koss unwillingly returns to the small town he ran from 19 years ago. His cruel mother has recently died, and left him the house he grew up in. He means to leave as soon as he has made all the necessary arrangements, but with his heritage comes dark and deadly secrets, and he soon finds himself tangled up in a series of event that seem beyond anyones control.
Kill Theory

Starring: Don McManus, Ryanne Duzich, Teddy Dunn

Synopsis: Are you capable of the unthinkable? Thats the question seven college students face when they visit a secluded vacation home to celebrate graduation and are put to a horrific test by a mysterious killer. By 6 a.m. the following morning, only one of them can remain alive. Whoever that person is will be allowed to walk away with his or her life. However, if morning comes and more than one is still breathing, everyone dies.
Lake Mungo

Starring: Rosie Traynor, David Pledger, Martin Sharpe

Synopsis: In "Lake Mungo," sixteen-year-old Alice Palmer drowns while swimming in the local dam. When her body is recovered and a verdict of accidental death returned, her grieving family buries her. The family then experiences a series of strange and inexplicable events centered in and around their home. The Palmers seek the help of psychic and parapsychologist, Ray Kemeny. He discovers that Alice led a secret, double life.
The Reeds

Starring: Scarlett Alice Johnson, Geoff Bell, Will Mellor

Synopsis: A boating party loses its bearings and cuts through the vast reedy tidewater in search of the main channel. After the first casualty by a freak accident, the boat runs aground. One by one the friends are terrorized by young punks and killed by a hooded man with a gun. There is no escaping this vast waterway, a place of endless return, presided over by Croker, who killed a group of young people decades before and initiated the hellish curse which traps all who take passage on the Corsair Star.
Zombies of Mass Destruction

Starring: Janette Armand, Doug Fahl, Cooper Hopkins, Bill Johns

Synopsis: In "Zombies of Mass Destruction," a conservative island community is under attack! Port Gamble, Washington is being overrun with braineaters, and the people seem powerless to stave them off. A rag tag band of rebels led by Frida (Janette Armand), an Iranian college student suspected of being an Iraqi terrorist, and Tom (Doug Fahl), a gay business man who has returned to town with his partner to come out to his mother, tries to turn the tide and push the invading hoards of undead back.
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