As our summer line up kicks into high gear we could not be more excited to have the one and only Edmonton theatre screening of the Ellijah Wood starring remake of William Lustig’s nasty 80′s classic Maniac! This new version keeps all the gore that the original delivered but gives it a new polished look...

For the past year, DEDfest has featured short films by the amazingly talented and bat-shit-crazy local film collective HOUSE OF HEATHENS. Now the Heathens are planning to take the country by storm. The boys have entered CINECOUP’s Film Accelerator contest, where they are now among 60 filmmakers nation-wide competing for the chance to win up...

Boomsticks, primitives, deadites and Chinese jet pilots. Twenty years ago, Bruce Campbell and Sam Raimi took their Evil Dead trilogy to splatstick extremes and released the now-cult-classic ARMY OF DARKNESS. And DEDfest is celebrating with a special screening one night only at Metro Cinema! After you catch the much buzzed about Evil Dead remake (?)...

On Friday, July 12th we are proud to screen another gem from the 1980′s. In 1986 Stephen King made his feature film directing debut. With Emilio (Repo Man) Estevez starring and the entire AC/DC album WHO MADE WHO as the soundtrack how could it fail? Well, fail it did and was panned heavily by critics...

Our good friends Astron 6, the sick minds behind FATHER’S DAY and MANBORG, are getting ready to film their next feature, the giallo/comedy (I never thought I’d see those two words side-by-side) THE EDITOR… and you can help make it happen! Check out their Indie-A-Go-Go campaign at the link below to show the boys your...

DEDfest is kicking off summer with a bang. We’re proud to present the Edmonton premiere of Rob Zombie’s new vision of terror – The Lords of Salem! This official selection of the Toronto International Film Festival stars Sheri Moon Zombie, Meg Foster, Bruce Davison, Dee Wallace, Sig Haig, Michael Berryman and Ken Foree in this...

Our friends to the south, the Calgary Underground Film Festival, are gearing up for their best year yet! Among their highlights: Mike Mendez’ BIG ASS SPIDER (with director in attendance), Ben Wheatley’s SIGHTSEERS, the creepy folk-horror JUG FACE, NO ONE LIVES – the latest from Ryûhei Kitamura (Midnight Meat Train), and DEDfest faves THE ABCS OF DEATH...

The house went mad when DEDfest played Don “Phantasm” Coscarelli’s JOHN DIES AT THE END this October. Now the madness hits home! If you didn’t catch the film with us, do yourself a favour and pick up this wildly inventive film. JOHN is now available on DVD and Blu Ray at your nearest video retailer...