STAKE LAND w/special guests: Director/Writer Jim Mickle & Star/Co-writer Nick Damici October 25, 2011

Compared to both Joss Whedon and Terrence Malick by The Village Voice, and cheered by NPR, The New Yorker, and Salon.com, Director/Writer Jim Mickle (and Star/Co-writer Nick Damici) screen and discuss their New York Times Critic's Pick, Stake Land, a smart, pitch perfect horror thriller set in a post-apocalyptic world somewhere between Romero and The Road.

Plus a special on stage conversation between Mickle, Damici, and Fangoria scribe/Fear Mongers host Clay Mcleod Chapman.

Half grind house, half art house, Stake Land is part of a new school of socially conscious horror, what The Voice calls "brains before blood," but rest assured its plenty gruesome, and with its dive bars and muscle cars, biker boots and buck knives, it all sort of plays out like a particularly acute Lynyrd Skynyrd song hopped up on supernatural steroids.

Presented by The Raconteur in conjunction with The Forum and Crystal Plumage Films.

The Forum is a five hundred seat landmark theater built in 1923 as a silent movie palace. One of the first films to appear on its screen was F.W. Murnau's Nosferatu. It has since become a first run art house with frequent forays into special guest film events.

Official Website: http://www.scareflix.net/stakesite.html