Texas Frightmare Weekend Delivers Trio of Shockers

Texas Frightmare Weekend is back with a vengeance May 3^rd through the 5^th, offering up more celebrity guests, more vendors, and the continuation of its wildly popular free film screenings to all TFW passholders! And this year, TFW is monstrously proud to pack our sleepless Saturday night with trio of high-profile new shockers from our friends at IFC Films and IFC Midnight.

On Saturday, May 4^th, Texas Frightmare Weekend kicks off their powerful threefer of hotly-anticipated chillers with the Texas Premiere of Franck Khalfoun’s Maniac at 8:00PM! In this brutal, unrelenting, first-person remake of William Lustig’s 1980 classic, Frank (Elijah Wood) is the withdrawn owner of a mannequin store, but his life changes when young artist Anna (Nora Arnezeder) appears asking for his help with her new exhibition. As their friendship develops and Frank’s obsession escalates, it becomes clear that she has unleashed his long-repressed compulsion to stalk and kill. Maniac will see US distribution through IFC Midnight on June 21st in theaters and via cable and digital VOD.

At 10:00PM is Ben Wheatley’s Sightseers, his genre-defying follow-up to 2012’s Kill List, produced by Edgar Wright (Shaun of the Dead). Chris (Steve Oram) wants to show Tina (Alice Lowe) his world and he wants to do it his way – on a journey through the British Isles in his beloved Abbey Oxford Caravan. Tina’s led a sheltered life and there are things that Chris needs her to see – the Crich Tramway Museum, the Ribblehead Viaduct, the Keswick Pencil Museum and the rolling countryside that separates these wonders in his life. But it doesn’t take long for the dream to fade. Litterbugs, noisy teenagers and pre-booked caravan sites, not to mention Tina’s meddling mother, soon conspire to shatter Chris’s dreams and send him, and anyone who rubs him the wrong way, over a very jagged edge. Sightseers will see US distribution through IFC Films on May 10th in theaters and through Video On Demand.

And at midnight, TFW’s serving up the Texas Premiere of Neil Jordan’s Byzantium, the acclaimed Interview with the Vampire director’s long-awaited return to the land of the undead! Eleanor (Saoirse Ronan) is a precocious girl with a bent for storytelling. A natural introvert, her idea of a good time is to put pen to paper and reflect on her inner life. Her “sister” Clara (Gemma Arterton) is the complete opposite: extroverted and sexual, she struts around in stilettos and skin-tight garb, attracting hungry male gazes wherever she goes. Both carry secrets from deep in their shared past — all 200 years of it. Byzantium will see US distribution through IFC Films on June 28th in theaters and through Video On Demand.

Saturday’s free screenings are courtesy of IFC Films and IFC Midnight, free for weekend and Saturday passholders, and will conveniently take place at The Hyatt Regency DFW – the home of Texas Frightmare Weekend!

TFW is arguably America’s largest gathering of horror celebrities, professionals, and fans – now celebrating its eighth amazing year. The eblockbuster vent boasts over 10,000 attendees annually and has hosted hundreds of genre legends, including George A. Romero, Clive Barker, Malcolm McDowell, Robert Englund, John Carpenter, Tobe Hooper, and Cary Elwes!

Celebrity guests at TFW 2013 include Alien stars Tom Skeritt and Veronica Cartwright, Danny Trejo, Virginia Madsen, the cast of AMC’s The Walking Dead, Marilyn Burns, Michael Berryman, Gary and Jake Busey, Jeffrey Combs, Denise Crosby, Sean Patrick Flanery, Stuart Gordon, Meg Foster, Clu and John Gulager, Mariel Hemingway, Jordan Ladd, Mary Lambert, Heather Langenkamp, Tyler Mane, Bill Moseley, David Naughton, Steve Niles, Tom Savini, Dee Wallace, pro-wrestler George “The Animal” Steele, and many more!

Daily and weekend passes are available at www.texasfrightmareweekend.com/weirdpress/tickets/. Weekend and Saturday passes grant admission to Saturday’s free screenings, but do not guarantee seating, so arrive early – before they reach full capacity!

IFC Films is a brand of IFC Entertainment, a leader in the independent film industry, and distributes quality, talent-driven independent film from around the world in Theatres and on the Video On Demand platform. IFC Midnight is the home for international genre cinema, including horror films, sci-fi movies, thrillers and erotic arthouse flicks. If it’s scary, creepy, mysterious, supernatural or even sexy, you’ll find it at IFC Midnight. IFC Films and IFC Midnight are owned and operated by AMC Networks Inc. For more information on Sightseers, Byzantium, and Maniac – please visit www.ifcfilms.com and www.ifcmidnight.com