10 must-sees at Horrortron 2002

28 DAYS LATER – The second collaboration between director Danny Boyle (who will be in attendance to answer your questions after the screening) and author/screenwriter Alex Garland (The Beach) sees a deadly virus escape from a research lab only to send all human and animal life into rabid killing frenzies. The apocalyptic struggle that ensues features Christopher Eccleston, Cillian Murphy, Brendan Gleeson and Naomi Harris.

CELLULOID CRIME OF THE CENTURY – The world premiere of this making-of documentary, focusing on Wes Craven’s notorious Last House On The Left. You’ll all be bringing granny, we trust.

CHAOS – Irish director Geraldine Creed takes Irish genre filmmaking beyond the established boundaries with this futuristic sci-fi which sees an Irish biker joining a European metal circus. The director will be present to discuss her film.

CRADLE OF FEAR – A mysterious goth (Dani Filth) executes his asylum-confined, serial-killing master’s sinister wishes in Alex Chandon’s grizzly anthology film. Again, the director will be on hand to discuss his work.

DARK WATERS – Like his most famous film, the cult classic Ring, Japanese director Hideo Nakata’s eagerly awaited ghostly chiller is based on a novel from Suzuki Koji and sees the recently divorced Isumi moving into a flat with her six-year old daughter Ikoku. But does the rising damp explain Ikoku’s frequent disappearances? Apparently not.

EMMANUELLE AND THE LAST CANNIBALS – Joe D’Mato’s blood and soft-core porn flick quickly mutates into a very nasty affair replete with rape and cannibalism after the eponymous heroine turns up a member of a lost Amazonian flesh-eating tribe in a mental institute. Chick flick of the year. Perhaps.

THE FOG/TALES FROM THE MIST;INSIDE THE FOG – Double bill of John Carpenter’s masterful supernatural thriller plus a new making-of documentary featuring interviews with the legendary director and the cast and crew of this 1979 fear-fest.

HAPPINESS OF THE KATAKURIS – A gruesome kitsch cannibal film replete with musical numbers. But of course.

MY BLOODY VALENTINE – Little seen 1981 Canadian slasher flick has a small-town Valentine’s day dance turn to tragedy, when mining supervisors leave work early only for a tragic blast to leave a sole survivor. And let’s just say he’s not a big fan of Valentine’s day anymore.

NIGHTMARE CITY – Nobody does schlock quite like the Italians and Umberto Lenzi’s demented zombie fest is the tender tale of a military plane load of people mutated into bloodthirsty animals. A young scientist seeks to get the word out, but alas something is rotten in the state of the civil defence department.

Horrortron 2002 is at the IFC, Dublin from October 25-28. Ring (01) 679 3477 for details