Virginia Badasses! Zom-Bee Freakend Horror Festival In Winchester

Love zombies? Love television? Love the Alamo? Well, you're a red-blooded American - of course you do! This weekend, Virginia badasses should drop by the Winchester Alamo Drafthouse for the Freakend Film Festival celebrating the launch of Zom-Bee TV! Read on for more. 

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From February 8 – 10, 2013, the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema in Winchester will present the ZOM-BEE FREAKEND, a film festival celebrating the launch of Zom-Bee TV.  The festival is sponsored by Fangoria Entertainment, Prosthetic Records, Monster Energy Drink, and Press Start Video Games.  The weekend will include interactive events, meet-and-greets with Zom-Bee TV hosts and film directors, and several “World Premiere” screenings. Tickets go on sale January 18 at www.drafthouse.com/winchester.

Schedule of Events  (Subject to change)

Friday. February 8
6 pm – 7:30 pm – ZOM-BEE CARNIVAL. Meet the hosts from Zom-Bee TV  play games for prizes.

7:30 pm - Monster Energy Drink Presents PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE in HECKLEVISION!  Watch the classic film and text your taunts for all to see on the big screen!

9 pm – WORLD PREMIERE of MIDGET ZOMBIE TAKEOVER Followed by Q&A with director Glenn Bergoettz.

11:30 pm – KUNG FU DYKES Live!  Live music from costumed techno-thrash band Kung Fu Dykes. Watch a World Premiere of a new White Label Lounge episode featuring Kung Fu Dykes and Skeletonwitch before the band takes the stage.

12 Midnight – LOVE BITES MONSTER BALLAD SING-ALONG: Sing-along to videos from bands like Cinderella, Poison, Bon Jovi, and more!  Complete with live mics and lighters so you can be a part of the teased-hair action.

Saturday Feb 9

FESTIVAL PASS EXCLUSIVE:  10 am – NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD:  An early morning screening of the classic film with Bloody Mary specials.

11:30 am - Press Start Video Games presents DEAD SPACE 3: Big screen demo

12:30 pm - BRAIN BRUNCH with DAWN OF THE DEAD:  The original Romero classic with nasty food specials, introduced by Jim Krut, the legendary "helicopter zombie" from the film!

FESTIVAL PASS EXCLUSIVE:  2:30 pm – Zombie Apocalypse Vodka presents HORROR SHORTS:  Featuring a new short called THE DUMP from writers at Fangoria, OTHER, the world premiere of a trailer for an upcoming film from Zom-Bee co-founder and director Dale Jackson, and more surprises.

3:45 pm – Mr. Lobo Presents RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD:  The ‘80s zombie favorite back on the big screen with live appearance from Mr. Lobo.

6:15 pm – Drafthouse Films THE ABC’S OF DEATH: An ambitious 26-part anthology that showcases death in all its vicious wonder and brutal beauty.  Watch the movie at the Freakend a full month before its wide theatrical release.

8:45 pm  - Prosthetic Records Presents HORROR REMIX: LOVE World Premiere with live set from STELLA ON FIRE!  Edited versions of VHS-era horror movies, hosted by sock puppets.
11:30 pm - Fangoria Entertainment Presents ZOM-PROM  with DIXIEFILTH Live!  Live music followed by a screening of Lucio Fulci’s CITY OF THE LIVING DEAD.  Includes costume contest for prizes.

Sunday Feb 10

11:30 am - Press Start Video Games presents: CALL OF DUTY: BLACK OPS II ZOMBIE CHALLENGE FINALS.

1:30 pm - TROLL 2.  We finish the weekend with a classic that is a special kind of awful which has nothing at all to do with the first TROLL!  With a live farewell from the Zom-Bee hosts.
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