One of the major film events for New York cinephiles is the Tribeca Film Festival , an annual event created by the likes of Jane Rosenthal and Robert De Niro. The festival will be held this year from April 21-May 2nd and will host...all of two horror films? Wait, this can't be right, can it? And yet, it is. The festival, which introduced New Yorkers to Let the Right One In and House of the Devil, has listed only two films in its completed line-up that they would classify as "horror" films. Ouch.
If there is a good news to this story it's that both films look like they're worth your time. First up is Possessed, a Korean chiller about a college student that returns home to find after her sister disappears to find her mother has become a religious zealot and her neighbors are all killing themselves. Next is Dream Home, a new pitch-black horror-comedy by rising Hong Kong director Ho-Cheung Pang (Exodus, Trivial Matters). Dream Home follows a yuppie couple after they move into their new condo only to find that it's haunted. Scares, very bitter hilarity ensue.
The only other title that almost qualifies as horror in the line-up is Shinya Tsukamoto's Tetsuo the Bullet Man, the third entry in Tsukamoto's series about men that morph into machine-men hybrids. It's technically body-horror so yeah, it qualifies, but like Tsukamoto's last two Tetsuo films, this one looks more like a grim kind of science fiction than horror. Still, horror fans could do a lot worse than to see Tsukamoto work, especially now that it seems like he has a budget to work with (his last two films, Nightmare Detective and Nightmare Detective 2, which both star Japanese pop star Ryuhei Matsuda, afforded him that luxury).
