Alien spiders, endangered vampires and � perhaps most horrifically � family reunions. These are among the many terrors contained in South by Southwest Film’s “Midnighters� series.
SXSW starts four weeks from tomorrow, which means Friday is the last day to buy badges . It also means the lineups for its provocative after-dark Midnighters series and short films are out.
Rob Zombie’s “� and Adam Wingard’s festival favorite “� are among a Midnighters section SXSW official Jarod Neece says is “full of scares, sex, madness, laughs [and] chills.�
And from scares to shorts: after a record-breaking submission season, were selected to screen during the nine-day film festival. The films have been divided into six categories, including . Twenty-nine Texas high school students will debut their work and provide a preview of the state’s cinematic future.
“It was harder than ever to narrow down our final program, but this year's selections beautifully capture, in a multitude of ways, the essence of existence in this very specific moment, while still managing to provide a much wider and relatable commentary across time," Shorts Programmer Claudette Godfrey says in a statement.
On the Interactive end of the festival, Internet mogul will—keeping true to his medium—chat with editor Charles Graeber during a SXSW Skype interview. Dotcom is founder of the now-banned file sharing site , and new cloud storage site .
And what first made the festival world-renown can’t be ignored: music. SXSW recently announced Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee .
SXSW 2012 starts March 8.