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Sundance "Park City at Midnight" program

Sundance is coming up and Park City will be invaded again by movie lovers of all sorts. For those with a taste for the horrific will have to check out the line up of the “Park City at Midnight” program. Read on for the breakdown of the more horrorfilms showing on the program.

Black Rock (USA)

(Director: Katie Aselton, Screenwriter: Mark Duplass) -- Three childhood friends set aside their personal issues and reunite for a girls' weekend on a remote island off the coast of Maine. One wrong move turns their weekend getaway into a deadly fight for survival. Cast: Katie Aselton, Lake Bell, Kate Bosworth.

Excision (USA)

(Director and screenwriter: Richard Bates, Jr.) -- A disturbed and delusional high school student with aspirations of a career in medicine goes to extremes to earn the approval of her controlling mother. Cast: AnnaLynne McCord, Traci Lords, Ariel Winter, Roger Bart, John Waters.

Grabbers (Ireland)

(Director: Jon Wright, Screenwriter: Kevin Lehane) -- When the residents of an idyllic Irish fishing village are attacked by mysterious, blood-sucking sea creatures, a high blood alcohol content could be the only thing that gets them through the night. Cast: Richard Coyle, Ruth Bradley, Russell Tovey, Bronagh Gallagher.

The Pact (USA)

(Director and screenwriter: Nicholas McCarthy) -- As a woman struggles to come to grips with her past in the wake of her mother's death, an unsettling presence emerges in her childhood home. Cast: Caity Lotz, Casper Van Dien.

V/H/S (USA)

(Directors: Adam Wingard, David Bruckner, Ti West, Glenn McQuaid, Joe Swanberg, Radio Silence, Screenwriters: Simon Barrett, David Bruckner, Ti West, Glenn McQuaid, Radio Silence) -- When a group of misfits is hired by an unknown third party to burglarize a desolate house and acquire a rare VHS tape, they discover more found footage than they bargained for. Cast: Joe Swanberg, Calvin Reeder, Adam Wingard, Sophia Takal, Kate Lyn Sheil.