PROGRAM SCHEDULE

The SHF9 Weekend Pass provides you admission to events EXCEPT where explicitly noted otherwise.

All Official Selection – Features are followed by a Q & A with the filmmaker, if present.

THURSDAY April 30 – OPENING NIGHT

Opening Night VIP Experience ticket or Opening Night General Admissions tickets required – SHF9 Weekend Pass does not include Thursday April 30 programming

5:15 PM | Peabody Essex Museum | Pick up Opening Night VIP Experience tickets

5:30 PM | Peabody Essex Museum | VIP Meet and Greet with Dee Wallace (Opening Night VIP Experience ticket required)

6:15 PM | Peabody Essex Museum | Pick up Opening Night General Admission tickets

6:30 PM – 10:30 PM | Peabody Essex Museum | Opening Night programming (Opening Night VIP Experience ticket OR Opening Night General Admission ticket required), hosted by Xero Gravity | Jury prize and George A. Romero Fellowship announcements | Jury prize – Official Short screening of Mangittatuarjuk (The Gnawer of Rocks) | Keynote speech by Victoria Price | Q & A with Rue Morgue’s Andrea Subissati with Dee Wallace | Cujo

FRIDAY MAY 1

11:00 AM | Salem Access TV | Doors open; SHF9 Weekend Passes and Daily Passes available for pick up (until 8:15 PM)

12:00 Noon - 5:00 PM | Salem Access TV | Vendor market (Free admission; open to the public)

2:00 PM – 4:00 PM | Salem Access TV | Regression (Official Selection – Feature), in conjunction with Women in Film & Video New England (WIFVNE)

3:00 PM – 8:00 PM | Notch | SHF merch & Chill space – grab a beverage and some food, meet and mingle, shop at our vendor tables (Free admission; open to the public)

3:00 PM – 5:00 PM | Notch | Dee Wallace – photo signing

4:30 PM – 7:45 PM | Salem Access TV | Pet Sematary (4:30) followed by a Movie Jawn live podcast (6:25)

5:30 PM – 7:30 PM | Notch | Linnea Quigley – photo signing and darts

6:00 PM – 8:00 PM | Residency Records | The Hills Have Eyes Record Listening Party with Michael Berryman and Dee Wallace (Signed photographs available for purchase)

8:00 PM – 9:30 PM | Salem Access TV | Sorority Babes at the Slime Ball Bowl-O-Rama (with commentary from Linnea Quigley and Wretched Lydia)

8:15 PM – 10:30 PM | Die With Your Boots On |
Kandie and Jump Scare (Official Selection – Interlude & Feature), in conjunction with Wicked Queer

SATURDAY MAY 2

10:00 AM | Salem Access TV | SHF9 Weekend Passes and Daily Passes available for pick up (until 8:15 PM)

10:30 AM – 1:00 PM | Hawthorne Hotel | “Into the Depths of Dark Fiction” Book Panel – Clay McLeod Chapman, Erica Waters, Kristin Dearborn, Mae Murray & Douglas Wynne (10:30 AM Readings | 11:30 AM Q & A |12 Noon Book signing) (Free admission; open to the public)

11:00 AM – 2:00 PM | Couch Dog | Lattes & Lagers with Linnea Quigley and delicious bites from Not Ya Mama’s Vegan Cafe (Free admission; open to the public – dogs welcome, too!)

11:00 AM - 5:00 PM | Salem Access TV | Vendor market (Free admission; open to the public)

12:00 Noon – 4:00 PM | Peabody Essex Museum | Girl, That’s Scary! live podcast (12 Noon doors | 12:15 PM Cat People | 2:35 live podcast)
(Because the museum is open to the public, you must wear your SHF9 Weekend Pass or Saturday Pass for admittance. If you did not already do so, pick it up Saturday morning at Salem Access TV.)

12:00 Noon – 6:00 PM | Notch | Vendor market & Chill space – grab a beverage and some food, meet and mingle, shop at our vendor tables (Free admission; open to the public)

1:45 PM – 3:15 PM | Hawthorne Hotel | From Page to Scream: The Craft of Horror Screenwriting – panel with Clay McLeod Chapman, Matthew Leslie, Owen Egerton, Emily Bennett & Justin Brooks (Free admission; open to the public)

2:00 PM – 4:00 PM | Notch | Michael Berryman – photo signing

3:30 PM – 5:45 PM | Hawthorne Hotel | This Is Book Club and Blood & Guts (Official Selection – Interlude & Feature), then Q&A withBlood & Guts filmmakers and Tobey Poser in collaboration with Salem Film Festival

4:30 PM – 6:45 PM | Peabody Essex Museum | Deep Hallows (Official Selection - Feature)

4:30 PM – 6:30 PM | Salem Access TV | A conversation with Michael Berryman & Victoria Price and Andrea Subissati of Rue Morgue (4:30 – 5:30), followed by autograph signing in the SATV lobby (5:30 – 6:30)

5:45 PM -7:45 PM | Salem Access TV | Lily’s Ritual (Official Selection - Feature), in conjunction with Boston Underground Film Festival.

7:00 PM – 9:00 PM | Bit Bar | Horror movie trivia with Mike Merrigan (@filmjitsu)

8:00 PM – 9:45 PM | Die With Your Boots On | The Barn Part III (Official Selection – Feature)

8:15 PM – 10:00 PM | Salem Access TV | Blood Shine (Official Selection - Feature), followed by Q&A with filmmakers Emily Bennett & Justin Brooks

9:00 PM – 11:00 PM | Bit Bar | Wretched Lydia presents the Salem Horror Fest Drag Show (with Linnea Quigley in attendance) (Free with SHF9 Weekend Pass or Saturday Pass; Open to the public with a cover charge) Performers: Geya Jenda, Dick Kayin, Sybil Disobedience, Pee Wee Vermin, Miss Michael

10:00 PM – 11:45 PM | Die With Your Boots On | Frankie, Maniac Woman (Official Selection - Feature), in conjunction with Wicked Queer

SUNDAY MAY 3

11:00 AM | Salem Access TV | SHF9 Weekend Passes and Daily Passes available for pick up (until 5:30 PM)

11:00 AM – 5:00 PM | Salem Access TV | Vendor market (Free admission; open to the public)

12:00 Noon – 2:00 PM | Hawthorne Hotel | Women in Horror panel; moderated by Leslie Adams; In conjunction with Women in Film & Video New England (WIFVNE) (Free admission – suggested donation to WIFVNE; open to the public). Panelists: Luisa Cornish, Xero Gravity, Kay Lynch, Miriam Olken, Toby Poser and Rachel S. Thomas-Medwid.

2:15 PM – 3:30 PM | Hawthorne hotel| Cat People (1942)

3:45 PM – 5:15 PM | Salem Access TV | The Mid-Night Driver (Official Selection – Feature)

5:00 PM – 8:00 PM | The House of the Seven Gables | Victoria Price lecture, dinner, and screening of The Vincent Price Legacy - tickets for this event sold separately at 7gables.org/events/

5:30 PM – 7:30 PM | Salem Access TV | Let the Right One In (in conjunction with Boston Underground Film Festival)