Nevermore Film Festival

Soundwave screens in Nevermore Saturday and Sunday

The real world is more than scary enough, but those who prefer their fears externalized can head to the Carolina’s Nevermore Film Festival, which highlights horror as well as sci-fi, dark fantasy, and suspense in a juried selection of global genre films from around the world. There will be esteemed ringers such as David Cronenberg’s forty-year-old The Brood, featuring Oliver Reed and Samantha Eggar in a classic tale of children who decidedly do not resemble their parents, rounded out with new features such as the “Friday the 13th meets Bridesmaids” satire Camp Wedding, where a wedding held at an ex-gay-conversion campsite turns very bad, with a “spirit-possessed Teddy Ruxpin” saying where to hide the bodies. Framed, a Spanish thriller from Marc Martínez Jordán, is about what happens when torture porn goes viral. Maggots is an homage to eighties horror about giant … well, guess. Long Lost is about what happens when you discover you have a half-sibling who might know you better than you know yourself. And there’s the usual gathering of international short films. Remember, no matter how rough the real world gets, you always have people on film dying horribly to take your mind off of it. —Zack Smith