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If you're in the Boston area and looking for something completely different for your horror fix, be sure to take note of the groovy little horror night lined up at the Somerville Theater, where you can catch Maidenhead (review here) on the big screen!

Hosted by the folks at All Things Horror, you'll be able to catch Maidenhead along with three short films, Chemical 12-d, The Familiar and Death in Charge - all for a paltry $5 bucks!

It all goes down at the Somerville Theater tomorrow night:

Somerville Theater, 55 Davis Square, Somerville Ma 02144

7 - 9 pm

Price: $5

Maidenhead (dir Jim Spanos)

A very different kind of vampire movie. If you are a fan of Grace, this film acts as a fantastic bookend. Martin (Aj Bowen) must procure the fresh blood of virgins in order to care for his elderly father, who has been infected with vampirism. When he meets and falls for Meredith,...

Year: 2009

Directors: James Spanos

Writers: James Spanos

IMDb: link

Trailer: link

Review by: Bob Doto

Rating: 5 out of 10

I had high hopes for Jim Spanos’ Maidenhead. The trailer was great. The poster was eerily quaint. The lead, Martin, (played by Aj Bowen) was in The Signal, a film that gets a lot of good press around here. I thought this was going to be a done deal, since, to me everything about Maidenhead is amazing, wonderful, and engaging. Everything, that is, except for the film itself.

Maidenhead is a mopey lounge music backed tale of a sorry daddy’s boy who drains pints of blood from conked out virgins in order to satiate the cravings of his bed-ridden vampiric father. Sound’s crazy, right? Sure, but in the end this wacky wild zany storyline isn’t enough to keep the film from being straight up boring. I mean, like, I-was-falling-asleep boring.

It's been about a year since we last brought you guys up-to-speed on Jim Spanos' vampire tale Maidenhead. Thankfully there's a lot more to talk about now, including the synopsis and even a new trailer!

The House of the Devil's A.J. Bowen and From Dusk Till Dawn's Michael Parks star in Maidenhead, which is truly an off-kilter vampire movie. Look for more headlines soon and be sure to check out the official Maidenhead site while you wait!

Synopsis

Poor Martin doesn't have much of a life. He doesn't have a girlfriend, he hasn't been sleeping well, and he still lives at home ... with his father, who is an obnoxious, bloodthirsty monster strapped to a bed. Did we mention he isn't sleeping well? Martin (A.J. Bowen of House of the Devil and The Signal) spends his days going numbly about the business of tending to his Dad's grisly needs.

With the impending premiere of Maidenhead fast approaching at the New York City Horror Film Festival on Saturday November 21st, we've got a look both at a new trailer and teaser poster. Written and directed by filmmaker Jim Spanos, the indie feature stars Aj Bowen, Lorri Hamm and Michael Parks ( Kill Bill ). Bowen (best known for his performances in The Signal and most recently Ti West's The House Of The Devil ) plays Martin, an awkward yet dutiful son that's taking care of his bed confined father played by Parks. Oh... did we mention dad's a vampire and needs to drink virgin blood? Details on the screening can be found here . Make sure to catch our recent chat with Aj Bowen right here . And check out the poster and trailer below!

The organizers of the New York City Horror Film Festival have announced the movies they’re presenting in the 2009 edition. The fest runs Thursday-Sunday, November 19-22 at the Tribeca Cinemas (54 Varick Street at Canal Street), with an opening-night party Wednesday the 18th at 8 p.m. at Blvd (199 Bowery near Spring Street).

The lineup of features includes:

• Blood Night: The Legend Of Mary Hatchet, Frank Sabatella’s urban legend-inspired teen-terror feature co-starring Bill Moseley and Danielle Harris

• Cornered!, directed by Daniel Maze, in which a group of poker-playing buddies are trapped and slaughtered in a convenience store by a masked slasher

• Maidenhead, from writer/director James Spanos, starring The House Of The Devil’s A.J. Bowen as a young man dealing with a new love and a very bad dad (Michael Parks)

• Must Love Death, a black-comic shocker about a suicidal man embroiled with homicidal maniacs, shot in English...

It's time again for the NYC Horror Film Festival which runs from November 18-22 and will be held at the Tribeca Cinemas located at 54 Varick St and Canal St. What's playing you ask?

The Aj Bowen (The Signal) starrer which looks like a sweet arthouse vampire flick called Maidenhead. (trailer) This seems to have disappeared shortly after it's announcement over a year ago, so I'm glad it's getting some play!

Another gem is the weird horror comedy Must Love Death (review) which I'm still dying to see.

and much more! Check the full list after the break and head to the official website for the schedule, a list of shorts, and to buy tickets!

Cornered (Feature / Horror)

Directed by Daniel Maze

A serial killer is stalking the gritty streets of Los Angeles. It’s all over the news, but that doesn’t stop the crew at a local convenience store from their weekly poker game.

If you had any doubts just how huge a horror fan actor Aj Bowen was before this interview, then you should know that it was his idea for us to meet and have this chat while touring the familiar streets of Pasadena, which served as many of the shooting locations for John Carpenter.s classic Halloween . Definitely the perfect backdrop for this writer to talk to him about a little movie called The House Of The Devil . Having appeared in the Sundance hit The Signal , as well as the (yet-to-be-released) black and white indie pic Maidenhead , Bowen is no stranger to the genre. (Hell, he knows exactly where Michael Myers house is!) We chatted candidly about working with his friend writer/director Ti West, playing the son of Tom Noonan and Mary Woronov, the .Satanic Panic. scare...