EDvent/ DEDfest: Edmonton's Horror Festival
The living dead and psychologically-challenged make for one hell of a good time at the country's best fest of its kind BY EMIL TIEDEMANN D O you enjoy watching decapitations in slow motion? How about reanimated corpses snacking on fresh " BRAINS "? Perhaps you're into gory torture scenes that test your gag reflexes? If you answered 'yes' to any of these questions, then you're either demented like myself or you'd be a shoe-in for Canada's premier horror film festival, DEDfest , which runs through until this evening (Sunday, Oct. 18). Friday night was Day 2 (of 4) of DEDfest, which is the reincarnation of last year's Deadmonton Film Festival , a gathering of horror movie fans that went "on hiatus" when co-founder Matt Acosta decided to pursue filmmaking on a more full-time basis. The news left me balling on my bedroom floor, screaming "Why?! Why?!" at the top of my smoke-cloaked lungs, clenching my reddened fists at the Lord...