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For their 4th annual edition, the Minneapolis Underground Film Festival is pulling out all the stops, spotlighting great local and international filmmaking talent over the course of three days, Dec. 2-4, on two screens at the Minneapolis College of Art & Design (McAd).

The fest opens with an ambitious Minneapolis-based move: Tyler Jensen’s 30 Films 30 Days. Working with hundreds of local participants, Jensen and his team completed a short film a day over the course of one month and this feature compiles all of them into one package. Plus, also screening on the same night is the groovy grindhouse horror flick The Disco Exorcist by Richard Griffin.

Over the course of the next two full days and nights, two of the best highlights of this year’s Muff include Usama Alshaibi‘s masterful mix of sex and religion Profane, Stuart Simpson‘s retro-sleazetastic monster flick El Monstro Del Mar!, neither of which are to be missed!

The 2011 Bram Stoker International Film Festival, running October 28th-31st, takes place in Whitby, North Yorkshire, England, and shows independent narrative features, documentaries, and shorts from around the world, many of which will be having their world or UK premieres at this year's fest. Read on for all the details regarding the lineup!

Below is a list of all the films screening this year. Other events include a Vampire Ball on Saturday, October 29th; a performance of The Feast of Blood on Sunday, October 30th; and the Scorpius Dance Theatre's production of A Vampire's Tale on Halloween itself. In addition, the following awards will be presented at the festival:

Best Picture

Best Short

Best Director

Best Effects

Best Script...

...and a special Lifetime Achievement Award

For more info visit the official Bram Stoker International Film Festival website, and click here for ticket packages.

Absentia - UK Premiere

Director: Mike Flanagan...

The B-Movie Underground and Trash Film Festival brings their unique collection of international sleaze on Sept. 7-11 in the city of Breda in the Netherlands. Violence, gore, general grossness and perversion are, once again, near and dear to the heart of this fun fest.

From the U.S., the But Fest is screening a few modern underground classics while also celebrating a few of the old masters. Included in the lineup are Usama Alshaibi‘s mind-blowing Muslim sex worker flick Profane, Zach Clark‘s wild weekend of debauchery Vacation! and Dan Nelson & Drew Bolduc‘s over-the-top The Taint.

Plus, But is honoring Cinema of Transgression mastermind Nick Zedd with several screenings of his classic works, such as Thrust in Me, Police State and Whoregasm, as well as his recent public access TV series Electra Elf.

Other films from around world include horror hits like César Ducasse & Mathieu Peteul’s Dark Souls,...

Ah, the old Italian masters... Bava, Argento, Fulci. Those guys fearlessly mixed sex and violence as though they were primary colors, and used them to paint off-the-wall portraits of the human psyche, forever changing the way horror is depicted on screen. Now the intrepid French filmmaking duo of François Gaillard and Christophe Robin -- whose film debut Blackaria was well received in numerous film festivals -- has crafted what looks like a feature-length homage to the great Italian pioneers in Last Caress. Check out more photos from the film and a very Nsfw trailer after the jump.  Last Caress bills iteself as "The First Glam Gore Movie Ever!" While I'm...

Giallo films are usually on the artsy side of the fence, and this latest one from directors François Gaillard and Christophe Robin entitled, beautifully enough, Last Caress has all that and a bucket of gore going for it.

The flick, billed as the first glam gore film, stars Anna Naigeon, Antony Cinturino, Aurélie Godefroy, Guillaume Beylard, and Ioanna Imbert. Check out the poster, our still gallery, and the Not Safe For Work trailer below.

Synopsis

Five youngsters who just wanted to spend a nice weekend amongst friends in a manor will find a far less peaceful place than they expected when faced with a family curse and a sadistic ruthless killer. Blinded by their never-ending quest for carnal pleasures, they will fail to perceive the flood of blunt violence about to engulf them.

Trailer Last Caress from Le Chat qui Fume on Vimeo.

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I'll be honest, I've never heard of François Gaillard and Christophe Robin, but recently, one of their reps fired an e-mail my way with a link to the not-safe-for-work trailer for their latest effort Last Caress along with an 8-minute promo and a handful of images. The picture is touted as "glam gore" thriller. I'll just say the trailer is relentless, heaping aggressive violence on top of vibrant settings occasionally filled with beautiful European women. Somewhere in this fever dream that's a lavish throwback to Italian giallo fare is the story of five youngsters who just wanted to spend a nice weekend amongst friends in a manor. They find a far less peaceful place than they expected when faced with a family curse and a sadistic ruthless killer. Blinded by their...