TC Horror Fest Review: Kaidan

"Tormented wraiths haunt an eerie landscape best avoided by helpless mortals. Inspired by Lufcadio Hearn’s 19th century collection of Japanese ghost stories, Green T Productions uses a movement based performance style and live music to lend an unsettling creepiness to the tales in Kaidan: Stories and Studies of the Strange."

Kaidan: Stories and Studies of the Strange plucks three folk tales from one of Lafcadio Hearn's final collections and presents them together in a one hour play, on a living set made from a yūrei chorus.

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TC Horror Fest Review: Necrophile

"A mortician falls in love with a man as she prepares his corpse for burial. She has three days until the funeral… but three days just isn't enough. The Coldharts return to the Twin Cities Horror Festival with a gothic romance inspired by the notorious 1978 interview with necrophile Karen Greenlee."

Drummer Nate Gebhard warms up prior to a show. (I know this isn't the picture you came looking for, but it's the only one I could find. Deal with it.)

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TC Horror Fest Review: Bird of 7 Colors

"Under threat of death, a girl strikes out alone. Searching for the all-knowing Bird of Seven Colors, her way is fraught with danger. But nothing compares to the terror that awaits her at the end of her journey. Dance and storytelling combine for this fearsome retelling of a Puerto Rican folktale."

The titular baleful bird towers over her would-be victim at the conclusion of a surreal epic quest.

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TC Horror Fest Review: Mortem Capiendum

"A tonic with seemingly miraculous properties;
Three con-men beginning to believe their own pitch;
And a perfectly ordinary trunk containing...?
A traveling medicine show from Four Humors."

Four Humors bring the comedy in a show starring Matt Spring as a traveling snake oil salesman, Brant Miller as his affable sidekick, and Jason Ballweber as their audience plant.

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