After Dark Horrorfest 4 Spits on Brian Pulido’s ‘The Graves’

The extremely popular traveling roadshow of horror films has just divulged the first title to join the 2010 line-up. After Dark Films announced that Brian Pulido’s The Graves will be one of the lucky eight in Horrorfest: 8 Films to Die For 4, which has found its niche releasing dates to be the best around not Halloween, but the end of January, beginning of February timeframe. Previous editions have included Sean Ellis’s The Broken (III) and Frontier(s) Xavier Gens (II), and the label has in turn individually released An American Haunting and Roland Joffe’s Captivity. 

In what seems to be a good old-fashioned, low budget horror genre (see clip here), The Graves is about two inseparable sisters, Megan and Abby Graves, are taking one last wild road trip before Megan has to start a new job. The journey includes a trip through remote Arizona in search of a kitchy roadside attraction. Instead, Megan and Abby happen on Skull City Mine, a weather-beaten, abandoned mine town converted into a self-guided tour. What seems like a fun day in the sun turns into a mind-bending fight for survival against menaces both human and supernatural.