{"id":2106944,"date":"2025-10-21T23:35:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T23:35:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2106944"},"modified":"2025-10-21T23:35:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T23:35:14","slug":"every-heavy-thing-and-dont-leave-the-kids-alone-win-big-at-the-10th-brooklyn-horror-film-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/every-heavy-thing-and-dont-leave-the-kids-alone-win-big-at-the-10th-brooklyn-horror-film-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Every Heavy Thing\u2019 and \u2018Don\u2019t Leave the Kids Alone\u2019 Win Big at the 10th Brooklyn Horror Film Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\">Are rats cute, creepy, or a matter of genre? That\u2019s the sort of debate you have at the Brooklyn Horror Film Festival \u2014 a warm-and-whacky annual event in New York City that expanded rapidly for its 10th edition.<\/p>\n<p>Co-founded by creative director <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm4740998\/\">Justin Timms<\/a>, this gonzo celebration started a decade ago as a quaint movie club in the backroom of a bar. Now, it\u2019s a ten-day affair held at several different venues with an estimated 5,000 guests in attendance for 2025. That\u2019s a 20 percent increase since last year and proof that buzz for Brooklyn Horror is building scary well.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRats, much like horror, are deeply misunderstood,\u201d said Timms, who champions plenty of weird art you could describe that way. This year, Brooklyn Horror gave top accolades to <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm4285196\/\">Mickey Reece<\/a>\u2019s \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt33029187\/\">Every Heavy Thing<\/a>,\u201d Emilio Portes\u2019 \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt27871792\/\">Don\u2019t Leave the Kids Alone<\/a>,\u201d and \u201cLast Call,\u201d a short film directed by <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm4775020\/\">Winnie Cheung<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are rats cute, creepy, or a matter of genre? 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Co-founded by creative director Justin Timms, this gonzo celebration started a decade ago as a quaint movie [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2106945,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2106944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/\u2018Every-Heavy-Thing-and-\u2018Dont-Leave-the-Kids-Alone-Win.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2106944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2106944"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2106944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2106946,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2106944\/revisions\/2106946"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2106945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2106944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2106944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2106944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}