The Hot Spot Islamabad Horror Film Festival – a landmark in Islamabad’s “culturally” emaciated calendar manages to notch on a few thousand more rupees to the Edhi Fund. The event is organized as a fitting tribute to the Millennium’s last Halloween. It is hoped that the Horror Film Festival will become an annual event.
*update – The Horror Film Festivals were discontinued as our cities finally got cinemas, and people were able to stream even the most obscure horror movie from anywhere in the world in their living rooms. So, it became less feasible to host a film festival from then on. The Hot Spot held 6 Horror Film Festivals in Islamabad, Karachi and Lahore. Still, these came to their natural conclusion, with films finally being available to people all over the land, thanks to the internet.
The Festival featured a staggering 34 films screened over two weeks that ended with a finale on the last Halloween of the century.
