Name: Dread Central Presents a Found Footage Double Feature: '.ask'
Start: 2025-10-18T17:30:00-05:00
Location: Circle Cinema

Dread Central and Circle Cinema are teaming up to celebrate horror in October with a double feature of one of the genre’s most enduring styles – found footage! One ticket includes admission to both films, starting with the new release “.ask” at 5:30pm with filmmaker Chris VanderKaay zoom Q&A. Then at 8pm, see the Japanese classic “Noroi: The Curse” with Dread Central’s Preston Fassel setting the scene with a frightful reading before the film. Dread Central will be on-site all evening with a special pop-up in the lobby featuring giveaways, goodies, and merch on sale.
Tickets on sale now - $13 members, $15 non-members and includes admission to both features.
5:30pm: “.ask” – 1h29min – Not Rated – English
Chris VanderKaay (director/writer/actor) will join via zoom for a Q&A about the film and Found Footage genre talk moderated by Dread Central’s Preston Fassel after the screening! Synopsis: Chris Vander Kaay, a YouTuber in his mid-40s, takes a mysterious life coach's advice to be brutally honest with his audience. His channel and life improve, but unforeseen darker consequences soon begin to unfold.
8:00pm: “Noroi: The Curse” – 1h55min – Not Rated – Japanese
Author Preston Fassel will introduce the screening and keep the scares coming with a special horror reading. “Noroi: The Curse” was originally released in 2005 and returns to the big screen with a haunting new restoration from the American Genre Film Archive. A mixed media odyssey from prolific filmmaker Kōji Shiraishi, the film examines the strange case of Masafumi Kobayashi—a paranormal researcher who disappeared while making a documentary about "ectoplasmic worms." This is a twisting, turning Analog Horror project that alchemizes urban legends, supernatural hauntings, and true crime shocks into found footage artistry. “Noroi: The Curse” is best watched on the big screen—where there’s no escape.
About Dread Central: With millions of monthly readers, Dread Central is one of the most trusted and influential horror entertainment websites, delivering cutting-edge coverage of genre films, TV, and culture since our founding in 2006. As a leading voice in the horror community, Dread Central also reaches millions of more fans monthly via social media, our newsletter, and our popular DREAD Podcast Network, which features hit shows like Development Hell, Scarred for Life, and Girl, That’s Scary. We also boast over 100,000 YouTube subscribers thanks to ongoing video projects like The 5 Series, Dread Talks and the Rondo Award-nominated The Overlooked Motel. Our team comprises seasoned journalists, Rotten Tomatoes-approved critics, and industry insiders, ensuring authoritative and insightful coverage. With nearly two decades of experience, a reputation for championing independent horror, underrepresented voices, and a commitment to fearless, high-quality reporting, Dread Central is the go-to source for horror enthusiasts and professionals. Our excellence has been recognized with four Rondo Awards for Best Horror Website, the premier horror entertainment awards.
About Preston Fassel: Preston Fassel is an award-winning novelist, journalist, and filmmaker whose work has appeared in Fangoria, Rue Morgue, and Screem Magazine. His debut novel, Our Lady of the Inferno, won the 2019 Independent Publisher's Gold Medal for Horror and was named one of the ten best horror books of 2018 by Bloody Disgusting. He is the author of Lanids: The Story of a Real Man on 42nd Street, the first published biography of Sleazoid Express magazine founder Bill Landis, which was nominated for the 2022 Rondo Hatton Award for Book of the Year. From 2017 to 2020, he was a staff writer for Fangoria magazine. He currently serves as a columnist for Dread Central. .ask is his first feature film as a producer.
About Chris VanderKaay: Chris Vander Kaay is a filmmaker, author, professor, and legal marketing consultant. He began his screenwriting career in 2014 with The Redemption of Henry Myers, a western that premiered on the Hallmark Movie Channel. His directorial debut is the found footage horror film .ask. He taught scriptwriting at the University of Tampa, and he has written several nonfiction books about the history and philosophy of genre film.