Screamfest Call For Entries

9th Annual Screamfest Horror Film Festival & Screenplay Competition takes place Oct. 16th - 25th 2009 @ Grauman's Mann Chinese 6 at Hollywood and Highland in Hollywood. The Call For Entries deadline is approaching for new horror feature films, shorts and feature length screenplays. FINAL Film and Screenplay submission deadline is August 15th.

Feature Film judges include producers Craig Perry (Final Destination) and Sean Cunningham (Friday The 13th, The Last House On The Left). Short Films will be judged by Clive Barker's Seraphim Films. Winning screenplay receives a $1,000 cash prize and Movie Magic software.

Screamfest showcases talented genre filmmakers and writers from around the world to the entertainment industry in order to help further their careers. Writers and directors have garnered representation, winning screenplays have been optioned and/or purchased by production companies and films have secured distribution as a result of Screamfest. As well four of our past Screamfest winning directors have now directed for Sam Raimi and others have been attached to studio films. Screamfest launches careers. Are you next?

For more info on Screamfest visit www.screamfestla.com

Screamfest is sponsored by Write Brothers, Baseline, and Zodiac Vodka

Screamfest Call For Entries

9th Annual Screamfest Horror Film Festival & Screenplay Competition takes place Oct. 16th - 25th 2009 @ Grauman's Mann Chinese 6 at Hollywood and Highland in Hollywood. The Call For Entries deadline is approaching for new horror feature films, shorts and feature length screenplays. FINAL Film and Screenplay submission deadline is August 15th.

Feature Film judges include producers Craig Perry (Final Destination) and Sean Cunningham (Friday The 13th, The Last House On The Left). Short Films will be judged by Clive Barker's Seraphim Films. Winning screenplay receives a $1,000 cash prize and Movie Magic software.

Screamfest showcases talented genre filmmakers and writers from around the world to the entertainment industry in order to help further their careers. Writers and directors have garnered representation, winning screenplays have been optioned and/or purchased by production companies and films have secured distribution as a result of Screamfest. As well four of our past Screamfest winning directors have now directed for Sam Raimi and others have been attached to studio films. Screamfest launches careers. Are you next?

For more info on Screamfest visit www.screamfestla.com

Screamfest is sponsored by Write Brothers, Baseline, and Zodiac Vodka

The Pookipsie Tapes

Hey All!!! First time blogger long time lover of horror movies. Does ANYONE know when The Pookipsie Tapes is coming to DVD. Also Trick R Treat (NOT Trick or Treat the 1980's one)

Bring Back AMC Monsterfest!

I haven't sifted through the pages of the 'talk board' yet to see if anyone else had discussed this, but I just want to get this out so badly! BRING BACK AMC MONSTERFEST THIS YEAR! I say that because Monsterfest was so dear to me... let me shed some light.

In January, during my junior year of high school, a friend would always try to get me to watch old movies. I was lame and judgmental at 16 and didn't know the value of classic movies, so I figured they were all cheesy and outdated. Then they showed me the 1968 classic, "Night of the Living Dead." My world was changed. I was exposed to such an interesting, expression provoking film. The scene where Bill Hinzman bangs on the window of 'Barbra's car was the most frightening thing I had ever scene at the time. Also, it made me want to become a director. It looked so simple, but has since ignited one of the most intense reactions out of me.

I was riding on my horror film highr. I researched, rented, blogged, Wikipedia'd, IMDB'd... I wanted to know as much as I could! I had seen most of the greats like Psycho and Dawn of the Dead... I also stared learning about exploitation films and tried to watch as many as I could. This was the year 'Grindhouse' came out, and I felt I was being celebrated as a fan (even though I was a newbie) and the originality between this double feature and every other movie that had been released made it so great and interesting.

Later that year, AMC was playing 'Halloween' one night - I was hooked. It grabbed me and took me back to my childhood and did it's job as a horror film. Then as I looked through the TV guide I noticed that this was the beginning of multi-day marathon! The commercial bumpers and website clued me in and I didn't want to stop watching. I was a high school senior now at this point who didn't want to go to school- they just wanted to keep watching! This was AMC Monsterfest and I was telling everyone that I could to tune in. I still re-watch the commercials from the marathon on Youtube just to relive the feeling I had when my mind was expanded. The big point for me that made me realize "Alright, Mark... you've gone crazy" was when I set my alarm for 4am to watch 'Frankenstein Meets The Space Monster" the morning of a first-block test. I think watching this movie was more of an energy booster than any amount of sleep could have been. I felt like part of a secret thing. There was no host- the only voices were from the online community who were entranced as me. Monsterfest had so much originality and played a big part in the things I love and am obsessed about today. I miss it so much and would do anything to have that feeling again.

Last year, around October- my favorite month- I was so excited for the return of Monsterfest, only to find out that it was no more. We were given Fearfest with Rob Zombie as a host. I always liked Rob Zombie- hell, my dad would play White Zombie back in the day when I was a kid, but the feeling wasn't the same. This seemed like every other fear-movie marathon institution. The originality was gone.

I still watch the commercials on Youtube from Monstefest 2007 to relive that feeling of mind expansion and seeing the coolest thing ever. I wish it would come back this year.

Thank you for reading,
and I hope this is considered.
-Mark Kenneth Rioux Jr