Hollywood Gothique

Location: CAP Theatre, 13752 Ventura Boulevard, Sherman Oaks, 91423
Date: February 6, 10:30am to 4:00pm
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Description: Bleedfest presents a blood drive and a film festival, celebrating the contribution of women to horror. (Their tongue-in-cheek motto is “It’s that time of the month.”).
From the website:
BLEEDFEST BLOOD DRIVE
Date: 02/06/2011
Time: 10:30 am – 4:30 pm
Organization: BleedFest
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[ January 16, 2011; 10:00 am to 5:00 pm. ] Location: Shrine Hall, 700 W. 32nd Street , Los Angeles, CA 90007
Date: Sunday, January 16th, 2011, 10:00am – 5:00pm
Description: The special guest at this month’s Los Angeles Comic Book & Sci-Fi Convention is Billy Dee Williams. Williams is best known for his role as Lando Calrissian in the original Star Wars films: THE [...]

A vast variety of Halloween events are opening in Los Angeles on the weekend of Friday, October 5, 2010, and if you don’t start now you are likely to miss much of hauntingly horrible fun. Hence, we have gathered together in one convenient place, a list of exciting attractions now available to you, including Reign of Terror, Heritage Haunt, Nightmare at Scareview Farms, 13 Nights of Terror, Haunted Midnights, the 4th Annual Haunted Hollywood Scavenger Hunt, and many more! If haunted houses aren’t your bag of bones, you can check out the opening of the Horrorwood Art Exhibition, visit Creation’s Weekend of Horrors or the final weekend of Screamfest, or attend the last two performances of Dracula at the Westcherster Playhouse. Details below the fold…

We certainly hope you followed our advice and got a jump on the Halloween season by attending the Knotts Berry Halloween Haunt, Halloween Horror Nights at Universal Studios Hollywood, and the Queen Mary Dark Harbor. If you failed to heed our sound suggestion, it may already be too late to catch up, because even more [...]

Location: Mann Chinese 6 Theatres in the Hollywood & Highland Complex, 6801 Hollywood Boulevard, Hollywood, CA
Dates: October 8-17
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Description: Hollywood’s oldest and biggest horror film festival returns for its tenth year, featuring a bloody barrel-full of gory goodies, including feature films and short subjects, often with filmmakers in attendance. There is also a [...]

Location: Long Beach Convention Center, 300 E. Ocean Boulevard, Long Beach, CA
Dates: October 29-31
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Description: Guests include: Joel Adams, Bruce Boxleitner, Max Brooks, Howard Chaykin, William Christensen, Thomas Jane, Louis Leterrier,Gary Lockwood, William Smith, Tim Sullivan, and R.C. Young. And as if that were not enough, the con will be promoting SAW 3D, [...]

The Creation Weekend of Horrors convention is coming to the Marriott Burbank Airport Hotel for the weekend of October 15-17, with guests including Bruce Campbell, Jeffrey Combs, and more. Best of all, fans of Hollywood Gothique can win a pair of general admission passes to see the convention for free!

All you have to do is send an email to us at contest@hollywoodgothique.com. Use “WOH October 2010″ in the subject line, and please include your full name.

The deadline for submission is midnight of Friday, October 8. Winners will be announced on Monday, October 11.

Winning tickets will be available at will-call. Please bring a picture I.D. to retrieve your tickets.

Location: Marriott Burbank Airport Hotel – 2500 N. Hollywood Way, Burbank, CA

Description: This October’s installment of Creation’s Weekend of Horrors features these guests: Bruce Campbell, Sean Patrick Flanery, Sid haig, Ken Foree, Adrienne King, Robert Z’Dar, William Lustig, Frank Henenlotter, Bob Martin; plus, Jeffrey Combs will be performing his one-man show “Nevermore,” based on the life of Edgar Allan Poe.

The Cinefamily is back from the grave with another festival of horror running throughout the month of October, including everything from TWO THOUSAND MANIACS and HOUSE ON HAUNTED HILL to CARRIE and DEEP RED. There are mini-series devoted to Italian Giallo thrillers, Stephen King adaptations, William Castle Shockers, and horror films written and/or directed by women. In-person guests include Mary Lambert, Mary Harron, Guinevere Turner, and Katt Shea. Special events include a Comedy Death Ray presentation of THE BLOB and a Heavy Metal Halloween Party-Fundraiser on October 30. Click to read the full schedule of events.

[ September 30, 2010; 8:00 pm; ] Location: B-52 Club – 1652 N Cherokee Ave, Hollywood, CA 90028
Dates: September 30
Website: www.boardners.com

The annual “Los Angeles International Horror Sc-iFi Film Festival & Screenplay Competition” launches with an opening night party at the B-52 Club in Hollywood, followed by another weekend of cinematic screams at Raleigh Studios: 5300 Melrose Avenue, Hollywood, CA. The festival [...]

The long-running film festival, inspired by the writing of the great science fiction and horror author H.P Lovecraft, moves from Portland, Oregon to Los Angeles, California, for a one-day event featuring numerous films and guests.

UPDATE: The contest is now closed. We have selected and notified a winner. Thanks to everyone who participated!

Dates: April 22-25 in Hollywood
Locations: Egyptian Theatre, Chinese Theatres, Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel
Turner Classic Movies, the cable channel renowned for keeping the great films of Hollywood’s past alive on the small screen, expands into the theatrical arena with its first-ever film festival. Along with traditional classics like A STAR IS BORN and CASABLANCA, there will be a please platterful of mystery movies, fantasy films, and science fiction cinema, including KING KONG (1933), 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY, a restored version of DAY OF THE TRIFFIDS, THE BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN, PANDORA AND THE FLYING DUTCHMAN, and a newly restored version of Fritz Lang’s silent masterpiece METROPOLIS, with musical accompaniment by the Metal Alloy Orchestra.

[ May 21, 2010 2:00 pm to May 23, 2010 7:00 pm. ] Location: Marriot Los Angeles Airport, 5855 West Century Boulevard, Los Angeles

Description: This three-day convention, presented in association with Dark Sky Films, will feature a bloody barrel-full of guests: Dario Argento, Robert Englund, Heather Langenkamp, John Saxon, Adam Green, Kane Hodder, Tony Todd, Dick warlock, Richard Brooker, Stuart Gordon, Jeffrey Combs, Barbara Carmpton, Bruce Abbot, and Dennis Paoli. There will be films running all weekend; a gruesome art gallery, a zombie ball, musical events, and a costuem contest.

This annual film festival runs from April 10 through 25 at various theatres around Los Angeles. Amongs its eclectic programming are several titles that should appeal to fans of horror, fantasy, and science fiction films: YATTERMAN (a superhero adventure), PACO AND THE MAGICAL BOOK (a children’s fantasy); and HAPPY ENDING (a drama about a young woman obsessed with horror films).

[ April 9, 2010 6:00 pm to April 11, 2010 6:00 pm. ] The Rubber Room presents this weekend-long convention dedicated to art of creating creepy creatures for the screen. The event offers a series of seminars devoted to the world of movie monsters and special effects. Makeup artist Verne Langdon will be the “Monsters of Ceremonies,” presiding over artists from KNB EFX (Sin City), ADI (X-Men Origins: Wolverine), the [...]

[ January 30, 2010; 6:30 pm; ] Cast and crew on hand for premiere of The Graves and ZMD: Zombies of Mass Destruction

After Dark Films presents a premiere event for two of the “8 Films to Die For” from this year’s incarnation of their annual Horrorfest. Starting at 6:30pm on Saturday, January, the cast and crew from THE GRAVES and ZMD: ZOMBIES [...]

The 2009 Screamfest – Hollywood’s longest-running horror film festival – is scheduled from Friday, October 16 through Sunday, October 25. Films include MACABRE, VAMPIRE GIRL VS FRANKENSTEIN GIRL, DAMNED BY DAWN, WRONG TURN 3: LEFT FOR DEAD (free screening), THE REVENANT, HOUSE OF THE DEVIL (centerpiece film), FORGET ME NOT (world premiere), CABIN FEVER 2, [...]

Just a reminder that the annual Shriekfest festival runs from Friday through Sunday this week. There will be numerous world premiers of independent horror films, and some question-and-answer sessions with filmmakers. All events take place at Raleigh Studios in Hollywood, except for the opening night party on Thursday, which takes place at Hollywood Billiards.

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 1st
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The 9th annual Shriekfest, the Los Angeles International Horror-Thriller-SciFi-Fantasy Film Festival and Screenplay Competition, offers another showcase for established and up-and-coming filmmakers and writers this October. Running from Thursday through Sunday, October 1 through 4, Shriekfest’s 2009 lineup includes such familiar faces as Jeffry Combs in DARK HOUSE, Ving Rhames in EVIL ANGEL, Dameon Clarke and Matthew [...]

The September edition of the monthly Los Angeles Comic Book and Science Fiction Convention arrives this Sunday, featuring actress Juiet Landau (Buffy, Angel) and a look at the G.I. JOE animated series. Guests include G.I. JOE writer Larry Hama and voices actors DICK GAUTIER, B.J. WARD, ZACK HOFFMAN, GREGG BERGER, AND MICHAEL BELL. There will be [...]

The September Los Angeles Comic Book and Science Fiction Convention features actress Juiet Landau (Buffy, Angel) and a look at the G.I. JOE animated series. Guests include G.I. JOE  writer Larry Hama and  voices actors DICK GAUTIER, B.J. WARD, ZACK HOFFMAN, GREGG BERGER, AND MICHAEL BELL. There will be a drawing for a free G.I. JOE [...]

The first ever Vampire-Con ran extremely well yesterday. The old Henry Fonda Theatre – now called “The Music Box” – is a fantastic venue; there were some great guests, enthusiastic fans, and lots of undead merchandise (including Vampire wine and some spooky Schecter guitars). I moderated the first panel, “Why We Love Vampires: A Brief History of the Undead,” which features film historian Angela Aleiss, Dark Delicacies book store owner Del Howison, editor Leslie S. Klinger (The New Annotated Dracula), author J. Gordon Melton (The Vampire Book), author David S. Skal (V is for Vampire), and co-authors Dacre Stoker and Ian Holt (Dracula: The Undead, an authorized sequel to Bram Stoker’s Dracula).