Conventions & Festivals

Zed Fest 2012

Zed Fest 2012

Date: October 27 at 5pm
Location: Victory Theatres, 3326 West Victory Boulevard, Burbank, CA 91505
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Description: This festival celebrates not B-movies but Z-Movies – or “Zeds.” You know the type – Robot Monster, with its alien in a gorilla suit. The goal is to support the passion of independent low-budget horror filmmakers, whether or [...]

Screamfest 2012 to open with The Collection

Screamfest 2012 to open with The Collection

Date: October 12 at 8pm
Location: Regal Cinemas L.A. LIVE Stadium 14, 1000 West Olympic Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA
Description: The 12th annual incarnation of Screamfest, Hollywood’s premiere Halloween horror film festival, launches with an opening night screening of THE COLLECTION, from the writing team of Marcus Dunstan and Patrick Melton (Saw IV, V and VI), and [...]

3D Film & Music Festival 2012

3D Film & Music Festival 2012

5th Installment of annual event includes 3D premieres of SPIDERS, DREDD, WAR OF THE WORLDS: GOLIATH, ATTACK OF THE 50 FOOT CHEERLEADER, and an appearance by genre veteran Roger Corman. Plus screenings of ICE AGE 4, MADAGASCAR 3, PIRANHA 3DD, and NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD 3D: RE-ANIMATION.
Location: Regal Cinemas L.A. LIVE Stadium 14, 1000 West Olympic Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA

Halloween horror screenings: Shriekfest 2012

Halloween horror screenings: Shriekfest 2012

The 12th annual incarnation of the Hollywood film festival and screenplay competition, with an emphasis on recognizing emerging young talent, will run on October 4 through 7. The schedule has yet to be announced, but all-inclusive festival passes are currently on sale for $140. Individual tickets will go on sale after titles are announced.

H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival 2012

H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival 2012

The Warner Grand Theatre presents the third annual Los Angeles festival dedicated to film adaptations of the work of the late Rhode Island author, who pioneered the concept of cosmic horror – combining traditional horror elements with science fiction to create an existentially disturbing picture of a dangerous universe at best indifferent and at worst hostile to life on Earth.

Location: The Warner Grand Theatre, 478 West 6th Street San Pedro, CA

Dates: September 28 & 29, 2012

Bleedfest Blood Drive & Film Festival

Bleedfest Blood Drive & Film Festival

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
Collection [...]

Los Angeles Comic Book & Sci-Fi Convention: Billy Dee Williams

Los Angeles Comic Book & Sci-Fi Convention: Billy Dee Williams

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 [...]

Awesome Line-up of Halloween Events This Weekend!

Awesome Line-up of Halloween Events This Weekend!

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…

More Los Angeles Halloween Horror events open this weekend

More Los Angeles Halloween Horror events open this weekend

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 [...]

Screamfest 10

Screamfest 10

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 [...]

Long Beach Comic Con featuring Saw 3D

Long Beach Comic Con featuring Saw 3D

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, [...]

Win tickets to Creation's Weekend of Horrors in October! Update: Contest Closed

Win tickets to Creation’s Weekend of Horrors in October! Update: Contest Closed

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.

Creation Weekend of Horrors October 2010

Creation Weekend of Horrors October 2010

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.