Hollywood Gothique

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, [...]

Screamfest, which takes place every October at Grauman’s Chinese Theatre 6 in Hollywood, is the best of the Los Angeles horror festivals. Over the course of ten days – from October 10 through 19 – they will screen dozens of films, often with the cast and crew in attendance for Q&A sessions afterwards. This year, [...]

My report on the Screamfest premier of SNOOP DOGG’S HOOD OF HORROR has been posted at E-Splatter.Com. You can read it here.
I’ve written a couple of other reports on the fest that should be posted soon, so keep checking back for more updates.
There have been lots of good films, and even the disappointing ones have [...]

 The Screamfest L.A. Horror Film Festival has posted a list of the winners of its 2005 awards on its website:

Audience Choice Award: The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
Best Picture: Cookers (producer Jeff Ritchie)
Best Director: Dan Mintz (Cookers)
Best Actor: Brad Hunt (Cookers)
Best Actress: Cyia Batten (Cookers)
Best Cinematography: Christopher Duddy (Cabiniet of Dr. Caligari)
Best Editing: Fransico Javier Guitierrez [...]

Attended the Screamsest screening of WOLF CREEK last night. This is the Aussie film that supposedly has generated a bit of a buzz because the Weinstein Company (run by the Weinstein brothers, who are famous for picking up independent films and turning them into sleeper hits) bought the distruction rights at Sundance Film Festival and [...]

Took a break from Halloween haunts this Saturday, went to ScreamFest instead to see some movies: a few short subjects and two Asian horror films, THREE EXTREMES and BUNSHINSABA (OUJIA BOARD). Both were disappintments, unfortunately, although not without some redeeming features.
The first is an anthology by three different directors: one Chinese, one Korean, one Japanese. [...]