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[ October 8, 2010 to October 17, 2010. ] 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. This is Hollywood’s biggest and oldest festival devoted to the genre; it launched films such as HATCHET and PARANORMAL ACTIVITY.

Location: Mann Chinese 6 Theatres [...]

To help celebrate Cinefantastique’s new look, which allows us to feature videos on the home page, we are reposting a few videos. This one comes from last year’s ScreamFest horror film festival in Hollywood, which featured a question-and-answer session with several members of the cast and crew after a screening of FRIDAY THE 13TH PART [...]

THE SIGNAL was one of the best movies I saw at last October’s Screamfest Film Festival in Hollywood. The premise involves a mysterious transmission that turns those who view it into homicidal maniacs. The plot follows a married woman and her lover, who are trying to avoid her husband after he views the “signal.” Although [...]

TIMBER FALLS will be opening on December 7. I saw the film at Screamfest in Hollywood last October and was pleasantly surprised: the plot (religious loonies kidnap a couple out camping and try to force them to conceive a surrogate child) did not sound particularly auspicious, but the characters suspense were handled pretty well, and the [...]

After the 25th anniversary screening of FRIDAY THE 13TH PART 3 at the Screamfest film festival in Hollywood last month, there was a question-and-answer sesssion with some of the cast and crew. Although the film itself is a bit of a sub-classic, the event was fun, and I posted excerpts of the Q&A. I just completed a [...]

One of the strongest films at this year’s Screamfest horror film festival was STORM WARNING, written by Everett DeRoche and directed by Jamie Blanks. It’s about a married couple out boating off the coast of Australia who get caught in a storm and end up on an isolated island with some rather unfriendly inhabitants. Mixing [...]

Screamfest  has announced the winners from its 2007 horror film festival. The big winner is the fine Thai ghost story ALONE, which topped five categories. Fest highlights PARANORMAL ACTIVITY and STORM WARNING also won in multiple categories.

Best Student Short: ANGEL directed by Nikolas List
Best Editing: ALONE – Vijja Kojew and Thammarat Sumetsupachuck
Best Score: STORM WARNING performed [...]

I’ve been so busy attending films at the Screamfest film festival in Hollywood that it has been difficult to keep up writing about them. Now that the screenings are over, I have time to pick over the bloody bones of the victims (a couple of real duds) and lend aid to the survivors (a handful [...]

Wednesday was a day of disappointments at the annual Hollywood horror festival Screamfest, as two films unspooled that displayed plenty of promise before devolving down the drain. The first seemed to be a case of strange artistic sensibility; the second was simply an example of a good idea that wore out its welcome.

Beatrice Dall just can’t [...]

Monday, October 15 was DVD and home video day at Screamfest, with screenings of two full-length movies slated for release on Tuesday, plus a short-subject shot for FEARnet.Com.
 
Up first was the unrated director’s cut of PLANET TERROR, which screened earlier this year as the first half of the GRINDHOUSE double bill. The good news is [...]

Sunday was a good day for ghosts at Screamfest. A film festival can be a real crap-shoot – you watch lots of low-budget independent films, and you lower your standards, barely daring to wish for basic competence, let alone some kind of outstanding quality. But Screamfest does a good job of finding little gems that raise [...]

Cinematical’s Christopher Campbell raves about the new R-rated 30 DAYS OF NIGHT clip, which you can view here. (You do have to log in and say you’re over eighteen.)
The movie hits theatres this Friday, but on Tuesday there will be a preview screening at Grauman’s Chinese Theatre in Hollywood, as part of the Screamfest horror film [...]