HORROR FILM FESTIVAL

OCTOBER 2021 - LOS ANGELES, CA

2021 Call For Entries: Screenplays & Films

Submissions are open! Submit your screenplay or film now HERE.

Screamfest the largest and longest running horror film festival in the United States is accepting submissions of horror, sci-fi & thriller films and screenplays for the 21st annual Horror Film Festival taking place October 2021 in Los Angeles, CA.

Screamfest is one of MovieMaker’s 30 Bloody Best Genre Fests in the World! Read all about it here

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Screamfest accepts feature & short films from around the world. The 2021 film submission period is OPEN.

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The 2021 submission period for screenplays is OPEN. Click here for the submission guidelines.

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Come On Ride The TERROR TRAIN

Brian Collins December 30, 2020 - 11:41am

Jamie Lee Curtis made three slasher films immediately after HALLOWEEN'S success in 1978 and 1979. The first was PROM NIGHT, a very dated and poorly paced movie that has more ironic fans (thanks, disco dancing Leslie Nielsen!) than legitimate ones. The most famous is probably 1981's HALLOWEEN II, which picked up directly after the events of the first film, which meant she spent most of the movie in a hospital bed. And then in the middle is TERROR TRAIN, probably the least seen of the trio but also - in my opinion - the best of them as well.

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Screamfest World’s 50 BEST Genre Fests

screamfest December 3, 2020 - 9:45am

Screamfest has been named one of the World’s 50 BEST Genre Fests by MovieMaker Magazine for 2021!

Check out the full article here: https://www.moviemaker.com/best-genre-festivals-2021/6/

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Revisiting The RESIDENT EVIL Franchise

Brian Collins November 25, 2020 - 3:09pm

No one expects much out of a movie based on a video game, and even fewer would expect any such film to become a major franchise with almost as many entries as the game series that inspired it. But the Resident Evil films did just that; Paul WS Anderson and Milla Jovovich joined forces six times from 2002 to 2017, presenting an ever-escalating story about Alice (Jovovich) and her endless battles with zombies and other monsters that were spawned by the evil Umbrella corporation.

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