Last week Dread Central's own Heather Wixson (aka The Horror Chick) and Brian Dreads packed up and headed off to the snow-covered hills of Park City, Utah for both the Sundance and Slamdance Film Festivals.
On Saturday night Slamdance held its press event at the Treasure Mountain Inn, and the red carpet was packed with up and coming filmmakers and actors as well as some veterans to the genre.
While at the Slamdance event, Dread Central had the opportunity to talk with the cast and crew of the horror comedy The Scenesters, which focuses on a serial killer stalking hipsters in Los Angeles' Silver Lake neighborhood.
Also, we took some time to talk with the creators and cast of The Last Lovecraft, a cool new flick centered around the last descendant of the legendary H.P Lovecraft.
The geek out moment for yours truly came when it was time to...
On Saturday night Slamdance held its press event at the Treasure Mountain Inn, and the red carpet was packed with up and coming filmmakers and actors as well as some veterans to the genre.
While at the Slamdance event, Dread Central had the opportunity to talk with the cast and crew of the horror comedy The Scenesters, which focuses on a serial killer stalking hipsters in Los Angeles' Silver Lake neighborhood.
Also, we took some time to talk with the creators and cast of The Last Lovecraft, a cool new flick centered around the last descendant of the legendary H.P Lovecraft.
The geek out moment for yours truly came when it was time to...
- 2/3/2010
- by thehorrorchick
- DreadCentral.com
The 16th annual Slamdance Film Festival just wrapped up in Park City and gave out 10 awards to 12 films and 1 screenplay. There are jury awards, audience awards and two sponsored awards. Out of the 91 films that screened this year, here’s the full list of award winners:
Grand Jury Awards
Grand Jury Sparky Award for Best Narrative Film
Snow and Ashes, dir. Charles-Olivier Michaud
Special Jury Mention: One Hundred Mornings, dir. Conor Horgan
Grand Jury Sparky Award for Best Documentary Film
American Jihadist, dir. Mark Claywell
Grand Jury Sparky Award for Best Animated Short
Seed, dir. Ben Richardson and Daniel Bird
Grand Jury Sparky Award for Best Narrative Short
Prvi Dan Mira (First Day of Peace), dir. Mirko Rucnov
Special Jury Mention for a short documentary film: Bout That Bout, dir. Nico Sabenorio
Audience Awards
Audience Sparky Award for Best Narrative Film
The Wild Hunt, dir. Alexandre Franchi
Audience Sparky Award...
Grand Jury Awards
Grand Jury Sparky Award for Best Narrative Film
Snow and Ashes, dir. Charles-Olivier Michaud
Special Jury Mention: One Hundred Mornings, dir. Conor Horgan
Grand Jury Sparky Award for Best Documentary Film
American Jihadist, dir. Mark Claywell
Grand Jury Sparky Award for Best Animated Short
Seed, dir. Ben Richardson and Daniel Bird
Grand Jury Sparky Award for Best Narrative Short
Prvi Dan Mira (First Day of Peace), dir. Mirko Rucnov
Special Jury Mention for a short documentary film: Bout That Bout, dir. Nico Sabenorio
Audience Awards
Audience Sparky Award for Best Narrative Film
The Wild Hunt, dir. Alexandre Franchi
Audience Sparky Award...
- 1/30/2010
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
Slamdance, which runs concurrently with Park City’s Sundance Film Festival, has announced its 2010 line-up, and there are several choices that look to make genre fans sit up and take notice.
Variety provided the names of the ten narrative and eight documentary feature films that are, in the spirit of the fest’s motto, “by filmmakers, for filmmakers.” Although not all of them are horror related, in the interest of keeping you guys fully informed on all the latest indie happenings (and because some of the docs just sound so damn interesting with topics like William Burroughs and Bolivian women wrestlers!), the full list follows:
Narrative Competition:
Cummings Farm (Andrew Drazek) - Comedy about three couples who try group sex at a lakeside strawberry farm, naively hoping it will lead to enlightenment; with Laura Silverman.
Drones (Amber Benson & Adam Busch) - A man discovers a universal threat to his life,...
Variety provided the names of the ten narrative and eight documentary feature films that are, in the spirit of the fest’s motto, “by filmmakers, for filmmakers.” Although not all of them are horror related, in the interest of keeping you guys fully informed on all the latest indie happenings (and because some of the docs just sound so damn interesting with topics like William Burroughs and Bolivian women wrestlers!), the full list follows:
Narrative Competition:
Cummings Farm (Andrew Drazek) - Comedy about three couples who try group sex at a lakeside strawberry farm, naively hoping it will lead to enlightenment; with Laura Silverman.
Drones (Amber Benson & Adam Busch) - A man discovers a universal threat to his life,...
- 12/10/2009
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
What's that? You can't wait to hear about the Irish post apocalyptic film One Hundred Mornings? Well you don't have to because we already have a review of it right here! Our own Alan Maxwell called it an "uncomfortably realistic vision of the breakdown of society." Yeah, it's good.
So continuing, part of the Slamdance lineup has been announced and it's got quite a few films we've featured.
Want something horrible in the forest? How about YellowBrickRoad?
Or maybe some William Burroughs? How about William S Burroughs: A Man Within?
Yup, the lineup for one of my favorite festivals is looking mighty fine as usual, and we'll be bringing you more shortly.
Partial lineup after the break!
Narrative Competition
Cummings Farm (Andrew Drazek) Comedy about three couples who try group sex at a lakeside strawberry farm, naively hoping it will lead to enlightenment; with Laura Silverman.
Drones (Amber Benson...
So continuing, part of the Slamdance lineup has been announced and it's got quite a few films we've featured.
Want something horrible in the forest? How about YellowBrickRoad?
Or maybe some William Burroughs? How about William S Burroughs: A Man Within?
Yup, the lineup for one of my favorite festivals is looking mighty fine as usual, and we'll be bringing you more shortly.
Partial lineup after the break!
Narrative Competition
Cummings Farm (Andrew Drazek) Comedy about three couples who try group sex at a lakeside strawberry farm, naively hoping it will lead to enlightenment; with Laura Silverman.
Drones (Amber Benson...
- 12/10/2009
- QuietEarth.us
The competitive lineup for the 2010 Slamdance Film Festival (of which Fangoria is a media sponsor) has been revealed via an announcement on Variety. "As in years past, competing films are by first-time feature directors working with limited budgets and without domestic theatrical distribution in place. Among the 18 titles, 11 are world premieres." the trade reports.
Fright fans may recall that Oren Peli's recent hit Paranormal Activity played the fest in 2008. As always, Slamdance will run side-by-side with the Sundance Film Fest in Park City Utah, January 21-28, 2010. While there's plenty of genre fare to be seen, we've got the entire list of films for you to browse below.
Narrative Competition
“Cummings Farm” (Andrew Drazek) Comedy about three couples who try group sex at a lakeside strawberry farm, naively hoping it will lead to enlightenment; with Laura Silverman. “Drones” (Amber Benson & Adam Busch) A man discovers a universal threat to his life,...
Fright fans may recall that Oren Peli's recent hit Paranormal Activity played the fest in 2008. As always, Slamdance will run side-by-side with the Sundance Film Fest in Park City Utah, January 21-28, 2010. While there's plenty of genre fare to be seen, we've got the entire list of films for you to browse below.
Narrative Competition
“Cummings Farm” (Andrew Drazek) Comedy about three couples who try group sex at a lakeside strawberry farm, naively hoping it will lead to enlightenment; with Laura Silverman. “Drones” (Amber Benson & Adam Busch) A man discovers a universal threat to his life,...
- 12/10/2009
- by no-reply@fangoria.com (James Zahn)
- Fangoria
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