Shriekfest Film Festival Review
I had the tremendous opportunity to attend Shriekfest Film Festival this past weekend. It's a pretty awesome horror convention that happens every year in LA since founder Denise Gossett started the convention in the early 2000s. The festival was held at the Hollywood Studio at Raleigh Studios in the Charlie Chaplin Theater. Weird Review took a lot of pictures from the event here:
http://weirdreview.com/2011/10/04/tsf2011/
Shriekfest 2011 was pretty epic. I bet it wasn't always filled with such great movies, but now that they get hundreds every year (and can only show a small fraction of them), most of the bad ones are never seen by the crowd.
Some of the shows were pretty breathtaking and suspenseful. You might expect a monster to pop out, but instead the camera just stays black... until you finally realize the person you were watching is, officially dead. It's quite awesome the way some of these films do a great job with emotion.
If you go to Shriekfest sometime, I hope I see you there!
Here were the winners!
Best Horror Feature Film: Absentia
Best SciFi Feature Film: Pig
Best Supernatural Feature Film: The Dead Inside
Best Thriller Feature Film: Isle of Dogs
Best Super Short Film: Certified
Best Short Film: Negative Image
Best Horror Feature Screenplay: Shut In
Best SciFi Feature Screenplay: Time Wreck
Best Short Screenplay: Hear No Evil
Best Webisode: "31" the series
Best Original Song: To All The Youth
Best Under 18 Film: Molly and the Masked Storm
http://weirdreview.com/2011/10/04/tsf2011/
Shriekfest 2011 was pretty epic. I bet it wasn't always filled with such great movies, but now that they get hundreds every year (and can only show a small fraction of them), most of the bad ones are never seen by the crowd.
Some of the shows were pretty breathtaking and suspenseful. You might expect a monster to pop out, but instead the camera just stays black... until you finally realize the person you were watching is, officially dead. It's quite awesome the way some of these films do a great job with emotion.
If you go to Shriekfest sometime, I hope I see you there!
Here were the winners!
Best Horror Feature Film: Absentia
Best SciFi Feature Film: Pig
Best Supernatural Feature Film: The Dead Inside
Best Thriller Feature Film: Isle of Dogs
Best Super Short Film: Certified
Best Short Film: Negative Image
Best Horror Feature Screenplay: Shut In
Best SciFi Feature Screenplay: Time Wreck
Best Short Screenplay: Hear No Evil
Best Webisode: "31" the series
Best Original Song: To All The Youth
Best Under 18 Film: Molly and the Masked Storm