The Buffalo Screams Horror Film Festival has announced several key aspects of its 2011 programming. The festival will run for five days this year, from Wednesday, October 26th through Sunday, October 30th; the location remains The Screening Room Cinema Caf? in Amherst, outside Buffalo. The opening night film will be a 30th anniversary screening of THE BURNING, and the festival organizers will honor screenwriter and producer Roy Frumkes for his dedication to independent filmmaking.

"THE BURNING was shot in Tonawanda, 20 minutes from here," says Greg Lamberson (SLIME CITY MASSACRE), who co-founded Buffalo Screams with fellow indie filmmaker Emil J. Novak (the upcoming zombie anthology ... (more…)

The first Buffalo Screams Horror Film Festival ran for four days in Amherst, New York, at the Screening Room, from Thursday, October 21st - 24th, 2010. 37 films were shown, including DESPERATELY SEEKING DEBBIE, a tribute video shown at the awards dinner before actress Debbie Rochon was presented with a Dedication to Excellence in Independent Filmmaking award. The film includes such horror mainstays as Tony Timpone, Lloyd Kaufman, and Alan Rowe Kelly.

Filmmaking hyphenate Brett Kelly (THE BONESETTER, AVENGING FORCE: THE SCARAB) was honored with the festival's Genre Spirit Award. The festival was designed to bring the best national and international horror films and filmmakers to Buffalo, ... (more…)

"Buffalo rocks. Buffalo Bleeds. Buffalo SCREAMS."

Two independent filmmakers, Emil J. Novak and Gregory Lamberson, are organizing a new horror film festival, BUFFALO SCREAMS, which will run for four days at The Screening Room in Amherst, New York, a suburb of Buffalo, from Wednesday, October 21st - Sunday, October 24th. They are calling for entries and seeking sponsors through their website, www.buffaloscreams.com.

Both men have lived in New York State their entire lives, and Novak, a lifelong resident of Buffalo, is the owner of Queen City Bookstore, the Main Street comic book store his father started in 1969. In recent years he wrote and directed the feature films Tesla the ... (more…)

Debbie Rochon and Gregory Lamberson have been announced as guests at the Eerie Horror Film Festival in Erie, Pa, which runs October 7th - 10th. They will screen SLIME CITY MASSACRE at the 4-day event, which is held in the grand, historic Warner Theatre. Lamberson previously screened SLIME CITY as a midnight attraction at the great Lakes Film Festival in Erie, and screened UNDYIONG LOVE at EHFF. Other guests at this year's event include legendary AIP producer Bert I. Gordon; Fred "the Hammer" Williamson; and Joe Polito.

SLIME CITY MASSACRE stars Jennifer Bihl, horror author Kealan Patrick Burke (Best Actor, PollyGrind Film Fest), Rochon, Brooke Lewis (Best Scream Queen, Golden Cob ... (more…)

CAMILLE KEATON of famed revengesploitation fare I Spit On Your Grave and GREGORY LAMBERSON, writer/director of Slime City and Slime City Massacre have joined this year's Rue Morgue Festival of Fear lineup. Other guests this year include DAVID CRONENBERG (The Fly, Rabid), GLENN DANZIG (Danzig, Misfits), KEN RUSSELL (The Devils, Gothic), BILL MOSELEY (The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2), WILLIAM FORSYTHE (Rob Zombie's Halloween), HEATHER LAGENKAMP (A Nightmare On Elm Street), EL HIJO DEL SANTO (Santo Infraterrestre), JAMES MARSTERS (Buffy The Vampire Slayer) and many more!
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Reel Renegades announced today the lineup of films selected to screen in the features section of its festival. The 2010 Reel Renegades Festival runs June 4th and 5th in Norman, Oklahoma. June 4th will be a pre-party, featuring bands and booths with fx artists and comic book artists.

"A film festival dedicated to extreme independent cinema. Organized by film makers for film makers. An outlet for taboo breaking, controversial, limit pushing artists who go against the grain and rise above. Only for the head strong."

Reel Renegades was designed as an alternative outlet to festivals that charge submission fees and cater to traditional standards of moviemaking and mainstream storytelling and ... (more…)

A sequel to a gruesome classic from more than twenty years ago and a debut feature from twin sisters that originally started off as a faux trailer were the two big winners of the first ever Polly Staffle Grindhouse Fest.

The international event, predominantly known as PollyGrind, took place May 12-16 at the Sci-Fi Center in Las Vegas. PollyGrind consisted of programming in the tradition of grindhouse theaters with double and triple features each day, bookended by trailers and music videos. The event was dedicated to independent filmmaking and those that love cult, horror, sci-fi, exploitation, arthouse, cool, edgy, sexy and bloody works of cinema.

Thirteen films and more than 31 other works ... (more…)

As a fan of genre and independent cinema, Chad Clinton Freeman knows how hard it is to weed through everything and find good movies to watch these days. As a filmmaker, he also knows how hard it is to get independent works out for the public to see them. With both of these experiences in mind, Freeman created the Polly Staffle Grindhouse Fest.

The event, which will consist of five days of programming in the tradition of grindhouse theaters with double and triple features each day, gets underway this Wednesday and runs till May 16 at the Sci-Fi Center (2520 State Street) in Las Vegas.

Thirteen films and more than 31 trailers, music videos and shorts will play the PollyGrind, which has been ... (more…)

APRIL 15, 2010 --Thirteen films and more than 30 trailers, music videos and shorts will play over five days at the first ever Polly Staffle Grindhouse Fest, which takes place May 12-16 at the Sci-Fi Center (2520 State Street) in Las Vegas.

Festival creator and director Chad Clinton Freeman, who has been called the "new champion of unabashed B-movie sleaze" by ArrowintheHead.com, announced the PollyGrind's lineup live via a special Podcast from Hell with HorrorNews.net's Dai Green on Tuesday.

Five features will get world premieres, seven will have their Las Vegas premieres, and one will be a U.S. premiere. Filmmaker Creep Creepersin will world premiere his films Vaginal Holocaust, Caged ... (more…)

To the casual observer, Sacramento doesn't exactly jump to mind when it comes to iconic horror names & places ,but the state capital of California actually has a rich history of supporting the genre. For over a decade spanning the early 1970's -1980's, one of the most fondly remembered Horror TV shows in history, CREATURE FEATURES, helped to raise a generation of "Monster Grandkids," myself included. The Sac-based show was hosted by the ever lovable Bob Wilkins, and later by John Stanley.

Let us not forget Sacramento's contribution to real world horror: Convicted necrophile Karen Greenlee who confessed to having had sexual relations with over 40 male corpses, or Sacramento's contribution to ... (more…)