Los Angeles, October 19, 2010 – Screamfest wrapped its 10th annual genre film festival on Sunday, October 17, 2010. Black Death was a big winner taking home four awards for Best Director (Chris Smith) , Best Actor (Sean Bean), Best Cinematography (Sebastian Edschmid) and Best Musical Score (Christian Henson). Best Picture went to the French [...]
Horror is an interesting genre. It runs the gamut from blood-splattering, machete-wielding maniacs to creepy thrillers that sneak up on you. Today we are reviewing two very different films that are horror by definition, perhaps, but something else in spirit. The first is Void, a supernatural thriller written and directed by Meredith Berg as part [...]
Kody Zimmerman is a talented new director, best known for his work with music videos and short films. FilmGuru.Net caught up with him before Screamfest LA, where his short film The Familiar will be shown on opening weekend. The FilmGuru has 10 questions for Kody about his past working as production assistant, The Familiar, and [...]
As Screamfest LA draws closer, I’m torn between several different movies I want to review. There are so many good short films, from the eerie to the downright grotesque. So, imagine my surprise when I found two short horror films from Canada that broke from the usual “things that go bump in the night.” Today, [...]
Today we’re going to examine two more of the short films appearing this weekend at Screamfest LA in (of course) Los Angeles. The first, Excision, is a wonderfully gruesome mad scientist coming-of-age story set in American suburbia. The other, Séance, is a creepy story from the Czech Republic that tells of a young medium who [...]