The Association of Movie Productions will be hosting 24 Hour Film Festival this coming weekend at Virginia Tech university. During the film festival, students will have exactly 24 hours to write, shoot and edit a short film. Each team of three filmmakers will begin work on 2 p.m. on Saturday, March 27 and deliver their [...]

As you may have heard through the grapevine director Anthony Brownrigg and I have been working on a script for the adaptation of ETERNAL VIGILANCE into a movie. We are very excited about it and are working hard to make this a reality. In an effort to prove to movie studios that there is a [...]

In an age when movies like The Matrix and Saw have become mainstream film fodder and independent directors such as Nancy Savoca (True Love) and Michael Keller (Defying Gravity) are not only accepted at major film festivals, but have their work acknowledged by the industry with awards, it is easy for us to forget that [...]

I have chosen to pass on seeing THE SPIRIT. From what I have seen in the previews and online, I cannot see one original idea, concept or even dialogue line in the entire film. It’s bland, boring, an idea that has been overcooked to the point where it has become dry and disappointing in its [...]

**Message from Greg Lamberson concerning Johnny Gruesome & other news!!** First, I’m told that CHEAP SCARES! LOW BUDGET HGORROR FILMMAKERS goes into production in 3 weeks! McFarland caters to libraries and seems unconcerned with announcing a publication date, but it should be before Halloween. The good news is, if you don’t feel like shelling out [...]

Texas Frightmaker Stacy Davidson’s debut horror feature Domain of the Damned is now available on a Special Edition DVD. Synopsis: Somewhere along a desolate Texas highway lies the roadside freak show Screamworld. Operated by demented showman B.D. Griffin and his unsavory lackies, this dark fortress hides a secret terror within the confines of its newest [...]

Filmmakers will have 48 hours to make a horror film based on the horrific subgenre assigned to their particular team. The Bloodshots staff will assign each team a subgenre along the lines of Torture Porn, Ghost Story, Backwoods, Revenge Fantasy, or something like that. Then they’ll assign a weapon along the lines of a Chainsaw, [...]

Registration for the 2008 48 Hour Filmmaking Frenzy horror competition Bloodshots will open in August. If you missed out on last year’s contest, the premise is to create a movie in the course of 48 hours over one weekend in September. Genres and a specific prop that must be used in each film is assigned [...]