Last chance to submit your film to this years Chicago Horror Film Festival. Late Deadline is July 29th!

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John Everson

Hello All You Ghouls and Gals.



We are announcing our first guest for this year’s line up. Author John Everson will be returning once again. Last year he came to promote his first novel, Covenant. He will be returning this year to promote his second novel, Sacrifice just released in April and his third novel, The 13th, which will be out in a limited hardcover edition in May and in paperback this October.

Praise for Sacrifice:

“SACRIFICE is not for the timid or weak of heart, it is a full frontal assault on your senses. It is a dark, brutal, bloody and terribly frightening book. Everson went deep into some dark abyss to bring this book to the light of day.... I highly recommend Sacrifice.”

Thank You to all the filmmakers who submitted to our Early Bird Deadline. We have many great entires to watch, and thank you for that.

Now we go into our next stage. We now have our regular call for submissions open. The regular entry deadline is July 1st, and we look forward to seeing what this years crop of filmmaker has to bring us.

Troy Holbrook added to the 2008 Guest Line Up!

Troy Holbrook is a SPFX make-up artist and Photographer, and owner of Bodybag Photography & FX. He is also a writer for Cryptic Magazine and creator of Bodybag Trading Cards, a 1st edition set of mock crime scene photographs. He will be on hand this weekend with a selection of signed and matted photographs, trading cards, and make-up / photo packages ranging from 5 min. make-ups to staged crime scene photos in a bodybag.

Due to issues with the film not being completed and ready for this year’s festival, the film, “Hag” will not be showing. We will be replacing the film with another film by Ricardo Islas, entitled “El Dia De Los Muertos.”

“El Dia De Los Muertos”, based on true facts, when a gang of suburban kids is sport-killing home-less people just for fun in the streets of Chicago. One day, they decide to try a new excitement, by murdering a young Mexican working girl, assuming there would be no consequences since she was illegal. The father of the victim is allowed into the country with a 15 days humanitarian visa, so that he can take his daughter’s body back to Mexico. Things get complicated when the body of the girl mysteriously disappears from the morgue and the father decides to take justice into his own hands…

STARRING: Cyn Dulay, Christina De León, Salomón Carmona, Jim Kirwan and Rosa Frausto

RICARDO ISLAS: After an unusual career as an independent filmmaker that started at the early age of 16, Ricardo Islas left his home country Uruguay, to come to America in June 1997, as he was invited by the Chicago International Latino Film Festival. Soon, he joined the staff of WYCC as a producer/director for the pioneer parenting Spanish TV show Nuestros Niños. Islas brought to the show and to other WYCC productions his technical experience, his story telling abilities, but most important, his human sensibility after growing up in a poor South American small town and going through all the ups and downs of his migratory adventure. Besides his career in TV, Islas has written, produced and directed more than ten length-features and two mini-series. Some of his productions have won international awards that have positioned Islas as a cult director in different parts of the world. Both his works “Night Fangs” and “Lockout” have shown at The Chicago Horror Film Festival.

TEXAS FILMMAKER PREMIERES "FRIGHT FLICK" AT
CHICAGO HORROR FESTIVAL SEPTEMBER 27

DALLAS, TX – Dallas indie filmmaker Israel Luna will premiere his full-length feature movie "Fright Flick" at the Chicago Horror Fest at 8pm on Saturday, September 27 in Chicago, Illinois.

Shot in West Texas, Luna's camped-up "Fright Flick" serves as his homage to the gory days of the '80's…and is making a bloody smash into the festival circuit this fall. "Fright Flick" follows a second-rate film crew shooting the third in a trilogy of tasteless yet cheesy horror flicks called...you guessed it, "Fright Flick." Moureau Laurent, the faux-French, schmuck-ofa-director, can't keep his slimy hands off the blessed-in-the-chest leading lady, Ophelia Cumming, whilst Miss Cumming is making advances at the uber-sexy male lead, Brock; who in turn is dating the supporting actress, Angela.
When the production team is presented a behind-the-scenes video tape that purportedly reveals the brutal murders of fellow crew members, all are left wondering if they are in a real-life scary movie of their own. As on-the-set mischief turns to possible motive, everyone becomes suspect.

"Fright Flick" is the quintessential campy, slasher/who-dunnit flick that exploits the notion that everyone is just dying to be in the movie business…even if it may cost them an arm and a
leg!

Israel Luna, writer/director of "Fright Flick" said, "While writing the script I was inspired by the
horror movies of my youth – from the early 80's…I wanted to take an "old school" approach and sort of pay homage to some of my favorites like the original "Friday the 13th," "Sleepaway Camp" and "The Evil Dead.""

Toni Miller, producer of "Fright Flick" said, "We are very excited and plan to attend and support this year's Chicago Horror Fest. It is so gratifying to be recognized by such a great festival and to make our festival premiere in one of the greatest cities in the U.S. is bloody awesome!"