Join us for 2 full programs of the best horror shorts in competition for FREE. Snacks, full bar, vendors and much more all afternoon. Click on the images below to reserve your FREE tickets. From Noon till 3 it’s totally FREE!

Find more FREE screenings on our TICKETS page and enjoy the best in world horror.

Learn everything you’ve ever wanted to know about indie horror filmmaking but were afraid to ask. Seriously. A PANEL TO DIE FOR features a host of horror industry insiders laying bare the often hidden truths of the business. Learn how much a film can make, how to pick the most sellable subject matter and most importantly what you should never ever do. If there’s only one panel you should see before making your next movie it’s this. Come with business cards and lots of questions.

The panel includes acclaimed Writer/Director Rodney Ascher (ROOM 237), Producer Ed Polgardy (GHOSTMAKER), Distributor Vince D’Amato (DARKSIDE RELEASING), Aggregator Nadav Streett (RISING SUN MEDIA, INC), Writer/Director Rolfe Kanefsky (PARTY BUS TO HELL), Indie Director Jason Rutherford (SHHHH), Marketing Consultant Matt Chassin, Distributor Erik Lundmark (LEOMARK STUDIOS), Producer Lotti Knowles (CHASTITY BITES), and is moderated by Writer/Producer Mike Davis (PRESIDENT WOLFMAN) for 2 hours of career-changing knowledge. We kid you not.

Tickets are FREE on a first come first served basis and will be available on the door and online. But we advise reserving your ticket online (tickets will be held till only 15 minutes prior to each event).

Acclaimed actress and Horror icon DEE WALLACE (E.T, Cujo, The Howling) joins the cast & crew of a film every aspiring horror filmmaker should watch – “HORROR MOVIE: A Low Budget Nightmare” – which has its US premiere at HOLLYWOOD HORRORFEST on Sunday July 29 in N. Hollywood.

Committed to helping new filmmakers learn more about the indie horror business, HOLLYWOOD HORRORFEST will be screening this highly acclaimed and incredibly insightful documentary for FREE. It will be followed by a Q&A with DEE WALLACE and the Director & crew. The festival’s own A PANEL TO DIE FOR (P2D4), featuring industry insiders giving advice on how to best make and distribute your low budget masterpiece, also for free, will follow.

Directed by Gary Doust, “HORROR MOVIE: A Low Budget Nightmare” documents writer/director Craig Anderson’s troubled journey to make his feature film debut, the
horror movie “Red Christmas” – a quaint story about a murderous aborted fetus. The documentary dramatically follows Anderson’s emotional rollercoaster ride funding, directing and finally trying to sell his dream movie to an industry he knows little about. It’s indie film-school 101 captured in a engrossing (and at times gross) tale of wide-eyed dreamers, Hollywood scream queens and a vengeful fetus at Christmas.

“Basically every well-intentioned, wrong-step of filmmaking is documented in this wonderful and passionate film,” states Festival Founder/Director Miles Flanagan. “And for that reason it’s a free screening. It needs to be seen by every new, rising filmmaker at the fest.”

Reserve your FREE tickets here:  https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/3532080

Acclaimed director SAM IRVIN joins us for our special fundraising evening with actress CASSANDRA PETERSON. IRVIN directed the classic “ELVIRA’S HAUNTED HILLS” and will be part of this fundraising event (benefitting the VINCENT PRICE ART MUSEUM – VPAM). PETERSON will be receiving the prestigious PRICE AWARD from Vincent Price’s daughter VICTORIA PRICE. The evening will continue with a rare screening (digital) and Q&A for “”ELVIRA’S HAUNTED HILLS.” The venue has a full bar (ID required), vendors, snacks, food and celebrity raffles – raising funds and awareness for the VPAM.

Tickets are now available.

Thanks to the good people at NECA we’re raffling off some amazing signed Gremlins figures on Opening Night – part of our fundraising efforts for the VINCENT PRICE ART MUSEUM. See a small selection “below.”

Named “The King of Indie Horror” by British fans of the Erebus Horror website in 2012, BILL OBERST Jr. joins us on the red carpet for the Opening night of HOLLYWOOD HORRORFEST 2014.