Call for Entries: 2009 Eerie Horror Film Festival Screenplay Competition
The 2009 Eerie Horror Screenplay Call for Entries is now open, offering beginning, aspiring and veteran screenwriters in the horror genre a chance to have their work recognized by people in the industry and beyond.
The winning screenplays and finalists will receive awards, be announced on all Eerie Horror Film Festival websites and the top 3 winners information will be forwarded directly to industry professionals for review.
The deadline for Screenplay entries is August 1, 2009.
Winners will be announced no later than September 1, 2009.
Since its debut in October of 2004, the Eerie Horror Film Festival has quickly become one of the most popular and respected events of its kind in the country.
Each year the Eerie Horror Film Festival attracts thousands of fans, filmmakers and screenwriters to the city of Erie, Pennsylvania, for a four day celebration of independent cinema, featuring special celebrity guests, screenings and workshops.
The competition based event opens its call for entries each season on Halloween day and accepts film and screenplay submissions from all around the world, with a special discount for students 10 - 17 years of age.
Nearly 300 films have been shown at the festival since its inception, including several world premieres and movies that eventually secured distribution deals with major companies.
With their current and ever expanding contacts, the Eerie Horror Film Festival hopes to play an active role in connecting their filmmakers and screenwriters directly with those within the industry.
Eerie Horror Film Festival Advisory Board members Tony Todd ("Candyman"), Sid Haig ("House of 1,000 Corpses"), Dave Alexander (of Rue Morgue Magazine) and Steve (Uncle Creepy) Barton of Dread Central.com are kept up to date on all festival activities and alerted to any extraordinary film and screenplay submissions.
Our past guests have included Jason Mewes ("Clerks"), Adrienne Barbeau ("The Fog"), Dee Wallace Stone ("E.T."), Sid Haig ("The Devil's Rejects"), Tom Savini ("Grindhouse"), Kane Hodder ("Friday the 13th" series), James Duval ("Donnie Darko"), Michael Berryman ("The Hills Have Eyes"), Jerry Only ("The Misfits"), PJ Soles ("Halloween"), Tony Todd ("Candyman"), Lloyd Kaufman ("Toxic Avenger"), Gunnar Hansen ("Texas Chainsaw Massacre"), Ed Neal ("Texas Chainsaw Massacre"), Seamus Davey-Fitzpatrick ("The Omen"), Tony Moran ("Halloween"), Lynn Lowry ("I Drink Your Blood"), Nancy Loomis ("Halloween"), Don Edmonds ("Ilsa: She-Wolf of the SS"), Charles Cyphers ("Halloween"), Kenny Miller ("I Was a Teenage Werewolf"), Eugene Clark ("Land of the Dead"), Tom Atkins ("Halloween III"), Alex Vincent ("Child's Play"), Joe Pilato ("Day of the Dead") and Academy Award nominated director John Hancock.
Fans can always meet their favorite stars, buy horror related merchandise and converse with film company representatives at the Carnival of Carnage Expo, held in conjunction with our film screenings during the weekend of the Fest.
Throughout the year, the Eerie Horror Film Festival takes part in several community events, including Celebrate Erie, which attracts more than 100,000 people. The Eerie Horror Film Festival donates a percentage of their ticket and merchandise sales to Make-A-Wish each season and makes a sizable donation to The Second Harvest Food Bank as well.
The Festival hopes that their efforts continue to attract attention, tourism and economic impact to the Erie County area and that they can provide an even bigger and better event for attendees each and every year.
The next Eerie Horror Film Festival & Expo takes place October 8-11, 2009 at the prestigious Warner Theater in Erie, Pennsylvania.
Updated: 03/05/2009
Additional Contest Info: Eerie Horror Screenplay Competition
ScriptLinks
Post Your Script Here!The March of the 18th
In the waning days of the Civil War, a battle-worn colonel leads a regiment of physically shattered but unbroken soldiers on a brutal mission that will test their limits, proving that even the “invalid” can become an army—and that courage is not measured by the body, but by the will to serve.
FULL CONTACT — Price of Redemption
Under the suffocating pressure of a championship spotlight, a redlining linebacker must outplay a hijacked beta safety system that turns every 200lb impact into a lethal cardiac glitch.
Last Train Home
As he’s removed from Florida's death chamber, an executed man is guided by a mysterious presence into his own past, where preventing a single bad decision could rewrite the life that brought him to this dire destiny.
AT THE MERCY OF FAITH
A former preacher, haunted by the tragic rape/murder of his twin sister, spirals into darkness as supernatural forces, both angelic and demonic, wage war for his soul.
ALTA CALIFORNIA
A young mixed blood, determined to avenge his mother’s brutal death, is thrust into a battle of survival and identity as he navigates through the oppressive and inhumane colonizers of California's “Mission Era.
“Be prepared for what?” Episode 2: THE BOY WHO EARNED HIS MAGIC
Howell and friends arrive at a school in the desert where they prepare to face evil forces.
THE MONGREL, pilot for THE COMING MORROW series
A virus is decimating the male population making most impotent.
GHOST TOWN, NM
When an obstinate father insists his daughter marry a rich but foolish young man, she escapes, with her boyfriend, to a ghost down.
BORDERLINE JUSTICE
Rita Fuentes, a fiery, attractive Latina social worker introduces Martin Wilkins, a law-and-order judge, to the violent, politically charged world of power, money, illegals, and life for the drug mules--like Demetria Plascentia, and his foolish new son-in-law, Antonio Borja--he condemns daily in his courtroom.
UNCLE FRANCO'S BIRTHDAY SUIT
Paolo’s relatives, including his zany Uncle Franco, are determined to reunite their nephew with his teenage love, Magdalena.
