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BaronVonKropp
11-24-2005, 03:39 PM
The 2006 Eerie Horror Film Festival has officially opened it's call for
entries and is seeking independently produced feature length and short
horror/sci-fi films and screenplays from around the world!

The 2006 Eerie Horror Film Festival will be held October 4-8, in Erie,
Pennsylvania at the Roadhouse Theater and will feature special
celebrity guests, visiting filmmakers, and thousands of attendees!
Awards will be presented to the best films and screenplays! [Venue
subject to change. Check our website for updates].

We are pleased to present our first ever Student Film Competition for
ages 5 - 17 as well as more stream-lined and easy to understand
submission categories!

Submission categories for the 2006 Eerie Horror Film Festival are
Horror Feature; Horror Short; Experimental Horror Feature; Experimental
Horror Short; Psychological Horror Feature; Psychological Horror Short;
Sci-Fi Feature; Sci-Fi Short; Animated Horror Feature; Animated Horror
Short; Horror Comedy Feature; Horror Comedy Short; Student Horror
Feature; Student Horror Short; Foreign Horror Feature; Foreign Horror
Short; Short Screenplay; Feature Length Screenplay. We will also accept
horror related documentaries.
To submit your film or screenplay into our competition this year, just
go to our website: http://www.eeriehorrorfest.com and follow the
directions you'll find there. At the moment we are only taking
submissions via WithoutABox but we will have downloadable entry forms
on line by week's end for those who prefer an alternative way of
entering our competition this year.

Overlooked, underrated, and misunderstood, independent horror movies
have been ignored and shunned by the mainstream film industry since it
began more than a century ago. Through the decades, these films have
entertained and thrilled audiences around the world and continue to
grow in popularity to this very day. There is an incredible amount of
talent in this field that goes unnoticed an unappreciated, and we are
proud to announce that the Eerie Horror Film Festival hopes to reverse
that trend. This event was established in order to give filmmakers and
writers in the horror /sci-fi genres a venue to have their work
showcased to people in the industry.

Since 2004 the Eerie Horror Film Festival has screened nearly 100 indie
films and has featured such guests as Lloyd Kaufman (Troma), Gunnar
Hansen (Texas Chainsaw Massacre), Mark Borchardt (American Movie), John
Hancock (Academy Award nominated director), Sean David Morton (Joe
Killionaire/talk show legend), Ben Meade (Bazaar Bizarre), Michael
Stanley (Attack of the Beast Creatures), Debbie Rochon (actress), Pam
Sutch (actress), Greg Lamberson (Slime City), Jamian Snow (author),
Dorothy Tristan (screenwriter), Len Kabasinski (Swamp Zombies), Travis
Bowen (actor/director) and many. many more! In 2004 with the generosity
of Lion's Gate Films we were able to show the North Coast premiere of
the movie "SAW", two weeks before it hit the theaters! Several of our
selected films have gone on to get distribution deals after our Fest
including "The Last Horror Film" which was picked up and released by
Fangoria a few weeks after it won Best of The Fest at our event!

The 2006 Eerie Horror Film Festival will be even bigger and better,
with more special guest and surprises! We hope that you will be a part
of this year's festivities!

The EERIE HORROR FILM FESTIVAL takes place each year at the Road House
Theater in beautiful downtown, Erie, PA. (USA). The Roadhouse is a
beautiful, gothic, community theater that looks like it was tailor made
for a horror fest! The theater has comfortable seating, a cafe, and
room for merchandise for those of you interested in selling your
product at our event. (Please contact us for more info). A motel is
located directly across the street from our event, as are several fast
food restaurants and the downtown district of Erie, which features more
upscale eateries and taverns.

Erie is only a short drive from the cities of Cleveland, OH, Buffalo,
NY, and Pittsburgh, PA. For those of you looking for other activities
throughout the weekend.

For additional information about the Festival:

Eerie Horror Film Festival
PO Box 98
Edinboro, Pa. 16412
814-873-7074

[email protected]

On-Line at:

www.eeriehorrorfest.com

www.baronvonkropp.com

pinkfloyd45769
11-24-2005, 09:21 PM
More fucking spam!!:rolleyes:

BaronVonKropp
11-25-2005, 07:22 AM
I assure you that I didn't mean to offend with my posting nor do I consider it spam.

How else are we to announce our call for entries for our competition?

We love indie films, the people who make them and the horror genre in general.

I guess I could write individual posts with the exact same info to make it seem more personal but it would be both pointless and time consuming to say the least...

That said... a million apologies... and know that I am indeed an active member on this board... spammers usually paste and run....

By the way, are you a Pink Floyd fan? I'm assuming so by your nick... feel free to e-mail me as I have been collecting Floyd stuff for decades and even have some odd contacts with Roger Waters.

Peace,
Greg (The Baron)

slasherman
11-25-2005, 07:54 AM
Originally posted by BaronVonKropp

...and know that I am indeed an active member on this board... spammers usually paste and run....


3 posts is not active

Originally posted by BaronVonKropp
website: http://www.eeriehorrorfest.com

For additional information about the Festival:
Eerie Horror Film Festival
PO Box 98
Edinboro, Pa. 16412
814-873-7074

[email protected]

On-Line at:

www.eeriehorrorfest.com

www.baronvonkropp.com
spamful :mad:

BaronVonKropp
11-25-2005, 12:09 PM
Jesus... okay "active" was a bad choice for what I was trying to say... which was that (a) I am not pasting and running away from the board and (b) that while what I posted is indeed a form letter, I have no other idea how to announce our Fest in any other fashion that would make sense.

Bottom line is this... we have a Fest for Horror filmmakers and screenplay authors. We spend lots of money, time and effort to provide a nice theater and a competition for these folks. We love the horror genre and we would not be able to do what we do without posting the info on line. This is a Horror site. We run a Horror Fest. That is that. Here we are.

To me spam would be posting something very off topic (viagra or some weight loss medicine) in this forum...

For those I have offended, again many apologies. I never even gave it a thought before posting here.

If providing my name, address, contact numbers and website URL's constitutes as spam, the entire internet community is in trouble! (Especially for people at the grassroots level - i.e.: filmmakers, musicians, festivals, conventions, etc - whose very livelihood rests upon "getting the word out" via the net.)

Thanks.
Greg

pinkfloyd45769
11-25-2005, 12:11 PM
:rolleyes:

pinkfloyd45769
11-25-2005, 12:17 PM
Happy Birthday BaronVonKropp!!

zwoti
11-25-2005, 12:26 PM
Originally posted by BaronVonKropp
If providing my name, address, contact numbers and website URL's constitutes as spam, the entire internet community is in trouble! (Especially for people at the grassroots level - i.e.: filmmakers, musicians, festivals, conventions, etc - whose very livelihood rests upon "getting the word out" via the net.)

Thanks.
Greg

past experiences are that people arrive, pimp their "wares" and then leave.....never contributing to the forum.

http://www.netpond.com/images/smilies/stompspam.gif

BaronVonKropp
11-25-2005, 12:32 PM
Floyd... thank you! It is my 41st today! Hard to believe!!!

zwoti ... I totally understand and I try to always contribute to the places were I post.

Thank you all for your understanding.

All the beast...er.. best to you all.

Greg (The Baron).

RavageRitual
11-25-2005, 04:24 PM
I usually f'ing hate spamming but ive been looking for a Horror Festival close enough for me to go for years and now I finnally found out thiers one right in erie PA. I live in state college. I think ill be making the drive thier thanks alot for this information. And keep posting.

AlexXIXx
11-26-2005, 09:01 AM
Hey Baron - thanks for posting this!

Would it be okay if I post the announcement on my website, WriterAction.com? We're an online community of professional screenwriters and we have a lot of horror writers who have shorts, indies and scripts in the genre. But I won't announce the fest if you want to keep the competition mainly to non-pros.

Let me know - it sounds like great fun.

Thanks, and Happy (belated) Birthday.

Alex

BaronVonKropp
11-26-2005, 09:28 AM
Alex - YES please post this! A million thanks.

-Greg

PS: If anyone else wants to get the word out for us, please feel free to post the info above anywhere you think filmmakers or screenwriters will see it.

Do not Spam!!! ;)

bwind22
11-26-2005, 10:11 AM
Thanks. I've been keeping my eyes peeled for festivals accepting. We just finished filming on one and should have post production finished by the end of Jam./early Feb. I'll pass this along to the director.

Thanks.

The_Return
11-26-2005, 10:19 AM
So Barron, which is your real name? Greg or Alex?

slasherman
11-26-2005, 04:04 PM
Originally posted by The_Return
So Barron, which is your real name? Greg or Alex?
...split personality

BaronVonKropp
11-27-2005, 07:57 AM
I'm not sure I understand the confusion but my name is Greg last time I checked.

:p

Sukie
11-27-2005, 10:55 AM
If I have written some short stories and screenplays, but am a complete amateur and have never submitted one to anybody, where would I start. Where could I submit just to find out if it's any good at all. I've done this for years, but have never showed them to anyone, but I'm thinking I'd like to know if they even have any real story value, if I'm describing imagery, etc., or just entertaining myself. Entertaining myself is priority one, but I'd kind of like to know......

Thanks for any info

BaronVonKropp
11-27-2005, 05:53 PM
Sukie -

There are all kinds of competitions out there to which you could submit your work. Ours is just one of them and while I would of course love to have you enter your work with us, I would encourage you to do a Google search for "Screenplay Competitions" or maybe check out InkTip.com or similiar sites.

If you are just looking for a review of your stuff contact a local University. You'd be surprised how helpful some Professors in the English Department can be with such things. Hopefully you have a cool teacher somewhere around where you live.

Best of luck to you!

-Greg

indiefilmmaker
11-29-2005, 08:23 AM
Greg - thanks for posting - this board is "spam" happy, don't take it personally. I think this is great information for this board and I'm sure there are plenty of screenwriters/filmmakers that are happy you posted it. Hope the 2006 fest is a hit!!!

BaronVonKropp
11-29-2005, 08:59 AM
Thanks for the kind words... and like I said, I hate spam more than anyone else, but how else are we supposed to get the word out to the horror world?

That's a lot of information to have to reword for each individual posting on line... it is always a dilemma for me... to post or not to post, that is the question.. lol

The 2006 Fest is looking good so far... and word just came in that we will be hosting a Horror Convention in Erie sometime in May! (You read it hear first folks).

I'll keep you updated.

Peace,
Greg

slasherman
11-29-2005, 09:28 AM
Originally posted by indiefilmmaker
Greg - thanks for posting - this board is "spam" happy, don't take it personally.
..wrong ...take it personally...and its true this board DONT like spammers !

BaronVonKropp
11-29-2005, 09:55 AM
Yes... again... how many times must I say it?

SPAM SUCKS!!!!!!!!!!

There!

I apologized for it earlier... been posting since... haven't left a single repeat of the original post... ugh...

How are things in Norway by the way? (My ancestors are from there...)

-Ggggreeg

slasherman
11-29-2005, 01:04 PM
Originally posted by BaronVonKropp

How are things in Norway by the way? (My ancestors are from there...)

-Ggggreeg
..its cold (-3 Celsius )...and it has come a little bit of snow here in Oslo...but not enough to go skiing, slalom.. yet ...can go ice skating though..
..this picture is from another part of Norway today..(soon comming to Oslo)

http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d54/slasherman1971/snow.jpg

BaronVonKropp
11-29-2005, 02:55 PM
I live in Northwestern Pa (USA) and that photo looks like what got dumped on us last weekend!

My dad's family came from Norway during the early 1900's... I'd love to visit there sometime... but let me know when it stops snowing! :-)

Peace,
Greg

novakru
11-29-2005, 04:44 PM
Originally posted by BaronVonKropp
I live in Northwestern Pa (USA) and that photo looks like what got dumped on us last weekend!

My dad's family came from Norway during the early 1900's... I'd love to visit there sometime... but let me know when it stops snowing! :-)

Peace,
Greg

I remember winters in PA.....

AHHH!!
Get it outta my head...AHHHHH!!!
*flashback*
*shudder*

:D

AmericanManiac
12-29-2005, 04:14 PM
All of you saying that this is spam, it isn't even close. For one this is the filmmakers section it says right under it if you are a filmmaker share your work, or something like that ! We TRUE horror fans really need a site that can share our work with others, sorry if we don't have the money to have commericals, billboards. The best advertisement is the internet CHEAP, and FREE ! ERIE is only 3 hours from me I might check this out.

BaronVonKropp
12-29-2005, 04:52 PM
Everyone hates the spam dude.. so I understand... but thanks for the heads up!

We just confirmed Lynn Lowry from "I Drink Your Blood". Romero's "The Crazies" and Cronenberg's "Shivers" for our Fest in October...

Keep checking the site and be prepared for some shocks in the special guest department!

Also - is ANY of you, filmmakers, fans, writers, etc have a MySpace page, please add us or request that we add you at:

http://www.myspace.com/eeriehorrorfest

Thanks!

Happy Holidays everyone!

_Rev. Greg_