Win Festival Passes ($220): Portland Horror Film Festival | 9 Features & 60 Short Horror Films, Streaming Option + 2 Theaters
We are giving away a pair of passes to Portland Horror Film Festival on June 7-11. To win, comment below on this post why you’d like to attend. Winner will be drawn and emailed June 5.
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From our sponsors:
2023 Portland Horror Film Festival
June 7-11, 2023
Tickets $20-$180
More info: portlandhorrorfilmfestival.com
Hollywood Theatre
4122 NE Sandy Blvd
Portland, OR 97212
Clinton St. Theater
2522 SE Clinton Street
Portland, OR 97202
Portland Horror Film Festival returns to the historic Hollywood Theatre and Clinton Street Theater June 7-11th for its 8th annual event! 9 Features and 60 Short Horror Films will be on display, with a lucky 13 World Premieres, including features Violett from Australia, and South Korean shocker, Chabak. Horror hounds who can’t make it in person can get their horror film fix with a selection of films available for streaming.
Portland Horror Film Festival continues their mission of presenting a diverse and inclusive lineup of the best independent horror films, with short and feature films from 17 countries, including many films made by Black, Asian, Latinx, Queer, and Women filmmakers.
The 5 day run of terror begins at the Hollywood Theatre on Wednesday, June 7th with the Pacific Northwest Premiere of Black Mold, written and directed by John Pata, and a smorgasbord of short horrors from all over the world.
Thursday the 8th is an Asian Horror Double Feature! The World Premiere of Chabak – The Night of Murder and Romance, a darkly sweet slasher from South Korean director William Inhyuk Hyoung (in attendance), will screen alongside the US Premiere of the quirky and BLOODY Love Will Tear Us Apart, written and directed by Kenichi Ugana (Ganguro Gal’s Riot, “Visitors”). David J. Stieve, the creator and writer of Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon, is attending with his suspense thriller short film “Wait For It.”
Friday’s Satanic Panic Double Feature begins with the award winning documentary Satan Wants You, detailing the memoir Michelle Remembers that sparked the 80s Satanic Panic. The evening is capped by the Pacific Northwest Premiere of Onyx The Fortuitous and the Talisman of Souls, written and directed by Andrew Bowser, starring Olivia Taylor Dudley (The Magicians), Barbara Crampton (Stuart Gordon’s From Beyond, and the upcoming Suitable Flesh), and Jeffrey Combs (Re-Animator) as Bartok the Great. Horror icon Kelli Maroney (Night of the Comet) will be attending Friday night for the World Premiere of “The Haunted Baby Carriage,” a short film shot and produced in Portland.
Audiences on Saturday at the Clinton Street Theater will see two mega-sized short film blocks, and two feature films. Alice Maio Mackay’s feature T Blockers is a queer horror monster movie mashup, and Puppet Killer is an 80s homage slasher directed by Lisa Ovies, who will be in attendance, starring Aleks Paunovic (Hawkeye, Snowpiercer), Lisa Durupt, Gigi Saul Guerrero, and you guessed it, a killer puppet! Sunday brings on the Heavy Metal Horror with Invoking Yell, the Chilean found footage film from Patricio Valladares, and the World Premiere of the psychological horror/dark fairy tale, Violett, from Australian director Steven J. Mihaljevich. A truckload of international short films rounds out the programming, and the infamous Shorts Gone Wild caps off the weekend with the weirdest, bloodiest, and funniest short films of the festival! Look for Chris McInroy’s “We Forgot About the Zombies” and queer horror comedy “Violet Butterfield: Makeup Artist for the Dead” by Brooke H. Cellars.
This year’s streaming program features over 15 hours of films available through the Portland Horror Film Festival’s Eventive portal. The streaming program begins Thursday June 8th and features 8 blocks of short films and 3 feature films (Love Will Tear Us Apart, Satan Wants You, Violett).
For ticket information, the full schedule, film listing, and more, please see https://portlandhorrorfilmfestival.com/tickets
Overview schedule
- Wed, June 7, 6:30-11pm • Hollywood Theatre
- Thu, June 8, 6:30-11pm • Hollywood Theatre
- Fri, June 9, 6:30-11pm • Hollywood Theatre
- Sat, June 10, 12-9pm • Clinton St. Theater
- Sun, June 11, 12-6pm • Clinton St. Theater
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I could use a good spook please.
Nothing scares me 😱
In darkness’ realm, horrors convene,
The flickering lights paint a haunting scene,
Macabre tales unfurl, in lurid delight,
A festival of horror, deep in the night.
Heed this warning, those who dare to roam,
At Hollywood Theater, fear will find its home.
With tickets won, prepare for terror’s might,
A night where nightmares take their bite.
I would love to take my kid to this. She is a horror whore lol
Boo!
I’d love to surprise my partner with tickets to this! We met back in college and he was in a horror film class…he’d show me (and rewatch) all the ones he knew I’d enjoy too. Would love to feel some nostalgia together 🙂
This sounds like a great, horrorrific time! Sign me up!
Horror is my love language!!! I can’t wait to check this out!
What a way to beat the heat- cool theatres and chilling screams!
I’m a HUGE horror fan. Would love to win.
Scary!
Pick me! Sounds amazing
Love horror movies, so would love to see a lot of them!
Because my birthday is June 7th and I’ve had one helluva year already.
I want to take my best friend for his 40th birthday and he is a horror movie buff.
oh yes please!
(insert scary laugh here) Come to Papa!
This would be so much fun for my Birthday weekend! I love horror 🖤
I have a friend who would love this, I think!
Why should I go? I LOVE the genre of horror! “Prove it!”, you say? I volunteered 5 years running in the (now gone) sprawling haunted house, Fright Town. I saw the original Evil Dead at the movie theater for my 18th birthday. I own every H.P.Lovecraft story, as well as quite a few Laird Barron, Ramsey Campbell and Brian Lumley. I’ve seen every horror movie currently on Netflix. Some believe that the laughter of children is the most beautiful sound, but I prefer their screams. Halloween is my favorite holiday, though, here in Portland, that doesn’t seem to be unusual. And if I win, I promise to have nightmares about every movie I see.
My husband would love this he is the biggest horror fan yes please pick me I’d love to take him 😊👍
I’d love to win but I’m scared to go.
Horror shorts blocks are the dark, cursed blood that gives life to my grotesque flesh suit. Endow me with free passes and I shall bless the festivities with my arcane rites and hot takes.
Ooooo-Yea!! Just in time for my birthday!!!! Never been, but would love this salute to my 40s!! Toss my name in for an event worth celebrating w/Screamsssssss☠
so scaaary, I would love to go and take my hubby
I want to go!!!
i wanna go, i love horror! 🖤🖤🖤
so my guy is really into horror and i’m not and this would make me the best girlfriend ever to be willing to learn and give it a go.. help a girl out?
Scare me by giving me some tickets!
A horror fest during pride month?! Perfect 🙂