HorrorFest II - Official Viewing & Voting Thread (Now Live)

Oh, good Lord! Thanks AJ. Send the ratings to Jason. Got it. Will do that in a day or two.
 
TO VOTE: Send a PM to Jason Ramsey, including your ballot.

Ballot format should be like this:
FILM NAME / RATING (1=bad, 10=great)
Scary Hairy Fairies / 7
OctoberFeast / 9
Lost Boyz / 4
Elemental, Dear Watson / 7
Choose Or Die / 5
Good Night, Pansy / 8
Fish Or Cut Throat / 7

(obviously those film names are just made-up examples)

Do NOT rank the films (i.e., your favorite gets a "10", your second choice gets a "9", etc). Instead, just rate each film individually, on a scale of 1 to 10, and it's totally okay if more than one film shares the same rating.
 
Tim Joy said:
Would be nice to have a list ready to copy and paste. :D
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Don’t say we don’t listen :p

Tequilawoo - EFFLUVIAN / SCORE:

BenBrown - THE VISITATION / SCORE:

ZazaCast - FRESH MEAT / SCORE:

NICK ASH - THE WELL / SCORE:

Lynchenstein - BEAR / SCORE:

Matthew B - ARABELLA / SCORE:

JaceDaniel - THE INTRUDER / SCORE:

Gulroc - ABANDON HOPE / SCORE:

AJ Brooks - THE TWO WOLVES / SCORE:

Andy Olson - BLACKOUT / SCORE:

zucked - THE MONKEY'S PAW / SCORE:

Elton WOLF TREE / SCORE:

Marlon Ladd - KILL SHIFT / SCORE:

Brandon Rice - WELCOME BACK TO THE PARTY / SCORE:
 
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Just quickly revised the list to add WBTTP which is exhibition only and isn't up for any prizes, but is still rated for audience choice, thanks.
 
Watched and commented on all films. Well done everyone, solid entries all around. The only criticism I have is that I think I preferred when the time limit for these fest's was only 6 minutes, it felt as though a lot of the shorts could have been more succinct if they were a couple of minutes shorter.

A minor criticism. All in all I think everyone should be proud of what they submitted.
 
I'd love to see a 4 min. max fest.

There hasn't been a film (of any fest) that couldn't have been told in a 4 min version -- most would have benefited from the short time constraint!

As an exercise, I plan to cut a 4 or 5 min version of my film, just to see what happens. Might be a better. Might be worse. We'll see. :)
 
I totally agree about the time limit, with every film in the fest I found them a bit dragging and thought they all could have benefitted from being tightened up a bit.

As an exercise, I plan to cut a 4 or 5 min version of my film, just to see what happens. Might be a better. Might be worse. We'll see.
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Applaud that effort -- that's exactly the type of experimentation that will refine your skillset and make you overall a better filmmaker. Just the sheer horror of facing cutting some of your favorite footage, just to see what happens, can open your mind to possibilities you didn't see before. I once slashed a 7.5-minute film down to 2.5 minutes and found that I liked it a lot, lot more... anyway, yes, great exercise. You may find you can't make it watchable at that short of a runtime, but -- hey, you won't know until you try. And the age-old advice for any scene is "get in as late as possible, and get out as quickly as possible" so ... give it a try. It may help. And if not, well, the worst that will happen is that you'll understand your filming style and pacing better, and that's always a good thing.
 
its not about the time limit, its about what you can do within the time limit. I'm thinking of great movies like Return of the King which is a good 3 1/2 hours, to Gravity which is only an hour and a half.
Two of my most well received shorts; one was 25mins, the other was 2mins
 
I found 10 minutes to be plenty of time. I came in at just over 8 minutes before credits. The first cut was around 10 and I managed to tighten it up quite a bit. It was nice to have the leeway to linger on a few shots and have some fun with the intro montage.

AJ - I'm glad you took the time in Two Wolves, the slow dolly shot at the beginning was sublime. I'm sure you can tell any story in 4 minutes, but you can have more eye candy and slow tension and buildup given more time.
 
Good fest everyone! Wishing I could have had an entry of my own, but I still got to be part of two great ones so I'm thankful for that! :D
My top 6:
1. The Two Wolves
2. Arabella
3. The Intruder (Despite the fact I started the thread, The director is Jared Brownlow, it is not my film)
4. Effluvium
5. Blackout
6. The Monkey's Paw
 
Barry_Green said:
I totally agree about the time limit, with every film in the fest I found them a bit dragging and thought they all could have benefitted from being tightened up a bit.
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My thoughts exactly. I watched three of the films and they all would have been stronger with a much shorter time limit/tighter editing.
 
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