This Saturday May 31st only at 7:45 at the Hollywood Theatre, the Grindhouse Film Festival presents The Grindhouse Trailer Spectacular! Dan Halsted is not giving away what’s showing, but you may want to wear a neck brace and a diaper to avoid whiplash and the public embarrassment of soiling yourself. Don’t miss this!

In the 1970’s, distributors trying to creatively sell strange low budget movies in oversaturated markets unwittingly created some of the most mind blowing pieces of cinema to ever rip through a film projector. Those who have been coming to the Grindhouse screenings know the excited frenzy these trailers can create in an audience. All the wildest scenes, strange taglines, and sleazy promotional gimmicks crammed into two minute cinematic rollercoaster rides. For one night only, we’ll have the best of these 35mm trailers packed in back to back!

For more information and advance tickets: http://www.grindhousefilmfest.com

The Grindhouse Film Festival is an independent production, not associated with the Hollywood Theatre.

Here is the results of this year's 2008 Zompire Awards:

• Best of Festival
• • Wasting Away (best original screenplay, best comedy)
  • Zombie Western: It Came From The West (best art direction, best animated short)
  • Prombies! (best cinematography)
  • honorable mention: Cannibal Flesh Riot, The Laundromat
• Audience Award
• • Wasting Away
  • Zombie Jesus
  • honorable mention: El Zombie De La Muerte, Cannibal Flesh Riot

Come by the dealer's room and say hi. We'll be vending and promoting our wares up in Seattle at the annual Crypticon two weeks after Zompire. See you there. We will also be showing an abbreviated version of Zompire up there as well.

Thank you for voting! We are currently reviewing ip addresses to ensure that duplicate votes via dummy accounts were not created. It looks like Wasting Away and Zombie Jesus are currently the winners. More info later today.

Thank you for coming out this year's film festival! It was a blast and I think we all learned something from these training films. I for one have a whole new collection of phrases:

• Pickle Vomit
• Kitty Meow Meow
• Weak-Pissers
• Habilus Potheadus

Please send me comments, film suggestions, things you would like to be different, here: contact. We will start taking submissions for the 2009 festival next month. Please vote for your favorite film of the festival (excluding the commercial feature films): VOTE

As you know we selected all the films for this year's festival. The schedule will be posted soon with all of the film blocks. Stay tuned. Spread the word.

Our good buddies at Rue Morque are helping to promote Zompire: The Undead Film Festival with a t-shirt giveaway contest. They have the best horror themed magazine out there. Check it out.

Zompire 2008 this May 9 & 10th from 6pm to 1am at the historic The Hollywood Theatre in horrific Portland Oregon located on the cross-streets of NE Broadway and 41st Avenue on NE Sandy Blvd. I think you will agree that this year has a solid lineup. I hope you enjoy.