Just one day remains until the first annual ManiaFest Genre Film Festival gets underway. With over 30 films to be screened (and some of them will have their creators and cast members on hand to discuss what it was like making them), two panels, a salute t...
More celebrity guests have been announced for ManiaFest 2003, this fall's genre film festival. Presented in association with Cinescape magazine, ManiaFest is a four-day celebration of fantasy, science fiction and horror filmmakers and creators taking plac...
With the final day of ManiaFest also being the day of the Primetime Emmy Awards, both myself and Marcia were stretched thin covering all the action. Here is a recap of the fourth day of ManiaFest:The day got started with a panel featuring some of the heav...
This coming Saturday at midnight the dead will rise -- well, at least on the screen -- at the first annual ManiaFest Film Festival. The latest film to be added to the festival is the zombie film that's causing all the rage online: UNDEAD, written and dire...
The schedule of movies to be screened at the first ManiaFest genre film festival continues to grow. Recently added entries include the west coast premiere of BEYOND RE-ANIMATOR (with cast member Jeffrey Combs scheduled to attend), THE HILLS HAVE EYES (wit...
With less than two weeks to go until the first-ever ManiaFest takes place (September 18 - 21 in Santa Monica, CA), the roster of professionals appearing at the festival has grown in stature. Legends from the worlds of movies, television, writing and comic...
Opening the first day of the ManiaFest film festival was THE DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE ROCK AND ROLL MUSICAL, a modern adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's classic tale.In the evening fans were treated to a special screening of BEYOND RE-ANIMATOR, which w...
Day three of ManiaFest started early with a Masters of Horror Panel, featuring emerging talent and established filmmakers. The panel consisted of Wes Craven, Stuart Gordon, Tobe Hooper, Rob Zombie and Eli Roth with the moderator being Cinescape's Editor-i...
Day two of ManiaFest opened with screenings of PREDATOR, TERMINATOR and PUMPKINHEAD, all in honor of special effects master Stan Winston. In recognition of his groundbreaking work on these cinematic classics, Winston would be receiving the first Maniac Aw...
There's just a little over two weeks remaining before the final deadline in ManiaFest 2003's talent competition. If you haven't heard, ManiaFest is looking for this year's best and brightest genre short films, screenplays and feature length films made by ...
"I've been spending the past few months working on 'Transformers', which is based on a comic book and an animated series," producer Tom DeSanto told attendees of ManiaFest 2003. More...
The day before the ManiaFest started Hollywood Boulevard turned into the ultimate "premiere" world. Touchstone Pictures' held the world premiere of COLD CREEK MANOR at the El Capitan Theater and across the street at the Grauman's Chinese Theatre Paramount...
Speaking at ManiaFest 2003, prodcuer Tom DeSanto mentioned a scene he had devised for the first 'X-Men' movie where the Danger Room was used as a mechanism to explain the practicality of the X-Men outfits, and how they are armored for protection. More...
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...ber 19 at Maniafest. Personally, I don't care one way or the other whether or not FRIDAY THE 13th: PART 5 is a part of my video library, but to have it as part of an unrated special edition box set? Sweet! Meanwhile, time is ticking down on the deadlin...