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Just one day left to ManiaFest!
by Patrick Sauriol (Wed 09-17-2003)

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...

ManiaFest 2003 announces more guests, movies
by Patrick Sauriol (Fri 08-01-2003)

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...

Photos from ManiaFest Day Four!
by Sue Schneider and Marcia Groft (additional photos by Harold Sherrick) (Mon 09-29-2003)

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...


MANIAFEST: UNDEAD added to film festival!
by Patrick Sauriol (Wed 09-17-2003)

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...

ManiaFest adds more movies, announces finalists
by Patrick Sauriol (Tue 09-02-2003)

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...

ManiaFest shores up panelists
by Patrick Sauriol (Mon 09-08-2003)

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...

Photos from ManiaFest Day One!
by Sue Schneider and Marcia Groft (Tue 09-23-2003)

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...


Photos from ManiaFest Day Three - and the Masters of Horror speak!
by Sue Schneider and Marcia Groft (Thu 09-25-2003)

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...

Photos from ManiaFest Day Two!
by Sue Schneider and Marcia Groft (Wed 09-24-2003)

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...

Only two weeks left for ManiaFest competition submissions!
by Patrick Sauriol (Fri 08-01-2003)

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 ...

Comic Books To Film: examanied and screened at ManiaFest
by Rob M. Worley (Fri 09-05-2003)

...Gordon ManiaFest is benefiting the Boys & Girls Club of Santa Monica--a great event for a great cause.


Tom DeSanto on 'Transformers' (Fri 09-26-2003)

"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...

At the premieres of COLD CREEK MANOR and THE FIGHTING TEMPTATIONS
by Sue Schneider (Fri 10-03-2003)

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...

DeSanto on planned danger room scene from 'X-Men' (Fri 09-26-2003)

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... ...

Anniversary Plans for the Crystal Lake Eight?
by Brian Thomas (Tue 08-26-2003)

...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...