Slasher Studios is always eager to help another horror filmmaker do things their way independently. Today we are taking the look at a slasher indie film on Kickstarter that needs your help to succeed. Their film “The Campground” can’t make this movie without you and need just $500.

The Plot:
“When some friends decide to throw a small get together birthday party at an old abandoned campground they never planned on being killed or kidnapped one by one. In this relaunch of a lost genre known as Slasher Films you’ll be dying too see what’s around the next camper!”

Sounds like our kind of horror movie! To become a backer, click on the link below and make sure to check out the official teaser trailer for the film below as well.

The Campground Kickstarter

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=nOc7xE88Vb0

From executive producer Eli Roth and creators Brian McGreevy & Lee Shipman comes Hemlock Grove, a brand new horror series available exclusively on Netflix. Based on Brian McGreevy’s novel of the same name, Hemlock Grove is a “riveting one-hour murder mystery that revolves around the residents of a former Pennsylvania steel town. When 17-year-old Brooke Bluebell is brutally murdered, any of Hemlock’s peculiar inhabitants – or killer creatures – could be suspects. Through the investigation, the town’s seamier side is exposed, revealing nothing is what it seems. Beautiful, terrifying and graphic, Hemlock Grove is unlike anything else in its genre.”

Sounds like a hell of a lot of fun and Slasher Studios is sure to check it out next month. All 13 episodes of Season 1 will be available exclusively on Netflix beginning April 19, 2013. Do you plan on checking it out?

As Christmas comes to an end and a new year is right around the corner, I can officially say that 2012 has been the best year of my life thus far. From horror conventions to film festivals to meeting some amazing horror fans and filmmakers, I cannot accurately put into words how much this year has met to me. Seeing the support from my peers (fellow indie horror filmmakers, I love you all) to the respect the indie world has shown both us at Slasher Studios, it has been overwhelming in the best possible way. Next year with Don’t Go to the Reunion, our first feature, we are ready to give back to the horror world a valentine of everything we love about the genre. I want to thank each and every one of you out there that has been following us and cheering us every possible step of the way. YOU are the ones we do this for and receiving the incredible reaction to the films we have created is something I will never, ever take for granted. I am a better person because each and everyone of you is in my life. Don’t ever forget that. Here’s to 2013!!

Come awards time, most horror movies (read: ALL horror movies) are shut out from the major awards circuit. What do horror fans have to look forward to? The Fright Meter Awards of course! Straight from the Fright Meter Awards site, “The Fright Meter Awards are presented annually by the Fright Meter Awards Organization, an organization dedicated solely to honoring and recognizing excellence within the horror genre. The nominations and winners are determined by members of the Fright Meter Awards Organization. Members will consist of horror fans, bloggers, actors, producers, directors, and others, making the Fright Meter Awards truly the most prestigious horror award given. The Fright Meter Awards aim to select and nominate worthy films regardless of budget, means of release, or popularity.” If that doesn’t excite the major horror fan in all of us, you need to have your pulse check. This year is extra special to Slasher Studios because WE are part of the awards committee and some of our selections for the very best in the year of horror are displayed below. Here are the nominees for the best of the best in the horror genre for the year 2012. What are your picks?

Best Cinematography
The Cabin in the Woods (Peter Deming)
Prometheus (Dariusz Wolski)
The Raven (Danny Ruhlmann)
Sinister (Chris Norr)
The Woman in Black (Tim Maurice-Jones)

Best Editing
The Bay (Aaron Yanes)
The Cabin In The Woods (Lisa Lassek)
Excision (Steve Ansell & Yvonne Valdez)
Sinister (Frederic Thoraval)
V/H/S (Joe Gressis)

Best Score
The Cabin in the Woods (David Julyan)
Excision (Steve Damstra II & Mads Heldtberg)
Silent Hill: Revelation (Jeff Danna & Akira Yamaoka)
Sinister (Christopher Young)
The Woman in Black (Marco Beltrami)

Best Make Up/Special Effects
The Cabin In The Woods
Excision
Prometheus
Silent Hill: Revelation
Sinister

Best Screenplay
Absentia written by Mike Flanagan
The Cabin in the Woods written by Joss Whedon & Drew Goddard
Detention written by Joseph Kahn & Mark Palermo
Excision written by Richard Bates Jr.
The Loved Ones written by Sean Byrne

Best Ensemble
The Cabin In The Woods (Amy Acker, Kristen Connolly, Tim De Zarn, Chris Hemsworth, Anna Hutchison, Richard Jenkins, Fran Kranz, Sigourney Weaver, Bradley Whitford)
Chained (Vincent D’Onofrio, Eamon Farren, Conor Leslie)
Excision (Roger Bart, Traci Lords, AnnaLynne McCord, Ariel Winter)
The Loved Ones (John Brumpton, Robin McLeavy, Jessica McNamee, Xavier Samuel, Victoria Thaine)
Lovely Molly (Ken Arnold, Alexandra Holden, Johnny Lewis, Gretchen Lodge)

Best Actress in a Supporting Role
MyAnna Buring, Kill List (as Shel)
Suzan Crowley, The Devil Inside (as Maria Rossi)
Jodelle Ferland, The Tall Man (as Jenny)
Alexandra Holden, Lovely Molly (as Hannah)
Traci Lords, Excision (as Phyllis)

Best Actor In A Supporting Role
John Brumpton, The Loved Ones (as Daddy)
Michael Fassbender, Prometheus (as David)
Richard Jenkins, The Cabin In The Woods (as Sitterson)
Matthew Kennedy, Father’s Day (as Father John Sullivan)
Fran Kranz, The Cabin In The Woods (as Marty)

Best Actor In A Leading Role
John Cusack, The Raven (as Edgar Allen Poe)
Vincent D’Onofrio, Chained (as Bob)
Ethan Hawke, Sinister (as Ellison Oswalt)
Neil Maskell, Kill List (as Jay)
Daniel Radcliffe, The Woman In Black (as Arthur Kipps)

Best Director
Richard Bates Jr., Excision
Sean Byrne, The Loved Ones
Drew Goddard, The Cabin in the Woods
Joseph Kahn, Detention
Ti West, The Innkeepers

Best Actress in a Leading Role
Gretchen Lodge, Lovely Molly (as Molly)
AnnaLynne McCord, Excision (as Pauline)
Robin McLeavy, The Loved Ones (as Lola)
Elizabeth Olsen, Silent House (as Sarah)
Sara Paxton, The Innkeepers (as Claire)

Best Horror Movie
The Cabin in the Woods
Detention
Excision
The Loved Ones
Sinister

Make sure to like the Fright Meter Awards on Facebook for the all the horror award updates.

Are you horror fans ready for the December horror challenge? It is easy and there is hardly anything you have to do! I want to know what your three favorite slashers are. No rules, YOUR favorites. Send me your list with your top 3 favorites (they don’t have to be in any particular order) by December 15th and, at the end of the month, we will tally the votes and announce the “Top 20 Favorite Slasher Films” as decided by you! You can do a small write up for each film and I will feature it on Slasher Studios but if you want to send merely a list with three slasher films, that’s fine too. Simply comment below with your Top 3 slasher favorites or send an email to info@slasherstudios.com. Please include the year the film was made if the film has been remade or if there are multiple horror movies with the same title. Ready for the slasher fun to begin?

Happy Thanksgiving horror fans! Hope everyone is spending the day with their closest family and friends while enjoying a great-bad slasher flick. Which brings us to the question, What are we thankful for this year at Slasher Studios? Maybe a better question would be, “What AREN’T we thankful for?” This has been one of the best years of my life. I have had the honor of meeting some awesome horror people in the last year. I could list names but the list would drone on and on and on…let’s just say, you know who you are. I’m thankful to be able to work with a group of people who love and cherish the horror genre as much as I do. I am thankful for the horror fans out there who have embraced us with open arms. Seeing the reception to TEDDY all over the world has brought a smile to my diabolical face. This has truly been the year to top all years when it comes to horror in my life. I thank all of you from the very bottom of my heart. I am a better person because YOU are in my life. Thank you!

–Kevin Sommerfield

Twisted Central has joined forces with indie film maker Michael Stevens (Brutal) to help bring some much needed attention to homeless animals and victims of violent crime.

Brutal will be making it’s Texas premiere during a two night screening on December 7th & 8th at 7pm at the Angelika Film Center in Dallas, Texas. Director and actor Michael Stevens, star A. Michael Baldwin (Phantasm) and composer Alan Howarth (The Thing, Halloween) will be on hand for a Q&A immediately following the film on both nights. A raffle and silent auction will be held with items signed and donated by many of your favorite horror celebrities with all proceeds going to Operation Kindness, North Texas’ oldest and largest no kill animal shelter and For Those in Need, a Portland, OR based victims of violent crime organization.

Guests scheduled to attend include actor Bill Oberst Jr. (Abraham Lincoln vs. Zombies), Camille Keaton (I Spit on Your Grave), Frederic Doss (Humans vs. Zombies), Kristen Hall (Sweatshop), model Courtney Crave and many more.

Tickets are $15.00 and will be available at the door or to reserve your seat early, you can preorder tickets by visiting the Twisted Central event page at http://www.twistedcentral.com/p/events_3.html. If you are unable to attend but would like to donate that option is also available on the site. Seats are limited!!

For more information and updates you can also join the event page at http://www.facebook.com/events/510672102294586/.

The results are in! Thank you to everyone who voted for the Ultimate Slasher Villain. After three rounds we are happy to announce the winner of the Ultimate Slasher Studios and that villain is….Freddy Krueger. The final showdown against Michael Myers was closer than anyone could have expected with Freddy receiving 53% of the votes and Michael receiving the other 47%. Go Freddy!!!

Happy Halloween from everyone here at Slasher Studios!! Hope you have a horror filled day filled with lots of horror movies and some extra gory goodies!