First Annual BUFFALO SCREAMS Horror Film Festival, a festival organized by filmmakers to spotlight edgy, creative film you probably won’t see at your local multiplex.
 
WE BID YOU WELCOME – Welcome to the First Annual BUFFALO SCREAMS Horror Film Festival, a festival organized by filmmakers to spotlight edgy, creative, independent horror films you probably won’t see at your local multiplex – a film festival for people who love to make horror films and people who love to watch horror films.

WHY HORROR?
We love horror, and we’re committed to creating an ongoing festival that will appeal to the most die hard, hard to please horror fans around, an annual event that will attract residents of Western New York and filmmakers from around the world to Buffalo. BUFFALO SCREAMS will present a wide diversity of filmmaking styles and approaches to the genre during its four-day celebration of This Thing of Ours.

WHY BUFFALO?
Buffalo, New York is bursting with independent horror filmmaking, with several features currently in production. We’re a blue collar city with a strong interest in the arts. We love concerts, sports, summer sunshine…and gory, envelope-pushing, taboo-breaking horror!

Our bloody cinematic history dates back to 1981, when Harvey Weinstein of Miramax fame wrote and produced the slasher film THE BURNING in Buffalo. In 1995, local cinematographer James Gribbins directed part of SHADOW CREATURE here. And in 2006, Lloyd Kaufman made Troma Entertainment’s POULTRYGEIST: NIGHT OF THE CHICKEN DEAD in our humble city. More recently, several local filmmakers, including BUFFALO SCREAMS Founding Festival Directors Emil J. Novak and Gregory Lamberson, have created horror films in the Queen City. In Buffalo, thanks to our harsh winters and troubled football record, we have a survivor’s mentality, which is perfect for the horror genre.

Buffalo rocks. Buffalo bleeds. Buffalo SCREAMS.

Buffalo, New York – Two independent filmmakers, Emil J. Novak and Gregory Lamberson, are organizing a new horror film festival, Buffalo Screams, which will run for four days at The Screening Room in Amherst, New York, a suburb of Buffalo, from Wednesday, October 21st – Sunday, October 24th. They are calling for entries and seeking sponsors through their website, www.buffaloscreams.com