Slaughter In Syracuse Film Festival 2015

 The 2nd annual Slaughter In Syracuse Independent Underground Film Festival is poised to the extreme to slay New York State with a three day event which reaches to the depths of independent underground film. July 10th , 2015 – July 12th 2015 . Sins is the brainchild event of Jason West of Vultra Video ( https://www.vultravideo.bigcartel.com/ ) & Nick DeCarlo of Beneath The Underground ( https://beneaththeunderground.com/ ). SinS opens up Friday July 10th 2015 at 6:00pm at The Maplewood Inn with a special VIP Meet & Great experience with Directors and Actors in attendance and Exclusive screenings of “AMERICAN GUINEA PIG: BOUQUET OF BLOOD & GUTS” with Director Stephen Biro in attendance with EFX Maeastro Marcus Koch, and “REVENGE IS HER MIDDLE NAME” with Director Anthony Matthews in attendance with ProducerBryan Truex available for Q&A following the films. Saturday July 11th 2015 brings the Slaughter in Syracuse Independent Underground Horror Film Festival at the Palace Theater beginning at 11:30am with opening local Syracuse band “One Last Shot” opening the event. Sunday July 12th the excitement continues at the Maplewood Inn with the Slaughter In Syracuse Collector Con at 11:00am featuring vendor booths with everything Horror and Sci-Fi related that any gorehound or sci-fi fan could want to search for. The Slaughter In Syracuse Independent Underground Film Festival is an 18+ year of age event.

“SCRAPBOOK” 15TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION

SATURDAY JULY 11TH 2015 AT 9:30PM EST
DIRECTOR: ERIC STANZE

Eric Stanze is a director, writer, and producer whose films have been released throughout North America and Europe, as well as in Australia and Asia. He also routinely works as an editor, 2nd unit director, and voice-over talent. Stanze also has acting, special effects, sound design, and camera/electric/grip credits to his name. Stanze’s work spans independent feature films, music videos, documentaries, short films, and more.

“SCRAPBOOK” Synopsis:
A young woman named Clara is captured by a serial killer named Leonard who records his “life story” by keeping a scrapbook of his many victims. In addition to adhering Polaroids, scraps of clothing, and other small trophies to the pages, Leonard has forced his victims to personally write in the scrapbook about their individual ordeals. Clara is beaten, raped, starved, and locked up like an animal, filthy and naked. She is forced to write in the scrapbook, adding her agony to the pages. She soon realizes that her only hope for survival is to manipulate Leonard through her writings in his cherished scrapbook.

SinS PROUDLY PRESENTS THE WORLD PREMIERE OF:

“AMERICAN GUINEA PIG: BLOODSHOCK”

SATURDAY JULY 11TH 2015 AT 4:00PM EST
DIRECTOR: MARCUS KOCH

Director Marcus Koch will be in attendance with a Q&A following the event

Marcus Koch is a Director, and Special EFX Master known for “100 Tears”, “ROT”, “Fell”, and most recently “Hi-8″ (Horror Independent 8) (segment “A Very Bad Situation”). Marcus’ resume for EFX reads like a who’s  who and what’s what of Independent and Mainstream films such as “American Guinea Pig: Bouquet of Guts & Gore”, “Dead Still”, “Circus Of The Dead”, “Bloody Bloody Bible Camp”, “Amerikan Holokaust” and many many more.

“AMERICAN GUINEA PIG: BLOODSHOCK” Synopsis:
BLOODSHOCK: Verb, Pronounced [bluhd-shok] 1. A surgical term used for a heavily mutilated or a surgical patient whose body releases a massive amount of serotonin, adrenaline and cortisol with certain growth hormones into the blood stream. The trauma event causes seizures, hallucinations, convulsions and can include heart palpitations, collapsed lungs and severe tongue trauma due to the teeth.

Patients whose blood readings in Bloodshock levels should be taken with the most extreme care. Self mutilation, psychosis and ultimately, autopsies reveal that human patients, unlike their animal counterparts, withstand more physical damage and mental trauma. Bloodshock levels are extreme and blood work should be done immediately if one thinks the patient is in danger.

Neurosecretory cells in the hypothalamus transmit a signal to the pituitary gland inciting cells to release a chemical messenger into the bloodstream. Blood at this level is filled with too many variables to chart but as the years go by, surgeons worldwide are coming closer to understanding the bodies reaction to pain, violence and mental trauma.

The understanding of Bloodshock is in it’s infancy. The amount of changes in blood, the regular and the irregular during physical trauma or even the hint of bodily harm can trigger different chemical compositions that affect and possibly, effect the human body is outstanding.

Research is needed to learn more of this irregularity in the human body.

SinS PROUDLY PRESENTS THE WORLD PREMIERE & THEATRICL PREMIERE OF:

“VOMIT FORE 4” & “A PERFECT CHILD OF SATAN”

SATURDAY JULY 11TH 2015 AT 7:50PM EST
DIRECTOR: LUCIFER VALENTINE

Director Lucifer Valentine will NOT be in attendance, but will participate in a Q&A following the event via telephone.

In the world of independent underground horror there is an enigma known only as Lucifer Valentine. Lucifer Valentine first released his controversial style of cinema in 2006 with the release of SLAUGHTERED VOMIT DOLLS which unleashed a new brand of horror known as “vomit gore”. With the follow ups to the Vomit Gore trilogy known as reGOREgitated Sacrifice, and Slow Torture Puke Chamber Valentine cemented himself into the psyche of the independent underground community with a genre of film that changed the landscape of horror forever. With the release of the Vomit Gore Box Set Lucifer Valentine went to a new level with the release of the 21 minute short form film “A Perfect Child Of Satan”.  In 2012 LV went in a new direction this time with his documentary style film “Black Metal Veins” which unflinchingly documented the dark realities of despair and morbid self-annihilation surrounding the lives of five heroin junkies. In 2015 fans are anticipating the release of the latest film from Director Valentine which has a working title of VOMIT GORE 4.

 “A PERFECT CHILD OF SATAN” Synopsis:
Lucifer Valentine’s short film about the dangers of online dating starring the amazing Chelsea Chainsaw. A lonely, vulnerable girl excitedly prepares for her big date with the “man of her dreams” whom she met on the internet but has not yet met in person.

Followed by…

“VOMIT GORE 4: BLACK MASS OF THE NAZI SEX WIZARD” Synopsis:

Black Mass of the Nazi Sex Wizard, (AKA VG4), is the prequel to Lucifer Valentine’s Vomit Gore Trilogy. In this demonic labyrinth we experience the satanic ritual which spawns endless incarnations of Angela Aberdeen, as she is doomed to live out her haunted existence of the eternal “lost girl”.

One dark, cold christmas night, we enter angela’s kingdom of hell, and witness her tortured mutations as we descend deeper into her satanic netherworld of the black mass of the nazi sex wizard.

SinS PROUDLY PRESENTS THE NEW YORK PREMIERE OF:

“HEADLESS”

SATURDAY JULY 11TH 2015 AT 6:00PM EST
DIRECTOR: ARTHUR CULLIPHER

Director Arthur Cullipher and Actor Shane Beasley will be in attendance with a Q&A following the event

Arthur Cullipher is the owner of the Clockwerk Creature Company, a full service shop that offers a wide range of practical effects, including make-up and appliances, masks, props, creature animatronics, and full body suits. Arthur is a graduate of the Joe Blasco School in Orlando, Florida, where he studied advanced make-up effects and prosthetics. He has more than 15 years of practical experience and has provided special effects for dozens of projects, including the award-winning Found. His directorial efforts include the cult shorts Come, Roses: A Goremance, and The Adipocere Child.

Shane Beasley is an illustrator, lighting technician, actor, musician, and special makeup effects artist based in Bloomington, Indiana. He works regularly with the Clockwerk Creature Company and contributes custom masks to Bloomington’s annual Krampus Parade. In addition to producing and helping with special effects on Found, Shane also appears as the sadistic ‘Headless’ Killer in the movie

 “HEADLESS” Synopsis:
In this “lost slasher film from 1978,” a masked killer wages an unrelenting spree of murder, cannibalism, and necrophilia. But when his tortured past comes back to haunt him, he plunges to even greater depths of madness and depravity, consuming the lives of a young woman and those she holds dear.

SinS PROUDLY PRESENTS THE WORLD PREMIERES OF:

“MANNA” & “HIS DEVIL’S NIGHT”

SATURDAY JULY 11TH 2015 AT 2:25PM EST
DIRECTOR: Michael Todd Schneider (AKA Michael magGot)

Director Michael magGot will be in attendance with a Q&A following the event

“…akin to smashing your teeth into the coffee table for ninety minutes.”

The first words on Schneider’s work by Rue Morgue Magazine was regarding his debut feature, My Crepitus/I Never Left The White Room. They classified a style that would evolve over time, some have called it: surrealist psychological retro-gore. Being awarded Best Cinematography and Best Horror Short shocked A Tribute to Sanity to New York International Independent Film Festival screens. The notorious and confrontational August Underground’s Mordum was hailed an instant classic. Banned from the public, Grotesque Fantasies is an experimental documentary following Schneider and fiends on their artistic exploits. Combining 80’s horror themes with an elaborate film process called Life-O-Vision is Opening the Mind. Continuing to venture back to the way films used to be made, …AND THEN I HELPED is a splatter romp set in 1976. LET’S MAKE A.. HORROR MOVIE combines all learned into one autobiographical experience that blurs the line between celluloid and reality. A cerebral collaboration with Tyler Tharpe (Return in Red, Freak) brings two stories into an exploitation popcorn haven with DOUBLE DOSE OF TERROR!! A man hating clan of women feast towards the ‘ultimate’ in Manna.

“MANNA” Synopsis:
A man picks up a woman in a nightclub and soon finds himself at the mercy of a cult of women who believe consumption of their sacrifice will bring them to their highest form of female dominance. Filmed for the horror anthology “Profane Exhibit”.

Followed by…

“HIS DEVIL’S NIGHT” Synopsis:
Escaping from the barren white walls that consume him, a man sets out into the October night. Whilst hiding beneath the facade of a hokey Jesus Christ costume, he very much transforms into a real monster. The proper key to unlocking his fractured mind is around every bend of his fateful journey…

SinS PROUDLY PRESENTS THE WORLD PREMIERE OF:

“TANTRUM”

SATURDAY JULY 11TH 2015 AT 1:45PM EST
DIRECTOR: JAMES BELL

Director James Bell will be in attendance with a Q&A following the event

Director/Owner James Bell of Fine Crap Videos which is a do it yourself production and distribution company located in Detroit, Michigan. James has quickly made a name for himself in the independent underground film scene with the releases of “Dog Dick: The White Trash Holocaust“, and “Manuer“. Dark humor, absurdism, and poverty are incorporated into surrealist, non-linear form films similar to Director Harmony Korine.

“TANTRUM” Synopsis:
A man commits suicide and ignites a firestorm of visions from his past, dreams of his future and his twisted desires.

SATURDAY JULY 11TH 2015 AT 12:10PM EST
DIRECTOR: RYAN VINCENT LOGSDON

Director Ryan Vincent Logsdon will be in attendance with a Q&A following the event

Born in New Jersey yet having spent the majority living in Pennsylvania, Ryan Vincent Logsdon studied English and Creative Writing while earning an Associates Degree from Luzerne County Community College with articles, short-stories and poetry written by himself found in literary publications from the institution. After graduation, Ryan continued writing as a tutorial endeavor while promoting and working for musical acts that have toured throughout the continental United States. In 2013, Ryan began work on his debut feature (produced by his company AGONiiNK Productions) “AGONi” which was completed in 2014 with releases scheduled for 2015 with Beneath The Underground Films as well as writing projects for various filmmakers and media outlets currently underway.

“AGONi” Synopsis:
Captured by the lens of a video camera held by the blood-stained hands of impulse murderer Maxwell Edison, AGONi unveils a world in which the viewer is thrust into an abhorrent nightmare where there is no return or hope of escape. On display are the people and places that make up Maxwell’s twisted realities while horror surely awaits whomever dares to glimpse into the abyss of death and misery that makes up his loathsome realm of existence and the atrocities committed within. Welcome to AGONi, Pennsylvania, enjoy the scenery…

SinS PRESENTS A SCREENING OF:

“I AM MONSTER”

SATURDAY JULY 11TH 2015 AT 1:25PM EST
DIRECTORS: LORI BOWEN & SHANNON LARK

Directors Lori Bowen & Shannon Lark will NOT be in attendance.

Lori Bowen was born in North Canton, Ohio, and moved to Sarasota, Florida, ten years later. Although she showed a proclivity for writing and performing at an early age, she didn’t consider a career in the arts until, when in sixth grade, she became the editor for Brookside Middle School’s weekly ten minute show called “Campus Views.”

Shannon Lark is a multifaceted actress and filmmaker. Her fearless commitment to complex, multi-layered characters has resulted in ground breaking performances in leading and strong supporting roles. Noted as having “a highly original vision”, Lark is also an award winning director, producer, and screenwriter. She resides in Los Angeles, California. Lark was the first ever Fangoria Magazine Spooksmodel and has publicly advocated the advancement of the female role in horror cinema as the founder of The Chainsaw Mafia, a website dedicated to lesser-known artists in the genre to collaborate and showcase their work, and the Viscera Film Festival, a nonprofit horror film festival for women (ended in 2013).

“I AM MONSTER” Synopsis:
Vivienne’s extraordinary fetishism has taken her to a new level: necrophilia. She gets her kicks by violating the dead in a hospital morgue on the outskirts of Los Angeles, discarding them like trash. Tonight, however, Vivienne gets a whole new taste of what the dead can provide when she meets Jason, a fresh body who has some ideas of his own.

SinS PRESENTS A SCREENING OF:

“AMERICAN REFLEXXX”

SATURDAY JULY 11TH 2015 AT 7:30PM EST
DIRECTOR: ALLI COATES

Directors Lori Bowen & Shannon Lark will NOT be in attendance.

 “AMERICAN RefleXXX” Synopsis:
American Reflexxx is a short film documenting a social experiment that took place in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. Alli Coates filmed performance artist Signe Pierce as she strutted down a busy oceanside street in stripper garb and a reflective mask. The pair agreed not to communicate until the experiment was completed, but never anticipated the horror that would unfold in under an hour. The result is a heart wrenching technicolor spectacle that raises questions about gender stereotypes, mob mentality, and violence in America.

The venue for the July 11th SinS Film Festival is limited to 600 tickets.

The VIP July 10th Event is limited to 100 ticket sales. There are 3 VIP Levels, once any combination of 100 sales are made the VIP tickets will no longer be available.

*REGULAR TICKET : Slaughter In Syracuse Film Festival July 11th 2015 $25.00 Advanced ticket price. Tickets will be $30 at the door.

**VIP Tier 1 Ticket: Admission Friday July 10th 2015 Buffet Meet & Greet at Maplewood Inn, Exclusive screening, SinS sticker, SinS poster. $30. (This DOES NOT include access to the SinS Film Festival on July 11th). $30.00

***VIP Tier 2 Ticket : Admission Friday July 10th 2015 Buffet Meet & Greet at Maplewood Inn, Exclusive screening, SinS sticker, SinS poster. Admission July 11th to SinS 2015 Film Festival. $50. 00

***SinS 2015 VIP Package 3 : $60.00

Admission Friday July 10th 2015 Buffet Meet & Greet at Maplewood Inn, Exclusive screening, SinS sticker, SinS poster. Admission July 11th to SinS 2015 Film Festival. Admission July 12th to SinS Collector Con. $60.00

DISCOUNTED HOTEL ROOMS:

Maplewood Inn SinS Discounted Hotel Rate

Address:

400 7th North Street

Liverpool, NY 13088

$79.99 +tax

Phone in Discount Code: SINS15

Phone:(315) 451-1511

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