BLOODSHOTS Finalists Announced!

We've finally learned how to count again, and have tallied up the ballots, used that rediscovered skill to add up the number of votes from audience members at the screenings and blended those results in with the tallies of votes from the online posting of films, and have put together our list of finalists in this year's Bloodshots!

The rules stated that we would have ten finalists, depending on the number of completed entries, and that the final judging would be done by our jury. We didn't have all that many actually complete entries, though, so we're going to cut down the number of final finalists to the top 5, and because that show wouldn't be long enough to fill a time slot at the Alamo, we're going to make this a Rolling Roadshow version of Bloodshots and host our final screening and awards ceremony down at The Highball instead.

The show will be this Friday, Oct 30 (All Devil's Night! OOoohh!) at 6pm. Terror Tuesday host and horror movie lover extraordinaire will serve as head juror and be determining the ultimate winner at that show, then, if the winning team is present, we will crown them with awesomeness.

It'll be free to come out, and one of the few times you'll be able to watch your movie while standing up on a dance floor, so if you're one of the finalists and in town, we hope you can join us! Otherwise we'll be updating the site with results immediately after the ceremony.

And the finalists are, in some sort of order determined by the first letter of each group's place in the alphabet:

Clasico Entertainment - Necro Madness
Good Enough - Meat Shack
lucidrage - EXTRATERRESTRIAL? EXOCISM!
Nirofex - A Vampire's Love Story
Team FOGAR! - DEATH AT DUSK

BLOODSHOTS 2009 Screenings!

Screenings for this year's BLOODSHOTS movies in Austin have been announced, and tickets are on sale now! Both nights of screenings will be at the Alamo South Lamar, and they'll be happening on Tuesday, Oct 20 and Wednesday, Oct 21, both at 9:40pm.

You can get your tickets to these right here, or just pick yours up at the door (assuming they still have some left).

Both of these screenings will include ALL of the movies, so come out to whichever one works for you. They will also both be balloted, so you can vote online or in person or both!

It looks like we only have 15 completed films to screen, so there may not be a secondary Awards screening. That'll most likely be determined at these shows. If you want to make absolutely sure you see 'em on the big screen, though, plan on joining us Tuesday or Wednesday.

Afterwards we'll be heading over to the Highball for a late night Thai One On if anyone wants to come over to talk filming and swap real life horror tales.

BLOODSHOTS 2009 Assignments

All right kids, the time is here, and here are the assignments!

The line of dialog that must appear somewhere in every team's movie is, "Pump up the jams!"

Because the mash up of two subgenres is already making the assignments this year a bit more specific than in year's past, we're also assigning every team the same weapon: FIREWORKS. Yeah, those might be hard to find (if you aren't smart enough to buy in large quantities every July and December). If you can't get any real fireworks, try to interpret it differently, but be ready to defend that interpretation online and at the screenings. Anything too weak won't count!

As I've said, this year each team is being assigned TWO subgenres, and you'll be responsible for blending them both into a seamless short. Alphabetized by Team Name, here are your assignments!

. Team Name Genre Assignment . Budcrud Productions Romantic Vampires / Backwoods Hillbilly Horror . Bulltiger Productions Romantic Vampires / 80s Slasher . Clasico Entertainment Necrophilia / After School Special . Dana and Los Dinos 80s Slasher / Kaiju (Japanese giant monsters) . Epic Lag Kaiju (Japanese giant monsters) / Jane Austen Mash Up (ie, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, but can be any classic author) . Funeral Worthy Productions Werewolf / Leprechaun (in the hood optional) . Ghost Wolf Necrophilia / Ghost Story . good enough Serial Killer / Haunted House . Lady in a Cage Productions Torture Porn / Leprechaun (in the hood optional) . Loose Nut Productions Jane Austen Mash Up (ie, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, but can be any classic author) / Mythological Beast . lucidrage Demonic Possession / Alien Abductions . Magic Porch Terrorist Attack / Necrophilia . Mass Grave Pictures Virus Outbreak / Musical . Nirofex Romantic Vampires / Zombie Apocalypse . Peckinpah Mythological Beast / Terrorist Attack . Recreational Mayhem Zombie Apocalypse / Werewolf . Rollerfeet.com 80s Slasher / Epic Disaster (Roland Emmerich style) . Seventh Horizon Zombie Apocalypse / Kaiju (Japanese giant monsters) . TACOZ Demonic Possession / Musical

. Team FOGAR! Evil Children / Epic Disaster (Roland Emmerich style) . Team Tecate Time Travel / Backwoods Hillbilly Horror . Ticked Off Cupcake Productions Alien Abductions / Virus Outbreak . Too Many Cooks, Inc. Time Travel / Evil Children . TrailerDaze films Torture Porn / Jane Austen Mash Up (ie, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, but can be any classic author) . Wild Imagination Films Mutation / Ghost Story . ZombiesWerewolvesandVampiers....OHMY! Time Travel / Werewolf .

BLOODSHOTS 2009 starts tonight!

Yeah, it's rainy in cold here in Austin, so there'll be lots of wet movies getting made this weekend!

Everything starts up at 7pm tonight, and if you're here in town you can meet up at The Highball, which is at 1142 South Lamar Blvd (in the same shopping center as that Alamo Drafthouse) to get your team's assignment live. I'd recommend showing up for that by 6:30pm, because once we have all of the teams there I'll be going over the general rules and answering questions and whatnot BEFORE 7pm so that once the contest is on everyone can run and start making their movies.

If you can't make it out, you can check back to this blog at exactly 7pm, and I'll have all of the info posted here as well!