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We're pleased to announce that Scream Park has been officially selected to screen at the Texas Frightmare Weekend!  The event runs May 3-5th in Dallas, Texas.  Our film will be screened along with other independent horror titles and guests include Jeffery Combs, Heather Langenkamp, Bill Moseley, Danny Trejo, along with the cast of AMC's "The Walking Dead" and others. 

Scream Park holds the coveted midnight slot on the first night, Friday, May 3rd.  We will also have a table set up over the weekend for merchandise, copies of the film, and free handouts! 

Our premiere went so well and the demand has been high to bring SCREAM PARK back to Pittsburgh for a second showing! On April 14th, we'll be screening the film at The Oaks theater in Oakmont, PA.  It's a great theater that supports local and independent film, as well as mainstream flicks.  Check out more about the theater here.  Tickets are currently on sale and are just $7 online preorder or $8 at the door.   You can preorder them here at Showclix.

We're also recording a special Director's Commentary that can be downloaded and listened to DURING the screening!  Download it on your iPod or iPhone and listen along in the theater (but please be courteous to those around you).  

We have no idea when or if the film will screen in Pittsburgh again, so if you missed it the first time (or just liked it so much), check out SCREAM PARK at The Oaks.

Reviewer: Slasher Studios.com

"...The deaths and effects are well done and my personal favorite is the deep fryer death. I do wish the the story had a bit more going on at the beginning, but the last half was better paced as the killers began to prey on the employees and chase after our final girl. If you like horror movies and theme parks then this is a film to check out..."

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Reviewer:  Scared Stiff Reviews

"..."Scream Park” is promoted as an 80s style horror movie. I saw that and said, “Sure, here we go again”. Just about every slasher-horror filmmaker says they are making a “throwback to the 70s” or “throwback to the 80s” film. I’ve seen dozens of indie films that say they are the one who will finally pull it off. It has become almost a standard pitch with people making horror films, and very few ever pull it off. Much to my surprise, and pleasantly so, the filmmakers of “Scream Park” have come as close to pulling off the elusive “throwback to the 80s” film I have seen yet! Yes, they did it, in my book. Sure, there are a few minor technical problems with the movie, and maybe a couple of novice actors, but this movie is as close to the movies from the eighties as I’ve seen yet..."

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Reviewer:  (re)Search My Trash

"...Scream Park is hardly high cinematic art, and it doesn't try to be. Instead it's a loving throw-back to 1980's slasher cinema - and as such, it can run with the best of them: This is no post-modernist reinterpretation of genre formulas, no in joke-filled homage or (worse) parody, no attempt to "update the formula" - no, it's a light-footed yet gore-soaked suspense piece..."

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Reviewer:  Independent Flicks

"...The camerawork and editing is good and there are some really cool and inventive imagery on display here (really would like to mention specific scenes but can´t due to spoilers). The park is a nice location, it has been used earlier so for slasher fans it is a familiar setting. The soundtrack is nice. The pacing is good with a slow build up where all the characters are introduced, if you´re familiar with the slasher genre you´ll recognize them from many other flicks. It´s quite evident that the makers are fond of the 1980s slashers and their love is showing on screen..."

Review features poster artwork by art director Rhonda Libbey and Rough Ride Creations.

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Reviewer:  Hollyburgh

Excerpt:  "...After the screening, Hill asked the packed crowd at the Hollywood to name their favorite kill of the film, eliciting an array of responses. The audience simply couldn’t decide on which of the part gruesome/part comical demises it preferred. The film is at once a loving tribute and a biting critique. The actors were clearly older than the characters they portrayed and the practicality of murder was often sacrificed for creativity. Like any slasher movie, these were not the most efficient killers, but it sure looks like they had fun doing it...

...Cinematography was particularly impressive for a debut film, the composition of a few shots in particular that contrast the gorgeous reflection of the bright lights of the park on the lake with the imposing figure of a homicidal madman...

...Nivek Ogre (of industrial band Skinny Puppy) made a terrific knife-/ax-/whatever-can-be-used-as-a-weapon-wielding lunatic with an accent with origins more unclear than Pittsburghese. Liz Rishel’s costumes were spot-on, as were Arvin Clay‘s bloody effects..."

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Reviewer:  Hacked in the Head

Excerpt:  "...I found so much to enjoy in Scream Park that I am genuinely excited for fellow horror fans to see it to see what they make of it. Firstly there is the mood and atmosphere – the creepy theme park setting, particularly at night just sets the film off in the right direction. So much emphasis is made on highlighting various lit up rides and attractions that it creates an impressively eerie feeling – and that’s not just centering on the ghost house!  

Secondly the killers masks – whoa. Both of them are unsettlingly scary in their own right; you have the terrifying white plague mask with the horribly elongated nose/mouth piece and then a ragged sack with crudely cut out eye and mouth holes. Seeing these two horrors firstly pull-up, hidden by their van on the parks security monitor and subsequently seeing them creeping round the place gave me a real shudder...

...Further to these there is some fun and also some horrifying gore in Scream Park. I don’t want to give the kills away but I will say there is a great scene involving hot fat and also a brutal axing, along with your usual gory slashings and stabbings and I felt that these were done well and with practical effects to boot..."

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Happy New Year all!

I'd like to open this update with the big news: the film is done! It's been a long 8 months of production and post production, with even longer pre-production but the project has come to a close.  This is not the end of Scream Park, only a new beginning.  We have our big hometown premiere scheduled for January 6th at the amazing Hollywood Theater here in Pittsburgh.  It's a big, retro picturehouse that has been recently renovated and become a haven for local and independent features.  I'm honored to have them screen the film for our local crowd and fans. 

DVDs Completed

The next big news is we're just waiting on the DVDs to come back from the duplication house and then all rewards packages will start going out.  I personally apologize for the delay in getting all of your goodies out.  The original estimated time frame was overshot by about six weeks and we needed the extra time to finish post production and master the final video.  I'm sorry everyone had to wait so long, but I appreciate all of your patience with this.  Trust me when I say this kind of stuff keeps me up at night.

T-Shirts

The T-shirts are in from a Pittsburgh company and they're awesome!  They've very soft and the front logo is silkscreened on.  I refused to go cheap and get Hanes "Beefy-Ts" with some ironed on logo.  These shirts were a little extra but very much worth it.  I hope you all enjoy them. 

Digital Copies of Scream Park

Lastly, everyone who donated gets a digital copy of the film.  This will be in iTunes/iOS friendly format so feel free to put it on your iPad, iPhone, or AppleTV.  We'll host the file and it will be available to download ON JANUARY 6th, to coincide with our Pittsburgh premiere.  The link will be sent out to all backers on Sunday.  Enjoy, and feel free to post on our website and/or Facebook page your thoughts.  

I will send out a final announcement and thank you when the packages start leaving to find their way to your front door steps. For those of you to whom I'm sending packages overseas, please be a little extra patient with me as I'm at the mercy of customs and international shipping.

Thank you all and here's to 2013! 

Cary Hill, Producer

We're pleased to announce to addition of two more bands to the film's soundtrack.  The first is local Pittsburgh metal/thrash band Invader.  Their songs "Plow City USA" and "500.600" are used for diagetic music.  More info can be found about the band here.  Big thank you to Innervenus Music for helping us out with this.  

The other band is the newly-formed New York City group Mount Sharp.  An indie rock band who's song "Cold Hands" opens the film with it's punchy, upbeat melody.  The song plays over establishing shots of the park while still open.  The sound contrasts what eventually (and inevitably) becomes a darker, moodier film.  

These bands join the Razorblade Dolls on the film's soundtrack.  The Razorblade Dolls feature two songs, "Fucking Beautiful" and "The Wrists."