2021 GuignolFest 72-HR Horror Movie Contest & Festival

SCREENING & AWARDS: SUNDAY, OCTOBER 24

The Lucky 13th year of GuignolFest's Horror Movie Contest

is coming at ya like a demon outta hell.

LOCATION: THE CLINTON STREET THEATER

Portland, Oregon

Here are the competing teams & categories.
Support your friends' teams, local creatives, and local businesses. Thanks!

GHOULIE CATEGORY 3PM EVENT--
Link: gf2021ghoulie.brownpapertickets.com
- TEAM HECATE'S BROOD
- TEAM HAUS OF DOGS
- TEAM PDX FILMONGERS
- TEAM BOO CREW
- TEAM AEGUS
- TEAM HOLY SHEET
- TEAM LITTLE GOOF BALLS
- TEAM TEQUILAWOO!
- TEAM 13 RABBIT
- TEAM 26 AFTER 12 

LEGACY CATEGORY 8PM EVENT--
Link: gf2021legacy.brownpapertickets.com
- TEAM DISMEMBERS ONLY
- TEAM GIRL GAME GANG
- TEAM FETUS IN FETU
- TEAM PSYCHIC SIDEKICKS
- TEAM MYSTERY MACHINE
- TEAM NIGHT GALLERY
- TEAM FOUL IS FAIR
- TEAM TRASH PEOPLE FROM THE DUMP
- TEAM UNDEADSIDED
- TEAM WATCHED POT  

Ten festival films will be played for each event time.

Photography by AmbeRed Photography
Graphics by Dylan Hillerman & Julia Reodica

ABOUT THE EVENT

EVENT TICKETS $15

LIMITED TICKETS SOLD AT DOOR

PROOF OF VACCINATION REQUIRED OR

HAVE PROOF OF NEGATIVE TEST WITHIN 48 HOURS OF EVENT.

Movies may have adult content, profanity, nudity, violence, gore, loud audio, strobe lighting, traumatic themes. Please be mindful of this if you have physical/psychological challenges or if viewers are under 18 years old.

2020 GUIGNOLFEST 72-HR HORROR MOVIE CONTEST & FESTIVAL

Contest Movies: 14 Teams!

Teams had 72-hours to produce a movie under their assigned horror genre and required elements to include in their movie. In these challenging times to maintain safe movie making, these teams shined through. We are grateful for the contest and festival teams for keeping the horror community strong.

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Festival Movies: Part 1

Contest Movies: 14 Teams!

For the first time, GuignolFest expands the movie watching experience with showcasing work done separately from the competition.

2020 festival team movies came from all over the western U.S. to help make the annual event a success.

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Festival Movies: Part 2

Contest Movies: 14 Teams!

Festival Movies: Part 2

All entry fees were donated to Clinton Street Theater's fundraiser to keep them afloat during the pandemic closure.

GuignolFest 2020 premiered on CST's CoVideothon channel and can still be viewed for FREE! Thank you for watching!

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2019 - THE CLINTON STREET THEATER (Portland, OR)

GUIGNOLFEST HAS BEEN IN PORTLAND FOR OVER A DECADE NOW!

TOGETHER, WE HAVE PUT PORTLAND ON THE HORROR MAP! WHEN WE STARTED, THERE WERE NO HORROR FILM CONTESTS IN TOWN. NOW, THERE ARE MANY. BE PROUD OF YOUR HARD WORK. IT LIVES HERE STILL. YOU HAVE STARTED A BLOODY MOVEMENT! PORTLAND HORROR FILMMAKERS, UNITE!

ENJOY THIS YEAR'S UNHOLY OFFERINGS BY CLICKING THE "SEE MOVIES" BUTTON BELOW!

-Dylan Hillerman, Founder GF

-Julia Reodica, Producer GF

"The Pricks of Nature" (Team Night Gallery)

"Der Geist Von Herr Crowley" (Team Slaughter)

"Claws" (Team All Fun No Stress)

"Pigs in a Blanket" (Team Children of Chaos)

"Autoerotic Intelligence (A.I.)" (Team Fetus in Fetu)

"#retribution" (Team Green Glass)

"Sweet Angel" (Team Watched Pot)

"Conversion Therapy" (Team Fiend)

"House Of Horrors" (Team Evil Petting Zoo)

"The Inn" (Team Revenge)

"Senior Slasher Movie" (Team Girl Gang Game)

"Strong" (Team Wheelhouse Media)

"Haust Blood Harvest" (Team Foul is Fair)

SEE MOVIES

2018 & 10th Annual - THE CLINTON STREET THEATER (Portland, OR)

"A Perfect Host" (Team Fiend)
"Penumbra" (Team Night Gallery)
"Heart of the Woods" (Team Evil Petting Zoo)
"Doogan" (Team 2 Dolla Productions)
"Severance" (Team Fetus in Fetu)
"Die-Fi" (Team Watched Pot)
"The Pumpkin Found in the Treehouse" (Team The Amelus)
"Inside the Mask" (Team The Other Place)
"What Happened to You, Girl?" (Team Dylan Grab My Hatchet)
"Early Birthday" (Team Death Mango)
"A Feminine Touch" (Team Girl Game Gang)
"Bloodsuckers" (Team Wheelhouse)
"Life Eternal" (Team Venture)
"No Resolution" (Team Undeadsided)
"The Metal" (Team Foul is Fair)
"The Pill, Dead With, Dead Without" (Team 26 After 12)
"Netflix and Kill" (Team Mystery Van)

SEE MOVIES

2017 - THE CLINTON STREET THEATER (Portland, OR)

“Party Basher” (Team Wolf)

“The Shoveling” (Team Watched Pot)

“Frauholle” (Team Bribe of Frankenstein)

“Devotion” (Team Mystery Van)

“Unforeseen” (Team Evil Petting Zoo)

“Donna The Dead” (Team Papa Harry)

“Pressure” (Team Fetus in Fetu)

“No, It’s OK”(Team Exploding Heads)

“Gouma” (Team Inspire One)

“Goblin Head” (Team Travesty)

“Mafia Exorcist” (Team Foul is Fair)

“The Good, The Ugly & The Bad Hand” (Team The Young Harvey Frankenstiens)

“Eyes of Our Lord” (Team Fiend)

GuignolFest Horror Sub-Genres Info

GuignolFest Actors on WHO’S THE ROSS? - October, 2017

The 9th Annual GuignolFest: Portland’s Original Horror Film Contest (Teaser part 1)

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2016 - THE CLINTON STREET THEATER (Portland, OR)

“Death Hike” (Team Travesty)

“Notes of Death” (Team Evil Petting Zoo)

“Free Chicken” (Team Peculiarium)

“Always and Forever ” (Team Fetus in Fetu)

“Christy” (Team No Guts No Glory)

“Holislay” (Team Wolf)

“Art of the Deal” (Team Mystery Machine)

“Fifteen” (Team Exploding Heads)

“The Dead Can Wait” (Team Watched Pot)

"Haust" (Team Foul Is Fair)

“The Haunting of Racism” (Team Title Wave)

The 8th Annual GuignolFest Teaser #1

8th Annual GuignolFest 72-Hr Horror Movie Contest Announcement

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2015 - THE CLINTON STREET THEATER (Portland, OR)

“BROCCA- Extinction Level Event” (Team Peril Press)

“Slaughter In The Fog” (Team Watched Pot)

“Vinyl” (Team Wolf)

“I Ain’t Got Time To Bleed” (Team Creep It Reel)

“The House Sitter” (Team The Dirty Dozen)

“Cum to the Dark Side” (Team Arcane Celluloid)

“Staying Alive” (Team Foul Is Fair)

“Memento Mori” (Team Wheelhouse)

“Psychodynamics” (Team Fetus in Fetu)

“The Bends” (Team Lovely Numb)

“They Came From the Gravestone” (Team 7th Street Productions)

“Luna Strega” (Team Dreams of Electric Trump)

“Hallucinator” (Team Professor Bigfoot)

GuignolFest Screening & Awards Intro

Guignolfest Announcement

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2014 - THE CLINTON STREET THEATER (Portland, OR)

“Diabolarama” (Team Everyone Loves Maggie)

“The Maize” (Team Trionic Entertainment)

“House on the Highway” (Team Peril Press)

“Sing, Live, or Die” (Team Exploding Heads)

“Mourning Sickness” (Team Foul Is Fair)

“Spinners” (Team Samizdat)

“The Dead Will Wait” (Team Watched Pot)

“Tres Brujas” (Team Wolf)

"See the Monster" (Team Wheelhouse Media)

"Cereal Killer - The True GMO Story" (Team Mystery Van)

"The Sound of Murder - A Horror Musical" (Team Nightmare On Your Mom's Street)

GuignolFest Screening & Awards Intro

“Gravedigger” (GF Screening & Awards Intro)

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2013 - THE CLINTON STREET THEATER (Portland, OR)

“Looked After” (Team Watched Pot)

“Heartbeat” (Team Slightly Skewered)

“Daddy Issues” (Team Wolf)

“Blood Fury” (Team Wolf)

“Railroaded” (Team Trope)

“Dr. Lars” (Team Red Squadron)

“TRASCENDENZA (Transcendence)” ( Team Foul is Fair)

“Icky Fever” (GuignolFest Screening & Event Title Intro)

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2012 - RED FLAG BAR (Portland, OR)

“Goldfish of Doom” (Team Peril Press)

“The Devil Lady” (Team Snap)

“Horrorgasm” (Team Watched Pot)

“Calling Card” (Team JNT)

“Mans Best Friend” (Team Slightly Skewered)

“This Could Have Been Easier” (Team iWhore)

“Maneater” (Team Gingerlings)

“It’s Spreading” (A GuignolFest Productions Short)

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2011 - RED FLAG BAR (Portland, OR)

“Anecdotes from the Tomb” (Team Everybody Loves Maggie)

“Adverse Reaction” (Team Giorgio Moroder She Wrote)

“The Last Thursday” (Team Sick Wizard)

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see: several minutes of totally rad killing: music video

2010 - RED FLAG BAR (Portland, OR)

“Tea Time With Ed Gein” (Team Sick Wizard)

“Star Demon” (Team Gennesteve)

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2009 - RED FLAG BAR (Portland, OR)

“Jamie’s World” (Team Bong Scott)

“Jimmy 74” (Team Sick Wizard)

“Unclean Spirit” (Team My Nice Monster)

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GUIGNOLFEST PRODUCTIONS

HORROR MOVIE CONTEST - MOVIES - ART - TOURS & BLOG - INTERVIEWS

2021 GuignolFest 72-HR Horror Movie Contest & Festival

SCREENING & AWARDS: SUNDAY, OCTOBER 24

ABOUT THE EVENT

2020 GuignolFest 72-HR Horror Movie Contest & Festival (archive)

2020 GUIGNOLFEST 72-HR HORROR MOVIE CONTEST & FESTIVAL

Contest Movies: 14 Teams!

Contest Movies: 14 Teams!

Contest Movies: 14 Teams!

Festival Movies: Part 1

Contest Movies: 14 Teams!

Contest Movies: 14 Teams!

Festival Movies: Part 2

Contest Movies: 14 Teams!

Festival Movies: Part 2

2020 GuignolFest Promo Greetings

Horror Movie Contest: Past Hosts

Greetings from Roger Corman, Victoria Price & Amanda Detmer

Greetings from Greg Ellery! (2019)

Greetings from Dennis Dunaway from the Alice Cooper Group! (

2019 GuignolFest BTS and Screening Event Photos

2019 - THE CLINTON STREET THEATER (Portland, OR)

2018 & 10th Annual - THE CLINTON STREET THEATER (Portland, OR)

2017 - THE CLINTON STREET THEATER (Portland, OR)

2016 - THE CLINTON STREET THEATER (Portland, OR)

2015 - THE CLINTON STREET THEATER (Portland, OR)

2014 - THE CLINTON STREET THEATER (Portland, OR)

2013 - THE CLINTON STREET THEATER (Portland, OR)

2012 - RED FLAG BAR (Portland, OR)

2011 - RED FLAG BAR (Portland, OR)

2010 - RED FLAG BAR (Portland, OR)

2009 - RED FLAG BAR (Portland, OR)

666 Horror Movie Contest Archive (