Second Place: A prize pack, listing on IHSFF website, two VIP Passes to the 2012 Phoenix Film Festival and International Horror and Sci-Fi Film Festival  (accommodations and air fare not included).

Third Place: A prize pack, listing on the IHSFF website, a VIP Pass to the 2011 Phoenix Film Festival and International Horror and Sci-Fi Film Festival (accommodations and air fare not included).

Ten Finalists: Ten Finalists to be posted on the IHSFF website.

2012 Winners

1^st Place - Lobison
Written by Joe “Tuffy” Tofuri

2^nd Place - Through the Night
Written by Edward Martin III

3^rd Place – Anderson Falls
Written by Giles Daoust

Other Finalists (in alpha order by title)

Bast – Matt Francis

Belzec: The Made Undead – Steffan Postaer

The Devil You Know – Melody Cooper

Founding Fathers – Giles Daoust

Gravity – Andrew Noble

Predator/Prey – Kent Kitzman

A Viking on the Subway – William Torgerson

Film Synopsis
The Umbrella Corporation’s deadly T-virus continues to ravage the Earth, transforming the global population into legions of the flesh eating Undead. The human race’s last and only hope, Alice (Milla Jovovich), awakens in the heart of Umbrella’s most clandestine operations facility and unveils more of her mysterious past as she delves further into the complex. Without a safe haven, Alice continues to hunt those responsible for the outbreak; a chase that takes her from Tokyo to New York, Washington, D.C. and Moscow, culminating in a mind-blowing revelation that will force her to rethink everything that she once thought to be true. Aided by newfound allies and familiar friends, Alice must fight to survive long enough to escape a hostile world on the brink of oblivion. The countdown has begun . .

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Episode 2.09 – Triggerfinger 

Rick, Hershel and Glen are trapped and fight to survive; Shane finds Lori in danger.

Episode 2.10 – 18 Miles Out 

Rick and Shane are in conflict over the fate of an outsider; Andrea helps Hershel’s daughter face a crucial decision.

Episode 2.11 – Judge, Jury, Executioner 

Rick sides with Shane causing Dale to worry that the group is losing its humanity; Carl’s actions have unintended consequences.

Episode 2.12 – Better Angels 

Someone dangerous may be loose near the farm; Rick, Shane, Daryl and Glenn keep the group safe.

Episode 2.13 – Beside the Dying Fire 

Rick and Carl find the farm in jeopardy; the group is split up in the chaos; Rick’s leadership is questioned.

He jumped to leading man status when he starred as James Dean in the television biopic James Dean: Race with Destiny. He then landed his best-known role, as Captain Johnny Rico in Director Paul Verhoeven’s 1997 science-fiction film Starship Troopers. The film was a box-office smash, leading him to major roles in Tim Burton’s critically acclaimed film Sleepy Hollow (1999) and the title role as the “Lord of the Jungle” in the Warner Bros. film Tarzan and the Lost City (1998). He has also starred in over twenty other feature films, including The Omega Code with his wife Catherine Oxenberg. Since then, Catherine and Casper have worked together on several different projects and have formed a company together to produce socially responsible, quality family entertainment with the intention of uplifting and transforming people. He recently returned to the role of Johnny Rico in Starship Troopers 3: Marauder and is in development on the film Royal Exile: The Betrayal of Prince Paul of Yugoslavia, in which he wrote the script and is directing and producing the project.

Casper is devoted to many charitable causes, including Childhelp USA. This organization is devoted to stopping child abuse, and all proceeds from signings during his appearance at the International Horror and Sci-Fi Film Festival will be donated to this worthy cause located in Scottsdale, Arizona.

Starship Troopers
In a sardonic use of propaganda, young adults of the future are pressured by the government, authority figures and each other to volunteer for military service as a prerequisite to achieving full citizenship.

People have ventured off Earth and are beginning to colonize other star systems. When the insectile alien inhabitants of one such system react to colonization with a devastating attack on the Earth, humankind’s response is a fully fledged invasion and a policy of systematic elimination of the species. This policy is implemented by the high school leavers we have followed into their careers in the armed forces.

A love triangle between buddies, and their various paths toward violent glory and bloody tragedy, stitch together the grand-scale spectacle.

MARILYN BURNS
Marilyn Burns was born in Erie, Pennsylvania, and started acting in a bit part in Robert Altman’s Brewster McCloud. She was working at the Texas Film Commission while attending the University of Texas when she took part in a casting call for the role of Sally Hardesty in Tobe Hooper’s iconic horror film The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) and was anointed a horror genre ‘Scream Queen.’ She followed Chainsaw with Tobe Hooper’s Eaten Alive (1976), where she played a vacationer who unwittingly stumbles upon a hotel run by a madman who feeds his guests to his pet alligator.

Marilyn continued her ‘Scream Queen’ status by starring such horror movies as Brutes and Savages (1977), Caution: Children at Play (1981), Kiss Daddy Goodbye (1981), and Future-Kill (1985). In 1976 she appeared in the major television miniseries Helter Skelter (1976). Her role as Linda Kasabian, the Charles Manson follower whose testimony helped lead to the convictions of the cult leader and many of his followers, was a
major hit.

She currently lives in Texas and acts and direct on stage. She appeared in a cameo for The Return of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre in 1994 and was recently named one of the Ten Sexiest Scream Queens by Movifone.

Texas Chainsaw Massacre

Tobe Hooper’s influential cult classic continues the subgenre of horror films based on the life and “career” of Wisconsin serial killer Ed Gein. When Sally Hardesty (Marilyn Burns) hears that the Texas cemetery where her grandfather is buried has been vandalized, she gathers her wheelchair-bound brother Franklin (Paul A. Partain) and several other friends together to see if grandpa’s remains are still in one piece. While in the area, Sally and her friends decide to visit grandfather’s old farmhouse. Unfortunately, a family of homicidal slaughterhouse workers who take their job home with them have taken over the house next door. Included amongst the brood is Leatherface (Gunnar Hansen), a chainsaw-wielding human horror show who wears a face mask made out of human skin. Sally’s friends are rapidly exterminated one-by-one by the next-door neighbors, leaving only Sally left to fight off Leatherface and his clan.

JUDITH O’DEA
Judith O’Dea is an American actress known for her role as Barbra in the George A. Romero film horror classic Night of the Living Dead (1968). Originally from Pittsburgh, she moved to Hollywood to pursue her acting career. Just as she settled into her new home, Producer Karl Hardman called her about a new film project he was working on, and the rest is history.

In addition to her best-known role, O’Dea has acted in theatre, television and radio over the last 35 years and has performed in such horror genre films as Serial Slayer, Claustrophobia, and Evil Deeds. She also appeared in The Pirate, November Son, The Ocean, October Moon and Women’s Studies.

Besides her acting career, O’Dea owns and operates O’Dea Communications. Drawing on her extensive entertainment experience, her firm deals in oral communications workshops, seminars and training for on-camera, professional and non-professional speakers across the country.

Night of the Living Dead
Over three decades after its release, George Romero’s low-budget, stomach-churning classic is still one of the greatest indie horror films ever made. Directed by Romero in 1968, Night of the Living Dead is an independent black-and-white zombie film. Ben (Duane Jones) and Barbra (Judith O’Dea) are the protagonists of a story about the mysterious reanimation of the recently dead, and their efforts, along with five other people, to survive the night while trapped in a rural Pennsylvania farmhouse.

ADRIENNE KING

Adrienne is also a member of the Joseph Jefferson Theatre Company. Her professional credits include summer stock and off-Broadway productions including “W.H. Auden”. After the success of Friday the 13th (1980), she appeared in its sequel and then became a voice actress (with voice roles in What’s Eating Gilbert Grape (1993), While You Were Sleeping (1995), and many others). Her return to acting took place in 2008 with the science fiction/horror film Walking Distance (2009).

The Friday the 13th Phenomenon
One of the longest-running horror film series began with this gory shocker. Entrepreneur Steve Christie re-opens Camp Crystal Lake after many years during which it has been cursed by murders and bad luck. The young and nubile counselors all begin to die extremely bloody deaths at the hands of an unseen killer during a rainstorm which isolates the camp. Friday the 13th made over 20 million dollars at the box office and spawned numerous sequels.

JEFFREY COMBS
Few actors living today are truly icons. Jeffrey Combs is that rare breed of actor who has secured himself a spot in film history. Many claim him as the modern- day Vincent Price. Bursting into the public consciousness with his riveting performance as Herbert West in the cult classic Re-Animator, over the years Jeffrey has carved out an enviable niche for himself as a true original.

Jeffrey, a native of the Central Coast region of California, spent years nurturing and honing his craft by attending acclaimed schools and working in regional theatre before pursuing film and television. He received his training at the Pacific Conservatory of the Performing Arts and the Actor’s Training Program at the University of Washington in Seattle. He spent years in regional theatre performing at such notable venues as the Old Globe Theatre in San Diego, Arizona Theatre Company in Tucson, AZ, the California Shakespearean Company, the Mark Taper Forum and South Coast Repertory where, in 1983, he won an LA Drama Critics Award.

With over 50 feature films and countless television works under his belt, Jeffrey’s career spans a broad range of genres. However, he’s most widely recognized and dearly loved by fans of the Horror/ Sci-Fi genres. Along with Re-Animator, a few of his most beloved performances are his memorable portrayal of quirky FBI agent Milton Dammers in Peter Jackson’s The Frighteners, which earned him a Saturn Award nomination, his chilling performance as Dr. Richard Vannacutt in the Halloween box office champ House on Haunted Hill and his widely praised portrayal of Edgar Allan Poe in Stuart Gordon’s The Black Cat for Showtime’s Masters of Horror series. He starred with Rene Zellwegger in the indie film favorite Love and a .45 and acted opposite Jennifer Love Hewitt in the successful I Still Know What You Did Last Summer.

Jeffrey has worked continuously in television through the course of his career. From a guest spot on CSI to appearing regularly as Kevin Burkhoff on the popular series The 4400, he has over 30 credits in television. But without question Jeffrey is considered a mainstay in the Star Trek franchise. He has guest starred in close to 50 episodes spanning over three Star Trek series. He is the only actor to recur in two different roles in the same series. He portrayed Liquidator Brunt and the Vorta, Weyoun, on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. He also recurred many times as the memorable Commander Shran on Star Trek: Enterprise.

Jeffrey’s career shows no signs of slowing down any time soon. As of this writing, he stars in 5 films yet to be released.

Internationally known for her portrayal of Regan, the fourteen-year-old girl in the movie, “The Exorcist”, Linda Blair had already had a full career in modeling & commercials in NYC.

At the age of Five years, Linda worked as a model for such well-known stores as Sears, J.C. Penny’s and Macy’s. Her first commercial was for Downey fabric softener, which led to a career of over 75 commercials, ranging from Welch’s Grape Jelly, Guldens Mustard, several Ivory Soap commercials, cereals and toys.

The Exorcist, which was released in December 1973, changed Linda’s life forever. She made the TV movies: “Born Innocent”, “Sarah T. Portrait of a Teenage Alcoholic” (Linda won the AA Award for special contribution to this tragic problem) “Sweet Hostage” (with Martin Sheen) and “Summer of Fear” directed by Wes Craven. Her movie roles have ranged from “Roller Boogie” and starring with Richard Burton in “Exorcist II: The Heretic”. Kirk Douglas & Elizabeth Taylor played her parents in “Victory at Entebbe”.

Linda founded the Linda Blair WorldHeart Foundation. Primarily, Worldheart rescues abandoned and abused animal companions from the harsh city streets and provides medical care, socialization, rehabilitation and ensures that the animals get a second chance at life as well as a forever, loving home. By utilizing, Ms. Blair’s status as a public figure, WorldHeart is able to bring attention to this growing problem.

Please take a moment to visit www.LindaBlairWorldHeart.org for more information.

KEN FOREE
Born in Indiana, Ken Foree has been scaring us on the big screen for years. His family is noted for their academic and political achievements, so his entry into show biz was quite a surprise to his family members. He received formal acting training at the renowned Michael Shulman’s Performing Gallery in New York.Shortly after that he landed a guest starring role on TV’s “Kojak”. Then he landed the role of Peter Washington in George A. Romeros 1978 classic, Dawn of the Dead, which proved to be an enduring cult classic. In the 2004 Universal Pictures remake, Ken reprised his role of Peter Washington (The Televangelist).Ken has quite a few other horror films to his credit which include The Dentist, Texas Chainsaw Massacre 3, Rob Zombie’s The Devil’s Rejects and Rob Zombie’s Halloween just to name a few.In addition to his horror roles, you saw a softer side of Ken in Nickelodeons hit show Keenan and Kel. His past guest starring television roles include The X-Files, General Hospital, Babylon 5 and Quantum Leap.

When Ken isn’t scaring us to death, he enjoys weightlifting, surfing, boxing, and watching Hoosier basketball. He also enjoys traveling and history.

Ken resides in Los Angeles.

Visit www.KenForee.com for more info and merchandise.