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The 14th annual Screamfest La film festival kicks off on October 14th, and they've now announced their "Shorts to Die For" lineup of 40 short films from all across the globe. Read on for the details!

Screamfest 2014 takes place in Los Angeles on October 14-23 at the Tcl Chinese 6 Theatres, 6801 Hollywood Blvd., Hollywood, CA 90028.

For more info visit the Screamfest website, "like" Screamfest on Facebook, and follow Screamfest on Twitter.

Alone (Seule) (France) - Directed by Didier Philippe - Claire, a young woman, lives alone in a large apartment. Her fear of the outside world stops her from going out and letting people in. One day, she discovers evidence revealing that a man lives in her home. The presence of that man becomes more and more apparent and eventually threatening…

3 Versos (Us) - Directed by Antonio Yee - After a violent encounter with an abusive spirit, two sisters seek the help...

The guys at Grimm Up North have announced their bloodiest, best, most brilliant Grimmfest line up yet! This year they will be hosting some of the greatest in horror, sci-fi and cult features and short films from around the globe. Says Grimmfest Festival Director Simeon Halligan:

We always try to make each Grimmfest bigger than the last and I think this year has been really strong for independent horror and genre titles, I’m really excited by what were going to screen at Grimmfest, I’m convinced its our best line up yet!

Grimmfest kicks off with opening Gala night: starting the night will be the world premiere of Melanie Light’s ‘Vegan Feminist Horror’ short film The Herd, which will then be sharply followed by the English premiere of Brian O’Malley’s Irish/Scottish Intense Horror Let Us Prey, withdirector and the amazing cast featuring Liam Cunningham...

Last week the opening night events for Grimmfest 2014 were announced, and now we're back with the full lineup, which includes several films we've been keeping our eyes on like Housebound, Zombeavers, WolfCop, Starry Eyes, Coherence, Devil's Mile, Sororal, and Many more!

Grimmfest 2014 takes place in Manchester, England, from the 2nd-5th October.

From the Press Release:

We are proud to announce our bloodiest, best, most brilliant Grimmfest lineup yet! This year we will be hosting some of the greatest in horror, sci-fi, and cult feature and short films from around the globe, playing host to some amazing Q&A’s and appearances from some very, very special guests!

Grimmfest Festival Director Simeon Halligan talks about this year's edition of the annual event being the greatest yet: “We always try to make each Grimmfest bigger than the last, and I think this year has been really strong for independent horror and genre titles.

The Lower East Side Film Festival has announced their lineup, as well as judges and panels, for their 2014 festival, which runs from June 12-22. Documentary film "The Sturgeon Queens," about famous specialty shop Russ & Daughters, will show opening night. Some highlights include "Glass Night," an event hosted by Google that will give guests the chance to see the films created using Google Glass, and "Gay Night," a rooftop pool party that will also host the premiere of "Dragula," starring Cheyenne Jackson and Carmen Electra.  Other films showing include: "Home," starring Naya Rivera ("Glee"), "We'll Never Have Paris" with Zachary Quinto and Alfred Molina, "The Visitant" with Amy Smart, the U.S. premiere of "Sidewalk Traffic" and the animated film "The Missing Scarf."  The festival will also showcase a comedy panel in partnership with the Writers Guild of America, called "Sketch to Screen," featuring writers from "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart,...

Other websites choose not to post about certain genre Kickstarter projects because of the accessibility it gives to aspiring and even established directors. Some view it as a “handout”, I don’t feel that way. Horror has always felt very communal to me. Fans of the genre stick together through thick or thin. There are success stories and there are also horror stories of the platform and rarely do genre sites post follow up posts about the Kickstarter projects they post after the deadline passes. In this post, I revisit all of the projects we posted on the site (some of them, I personally backed).

This list is organized in the order of when we posted about the projects:

Harvest Original Post on Dtb Status: Funded on July 11, 2010.

While this project was successful, the last update I could find was from Harvest’s Facebook page on January 18, 2012:

Harvest was...