:::ABOUT US:::

The Indy Horror Film Festival  is run by the crew that also brings to you the Chicago Horror Film Festival.  With a past that started with the historic 3 Penny Cinema and a future continuing to grow with moving on to new and better venues.  What has once started with a simple one day festival to showcase Short Independent Horror films has now become a festival for both feature and short horror films and to be known for seeing many of it's featured films picked up for distribution.

The CHFF first premiered on June 1st of 2003 with a line up of 22 short films that played over one night.  It played at the 3 Penny Cinema from 5 p.m. - 11 p.m. and had for it's biggest draw, it's Bloody Mary's that were served at a discount.

For our second festival, we added to our line up two feature films and our biggest draw to date, Mistress Xena.  Having our new hostess to the festival, and our innovative way of having her video introduce each of the films made us stand out in the October of 2003.

The next evolution of the CHFF was with our third festival which took place in the April of 2004.  We had our first special guest, Ari Lehman, of the Friday the 13th movie.  It opened the door for us to have future guests and gave us a new platform to explore.

It was in our fifth festival that we expanded the amount of guests that we had as well as started a new exhibit that we entitled, "Experience the Horror".  For guests, we brought back Ari Lehman as well as "Bubba Ho-Tep" star, Chuck Williams.  Then for "Experience the Horror" was set up as a way fans to visit the film festival and have special effects make-up put onto them as though they themselves were in a horror film.  The make-up effects were done by the amazing artist, Kristoffer Neumann (El Perdido, The Thirsting).

In our sixth festival, we introduced awards to give credit to the many great films that we have had in our festival and as a way to identify the best.

With out previous festival, we brought back Kristoffer Neumann for "Experience the Horror", we brought back Ari Lehman, we had our best line up of films to date, and new to the mix, we brought in Ron Fitzgerald as a guest and a performer.  Ron Fitzgerald, hailed for his gothic magic performances, dazzled the CHFF audience with his show and allured them as a guest.  In addition, we brought in a new great hostess, "Enidora."

It was then in 2005, that a theater came to us with an idea for an expansion festival.  We called it the Indy Horror Film Festival.  We built the Indy Horror Film Festival, and it initially premiered at the Normal Theater, in Normal, IL.  We had guests Steven Williams (X-Files, Jason Goes to Hell), and Daniel Roebuck (Lost, Desperate Housewives).

And now we prepare for our 8th CHFF festival and 2nd Indy Horror Film Festival.  It is an exciting time for horror, and we are working hard to bring to you the best Independent horror films out there. 

So who are the wizards behind the CHFF and IHFF curtain....?  Well here they are! 

JASON R. DAVIS
Festival Director
chicagohorrorfest@yahoo.com

ERIN DAVIS
Festival Coordinator
wod_lobby@yahoo.com 

K. L. KENZIE
Guest Coordinator
klkenzie@yahoo.com

JASON CIENKI
Publicist
jcienki@gatlinpictures.com

Pearls Mahone
Hostess

BRIAN MCDANIELS
Projectionist