On Sept. 2-5, Labor Day Weekend, the ultimate slasher horror event is back, and it’s going to be a scream… yours! Exhumed Films and the Mahoning Drive-In Theater proudly present Camp Blood VII! Grab your gear and get here for four nights of spine-tingling fright on the giant outdoor screen!
This year we’ll have ten panic-packed features, plus actors Bill Randolph and Lauren-Marie Taylor on Thursday (with FRIDAY THE 13TH PART 2) and Friday, and Tom McLoughlin, director of FRIDAY THE 13TH PART VI: JASON LIVES, and author Grady Hendrix on Friday and Saturday. Mr. Hendrix will be performing a live presentation in support of his latest novel, THE FINAL GIRL SUPPORT GROUP on Saturday night!
Of course we’ll have our usual pre-movie camp games — including a few new ones! — so start training now so you can win some totally awesome prizes!
We’ll also have some spooky limited edition event merch designed by Justin (Haunt Love) Miller (check out the t-shirt graphic pictured here!) vintage slasher movie trailers playing before each film, raffles, prizes, tables full of Blu-rays from DiabolikDVD, and much more!
It’s going to be the bloodiest party of the year… don’t miss it!
CAMP BLOOD VII- Schedule of events:
ALL films presented in 35mm.
Thursday, Sept. 2:
***With Actors Bill Randolph & Lauren-Marie Taylor in attendance!***
FRIDAY THE 13TH PART 2 (1981)- Camp Crystal Lake is closed indefinitely due to a grisly spate of killings, but at nearby camp a rash of similar murder begins afresh. Is Pamela Voorhees back to continue her bloody rampage?
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Friday, Sept. 3:
***With Director Tommy McLoughlin, as well as FRIDAY THE 13TH PART 2 Actors Bill Randolph & TBA in attendance and Grady Hendrix!***
FRIDAY THE 13TH PART VI: JASON LIVES (1986)- Tommy Jarvis digs up the grave of Jason Voorhees to be sure the nightmare is finally over, but instead a freak lightning storm brings on a whole new reign of terror! Directed by Tom (ONE DARK NIGHT) McLoughlin, starring Thom (RETURN OF THE LIVIND DEAD) Mathews and Jennifer Cooke.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME (1981)- When her close friends start turning up dead, a young girl with a traumatic past, on the eve of her 18th birthday, begins to think that she may be at the center of it all in this classic slasher film directed by J. Lee (TEN TO MIDNIGHT) Thompson.
HOUSE ON SORORITY ROW (1982)- After a college prank goes horribly wrong, a group of sorority sisters are stalked by an unknown killer.
Get to the show early and participate in the Camp Blood games to win some amazing prizes! The following pre-movie games will begin at approx. 6:30pm:
Slasher Survivor
Tug O’ War
Eyeball Toss
Crystal Lake Morgue Body Bag Race
Guess the Killer Thriller Trailer Contest - There will be four slasher movie trailers playing before each film screening for Camp Blood VII. The person who correctly guesses the most titles wins. The winning ballot will be called out before the third movie starts. Ballots available at the Exhumed Film table.
Saturday, Sept. 4:
***With New York Times Bestselling Author Grady Hendrix in person performing a live presentation in support of his latest novel THE FINAL GIRL SUPPORT GROUP!***
***FRIDAY THE 13TH PART VI: JASON LIVES Director Tommy McLoughlin will also be in attendance for a second night!***
SLUMBER PARTY MASSACRE (1982)- A high school slumber party becomes a bloodbath when a deranged serial killer with a power drill crashes the party! Directed by Amy Holden Jones, starring Michelle Michaels, Michael Villella and Brinke Stevens.
SCREAM FOR HELP (1984)- Michael (DEATH WISH) Winner’s attempt to beat THE STEPFATHER (written by DEATH WISH’s Brian Garfield) to the punch is a sublimely twisted and trashy tale of a young girl who believes her stepfather wants to murder her and her mother. Screenplay by Tom (FRIGHT NIGHT) Holland. Music by Led Zepplin’s John Paul Jones.
EYES OF A STRANGER (1981)- There’s a psychotic killer prowling the streets of Miami, and a news reporter thinks her strange neighbor is the man responsible. Ken (SHOCK WAVES) Wiederhorn directs from a script by Ron (FRIDAY THE 13TH PART 2) Kurz. Starring Lauren Tewes, Jennifer Jason Leigh and John DiSanti.
Get to the show early and participate in the Camp Blood games to win some amazing prizes! The following pre-movie games will begin at approx. 6:30pm:
Dead Guy’s Pizza Eating Contest
Tug O’ War
Eyeball Toss
Three Legged Race
Guess the Killer Thriller Trailer Contest - There will be four slasher movie trailers playing before each film screening for Camp Blood VII. The person who correctly guesses the most titles wins. The winning ballot will be called out before the third movie starts. Ballots available at the Exhumed Film table.
New York Times Bestselling Author Grady Hendrix will be appearing prior to the start of Saturday night’s films with a presentation (50 mins) in support of his new novel THE FINAL GIRL SUPPORT GROUP at approximately 7:50pm.
Sunday, Sept. 5:
SILENT RAGE (1982)- What if Chuck Norris went up against Michael Myers? THIS is that movie! Norris plays a small town sheriff investigating a rash of vicious murders that lead to an unstoppable silent maniac. A killer blend of slasher film and action movie also starring Ron Silver, William Finley, Stephen Furst and Brian Libby.
TEN TO MIDNIGHT (1983)- Charles Bronson is loose and on the trail of a naked serial killer running around Los Angeles murdering young women in J. Lee Thompson’s violent and sleazy psycho thriller co-starring Gene Davis, Lisa Eilbacher, Andrew Stevens and Wilford Brimley!
JASON X (2001)- It’s the year 2455, the Earth is no longer habitable, and aboard a spaceship a crew of scientists decide to revive the cryogenically frozen body of Jason Voorhees, who begins, with the help of a new technological upgrade, his reign of bloody terror all over again in space! Starring Kane Hodder and David Cronenberg!
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