GuignolFest 2026: Ghouls Category

Doors @ 1:30 PM Be sure you are buying the correct ticket and time!If you are supporting your friends’ team, ask them to confirm their category. Team members: please ask your Team Leader for your pre-sale access code. GuignolFest unleashes the 18th Annual Horror Film Contest! Portland’s Original Horror Film Contest resurrects movies born from absolute madness. After a grueling 72-hour nightmare, the survivors of the October filming weekend will bring scares and gore straight to the screen. Every film runs 6:66 minutes or less. Chained to required elements and randomly assigned horror sub-genres, these creators were driven to the brink of insanity. They scrambled to write, shoot, and slice their films together. ———————————————— GHOUL CATEGORY EVENT IS OCT. 24, SATURDAY – $20 TICKET SALES FOR GEN ADMIT WILL START ON MONDAY, OCT. 19.The fresh meat. These uninitiated souls stepped blindly into the dark, having survived this contest for less than three years.2:00PM – 4:00PMDoors @ 1:30 PM ———————————————— DISCLAIMER: These horror films will have profanity, nudity, violence, sex, gore, disturbing content, strobe lighting, and should be considered to be rated “R.”NO REFUNDS. If you have any questions, please email [email protected] before buying tickets.Sample subgenres that were assigned to teams include: Social Media, Zombie, Environmental, Monster, Psychological, Haunted Object, Holiday, Erotic, Drug, Occult, Grindhouse, Vampire, Foreign, Ghost, Musical, Sci-Fi, Slasher, Comedy, Found Footage, and Home Invasion. Mystery genres added yearly! See how the teams use genre in their film. Event link: https://cstpdx.com/event/guignolfest-2026-ghouls-category/

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