Zed Fest Horror Film Festival

You’ve heard of “B-Movies” right? The low budget second movie in a double feature. They were usually bad, real bad. But you probably have never heard of “Z-Movies” have you? The Z-Movies (or as we like to call them “Zed-Flicks”) were usually the independent no budget films that were even worse than the “B’s” (Actually many of what is considered an old B-Movie today were actually “Z’s” back when they first came out.)We actually think that the “Z’s” are better.

These so-called bad movies were made by people with such passion for their projects that they would not let anything get in the way of their completion. Our hero, Phil Tucker could not afford to have a robot costume made for his classic ROBOT MONSTER, but he knew a guy with a good gorilla suit, then had a space helmet made out of papier-mâché, and just kept going. If that is not passion for your work, we do not know what is.

Zed Fest was created just to honor and acknowledge filmmakers who persevere against all odds to get their movies made no matter what the final result. And in our competitions we look past the final finished result whether “bad” or “good”, and recognize the spirit of passionate filmmaking itself. So, just because a film is accepted and honored here at Zed Fest does not mean that it is a “Bad” movie as much as it means that we think the filmmakers themselves are pretty “Bad to the bone”!

Zed Fest was founded by Ed Stephens and Wendy Medrano to support and encourage independent low budget filmmaking outside the Hollywood System.