Congratulations to You Are We Are for their trailer “Horse With A Name,” the winner of Trailer Wars XXXI! The next theme is “Christian Family Films,” so get your Sunday School outfits cleaned and pressed! The date is TBA, but it will probably be on a Wednesday sometime in the next eight weeks, around 9pm at the Pickford.
TRAILER WARS: Bellingham's Weirdest Film Festival
Trailer Wars is a film event in Bellingham, WA. It occurs in a bi-monthly rotation, featuring fake movie trailers made by local filmmakers. Want to learn more? Read about our history and how to enter.
Trailer aWARds III Nominations
Trailer Awards will be kicking down your door on April 10th (very soon!). This will be the 3rd Awards, in which the Academy of participating Trailer Warriors issue crappy, spray painted statues to one another in a variety of technical and weird categories. Come see if you win something! Or come just to see the bizarre nominee reels. Celebrate 10 editions worth of bad audio, obscene quotes, and gross effects.
Below is the full list of Nominees.
BEST TRAILER:
Steel and Flow
The Ballad of Krippled Krueger
Murder on 34th Street
Honestly
No Strings Attached
Schweindhouse Double Feature
McGruff
BEST PERFORMANCE:
Aaron Apple – 80 Year Old Virgin
Marie Biondolillo – Steve
Chance McKenney – The Plank
Monica Lawson – Schweindhouse Double Feature (Ashley’s Pet)
Sean Meyer – Murder on 34th Street
Nora Hughes – Snail Girl & Snail
Patrick Thornsberry – The Ballad of Krippled Krueger
BEST SUPPORTING PERFORMANCE:
Sol Olmstead – Mo’ Dick, Mo’ Problems
Noel Abbott – 80 Year Old Virgin
Amalia Larson – Yo Ho Hold Me
Ryan Covington – Honestly
Marie Biondolillo – The Plank
Elaine Mehary – Detective Spade and the Crown of the Litrelles
Aaron Apple – Woolley Boyz vs The Tree Demons
BEST ENSEMBLE:
Snail Girl & Snail
Steel and Flow
No Strings Attached
Murder on 34th Street
80 Year Old Virgin
SHOULD BE MADE INTO A FULL LENGTH MOVIE:
Honestly
Murder on 34th Street
Dog Gone Ghost
80 Year Old Virgin
Schweindhouse Double Feature
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY:
No Strings Attached
Schweindhouse Double Feature
Ghost Town
A Charming Host
Murder on 34th Street
BEST EDITING:
The Cake is a Lie
Grumpy Old Men
A Charming Host
Murder on 34th Street
No Strings Attached
BEST VISUAL EFFECTS:
The Schwing
Ghost Town
The Cake is a Lie
Roto Rooters
Two Guys and a MacGuffin
MOST SHOCKING MOMENT:
“Scat Tracking” – Wooley vs Tree Demons
“Suicide” – Que Seurat Seurat
“Ghost Dick Impalement” – The Schwing
“Broomstick Love” – The Booty Chest
“Angel Cocks Boner” – 80 Year Old Virgin
MOST BIZARRE:
The Booty Chest
Eb and Flo
Sticky Fingers
Drool: The Winter of Your Discontent
Snail Girl & Snail
BEST QUOTE:
“You’ve got the right to remain silent…and go fuck yourself.” – Steel & Flow
“Come back here…and you wash my dick.” – The Plank
“This pussy doesn’t like getting wet!” – Detective Spade and the Crown of the Litrelles
“These mother fuckin’ ghost pirates better be gettin’ me off or steppin’ the fuck off!!” – The Booty Chest
“Wanna know a secret? I came here with my dick in my hand.” – The Foreign Kind
BEST ACTION SEQUENCE:
Chase Scene – Toxoplasmosis
Hostage Crisis – Steel and Flow
Cemetery Attack – Ghost Town
Office Breach – Two Guys and a MacGuffin
Woolley Boyz Insurgency – Red Dawn
BEST COSTUMES:
Murder on 34th Street
Polizia! Polizia!
Super Old
80 Year Old Virgin
Yo Ho Hold Me
MOST DEPRESSING:
McGruff
Drool: The Winter of Your Discontent
Dog Gone Ghost
Snail Girl & Snail
Que Seurat Seurat
BEST AUDIO MIX:
No Strings Attached
Toxoplasmosis
Murder on 34th Street
A Charming Host
The Plank
BEST DOORWAY CONVERSATION:
Burglar Entry – Polizia! Polizia!
Official Police Business – A Charming Host
Have a Good Day – Honestly
Such an Overachiever – No Strings Attached
Our Lord and Savior – Beezle
BEST COPYRIGHT VIOLATION:
Stand By Me/Platoon
No Strings Attached
Grumpy Old Men
Wake in Fright 2
Red Dawn
Winner of Trailer Wars XXX: Creature Features
Here is the winner of Trailer Wars XXX: Creature Features! “Gnome Hunters” was produced by Colossus Pictures, House of Phatt, and Nathan Dodge. To view all of the entries for Creature Features, click here. The next theme is 1970′s Avant Garde Movies, but first comes the third installment of the Trailer aWARds! If you submitted a trailer sometime in the last 10 installments of Trailer Wars, you are a part of the Academy and are welcome to vote on our various awards. Contact us at trailerwars@gmail.com for more information.
Trailer Wars XXX: Creature Features
It’s Trailer Wars’ 30th installment! And the theme is a good one: Creature Features. We are expecting a big group of monster movie trailers from Bellingham filmmakers and other assorted weirdos. We’ve had light entry loads on the last few, but this one is not to be missed!
Wednesday, February 20th at the Pickford Film Center. 9 pm, as always. $2 admission.
SPECIAL NOTE: This is the last edition to enter if you want to be a part of the “Academy” for the upcoming 3rd Trailer Awards! So get it done.
Winner of Trailer Wars XXIX: War Movies
Congratulations to the Woolley Boyz, on their trailer “Red Dawn,” the winner of Trailer Wars XXIX. To view all of the entries for War Movies, click here. The next theme is “Creature Features,” so get crackin’ on those monster-movie ideas!