Cabin In the Woods Horror Spoof Contest
If Young Frankenstein, Love at First Bite, or Repossessed are your cinema inspirations, and you’ve been itching to get a film in front of some bona-fide suits, you still have time to get a 10-minute pilot onto Vimeo for a shot at a $10,000 prize.
Lionsgate is celebrating the release of The Cabin In the Woods on DV/Blue-Ray with a $10,000 contest for the filmmaker who creates the best spoof of horror/hacker movies. Last spring’s Joss Whedon-penned The Cabin in the Woods was a twisty labyrinth of a horror movie. It didn’t just go for scares; it also neatly dissected the whole horror genre in a satirical way, without reducing it to Scary Movie 4-type reference-dropping.
Now the studio behind the film is asking how your horror-film spoof might stack up. While the word 'spoof’ implies that the contest is open to slightly less nuanced parodic takes on horror than that of Cabin, the winner will likely be someone who can similarly give the judges’ brains a workout too.

Better get crackin’, though: the contest closes on October 23

