Shock-A-Go-Go is a premiere festival that showcases: Horror, Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Cult, Dark Comedy, Experimental, Animation and Independent films.
Held bi-annually in LA and NY since 2001, Shock-A-Go-Go has moved this year's festival to Lumiere Music Hall in Beverly Hills, CA. Our past festival has included guests such as: Fred Dekker (Monster Squad), Lynn Lowry (The Crazies), Tommy McLoughlin (Jason Lives), Roger Corman (Bucket of Blood, The Raven, Death Race 2000, The Little Shop of Horrors), Ted V. Mikels (Astro Zombies, The Doll Squad), David F. Friedman (Blood Feast, 2000 Maniacs) , Stuart Gordon (Re-Animator, Dagon), Jack Hill (Spider Baby, Foxy Brown), Mary Woronov (Rock and Roll High School, Eating Raoul), Linnea Quigley (Return of the Living Dead), Brinke Stevens (Slumber Party Massacre), Jim Wynorski (Chopping Mall), Jackie Kong (Blood Diner), The Cast of The Greasy Strangler, and Michael Berryman (The Devil's Rejects, The Hills Have Eyes). It's featured films such as Nightbreed, The Raven, The Masque of the Red Death, The Doll Squad, Rock and Roll High School, Dagon, Re-Animator, Spider Baby, Death Race 2000, Faster Pussycat, Kill, Kill, The Greasy Strangler, Slumber Party Massacre, Blood Diner, Thrust, Blacula, Chopping Mall, and many more.
Our festival runs all day and into the night and features brand new horror and genre films and animations as well as classic cult films, and contains a segment for shorts that spotlight many up and coming genre-filmmakers.
Programming:
May 2025 we will premiere our festival with a whole night of horror, sci fi, and cult movie shorts, feature films, and entertainment at the famous Music Hall Lumiere Cinema in Beverly Hills.
We encourage filmmakers of all levels to submit to our festival, and we welcome as many submissions as you’d like. Please keep in mind, that if your film is selected and it was submitted to different categories, it will only play in one.
IMPORTANT WE WILL NOT PLAY A.I. CREATED FILMS - A.I. is hurting the
film and arts communities. If you submit an A.I. film, we will not play it. Thank you
for understanding.
Best Film
Best Women Directed Film
Best BIPOC Directed Film
Best Animation
Best Directing
Best Cinematography
Best Editing
Shock-A-Go-Go Award (most on point for our festival)
Best Male Actor in a supporting role
Best Male Actor in a lead Role
Best Female Actor in a supporting role
Best Female Actor in a lead role
Best Special FX
Best Scream
Best Screenplay
Honorable Mention