{"id":434177,"date":"2026-10-22T00:42:29","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T00:42:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/434177\/"},"modified":"2026-10-22T00:42:29","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T00:42:29","slug":"strange-petersburg-horror-film-festival-returns-to-st-petersburg-on-oct-30","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/434177\/","title":{"rendered":"STrange PETERSBURG Horror Film Festival Returns to St. Petersburg on Oct. 30"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>St. Petersburg&#8217;s Warehouse Arts District will host the STrange PETERSBURG Horror Film Festival on Friday, Oct. 30. The show takes place at ArtsXchange. Florida filmmakers made every horror and sci-fi film in the lineup.<\/p>\n<p>Actress Eugenie Bondurant will emcee. Doors open and the fun starts at 7:00 p.m. on the Rosie Cohen Stage.<\/p>\n<p>Guests can look over local art and grab a bite from The Foodie Labs. A costume contest and a pumpkin carving contest will run during the night, and each one comes with local prize packages for the winners.<\/p>\n<p>The crowd gets a say, too. Audience reactions will decide which short film wins the title of Strangest Film. When the screenings end, the artists and filmmakers will answer questions and mingle with guests.<\/p>\n<p>Bondurant is a well-known local horror film icon. She has acted in Werewolf by Night, The Conjuring 3, and Fear of Rain.<\/p>\n<p>The festival is back in the Warehouse Arts District, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/ilovetheburg.com\/st-pete-horror-film-festival-halloween\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\">I Love the Burg<\/a>. Its goal is to honor Florida filmmakers and their horror and sci-fi work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"St. Petersburg&#8217;s Warehouse Arts District will host the STrange PETERSBURG Horror Film Festival on Friday, Oct. 30. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":434178,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[684,202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-434177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-events","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=434177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434177\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/434178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}