Scott Slone’s Feature Film Debut MALIBU HORROR STORY Racks Up Seven Festival Awards Ahead of Screening at Golden State Film Festival(March 3 at 8PM); Five Other Festivals to Follow “This will haunt me in my dreams…Malibu Horror Story is both original and impressive, a feat that is attributed to the determination of director Scott Slone, and his committed production team who take the narrative to a whole other level.” –Found Footage Critic WHAT: MALIBU HORROR STORY starts its spring festival run with an in-person screening closing night at the Golden State Film Festival. The film world premiered closing night at Utah’s HorrorFest International, where it won the award for Scariest Film, and has since won six additional awards from: Georgia’s Atlanta Horror Film Festival (Best Horror Feature); Florida’s Spooky Empire (Best Feature Film); California’s Culver City Film Festival(Best Horror Feature); California’s Mammoth Film Festival (Achievement in Filmmaking); and USA’s Shockfest (Golden Stake Award). It’s even won an award from a festival it won’t screen at until this summer: Best Horror Film at the Hollywood Reel Independent Film Festival. Scott Slone’s horror-thriller follows a group of amateur paranormal investigators creating a documentary about four teens missing since 2012, a case that remains unsolved despite recovered camera footage from the day of their disappearance. The investigation leads them to the teens’ last known whereabouts: a cave deep in the Malibu mountains, where they set up camp. Attempting to communicate with the spirits within, the investigators bring forth an ancient demon intent on guarding the land and enacting the same gruesome fate those four teens met ten years ago. The film features Dylan Sprayberry (MAN OF STEEL, Teen Wolf, Glee), Robert Bailey Jr. (Emergence, Shameless, The Night Shift), Valentina de Angelis(Gossip Girl, As The World Turns), and Rebecca Forsythe (WE ARE YOUR FRIENDS, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit) as the paranormal investigators; Douglas Tait (Legacies, Star Trek: Picard, HELLBOY, Teen Wolf, Grimm) and Troy James (What We Do in the Shadows, MALIGNANT, The Flash, SCARY STORIES TO TELL IN THE DARK, The Strain) as demons, brought to life by realistic and skin-crawling visual effects. WHO: In attendance at the Golden State Film Festival screening will be MALIBU HORROR STORY leads Valentina de Angelis and Hector Gomez Jr. (STATE OF CONSCIOUSNESS), writer/director Scott Slone, and producers Robert Ketterer and Andrew Williams; others TBD. WHEN: Golden Gate Film Festival screening on Thursday, March 3 at 8:00PM PST. Ticketing options available here, including individual screenings and single day passes. WHERE: In-person at the TCL Chinese Theatre 6925 Hollywood Boulevard, Hollywood, CA 90028 (323) 461-3331 WHAT ELSE: After painstaking production spanning ten years, Slone is excited to have MALIBU HORROR STORY continue its festival run with these upcoming selections, and more to come.