| 4-14-2007 | The "Oculus" Special Edition DVD is NOW ON SALE! You can pick up this great disc at customflix.com. Later this week, the DVD will be available on amazon.com as well. Both sites will sell it for $10.95. |
| 3-27-2007 | In anticipation of the April DVD release of "Oculus", the movie has begun a viral marketing campaign on MySpace. If you are a member, go to: http://www.myspace.com/oculus_movie and add "Oculus" as your friend! |
| 3-13-2007 | I'm pleased to announce that the Special Edition of "Makebelieve" is now available for purchase on Amazon.com. For more information on the Bonus Features, please visit my store. |
| 3-12-2007 | The Lake County Film Festival has awarded "Oculus" a Special Jury Prize at this weekend's festival. We are honored to accept the "Pee Your Pants Award". |
| 1-16-2007 | I am thrilled to announce an anthology of my short films, which I'm calling "The Sugarbaby Collection", is available for sale at IndieFlix.com. This DVD includes all of my work from 1996-2002, many of which are award winners. |
| 1-16-2007 | I'm thrilled to announce that "Still Life" is currently available for purchase on DVD at IndieFlix.com. |
| 1-13-2007 | "Oculus" will be screening this March at the Lake County Film Festival in Illinois March 2-6. |
| 1-13-2007 | "Oculus" will be screening at the Nevermore Film Festival, a horror film festival, in North Carolina February 23-25. |
| 1-3-2007 | "Oculus" will be screening this coming weekend, Jan 5-7, at the Fangoria Weekend of Horrors Convention in San Jose, CA. |
| 1-2-2007 | I'm thrilled to announce that "Makebelieve" is currently available for purchase on DVD at IndieFlix.com. |
| 12-16-2006 | Be sure to check out my store. The link is located in the above menu. There you can purchase DVDs T-shirts and other memorabilia from my films. |
| 12-15-2006 | "Ghosts of Hamilton Street" has just been awarded the Editor's Choice Award at Micro Filmmaker Magazine, scoring a 9.7... the highest rating they've given a film to date. Read the review |
| 12-12-2006 | Some exciting news regarding "Ghosts of Hamilton Street", my last indie feature film. After a few years of just kicking around, "Ghosts" is now available for sale on DVD online at indieflix.com. |
| 11-16-2006 | A little while back I was the Director of Photography for a flick called "Chainsaw Sally". Well, JimmyO Burril's cult hit has secured DVD distribution and will be released in February. Click HERE to go to the Amazon page." |
| 11-15-2006 | I recently contributed an article to Micro Filmmaker Magazine on how to edit trailers. You can read it at: http://microfilmmaker.com/tipstrick/Issue14/Edit_Trl.html |
| 10-20-2006 | "Oculus" was given three "Tabloid Witch Awards" by the Hollywood Investigator, a magazine that tracks the horror film festival circuit throughout the year. Scott Graham picked up his third "Best Actor" nod, while the film was awarded "Best Short" and "Best Sound". The article, which calls the film a "masterpiece of minimalist horror", can be found here. |
| 10-14-2006 | "Oculus" is NOW PLAYING at FangoriaTV.com! The new broadband channel is playing the film in its entirety along with more horror programming. |
| 10-14-2006 | WANT TO OWN OCULUS ON DVD? For a limited time, Shockerfest (where Scott Graham was just awarded the BEST ACTOR honors) will be selling a 2-disc "Best of Shockerfest" Compillation DVD set. "Oculus" is featured in its entirety as part of this set. Ordering information is available at: Shockerfest Store |
| 10-10-2006 | Scott Graham won the BEST ACTOR award for his work in "Oculus" this past weekend at Shockerfest in Modesto, CA. |
| 9-30-2006 | "Oculus" has been accepted into the New York City Horror Film Festival, generally considered to be the premiere Horror Film Festival in the country. Oculus has been nominated for the following awards there: Best Short, Best Screenplay, Best Actor, and Best Cinematography. |
| 9-30-2006 | "Oculus" has been accepted into the very prestigious Rhode Island International Horror Film Festival, to commence this October. |
| 9-15-2006 | "Oculus" has been accepted into Thriller Chiller, a horror film festival. The screening will take place this October in Michigan. |
| 9-5-2006 | "Oculus" won the Best Short Film Award at Manchester's Festival of Fantastic Films over the weekend. |
| 9-5-2006 | "Oculus" was awarded First Place in the Horror category and the Best Short Film Award at this weekend's Dragon*Con |
| 9-3-2006 | Fangoria Magazine has acquired "Oculus" for their new broadband horror channel, FangoriaTV.com. The film will be available to view in its entirety on that site sometime this fall. |
| 9-3-2006 | Scott Graham, "Oculus", has been nominated for the Best Actor Award in the Horror category at this year's Shockerfest. See a full list of the nominations. |
| 8-29-2006 | New "Oculus" review posted at KillerReviews.com |
| 8-25-2006 | "Oculus" will be screening at Shockerfest in Modesto, CA October 7th and 8th. |
| 8-18-2006 | "Oculus" has been named a finalist in the Independent Film Competition at London's Festival of Fantastic Films. Winners will be announced September 3rd. |
| 8-15-2006 | "Oculus" has been accepted into the Leeds International Film Festival in the UK. |
| 8-14-2006 | "Oculus" was honored with the following awards at this year's Microcinema Fest yesterday. 1) Best Editing 2) Best Director: Mike Flanagan 3) Best Actor: Scott Graham 4) Best Horror/Sci Fi Film 5) Best of Fest |
| 7-26-2006 | "Oculus" will be playing in competition at the Dragon*Con Short Film Festival this September. |
| 7-5-2006 | New "Oculus" review from Carnival of the Grotesque "a gripping and unnerving work of some considerable class" |
| 6-20-2006 | New "Oculus" review up at Pulpmovies.com. "Utterly gripping from start to finish, Oculus manages to be both a genuinely unnerving ghost story and a chilling study of insanity." |
| 6-19-2006 | "Oculus" has been accepted into Chicago's MicroCinema Fest, where it be playing alongside Ryan Graham's popular zombie comedy "Livelihood", which also features Scott Graham, as well as "Ghosts" and "Still Life" veteran Steve Thomas. |
| 6-15-2006 | "Oculus" has been selected to compete in the short film competition at the Dances With Films festival in Los Angeles. The film's screening will take place at the Laemmle theater in Santa Monica during the last week of July. |
| 6-02-2006 | Read some viewer comments from the "Oculus" screening at the Dead By Dawn festival |
| 6-02-2006 | "Oculus" has been accepted early into Austin's Fantastic Fest, and will be screening between September 21st and 28th, 2006. More to come as details become available. |
| 5-24-2006 | "Oculus" was awarded First Place in the short film category last weekend at HauntCon in Denver, which has prompted several more festivals to request copies. |
| 5-22-2006 | MicroFilmmaker Magazine will be screening "Oculus" as part of their Ultra-Independent Film Weekend at the historic Kentucky Theater in Lexington, KY on June 2nd and 3rd at midnight. Read more |
| 5-15-2006 | Micro Filmmaker Magazine picks "Oculus" as "Editors Choice for May |
| 5-09-2006 | "Oculus" will screen at Denver's HauntCon Friday and Saturday, May 19th and 20th - as one of the top three finalists in the HauntCon horror film festival. |
| 5-03-2006 | "Oculus" is awarded BEST SHORT FILM at the Dead by Dawn Film Festival. |
| 4-24-2006 | New "Oculus" review from FilmThreat.com "Four Stars... an entrancing and terrifying look into an indefinite evil and the utter darkness that dwells inside an obsessive mind." |
| 4-17-2006 | New "Oculus" review from Frightfesters "Flanagan has managed to master two fundamental things - storytelling and timing, and in doing so he’s made a film that’s genuinely chilling even on a second viewing on a sunny Friday lunchtime." |
| 4-7-2006 | New "Oculus" review from MonstersAtPlay.com "Flanagan manages to do in 30-minutes what dozens of directors fail to do in a feature-length production. " |
| 4-1-2006 | OculusMovie.com opens up. |
| 3-21-2006 |
New "Oculus" review from horrorreview.com "Oculus is a piece of artwork that is hands down one of the best concepts, both visually and intellectually, that I have seen in a while." |
| 3-17-2006 |
New "Oculus" review from horrortalk.com "A+... Delivers Dread in Spades. Oculus had me gripping my seat on at least three occasions, wanting to turn on the lights, but not doing so because I didn't want to be a pussy." |
| 2-17-2006 |
New "Oculus" review from MicrocinemaScene.com "Oculus is the first volley in what looks to be an astounding series... A tour-de-force performance by Scott Graham showcases this skin-crawling short..." |