
Scott Schirmer
Writing
Biography
An independent filmmaker based in Bloomington, Indiana. He is a commercial video producer and editor, as well as the writer and director of several films. His first feature-length film, Found, premiered at Elvira’s Horror Hunt in September 2012, where it won Best Feature, Best Director, and Best Actor. Found went on to win 39 awards at 49 festivals worldwide, including Best Picture at The Phoenix Film Festival, The New York City Horror Film Festival, and A Night of Horror Film Festival in Sydney, Australia. It was also an official selection of the 31st Annual Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival and Toronto After Dark.
Known For

A man is taken captive by a feral family in the deep woods. They are determined to transform him, body and mind, into one of their own -- whether he likes it or not.
Plank Face

Marty is the ideal fifth grader—he gets good grades, listens to his teachers and doesn't start trouble in class. But a darkness is beginning to fall over Marty's life, the kids at school won't stop picking on him, his parents just don't seem to understand him, and now Marty must grapple with a terrible secret that threatens to destroy life as he knows it—his big brother is a serial killer.
Found

Three beautiful Space Babes find themselves stranded on Earth when their spaceship runs out of energy after a dangerous encounter with their mortal enemies, the Scrotes. Once they discover human sexual arousal can recharge their ship, they accept the help of a lonely farm boy to harness energy at a local strip club and get back home — all while avoiding the nasty Scrotes.
Space Babes from Outer Space

In this "lost slasher film from 1978," a masked killer wages an unrelenting spree of murder, cannibalism, and necrophilia. But when his tortured past comes back to haunt him, he plunges to even greater depths of madness and depravity, consuming the lives of a young woman and those she holds dear.
Headless

A young couple, Mary and PJ, are kidnapped in their own home by a sadistic clown who wants to break their spirits and sell them into servitude to a cult of wealthy deviants. Mary holds onto her humanity through trial after trial, desperately looking for a way to escape her torment and rescue PJ from his own madness. But time is running out -- and auction day is coming...
The Bad Man

A traumatized horror novelist is visited by a mysterious mute woman at a solitary writing retreat.
Gush

Five friends fall under the seductive influence of a libidinous, otherworldly presence that threatens to change their lives forever in this strange and erotic new film from director Scott Schirmer and producer Brian K. Williams.
Harvest Lake

A church matriarch plans for the seeding of one of her flock in this second installment from Willow Falls.
The Sewing Circle: A Tale from Willow Falls

Future brothers-in-law Tyler and Byron bond by dressing as the Wasco Clown and taking pictures that spread across the internet, a viral hit overnight. What starts as great fun turns deadly as the very real Wasco Clown returns to terrorize the town. A Tale of Legend come to Life, a test of the friends' courage to overcome their fear of a circus nightmare, resurrected.
The Legend of Wasco

With a duration of 150 minutes, GORE TAPES includes trailers for films distributed by the label from 2019 to today, but also those of some of the new releases arriving in the coming months. Among these we remember the trailers for Orozco the Embalmer, Lucker the Necrophagous, The Life and Death Of a Porno Gang, Trypophobic Possession, films by Aldo Lado, Marian Dora, Andrey Iskanov, Jonathan Doe, Domiziano Cristopharo, Scott Schirmer, Brett Mullen and many other titles among the most extreme in the catalogue.
GORE TAPES

Short film derived from Found (2012) and adapted into a feature film of the same name in 2015.
Headless

Short film spin-off of Found (2012)
Deep Dwellers

Lewis is a devout Christian who strives to lead a righteous life. Skeet is a militant queer hell-bent on pushing people's buttons. Puff is an eighteen-year old Peter Pan on pot. When their friend Paul tries to end his life, they travel to visit him, embarking on a volatile journey that could bring them together or tear them apart.
Off the Beaten Path

A young pregnant couple go into labor while driving through the countryside. They stop at the first house they find, entering into a harrowing experience they may not survive. Kidnapped and tortured by a reclusive woman determined to purify their souls, the couple soon realize their only chance of escape lies with the zealot's young brother, a boy who has never seen the world outside the House of Hope.
House of Hope

Short film from Scott Schirmer.