I went up to Mt. Hood for an afternoon of Oregon’s newest horror film festival. I should have stayed longer.

“This isn’t just for hardcore horror fans,” says Landon Zakheim. “There are a number of exceptional films that will appeal to a wider audience. We’re trying to create a horror summer camp.”

The Overlook Film Festival brings world premieres, US premieres and a weekend long horror game to the Timberline Lodge at the end of April.

Though they say that Intel and Nike are the biggest employers in the Portland metro. They're wrong: 90% of Portland's population runs their own horror movie film festival.

A four day festival of new and classic movies, interactive games and more comes to Mt. Hood.

Goddesses of destruction, a Ramones cover band and pinball.

The monster here is the knowledge that, at any point, you have to choose between doing right by others or watching your child choke on his own blood .

Catch an ascendant local folk trio at the Crystal, get beastly with Portland’s newest brewery, or enjoy wine from 17 of Oregon’s 18 different growing regions.

Reviews from the Festival of New Spanish Cinema at the the NW Film Center.