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PARTY POOPER SPECTACULAR - The $200 Trash Film Competition

 

The legendary PARTY POOPER SPECTACULAR is back, louder, bloodier, and trashier than ever! This year, our cult trash film competition goes worldwide, with both an international online edition and an in-person screening during the Cabane à Sang Festival in Montréal.

Each participant is to produce a short film for 200$ OR LESS. Now, we hear you, this sounds cheap as hell, and we swear, IT IS!

Whether you’re filming with your mom’s DV camcorder, a phone taped to a skateboard, or a vintage direct-to-VHS camera from the basement, this competition gives you a shot at festival glory with a grand prize of 200$ (yes… we know… that’s the joke).

🍕 THEME: PIZZA HORROR

Bring us grease, gore and gooey cheese. This year’s challenge includes mandatory elements:

  • Unlimited deaths

  • Something (or someone) explodes, bursts or pops

  • A random sexy element

  • 1 to 5 minutes max (including credits)

  • Budget: 200$ or less

  • Participation is FREE

All genres of horror and trash are welcome: splatter, absurd comedy, exploitation, found footage, arthouse filth. If it’s weird and pizza-flavored, we want it.

WANT TO PARTICIPATE?

Just send us an email at: TRASH@CABANEASANG.COM to mention your interest.
(This just helps us anticipate the workload.)

🌍 INTERNATIONAL SUBMISSIONS NOW OPEN!

For the first time ever, PARTY POOPER SPECTACULAR is open to filmmakers around the world.

Two modes of glory:

🔥 In-Person Selection - Best films screened at Cabane à Sang Festival (Montréal, May 2026)
🌐 Online Global Edition - Films showcased worldwide on cabaneasang.tv

Both competitions have a 200$ grand prize.
Yes. Two separate 200$. We’re not monsters.

Plus, selected films may be invited for future screenings, best-of tours, and festival circuits.

🎬 FOR QUEBEC-BASED FILMMAKERS

If you’re a filmmaker based in Quebec, PARTY POOPER SPECTACULAR is your chance to unleash the weird. For the past five years, our trash competitions have launched local creators into bigger festivals like Fantasia, REGARD, SPASM, Court Mais Trash, and more. Whether you’re shooting with your phone, a dusty betacam or whatever gear you borrowed from your roommate, this is a real opportunity to get festival credit, play for a blood-thirsty genre crowd in Montreal, and kickstart your visibility in the Quebec film ecosystem.

Submit a film, and if it respects the rules, you have an automatic selection. Don’t sleep on this opportunity!

🎁 PRIZES & PERKS

  • 200$ cash prize for the winner of each competition

  • Production package prize (for local filmmakers only)

  • Audience Award (ballots in-person, voting online)

  • Distribution opportunity on cabaneasang.tv

  • Potential selections in other festivals
    (Fantasia, Court Mais Trash, Monster Fest, Perth Horror Festival and more have previously taken Party Pooper alumni)

  • Free festival entry for participating filmmakers attending Montréal edition

  • Serious bragging rights, cinematic immortality, and eternal grease

📦 DELIVERABLES

If entering the competition, you will need to provide:

  • Film delivered in H.264

  • Cabane à Sang logo at the start (available here)

  • PARTY POOPER logo in the end credits (available here)

  • Short synopsis

  • Poster 16:9 version

  • Poster 9:16 version

  • Still frame photos

  • Director photo + short bio (for first-time participants)

📏 RULES (READ THEM, PLEASE)

  • Don’t be an asshole!
    In other words: no racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, etc. It’s 2026 ffs...

  • Languages accepted: French or English, or any language with subtitles in one of these two

  • Budget must not exceed 200$ (we trust you, but don’t push it)

  • Films must respect the theme + mandatory elements

  • By submitting, you grant non-exclusive exhibition rights for screenings, best-of tours, and online showcase

  • Deadline: April 1, 2026

  • Festival screening / films go live on: May 9, 2026

We also ask every filmmaker to keep the CaS bumpers on their films if they submit to other festivals, to help promote the ecosystem of filmmakers. We can’t force you (it’s your film), but we sure as hell appreciate it if you do.

🎬 HOW TO SUBMIT YOUR FILM

Send your film and deliverables via a download link to:
📩 TRASH@CABANEASANG.COM

Please clearly identify your file (title + country + director).

🍕 THIS YEAR’S VIBE

Think: pizza boxes, red sauce, latex gore, melted cheese, absurd humor, DIY FX, trash cinema, splatterpunk, midnight movies, exploitation aesthetics, VHS nightmares, Super 8 nostalgia, and micro-budget glory.

Go wild. Get weird. Stay greasy!