Gore Wars

NOW CASTING — A Reality Competition Series

$10,000 GRAND PRIZE

Boris Karloff & director James Whale on the set of Bride of Frankenstein, 1935. Real photo, real makeup, real craft — that's the show.

The Casting Call

Gore Wars is casting practical effects artists and horror filmmakers to compete on a reality competition series where the winner takes a $10,000 grand prize.
To enter, just show us your work. Send a reel or examples of your practical effects — prosthetics, makeup FX, blood rigs, creature builds, gore gags. Existing work is perfect; you don't need to shoot anything new. Keep it under about 3 minutes.
Practical effects only. No AI. No CGI. If it bleeds, it bleeds for real (fake real). We want to see the rigs, the prosthetics, the splatter — the craft is what we're casting.
It should be your own work that you have the right to share, with everyone on camera OK to appear.
Your submission will never train AI. Submissions are watched by human producers for casting purposes only — we do not use them to train any AI system. Period.
Casting closes August 20, 2026. US residents 18+. See the Casting Terms and Materials Release.

Alfred Hitchcock directs Janet Leigh — Psycho, 1960. The blood was chocolate syrup. That's practical effects.