A list of all the films, screenplays, trailers, and posters that have participated in the Magic of Horror festival from 2016 to the present.
A TOWN FULL OF GHOSTS
2022
Film Trailer Selection
A couple invest in a tourist attraction town. but little do they know the hidden secrets.
A Town Full of Ghosts on Facebook
ABANDON ALL HOPE
2018 winner Best Short Screenplay
A sinister government organization investigates a mysterious, seemingly
infinite stairwell after a group of college students unwittingly stumble
upon it hidden on campus. Unimaginable evil lurks in the oily dark.
ABSCESSED
2020
Official Selection Film
A man with a terrible toothache discovers he may be dealing with something else besides cavities.
ADDIE
2022 Screenplay Finalist
A retreat turns deadly for a group of friends who are stalked by an evil presence from their past.
ALHAZRED: SANDS OF MADNESS
2021 Winner - Best First 10 Pages Screenplay
ASH AND BONE
2021 Film Trailer Selection
A troubled teenager is taken to the peace and quiet of the country side
by her father and step mother in an effort to calm down her wild streak.
But after she crosses the infamous McKinley family, it becomes clear
that sometimes danger lies hidden in the weeds, ready to strike at any
moment.
Ash and Bone trailer on YouTube
ATTACK OF THE CAT PEOPLE
2022 Official Selection
In 1940, a group of Scientists (Jessica Ham, Peter O’Hanlon, John Gorman,
Wayne Bassett, Brad Phillips & Emma Critchell) discovered the
remains a of Meteorite floating in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.
Little do they know they are not alone?
Attack of the Cat People website
AVULSION
2018 winner Best Special Effects
A white collar worker visits an escort with an unusual gift to grant his deepest fantasy.
BA’AL OUT
2022 Official Selection
Recently unemployed and frustrated with where his life is headed, a debt
burdened millennial’s future is at a crossroad. On his search for truth
he finds himself on the spiritual battleground with an ancient archon.
BELFAST 1912
2021 Winner Best Set Design
Six unlikely souls gather for a seance in Edwardian Belfast. When a dark
secret is revealed, their reality begins to unravel in this unsettling
short horror film.
BENNY
B
2020 Movie Poster Finalist
Submitted by Michael Hogan
BLACK CAT
2018 Film Trailer Selection
Two friends investigate a local myth that a panther roams the south England countryside... but not everything is as it seems, and sometimes the truth is worse than the legend.
BLOOD’S CHILD
2016 winner Best Feature Screenplay
Blood's Child is a horror drama about a teenage girl on a quest to find
the truth about the mother she thought died during childbirth.
BOARHOG
2022 Film Trailer Selection
After a party is cancelled a group of friends become locked in a city
attraction with a macabre figure who is intent on revenge over their
community who they will forever remember as ''The Boarhog''
BOUND
2021
Music Video Finalist
Thematically, “Bound” explores the uncertainty of luck and life and
never truly knowing how it can, will, and can still shake out.
CADUCEA
2018
Official Selection Film
Tom hides not only a deformed face behind his flamboyant Commedia
dell'arte masks, but also a dark secret that won't be divulged until
decades later.
CAMEO
2022 Winner Best Actress
A graduate student questions her reality after she receives a mysterious necklace.
CAN YOU BREATHE?
2021 Movie Poster Selection
Submitted by James C. Newman
CAPTURE
2017 August Trailer of the Month
A writer moves with his family into a creepy house in order to get inspiration for his new horror novel. The previous host of the house was an artist who had no friends or family. After his death, his spirit exist in his painting that are still hanging on the walls and capture into his paintings all the new residents. On a dark night, writer's daughter gone missing. The writer follows some drop paints to the dark basement. He discovers his daughter on a painting. Suddenly, the ghost shows up and wants to capture the writer.
CARDINAL
2019 winner Audience Choice Film
Haunted by visions of his recently deceased mother, Peter believes
that she is sending him a message from beyond the grave, awakening
violent urges within him.
CEMETERY TALES: A TALE OF TWO SISTERS
2020 Winner Best Set Design
Set in 1949, a Hollywood star mourns the loss of her beloved sister on the one year anniversary of her death. When the truth of her murder is revealed, a surprise visitor returns. Time is running out. Will justice be served? Tick tock tick tock...
Tale of Two Sisters trailer on YouTube
CERNUNNOS
2019 winner Best Cinematography & Best Music
A violinist's devouring insecurity of her musical greatness
ravages her body and soul as she begrudgingly calls to the Horned God
that behooves her.
CHATEAU SAUVIGNON: TERROIR
2018 winner Best Costume Design
When a doting woman and her indifferent son
arrive seeking a tasting and tour of the winery, Nicolas sees an
opportunity to help care for his mother, as well as prove his worth to
his choleric father. However, his wayward plan quickly takes a turn for
the worse, and his missteps puts his family’s secretive murderous ways
in peril of being unearthed.
Chateau Sauvignon trailer on YouTube
CHILDISH WENDIGO
2020
Screenplay Logline Finalist
Written by ShinTa Yang
An Indian severe patient of Wendigo psychosis, cooks his wife and feeds
his son with her flesh without telling him, which makes him a
patient later. His plan to eat his son after his growing up also makes
Anno afraid of maturity and develop Peter Pan syndrome.
CHIMERA STRAIN
2018
Official Selection Film
A brilliant but disturbed scientist decides to freeze his children
alive, while he races against time to cure their deadly genetic disease
by unlocking the secret of immortality encoded within the DNA of the
Turritopsis jellyfish.
CLOSED
2022
Official Selection Film
CLOSURE
2020 Winner Best Special Effects
In the hospital following a violent raid on his compound, a serial
killer is interrogated by the US Marshal who nearly took his life.
CONTRIBUTING TO THE DELINQUENCY OF A VAMPIRE
2020
Screenplay First 10 Pages Finalist
Written by Michael
Hogan
A millennial (in vampire years) vampire in Romania is given an ultimatum by his aging mother to either replenish their dying breed by impregnating the last virgin vampire…or lose his head. There is a reason why the last young female vampire is still a virgin making both options equally unpleasant. So, with the assistance of his familiar, Bartholomew sneaks out of the family castle and heads for Hollywood; the source of his beloved “talkies”.
CORPSE POSE
2018 Winner Best Set Design
Avril moves into a new apartment, hoping to start over after a traumatic event. But, can she really escape her past?
CRUEL IS THE NIGHT
2018
Official Selection Film
Cruel is the Night trailer on Vimeo
DANGEROUS PEOPLE
2019 Non-Competition Film Trailer
Dangerous People takes place in the early 1970's and is about two
murders who pick up a girl in a bar and then take her back to their
apartment. A moment of brutal violence occurs which leads to a series of
mind games to see who lives and who dies. Dangerous People is
psychedelic trip that is equal parts crazy, scary, sexy, funny, sick and
tragic.
DANS LE BAYOU
2021 Screenplay Logline Finalist
A sensitive young woman, who takes a trip to visit her sick grandmother with herfriends, stumbles into a magical battle to seal adeadly, supernatural creature before it's too late.
DARK MATTER
2020
Screenplay Logline Finalist
by Vincenzo Pandolfi
When his best friend commits suicide, Richard, an angry young man, becomes obsessed with the memory of Charlie, the mysterious, silent boy he bullied at school with his group of hooligans.
DDD
2021Winner Best Music Video
DDD tells the story of one man seeking redemption, but unable
and unwilling to change his ways.
DEAD LOVE: REVENGE OF THE LESBIAN STRIPPER ZOMBIES
2020
Screenplay First 10 Pages Finalist
Written by Logan Fry
Two Akron strippers discover they’re in love; but the boss at the
strip club where they work likes to get a little snatch on the side.
When Tara, one of the strippers, refuses, the boss cuts her head clean
off. Tara’s friend, Joy, walks in, so the boss has to kill her, too.
Pondering his next move, the boss decides to take the girls to a local
farm cemetery. It’s fast, cheap and no questions asked.
No spoilers here, but as a trick of fate, the girls come back as
zombies, bringing the other occupants of the cemetery with them. Not a
happy outcome for either the bar owner - or the operator of the farm
cemetery.
The film is not a Christmas story
DECLINE
2021 Winner Best Actor
Ian lives a life full of hate, alone and lost he takes it out on the
vulnerable people he sees around him, stalking the seedy streets of
Portsmouth, looking for his next kill, never learning from his past,
only fueled by it.
DEDICATION
2021
Official Selection Film
Trying to escape her past, a young maid seeks supernatural help.
DEVIL TOWN
2018
Official Selection Film
Patrick Creedle is one of London's more obnoxious letting agents and a
man who's used to getting exactly what he wants - but on this particular
day Patrick's world is about to crumble as he crosses paths with a most
unusual nemesis - a man that may just save him from the end of the
world....
DON’T WAKE UP IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT
2021 Winner Best Actress
DONOR
2019
Official Selection Film
A man goes in for surgery but something goes wrong and he becomes
a donor. But is the patient still alive?
DORIS
2018 Winner Best Short Film
DREIDEL
2022 Winner Best Short Screenplay
Samuel tells his friends the horrors his grandfather Isaac suffered at a
concentration camp during the holocaust and how he took revenge against
a sadistic Nazi prison guard named Heinrich.
EAZY PREY
2020 Give Us Your Worst Finalist
Looking to add members to the church of Hemotology, Hemo and his two followers, Destiny and Eyesov, search the city for an easy mark. They think they have found the perfect new member. As they move in for their conquest, happenstance foils their plans.
EDGAR ALLAN POE'S THE MURDER HOUSE
2022 Film Trailer Selection
It's as if there's an EVIL in this house.
EGGS IN THE ATTIC
2022 Screenplay Finalist
All is usually quiet in the small town of Stratterville WY until a rogue
scientist decides to replicate his secret government experiments at
home. After an unfortunate accident leads to his creations being
unleashed on the town, a cop, his girlfriend and the new kid in town
witness the horrors the creatures inflict in their insatiable search for
food. With no help on the way, the three team up to fight back before
the ravenous creatures can devour everyone in sight.
FATHER OF LIES
2019 Non-Competitive Film
A fantasy-horror tale based on Norse mythology. On Odin's orders, Thor, Balder, and Tyr have kidnapped
Loki's three monster children and have locked them away to prevent them from fulfilling their destiny.
FIVE COURSE MEAL
2019
Official Selection Film
Mark and Jenny agree to take part in a mysterious experiment for
money. Things get exceptionally messy.
FREE RANGE
2022
Official Selection Film
A woman visiting a town to look at a house that is up for sale learns a
lot more about the place and its people than she thought she would.
FULL MOON
2019
Official Selection Film
A quick-witted high schooler must fend for her life when the curse
of a Full Moon brings out the primal nature of those closest to her.
FURY
2021 Movie Poster Selection
GHOLU
2021 Finalist Music Video
A day in the life of a complicated cannibal.
GOOD MAN: HONOUR YOUR FATHER AND MOTHER
2020
Official Selection Film
A Priest will face the hard choice whether to save his soul or reliability. What on earth will he do?
Good Man on Black Lava Entertainment
GRIME SCENE Z.11
2021 Winner Best Actor
Someone has to cleanup after a zombie apocalypse. Meet Gary Dale, Senior Technician in the Zombie Department.
GONE, FISHING
2022 winner Audience Choice Film
An outdoorsman is spending a relaxing day at an isolated fishing hole.
However, after losing a promising bite on his line and taking a moment
to enjoy his lunch, the fisherman is pulled into a horrifying fight for
his life with an unseen predator in the water that has turned the tables
on him.
GRIMOIRE: BOX OF TRIANGLES
2021 Official Selection
After the tragic loss of their only child, Susan and Tucker's marital
problems become the least of their worries when a long-dead family
secret comes back to life.
GUEST HOUSE
2019
Official Selection Film
While on a weekend away in a guest house, a couple play a game that has supernatural consequences.
GUISE
2022 Screenplay Finalist
A tabloid journalist meets up with a shadowy figure whose tale of street walker turned starlet ends with terrifying results.
GUNGFLY
2021 Movie Poster Selection
Submitted by Olof Berghe
HERE COMES EDDIE
2019 winner Best Film, Best Actress, & Best Director
Through a late night encounter with an odd Craigslist ad, a woman
is introduced to Eddie. And Eddie likes to play with knives.
HIDE OR SEEK
2021 Winner Best Special Effects
Andrew introduces his boyfriend to his childhood friends by playing a
nostalgic - and terrifying - game of Hide and Seek. The game turns
deadly when he discovers someone from his past hiding in the shadows,
out for violent revenge.
HOLD YOUR BREATH
2021
Official Selection Film
During a deadly home invasion, a terrified woman discovers she has an unexpected power.
Making of Hold Your Breath on Vimeo
HOLLER
2022 Screenplay Finalist
When a group of environmental scientists takes a journey through a
national forest to survey for protected wildlife, they find themselves
fighting for their lives when they get caught in a series of traps.
They'll have to be smart and think quick to escape in time because off
in the holler, they can hear something big coming their way...
2021 winner - Best Short Screenplay
A bullied farm boy must conjure up a monster to take revenge against his real life enemy.
HOUSE IN HAUNTED WOODS
2020 Screenplay Finalist
A young couple buys an abandoned house as an investment, with plans to
live by their agoraphobic uncle. After the purchase, the house seems to
improve on its own. As people begin to disappear in the woods
surrounding it, the ghosts make their presence known.
HOUSE OF THE UNHOLY
2022 winner Best Costumes
A blood thirsty Princess hunts down the last of the Indigo Elders for
the immortal elixir inside his heart that will grant her the power to
reign over the Kingdom for an Eternity!
HYSTERICA
2022 Film Trailer Selection
A woman tells her daughter an all-too-real spooky story about an unwanted visitor.
I SCREAM ON THE BEACH
2020 Winner Best Film Trailer
Halloween 1986: In the small English seaside town of Mellow Coast Emily (Hannah Paterson) is trying to discover the truth behind her father’s disappearance 10 years earlier, but as she searches for answers, and she gets closer to the truth, her friends start getting picked off one-by-one by an unknown killer.
I Scream on the Beach trailer on YouTube
I WAS A TEEN-AGED SPACEMAN FROM SPACE
2022 Film Trailer Selection
A loving homage to the B-movie genre.
I'M COMING FOR YOU
2021 Screenplay Finalist
Lisha thinks she is being haunted by a Shadowy Figure intent on choking
her to death, but all is not as it seems. What she doesn’t realize is
that she is already dead. Well, her physical self is dead, but her
spirit self is trapped in her decomposing corpse confused about what
happened to her and why.
IMPACT EVENT
2017 November Film Trailer of the Month
A small group of survivors find themselves surviving a meteoric apocalypse in a fun house converted into a bomb shelter.
IN COUNTRY
2020
Screenplay Finalist
Written by Scott Peterman & Cat Davis
During the waning days of the Vietnam War, a squad of Special Forces
soldiers embark on an illegal mission over the Cambodian border where
they encounter a race of monstrous creatures living deep in the jungle.
IN THE WITCH HOUSE
2020 Give Us Your Worst Finalist
A father and son have strange dreams.
IT WHISPERS
2020
Official Selection Film
An evil envelopes the Henderson household and causes a loving wife and mother to do the unthinkable. Who will survive after it whispers?
IVI ELV
2022 Official Film Selection
A man regains consciousness somewhere unknown and claustrophobic. Dazed
and confused, he begins to wander its dark corridors, but a series of
visions will force him to deal with a far worse reality...
JAC KESSLER’S POPSY
2020 Winner Best Film
Briggs Sheridan can't chase his gambling-dragon fast enough, and when it looks to cost him more than a few broken limbs, he unwittingly puts more skin in the game than intended.
JEKYLL HYDE GRAY
2019 Film Trailer Selection
What if Dr. Jekyll and Dorian Gray knew each other and were women?
Dr. Jekyll and Dorian Gray are connected by various friends. Their
stories interlace through tragedy and bloody circumstances.
Jekyll Hyde Gray trailer on AudPop
JUDITH BASIN
2020
Official Selection Film
In the brisk evening hours a call goes out to all officers in the area
to be on the lookout for a missing person. Officer O’Brien responds to
the highly remote area only to discover the vehicle still running and
abandoned. A trail of debris leads the officer to the tree line where he
calls for backup and enters the forest alone in search of the missing
individual. Backup is miles away and the next minutes of his life will
be defined by horror as he finds more than he expected in the forest of
Judith Basin Montana.
JUST TAKE ONE
2022 Winner Best Cinematography
In a timeless neighborhood, after the leaves have fallen, the winds are stronger, the breezes are colder, and the jack o' lanterns are lit with flame, two Trick or Treaters find one of the most horrifying tricks of all.
KISSING IN A GRAVEYARD
2020
Screenplay First 10 Pages Finalist
Written by Chris
Fischer
A shy medical student meets an intriguing and morbid classmate. They form a friendship and deadly combination.
LAB PARTNERS
2020
Winner – Best Short Screenplay
Written by Tommy Britt
Preeti and Daniel have won the Future Physicians essay contest, but when they struggle to raise their creative writing grades, the nightmare begins.
LARVAE
2022
Honorable Mention Film
Turin, 1909. Cesare Lombroso, the world-famous founder of the School of Criminal Anthropology, arrives at the isolated mansion of Lazar, an elderly illusionist. Lombroso, attracted to Spiritualism, challenges Lazar: to prove that the supernatural exists and that it may be the cause of a heinous crime.
What could have unleashed the murderous fury in the young seminarian
Tommaso and what binds him to the paranormal faculties of Lazar and his
son Lorenzo? Is it illusionism or is there something real?
The ancient and decadent house of Lazar hides many truths and
Lombroso's scientific vision will have to open up to new perspectives.
LAST CALL
2020
Screenplay Finalist
Written by Joseph DiFrancesco
A narcissistic man leaving his office on New Years Eve “nearly” slips and falls on icy steps enroute to a local dive bar. Once there, he sits and drinks with a stranger who shares his taste in all the finer things life has to offer. As the night progresses, it becomes evident our sophisticated gentleman is not where he thinks he is. And that this stranger has been waiting for him all his life.
LAST DAY
2021 Winner Best Music
Follow Andy on his.....well.....let's just say "interesting" last day before retirement!
LAST ORDERS
2022
Official Selection Film
A pub landlord with a dark past gets an unsettling visit one evening.
LATE NIGHT FAMILY REUNION
2022
Official Selection Film
A malicious woman experiences a special kind of vengeance after she desecrates her late mother's grave.
Late Night Family Reunion website
LECTION
2020 Movie Poster Finalist
The theatrical poster for LECTION, a 2019 indie thriller about a local
election in a post-apocalyptic world. LECTION was written and directed
by David Axe. Poster art by Steve Rice.
LIVING AMONG US
2018 Official Selection
Vampires have just made themselves public! Now a group of documentarians
have been granted access to spend some time with them and learn how
they live and coexist with humans. But as reality sets in, the crew
realize they are in for far more than they bargained for.
LOCKRIDGE
2021 Screenplay Finalist
A small-town sheriff must rely on a murder suspect to track down an
unnatural, and territorial, creature in order to save her family from
mortal danger.
LONELY HEARTS
2020 Winner Best Director
Celeste, a lonely outcast, searches for love and understanding online and meets a charming man who has a much different date night in mind.
LOOKING?
2022 Screenplay Finalist
Queer couple Connor and Adrian adventurously invite a man from the
internet over for an exciting three-way hookup. However, the two find
themselves fighting for survival when this mysterious man reveals his
true intentions.
LOST IN APOCALYPSE
2018 Winner Best Feature Film
A group of seemingly unrelated individuals fight their way out of a
virus-infested hotel, only to find themselves at a worse place than
before.
Lost in Apocalypse on Facebook
LOVE SICK
2019
Official Selection Film
Charles puts a hex on his ex girlfriend Dora to try winning her
back. The demons have other plans than fixing his love life.
MAD SCIENTISTS
2022 Film Trailer Selection
A group of cutting-edge scientists, risk everything to return to a
foreign land to search for the secret to controlling the deadly AI
robots weapons to help the real mankind.
MALEVOLENT DOLLS
2020
Screenplay Finalist
Written by Vashmere Valentine
A innocent child unwilling stumbles onto a collection of evil dolls in her new home that want to claim her as one of their own.
MANG XIA
2020 Film Trailer Selection
Adapted from a legendary novel of the Tang dynasty. During the reign of Zhenyuan, 23 lang caughts two fish demons but let it escape accidentally. Several years later, Xie Xiao’e, 14 years old, sailed with her family and relatives. On the way they met the fish monster into the fantasy bandits, all were killed but Xiao’e, she was the only one who escaped from the river with serious injuries. Xiao’e was coma and drifting for several days, a fisherman rescued her and sent her to the Taoist temple.
MARIANA'S WEB
2021 Screenplay Finalist
Recently released from prison, Dani enters a room that she may never escape.
MEDICINE SHOW BLUES
2016 winner – Best Short Screenplay
When a Depression-era snake oil salesman sells his soul to make his
tonic perform as advertised, the crowds and profits grow—as does his
sense of impending doom. But who is conning who?
MERGE
2021 Winner – Best Film Trailer
A woman is finally ready to merge with her split personalities but the consequences could be deadly.
METH GATORS
2020
Screenplay Finalist
Written by Jordan Miller
A corrupt Sheriff working with an enigmatic tribe of experimental chemists known as "The Psychonauts" produce a new drug with unexpected results. When the batch is carelessly dumped into the sewer, it transforms a group of displaced alligators into foaming, enraged creatures with unstoppable aggression. An unlikely group of survivors band together against the barrage of chemically altered reptiles and the autocratic Sheriff who will stop at nothing to cover his tracks.
MI CARINO
2019 Screenplay Finalist
A newly hired nurse in a South Texas nursing home fights to protect one
of her patients from what seems like a malevolent spirit from her past.
MISSION BROWN
2020
Screenplay First 10 Pages Finalist
Written by Lisa Defazio &
Ray Matsen
A typical couple and their cat named Neville - In a neighbourhood near you.
MOMMY’S LITTLE MONSTER
2020
Official Selection Film
A mother and son on the run, escape to an isolated mountain cabin where their fears catch up with them.
Mommy's Little Monster website
MOSSOID
2021
Official Selection Film
The hatching of a dark, fantastical dream.
NIGHT OF THE FLUFFET
2020 Winner Best Editing
A cautionary tale about the dangers of bringing a wild Fluffet into your home.
Night of the Fluffet on YouTube
NIGHT TROUBLE
2019
Official Selection Film
Night Trouble trailer on YouTube
NO GRAVE FOR THE DEAD
2022
Official Selection Film
A loner hitches a ride with a construction worker. As a night of
partying rages on, it's clear these two have secrets that are
altruistically revealed.
No Grave for the Dead on Instagram
NO WAY OUT
2022
Official Selection Film
Jack, a young man suffering from sleep deprivation is studying for an
exam. After receiving some bad news and falling asleep, Jack finds
himself greeted by disturbing figures in a reality separate from his
own.
NOT A CREATURE WAS STIRRING
2020 winner – Best Movie Poster
Trying to make it to her mother's house by Christmas morning, a single
mom, her young son, and her overly-testosteroned boyfriend drive through
the desert late at night. Too tired to continue, the decision is made
to stop and catch some sleep as a seedy motel comes into view. Soon
after, karma and a hungry toilet catch up to the boyfriend when he
forces the boy to sleep alone in his own room.
NOT IN THE DARK
2021 winner – Best Movie Poster
Submitted by Mathew Bonta
NOWHERE TO RUN
2019
Official Selection Film
OBSESSION
2022 Winner – Best Feature Screenplay
A bored librarian takes an unhealthy interest in her new neighbors and begins to blend the lines between fantasy and reality.
OLD TIME RADIO
2022 Winner Best Set Design & Best Special Effects
PAPERPLATE FACE
2022 Screenplay Finalist
An 80's comedy-horror about a group of college students who take an
excursion to a remote cabin for Spring Break and encounter a maniacal
killer donning a paper plate mask.
PASTICHE
2021
Official Selection Film
PAYBACK
2021
Official Selection Film
A man wakes up in a room. He has no idea where he is. Who did this? He finds out soon enough.
PLATOON Z
2021 Winner – Best Screenplay Logline
Condemned criminals fight for their survival against a platoon of zombies.
POWER OF PRAYER
2020
Official Selection Film
A lone cowboy comes across an innocent girl as two men try to rape her. After he saves her, they swear they'll be back with more men and guns. When he brings her back to her kin, he learns that they are pacifists. They claim they "don’t not need guns; they have the power of prayer.” When the gunmen return, the cowboy tries to fight them. The kin try to stop him and use the power of prayer in a way he never expected.
Power of Prayer trailer on YouTube
PROM QUEEN
2022 Poster Selection
3 best friends are nominated for Prom Queen. Days before Prom two of the
girls are sent threating notes from an unknown stalker. It’s up to the
girls to work out who the stalker is before he attempts to murder them
at the Prom. Prom Queen is a mini web series.
REAPER ISLAND: REDUX
2020 Winner "Give Us Your Worst"
Directed by Nolan Schmidt
When a girl comes to an island, she comes across a man who "haunts" the place known as the Reaper. After the help from a survivor, they plan to take down the Reaper.
Reaper Island Redux on Youtube
RESET
2021 Winner Best Actress & Best Set Design
Danielle is your average college student getting ready to graduate. At a
party she seems to become drunk, passes out and wakes up in the spare
bedroom of a man named Edgar. Edgar seems nice but it soon becomes clear
that his intentions are anything but benevolent. As she desperately
tries to escape she finds that an heirloom may give her an unexpected
advantage.
ReSet is also on Vudu and Vimeo
RESTLESS PEAK
2021 Screenplay Logline Finalist
A rag-tag group of greedy prospectors are shocked to discover a ghost
town’s abandoned mine is fiercely protected by a man they thought long
dead.
REVIEW
2021 Screenplay Finalist
In a video message, a social media acolyte invites other women to have
sex with her boyfriend, but only if they film their review after.
A game of power dynamics intertwines the lives of several amused
participants, then the videos leak and those lives are forever changed.
ROBOCALL
2022 Winner Best Music
Everyone hates robocalls; but what happens when that robocall never stops calling. What happens when curiosity gets the best and you answer the call?
RUHWUNSCH
2022 Poster Selection
"ruhwunsch" is an assault on the senses in a world where the solitude of Silence is drowned out by the caucaphony all around us.
RUM
GO!
2021 Film Trailer Selection
The familiar tale,
of the oddest affair . . .
SCARSDALE MANOR
2020
Screenplay Selection
Written
by Kevin McGuiness
Set in 1961, Scarsdale Manor opens with the grisly discovery of the mutilated body of Crawford Smith, a washed up Hollywood star who has been brutally murdered in his summer house. Interrogating Smith’s agent, Vera Stern, Detective Barry Norris attempts to piece together the circumstances that surround Smith’s death. As Norris interviews Stern he learns that the actor recently underwent extensive cosmetic surgery in order to resurrect his failing career.
SCRIBBLER
2021 Winner Audience Choice Film & Best Editing
Alone in her apartment, a woman learns that a certain object has something to say.
SEARCHERS BELIEVE
2021 Film Trailer Selection
SECRETS UNKEPT
2021 Screenplay Finalist
A man is tormented by the secrets he keeps, and most of them are not his own.
SHED
2019 Film Trailer Selection
You had your chance to be you. Their turn. SHED is an indie horror movie with skin-stealing monsters. But really, it's about love.
SHUT
2022 Winner Best Director and Best Actor
When Jonas visits his father after a long time, he's shocked to find him
in a confused state. Has his father's mental state badly deteriorated
or is something more sinister going on?
SIBILUM
2021
Official Selection Film
A mother and daughter in a quiet city flat.
The sound of a coffee machine marks the passing of time on a quiet evening.
Everything seems normal... but it is only the beginning.
SINS OF THE FATHER
2022 Poster Selection
Feature film poster for "Sins of the Father", a upcoming independent women-led Minnesota horror film.
SKIN DEEP
2018
Official Selection Film
Two jealous sisters strive for dominance in an epic battle for sibling supremacy.
SKOOKUM: THE HUNT FOR BIGFOOT (FILM)
2022 Official Selection
When the long dormant Bigfoot monster begins a brutal reign of terror in
rural northern Louisiana, a renowned talk show sets out on a mission to
find her missing sister and encounters her own worst nightmare--and the
most dangerous creature known to man.
SLEEP. WALK. KILL.
2021 Winner Best Special Effects
Also on Tubi, Vudu, Apple TV, and Google Play.
SNOW WHITE
2020
Official Selection Film
Richard wants the best hitman "Snow White" dead. Therefore he hires Frank. But Frank is "Snow White". And what does the best assassin?
SOUL PASSAGE
2020
winner Best Feature Screenplay
Written by Patrick Mediate &
Kristin Ilagan
Nick Faulk, a clever ex-NYPD cop turned small town detective on the verge of retirement is forced to take on one last case when his teenage daughter is abducted on a school field trip. His investigation leads him from Suburbia to the underground world of Haitian voodooism where he discovers that the kidnappers’ intentions are darker and more sinister than he could have ever imagined. In a race against time, he must suspend his conventional beliefs and accept the world of the supernatural in order to fight to save his daughter's life.
STAYCATION
2022 Film Trailer Selection
Lead virologist Edward Bellows plays tête-a-tête with hard-hitting
journalist Grace Baxter as the world collapses under the weight of a
global pandemic. She holds nothing back as she fires question after
question, seeking answers from the beleaguered professor. Meanwhile,
Britt and Marnie, college roommates being forced to live together, must
deal with their newfound realities of this global pandemic. And, a
couple Matt and Cathy, stuck in lockdown and separated between
continents, spend some belated quality time via webcam toasting to
foreign brandy and reminiscing on the past.
STRIGOI
2021
Official Selection Film
Three young women awaken to find themselves the captives of an elusive predator. One of them holds a secret.
SUCCUBI SCRY
2019
Official Selection Film
After losing his wife, Brad begins to suspect that the local
church group might have played a role in her death. He turns to black
magick scrying practices to communicate with his lost lover one last
time.
SUTHERLAND
2022 Winner Best Virginia Film
After a night out with friends, a young couple spends the rest of the
evening at an old farmhouse, but someone - or something - is watching
them.
SWAMP KILLER
2017 October Film Trailer of the Month
Swamp Killer is the story of a beautiful screenwriter who joins a film
production deep in the swamps. There, an elusive creature terrorizes the
crew while being fascinated by her. This film will have bikers, babes,
gore, humor, and Heart!
SWIPE
2020
Honorable Mention Film
A girl finds out that she has a match on a dating app with a stranger, despite swiping him to the left moments ago. She starts to fear that the man is dangerously close to her.
TERRORDACTYL
2019
Official Selection Film
Three longtime friends go camping in the
woods, but the fun and games end when one of them takes a "fossil"
from a nearby abandoned nuclear power plant.
THAT VERY SPECIAL NIGHT
2019
Official Selection Film
A couple are parked on a dark
country road. Are they there to relive a past romantic encounter or
are other factors involved that will make this a night to remember?
THE BARBER
2020 Winner Best Actor
The brutal biker comes to the barbershop when it was already closed, but the barber still agreed to make the last cut...
THE BLOODY BENDERS
2021 Winner – Best Feature Screenplay
A doctor and his wife, crushed beneath the weight of their student
loans, jump on a chance to have some of these loans repaid by moving to a
small, middle of nowhere town in Kansas, where dark and terrible
secrets await to be uncovered.
THE BODY FARM
2021 Screenplay Finalist
When a forensic pathology student working on a remote body farm
discovers the corpses have begun to disappear, she is terrorized by an
unseen force as she struggles to determine why.
THE CARTOONIST
2022 Film Trailer Selection
Fritz is a talented horror artist, but when his new publisher insists he
keeps getting it wrong Fritz finds himself on the wrong side of his
sanity, proving how real his projects can be...
THE CERVIDAE
2019 Film Trailer Selection
Old friends from Zaporozhye Denis, Lesha and Gera decided on a winter
vacation to strike a tour of the historic cities of western Ukraine.
After a tour of the old town of Kamyanets-Podilsky in the snowy evening,
the boys decide to visit the local brothel and have fun. But this was
their last big mistake.
THE CHRISTMAS WISH
2022 Screenplay Finalist
An odd transformation happens after a young girl asks Santa for "something mean".
THE COLLECTOR
2019 Film Trailer Selection
In a world without hope, a man find a cure.
THE COLLECTOR’S CHEST
2020
Official Selection Film
A young couple procures a mysterious chest, but there’s more to it than meets the eye.
The Collector's Chest on YouTube
THE CONDUIT
2019 winner Best Special Effects
While delving into trans dimensional sleep
experiments a young man opens a portal to another dimension filled
with creatures from beyond.
THE DARKNESS BEFORE ME
2021 Winner Best Director
Tony, a grown man, suffers an inexplicable fear of the dark. Seeking
help, he finds himself on the couch of a less than perceptive
psychoanalyst. What's really haunting Tony? Does he know? Can the doctor
find it? Will the doctor find it? To understand what takes place when
the lights go out, one must pay close attention while they're still on.
THE DAY "IT" CAME
2022 Winner – Best Film Trailer
Directed by Walter Bender
In this 1950s inspired trailer, something of unknown origin and appearance referred to as "IT" runs amok worldwide.
THE DIFFERENCE
2019
Official Selection Film
The younger sister Vanessa is sheltered by
her older sister Zoe during her childhood. They have a strong and
loving relationship. Although they live together, after Zoe found a
job, their relationship starts to sour.
THE DOLL
2019
Official Selection Film
After finding an old doll in the attic of his
new home, James is slowly stalked by this malevolent being.
THE DOOR
2022
Official Selection Film
In the weeks following a family tragedy, brothers Neil and Chris head
out on a hunting trip. After some unexplained events, they soon find
themselves face to face with a sight that will stick with them for the
rest of their lives: a door in the middle of the woods.
THE EVIL WITHIN
2018 winner Best Cinematography
Dennis Peterson (Frederick Koehler, Death Race) is a mentally challenged
teen who lives with his older brother John (Sean Patrick Flanery, Saw
3D: The Final Chapter). While John struggles between caring for Dennis
and maintaining a relationship with his increasingly impatient
girlfriend Lydia (Dina Meyer, Starship Troopers, Saw), Dennis finds a
friend in his own reflection in an antique mirror. But in reality, the
reflection is soon revealed to be an Evil Entity (Michael Berryman, One
Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, The Hills Have Eyes) who is more charming,
smarter and stronger than Dennis, and instructs him to do horrific
things in order to ‘fix’ his brain.
THE EXORCIST BOOK
2019 winner Best Editing
When teen Alice buys an old copy of The
Exorcist book at a yard sale, strange things begin to occur in her
suburban D.C. home.
THE FAMILY WAY: COMING HOME
2019 Non-Competitive Film
An angry teenager commits a series of horrific murders, unaware
that he is being tracked by a family that takes a keen interest in
serial killers.
THE FILMMAKER
2021 Screenplay Finalist
When an indie filmmaker becomes trapped inside of a horror film, he
discovers that his fate may have already been written. By himself.
THE FUNHOUSE WALTZ
2020 Winner Best Music & Audience Choice Film
In a forgotten, abandoned carnival funhouse, the sins of the past are doomed to repeat their dark secrets for all eternity.
THE GOAT OF MENDES
2018 Film Trailer Selection
A bunch of guys decides to spend a night in Leri Cavour to celebrate the
bachelor party of Andrew in a different way. Leri is a completely
uninhabited village in Piedmont (in the North-West of Italy), abandoned
years earlier because of the construction of a nuclear power plant too
close to the village. The guys will discover at their own expense that a
community of devil worshipers has been living in the village.
The Goat of Mendes trailer on YouTube
THE GUILD
2019 Non-Competitive Film
Strange things happen when a man tries to murder an entire family in order to gain membership into a union for serial killers.
THE HOLLOW HOURS
2020 Official Selection Film
A haunted clock brings out the anxieties plaguing a newly-moved-in couple.
THE HONOR KILLING
2021 First 10 Pages Screenplay Finalist
THE INNER CIRCLE
2022 Film Trailer Selection
3 top CIA Agents are double crossed and run into a new breed of Vampire,
left for dead, they are forced to feed on each other to survive. When
they awake, the discover a web of conspiracy that goes to the top of
Capitol Hill.
The Inner Circle trailer on YouTube
THE KILLER JOHN BIDWELL
2018
winner Best Feature Screenplay
A small town sheriff is faced with a series of gruesome murders that lead him to an exceptionally disturbed serial killer.
THE KILLER OF GRASSY RIDGE
2020 Winner Best Cinematography
Deep in the Shenandoah backcountry, a killer stalks for prey.
The Killer of Grassy Ridge on YouTube
THE LAST BLOCKBUSTER
2020 Film Trailer Selection
A pair of movie geeks must band together with a motley crew of strangers inside one of the last remaining video rental stores and attempt to survive-- perhaps even stop the supernatural apocalypse happening just outside their doors.
The Last Blockbuster trailer on Vimeo
THE LAST LEAF
2021 Winner Best Costume Design
Haunted by dark visions and unable to protect her family, Cathy has a
final chance to save her lover Sue and stand up against the mysterious
gentleman that has haunted her since childhood.
THE LAST WOLVES
2021 Film Trailer Selection
In 2236, a group who has renounced society, will face the extinction of the human race.
THE MADNESS IN THE GROOVES
2020 Movie Poster Finalist
Small town record
store owner Clark finds himself losing his grip on reality when a
mysterious record opens his eyes up to an ancient evil beyond human
comprehension.
The Madness in the Grooves on Facebook
THE MASTER'S SON
2020
Screenplay Selection
Written by Guy Quigley
Unsuspecting young guests at a luxury mansion, unwittingly take an
elevator ride to hell in the company of the Devil. Three of the young
people disappear into thin air; the fourth ends up naked and mutilated
in a forest.
THE POSSESSED
2018 Film Trailer Selection
A lonely girl gave her heart and soul to a lonely spirit. Can she be saved?
THE REHEARSAL
2019 winner Best Actor
A young actor prepares for an upcoming
role, tormented by the persistent taunts of his harshest critic.
THE RUSSIAN DOLL
2017 September Film Trailer of the Month
A young Russian Bride comes to America and becomes stuck in nightmarish marriage.
The Russian Doll on Amazon and Screambox
THE TERRIBLE OLD WOMAN
2022
Official Selection Film
In this modern adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft's classic story, The
Terrible Old Man, a trio of would-be burglars target an ancient
reclusive lady at her run down house on the outskirts of town, drawn in
by rumor of her hoarded wealth. Predator becomes prey as the burglars
discover that there is more to this old woman than they bargained for.
Coming full circle, it was all a set up - a ploy to offer up souls for
the terrible old woman's amusement.
THE WAITING
2019 Film Trailer Selection
A short film trailer by Red Bell Films.
THE WHOOPER RETURNS
DISTRIBUTED AS “THE OCCUPANT”
2021 winner Best Feature, Best Director, Best Editing
In 1979, a film was released based on the horrifying events that
tormented the Schepp family in their Pennsylvania home. Forty years
later, the estranged family returns to bury the past when an eccentric
stranger lays claim to the house. A quarrel over inheritance soon turns
deadly, and the Schepps find themselves faced with a new terror. Bonds
are tested as demons descend from inside and out, hellbent on concluding
the family's final chapter.
THE WITCH’S BARGAIN
2022
Official Selection Film
The story of a witch and her quest for a spell that will grant her eternal life.
THESE FACES
2021 Screenplay Finalist
A young woman tries to ease her loneliness by talking to faces she sees
in everyday objects, until she suspects the faces see her too.
THREE IN A COFFIN
2019
Official Selection Film
Vampire Jami and her keeper Bo are
happy together... until the young, cute vampire Teagan crashes their
world and everything changes.
TINY SHAMAN
2022
Honorable Mention Film
When 19-year-old Kairi brings home a shaman figurine from her part time
job at an eerie antique shop, her world flips upside down as she's taken
on a non-stop surrealistic nightmare.
TOO LITTLE TOO LATE
2020
Screenplay Logline Finalist
Writen by Salena Oneal
The anticipated summer of fun becomes a summer of terror when 6 college
students agreed to go on a trip together. After arriving at their
destination one by one they beginnings to notice that no one and nothing
is what it seems.
TRAPPED INSIDE
2018
Official Selection Film
Macy Nash wakes up after nearly drowning in the tub to find herself
locked inside a dark and eerie bathroom. Things quickly go from bad to
worse as she realizes that there's something else in the room with her.
Trapped Inside trailer on Vimeo
TRASHCOLLECTOR
2020
Screenplay Finalist
Written by Eric Clairmont
A throwback to 80s slasher movies with an interesting twist.
TWITCH
2020 Winner Screenplay Best First 10 Pages & Best Logline
Written
by Adam Lapallo
An aspiring zoologist develops an unusual relationship with a feral
stranger in the woods. This "werewolf" forces her to reconsider how she
perceives human nature and begs the question, do we control our primal
urges, or do they control us?
UNCLE DADDY
2020 Winner Best Costumes
An innocent mushroom foraging adventure goes awry when 3 friends stumble upon a remote family that will do anything to survive and thrive after nuclear testing left them stranded deep in the woods.
UNKNOWN VISITOR
2019 Winner – Best Film Trailer
This second, their over ten million door cameras currently in use "Recording Every Visitor".
UPSTAIRS
2022 Winner - Best Film & Best Editing
Finally breaking through her medicated haze, Jennifer Saint is
determined to prove that she’s not delusional and her family’s dark
sinister secret is actually the disturbing truth.
VIOLET BUTTERFIELD: MAKEUP ARTIST FOR THE DEAD
2022 Winner – Best Movie Poster
Violet Butterfield on Facebook
Violet Butterfield on Instagram
VIRTUAL WRAITH
2020
Official Selection Film
A teenager battles an artificially intelligent entity that resides in his new virtual reality video game.
VOLKOV
2019 Film Trailer Selection
When agent Matthew Shepherd looks into his brother's mysterious
disappearance, he discovers that sometimes it's better to let sleeping
dogs lie. Through a haze of dark visages, and hidden corners of the
criminal underworld, he discovers that a devil walks the shadows.
VOLKOV ORIGIN
2020 Film Trailer Selection
In the late evening hours, Dr. Angela Perkins finds that she has a new assignment. To dive into the mind of Horton House Penitentiary's newest and most mysterious tenant, Andre Volkov . No one can anticipate the impact that her visit will have on both of their lives as she begins her quest for the truth within his answers.
WEREWOLF BABYSITTER
2022 Winner Audience Choice Film Trailer
A Grindhouse style trailer for a movie so terrifying, you'll be running
home to mama. Nothing can prepare you for "Werewolf Babysitter".
WHAT A HARVEST
2022
Official Selection Film
A father tries to connect with his video game obsessed daughter, until he learns she hasn’t been eating her meals.
WOODLAND CEMETERY
2021 Winner Best Short Film & Best Cinematography
A photographer has the assignment to shoot Skogskyrkogarden, a cemetery
located in the woods of Stockholm. There she sees an old woman placing a
lantern on a grave. When the photographer shoots a picture of this very
private moment, she soon finds out that this haunting image is more
haunted than she bargained for.
YOU DON’T HAVE TO TAKE ORDERS FROM THE MOON
2021
Official Selection Film
A short horror film about a tortured woman who must decide how deep into
her own darkness she is willing to tread as a looming, omnipotent force
promises her everything she has ever wanted.
You Don't Have to Take Orders on YouTube
YOU UP?
2020 Winner Best Actress
A dark comedy about insomnia where Nina, a young nurse, is trying to sleep at night, and being tormented by the personification of insomnia, an annoying clown-like creature named Sonja. Sonja is Nina’s subconscious who lives under her bed and comes out after dark as soon as Nina lays her head down to sleep.
YOU’RE IT
2021
Official Selection Film
A group of children decide to play a game of hide and seek to alleviate
their boredom but nothing could prepare them for the outcome of this
twisted game.
YOUNG, ALWAYS
2021 Winner Best Cinematography
Plagued by reoccurring nightmares after having turned ten years old, the
young men and women from four separate families seek to uncover the
truth of their connectedness.
ZASHA
2020
Screenplay Finalist
Written by Margarita Zhitnikova & Jeffrey
Weber
An unemployed chef thinks they found their dream job at a gourmet plant
based food start-up, but the VC and their clientele have unimaginable
hidden motives.
ZOMBIE BEACH PARTY
2022 Screenplay Finalist
In 1988, a mad scientist desperate to bring his wife back to life
accidentally unleashes a horde of flesh hungry zombies... which really
ruins things for a group of teens who are about to throw the party of
the summer. If these kids want to see another day, they're going to have
to fight their way across an island of the dead... and maybe chug a
beer or two in the process.
ZOMBIE CORP
2019 winner – Best Screenplay
A keen new employee brings his girlfriend to an office party where she
discovers all of his co-workers are zombies! He wants her to join the
company too, but she’s not so sure about working for the undead who
could eat them at any moment.
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