THE ARCHIVES

 

3 NIGHTS ON THE PLAINS
2024 Screenplay Finalist
Written by Robert Walker
Two cowboys visit a witch for help in bringing a loved one back from the dead. They only have to spend three nights on the plains of Colorado and follow her instructions to the letter.
 
 
A NECESSARY SHEDDING OF SKIN
(Formerly "The Killer John Bidwell")
2018 Feature Screenplay Winner
Written by Travis Lemke
 A small town sheriff is faced with a series of gruesome murders that lead him to an exceptionally disturbed serial killer.
 
 
A NORMAL LIFE
2023 Honorable Mention Film
Directed by  Katy Grossman
 In order to find a job, a person with disabilities seeks the guidance of an uncompromising speech therapist, but as sessions become more demanding disturbing truths arise.
 
 
A PORTRAIT OF ELIZABETH
2024 Best Actress Winner (Mary Beth Gray)
Directed by Corey Simpson
A woman tries to console her grief by painting a portrait of her late wife. Isolated in her home, strange things start happening around the unfinished work.
 
 
A TOWN FULL OF GHOSTS
2022 Film Trailer Selection
Directed by Isaac Rodriguez
A couple invest in a tourist attraction town. but little do they know the hidden secrets.
 
 
A WHISPER AT THE DOOR
2023 Best Costumes Winner
Directed by  Steve James and Ken Moretti
In this 19th Century tale, a Witch of the Woods enchants a forlorn maiden into luring a lonely man right into the Witches grasp, or so she thinks!  
 
 
ABANDON ALL HOPE
2018 Best Short Screenplay Winner
Written by  Maximilian Federman and Ian Sutherland
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
Directed by Isaac Rodriguez
 A man with a terrible toothache discovers he may be dealing with something else besides cavities.

 
ADDIE
2022 Screenplay Finalist
Written by VIcky Dupuis
A retreat turns deadly for a group of friends who are stalked by an evil presence from their past.
 
 
ALHAZRED: SANDS OF MADNESS
2021 First 10 Page Screenplay Winner
Written by  Clemente Esparza, II
 
 
AS SCARED AS YOU
2023 Screenplay Finalist
Written by Jesse Dorian
A twenty-something male “drifter” antihero, and a young blind woman become caged prisoners at a bed and breakfast in small-town northern California, where the drifter’s violent, malignant actions prior, push a group of malicious locals--along with their two animalistic, basement-held zombified residents, dressed as a dog and a clown--to seek vengeance.


ASH AND BONE
2022 Film Trailer Finalist
Directed by Harley Wallen
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.
 
 
ATTACK OF THE CAT PEOPLE
2022 Official Selection Film
2019 Audience Choice Film Trailer Winner
Directed by Sarah Stephenson
In 1940, a group of Scientists discovered the remains a of Meteorite floating in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Little do they know they are not alone? 
 
 
AVULSION
2018 Best Special Effects
Directed by Steve Boyle
A white collar worker visits an escort with an unusual gift to grant his deepest fantasy.
 
 
BA'AL OUT
2022 Official Selection Film
Directed by Derek Silver
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.
 
 
BAY FOR BLOOD
2024 Official Selection Film
Directed by Harry Waldman
James and Rob are hiding out in isolation to fix their mutual issues. As time progresses, the two reveal facts regarding their disturbing past relationship. An acquaintance of James', Jessica, finds herself in an uncomfortable position as she contemplates the best way to handle the situation.  
 
 
BELFAST 1912
2021 Best Set Design Film
Directed by Dominic O'Neill
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 Film Poster Finalist
Artwork by Michael Hogan
 
 
BITCH
2024 Best Special Effects
Directed by Louie Duran
A young woman running away from her mistakes becomes cursed with a strange illness and insatiable hunger. Convinced that God is punishing her, Mary battles anger and isolation in the mountains. When all seems hopeless the curse takes hold and threatens everything she loves. 
 
 
BLACK CAT
2018 Film Trailer Selection
Directed by William Allum
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 & WATER III: WELCOME TO HELLVILLE
2023 Movie Poster Finalist
 
 
BLOOD'S CHILD
2016 Feature Screenplay Winner
Written by Steven Bogart
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
Directed by Craig Quinn
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
Directed by Nath Milburn
Thematically, “Bound” explores the uncertainty of luck and life and never truly knowing how it can, will, and can still shake out. “Cured” addresses the notion of figuring out how one must come to terms with the truth before death takes care of the task. It took you longer to read to this point than to experience both songs in their entirety.
 
 
CADUCEA
2018 Official Selection Film
Directed by Christophe Mavroudis
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 Best Actress Winner Film (Sarah Schoofs)
Directed by Ryan G. Kelly
A graduate student questions her reality after she receives a mysterious necklace.
 
 
CAN YOU BREATHE?
2021 Movie Poster Selection
Artist James C. Newman
 
 
CAPTURE
2017 August Trailer of the Month
Directed by Savvas Christou
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 Audience Choice Film Winner
Directed by Todd Densmore
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 Best Set Design Film
Directed by Chris Roe
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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...
 
 
CERNUNNOS
2019 Best Cinematography & Best Music Winner
Directed by Winston Stemler
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.  
 
 
CHASING ZOMBIES
2024 Best Film Trailer
Directed by Mike Ancas
This documentary was shot at the George A. Romero Filmmaking Program, with special effects by Tom Savini's Special Make-up Effects Program. The story involves iconic zombie extras from the original Dawn and Day of the Dead who, decades later, find themselves in demand at Pop Culture Comicons. We chase down these zombies to see why these early Romero films resonate so much with fans. Meanwhile, the crew shooting this film set out on a horrifying adventure of their own.
 
 
CHATEAU SAUVIGNON: TERROIR
2018 Best Costume Design Winner
Directed by D.M. Night Maire
'Chateau Sauvignon: terroir' follows the isolated adolescent son of a storied vintner family who finds himself torn between obeying his father’s callous restrictions and preventing his ailing mother from deteriorating further. 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. 
 
 
CHECK OUT
2024 Official Selection Film
Directed by Justin Stearns
Newly divorced Jared is forced into the Maroon Motel for the night, but the room is already occupied.
 
 
CHILDISH WENDIGO
2020 Screenplay Logline Finalist
Written by ShinTa Yang
An Indian severe patient of Wendigo psychosis cooks his wife and feeds his son 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
Directed by Maurice Haeems
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.
 
 
CLAYTON
2023 Official Selection Film
Directed by Vincent Charles Vilardi
A mentally deranged hunter unleashes terror on a young couple walking through a snowy wooded trail as they are headed to a friends party. 

 
CLOSED
2022 Official Selection Film
Directed by Kalene Chase and Jared Estrada
Jackie is closing up at the coffee shop, looking forward to a night out with friends. Before her night comes to a close, an ominous being has different plans for the young barista.
 
 
CLOSURE
2020 Best Special Effects Film
Directed by Alex Cassun
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 First 10 Page screenplay Finalist
Written by Michael Hogan
Bartholomew, a millennial (in vampire years) vampire in Romania is given an ultimatum by his aging mother, ANTANASIA, 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, GARRIDAN, Bartholomew sneaks out of the family castle and heads for Hollywood; the source of his beloved “talkies”. 
 
 
CORPSE POSE
2018 Best Set Design Winner
Directed by Sarah Misch
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
Directed by Alan Deprez
During a dark night, AETNA's activists are on their way for a risky mission : killing a shady well-known figure. The target ?  The unreliable politician Hein Stavros. But when they reach his opulent-looking villa, they end up in a real "pleasure party".
 
 
 
DANCING WITH THE DEVIL
2024 Official Selection Film
Directed by Liv Pallante
Two sisters get more than they bargained for when their attempt at casting a spell for good luck the night before a dance competition leaves them with a demon instead.
 
 
DANGEROUS PEOPLE
2019 Non-Competitive Trailer
Directed by Garo Nigoghossian
Psychedelic horror, set in the early 1970s, where two murderers pick up a woman in a bar and all enter into a brutal series of murderous mind games.
 
 
DANS LE BAYOU
2021 Logline Finalist
Written by  Myah Hall
 A group of three best friends travel to a small, isolated town called Lune within the deep south of Louisiana to check on Ellie’s reportedly ill grandmother, Ophelia. After a harrowing road trip and much needed rest, the trio are convinced by Ophelia to venture out into New Orleans to obtain an important herb needed to stop a supernatural creature, known as the Rougarou, from escaping past any Louisiana bayou borders.
 
 
DARK MATTER
2020 Screenplay Logline Finalist
Written by Vincenzo Pandolfi

When his best friend commits suicide, Richard, an angry young man, becomes obsessed with the memory of Charlie, the misterious, silent boy he bullied at school with his group of hooligans. Mysterious deaths, an obscene black spot on the wall, a sinister athmosphere of fear… Richard feels inside himself the curse that hit the perpetrators of that night of violence. He needs to come back at the “House of Fear”, the old attraction at the amusement park where they tortured Charlie to death. But is Charlie really dead? 

 
DDD
2021 Music Video Winner
Directed by Eric Unusual
DDD is a music video by Austin, Texas based artist Eric Unusual. 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 First Ten Screenplay 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 operater of the farm cemetery. The film is not a Christmas story.

 

DECLINE
2021 Best Feature Actor Winner (Ryan Carter)
Directed by Sam M. Bell
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
Directed by Selina Sondermann
Trying to escape her past, a young maid seeks supernatural help.
 
 
DEVIL TOWN
2018 Official Selection Film
Directed by Nick Barrett
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 Best Actress Winner (Lizette Guzman-Zaragoza)
Directed by Matthew Quaid
A woman is woken up by a strange entity.
 
 
DONOR
2019 Official Selection Film
Directed by Donald J. Wren
A man go in for surgery and something goes wrong, and becomes a donor. But is the patient still alive?
 
 
DORIS
2018 Best Short Film Winner
Directed by Hayder Hasen
When single mum Karen and her baby visit their elderly neighbour Doris, Karen soon realises things are not at all what they seem. Doris has plans for Karen and the baby and enlists a group of elderly cohorts to see her plan through.

 
DREIDEL
2022 Best Short Screenplay Winner
Written by Glenn Lissner
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 Contest Finalist
Directed by Andrew Hass
 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
Directed by Vincent DiCostanzo
It's as if there's an EVIL in this house.
 
 
EGGS IN THE ATTIC
2022 Feature Screenplay Finalist
Written by Jason Capirchio
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.
 
 
ETERNAL LIGHT
2023 Audience Choice Film Winner
Directed by Nathaniel Henry
After the tragic loss of their son, Deuntay and Alex are overcome with grief. To combat it, they find an unusual way to get their son back that even they don't fully understand.
 
 
FATHER OF LIES
2019 Non-Competitive Film
Directed by Shiva Rodriguez
The Norse god Loki seeks to free his monstrous children and end the modern world.
 
 
FEAR INCARNATE
2023 Official Selection Film
Directed by Dylan Coburn
To protect his family, a teenage boy musters incredible courage to confront his greatest fear, manifested in physical form before him as a terrifying spirit known only as - The Beast.
 
 
FERAL CRAVINGS
2023 Official Selection Film
Directed by  Pete Jacelone
A coming of age tale of unexpected friendship and lycanthopy.
 
 
FIREBRAND
2023 Best Actor Winner (Jeremy Dash)
Directed by  Rhett Bradbury
Following a bitter argument with his abusive girlfriend, blue-collar gearhead, Theo, embarks on a journey towards self harm – resulting in a dire confrontation with his inner demon. 
 
 
FIVE COURSE MEAL
2019 Official Selection Film
Directed by James Cadden
Mark and Jenny agree to take part in a mysterious experiment for money. Things get exceptionally messy.
 
 
FLEECED
2023 Best Virginia Film Winner
Directed by Samuel Van Fossen
 A former child star, haunted by his past, becomes a serial killer.
 
 
FLIP
2024 Official Selection Film
Directed by  Kajwan Alavi
Dave, an average lanky white man dealing with trauma caused by his father tries to get through his day, but hallucinations and therapy that aren't helping make him further miserable. When Dave goes to pick up more meds he blacks out and wakes back up in his bed with his hands covered in blood, being the start of a mental breakdown where his visions come to fruition and the continuation of the never-ending cycle of violence.
 
 
FOR SALE
2023 Best Film Winner
Directed by Christopher Schrack
A shady salesman is tasked with selling a haunted house.
 
 
FORMATIVE YEARS
2024 Best Actor (Kenan Starnes)
Directed by  Lindsey Paulette
After a high school student finds himself unwillingly involved in his classmate's fatal accident, he is forced to confront the lingering emotions from his troubled past. 
 
 
FREE RANGE
2022 Official Selection Film
Directed by Lindsei Barros
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
Directed by Kenneth Brossoie
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 Finalist
Artist: Lionel Lamont Chapman

 
GARDEN OF DELIGHT
2023 Screenplay Finalist
Written by Paul Grammatico
A man takes revenge on the people from his past by saving the life of a professional killer who becomes indebted to him.
 
 
GHOLU
2021 Music Video Finalist
Directed by Leo Nicholson
A day in the life of a complicated cannibal.
 
 
GHOST LIGHT
2024 Official Selection Film
Directed by  Adam Lapallo
Two actors stay who stay late to rehearse as scene come up against the Arcadia Theatre's oldest folktale.  
 
 
GIRL POSSESSED
(aka "The Possessed")
2018 Film Trailer Selection
Directed by Shihyun Wang
A lonely girl gave her heart and soul to a lonely spirit. Can she be saved? 
 
 
GONE, FISHING
2022 Audience Choice  Film Winner
Directed by Justin Moriarty
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.
 
 
GOOD MAN: HONOUR YOUR FATHER AND MOTHER
2020 Official Film Selection
Directed by Daniele Zinelli
A Priest will face the hard choice whether to save his soul or reliability. What on earth will he do?
 
 
GOOD TIMES / BAD TIMES
2023 Official Selection Film
Directed by Laura Medeiros
A sweet pixie dream girl decorates her living room wall with pictures of the best moments of her life…but what is that strange muffled noise coming from the inside of her closet?
 
 
GREED & GORE
2023 Best Special Effects Winner
Directed by  Adam Kirkey
After a bank robbery doesn’t go exactly as planned, a crew of five pick a last minute safehouse to lay low with their take and a hostage. But the safehouse isn’t so safe…
 
 
GRIME SCENE Z-11
2021 Best Actor Winner (Jeremy Sumpman)
Directed by Woody Graham Watts
 
Someone has to cleanup after a zombie apocalypse. Meet Gary Dale, Senior Technician in the Zombie Department. 
 
 
GRIMOIRE: BOX OF TRIANGLES
2021 Official Selection Film
Directed by Sultan AlKazmi
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
Directed by Dave Thorpe
While on a weekend away in a guest house, a couple play a game that has supernatural consequences.
 
 
GUISE
2022 Short Screenplay Finalist
Written by Paul Grammatico
A tabloid journalist meets up with a shadowy figure whose tale of street walker turned starlet ends with terrifying results.
 
 
GUNGFLY
2021 Movie Poster Finalist
Artist: Olof Berghe
 
 
HERE COMES EDDIE
2019 Best Film, Best Director, & Best Actress (Lalla Meera) Winner
Directed by Christopher Schrack
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 Best Special Effects Winner
Directed by Brian Newell
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
Directed by Jeremy Shipp
During a deadly home invasion, a terrified woman discovers she has an unexpected power. 
 
 
HOLLER
2022 Feature Screenplay Finalist
Written by James R. Snyder
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...

 
HOMESTEAD
2024 Official Selection Film Trailer
Directed by Roger S. Christiansen
 
 
HORROR KID
2021 Short Screenplay Winner
Written by Billy McAfee
A bullied farm boy must conjure up a monster to take revenge against his real life enemy.
 
 
HOUSE IN HAUNTED WOODS
2020 Feature Screenplay Finalist
Written by Drew Henriksen
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, but not in the way you are expecting. 
 
 
HOUSE OF THE UNHOLY
2022 Best Costumes Winner
Directed by  Daniel Merlot
A bloodthirsty Princess puts out a bounty to hunt down the last of the Indigo Elf tribe. She is on a quest to attain a magical elixir that's hidden in his heart . The elixir will grant her the powers to reign over the Kingdom for an Eternity. 
 
 
HYSTERICA
2022 Official Selection Film Trailer
Directed by Brit Tobin
A woman tells her daughter an all-too-real spooky story about an unwanted visitor.
 
 
I SCREAM ON THE BEACH
2020 Film Trailer Winner
Directed by Alexander Churchyard and Michael Holiday
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 WAS A TEEN-AGED SPACEMAN FROM SPACE
2022 Film Trailer Finalist
Directed by Vincent DiCostanzo
A loving homage to the b-movie genre.
 
 
I'M COMING FOR YOU
2021 Short Screenplay Finalist
Written by Glenn Lissner
Lisha is terrorized by a Shadowy Figure intent on killing her, but all is not as it seems. 
 
 
IMPACT EVENT
2018 November Trailer of the Month
Directed by Brian Barsuglia
A small group of survivors find themselves surviving a meteoric apocalypse in a fun house converted into a bomb shelter.
 
 
IN COUNTRY
2020 Feature Screenplay Finalist
Written by Scott Peterman and 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 MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT
2024 Official Selection Film
Directed by Jarod Edward Hussey
 Jobe has lost his love for life, he wants to end it. Until he meets Betty, A vivacious beautiful women that has a bad habit of robbing graves. Together, in the light of the moon, the two set out to find a lost amulet and fence the item to her animated corpse grandma! 
 
 
IN THE WITCH HOUSE
2020 Give Us Your Worst Contest Finalist
Directed by Zachary Laney
A father and son are disturbed by strange dreams.
 
 
IT WHISPERS
2020 Official Selection Film
Directed by Madison M. Bowman
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 Selection Film
Directed by Luigi Scarpa
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 Best Film Winner
Directed by Jac Kessler
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
Directed by Andrea Williams
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. 
 
 
JENNY'S ABSINTHE
2024 Best Set Design
Directed by  Gregor Gašperin
A drunken afternoon chat, overflowing with absinthe and floral innuendos, doesn´t end well for a catfishing troll, as a seemingly innocent virtual encounter fatally manifests into his life.
 
 
JUDITH BASIN
2020 Official Selection Film
Directed by George Dibble
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 A BIT OF DIGGING
2023 Screenplay Finalist
Written by Billy Rex McAfee
Sadie has a new bad idea to steal the crypto from a flash drive but has to get up close and personal with a corpse to find the golden ticket.
 
 
JUST TAKE ONE
2022 Best Cinematography Winner
Directed by Dylan Trail
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 First Ten Pages Screenplay 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 Short Screenplay Winner
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.
 
 
LACE MONSTERS
2024 "Give Us Your Worst" Winner
Directed by John F Sheehan and Nicole Oliva 
 
 
LARVAE
2022 Honorable Mention Film
Directed by Alessandro Rota
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 Short 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 Best Music Score Winner
Directed by Ben Harl
Follow Andy on his.....well.....let's just say "interesting" last day before retirement!
 
 
LAST ORDERS
2022 Official Selection Film
Directed by Jon James Smith
A pub landlord with a dark past gets an unsettling visit one evening.
 
 
LATE NIGHT FAMILY REUNION
2022 Official Selection Film
Directed by Cassandra Newman
A malicious woman experiences a special kind of vengeance after she desecrates her late mother's grave.
 
 
LECTION
2020 Movie Poster Finalist
Art by Steve Rice.
The theatrical poster for LECTION, a 2019 indie thriller about a local election in a post-apocalyptic world.
 
 
LES BETES
2024 Best Microbudget Film & Best Music Score
Directed by  Michael Granberry
A mysterious rabbit with a set of magic keys summons a host of strange creatures to entertain a wicked king and his decadent court in this dark stop-motion animated fantasy inspired by the works of Ladislas Starevich.
 
 
LISTEN
2024 Screenplay Finalist
Written by Jeffrey Howe
Three couples fight for their lives--and their relationships--when sound-mimicking monsters invade a marriage counseling camp.
 
 
LITTLE LIGHT
2023 Film Trailer Finalist
Directed by Franck Zuanic and Gareth Carr
Multi-period vampire horror thriller.
 
 
LIVING AMONG US
2018 Official Selection Film
Directed by Brian A. Metcalf
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 Feature Screenplay Finalist
Written by Mikeal Burgin
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 Best Director Winner
Directed by Dennis Cahlo 
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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 Short Screenplay Finalist
Written by Michael David Thomas
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 Best Feature Film Winner
Directed by Sky Wang
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.
 
 
LOVE SICK
2019 Official Selection Film
Directed by Mark Emilio Sciubba
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
Directed by Antonia Tong
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.
 
 
MAGGIE CAMPBELL
2024 Honorable Mention
Directed by  Adam Lapallo and Rachel Weatherly
A murdered woman's spirit, seeking retribution, confronts her killer when he returns to the scene of his crime. 
 
 
MALEVOLENT DOLLS
2020 Short 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 Finalist
Directed by Shi Lei 
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. When Xiao’e was coma, she dreamed of her father and husband, who told her a 12-word puzzle about the killer. She swore revenge. She learned to spell from the old priest during her healing at the Taoist temple. After coming down the mountain, she experienced all kinds of difficulties before finding the answer to the 12-word puzzle. 
 
 
MANNEQUIN
2024 Best Film Poster
Photographer: Jason Wright
 
 
MARAH FROM EILAT
2024 Screenplay Finalist
Written by Leiter S. Daniellson 
At the risk of losing his soul, a guilt ridden Deacon suffers the Devil's wrath after he refuses to complete her final demand.
 
 
MARIANAS WEB
2021 Feature Screenplay Finalist
Written by Taylor Salotti
Recently released from prison, Dani enters a room that she may never escape.
 
 
MEDICINE MISHAP
2023 "Give Us Your Worst" Film Contest Winner
Directed by Cooper Collins
A young breadwinner takes medicine everyday for a condition that traumatized his family years ago. But what happens when he takes to much?
 
 
MEDICINE SHOW BLUES
2016 Short Screenplay Winner
Written by Jeffrey Howe
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 Film Trailer Winner
Directed by Miranda Bowden
A woman is finally ready to merge with her split personalities but the consequences could be deadly.  
 
 
METH GATORS
2020 Feature 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 Short Screenplay Finalist
Written by Christian Jacob Ramon
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.
 
 
MIRROR
2024 Best Cinematography & Audience Choice Award
Directed by  Lillian Sisti
Megan, an aspiring model with body dysmorphia, moves into a new apartment where she is taunted by her reflection in the mirror. Her insecurities become a physical manifestation she must confront to survive. 
 
 
MISFORTUNE COOKIES
2023 Screenplay Finalist
Written by  Don Stroud
After killing an elderly Chinese chef during a botched robbery, a desperate teenager and her redneck cohorts struggle to stay alive when the chef's spirit returns from the grave, brutally picking them off one-by-one with fortune cookie-themed deaths.
 
 
MISSION BROWN
2020 First Ten Pages Screenplay Finalist
Written by Lisa Defazio and Ray Matsen
A typical couple and their cat named Neville - In a neighbourhood near you.
 
 
MISTER CREEP
2023 Film Trailer Winner
Directed by  Isaac Rodriguez
Three college students stumble upon a secret television broadcast of a deceased serial killer and search for its location.
 
 
MOMMY'S LITTLE MONSTER
2020 Official Selection Film
Directed by Patrick Green
A mother and son on the run, escape to an isolated mountain cabin where their fears catch up with them.  
 
 
MORBIDLY
2024 Screenplay Finalist
Written by Don Stroud
 A young physical therapist slowly loses his grip on reality as he succumbs to the seductiveness of his only patient, a morbidly obese woman with a grisly secret.
 
 
MORITURIOSIS
2023 Screenplay Finalist
Written by Jesse Dorian
An emotionally repressed, yet complacent, thirty year-old man dying of chronic alcoholism receives a mysterious six-foot tall wooden crate at his place of residence while both his body and mind begin to fail during a 72-hour-plus period of acute alcohol withdrawal— that abruptly escalates into a psychotic, hallucinogenic nightmare of unspeakable proportions— as he refrains from reaching out for help, while desperately fighting to stay alive.


MOSSOID
2021 Official Selection Film
Directed by Jackie Sedell
 The hatching of a dark, fantastical dream.
 
 
NIGHT OF THE FLUFFET
2020 Best Editing Winner
Directed by Raymond Wallace
"Night of the Fluffet" is a cautionary tale about the dangers of bringing a wild Fluffet into your home. 
 
 
NIGHT TROUBLE
2019 Official Selection Film
Directed by Avalon Fast
Stella comes home from her stay in Arizona expecting to hang with her old time best friends. she is caught off guard when her world is turned sideways right in front of her eyes. Her blood runs cold as she watches new girls seemingly take over the life of her hometown best friend. Her blood runs all over when she watches her own life taken in the same way.
 
 
NO GRAVE FOR THE DEAD
2022 Official Selection Film
Directed by Jordan Selander
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 WAY OUT
2022 Official Selection Film
Directed by Caleb Bergner
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.
 
 
NOMAN
2023 Official Selection Film
Directed by Matt Robb
 To boost her online popularity, Youtuber Amber and her boyfriend Johnny set up an occult ritual for her upcoming livestream. Little did they know, supernatural forces are at play, leading to deadly results. 
 
 
NOT A CREATURE WAS STIRRING
2020 Movie Poster Winner
Artwork by Veronica Marquez
Karma catches up to the abusive boyfriend of a single mom when he forces her young son to sleep alone in a creepy motel room. 
 
 
NOT IN THE DARK
2021 Movie Poster Winner
Artist: Phil Gormley
 
 
NOWHERE TO RUN
2019 Official Selection Film
Directed by Graham Thomas and Richard Clarke
Three women meet one evening, one of them (Barbara) tells them of a letter she found from her Uncle in which he tells her of a Dark Figure that will come for her. Sally & Nikki tell her it’s nothing to worry about, shortly afterwards they leave her. Later on that night Sally gets a skype call from Barbara. Something is not right.
 
 
OBSESSION
2022 Feature Screenplay Winner
Written by Jason Andrew White
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 Best Sets & Best Special Effects
Directed by Joel B. Harlow 
Riktus Grim, decaying away in a wretched squawler, awaits his only solace: a new tale from his Old Time Radio. What wretchedly delightful tale will his host present to him this evening? As Riktus’s lobotomized servant, Vincent, bumbles in... the Host speaks! It’s time to prepare for a new terror!
 

PANCAKE MAN
2024 Official Selection Film Trailer
Directed by  Bron Theron
A trailer highlighting some tasty kills from the feature film Pancake Man.
 
 
PAPERPLATE FACE
2022 Short Screenplay Finalist
Written by Chad Trudgeon
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. "He chose the most convenient possible mask, so you KNOW he's ready to kill!"
 
 
PASTICHE
2021 Official Selection Film
Directed by Shivaan Makker
 After a home invasion, a depressed father must save his family, or they'll be premiered in the prime time news.
 
 
PAYBACK
2021 Official Selection Film
Directed by Sidney van den Hout
 A man wakes up in a room. He has no idea where he is. Who did this? He finds out soon enough.
 
 
PESTS
2024 Best Director (Sean Cruser)
Directed by Sean Cruser
To distract himself from a severe breakup, a man begins obsessing over a creature destroying his backyard.


PLATOON Z
2021 Logline Winner
Written by Vicky Dupuis
Condemned criminals fight for their survival against a platoon of zombies.  
 
 
POWER OF PRAYER
2020 Official Selection Film
Directed by Andrew Damon Henriques
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.
 

PRESENT
2023 Best Sets Winner
Directed by Gavin T Briggs
A couple's romantic Christmas getaway that goes horribly wrong when it's time for presents.
 
 
PROM QUEEN
2022 Movie Poster Finalist
Submitted by  Sarah Stephenson
Three best friends are nominated for Prom Queen. Days before Prom two of the girls are sent threatening 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. 
 
 
PSYCHOPOMP: GAIKOKUJIN
2024 Best Feature Screenplay
Written by Jose Montalvo
Serving as a prequel to Familiar Realm, in 1970s Osaka, Tina, personification of Death, battles the Yakuza and corrupt cops to eradicate evil, leading to a climactic confrontation with the Devil that will determine humanity's fate or condemn her to the River Styx for all eternity.  
 
 
REAPER ISLAND: REDUX
2020 Give Us Your Worst Contest Winner
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.
 
 
RED. YELLOW. SHADOW.
2023 Best Microbudget Film Winner
Directed by  Hunter Brockmann
Two friends play a silly game they see from TikTok. What started out as a fun-time quickly turns into an exploration of trauma, guilt, and bloodshed.
 
 
RESET
2021 Best Feature Actress Winner (Alyssa Corella) & Best Set Design
Directed by David Sumner
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.
 
 
RESTLESS PEAK
2021 Logline Finalist
Written by Robin Johnston
 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 Feature Screenplay Finalist
Written by Jonathan Zarantonello
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, destroyed, or ended.
 
 
REVIVAL
2023 Feature Screenplay Winner
Written by Abby Selden
After a house fire leaves an over-achieving college student with terrifying visions, she agrees to let her sister perform an exorcism. But the girls soon realize some forces are darker than the demonic.
 
 
R.I.P. JENNY LEE
2024 Best Short Screenplay
Written by  Jason Rice
After disturbing a makeshift roadside memorial, a young girl becomes trapped in an SUV with a vengeful ghost.
 
 
ROBOCALL
2022 Best Music Winner
Directed by Teage Allen
Everyone hates robocalls; but what happens when that robocall never stops calling. What happens when curiosity gets the best and you answer the call?
 
 
ROCK INN
2023 Best Music Score Winner
Directed by Fon Davis
It's last call in more ways than one for the regulars and new visitors to a dive bar as an unexpected killer has been unleashed. The reason why is terrifying.
 
 
RUHWUNSCH
2022 Movie Poster Finalist
"Ruhwunsch" is an assault on the senses in a world where the solitude of Silence is drowned out by the caucaphony all around us.  Blessed are those who seek silence, for they can hum a tune like Beethoven and smile the smile of a Van Gogh Sunflower in the silent morning sun...  
 

RUM GO!
2021 Film Trailer Finalist
Directed by Markus Thorington
The familiar tale, of the oddest affair . . .
 
 
SCARSDALE MANOR
2020 First Ten Pages Screenplay Finalist
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. While recovering from surgery at Scarsdale Manor, Smith begins to have strange visions and believes that the manor is haunted. Consulting his psychiatrist Dr. Blake, Crawford decides to solicit the help of a medium named Dolores Fairbanks who reveals that the house is occupied by various entities that will cause destruction and havoc for everyone who lives there. The house begins to prey upon the weaknesses of the inhabitants of the house, revealing their hidden secrets and causing them to turn on each other.
 
 
SCRIBBLER
2021 Audience Choice Film & Best Editing
Directed by Christopher Schrack
Alone in her apartment, a woman learns that a certain object has something to say.
 

SEARCHERS BELIEVE
2021 Film Trailer Finalist
Directed by Bobby McCullough
Three Paranormal Investigators set out to unravel the mysteries of
Paranormal occurrences.
 

SECRETS UNKEPT
2021 Short Screenplay Finalist
Written by Joseph DiFrancesco
A man is tormented by the secrets he keeps, and most of them are not his own.  
 
 
SHED
2019 Film Trailer Selection
Directed by David Axe
SHED is an indie horror movie with skin-stealing monsters. But really, it's about love.

 
SHUT
2022 Best Director & Best Actor Winner
Directed by Niels Bourgonje
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
Directed by  Luigi Scarpa
 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 Movie Poster Finalist
Submitted by  Tristan Corrigan
 
 
SKATE OR DIE
2023 Film Trailer Finalist
Directed by Jason Zink
In a post-apocalyptic future, skateboard gangs run the streets. After the daughter of the police chief falls for the leader of a gang of skaters, The Snakes, an all-out war erupts.
 
 
SKIN DEEP
2018 Official Selection Film
Directed by Elizabeth Serra
Two jealous sisters strive for dominance in an epic battle for sibling supremacy. 
 
 
SKOOKUM: THE HUNT FOR BIGFOOT
2022 Official Selection Film
Directed by Jack Skyyler and Alex Zinzopoulos
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.
 
 
SLASHER SESSIONS
2023 Short Screenplay Winner
Written by Thomas A Fowler
The world's most infamous slashers have been brought together. But the only thing they're killing...is their journey of healing. Doctor Jamie Hyman has gathered five notorious killers, Brimstone, Fearform, Bruce "The Savage" Babbage, Chasm, and Pax the Ax, for a group therapy session hoping they'll go from killing to caring.
 
 
SLEEP. WALK. KILL.
2021 Best Feature Special Effects
Directed by Justin Miller
 
 
SMILE YOU'RE ON CAMERA
2020 First Ten Pages Screenplay Finalist
Written by Frank Maestas
 
 
SNOW WHITE
2020 Official Selection Film
Directed by Leo Ginsburg
Richard wants the best hitman "Snow White" dead. Therefore he hires Frank. But Frank is "Snow White". And what does the best assassin? He executes the order.
 
 
SOUL PASSAGE
2020 Feature Screenplay Winner
Written by Patrick Mediate and Kristin Ilagan
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 Finalist
Directed by Russell Emanuel
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.

 

STRAY
2023 Screenplay Finalist
Written by Jason G. Rice
While a young woman and her grandmother try to come to terms with major life changes, a stray animal forces them to face their fears together.  
 
 
STRIGOI
2021 Official Selection Film
Directed by Adam Lapallo
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
Directed by Derek Silver
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 Best Virginia Film Winner
Directed by Corbin Rowell
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 Trailer of the Month
Directed by Ramiro Hernandez
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
Directed by Niels Bourgonje
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.
 

TAP
2023 Movie Poster Winner
Submitted by Tristan Corrigan
After his mother's death, a haunted lamp is her only way to communicate with her son.
 
 
TEDDY CUDDLES
2024 Screenplay Finalist
Written by Christopher Outridge
When Jacob, an avid toy collector, purchases a rare 1985 original assembly line Teddy Cuddles Teddy Bear, he, his girlfriend and their roommates suffer the deadly consequences of the wise cracking, murderous Teddy Bear.  
 
 
TERRORDACTYL
2019 Official Selection Film
Directed by E.K. Scarfone
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.
 
 
THALIA'S NIGHTMARE
2024 Movie Poster Finalist
Photographer: Anna Katharina Savi-Rauch
 
 
THAT VERY SPECIAL NIGHT
2019 Official Selection Film
Directed by Mark C. Pollock
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 Best Actor Winner (Sebastian Anton)
Directed by Sergiy Pudich
The brutal biker comes to the barbershop when it was already closed, but the barber still agreed to make the last cut... 
 
 
THE BATON ROUGE SERIAL KILLER: DERRICK TODD LEE
2024 Official Selection Film Trailer & Poster
Directed by Bishop Stevens
This film unravels the haunting true story of the first African American serial killer, Derrick Todd Lee, whose chilling reign of terror spanned from 1993 to 2003 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The film exposes a dark chapter in history where racial bias shields a cunning predator, challenging investigators and the community.
 
 
THE BLOOD OF A DEAD GOD
2024 Screenplay Finalist
Written by  James Ferda
A public service announcement about the truth and dangers behind clean energy.
 
 
THE BLOODY BENDERS
2021 Feature Screenplay Winner
Written by Brian Savage
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 Feature Screenplay Finalist
Written by Mike Gerbino
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 BUNNY MAN
2024 Best Virginia Film
Directed by Haseb Alim and Max Waldman 
On the night of October 19th, 1970, a man wearing a bunny mask murdered a couple in Clifton, Virginia with an axe. He was never found and his case was deemed inactive. 40 years later, three band-tee wearing misfits are pressured into a drug deal that leads to a murder and cover up on his property. Each of the boys find themselves spiraling down a rabbit hole of paranoia as they are hunted by the masked killer. On Halloween night, acts of the mad and macabre are unleashed on the small town. By then, God can only save one of them. 
 
 
THE CARTOONIST
2022 Film Trailer Finalist
Directed by Dave Moyle
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
Directed by Andriy Zayets
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 Short Screenplay Finalist
Written by Olivia Loccisano
An odd transformation happens after a young girl asks Santa for "something mean".
 
 
THE COLLECTOR
2019 Film Trailer Selection
Directed by Jack Martin
In a world without hope, a man find a cure.
 
 
THE COLLECTOR'S CHEST
2020 Official Selection
Directed by Corbin Rowell and Steve James
A young couple procures a mysterious chest, but there’s more to it than meets the eye. 
 
 
THE CONDUIT
2019 Best Special Effects Winner
Directed by John Hale III
While delving into transdimensional sleep experiments a young man breaks through to another dimension. Every time he falls asleep his mind inadvertently opens a portal to this realm. Now battling sleep deprivation and a nightmarish onslaught, he tries to hold onto his sanity while battling creatures from beyond the void. 
  
 
THE CONSUMER
2024 Official Selection Film
Directed by Daniel Merino Villavicencio
Anna invites something sinister into her home when her online shopping obsession leads to a mysterious late-night delivery.
 
 
THE DARKNESS BEFORE ME
2021 Best Director Winner
Directed by  Rachael Quinn
 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 Film Trailer Winner
Directed by Walter Bender
In this 1950s inspired trailer, something of unknown origin and appearance referred to as "IT" runs amok worldwide. 
 
 
THE DETACHMENT
2023 Honorable Mention Film
Directed by Lee Daehan
In a world overrun by zombies, Ha-young struggles with his love for his daughter Ye-eun, who has become one of the undead. As he grapples with the morality of his actions, he encounters an old childhood friend, Suck-kil, which leads to a series of events that force Ha-young to confront the true horror of his situation.
 
 
THE DIFFERENCE
2019 Official Selection Film
Directed by YuBin Zheng
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
Directed by Jason Vandygriff
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
Directed by Nicholas Carrodo
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 DOOR OF SIN
2023 Movie Poster Finalist
Submitted by Daniele Zinelli
 
 
THE DROVE
2024 Official Selection Film
Directed by Chris Austin
Set in a post-apocalyptic world, a daughter falls prey to her father's deadly game of survival.
 
 
THE EUCHARIST
2023 Official Selection Film
Directed by Walter Bender
Simonas is stranded on an island. Due to his lack of survival skills, Simonas' physical hunger begins to control his mind. Consumed by madness Simonas gives into his urges and eats his child’s corpse. 
 
 
THE EVIL WITHIN
2018 Best Cinematography Winner
Directed by Andrew Getty
Dennis Peterson is a mentally challenged teen who lives with his older brother John . While John struggles between caring for Dennis and maintaining a relationship with his increasingly impatient girlfriend Lydia, 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 who is more charming, smarter and stronger than Dennis, and instructs him to do horrific things in order to ‘fix’ his brain. Tortured and confused, Dennis embarks on a murderous rampage, collecting the bodies in his basement. 
 
 
THE EXORCIST BOOK
2019 Best Editing Winner
Directed by  C.W. Prather
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
Directed by Shiva Rodriguez
An angry teenager commits a series of horrific murders while unaware that he is being tracked by a family who takes a special interest in serial killers.
 
 
THE FILMMAKER
2021 Short Screenplay Finalist
Written by JaBre' Glass
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 Best Music Winner & Audience Choice Film Winner
Directed by Carvin Knowles
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
Directed by Mauro Loverre
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 worshippers has been living in the village.
 
 
THE GUILD
2019 Non-Competitive Film
Directed by Shiva Rodriguez
Strange things happen when a man tries to murder an entire family in order to join a labor union for serial killers. 
 
 
THE HENNESY HOUSE MURDERS
2024 Screenplay Finalist
Written by  Raymond Wallace
Terror and gore fill the screen when the crew of the hit TV show "Paranormal Investigations" enter the Hennessy Hell House.
 
 
THE HIDDEN ALBUM
2023 Official Selection Film
Directed by Chris Abaya
A ride share driver finds a mysterious cell phone left in the back seat of his car.  
 
 
THE HOLLOW HOURS
2020 Official Selection Film
Directed by Shane Anderson
A haunted clock brings out the anxieties plaguing a newly-moved-in couple.
 
 
 
THE HONOR KILLING
2021 Ten Page Screenplay Finalist
Written by Guy Quigley
Twenty five year old Mysha Habeed is forced by her father Qasim, her uncle Sinan and half brother Rakin to witness the beheading of her gay brother Baulus. An expert with a Scimitar and hysterical to the point of insanity, she enacts her calculated cruel and bloody revenge on all three of them.
 
 
THE HORROR AT HOLLY OAKS
2023 Official Selection Film
Directed by Chris Barcia
A group of kids go trick or treating in the town of Holly Oaks, only to find out the terror that would be awaiting them at a house on Barkers Ave.
 
 
THE INNER CIRCLE
2022 Official Selection Film Trailer
Directed by Teddy Moreno
Three 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 KILLER OF GRASSY RIDGE
2020 Best Cinematography Winner
Directed by Johnny K.
Deep in the Shenandoah backcountry, a killer stalks for prey. 
 
 
THE LAKE
2024 Official Selection Film
Directed by  Sue Norton
A non verbal gamer has a terrifying encounter fishing. Is his imagination running wild or is there something evil in The Lake.
 
 
THE LAST BLOCKBUSTER
2020 Film Trailer Finalist
Directed by Brian Karl Rosenthal
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 LEAF
2021 Best Costume Design Winner
Directed by Sia Aleskovskaya
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 Finalist
Directed by Iker Bilbao
In 2236, a group who has renounced society, will face the extinction of the human race.
 
 
THE LITTERBUG
2023 Screenplay Finalist
Written by Jesse Womack
Park Ranger Charlie and her young recruit Casey track down a serial litterer, The Litterbug.  
 
 
THE MADNESS IN THE GROOVES
2020 Movie Poster Finalist
Artist J. Dylan Mehring
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 MASTER'S SON
2020 First Ten Pages Screenplay Finalist
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 PEEPER
2023 Best Director Winner
Directed by Sergiy Pudich
Strange things happened in the pole dance gym after the trainer caught a peeper behind the door...
 
 
THE REHEARSAL
2019 Best Actor Winner (Jackson Tindall)
Directed by W. Trent Welstead 
A young actor prepares for an upcoming role, tormented by the persistent taunts of his harshest critic. 
 
 
THE RUSSIAN DOLL
2018 September Trailer of the Month
Directed by Cynthia Bergen
A young Russian Bride comes to America and becomes stuck in nightmarish marriage.

 
THE SHEPARD JOSHUA AND HIS FLOCK BIBLE HOUR
2024 Screenplay Finalist
Written by James Ferda
 
 
THE SIGNAL
2023 Official Selection Film
Directed by Raymond Wallace
Two men find themselves being interrogated by a mysterious man in black after an other worldly encounter leads to the mysterious death of their friend and sister. 
 
 
THE SMILE
2024 Honorable Mention
Directed by Vaughn Davis
An unsuspecting man is confronted by a sinister figure.
 
 
THE SPOILED
2023 Best Cinematography Winner
Directed by James Morley, III
 A broken farmer details the final hours spent with his estranged daughter. His poorly thought out scheme to change property lines opens up a sinister pit that infects them both. As the day and night unfold, his decent into madness is only made more grotesque...by hers.
 

THE TERRIBLE OLD WOMAN
2022 Official Selection Film
Directed by Troy Fortenberry
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 TOMB OF NOSFERATU
2024 Best Costumes
Directed by Arthur Dark and Nathan D. Lee
Nearly a century ago, two filmmakers traveled to Germany to shoot an homage to the classic 1922 film, Nosferatu, and visit the graves of those who made the silent horror masterpiece. In doing so, they unleashed a dark shadow from cinema's past.
 
 
THE WAITING
2019 Film Trailer Selection
Directed by Katey Gulla
A short film trailer by Red Bell Films.
 
 
THE WHOOPER RETURNS
(Released as "The Occupant")
2021 Best Feature Film, Best Director, & Best Editing
Directed by  Samuel Krebs
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
Directed by Corey J. Trahan
The story of a witch and her quest for a spell that will grant her eternal life.
 
 
THESE FACES
2021 Short Screenplay Finalist
Written by  Jason Rice
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
Directed by Eric L. Hansen
Vampire Jami and her keeper Bo are happy together... until the cute youg vampire teagan crashes their world and everything changes.

 
TINY SHAMAN
2022 Honorable Mention Film
Directed by Jude Bertrand
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
Written 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. 
 
 
TOUGH DAY
2023 Screenplay Finalist
Written by Bryan S. Nowak
A serial killer goes about their day seeking out victims and, through no fault of their own, encounters a variety of hilarious impediments to what they desire most. After a 'Tough Day', they go home to seek solace in their television, a beer, and some cookies only to find one last twist of their story waiting for them.  
 
 
TRAPPED INSIDE
2018 Official Selection Film
Directed by Usher Morgan
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.
 
 
TRASHCOLLECTOR
2020 Feature Screenplay Finalist
Written by Eric Clairmont
A throwback to 80s slasher movies with an interesting twist.
 
 
TWITCH
2020 First Ten Pages Screenplay Winner & Logline Winner
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 Best Costumes Winner
Directed by Conrad Schapansky and Brad Chornoby 
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.
 
 
UNCONTROLLABLE
2024 Best Film
Directed by Mia Geere
When a novelist steps away from writing his latest story, strange things unfold.
 
 
UNKNOWN VISITOR
2019 Film Trailer Selection
Directed by Isaac Rodriguez 
This second, there are over ten million door cameras currently in use "Recording Every Visitor".
 
 
UPSTAIRS
2022 Best Film & Best Editing
Directed by Phillip Trow
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 Movie Poster Winner
Submitted by Brooke H Cellars
 
 
VIRTUAL WRAITH
2020 Official Selection Film
Directed by Pete Jacelone
A teenager battles an artificially intelligent entity that resides in his new virtual reality video game. 
 
 
VOLKOV
2019 Film Trailer Finalist
Directed by George Dibble
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. Only mentioned in whispers, the elusive Volkov is truly the epitome of fear and pity... and as his name suggests, a scarred and ravenous wolf, though human in form. Revered by gangsters, and worshiped by the corrupt, agent Shepherd discovers that even criminals have heroes.
 
 
VOLKOV ORIGIN
2020 Film Trailer Finalist
Directed by George Dibble
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 Audience Choice Film Trailer
Directed by Patrick Meimari
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
Directed by Austin Rivera Davison and Matt Shapiro
A father tries to connect with his video game obsessed daughter, until he learns she hasn’t been eating her meals.
 
 
WISTERIA
2023 Best Actress Winner (Seleste Cowie)
Directed by  Adam Lapallo
When three estranged siblings agree to sell their childhood home, an ancient family curse emerges to restore the balance. 
 
 
WOODLAND CEMETERY
2021 Best Film & Best Cinematography
Directed by Niels Bourgonje
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
Directed by Jaina Cipriano
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 UP?
2020 Best Actress Winner (Lindi Cecile)
Directed by Flaminia Mereu
‘You Up?’ is 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
Directed by Herb Cremer and  Joe Cremer
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 Best Feature Film Cinematography
Directed by Ethan Emmert
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 Short Screenplay Finalist
Written by Margarita Zhitnikova and 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 Feature Screenplay Finalist
Written by Kevin Kraft
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 Screenplay Winner
Written by Montgomery Burt
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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