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Block A
Best Texas Horror Short:
Pete & Re-Pete
Location: Taylor, TX
Length: 9:57
Director: Martha Van Garza
Description: A zombie attack on three elderly men takes an unexpected turn when the zombie turns out to be an old friend. Again.
Hair Eater
Location: Austin, TX
Length: 9:30
Director: Rachael Trigg
Description: A young perfectionist debt collector is sent into a downward spiral when she starts to see strands of hair everywhere.
Lucy The Lycan
Location: San Antonio, TX
Length: 4:00
Director: Queen Cujo
Description: A small town college punk girl encounters a beast from the east.
Men in Cars
Location: Houston, TX
Length: 8:33
Director: Molly Vernon
Description: A teenage girl in Texas finds the object of her desire and is willing to do whatever it takes to get it as she becomes the subject of a bloody Bayou City True Crime podcast.
Best Horror Short:
What’s This?
Location: USA
Length: 7:30
Director: Alexandria Greiling
Description: In this spine-tingling short, we’re drawn into Sophia’s eerie struggle with kleptomania. Her uncontrollable urges drag her into a sinister web, where the stolen package morphs into a harbinger of doom, sealing her grisly fate. It’s a haunting reminder of how unchecked impulses can plunge us into our worst nightmares.
Hunted
Location: USA
Length: 4:56
Director: Katy Frame
Description: A woman’s walk home turns deadly.
Empty Soul
Location: Canada
Length: 5:03
Director: Andreana Theodoropoulos
Description: Eleni, driven by an insatiable void, starts eating various forms of art in a desperate attempt to find fulfillment. Eventually she is forced to face the subconscious fears she has been desperately trying to suppress.
(I Broke Them)
Location: USA
Length: 5:44
Director: Lizzy Bryce
Description: In this horror and poetry-inspired short film, a dancer, plagued by the menace of perfection, must confront a spectre that emerges from the ballet studio mirrors.
Block B
Best Experimental Horror Short:
Poppy’s Saturn
Location: Belgium
Length: 14:35
Director: Nicole Tegelaar
Description: When nightclub singer Poppy is confronted by a black-eyed man she is overcome by fear. The event triggers a buried sexual trauma that she has to overcome in a kaleidoscopic world of glitter, music and blood.
Scox
Location: Italy
Length: 12:00
Director: Erika Errante Baruffaldi
Description: L.unearths bones, brings them to her laboratory, and by attaching them to an antenna, creates Hector. The strange being and Y. live together peacefully, but this relationship gradually changes.
Best Micro Short:
Be Bad
Location: USA
Length: 4:12
Director: Lauren Hart
Description: A new dad is forced to take action when he realizes that his middle finger has been up in every photo he’s ever taken.
Obscurum
Location: UK
Length: 3:33
Director: Tanisha White
Description: A lone driver’s (Daisy) late-night journey on a desolate highway takes a terrifying turn when a car malfunction and a chilling encounter leave her questioning reality.
Best Sci-Fi Horror Short:
From Me To You
Location: UK
Length: 19:55
Director: Simret Cheema-Innis
Description: In a world transformed by the revelation of extraterrestrial existence, Ryan, on the brink of middle age, embarks on a journey to escape societal expectations. His quest leads him to Vietnam, where tensions rise over the influx of aliens. Broke and disillusioned, he finds himself entangled in the seedy underbelly of back street dives and casinos, setting off a chain of events that will haunt him forever.
Spanish Self-employed
Location: Spain
Length: 6:00
Director: Ana Cayuela Muñoz
Description: The extreme conditions under which Spanish self-employed workers survive have only one explanation. Could any human being endure this? The galaxies continue their rhythm but now, after a tragic event, it is time to intervene.
Best Horror Screenplays
Best Horror Short Screenplays
What Kind of Films Do You
Location: UK
Length: 5 pages
Written by Idil Sukan
Description: A couple discusses their close (on a molecular level) relationship
Her Last Midnight
Location: USA
Written by Jessica Saul
Description: Abusive relationships can feel impossible to escape, especially when you’ve been together for a century. Roslyn and Sam are vampires, living out an unhappy eternity together. But when Roslyn decides she wants to be with someone else…things get bloody.
Monsters Among Us
Location USA
Length: 21 pages
Written by Penny G. LeLeux
Best Horror Feature Screenplays
Addie
Location: USA
Length: 106 pages
Written by Vicky Dupuis
Description: A retreat turns deadly for a group of friends who are stalked by an evil presence from their past.
Five Stars
Location: USA
Length: 85 pages
Written by Marlene Guerin
Description: Chris wakes up with amnesia inside a room that resembles a large terrarium. He finds other people, some of them speak English, others Japanese or Ukrainian, but none of them remember anything.
While they try to figure out who they are and where they are, some of them start getting sucked by a giant crystal tube that comes from the ceiling.
They’ll have to overcome challenges, both physical and psychological, with no tools, fighting creatures they have never seen before.
While trying to scape they will know more of themselves and each other. Only a few will make it, just to discover an even harder truth.
Depraved & Deranged
Location: USA
Length: 117 pages
Written by Vicky Dupuis
Description: A hiking trip in the Appalachians turns into a bloody nightmare.
Block C
Best Horror Comedy:
The Mannequin
Location: Sweden
Length: 13:52
Director: Emelie Dalskog
Description: An aspiring seamstress thinks she can solve all her creative problems by creating a mannequin. But after some strange events she suspects that the mannequin has aspirations of its own.
Bloody Hell
Location: Australia
Length: 6:00
Director: Lena Albin
Description: Sam’s period arrives just moments before an important visitor knocks at her door. Her frantic attempt to get ready derails into a blood soaked nightmare.
Fly Away, Froggy Boy
Location: Canada
Length: 8:00
Director: Mia Lobo
Description: Fly Detective Francis McFly loses his partner to the infamous ‘Croaks’, a frog gang at the centre of his most recent investigation. Stricken by grief, he decides to get revenge, and go head to head with their ravenous leader, The Frogfather.
The Gourd, The Brad, and The Ghostly
Location: USA
Length: 9:42
Director: Jillian Terwedo-Malsbury
Description: After causing a tragic accident on Halloween night, Brad is haunted by his guilty conscience as he takes the elevator down to the scene of the crime. Is he heading to the lobby… or straight to hell?
Toby
Location: Australia
Length: 12:09
Director: Naomi Bird
Description: Bryce’s life is heavily impeded by the relentless mischief of a haunted doll. The Toby doll has attached itself to Bryce and will not let go without a fight.
Vampire
Location: USA
Length: 4:59
Director: Caroline Sheridan
Description: Tension spikes between two friends when one accuses the other of something peculiar: being a vampire
Final Girl’s Bloodbath
Location: USA
Length: 9:23
Director: Ashley Mary Nunes
Description: What starts off as a chemistry audition with WHITLOCK becomes an actual life-or-death battle, as the two Final Girls’ real-life survival skills are put to the test when the studio doors lock behind them.
Hangry
Location: USA
Length: 7:11
Director: Allie Shehorn
Description: Whether a woman or a zombie; a hangry woman is a dangerous woman.
