2018 Selections
Every year our horror short film festival receives thousands of submissions, and our committed judges watch each and every one of them to ensure we're bringing you the best original horror entertainment!
The decisions are finally in. Check out all of these amazing artists for new original horror films.
Shorts - 5 - 19 minutes
Bec
A Quiet Room In Walthamstow
Casulos
Limit
Besoin Dead
Those Who Can Die
Cindy's Birthday
Embryo
There's No One Else Here
The Verity
And Nothing Hurt
Boogey-Woogie
Leaning
Balloon
Exactico
Impromptu
The Slayings At Three Fork Road
Shock Therapy
Transmission
Martinica
Come To Me
Jikininki
Sleigh My Name
How To Carve A Pumpkin
Fright Corner
She Came From The Woods
The Clown Hitchiker
Stained
Missappropriation
Bitten
Jesus Won't Save You
Like Every Morning
The Last Seance
Devil Town
Seeing Green
Detour
The Barber's Cut
Frenchies
Long Live The Art!
Friendsgiving
Round Trip
Cat Box
The Wake
Murder Tag
The House On The Way Home
Every Day Is Like Sunday
She's All Wet
The Stay
Caught
Gotas
Wisp
Trapped Inside
Esther
Chateau Sauvignon: Terrior
Goodnight
Psychic Sue
A couple finds themselves stranded in an abandoned home only to discover a masked axe slinging murder rampaging throughout the Horror House.
Student Production
Country - United States
Language - English
Credits
Chad Maura - Director
Chad Maura - Writer
Melissa Kerley - Producer
Leo Ayrault - Producer
Melissa Kerley - Key Cast
“Helen”
Eric Kraus - Key Cast
Mary has gone missing for a few days. The young woman is slightly marginal, and this does not make things easy for the 3-cop team conducting the investigation. They question Old Sam, hoping to discover some interesting clues...
Country - France
Language - French
Stephen Bigot - Director
Stephen Bigot - Writer
Pierre Clouet - Writer
Castela Prod - Producer
David Salles - Key Cast
Patrick Rocca -Key Cast
Pauline Bression - Key Cast
Jean Fornerod - Key Cast
Credits
Danny Gulfman(Tony Moran), lays in bed sick, dying of cancer. An angelic woman named June Walters(Genevieve Graves) comes to him and at that moment, he knows his time has come. Danny begins to ask questions about where he is going, but knows that something is off. It's when he remembers who this woman is, he realizes his fate isn't as promising as he once believed it to be. Lucifer(Robert Mukes) comes down for a final ruling. This is a classic of tale of how things aren't always as beautiful as they seem.
Country - United States
Language - English
Director Biography - Matthew Vinaja
Matthew, born and raised in San Jose had a dream of Directing Horror films since the age of 16. He moved to LA to pursue that dream in 2012. Since then has Directed/Wrote 2 films generating 6 Festival Acceptances for "Dementia 31" and 24 acceptances for his last film, "Toothless". Now has Directed and Co-Wrote a new film with a few of his childhood idols, Tony Moran (Halloween) and Robert Mukes (House of 1000 Corpses), "A Beautiful Place".
Matthew Vinaja - Director
Toothless, Dementia 31
Genevieve Graves - Writer
Toothless
Matthew Vinaja - (Co-Writer) Writer
Toothless, Dementia 31
Tony Moran - Key Cast
“Danny Gulfman”
Halloween (Dir: John Carpenter)
Robert Mukes - Key Cast
“Lucifer”
House of 1000 Corpses (Dir: Rob Zombie)
Genevieve Graves - Key Cast
“June Walters”
Toothless (Dir:Matthew Vinaja
Credits
Missy Monster - Hair & Make Up
Toothless
Nadia Nosferatu - Hair & Make Up
Steve Huff - Supporting Cast
Toothless
Destiny Demented - Supporting Cast
Sabrina Seance - Supporting Cast
Alexandria Nylen - Supporting Cast
El-Creepo - Music
Craig Eustis - Editor
Survivor, American Ninja Warrior
Toothless is a story about a young mother who lost her husband and hasn't been able to date since. Finally deciding to start dating again, she is hesitant because her son has a loose tooth and doesn't want to miss out on the first Tooth Fairy experience. While away her son loses it, but who comes to get the tooth? The Tooth Fairy... right?
Country - United States
Language - English
Director Biography - Matthew Vinaja
Matthew Vinaja was born in San Jose California and moved out to Los Angeles to start his company, Coffin Girls LLC. CG is a Women In Horror Appreciation company that displays how talented and crucial Women are to the Horror genre. The Coffin Girls Act, Model, run a Podcast, do Horror con appearances and have a clothing line. 10% of everything we sell goes to charity!
Matthew Vinaja - Director
Dementia 31
Matthew Vinaja - Writer
Dementia 31
Vito Trabucco - Producer
Bloody Bloody Bible Camp
Genevieve Graves - Key Cast
Credits
Annie Arachnid - Key Cast
Jason James - Key Cast
Chris Petullo - Key Cast
Steve Huff - Key Cast
Guity Gory - SPFX Artist
Missy Monster - Hair and Make Up
Destiny Demented - Assitant Editor
The story of a female documentary filmmaker who’s revealing the mystery of her husband’s idiosyncratic birthplace, Muhr in Austria, where a giant wooden totem called “The Samson”, brings death to the inhabitants and also threatens her unborn daughter, Emma.
Student Production
Country - Austria
Language - German
Credits
Daniel Limmer was born in Hallein, Austria where he graduated from grammar school in 2007. In his teenage years he discovered his passion for filmmaking watching movies of any genre and producing fan fiction shorts with his friends. At this time he already attracted attention winning prizes at the local youth film festival “Klappe”. In 2011 he worked as production assistant for the feature film “OMAMAIA” and the well known German crime investigation series “TATORT”. During his studies at the University of Applied Sciences filmmaking department he was able to deepen his knowledge and also realized numerous shorts. In 2013 his short "PANTA RHEI" was awarded with the 1st price at the Instant36 film festival. In 2015 his short EMMA was awarded at CryptTv's #15SecondScare contest by Eli Roth and Quentin Tarantino. Daniel is currently finishing his master program at the film department of the University of Applied Sciences, Salzburg, Austria.
Something strange happened to this elevator. It goes up but remains on the same floor. The reality defies logic. The man is doomed to eternally run searching for his home. This odd world provides hints for chances to escape.
Student Production
Women In Horror
Country - Russian Federation
Language - Russian
Credits
A young Woman attempts to unravel the truth behind her hidden demons
Country - Ireland
Language - English
Steve grew up in ireland and after getting qualifications in Media Studies, radio Broadcasting and Audio media he went on to get his Degree in Media Studies from the University of southern Maine where he studied film making as a core of his degree.
Steve is the current CEO and a Director at DeepRed Productions in his home town of Cork and to date has been involved in over 70 different film projects around the world.
Outside of film making Steve has a keen interest in sports at coaches at his Local soccer club as well as being on the clubs committee.
His love for film came from his father who would introduce him to films at a very young age, Steve is influenced by directors such as David Fincher and Dario Argento and enjoys the horror genre above all else.
Steve is currently producing two short films as well as beginning to co-write a feature film based on the Comic book Drowned Cats with the author of the Comic.
Credits
Stephen Broekhuizen - Director
Darkness, souled out, Waves and many others
Stephen Broekhuizen - Writer
Phillip Connolly - Writer
Stephen Broekhuizen - Producer
Phillip Connolly - Producer
Emmet O'Brien - Producer
Cristina Ryan - Key Cast
“Skylar”
Red Room, Follow the Dead
Alison O'Flynn - Key Cast
“Maya”
Light of my life
Diego Guzmán - Original Score
A 15 year-old girl named Izzy (Tara Redmond Van Rees) is left to her stepfather Thomas’ (Carlo Adamo) care when her mother makes an emergency trip to Europe. Following a violent event, Izzy is forced to take matters into her own hands to ensure her safety.
Country - Canada
Language - English
Robert Misovic is a Toronto-based film director, producer, and screenwriter. Robert studied statistics and philosophy at the University of Toronto, and graduated in 2011. He grew up in Asia and Europe before immigrating to the United states with his parents. Following their death, Misovic began writing screenplays, short stories, and articles. He has authored nearly 200 articles, 14 screenplays, and written two books.
Misovic co-founded Pensare Films with composer Andjelika Javorina in 2016, and the pair co-founded the Pendance Film Festival in 2017.
Robert Misovic - Director
The Intersection, Allurement, Nights of Contrition
Robert Misovic - Writer
Nights of Contrition, Tangerine Crossandra, Allurement
Andjelika Javorina - Producer
The Hallway, Nights of Contrition, Tangerine Crossandra
Robert Misovic - Producer
The Intersection, Allurement, Nights of Contrition, Penny
Tara Redmond Van Rees - Key Cast
“Izzy”
Web of Lies, The Intersection
Carlo Adamo - Key Cast
“Thomas”
Dead Genesis, Neverlost, The Intersection
Credits
Space Trash Bag - 7:00
The most unexpected creature arrives on earth from space to spread horror. Two detectives must stop it before it consumes its evil plan.
Cosmic sex, death and blood in SPACE TRASH BAG !!
Edi
Country - Spain
Language -
Credits
Jose Casas - Director
José Casas and Javier Lozano - Writer
José Casas and Javier Lozano - Producer
Artichokes Piranha from the Prehistoric Abyss
Off Kid - 7:29
Sara is a twelve-year-old girl who wakes up lost and scared in a huge playground, when Pedro appears and forces her to play a weird cat and mouse game. Through a narrative full of metaphors, Sara must to face her greatest fears to solve the mystery and return to her normal life.
Country - Brazil
Language - Portuguese
Director - João Folharini
Credits
João Folharini - Director
João Folharini - Writer
João Folharini - Producer
Raphael Carnelós - Producer
Cici Mazer - Key Cast
Gustavo Almeida - Key Cast
Rauany Farias - Art Director
Marcos Carvalho - Cinematographer
Paul and his friends are excited for their annual winter cabin weekend. Things take a dramatic turn when one of them goes missing, and a mysterious stuffed snowman seems to have a mind of its own.
Country - Canada
Language - English
Michael has a passion for creative endeavors, with a strong emphasis on film and technology. He is constantly fascinated by how many different ways people manage to stretch the limits of innovation to make stories come to life.
Having worked on many different projects in a large array of creative and technical roles, Michael tries to master all areas of the craft - both creative and technical.
His interests include cinema, environmentalism, science, world history, and Scotch.
MICHAEL TANTON - Director
Spencer O'Brien - Writer
Spencer O'Brien - Producer
Michael Tanton - Producer
Spencer O'Brien - Key Cast
“Paul Spence”
Credits
Reid Van Kuren - Key Cast
“James Van Buuren”
Greg George - Key Cast
“George Greggs”
Michael Tanton - Key Cast
“Alex Michaels”
Andrew Ahmed - Key Cast
“Mr. Snowflake (voice)”
Find My Friend - 8:00
A girl searches for her lost boyfriend while a danger lurks in the darkness.
Country - United States
Language - English
Director Biography - Allie Jake Rosen
I wasn't always the horror guy, I remember running from the theater when a trailer for Mama came on (I was 15). Something caught me though, around junior year of high school. It might've been the Exorcist, or The Conjuring but after that I couldn't get enough of horror movie. At school I'm called the horror guy, but I strive to tell fun and engaging stories as well as push my own limits as a filmmaker at my schools young film program.
Credits
Allie Jake Rosen - Director
Allie Jake Rosen - Writer
Emma Kay Krebs - Key Cast
“Rachel Harris”
Gaby Rodriguez - Key Cast
“Aria Harris”
