2016 official selections

Nightmares Film Festival sets itself apart from other genre fests by its deep year-round connection to the horror filmmaking community, which gives it the first line on the rarest, scariest, most daring and most unsettling films being created around the country.
#SCREAMERS Plank Face Pitchfork The Barn Circus of the Dead
She Was So Pretty Chicago Rot Family Possessions
Holy Hell The Night Of The Virgin Night of Something Strange Quad X: The Porn Movie Massacre Deep Slumber The Law of Sodom
Rhyme Slaya Vile Prey Cannibillies
Twice Daily Crucifix Paranormal Shopping Network Connie Death Metal “Pillow Fright” Knob Goblins Spammer The Barber’s Cut Chomp The Call of Charlie Flag Day

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Hop Hop Hop Breach Frayed Willow Falls Clown Party Massacre 5: Party Time II One for the Road The Clearing Enderbridge Killer Deal
First Like Night Land Home Sweet Home Howl of a Good Time The Thin Place Daddy’s Little Girl The Stylist The Shed The Babysitter Murders
Photobombed The Scared one Against the Grain Ideal MADRE DE DIOS (Mother of God) Blight Mr.Dentonn White Drift Cauchemar capitonné
Grammy The Sound of Blue Green and Red Burlap The Essay From Hell Chasing Jenny John the Carpenter Happy Birthday, Brenda Don’t Let the Light In Night of the Slasher
Guest Room Manhunt Vessel Secret Admirer Gene Wolves Stay Mauvaises Têtes (Bad Heads) North Austin Thriller People in the Trees
Skin Deep Roommates The Dark Side Monsters Dead Weight Ruby Random Body in the Box Mausoleum
Directors on Directing Big Boy Gwilliam It’s a Boy Progeny Innsmouth Candy Skin The Backpage
Incubus Solitude DRYAD Into the Dark Trust Megrim SAM the VAMP Evil’s Evil Cousin WP

2016 Nominees & Winners

BEST OF THE 2018 FESTIVAL

Night of the Virgin

Director: Roberto San Sebastián
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WINNER: Family Possessions

BEST HORROR FEATURE

BEST MIDNIGHT FEATURE

Holy Hell

WINNER: Night of Something Strange

Deep Slumber

Quad X: The Porn Movie Massacre

BEST DIRECTOR FEATURE

Circus of the Dead

Family Possessions

Holy Hell

The Barn

WINNER: She Was So Pretty 

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY FEATURE

#Screamers

Plank Face

WINNER: Pitchfork 

Deep Slumber

The Barn

BEST SCREENPLAY FEATURE

WINNER: Quad X 

Holy Hell

#Screamers

The Night of the Virgin

BEST ACTOR FEATURE

Javier Bódalo – The Night of the Virgin

WINNER: Ryan LaPlante – Holy Hell 

Brant McCrea – Chicago Rot

Bill Oberst, Jr. – Circus of the Dead

BEST ACTRESS FEATURE

Susan Martin – Plank Face

WINNER: Ellie Church – Plank Face

Whitlee Flinn – She Was So Pretty

Leah Wiseman – Family Possessions

BEST OVERALL SHORT

WINNER: Cauchemar capitonné  

BEST HORROR SHORT

Cauchemar capitonné

WINNER: The Babysitter Murders 

The Sound of Blue Green and Red

Night of the Slasher

Night Land

The Thin Place

BEST THRILLER SHORT

Monsters

Wolves

Secret Admirer

Vessel

Manhunt

WINNER: North Austin Thriller 

BEST MIDNIGHT SHORT

Gwilliam

It’s a Boy

Big Boy

WINNER: The Law of Sodom

Progeny

The Backpage

BEST DIRECTOR SHORT

Cauchemar capitonné

The Babysitter Murders

North Austin Thriller

Mauvaises Têtes (Bad Heads)

Madre De Dios

WINNER: Vessel 

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY SHORT

Night of the Slasher

Monsters

WINNER: John the Carpenter

Stay

Home Sweet Home

Don’t Let the Light In

BEST SCREENPLAY SHORT

Connie

WINNER: Night of the Slasher 

The Shed

Guest Room

Vessel

The Call of Charlie

BEST ACTOR SHORT

Kirk Johnson – Death Metal

Jonathan Hansler – Evil’s Evil Cousin

WINNER: Lukas Hassel – Into the Dark 

Ben McNamara – The Shed

Pascal Yen-Pfister – Megrim

James Michael Cowan – Burlap

BEST ACTRESS SHORT

WINNER: Najarra Townsend – The Stylist 

Dasha Nekrasova – The Sound of Blue Green and Red

Caitlin Custer – The Babysitter Murders

Tristan Risk – Innsmouth

Morgan Brown – People in the Trees

Maude St.-Pierre – Cauchemar capitonné

BEST OHIO FILM

WINNER: Killer Deal

Cannibillies

Willow Falls

Vile Prey

The Clearing

Rhyme Slaya

BEST HORROR COMEDY

Knob Goblins

Death Metal

Pillow Fright

WINNER: Chomp

Quad X

Twice-Daily Crucifix

2016 Photo gallery

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