2018 film 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.
The Bad Man Skeletons in the Closet Livescream The Night Sitter Book of Monsters Maniac 4k Confessions of a Serial Killer The Head Never Hike Alone The Field Guide to Evil
The Final Interview Kill Ben Lyk Clementina Be My Cat: A Film For Anne The LaPlace’s Demon
Beats of Rage Camp Death III in 2D! Trauma La Puta es Ciega

Coming soon!

Marta The Party’s Over A Thing of Dreams Mother of a Sacred Lamb Dual What Metal Girls are Into My First Time Canine Latched Offerings Jingle Hell Arret Pipi Entropia Helminth Cabin Killer American Undead The Thing about Beecher’s Gate
More Blood! Phototaxis Best of Me
The Things We Left Behind I Am the Doorway
Killing Giggles The Unbearing Let’s Play Amy’s in the Freezer One Hundred Thousand Anniversary Apartment 402 Enough E-Bowla Vampiras Satanicas II: The Death Bunny 42 Counts
Galmi Syphvania Grove Rites of Vengeance The Scarlet Vultures Music Lesson Thousand-Legged Terror BFF Girls Gut Punched Basoan
Boo Mourning Meal Hiking Buddies Living Memory #dead The Burning Dress For Good Behavior Air Invidia Minotaur Pancake Skank The Callback The Farm
Patience of Vultures People of Merrit The Shame Game Rise of the Gulon Left Of The Devil Bartleby Grimm’s Paranormal Elimination Service Kelipot The Coldest Horizon Throwback Resurrection Girl and the Curse of the Wendigo The Caul The Devil’s Gun Residual
The Borrower Below the Trees The Sewing Circle The Choice What Comes Out Beyond Repair Occupied Hell to Pay Who’s There
Down the Hatchet The Green Lady Not From Around Here Den The Cat House of Hell Dodo Cry Baby Bridge
Ayuda Bathroom Troll Don’t Drink the Water The After Party Masks Here There Be Monsters Don’t Look Into Their Eyes Heartless El Cuco is Hungry
Little Save Childer Conductor All You Can Carry Made You Look The Desolation Prize Doggy See Evil Spectres Goodbye Old Friend There’s a Monster Behind You Blondie Conductor All You Can Carry Made You Look The Desolation Prize Doggy See Evil Spectres Goodbye Old Friend There’s a Monster Behind You Blondie
Ding Dong Oscar’s Bell Red Mosquito Goodnight Gracie Baghead Wyrmwood Avulsion House Guests The Last Seance Three
The Bloody Ballad of Squirt The Chains One Dark Night Fears Midnight Delivery I Beat It Mama’s Boy Alien Death Fuck Hell of a Day Vonnis The Dark Ward Mystery Box
4EVR Nocturne The Noise of the Light Short Leash Instinct Where’s Violet Tutu Grande
Lady Hunters Smiley’s Headless Swans A Death Story Called Girl Dead Cool You’ll Only Have Each Other
The Box Salvatore Witch’s Milk Post Mortem Mary Spurn Esther They Eat Your Teeth They Wait for Us
CLAW Mayday The Hex Dungeon I Am Not a Monster Gentlewoman’s Guide to Dom. Blood Highway Sock Monster The Monster Within Viral Blood No Monkey
Imagine Festish The Jerry Show Proceeds of Crime Television Mother Fucker Ding-Dong Night Terrors The Thang Rift Häxan
Tears of Apollo Nightmare The Mare Mother Rabbit Lipstick Human Resources Blood and Moonlight Suicide Note Enjoy the View Freelancer

BEST OF THE 2018 FESTIVAL

Trauma

Director: Lucio A. Rojas

Best overall feature

Winner: The Head

The FP 2

The Bad Man

The Final Interview

Best horror feature

Winner: The Bad Man

Livescream

The Night Sitter

Book of Monsters

The Head

Best thriller feature

Winner: The Final Interview

Kill Ben Lyk

Be My Cat: A Film for Anne

The LaPlace’s Demon

Best midnight feature

The FP 2: Beats of Rage

Camp Death III in 2D!

Trauma

Winner: La Puta es Ciega

Best horror comedy feature

The Night Sitter

Winner: Camp Death III in 2D!

Book of Monsters

Best cinematography feature

Winner: The Head

Livescream

The Night Sitter

The Final Interview

Best writing in a feature

The Bad Man

LiveScream

Alive

The Night Sitter

Winner: Jason Trost – Beats of Rage

Best actor feature

Adrian Țofei – Be My Cat: A Film For Anne

Eugene Simon – Kill Ben Lyk

Grainger Hines – The Final Interview

Winner: Jason Trost – Beats of Rage

Angus Macfadyen – Alive

Best actress feature

Ellie Church – Skeletons in the Closet

Lyndsey Craine – Book of Monsters

Winner: Camille Stopps – Alive

Ellie Church – The Bad Man

Best director feature

The Head

Winner: Livescream

More Blood!

The Final Interview

Best overall short

Latched

Headless Swans

They Wait For Us

Winner: Three

The Dark Ward

The Mare

Smiley’s

Dead Cool

Best horror short

Here There Be Monsters

Conductor

Oscar’s Bell

Latched

The Last Seance

Winner: The Dark Ward

Mystery Box

Baghead

Best thriller short

You’ll Only Have Each Other

Headless Swans

Winner: Dead Cool

Salvatore

They Wait for Us

Lady Hunters

Best midnight short

Claw

Proceeds of Crime

The Mare

The Jerry Show

Human Resources

Ding-Dong

Canine

Winner: Helminth

Best Recurring Nightmare

Mother Fucker Winner: Offerings Canine Music Lesson The Thousand-Legged Terror Basoan

Best director short

Alberto Corredor Marina – Baghead
– You’ll Only Have Each Other

Aislinn Clarke – Childer

George and Lukas Visitor – They Wait For Us

Declan Wall – Spurn

Laura Kulik – The Last Seance

Winner: Nathalia Bas-Tzion Beahan – A Death Story Called Girl

Best cinematography short

Arrêt Pipi

The Party’s Over

The Desolation Prize

Winner: Lady Hunters

Headless Swans

Tears of Apollo

Goodnight, Gracie

Blood and Moonlight

Best writing in a short

Mama’s Boy – Sam Kolesnik

Winner: Smiley’s – Mike James

Witch’s Milk – Martin Jehle

Little – Brittany Brock

Imagine – Jeremy Brown

Gentlewoman’s Guide to Domesticity – Dayna Noffke

The After Party – Colin Costello

Best actor short

Ross Helton – Don’t Drink the Water

Winner: Nathan Woodworth – Tutu Grande

Alex Loubert – Masks

Nathan Caywood – One Dark Night

Stuart Mackie – There’s a Monster Behind You

Paul Cottman – Three

Montgomery Mauro – Red Mosquito

Best actress short

Alana Elmer – Latched

Winner: Victoria Marie – Short Leash

Juliana Harkavy – The Things They Left Behind

Alana Kearns-Green – 4EVR

Corrie Legge – Goodbye Old Friend

Sissy O’Hara – Entropia

Stacy Snyder – Heartless

Danielle Guldin – Midnight Delivery

Best horror comedy short

Winner: Amigos

Cabin Killer

Foxwood

Bitten

Late

There’s One Inside the House

Best short screenplay

Winner: #dead – Derek Stewart

1ru – Hiking Buddies – Megan Morrison

2ru – The Burning Dress – Sam Kolesnik

Best feature screenplay

Winner: The Patience of Vultures – Greg Sisco

1stRU – People of Merrit – Adam Pottle

2ndRU – Bartleby Grimm’s Paranormal Elimination Service – Dan Kiely

Best Ohio film

Winner: The Cat

1ru: American Undead

Esprit de Gore

Chris Ethridge

Women in Horror Film Festival Night Mare

The Last Seance

A Death Story Called Girl

Bitten

Winner: You’ll Only Have Each Other

Short Leash

Lady Hunters

LiveScream

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