
2018 film selections
Coming soon!

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
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