2019 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 Lodge

A Nun’s Curse

Antrum

The Girl on the Third Floor

Nekromantik

To Your Last Death

Z

Reckoning

She Never Died

Swallow

VFW

1BR

Making Monsters

Daniel Isn’t Real

The Obsessed

29 Needles

Lake Michigan Monster

Beyond Horror

Slaughterhouse Slumber Party

Eat, Brains, Love

Ghost Killers vs Bloody Mary

Scare Package

Puppet Killer

Nekromantik

The Contract

Unholy ‘Mole

Diddie Wa Diddie

Daughter of Dismay

I See Through You

A Night Without

Dad

Jackie

Lock and Key

Buffalo & Trout

The Itch

Playtime’s over

Catfight

LIMBO

Headcleaner

Check.

The Orchestra

Tick

Twig

Blow Out

Scary Stories to Tell by the Campfire: Bloody Mary

Sleep Tight

Portraits of Fright

Beyond Horror

Portraits of Fright

Killer Date

Dead Teenager Séance

Bad Fun

OverKill

Exhibit Man

NeckFace

Inflatio

Possessions

Zebra

We Got a Monkey’s Paw

Half-Cocked

We Follow You

Ghost Turd

Reunion

SHHHH

One Last Meal

The Gaze

Psycho Path

D Is for Demon

98.6

Fetus Nation

Toothache

Trapped

The Pickman Model

Peek a Boo

Nocturne

Washed

Re-Home

Neighborlies

Let Me Play

Momma, Don’t Go

Abi

Parrish

Indolence

Fused

Always Listening

Bathwater, Kevin Talley

Demon Inside Me, Brandon Rutherford

Gender Reveal Party, Alison Parker

Hush Little Baby, Ricardo Bravo

Cave of Tits, Stephen Stull

Vuorwro, Ron Riekki

Boogeyman Bait, Kay Phillips

Field Test, Chris Hicks

Love as a Practice for Dying, Shayna Connellly

Mary, Dispossessed, Kristy Walsh

The Garden, Guillermo Ortiz

The Squirrels in the Attic, Rachel Thomas-Medwid

Who Wants Dessert?, Venita Ozols-Graham

Night People, Søren Budge

Mom Died, Michael Klug

The Chamber, Sergio Pinheiro

Timmy Cooke: A Cannibal Love Story, Aaron Barrocas

Persona, Jeffrey Howe

The Mothman, Jackson Murray

No Overnight Parking, Meg Swertlow

Serial Killers Anonymous, Robert Forsberg

Daughters of Virtue, Michael Escobedo

Third Date, Avishai Weinberger

He Brings The Night, Kevin Donner

Monger, David Axe

Girl Trouble, Devi Snively

Forgive Me

Unknown Number

Look Twice

Where The Shadows Fall

Drainage

Winter’s Blood

Madness’ by Black Liquid

Wake Up Mark

Benito’s Brew

The Coffin

Tea Time for Lions

The End of the World: An Update

The Things With The Glowing Green Eyes

Weight

Tethered

Boo

To Enter You Must

Melody

Trust Me

The Tattooist

In Sound, We Live Forever

Atomic Ed

Off Fleek

Steve And The Dead Girl

Creaker

She Must Vanish

Inferno

Piggy

Lippy

A-Symmetry

The Burden

Destroyer of Worlds

Room 106

The Vicious

Water Horse

How To Be Alone

Night Crawl

Plainsong

Z-GOAT: First Bleat

Asian She – Competitive Mourning

I Learned How to Drive at the End of the World

She Fell

Songs My Mother Taught Me

Attention

MJ

Tagged

Ferine

A Doll Distorted

The Third Hand

Feeder

Nineteen Ninety Nine

Cassandra

Lili

Gaslight

The Taste of Blood

A Clown’s Tale

Man in the Corner

Prefigured

It Came Nameless in Spring

Mutiny

We Die Alone

Maggie May

September

The Housesitters

Communication is Key

Broadside

A Noise That Carries

Chickens

One Bad Night

The Automaton

Sick

VR Food

Adams

Hot Dog

Existential Donut

Bennifer

Valerio’s Day Out

Demons

Cured

Together

Malacostraca

The Program

Herman

Mannequins

Changeling

Stucco

The Outsider

Farsight

Five Course Meal

The Animator

Imagine a World

Sasquatch

Breathe

The Guy

Best of the 2019 Festival

29 Needles

Director: Scott Philip Goergens

Best overall feature

Puppet Killer

Best horror feature

A Nun’s Curse

Antrum: The Deadliest Film Ever Made

To Your Last Death

Winner: Z

Best thriller feature

Winner: Reckoning

She Never Died

1BR

Making Monsters

Best midnight feature

Winner: The Obsessed

29 Needles

Lake Michigan Monster

Best director feature

Domiziano Cristopharo – The Obsessed

Michael Laicini and David Amito – Antrum: The Deadliest Film Ever Made

Brandon Christensen – Z

Winner: Jessie Seitz and Marcus Koch – Beyond Horror

Lisa Ovies – Puppet Killer

Best horror comedy feature

Eat, Brains, Love

Winner: Scare Package

Puppet Killer

Slaughterhouse Slumber Party

Best cinematography feature

Reckoning

She Never Died

Winner: To Your Last Death

Antrum: The Deadliest Film Ever Made

Puppet Killer

Best writing in a feature

Puppet Killer

Winner: A Nun’s Curse

1BR

Making Monsters

Scare Package

Esprit de Gore

Rachael Barbash 

Best actor feature

Ray Wise – To Your Last Death

Winner: Tim Loden – Making Monsters

Jacopo Tomassini – The Obsessed

Brooke Berry – 29 Needles

Ryland Tews – Lake Michigan Monster

Best actress feature

Kristi Ray – A Nun’s Curse

Olunike Adeliyi – She Never Died

Winner: Nicole Brydon Bloom – 1BR

Danielle Deadwyler – Reckoning

Angelique Rivera – Eat, Brains, Love

Best horror short

Winner: Tick

Limbo

MJ

Plain Song

The Burden

Off Fleek

Ferine

To Enter You Must

Best thriller short

Winner: Gaslight

Maggie May

The Automaton

Feeder

Buffalo & Trout

We Die Alone

Communication is Key

Lock & Key

Best midnight short

Malacostraca

Bennifer

Together

Hot Dog

Unholy ‘Mole

Winner: VR Food

Valerio’s Day Out

Best Recurring Nightmare

Fused

Always Listening

Winner: Let Me Play

Abi

Momma, Don’t Go

Parrish

Tagged

Trapped

Best director short

Whitney St. Ours – The Housesitters

Gabriel Villanueva – Cured

Sean Temple – Water Horse

Nate Ruegger – Trust Me

Winner: Joanna Tsanis – Imagine a World

Zeshaan Younus – Prefigured

Janina Gavankar – Stucco

Kelli Breslen – Man In the Corner

Best cinematography short

The Guy

Exhibit Man

Winner: Daughter of Dismay

Herman

The Third Hand

Asian She – Competitive Mourning

The Orchestra

Best writing in a short

Wylie Rush- Jackie

Winner: Rakefet Abergel – Boo

Katlyn Aviles – Steve and the Dead Girl

Zeshaan Younus – Prefigured

Brittany Brock – Broadside

Alanah Rafferty – Mutiny

Todd Jacobs – Playtime’s Over

Alec Gibbons – One Bad Night

Best actor short

Matt Pascua – Man in the Corner

Nicholas Thurkettle – Prefigured

Joey Beni – Killer Date

Brock Morgan – Songs My Mother Taught Me

Mark Field – Sleep Tight

Jeff Payne – September

Winner: Baker Chase Powell – We Die Alone

Best actress short

Chelsea Jordan – The Itch

Ruby Dalton – Cassandra

Winner: Synead Nichols – Sasquatch

Jackie Quinones – Sick

Jamie Morrow – Check.

Laura Galan – Piggy

Magen Mattox – It Came Nameless in Spring

Best horror comedy short

We Follow You

Winner: Inflatio

Half-Cocked

Blow Out

We Got a Monkey’s Paw

Sleep Tight

Possessions

Zebra

Best short screenplay

Winner: Love as Practice for Dying

1RU: Gender Reveal Party

2RU: Mary, Dispossessed

Best feature screenplay

Winner: Third Date

1RU: He Brings the Night

2RU: No Overnight Parking

Best Ohio film

Where the Shadows Fall

Slaughterhouse Slumber Party

The Thing With the Glowing Green Eyes

Weight

1RU:Madness

Winner: Look Twice

Winter’s Blood

Forgive Me

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