2023 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. To see the full screening schedule, to purchase a festival pass, or to secure a single screening ticket, click here.
Butcher’s Book 2: Raghorn
The Deep Dark
Departing Seniors
Livescreamers
Saint Drogo
Santa Isn’t Real
Cryptids
How to Kill Monsters
Murder Ballads: How to Make It in Rock ‘n’ Roll
Abruptio
Hundreds of Beavers
Love Will Tear Us Apart
The People’s Joker
The Wheel of Heaven
The Beast of Walton St.
The Choice
Trunk
Neon Crimson
Derek Stewart
Drift Off
Avishai Weinberger
Sawbuck
Mark Strauss
The Waif
Adam Hampton
Problematic
Jerry Sampson
The Tooth Fairy
Tony Morales, Fer Zaragoza
The Morbs
Greg Sisco
Porcelain
Christine Makepeace
Revival
Abby Selden
A Song That Sears the Sky
WL Freeman
Asphalt and Lipstick
Ryan Andrews, Katisha Shaw
Hardwood Hallway
Mason McDonald, Emily McDaniel
Blood Everywhere
Dan Ast
Forever Friends
Stirling J McLaughlin
Gentlemen of Leisure
Jason Kupfer
Sister Mary Murphy: Vampire Slayer
Vanessa Ionta Wright
Zits
David Bornstein
Mr. Right
Rakefet Abergel
All The Rage
Maryellen DeVivo
Seeds
Rozalyn Mattocks
The First Day of School
Shane Thompson
The Avon Lady
Guillermo Ortiz, Geena Karsama
Full Moon
Let It Kill You
Scratch
Hide Your Crazy
Batshit Crazy
Cut Me If You Can
Good Looking Out
Suction
The Management
Thin Skinned
Under My Bed
Waka Chicka Waka
Abominations
Safe
Gnaw
Alicia
Red Velvet
Janelle’s Baby
Night Work
All Your Women Things
Bookworm
Caustic
Lands of Steel
Lake Sunshine 1989
Hims
The Queue
Filter
Cover Your Ears
Lure
Honeymoon at Cold Hollow
Baby Fever
Get Away
No Overnight Parking
Skin Deep
Rezar
Pest
Biters and Bleeders
MK Ultra Violence
Where’s Weirdo
Vespa
No More Room In Hell
Demon Box
All-Nighter
An American Family Calamity
Dummy
Exit Package
Last Sacrifice
Shelter Half
Sleep Tight
Super Happy Fun Clown
Surgical Precision
That Doll Ain’t Right!
That Doll Ain’t Right III
That Doll Ain’t Right Too
The Clogging
#Pizzagate
A Suit and a Straight Razor
Candor
Engram
Fed
Filet De Femme
Influence
The Ossan
Remembered
Ride Baby Ride
Saint-Sacrifice
Three Baths
Come Home
In The Heat
Up on the Housetop
Cornerboy
The Mobius Trip
F’ckin Nuts
Didn’t Think I’d See You Here
Annihaltor
The Mantis
What Lies Within
Gummy
First Blood
Floater
The Heritage
Toad Boy
Latex Lorenzo
The Little Girl Eater
Hot Local Singles Are In Your Area
Virgil’s Rings
Don’t Eat Candy at Night
Content: The Lo Fi Man
Thingamajig
The Hanover Incident
Susi Q, Where Are You?
Tied Down
Deadly Reunion
I’m Going to Kill You
Bedbugs Ate My Dreams
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Stolen Tundra
They Call It .. Red Cemetary!
Garbage Days
Caterpillar
The Watcher
The Emissaries
That’s Our Time
Tiny Thing
Make the Call
Winder
In Your Arms
Caroline
POV
Pruning
Everything Is Quiet Now
Two Knocks on a Door
Latchkey
Robbie Ain’t Right No More
Closing Time
Leaving Yellowstone
The Night Editors
with Departing Seniors
We Joined A Cult
with How To Kill Monsters
Tooth
with Hundreds of Beavers
Nasty Videos
with Love Will Tear Us Apart
Virga
with The Choice
The Spirit Became Flesh
with Santa Isn’t Real
Shut
with Trunk
Sempre Avanti
with Cryptids
Signal
with Butchers Book Two: Raghorn
The Hunter
with Abruptio
Ringing Rocks
with Saint Drogo
The Beast
with The Beast of Walton St.
Wicked Image
with Monster Ballads
Old Flames
with Livescreamers
schedule
Nightmares Film Festival 2023 presents a world-class assembly of the scariest, tensest, and most bizarre films from across the globe. Discover your new favorite genre film among our four-day lineup. To see the full screening schedule, to purchase a festival pass, or to secure a single screening ticket, click here.
Thursday
october
26
6:00pm
Departing Seniors w/The Night Editors (11)
Ohio Premiere
Horror Comedy Shorts
8:00pm
How to Kill Monsters w/We Joined a Cult
United States Premiere
Midnight Shorts A
10:00pm
Hundreds of Beavers w/Tooth
Ohio Premiere
Horror Shorts A
FRIDAY
october
27
2:00pm
Love Will Tear Us Apart w/Nasty Videos
Midwest Premiere
Recurring Nightmares A
4:00pm
The Choice w/Virga
Eastern United States Premiere
Horror Shorts B
6:00pm
Filmmaker and screenwriter meet up: The Festival Lounge
7:00pm
Killer Trivia: The Festival Lounge
8:00pm
Santa Isn’t Real w/The Spirit Became Flesh
World Premiere
Thriller Shorts A
10:00pm
The Wheel of Heaven
Ohio Premiere
Horror Shorts C
SATURDAY
october
28
Noon
Trunk w/Shut
United States Premiere
Panel Discussion: Social Progress Through Horror
Moderated by NFF co-founder, Jason Tostevin
1:00pm
Panel Discussion: The New Distribution
Moderated by NFF co-founder, Chris Hamel
2:00pm
The People’s Joker
Midwest Premiere
Recurring Nightmares B
4:00pm
Slay Ride Shorts
Hairy Situations Shorts
5:15pm
Nightmares Film Festival 2023 Awards Presentation
6:00pm
The Deep Dark
Midwest Premiere
Thriller Shorts B
8:00pm
Cryptids w/Sempre Avanti
Ohio Premiere
Horror Shorts D
10:00pm
Butcher’s Book Two: Raghorn w/Signal
World Premiere
Midnight Shorts B
Midnight
Abruptio w/The Hunter
Ohio Premiere
Thriller Shorts C
Sunday
october
29
Noon
Saint Drogo w/Ringing Rocks
Midwest Premiere
Ohio Shorts
2:00pm
Panel Discussion: Pitching to Press w/The New York Times
The Beast of Walton St. w/The Beast
3:00pm
Real Nightmares: Documentary Shorts
4:00pm
Murder Ballads: How to Make It in Rock ‘n’ Roll w/Wicked Image
World Premiere
Livescreamers w/Old Flames
Ohio Premiere
tickets
parking and directions
Nightmares Film Festival is a destination horror and genre fest conveniently held in the heart of the Midwest: easily reached, easily navigated, and inclusive Columbus, Ohio. Festival screenings are held at the world-renowned Gateway Film Center, named one of the 20 best art houses on the continent by Sundance. The Film Center’s dedicated team of expert projectionists – maybe the last such team in the country – oversees all presentation, to ensure every film looks and sounds its very best.
Gateway Film Center
1550 North High Street, Columbus, Ohio 43201
614.259.7182
Directions
From the North
Take any major highway to I-270. Take I-270 to SR 315 South. Exit Lane Avenue and turn left (east) to High Street. Turn right (south) onto High Street and proceed to 11th Avenue. Turn left (east) onto 11th Avenue and park in the GFC parking garage located on your right (south).
From the East
Take any major highway to I-70 West. Take I-70 to SR 315 North. Exit Lane Avenue and turn right (east) to High Street. Turn right (south) onto High Street and proceed to 11th Avenue. Turn left (East) onto 11th Avenue and park in the GFC parking garage located on your right (south).
From the South
Take any major highway to I-270. Take I-270 to SR 315 North. Exit Lane Avenue and turn right (east) to High Street. Turn right (south) onto High Street and proceed to 11th Avenue. Turn left (east) onto 11th Avenue and park in the GFC parking garage located on your right (south).
From the West
Take any major highway to I-70 East. Take I-70 to SR 315 North. Exit Lane Avenue and turn right (east) to High Street. Turn right (south) onto High Street and proceed to 11th Avenue. Turn left (east) onto 11th Avenue and park in the GFC parking garage located on your right (south).
Convenient garage Parking
Convenient parking is available in the garage located right next door to the cinema on both the 9th and 11th avenues. To validate your parking, purchase a single exit voucher at the film center box offi ce. The $2 validation is good until 4:00 am in the garage.
FREE Street Parking
Free street parking is available on 9th Avenue, 11th Avenue and Indianola Avenue with the exception of street sweeping days.