2022 screenplays
The Nightmares Film Festival screenplay contest recognizes the world’s top horror feature and short screenplays and offers their writers the opportunity to connect to the #BetterHorror community of producers and directors at the festival.
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Will be announced during the festival!
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Will be announced during the festival!
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2021 screenplays
The Nightmares Film Festival screenplay contest recognizes the world’s top horror feature and short screenplays and offers their writers the opportunity to connect to the #BetterHorror community of producers and directors at the festival.
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2020 screenplays
The Nightmares Film Festival screenplay contest recognizes the world’s top horror feature and short screenplays and offers their writers the opportunity to connect to the #BetterHorror community of producers and directors at the festival.
Will be announced October 24, 2020
Turn to Stone, John R Kestner
Too Many Wades, Stirling J McLaughlin, Wilder Konschak
Fear Catcher, Shane Thompson
The Orchestra, Curtis Matzke
Consumed, Don Stroud
Stranger at Home, Micheal Raines
In Country, Scott Peterman, Cat Davis
The Hitchhiker, Dan Ast
The Bereaved, Casey Alan Geisen, Jamie Fox
Feeder, Thomas Simon
Cool Aunts, Kinsley Funari
Open House, Sean J.S.
Jourdan, John Ingle
Will be announced October 24, 2020
I’m Going to Kill You, Derek Stewart
Eden, Rakefet Abergel
Do Not Disturb Whatever Is In Room 255, Jeremy Herbert
Bowlhead, Thomas Simon
The Butter Street Hitchhiker, Chris Hicks
Dog Eyes, Helena Aguilera
Thursday Night Glow Party, Jessie Seitz
Dystopia, Laura Ugolini, Anja Skovly Freberg, Maria Galliani Dyrvik
Open Mic Night, Evan Baughfman
Denizen, Sean Furey
Drained, Maxwell Seiler
The Oops-a-Daisies, Greg Sisco
2019 screenplays
The Nightmares Film Festival screenplay contest recognizes the world’s top horror feature and short screenplays and offers their writers the opportunity to connect to the #BetterHorror community of producers and directors at the festival.
Runner Up: No Overnight Parking | Meg Swertlow
Runner Up: He Brings The Night | Kevin Donner
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 & Greg Sisco
Third Date | Avishai Weinberger
He Brings The Night | Kevin Donner
Monger | David Axe
Girl Trouble | Devi Snively
Runner Up: Gender Reveal Party | Alison Parker
Runner Up: Mary, Dispossessed | Kristy Walsh
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 Practice for Dying | Shayna Connelly
Mary, Dispossessed | Kristy Walsh
The Garden | Guillermo Ortiz & Katie Sullivan
The Squirrels in the Attic | Rachel Thomas-Medwid
Who Wants Dessert? | Venita Ozols-Graham
2018 screenplays
The Nightmares Film Festival screenplay contest recognizes the world’s top horror feature and short screenplays and offers their writers the opportunity to connect to the #BetterHorror community of producers and directors at the festival.
Winner, The Patience of Vultures by Greg Sisco
First Runner-up, People of Merrit by Adam Pottle
Second Runner-up, Bartleby Grimm’s Paranormal
Elimination Service by Dan Kiely
Patience of Vultures by Greg Sisco
People of Merrit by Adam Pottle
The Shame Game by Greg Sisco
Rise of the Gulon by Matt Wildash
Left Of The Devil by Stephen Anderson
Bartleby Grimm’s Paranormal Elimination Service by Dan Kiely
Kelipot by Seth Nesenholtz
The Coldest Horizon by Jeffrey Howe
Throwbackby Rachel Woolley
Resurrection Girl and the Curse of the Wendigo by Nathan Ludwig
The Caul by Sophia Cacciola & Michael J. Epstein
The Devil’s Gun by James Christopher
Residual by Tyler Christensen
Winner, #dead by Derek Stewart
First Runner-up, Hiking Buddies by Megan Morrison Second Runner-up, The Burning Dress by Sam Kolesnik
Boo by Rakefet Abergel
Mourning Meal by Jamal Hodge
Hiking Buddies by Megan Morrison
Living Memory by Stephen Graves
#dead by Derek Stewart
The Burning Dress by Sam Kolesnik
For Good Behavior by Ron Riekki
Air by Dayla Guerin
Invidia by Vanessa Wright
Minotaur by Michael Escobedo
Pancake by Skank Savannah Rodgers
The Callback by Sophie Hood
The Farm by Cate McLennan