HIGHLIGHTS: January 2024 HORROR Film Festival

Showcase of the best FILMS in the world today.

Audience Award Winners:

Best Horror Film: VITAL INSTRUMENTS
Scariest Film: OTHER PEOPLE’S HOUSE
Best Slasher Film: NO SLASHER HERE
Best Twist Film: ROUTINE
Best Story: MASON
Best Cinematography: TREELINE
Best Direction: LIFE AT THE LAKE
Best Performances: AUGURY
Best Experimental Film: 195

MASON, 12min., USA
Directed by Sharena Sigmon
As a Black pregnant woman suffers from medical complications and vicious hallucinations, she fears the visions are a warning of her and her unborn child’s untimely demise.

https://facebook.com/masonshortfilm
https://instagram.com/mason_shortfilm

WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!


TREELINE, 12min., UK
Directed by Freddie Bonfanti
11-year-old Neil ventures into local woods to find his missing brother Vincent, only to discover a truth that challenges the community’s accusations against their father.

https://www.instagram.com/freddiebonfa/

WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!


NO SLASHER HERE, 9min., USA
Directed by Robert Tiemstra
A woman comes home from work, only to receive an unsettling phone call. Does the danger only exist over the phone, or is there a masked killer inside her home?

https://instagram.com/the_timestar

WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!


LIFE AT THE LAKE, 16min,. USA
Directed by Tessa Torreano
Viola, recently divorced and yearning for a fresh start, decides to spend some time at a picturesque cabin by the lake with her son, Anthony. Their idyllic getaway takes a sinister turn when Anthony is involved in an accident. Haunted by guilt and determined to make amends, Viola hopes to find closure and reconnect with her son. She feels ready to begin cleaning up the mess the accident left behind.

http://www.tessatorreano.com/

WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!


AUGURY, 5min., USA
Directed by Cousteau Bix Christopher
What do you see?

WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!


VITAL INSTRUMENTS, 17min., USA
Directed by Greg Kase
In this dark fever dream, a botched pawn shop robbery sends desperate brothers Walter and Pete, and their newly employed getaway driver Cutty, hobbling to a safe house that was supposed to be abandoned. Instead, they find shackled women in critical need of their help. Things complicate after their captor is mortally wounded in a shootout, and the predicament as to why they are prisoners in the first place becomes highly questionable—especially after the first one they reluctantly release immediately (and violently) kills herself, and the rest of them start chanting in ancient tongues.

https://vitalinstruments.wixsite.com/movie
https://www.facebook.com/Vital.Instruments.Movie/
https://www.instagram.com/vital_instruments_movie/

WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!


OTHER PEOPLE’S HOUSE, 3min., Mexico
Directed by Daniel Millan
In the suspenseful short film “Casa Ajena” (Other People’s House), a young woman house-sits in the company of Max, a calm canine companion who belongs to the enigmatic house itself. Strange sounds and a house that seems to have a life of its own become sources of eerie horror. “Casa Ajena” is a relentless journey into terror within an ordinary suburban setting, leaving lingering questions about its dark history and the house’s insatiable appetite for more.

http://casaajena.dbmillan.com/

WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!


ROUTINE, 4min., USA
Directed by Russ Emanuel
During a mysterious pandemic, Cassie’s quarantine life has turned into a routine, day in and day out. Nothing new seems to happen, until she realizes she’s out of coffee. And she’s determined to get her cup of joe, even if she must face the horrors of the outside world. Because “she’d kill for a cup of coffee.”

http://www.russem.com/
https://www.facebook.com/routinethemovie/
https://twitter.com/russellemanuel
https://www.instagram.com/russem31/

WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!


195, 9min., UK
Directed by FLORO AZQUETA, TOM PEARMAN
A collaboration with film-maker and photographer, Floro Azqueta. The short experimental film, and the production of 4 ‘machines’ fabricated with laser-cut profiles, digital animations and various monitors, explores the former New Landsdowne Social Club, Mare Street, Hackney, London E8. Additional sound design by Max and Ben Ringham.

WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!


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