Author: horrorfestival

Thomas and Martha are exhausted after a party. Spencer is denied opening a second present. Albina puts the baby to sleep upstairs, and Spencer goes up after. He comes down and says he pushed the baby out of the window, and when Thomas goes upstairs for him, finds that what Spencer said is true. CAST… Continue reading HORROR STAGE PLAY 1st Scene: SPENCER: The Seven Year Old Boy Who Went to Hell, by Peter Ritt

Performed by Val Cole

Performed by Val Cole

A showcase of the best HORROR films in the world today! AUDIENCE AWARDS:Best Short Film: Twilight of the UndeadBest Direction: Come the NightfallBest Performances: Open HouseBest Visual Design: Secret SauceBest Story: Look at MeBest Micro-Short: Outro LOOK AT ME, 2min., CanadaDirected by Cameron MorinA man casually brushes his teeth in the bathroom, until things take… Continue reading HIGHLIGHTS: December 2025 HORROR Film Festival

Performed by Val Cole

A showcase of the best HORROR films in the world today! AUDIENCE AWARDS: Best Feature Film: A MOTHER’S RECALL Best Short Film: RECLUSE Best Supernatural Film: UNDER Best Animation Film: PAIN D’EPICES Best Visual Design: SENSUS MORI Best Performances: FAMILIAR Best Story: TRIPOLAR Best Cinematography: DON’T TRUST THE DEAD Best Direction: HAUNTING WITHIN Scariest Film:… Continue reading HIGHLIGHTS: November 2025 HORROR Film Festival

When a devout woman’s long-awaited pregnancy warps into visions of blood-soaked cradles, whispering walls, and cords coiling from her own flesh, she discovers her storm-battered ancestral home enforces a generational curse — every tenth child must be born, or the house will devour her body, soul, and unborn child as its tithe. CAST LIST: Narrator:… Continue reading HORROR Festival Best Scene Reading: The Tenth Cry, by Erick von Schulz

Please tell me how you met Grandma for the first time again? How old were you? If possible peel back the citrus skin of that grapefruit. Help me crack open pecans perfectly Remind me how you used to open them with a rock. Everything you know about your trees, How tall the maple across the… Continue reading DEATH Poem: In Your Next Letter, by Emma Franklin

CW: mentions of suicide, blood, death i fight my ex-boyfriend, the pillowman (conversing with The Pillowman by Martin Mcdonagh) passing stalagmite, like kidney stones dust-drunk in the catacombs, hangs the pillowman wilting delirious in his flesh house, cave dwellers conjure necrosis in allegory, them vomiting the orchestral; shadow-side. ambien damned as clover rot breeds maggots… Continue reading HORROR Poem: i fight my ex-boyfriend, by Marina Lee

Voice Over: Val Cole