SpookyFest Film

About the Show

🎃 Step into the shadows at SpookyFest Film, a chilling celebration of horror, suspense, and supernatural cinema celebrated over three nights! 👻 Experience spine-tingling short films that’ll keep you up all night. Do you dare to watch?

There will be three screening sessions during the ten-day long festival. Group 1 and Group 2 will be the initial screenings for the Official Selections (five films in each line-up).

Group 3 will be made up of the two Audience Choice winners from nights one and two, two Judges’ Selections (one from each night), and the Wild Card Award winner. Lineup will be revealed in full on Tuesday, October 28th. 

Group 1

Screening Sunday, October 26th @ 7:30pm

Bathroom Spider (3:12) - When a callous jerk breaks a young woman’s heart, she turns to her resident bathroom spider for advice – with horrifying results.

Deadline (5:18) - When a young woman is called into work on the weekend, it does more than just kill her plans.

Girl to Girl (11:01) – A young woman is stalked.

Grayson’s Yard (12:03) - Fresh off a breakup, Grayson hosts a celebratory barbecue on a beautiful, sunny day. But a final word of warning from his recently made ex-girlfriend has left him more paranoid than pleased.

One Who Watches (6:18) - In a unique and perplexing situation, a man turns to an AI chatbot for help. While the chatbot attempts to assist him within its limitations and privacy constraints, their conversation takes a dark turn when the man mentions a suspected murder in the neighboring apartment. As the discussion deepens, the chat reveals a more serious and alarming threat, transforming the encounter into a tense and suspenseful ordeal.

Plus a very special screening of Shelter (23:51) - A group of friends frantically try to escape an abandoned fallout shelter when they make the terrifying discovery that they’re not alone.

Group 2

Screening Monday, October 27th @ 7:00pm

AMBUSH (13:00) – Everything is Beautiful, Until it Bleeds…

Blueprint (15:45) – In desperation to attend the biggest Halloween party of the year, Michael agrees to become their photographer. Hopefully nothing gets in his way…

CALLIOPE (7:06) – Taking place deep inside the mind of a shut-in NEET, the muse must travel through layers of the man’s psyche hoping to discover the root cause of his despair.

Mike Has a Visitor (14:00) – A man suffering from sleep paralysis, begins to downward spiral when his haunting nightmares begin to seep into his real life.

SPIN (7:23) – A group of kidnapped strangers try to escape a deadly game of Spin the Bottle.

Group 3

Screening Wednesday, October 29th @ 7:00pm

Group 3 will be made up of the two Audience Choice winners from nights one and two, two Judges’ Selections (one from each night), and the Wild Card Award winner. Lineup will be revealed in full on Tuesday, October 28th.