The New York City Horror Film Festival was established by Michael J. Hein in 2001. It takes place each year in New York City

New York City

New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...

 for a week in October or November and specializes in the horror

Horror film

Horror films seek to elicit a negative emotional reaction from viewers by playing on the audience's most primal fears. They often feature scenes that startle the viewer through the means of macabre and the supernatural, thus frequently overlapping with the fantasy and science fiction genres...

 film genre.

The festival is a competitive one, showing 60 films in 2005. Award

Award

An award is something given to a person or a group of people to recognize excellence in a certain field; a certificate of excellence. Awards are often signifiedby trophies, titles, certificates, commemorative plaques, medals, badges, pins, or ribbons...

s are as follows:

• Best Feature Film
  Feature film
  In the film industry, a feature film is a film production made for initial distribution in theaters and being the main attraction of the screening, rather than a short film screened before it; a full length movie...
  
  
• Best Short Film
• Best Cinematography
  Cinematography
  Cinematography is the making of lighting and camera choices when recording photographic images for cinema. It is closely related to the art of still photography...
  
  
• Best Special Effects
• Best Actor
• Best Actress
• Best Screenplay
  Screenplay
  A screenplay or script is a written work that is made especially for a film or television program. Screenplays can be original works or adaptations from existing pieces of writing. In them, the movement, actions, expression, and dialogues of the characters are also narrated...
  
  
• Audience Choice

Lifetime achievement award

Since 2002, The New York City Horror Film Festival has given the Lifetime Achievement Award to one legendary horror filmmaker each year.

Recipients are as follows:

• 2010 - Robert Englund
  Robert Englund
  Robert Barton Englund is an American actor, voice-actor and director, best known for playing the fictional serial killer Freddy Krueger, in the Nightmare on Elm Street film series. He received a Saturn Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor for A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors in...
  
  
• 2009 - William Lustig
  William Lustig
  William Lustig , also known as Bill Lustig, is an American film director and producer who has worked primarily in the horror film genre.-Movie career:...
  
  
• 2008 - Frank Henenlotter
  Frank Henenlotter
  Frank Henenlotter, , is an American screenwriter, director and film historian. He is known primarily for his horror comedies, though he would prefer to be classified as an "exploitation" filmmaker . "I never felt that I made ‘horror films’, he has said. "I always felt that I made exploitation films...
  
  
• 2007 - Herschell Gordon Lewis
  Herschell Gordon Lewis
  Herschell Gordon Lewis is an American filmmaker, best known for creating the "splatter film" subgenre of horror...
  
  
• 2006 - Mick Garris
  Mick Garris
  Mick Garris is an American filmmaker and screenwriter born in Santa Monica, California.-Biography:He is best known for his adaptations of Stephen King stories, such as directing the horror film Sleepwalkers starring Madchen Amick and is the creator of the Showtime series Masters of Horror...
  
  
• 2005 - Roger Corman
  Roger Corman
  Roger William Corman is an American film producer, director and actor. He has mostly worked on low-budget B movies. Some of Corman's work has an established critical reputation, such as his cycle of films adapted from the tales of Edgar Allan Poe, and in 2009 he won an Honorary Academy Award for...
  
  
• 2004 - Tobe Hooper
  Tobe Hooper
  Tobe Hooper is an American film director and screenwriter, best known for his work in the horror film genre. His works include the cult classic The Texas Chain Saw Massacre , along with its first sequel, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 ; the three-time Emmy-nominated Stephen King film adaptation...
  
  
• 2003 - Tom Savini
  Tom Savini
  Thomas Vincent "Tom" Savini is an American actor, stuntman, director, award-winning special effects and makeup artist. He is known for his work on the Living Dead films directed by George A. Romero, as well as Creepshow, The Burning, Friday the 13th, The Prowler, and Maniac. He directed the 1990...
  
  
• 2002 - George A. Romero
  George A. Romero
  George Andrew Romero is a Canadian-American film director, screenwriter and editor, best known for his gruesome and satirical horror films about a hypothetical zombie apocalypse. He is nicknamed "Godfather of all Zombies." -Life and career:...
  
  

Awards

2010

Lifetime Achievement Award: Mr. Robert Englund

Best Feature: YELLOWBRICKROAD by Andy Mitton and Jesse Holland

Best Director: Stevan Mean, BEREAVEMENT

Best Actor: James Nesbitt, OUTCAST

Best Actress: Emilie Dequenne, THE PACK (LA MEUTE)

Best Screenplay: Franck Richard, THE PACK (LA MEUTE)

Best Submitted Screenplay: "The Call of the Jersey Devil" by Aurelio Voltaire

Best Cinematography: Marco Cappetta, BEREAVEMENT

Best FX: Jenn Rose, KISS THE ABYSS

Best Short Film: NINJAS by Dennison Ramalho

Audience Choice Award: THE LIVING WANT ME DEAD by Bill Palmer

Wizard World Award: WRITTEN BY by Karni Baghdikian

2009

• Best Feature - The Revenant
• Best Director - Kerry Prior, The Revenant
• Best Short - Eric Scherbarth, Sinkhole
• Best Actor - (Tie) David Anders and Chris Wylde
  Chris Wylde
  Chris Wylde is the stage name of an American actor and comedian who was born on August 22, 1976 in Hackettstown, New Jersey as Christopher Scott Noll.-Early life:...
  
  , The Revenant
• Best Actress - Ellia English, Cornered
• Best Cinematography - Pier Luigi Santi, The Shadow Within
• Best Special Effects - Sweatshop
• Best Screenplay (submitted film) - Andreas Schaap, Must Love Death
• Best Screenplay - Vincent Ho and Stan Shaw, "Gargoyle"
• Audience Choice - The Revenant

2008

• Best Feature - Frank Henenlotter
  Frank Henenlotter
  Frank Henenlotter, , is an American screenwriter, director and film historian. He is known primarily for his horror comedies, though he would prefer to be classified as an "exploitation" filmmaker . "I never felt that I made ‘horror films’, he has said. "I always felt that I made exploitation films...
  
  's Bad Biology
  Bad Biology
  Bad Biology is a dark horror comedy film directed and produced by Frank Henenlotter and rapper R.A. the Rugged Man.-Plot:Driven by biological excess, a young man and woman search for sexual fulfillment, unaware of each others existence. Unfortunately, they eventually meet, and the bonding of these...
  
  
• Best Director - Jennifer Chambers Lynch, Surveillance
  Surveillance
  Surveillance is the monitoring of the behavior, activities, or other changing information, usually of people. It is sometimes done in a surreptitious manner...
  
  
• Best Short - Nathan Bezner's Altar
• Best Cinematography - Stephanie Martin, The Objective
• Best Screenplay (submitted) - Jason Contino, "Remake"
• Best Screenplay for a Submitted Film - Nacho Vigalondo
  Nacho Vigalondo
  Ignacio "Nacho" Vigalondo is a Spanish filmmaker.-Movie career:In addition to receiving an Academy Award nomination and a Best Short Film Award nomination at the European Film Awards, Vigalondo's 2003 short film 7:35 de la Mañana received the Bronze Moon of Valencia at the Cinema Jove – Valencia...
  
  , Timecrimes
• Best Special Effects - Gabriel Bartalos, Bad Biology
  Bad Biology
  Bad Biology is a dark horror comedy film directed and produced by Frank Henenlotter and rapper R.A. the Rugged Man.-Plot:Driven by biological excess, a young man and woman search for sexual fulfillment, unaware of each others existence. Unfortunately, they eventually meet, and the bonding of these...
  
  
• Best Actor - Dameon Clarke
  Dameon Clarke
  Dameon J. Clarke is a Canadian-born American actor and voice actor who currently resides in Los Angeles. He has worked on numerous film and television productions as well as many anime and video game properties for FUNimation Entertainment, New Generation Pictures and OkraTron 5000. He is...
  
  , How to Be a Serial Killer
  How to Be a Serial Killer
  How to Be a Serial Killer is a 2008 black comedy film about a young serial killer who imparts his knowledge to an eager pupil. The film was written and directed by Luke Ricci, and stars Dameon Clarke, Matthew Gray Gubler, Ryan Smith, Laura Regan and George Wyner.Ricci has gone on to produce among...
  
  
• Best Actress - Ryan Simpkins
  Ryan Simpkins
  Ryan Elise Simpkins is an American actress. In the film Pride and Glory , she and her brother, actor Ty Simpkins, play the children of Colin Farrell. In Revolutionary Road she again starred alongside her real-life brother Ty.-Selected filmography:-External links:...
  
  , Surveillance
  Surveillance
  Surveillance is the monitoring of the behavior, activities, or other changing information, usually of people. It is sometimes done in a surreptitious manner...
  
  
• Audience Choice Award: Short - Jason Eisener's Treevenge
• Audience Choice Award: Feature - Nacho Vigalondo
  Nacho Vigalondo
  Ignacio "Nacho" Vigalondo is a Spanish filmmaker.-Movie career:In addition to receiving an Academy Award nomination and a Best Short Film Award nomination at the European Film Awards, Vigalondo's 2003 short film 7:35 de la Mañana received the Bronze Moon of Valencia at the Cinema Jove – Valencia...
  
  's Timecrimes

2007

• Best Feature - Botched
  Botched
  -Plot:Richie Donovan works as a professional thief for Groznyi , a wealthy businessman, in order to pay off his debt for being smuggled into America as a child. He pulls off a successful diamond heist, but it is botched when he gets involved in two separate car accidents...
  
  
• Best Short - Criticized
• Best Cinematography - Nobody
• Best Screenplay - Death of a Ghost Hunter
• Best Special Effects - Seed
  Seed (2007 film)
  Seed is a horror film written and directed by Uwe Boll. The film stars Will Sanderson, Mike Dopud, Andrew Jackson, Ralf Möller, Don S. Davis, and Michael Paré. Filming ran from July 17 to August 11, 2006 in British Columbia, Canada, on a $10 million budget.- Plot :Max Seed , a man responsible...
  
  
• Best Actor - Stephen Dorff
  Stephen Dorff
  Stephen Dorff is an American actor, best known for portraying Stuart Sutcliffe in Backbeat, Johnny Marco in Somewhere, and for his roles in Blade and Cecil B. DeMented.-Early life:...
  
   - Botched
  Botched
  -Plot:Richie Donovan works as a professional thief for Groznyi , a wealthy businessman, in order to pay off his debt for being smuggled into America as a child. He pulls off a successful diamond heist, but it is botched when he gets involved in two separate car accidents...
  
  
• Best Actress - Masha Wattanapanich - Alone
• Audience Choice Award - DARA

2006

• Best Feature - Fingerprints
  Fingerprints (film)
  Fingerprints is a 2006 film by Harry Basil starring Leah Pipes, Kristin Cavallari, Josh Henderson, and Andrew Lawrence. The cinematography is inspired from the "Sixth Sense".-Plot:...
  
  
• Best Short - Happy Birthday To U
• Best Screenplay - Last Rites of the Dead
  Last Rites of the Dead
  Zombies Anonymous is a horror/comedy zombie film released in 2006, starring Gina Ramsden and Joshua Nelson...
  
  
• Best Cinematography - The Marsh
• Best Special Effects - The Marsh
• Best Actor - Robert "Opal" Oppel - Rapturious
• Best Actress - Gina Ramsden - Last Rites of the Dead
  Last Rites of the Dead
  Zombies Anonymous is a horror/comedy zombie film released in 2006, starring Gina Ramsden and Joshua Nelson...
  
  
• Audience Choice Award - Eddie Loves You

2005

• Best Feature - The Dark Hours
• Best Short - Zombie Movie
• Best Screenplay - Headspace
• Best Cinematography - Headspace
• Best Special Effects - Neighborhood Watch
• Best Actor - Jason Campbell - Nightmare
• Best Actress - Nicole Roderick - Nightmare
• Audience Choice Award - Roadkill

2004

• Best Feature - The Last Horror Movie
  The Last Horror Movie
  The Last Horror Movie is a British horror film directed by Julian Richards, starring Kevin Howarth, Mark Stevenson and released in 2004. It is filmed in a found footage style.- Plot :...
  
  
• Best Short - Herbie
• Best Screenplay - The Ghouls
• Best Cinematography - London Voodoo
• Best Special Effects - Cube Zero
  Cube Zero
  Cube Zero is a 2004 Canadian psychological thriller/horror film, written and directed by Ernie Barbarash. It is the third film in the Cube film series, but is a prequel to the first film...
  
  
• Best Actor - Kevin Howarth - The Last Horror Movie
  The Last Horror Movie
  The Last Horror Movie is a British horror film directed by Julian Richards, starring Kevin Howarth, Mark Stevenson and released in 2004. It is filmed in a found footage style.- Plot :...
  
  
• Audience Choice Award - Unwelcome

2003

• Best Feature - Malevolence
• Best Short - Scream for Me
• Best Cinematography - Flesh for the Beast"
• Best Actor - Kristina Copeland "Savage Island"
• Best Special Effects - "Flesh for the Beast"
• Audience Choice Award - Strange Things Happen At Sundown
  Strange Things Happen at Sundown
  Strange Things Happen At Sundown is a 2003 horror comedy, centering on the lives of a handful of New York vampires. It was directed by Marc Fratto and produced by Insane-o-rama Productions, and picked up for distribution by Brain Damage Films...
  
  

2006

• The Devil's Rejects
  The Devil's Rejects
  The Devil's Rejects is a 2005 American horror film written and directed by Rob Zombie, and the sequel to his 2003 film House of 1000 Corpses. The film is about the family of psychopathic killers from the previous film now on the run...
  
  
• Masters of Horror
  Masters of Horror
  Masters of Horror is an informal social group of international film writers and directors specializing in horror movies and an American television series created by director Mick Garris for the Showtime cable network.- Origin :...
  
   episode Valerie on the Stairs
  Valerie on the Stairs
  Valerie on the Stairs is the eighth episode of the second season of Masters of Horror.-Plot:Rob Hanisey is an unsuccessful writer who has long overdue bills and rent, and, as flashbacks suggest, has been dumped by his girlfriend Anna...
  
  
• Masters of Horror
  Masters of Horror
  Masters of Horror is an informal social group of international film writers and directors specializing in horror movies and an American television series created by director Mick Garris for the Showtime cable network.- Origin :...
  
   episode The Damned Thing
  The Damned Thing
  The Damned Thing is the first episode of the second season of Masters of Horror. It originally aired in North America on October 27, 2006.-Plot:...
  
  
• Zombi 2
  Zombi 2
  Zombi 2 is a 1979 zombie horror film directed by Lucio Fulci. It is the best-known of Fulci's films and made him a horror icon. Though the title suggests this is a sequel to Zombi Zombi 2 (also known as Zombie, Island of the Living Dead, Zombie Island, Zombie Flesh Eaters and Woodoo) is a 1979...
  
  

2005

• Jaws
  Jaws (film)
  Jaws is a 1975 American horror-thriller film directed by Steven Spielberg and based on Peter Benchley's novel of the same name. In the story, the police chief of Amity Island, a fictional summer resort town, tries to protect beachgoers from a giant man-eating great white shark by closing the beach,...
  
  
• Masters of Horror
  Masters of Horror
  Masters of Horror is an informal social group of international film writers and directors specializing in horror movies and an American television series created by director Mick Garris for the Showtime cable network.- Origin :...
  
   episode Incident On and Off a Mountain Road
  Incident On and Off a Mountain Road
  Incident On and Off a Mountain Road is the premiere episode of the first season of Masters of Horror directed by Don Coscarelli. It originally aired in North America on October 28, 2005. The screenplay is based on an original short story by American author Joe R...
  
  
• Mortuary
  Mortuary (film)
  Mortuary is a 2005 horror-thriller film directed by Tobe Hooper. It stars Dan Byrd, Alexandra Adi, and Denise Crosby.-Plot:After the loss of their father, the Doyle family, Leslie, Jonathan, and Jamie, move to the Fowler Mortuary in hope of starting a new life. The three find the mortuary to be in...
  
  
• The Rocky Horror Picture Show
  The Rocky Horror Picture Show
  The Rocky Horror Picture Show is the 1975 film adaptation of the British rock musical stageplay, The Rocky Horror Show, written by Richard O'Brien. The film is a parody of B-movie, science fiction and horror films of the late 1940s through early 1970s. Director Jim Sharman collaborated on the...
  
  
• Tamara
  Tamara (2005 film)
  Tamara is a 2005 horror film, with resemblances to the Stephen King novel Carrie.It was released only in select theatres by City Lights Pictures, a Manhattan-based production company.-Plot:...
  
  
• The Masque of the Red Death
  The Masque of the Red Death (film)
  The Masque of the Red Death is a 1964 British horror film starring Vincent Price in a tale about a prince who terrorizes a plague-ridden peasantry while merrymaking in a lonely castle with his jaded courtiers. The film was directed by Roger Corman; the screenplay by Charles Beaumont and R...
  
  
• Three...Extremes
• Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas

2004

• Mad Monster Party?
  Mad Monster Party?
  Mad Monster Party is a 1967 American animated comedy film released by Embassy Pictures for Rankin/Bass Productions, Inc.-Plot:...
  
  
• Satan's Little Helper
  Satan's Little Helper
  Satan's Little Helper is a low-budget black comedy/horror film directed by Jeff Lieberman. It was filmed with HD cameras around New York City, USA in 2003 and premiered at film festivals in 2004. It had a direct-to-DVD release on October 4, 2005.-Plot:...
  
  
• The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
  The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
  The Texas Chain Saw Massacre is a 1974 American independent horror film directed and produced by Tobe Hooper, who cowrote it with Kim Henkel. It stars Marilyn Burns, Paul A. Partain, Edwin Neal, Jim Siedow, and Gunnar Hansen, who respectively portray Sally Hardesty, Franklin Hardesty, the...
  
  
• Toolbox Murders

2007

• Eli Roth
  Eli Roth
  Eli Raphael Roth is an American film director, producer, writer and actor. He is known for his role as Donny "The Bear Jew" Donowitz in Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds for which he won both a SAG Award and a BFCA Critic's Choice Award...
  
  
• Herschell Gordon Lewis
  Herschell Gordon Lewis
  Herschell Gordon Lewis is an American filmmaker, best known for creating the "splatter film" subgenre of horror...
  
  

William Lustig
Michael Gingold
Frank Zagarino
Roy Fumkis

2006

• Tony Todd
  Tony Todd
  Anthony T. "Tony" Todd is an American actor and movie producer, known for his height of 6'5", and deep voice. He is well known for playing the Candyman in the horror movie franchise of the same name, William Bludworth in Final Destination and for guest starring roles on numerous television...
  
   was presented with a special award for "Excellence In Acting" in horror films
• Mick Garris
  Mick Garris
  Mick Garris is an American filmmaker and screenwriter born in Santa Monica, California.-Biography:He is best known for his adaptations of Stephen King stories, such as directing the horror film Sleepwalkers starring Madchen Amick and is the creator of the Showtime series Masters of Horror...
  
   was presented the Lifetime Achievement Award
• Ken Foree
  Ken Foree
  Kentotis Alvin "Ken" Foree is an American actor probably most famous as the hero Peter in Dawn of the Dead and Kenan & Kel as Roger, Kenan's dad.- Early life and career :Foree was born in Indianapolis, Indiana...
  
  
• Betsy Palmer
  Betsy Palmer
  Betsy Palmer is an American actress, best known as a regular panelist on the game show I've Got a Secret, and later for playing Pamela Voorhees in the notorious slasher film Friday the 13th.-Life and career:...
  
  
• Michael Gingold
  Michael Gingold
  Michael Gingold is an American journalist, screenwriter, and actor. He has been the managing editor of Fangoria Magazine since 1990.His writing credits include reviews for The Motion Picture Guide, The Blockbuster Video Guide, and Movies on TV and Videocassette...
  
  
• Joe Kane
  Joe Kane
  Joe Kane is an American author of two books and is also a journalist who writes for numerous publications such as The New Yorker, National Geographic, and Esquire...
  
  
• William Lustig
  William Lustig
  William Lustig , also known as Bill Lustig, is an American film director and producer who has worked primarily in the horror film genre.-Movie career:...
  
  
• Jack Ketchum
  Jack Ketchum
  Jack Ketchum is the pseudonym for American author Dallas Mayr . He is the recipient of four Bram Stoker Awards and three further nominations. Many of his novels have been adapted to film, including The Girl Next Door and Red...
  
  

2005

• Roger Corman
  Roger Corman
  Roger William Corman is an American film producer, director and actor. He has mostly worked on low-budget B movies. Some of Corman's work has an established critical reputation, such as his cycle of films adapted from the tales of Edgar Allan Poe, and in 2009 he won an Honorary Academy Award for...
  
  , who received the Lifetime Achievement Award
• Don Coscarelli
  Don Coscarelli
  Don Coscarelli is an American film director, producer and screenwriter best known for horror films. His credits include the Phantasm series, The Beastmaster, and Bubba Ho-Tep.-Biography:...
  
  
• Angus Scrimm
  Angus Scrimm
  Angus Scrimm is an American actor, best known for playing the Tall Man in the 1979 horror movie Phantasm and its sequels.-Life and career:...
  
  
• Michael Gingold
  Michael Gingold
  Michael Gingold is an American journalist, screenwriter, and actor. He has been the managing editor of Fangoria Magazine since 1990.His writing credits include reviews for The Motion Picture Guide, The Blockbuster Video Guide, and Movies on TV and Videocassette...
  
  
• Armand Mastroianni
  Armand Mastroianni
  Armand Mastroianni is an American film director. He is the father of Paul Mastroianni who is also pursuing a career in filmmaking. Armand Mastroianni's directorial debut was the 1980 horror film He Knows You're Alone which was also the screen debut of actor Tom Hanks...
  
  
• William Lustig
  William Lustig
  William Lustig , also known as Bill Lustig, is an American film director and producer who has worked primarily in the horror film genre.-Movie career:...
  
  

2004

• Tobe Hooper
  Tobe Hooper
  Tobe Hooper is an American film director and screenwriter, best known for his work in the horror film genre. His works include the cult classic The Texas Chain Saw Massacre , along with its first sequel, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 ; the three-time Emmy-nominated Stephen King film adaptation...
  
   received the Lifetime Achievement Award
• Amanda Plummer

Jeff Lieberman
William Lustig
Michael Gingold

2003

• Tom Savini
  Tom Savini
  Thomas Vincent "Tom" Savini is an American actor, stuntman, director, award-winning special effects and makeup artist. He is known for his work on the Living Dead films directed by George A. Romero, as well as Creepshow, The Burning, Friday the 13th, The Prowler, and Maniac. He directed the 1990...
  
   received the Lifetime Achievement Award
• Lloyd Kaufman
  Lloyd Kaufman
  Lloyd Kaufman is an American film director, producer, screenwriter and occasional actor. With producer Michael Herz, he is the co-founder of Troma Entertainment film studio, and the director of many of their feature films, including The Toxic Avenger and Tromeo and Juliet. Kaufman also serves as...
  
  
• Joe Bob Briggs
  Joe Bob Briggs
  John Irving Bloom , who uses the pseudonym Joe Bob Briggs, is a syndicated American film critic, writer and comic performer.-Early years:...
  
  
• Michael Ruggerio

2002

• George A. Romero
  George A. Romero
  George Andrew Romero is a Canadian-American film director, screenwriter and editor, best known for his gruesome and satirical horror films about a hypothetical zombie apocalypse. He is nicknamed "Godfather of all Zombies." -Life and career:...
  
   to receive the Lifetime Achievement Award
• Felissa Rose
  Felissa Rose
  Felissa Rose is an American actress, known for her role as Angela Baker in the 1983 cult classic, Sleepaway Camp.-Early life:She was born as Felissa Rose Esposito in Greenwich Village and grew up in Woodbury, Long Island....
  
  
• Lloyd Kaufman
  Lloyd Kaufman
  Lloyd Kaufman is an American film director, producer, screenwriter and occasional actor. With producer Michael Herz, he is the co-founder of Troma Entertainment film studio, and the director of many of their feature films, including The Toxic Avenger and Tromeo and Juliet. Kaufman also serves as...
  
  

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• Brussels International Festival of Fantasy Film
  Brussels International Festival of Fantasy Film
  The Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival , previously named Brussels International Festival of Fantastic Film was created in 1983 as a venue for horror, thriller and science fiction films. It takes place in Brussels, every year in March...
  
  
• Dead by Dawn
  Dead by Dawn
  Dead by Dawn is a film festival in Edinburgh, Scotland specifically devoted to horror films. Established in 1993 by Adele Hartley, this is a discovery festival showcasing mostly independent films, both short films and feature length films...
  
  
• European Fantastic Film Festivals Federation
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• Fantastic Fest
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• International Horror and Sci-Fi Film Festival
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• Toronto After Dark Film Festival
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