When/Where?
November 2–4, 2018
Rogers Kiene Building
39 S Magnolia
Orlando, FL 32801
Click here for the map!
The Movies!
(in no particular order)
Entropia
Marinah Janello
The Bloody Ballad of Squirt Reynolds
Anthony Cousins
Tiny Clones
Jim McDonough
Terrorvision 3000
Merry Wijaya, Yujin Sick
She’s Just a Shadow
Adam Sherman
Malafafone
Jono Freedrix
The Defiler
Artturi Olavi Rostén
Bestia
Gigi Saul Guerrero
Papercuts
James Leming
We Are Going into the Woods
Arnaud Bigeard
Mother Fucker
Nicholas Payne Santos
Kayfabe
James Hopkins
Catcalls
Kate Dolan
Helminth
Merinda Staubli
The Plan
Pierre Teulières
Friendsgiving
Samantha Kolesnik
Ultra
Carol-Ann Belzil-Normand
Hammer Down
Dan Pasto
Weird Shit
Nathan Trumbull, Larissa Pruett
Kink
Tayo Oyekan
Family Values
Jeffrey Turboff
Silverline Valentine
Brandon McDuffey
Seafood Diet
Max Levine
Leviathan
Erik Woolcott
Fun
Greg Kovacs
Mother
Lee Charlish
Are You Wild like Me?
William Nawrocki
Schwartzy
Aleks Vujosevic
2001: A Space OdysSEX
Hikaru Tsukuda
Timecrowave
Bob Rose
How to Make a Garden Omelette
Desmond Confoy
Mama & Me
David Ebel
Socket
Christopher Beaubien
Little Wonder
Jojo Carlman
High Fructose Suicide Booth
Alex Lukens
Piety
Naya
A Visual Metaphor for Falling in Love with Your Lead Actress
Theophilus Jamal
BFF GIrls
Brian Lonano
In a Tree Full of Rain
Zak Seidman
Crabgirl
Sergiy Pudich
A/S/L
Benjamin Swicker
Lovesick
Cassandra Sechler
La Nuit de l’Amour
Fritz M. Hasbrouck
Sucks for Us All
Kevin Davis
Zorglex: The Alien with Digestive Issues
Brock Grossl
Elliot
Craig Jacobson
STATE OF EMERGENCY MOTHERFUCKER!
Sébastien Petretti
The God inside My Ear
Joe Badon
Canine
Sean Richard Budde
Punch Me
Jeanne Jo
Third Wheel
Daniel DelPurgatorio
Seven Kinds of Satisfaction
Armin Monfared
Sky Tripper
Philip Freeman
El Duelo Weird!
Fabio Serpa
Twilight of Dreams: Ep. 01 “Zombie Jesus Vampire Hunter”
Gustavo Aviles
Television
Jordan Cooper, John Bradley, Nicole Kaspryzk, Tara Dombrowski
Sink Hole
Alex Serafini, Madeline Kelly
Released from Love
Luciano de Azevedo
Miracle Goo
Alec Simmons
Still Hungry
Rowan Russell
A Short Film about Perverts
Ted Stenson
Opus
Nelson Vicens
Freelancer
Francisco Lacerda, Francisco A. Lopes
Maelstrøm
Carlos Gómez-Trigo
All the Animals Are Dead Now
Noah Aust
Death Penalty
Mia Carvalho
Walter
Patrick Hodgson
Chum Much
Michael Arcos
Garden
Derek Gieraltowski
Shahkboy
Jake Peckar
Xamarim
Bálint Rafael Kelen
No Monkey
Matthew Emery
Love & Lust
James Vernon
eSteem
Courtney Fowler
La Revancha del Bastardo Que Come Pasta con Aceite de Sésamo
Mathieu Abric
In the Eyes of the Master
Hannah Faris
Sexy Dead Boys
Matthew Johannes
1st Day & Next Minute
Sara Koppel
The Manicurist
Jeremy Berkowitz
Future Self
Sean Lewis
Episode #27
Lukas Gähwiler
It’s Not Custard
Kate McCoid
The Awards!
The Sickies!
These beauties were hand sculpted by Paul Berg, a special-effects artist whose work was seen in Tremors and A Nightmare on Elm Street V and whose puppeteering was seen in the Snuggle Fabric Softener commercials—seriously! We’ll be giving out Sickies in these categories:
Best Movie
Best Story
Best Performance
Best Music
Best Special Effects
Scariest
Funniest
Audience Award (decided in real time by audience votes)
There are also two more awards specific to this festival:
Sickest—for the most viscerally gut-wrenching visuals
Wrongest—for the most horrifically inappropriate story content
Past Winners
2017
Best Movie—The Call of Charlie (Nick Spooner)
Best Story—Suicide Hotline (Philip Clyde-Smith)
Best Performance—The Contract (CHRZU Lindström)
Best Music—MEOW (Chris Jopp)
Best Special Effects—Trans* (Artturi Rostén and Esa Jussila)
Scariest—In My Room (Michael Trainotti)
Funniest—Born Again (Jason Tostevin)
Audience Award—Lenny’s Laundry (Doug Duke)
Sickest—Picking a Winner (Nick Helfers)
Wrongest—Bun in the Oven (Jono Freedrix)
Festival Director’s Award—byefurnow (Michael Elliott Dennis)
2016
Best Movie—The Flesh of My Lovers (Joshua Giuliano)
Best Story—The Flesh of My Lovers (Joshua Giuliano)
Best Performance—Burp (Benjamin L. Gill)
Best Music—Black Jeans Whoa (Bob Rose)
Best Special Effects—When Susurrus Stirs (Anthony Cousins)
Scariest—Megrím (Stuart Valberg)
Funniest—The Human-Banana from Outer Space (Josh DiGangi)
Audience Award—Burp (Benjamin L. Gill)
Sickest—When Susurrus Stirs (Anthony Cousins)
Wrongest—Gwilliam (Brian Lonano)