Crimson Screen Horror Film Fest

Join us for a spine-chilling, thrilling and unforgettable event, and walk our dREaD Carpet with the filmmakers at the 12th annual Crimson Screen Horror Film Fest.

Schedule of Events

10:00 am: Feature Film

Sugarloaf: Home Sweet Home - WORLD Premiere(94 mins/SC): A group of friends find themselves stranded on a forbidden mountain after an unforeseen accident. Desperate for help, they accidentally stumble upon the home of three mountain dwellers who will go to extreme lengths to protect their territory. Despite appearing as savage and bloodthirsty individuals with murderous intentions, there is a deeper narrative behind their actions. Directed by Spencer Winburn
 
Q&A to follow with filmmakers in attendance.

12:00 pm: Holiday Horror Shorts Block

Old St. Nick - WORLD Premiere(9 mins/NY): Max and Timmy may have just ruined Christmas for everyone. Directed by Riley Walton Thomas

Grin (5 mins/PA): Beneath his mask, a haunters twisted smile turns deadly-tonight the screams are real. Directed by J.P. Hoffman

Cookies for Christmas - SC Premiere(12 mins/KS): In this "Hallmark Story" turned Horror Film, Lacey is returning home for Christmas from her busy life as a professional in New York. When she runs into well-natured Matthew, she considers if her business life should take priority over the happiness of others. All plans are halted when a killer breaks out of the local psych hospital and turns up to spoil the holiday and any chance Lacey has to make things right. Directed by Adam Raynes

Holiday Heartbreak - SC Premiere(9 mins/IL): Jessica's festive holiday planning spirals into a sinister plot when she discovers her fiancé's secret, leading her down a path of chilling revenge. Directed by Erick Juarez

The Specter of Christmas (11 mins/CA): The fourth film in the "Old Time Radio" short film series. This time, a holiday adventure loosely based on "T’was the Night Before Christmas" narrated by Paul Giamatti. Directed by Joel Harlow
 
Q&A to follow with filmmakers in attendance.

1:30 pm: Feature Film

The Reckoning - SC Premiere(84 mins/CA): Inspired by Guy de Maupassant’s Pierre et Jean (1888), The Reckoning is a visceral drama cloaked in a knife edge psychological thriller. An inversion of the prodigal son parable, the film’s disturbing intensity is unrelenting, the focus constantly shifting, layering, unraveling like its main character. Fast descending to a mayhem where objective truth is indiscernible, and full immersion to an open eyed nightmare involuntary. Directed by Alex Breaux
 
Q&A to follow with filmmakers in attendance.

3:30 pm: Homegrown Horror Shorts Block

We All Belong to the Tower - SC Premiere(9 mins/SC): On the day the tower appears, Kaitlin learns her ordinary life can completely change in a single moment, and she could lose everything she holds dear as her family, her community and her sanity begin to unravel. Directed by Dustin Paul Weible

Perfidia (20 mins/SC): When Sarah's dreams drive her to revisit her family home, she is stalked by the ghosts of her past and forced to relive her most traumatic night. Directed by Collins Abbott White

Black Mass (14 mins/SC): In order to escape the monotony of his corporate job, an introvert travels to the outskirts of town to a house party to connect with a mysterious love interest. Directed by Brent Worden, Spencer Bang

The Hitchhiker (25 mins/SC): Traveling in a caravan and running late, a young girl named Brooke finds herself in a nightmare scenario as a mysterious man enters her back seat. As the drive goes on the man reveals himself to be more than she might have first thought. Brooke will discover the horrors of the road and be forced to dig up the horrors of her past. Directed by Benjamin Beauchamp, Timmons Flowers

Q&A to follow with filmmakers in attendance.

5:30 pm: Feature Film

Black Theta - SC Premiere(105 mins/CA): Andy is haunted years after his brush with death when a mysterious and murderous cult returns to target him, throwing him onto a rollercoaster of chaos and terror. Directed by Tim Connolly
 
Q&A to follow with filmmakers in attendance.

7:30 pm: Creature Shorts Block

The Tent (11 mins/MN): Night has fallen, and the tent is pitched. But Andrew and his father, out camping, didn’t anticipate the relentless rain, the confinement of the canvas, or the oppressive silence festering between them. When the lights go out, the storm becomes a tempest, and an otherworldly presence draws near-a specter whose haunting familiarity threatens to unravel the delicate threads of their bond. Directed by Jared Bohiken

Closed Circuit - SC Premiere(14 mins/Australia): During a routine graveyard shift, a security guard spots a mysterious black dog on the monitors. When he investigates, the dog chases him through dark corridors and transforms into a towering 7-foot demon. As he struggles to escape, reality distorts into chaos. Directed by Kari Redgen

The Red Stone (23 mins/CA): A grotesque specter, composed of human limbs, lurks in the shadows as an archaeologist discovers a special pre-Hispanic idol in a house that becomes a terrifying stage where she must decipher the mystery and survive this nightmare. Directed by Jamie Jasso

Meep! - FESTIVAL Premiere(30 mins/SC): Heartbroken and despondent, an unhinged woman makes a rash decision to nurse an otherworldly intruder she shot back to health. Directed by Kenneth Perkins

Q&A to follow with filmmakers in attendance.

9:00 pm: Crimmy Awards Ceremony

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