Film Fest 2025

Apr 21, 2025 | Information

Our Film Fest Judges are delighted to announce our horror film fest winners for 2025:

Our Film Fest Sponsor, B-Stream has watched all of our winning entries and chosen one of our Full-on Horror winners to be offered a contract to screen on their channel!

You can see these Film Fest winners at the con, May 23rd – 25th, 2025. Full event schedule coming soon!

Micro Horror

1st The Super

2nd Mistletoe

3rd THE FIVE STAGES OF…

Horror Short

1st The Pictured Man

2nd A Friendly Referral

3rd The Talk

4th ANASTASIS

Full-on Horror

1st The Slasher Nurse

2nd The Only Ones

3rd Party of Darkness

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