Nightmares Film Festival 2018 is now just mere days away, kicking off at the Gateway Film Center in Columbus, Ohio, on Thursday, Oct. 15. Beginning with a 7 p.m. showing of the 4K restoration of Maniac (1980), the festivities will conclude on Sunday, Oct. 21, with Best Thriller nominee Betsy. A wide array of short films and features from the horror genre will be playing in the meantime, with so many options that attendees will need to pick and choose which ones to see. In any case, it’s an event you can’t miss if you’re a horror fan in the area!
A total of 24 feature films and 164 shorts will be presented over the course of the festival. Advance tickets are still available, whether you choose to pick up a festival pass or tickets for single screenings. You can purchase those, as well as find out more info about the Nightmares Film Festival, at its official website.
Friday the 13th fans in particular can look forward to the 4 p.m. showing of Vincente DiSanti’s fan film, Never Hike Alone, on Saturday, the 20th. DiSanti, who also plays Jason Voorhees in the movie, will be in attendance. Having just reached 500,000 views in its first year on YouTube, seeing the film on the big screen will be amazing for franchise fans, especially considering the uncertainty over the future of the “official” films in the series.
Check out the full lineup for Nightmares Film Festival 2018 below.
THURSDAY, OCT. 18
7:00PM: Maniac 4K (w/ William Lustig in attendance, screening with short film Marta)
9:00PM: Skeletons in the Closet, (world premiere, screening with short film The Party’s Over)
11:00PM: Horror Comedy Shorts (Amigos, Netflix and Chill, Attack of Potato Clock, Foxwood, Rattle, Bitten, Heavy Flow, Sell Your Body, The Infection, Blood Sisters, Shit … They’re All Vampires, Late, There’s One Inside the House)
FRIDAY, OCT. 19
9:00AM (House 1): Clementina (Screening with short film A Thing of Dreams)
11:00AM (House 1): Alive (Screening with short film Mother of a Sacred Lamb)
1:00PM (House 1): Haven’s End (World Premiere)
3:00PM: Filmmaker/screenwriter meet up
4:00PM (House 1): Kill Ben Lyk (World Premiere, screening with short film What Metal Girls)
4:00PM (House 2): Recurring Nightmares A (Killing Giggles, The Unbearing, Let’s Play, Amy’s in the Freezer, One Hundred Thousand, Anniversary, Apartment 402, Enough, E-Bowla, Vampiras Satanicas II: The Death Bunny, 42 Counts)
6:00PM (House 1): Book of Monsters (North American Premiere, screening with short film Dual)
6:00PM (House 2): Horror Shorts A (Ayuda, Bathroom Troll, Don’t Drink the Water, The After Party, Masks, Here There Be Monsters, Don’t Look Into Their Eyes, Heartless, El Cuco is Hungry)
8:00PM (House 1): The Bad Man (World Premiere)
8:00PM (House 2): Thriller Shorts A (4EVR, Nocturne, The Noise of the Light, Short Leash, Instinct, Where’s Violet, Tutu Grande)
10:00PM (House 1): The FP 2: Beats of Rage
10:00PM (House 2): Horror Shorts B (Little, Save, Childer, Conductor, All You Can Carry, Made You Look, The Desolation Prize, Doggy See Evil, Spectres, Goodbye Old Friend, There’s a Monster Behind You, Blondie)
Midnight (House 1): Be My Cat (Screening with short films My First Time and Canine)
Midnight (House 2): Midnight Shorts C (Tears of Apollo, Nightmare, The Mare, Mother Rabbit, Lipstick, Human Resources, Blood and Moonlight, Suicide Note, Enjoy the View, Freelancer)
SATURDAY, OCT. 20
10:00AM (House 1): Confessions of a Serial Killer
10:00AM (House 2): More Blood! (Screening with short films Best of Me and Phototaxis)
12:00PM (House 1): The Head (North American Premiere, screening with short film Latched)
12:00PM (House 2): Social Progress Through Horror Panel
1:00PM (House 2): Distribution Panel
2:00PM (House 1): Livescream (Screening with short film Offerings)
2:00PM (House 2): Recurring Nightmares B (Galmi, Syphvania Grove, Rites of Vengeance, The Scarlet Vultures, Music Lesson, Thousand-Legged Terror, BFF Girls, Gut Punched, Basoan)
4:00PM (House 1): Never Hike Alone
4:00PM (House 2): Stephen King’s Dollar Babies(I am the Doorway and The Things We Left Behind)
5:15PM (House 1): Nightmare Awards
6:00PM (House 1): The Field Guide to Evil (Midwest Premiere)
6:00PM (House 2): Horror Shorts C (Ding Dong, Oscar’s Bell, Red Mosquito, Goodnight Gracie, Baghead, Wyrmwood, Avulsion, House Guests, The Last Seance, Three)
8:00PM (House 1): The Night Sitter (North American Premiere, screening short film Jingle Hell)
8:00PM (House 2): Thriller Shorts B (Lady Hunters, Smiley’s, Headless Swans, A Death Story Called Girl, Dead Cool, You’ll Only Have Each Other)
10:00PM (House 1): The Final Interview (World Premiere, screening with short film Arret Pipi)
10:00PM (House 2): Horror Shorts D(The Bloody Ballad of Squirt, The Chains, One Dark Night, Fears, Midnight Delivery, I Beat It, Mama’s Boy, Alien Death Fuck, Hell of a Day, Vonnis, The Dark Ward, Mystery Box)
Midnight (House 1): Midnight Mind F*ck: Trauma
Midnight (House 2): Midnight Shorts B (Imagine, Fetish, The Jerry Show, Proceeds of Crime, Television, Mother Fucker, Ding-Dong, Night Terrors, The Thang, Rift, Häxan)
2:00AM (House 1): Midnight Mind F*ck: La Puta es Ciega (Screening with short films Entropia and Helminth)
2:00AM (House 2): Midnight Shorts A (CLAW, Mayday, The Hex Dungeon, I Am Not a Monster, Gentlewoman’s Guide to Dom., Blood Highway, Sock Monster, The Monster Within, Viral Blood, No Monkey)
SUNDAY, OCT. 21
10:00AM (House 1): Thriller Shorts C (The Box, Salvatore, Witch’s Milk, Post Mortem Mary, Spurn, Esther, They Eat Your Teeth They Wait for Us)
12:00PM (House 1): Camp Death III in 2D (Screening with short film Cabin Killer)
2:00PM (House 1): The LaPlace’s Demon
4:00PM (House 1): Ohio Shorts A (The Borrower, Below the Trees, The Sewing Circle, The Choice, What Comes Out, Beyond Repair, Occupied, Hell to Pay, Who’s There)
6:00PM (House 1): Dark Iris (Screening with short film American Undead)
8:00PM (House 1): Ohio Shorts B (Down the Hatchet, The Green Lady, Not From Around Here, Den, The Cat, House of Hell, Dodo, Cry Baby Bridge)
10:00PM (House 1): Betsy (Screening with short film Thing About Beecher’s)
For more info, visit the official website. We hope to see you there!