Day Three of Nightmares Movie Competition 2024 kicked off at Gateway Movie Heart with a screening of the wild comedy The Invisible Raptor. I sidestepped that screening in favor of attending the dwell recording of the Fright Membership podcast, the annual panel on the ever-shifting world of movie distribution, and a writing workshop with Bram Stoker Award-winning creator Jeff Strand. Talking to attendees who watched it nevertheless, it feels like The Invisible Raptor was a hoot.
The tenth anniversary screening of Zack Parker’s Proxy was a giant hit, with each Parker and star Joe Swanberg in attendance. Parker additionally introduced his newest quick, Barista, together with him. Gateway Movie Heart prides itself on displaying motion pictures on movie each time doable, together with on 70mm, so it was a pleasant deal with for attendees to get to see Barista projected the best way it was shot: on 16mm.
Subsequent got here the pageant’s awards ceremony (extra on that in a bit), adopted by one other tidal wave of screenings. Melissa LaMartina’s For Sale By Exorcist is a fully charming function debut and Ehrland Hollingsworth’s Dooba Dooba is thrilling slice of cinematic innovation, so remember to search each out once they arrive sooner or later. Carved was one other hit with attendees and that’s one that you may truly see quickly, because it hits Hulu subsequent week as a part of their Huluween vacation programming. My Imaginary Life For Somebody Else can be not one to overlook for those who like your motion pictures with a healthy dose of Grownup Swim-y weirdness.
As I’ve mentioned earlier than, the pull between deciding whether or not to catch all the options or to look at the quick blocks is a significant catch-22. On the one hand, there’s nothing fairly like catching impartial horror on the large display screen with an viewers. All too usually these of us who dwell exterior of main metropolitan areas have to attend to see these movies at house as soon as they hit VOD, streaming, or bodily media. Whereas we love them simply the identical in these situations, there’s simply an additional cost that you just get when you possibly can watch them on an enormous display screen in a darkened room that’s stuffed with different horror followers.
Then again, how usually do you get an opportunity to see ANY quick movies on the large display screen? Once more, for those who don’t dwell in or close to a large metropolis, the reply is probably going “nearly by no means”. So with that in thoughts, I opted for the quick blocks for the rest of the night time. I used to be not disenchanted in my determination. Fairly the other, in reality. The subgenre-themed blocks that performed for the remainder of Saturday had been among the many greatest that I’ve ever seen at Nightmares Movie Competition. A few of my absolute favourite shorts had been When Women Play Sports activities, Queen of the Damned, All Sorts of Animals, The Gory Gap, and Dummy. Make sure you maintain your eyes peeled for these, in addition to any others listed beneath among the many Night time Mare Award winners.
Talking of which, with out additional ado, listed here are this 12 months’s Night time Mare recipients…
Movie From Hell
Solvent
Total Characteristic
Dooba Dooba
Horror Characteristic
Bystanders
Horror Comedy Characteristic
Carved
Midnight Characteristic
My Imaginary Life For Somebody
Thriller Characteristic
The Waves of Insanity
Director (Characteristic)
Melissa LaMartina, For Sale By Exorcist
Cinematography (Characteristic)
The Waves of Insanity
Writing (Characteristic)
Decibel
Lead Efficiency (Characteristic)
Juliette Greenfield, The Matriarch
Supporting Efficiency (Characteristic)
Brian Spangler, Replicator
Ohio Movie
Please Be Tender
Total Brief
La Petite Mort
Horror Brief
Jack
Horror Comedy Brief
Too Gradual
Midnight Brief
Mirthless
Thriller Brief
Who Do You Love
Recurring Nightmare
Drug Gap
Director (Brief)
Sundowning
Cinematography (Brief)
Tub Bomb
Writing (Brief)
The First
Lead Efficiency (Brief)
Molly McCluskey, When Women Play Sports activities
Supporting Efficiency (Brief)
Mara Marini, Will Helm
Brief Screenplay
These Colours Don’t Run
Characteristic Screenplay
Canine Mother
Gag Reel (FX)
David Greathouse, Replicator
Esprit de Gore
Dusty Austen
Dread Central want to congratulate all winners and nominees, together with our personal Mary Beth McAndrews! I’d additionally prefer to personally congratulate everybody who has attended the pageant this 12 months, as they already received by merely getting to look at a tsunami of stellar indie cinema whereas hanging out with probably the greatest horror-loving communities on the planet. There’s merely no higher place to be come October.
Nightmares Movie Competition 2024 will shut out Sunday with screenings of 5 options, together with Mary Beth McAndrews’ Bystanders and Can Evrenol’s Sayara. It can additionally showcase 17 extra quick movies, with a number of accompanying the aforementioned options and the remainder filling out the annual shorts block devoted to Ohio filmmakers. That Ohio shorts block is rarely one to overlook, so for those who’re attending this 12 months or for those who come to the pageant in a future 12 months, be sure that it’s in your watchlist!
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