A workaday gent receives a phone call offering him some unsettling advice.
2016, United Kingdom, 9 minutes
Directed by Philip Clyde-Smith
Winner: Best Story Award
Category: Winners
Lenny’s Laundry
Still wallowing in self-pity over a long-ago breakup, a paranoid wretch forces himself to do some laundry.
2017, USA, 14 minutes
Directed by Doug Duke
Winner: Audience Favorite Award
Bun in the Oven
When a trendy Brooklynite goes into labor, her partner has to rush her across town to a fabulous dinner party celebrating the delivery.
2016, USA, 8 minutes
Directed by Jono Freedrix
Winner: Wrongest Award
Born Again
Amateur Satanists have their conjuring ritual sabotaged by one member’s ineptitude.
2016, USA, 7 minutes
Directed by Jason Tostevin
Winner: Funniest Award
The Call of Charlie
An elegant dinner party is spoiled when the host’s frenemy from college drops in unannounced.
2016, USA, 14 minutes
Directed by Nick Spooner
Winner: Best Movie Award
Picking a Winner
A smitten young man struggles to control a nasty lifelong habit around his new paramour.
2014, USA, 15 minutes
Directed by Nick Helfers
Winner: Sickest Award
In My Room
After a late night spent watching horror movies, a man is infected with his young son’s visions of monsters.
2017, USA, 11 minutes
Directed by Michael Trainotti
Winner: Scariest Award
The Contract
Certified Famous American Actress™ Carlotta Moore has her suburban tranquility violated by a door-to-door evangelist.
2015, Finland, 7 minutes
Directed by CHRZU Lindström
Winner: Best Performance Award
Megrím
A kidnap victim struggles to make sense of his tormentor’s motives.
2016, USA, 13 minutes
Directed by Stuart Valberg
Winner: Scariest Award
The Human-Banana from Outer Space
Shadowy government agents send a mutant gorilla to hunt an extraterrestrial banana.
2013, USA, 9 minutes
Directed by Josh DiGangi
Winner: Funniest Award
Black Jeans Whoa
The arrival of a black-clad interloper threatens the sanctum of a group of large, adult men.
2015, USA, 7 minutes
Directed by Bob Rose and Michael C. Stettes
Winner: Best Music Award
Burp
A young man with a nervous tummy meets a woman who loves him just the way he is.
2016, USA, 6 minutes
Directed by Benjamin Gill
Winner: Best Performance Award