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Award winners at the ceremony for the 2022 British Horror Film Festival
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THE OFFICIAL SELECTION IS HERE!

NEXT EVENT · OCTOBER 13TH & 14TH, 2023

THE BRITISH MUSEUM, LONDON

It's The British Horror Film Festival's fourteenth year and we have an amazing and horrific line up! There are a number of awards up for grabs at the Festival, including the prestigious British Horror Award for Achievement in Film on a Low Budget and the Rising Star Award for upcoming talent in the industry.

SHORT FILM SCREENING 1

The exterior of the British Museum at sunset

An elderly blind woman is unaware of the stranger secretly living in her home.

LEECH

10m | George Coley

11-year-old Neil ventures into local woods to find his missing brother Vincent, only to discover a truth that challenges the community's accusations against their father.

TREELINE

12m | Freddie Bonfanti

Tony and Archie, best friends and sci-fi fanatics rent out a funky apartment for a weekend on the town, but their host has other plans.

A REAL PAIR

6m | Ed Willey

Claire is approached by the father of her murdered childhood friend to help investigate the haunted moor he believes to be his son's final resting place. They find more than just the ghosts of dead children - something dark and evil stirs beneath their feet.

DIRECTOR

Chris Cronin

WRITER

Paul Thomas

PRODUCERS

Pawel Pracz, Chris Cronin & Paul Thomas

CAST

Sophia La Porta, David Edward-Robertson, Bernard Hill & Elizabeth Dormer-Phillips

The Moor

1h 59m

FEATURE FILM SCREENING

Doting parents teach their young daughter the family Halloween tradition.

TRADITION

4m | Sabrina Ariss

After growing up adopted, a man makes a gargantuan discovery when meeting his biological father.

THE HERITAGE

12m | Andrew Rutter

In a meat factory, the new employed daughter can't stand her controlling mother and impulsively kills her in the oven. But the mother's mental oppression penetrates into the daughter's subconscious hallucinations, and becomes a resurrected ghost that she can never get rid of.

A WHIM TO KILL

5m | Tiange Xiang

The name of the song says it all: The hunter on the prowl. A deer in a scope. A finger on the trigger. But then – a crack. A smack from a faceless hooded figure. 

AFFENTANZ - HUNTER

9m | Cyprian Hercka

Days turn into a desperate struggle for survival for a scientist trapped inside a laboratory during a zombie outbreak. With limited resources and no escape in sight, he faces his biggest challenge yet when he discovers a rogue lab rat raiding his dwindling food supplies.

TRAPPED

16m | Semyon Voinov

CROOKS - HEART OF VENGEANCE

6m | Snorre Fuglsang Ruhe

The story of a scientist inventing the key to eternal life. A couple of thugs steal his invention and leave him and his daughter for dead.
In order to come back to life he sells his soul to the devil.

THE PERFECT PLACE TO CRY

7m | Shane Bannon

Late at night, deep in the woods, a woman cries in her car. A light flickers through the trees. At the edge of her headlights' reach, she can just make out the shape of a man. He's coming closer.

SHORT FILM SCREENING 2

IN YOUR HANDS

12m | Luigi Sibona

A chance encounter in a barbershop sparks an attraction between a barber and his customer but when the act of shaving becomes an obsession for the customer, things take a dark turn with deadly consequences.

The British Horror Film Festival Blood List is for screenplays of outstanding quality. These projects are up for the title of Best Unproduced Screenplay. Coming Soon.

THE BLOOD LIST

AWARD NOMINEES COMING SOON

BEST FEATURE FILM

BEST SHORT FILM

BEST DIRECTOR

THE MILSOME AWARD FOR CINEMATOGRAPHY

BEST ACTOR

BEST ACTRESS

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

THE BRITISH HORROR AWARD

THE RISING STAR AWARD

BEST MUSIC

BEST SOUND DESIGN

FAN FAVOURITE SHORT FILM

BEST SCARE AUDIENCE AWARD

BEST UNPRODUCED SCREENPLAY

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