Brooklyn Horror Film Festival


The Brooklyn Horror Film Festival is an annual film festival in Brooklyn, New York. It was founded in 2016.
With the 2020 edition of the festival cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States, it was one of the partners in the Nightstream online festival.
WWW brooklynhorrorfest.com

Festivals by year

2016

The first annual festival took place from October 14–16, 2016. The festival took place in multiple theaters including Wythe Hotel Cinema, Videology, Spectacle Theater and Syndicated Theater.
World premieres Child Eater Dir. Erlingur Ottar ThoroddsenPsychotic! A Brooklyn Slasher Dir. Maxwell Frey & Derek Gibbons
North American premieres Broken Dir. Shaun Robert Smith
US premieres Without Name Dir. Lorcan Finnegan Best Feature, Best Director, Best Editing, Best Cinematography Let Her Out Dir. Cody CalahanTherapy Dir. Nathan Ambrosioni Fury of the Demon Dir. Fabien Delage
East Coast premieres Dearest Sister Dir. Mattie DoWe Are The Flesh Dir. Emiliano Rocha Minter Best Actor Noé Hernández
New York premieres Beyond The Gates Dir. Jackson Stewart Audience Award Winner Trash Fire Dir. Richard Bates Jr. Best Actress Angela TrimburThe Master Cleanse Dir. Bobby Miller Best Effects Pet Dir. Carles Torrens
Retrospective screenings The Sentinel Dir. Michael Winner
Short Films Nightmare Fuel: Scary Horror Shorts: Pigskin, The Puppet Man, Tilly, Playback, The Sticks, The Home, The StylistHead Trip: Alternative Horror Shorts: Disco Inferno, Eveless, The Push, Empty Bed, Venefica, ShortyLocal's Only: Shorts by Brooklyn filmmakers: Mute, Chambers, Last Stop Coney Island, Stitched, ETA, The Toothbrush, Wandering
Special events Grady Hendrix's Summerland Lost: A Ghost StoryCritical DrinkingApparition: A Popup Art ShowGhosts We've Known: Storytelling Competition