Awards

All new features screened are eligible for The Audience Award for Best Feature.  The Cutting Edge Short Film Competition rewards debut and emerging directors.  The Audience Award for Best Short covers all the other short films played as part of the main programme and across all other strands, including What You Make It.

The ‘What You Make It’ strand was instigated to allow us to screen films which, while not traditionally ‘horror’, would still appeal to a genre audience.

Award Winners

2009

  • Audience Award for Best Feature: COLD STORAGE, dir Tony Elwood
  • Audience Award for Best Short: NEXT FLOOR, dir Denis Villeneuve
  • Cutting Edge Short Film Competition winner: KIRKSDALE, dir Ryan Spindell

2008

  • Audience Award for Best Feature: STUCK, dir Stuart Gordon
  • Audience Award for Best Short: SPIDER, dir Nash Edgerton
  • Cutting Edge Short Film Competition winner: CRITICIZED, dir Richard Gale

2007

  • Audience Award for Best Feature: END OF THE LINE, dir Maurice Devereaux
  • Audience Award for Best Short: MONSTER, dir Jennifer Kent
  • Cutting Edge Short Film Competition winner: THE FIFTH, Ryan Levin

2006

  • Joint Audience Award for Best Feature: BROKEN, dir Adam Mason / BLOOD TRAILS, dir Robert Krause
  • Audience Award for Best Short: OCULUS, dir Mike Flanagan
  • Cutting Edge Short Film Competition winner: LOS OJOS DE ALICIA, dir Hugo Sanz

2005

  • Audience Award for Best Feature: THE DARK HOURS, dir Paul Fox
  • Audience Award for Best Short: THE TEN STEPS, dir Brendan Muldowney
  • Cutting Edge Short Film Competition winner: THE FRENCH DOORS, dir Steve Ayson

2004

  • Audience Award for Best Feature: SHALLOW GROUND, dir Sheldon Wilson
  • Audience Award for Best Short: WARD 13, dir Peter Cornwell
  • Cutting Edge Short Film Competition winner: BURIED, dir Tim Bullock