The Screaming Room Film Festival 2025 Schedule

The Screaming Room Film Festival returns to Midsummer Scream August 15 to 17, 2025, with a full weekend of horror short film blocks, the Blood Bat Film Competition and the Screaming Room 2025 Awards. Here is the complete schedule.

Friday, August 15, 2025

Screaming Room 2025 Preview · 6:00 PM

Get ready for a full weekend of cinematic frights as the Screaming Room fills you in on all of the details. We roll out the black carpet and let you know what to expect during the Screaming Room Film Festival at Midsummer Scream 2025.

Blood Bat Film Competition Kickoff · 6:45 PM

Have you ever dreamed of making your own horror movie? Do you thrive under pressure, with just days to craft a terrifying tale? The Blood Bat Film Competition is your chance to put your filmmaking skills to the test, right in the heart of Midsummer Scream! This kickoff will give you all you need to know to join this challenge where you will push your creativity to the limit as you write, shoot, and submit a 5-minute horror masterpiece, all during the convention weekend.

Crimes & Passions · 7:00 PM

This collection of unsettling shorts explores all-consuming romances alongside criminal thrills, where the lines between love and violence, seduction and danger, become terrifyingly blurred.

1. Julienne of Light Bulbs (5:28)
2. Cold (9:11)
3. HUNGER (11:04)
4. Scrumptious (8:10)
5. The Stranger in the Snow (11:38)

A Captive Audience · 8:00 PM

These chilling shorts explore the horrors of being unsafe in your own home, being trapped by unseen forces and even the terror of being bound by desperate circumstances.

1. Gaslighter (7:53)
2. IN THE NAME OF… (9:59)
3. WreckVlogs (15:57)
4. YES DEAR (4:25)
5. Slideshow (6:18)

Waking Nightmares · 9:00 PM

Brace yourself for paralyzing fears, relentless reminders, and unspeakable things that haunt the subconscious in these psychologically terrifying films that unveil the darkness within.

1. Stopclock (4:09)
2. Candy (2:19)
3. Nothing Personal, Daddy (8:42)
4. The Bothy on the Cold Mòr (10:04)
5. Urn (4:45)
6. The Re-Education of Jane Brown (16:20)

Saturday, August 16, 2025

Stalkers & Slashers · 11:30 AM

A collection of chilling shorts from a twisted world filled with iconic murderers, suspenseful encounters, fights for survival and communities that turn nightmarish.

1. Night of the Copycats (6:38)
2. Poacher Poacher (6:51)
3. Voyeur (5:52)
4. Rear Road (15:46)
5. Surprise! (10:30)

Sinister Cinema · 12:30 PM

Face the consequences of meddling with the supernatural in films exploring battles for survival against terrifying entities and the dangers and rewards of making deals with dark forces.

1. Are You There (10:41)
2. Contraction (10:01)
3. Bugaboo (4:33)
4. The Night Nanny (8:05)
5. 401 (9:44)

Happy Halloween · 1:30 PM

Unwrap a basket of spooky delights with this collection of Halloween shorts. From tales involving iconic slashers, the dangers of mystery candy the news always warned us about, to Halloween parties that were supposed to end in smiles, these tales offer a terrifying treat for every trick-or-treater.

1. HALLOWEEN: Collection of Evil (12:28)
2. On Halloween Night (9:22)
3. Sour Tooth (7:51)
4. Shadow (15:00)

Die Laughing · 2:30 PM

This side-splitting horror comedy collection blends chills and chuckles with unforgettable creatures, fitness routines that have you running for your life, first day jitters, and more. Don’t be scared to scream… with laughter!

1. Skeeter (3:55)
2. Fright Cardio: Fit Not Bit (5:49)
3. HATMAN (4:22)
4. Positive Vibes Only, Volume One (8:01)
5. EVIL DINNER (6:26)
6. Small Town Psychopaths (6:42)
7. Good Boy (11:02)

Anthology of Terror · 4:00 PM

Five twisted tales, reminiscent of classic shows like Tales from the Crypt or The Twilight Zone, deliver chilling horror with shocking twists, dark humor, and cautionary morals.

1. In A Nutshell (7:43)
2. Vivir (8:56)
3. New Year, New You (4:48)
4. Agnes Wakes Up (6:41)
5. Frere Jacques (17:16)

Splattertown · 5:00 PM

This gore-soaked collection of shorts does not shy away from exploring the gruesome, the disturbing, the messy and the downright grotesque.

1. Housewife (4:35)
2. Little Deaths (6:15)
3. Pimple Patch (6:12)
4. Caleb (8:18)
5. BELLY BELLY (11:40)
6. The Parcel (8:23)

WTF??? · 6:00 PM

A mind-bending collection of bizarre shorts that throws everything but the kitchen sink at you. From gruesome music videos to twisted takes on puppets and holiday classics, prepare to be shocked, disturbed, and left saying “what the…?”

1. Mama Doom – Man Parts (2:24)
2. Talk Talk (10:51)
3. A Nightmare on 34th Street (5:52)
4. Old St. Nick (9:08)
5. Munieka TV (17:52)

Sunday, August 17, 2025

Spooky Stories · 11:00 AM

This collection of films everyone, of all ages, can enjoy features both live-action and animated shorts that will leave you both terrified and strangely captivated.

1. Tigre (9:05)
2. Brim Broome Boulevard (7:03)
3. A Boy Opens the Door (0:59)
4. No Trespassing in Transylvania (5:09)
5. Lupe Q and the Galactic Corn Cake (4:24)
6. Summon a Gravedigger (7:29)
7. GRAB (1:32)
8. Howl if You Love Me (7:47)

Art House Horror · 12:00 PM

From cerebral hauntings to encounters with fate, immerse yourself in the beauty of films that grapple with existential dread and the ethereal boundaries between reality and nightmare.

1. The Haunted (9:56)
2. Drama Queen (6:33)
3. Bellum (10:27)
4. REFLECTIONS (4:57)
5. Last Call (2:19)
6. Perfect Wall (11:41)

Creatures of the Night · 1:00 PM

From classic beasts to the terrors lurking just beneath the surface of the ordinary, these films explore the unsettling presence of creatures that stalk the night, haunt your thoughts, and rise from the unknown.

1. Candy (14:25)
2. Did You Remember The Cat? (18:16)
3. ABHORRENT (12:06)

Dark Dimensions · 2:00 PM

From sinister tech to lab spawned creatures and dimensional shifts, these chilling sci-fi shorts explore the terrifying possibilities beyond our world.

1. Killergotchi (12:33)
2. Unable to Comply (9:56)
3. Necessity (7:49)
4. Instant Life (15:15)

Tales of the Occult · 3:00 PM

Prepare to be shaken by tales where fears become monstrous realities and the boundaries blur between reality and the unseen on the dark side of belief.

1. The Red Hourglass (15:52)
2. The Whisperer (15:00)
3. Virgin (14:38)

Screaming Room 2025 Awards · 4:00 PM

Get ready for the chilling culmination of the year at the Screaming Room 2025 Awards! We will reveal the audience favorites from each programming block, alongside the jury’s prestigious selections for the Jack-O-Lantern Award, the Mary Shelley Award, and the Palme D’Gore. In addition we’ll be showcasing the top films from this year’s Blood Bat Film Competition. This is where all the screams reach their crescendo!