2020 FILM GUIDETake a look at the amazing films that screened at the 2020 Screamfest Horror Film Festival in Los Angeles from October 6th - 15th, 2020.
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2020 FESTIVAL AWARDS ANNOUNCED

2020 SCREAMFEST HORROR FILM FESTIVAL AWARDS ANNOUNCED
VAN NUYS, Calif. – Oct. 15, 2020 – America’s largest and longest running horror movie festival, Screamfest, awarded this year’s top movies, filmmakers, actors and screenplay Thursday during the fest’s closing night at The Screamfest Drive-In. Screamfest, which ran from Oct. 6 – 15, 2020 at the Regency Theater Plant Drive-In in Van Nuys, has launched careers – providing a platform for filmmakers and actors to showcase their latest work to horror film enthusiasts and general audiences.
Screamfest 2020 winners:
Best Cinematography -Tim Tregoning - Sweet River
Best Editing -Baptiste Rouveure - Anonymous Animals
Best Special Effects Makeup - Geir Njarðarson -Thirst
Best Visual Effects -Atli Þór Einarsson -Thirst
Best Musical Score -Damien Maurel - Anonymous Animals
Best Short -Vikaari
Best Comedy Short -Kalley's Last Review
Best Student Short -The Rule of Three
Best Screenplay -Bloody Mary by Dan Ast and John C. Thursby
Best Actor - MacLeod Andrews - A Ghost Waits
Best Actress -Lisa Kay - Sweet River
Best Picture -A Ghost Waits
Best Director -Adam Stovall - A Ghost Waits
Check out the 2020 Brochure!
2020 Festival Schedule
The 20th annual Screamfest Horror Film Festival was held at The Regency Plant Drive-In - October 6th till October 15th, 2020.
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![]() | Human Trash | Screens with Halloween 2 |
![]() | Hansel | Screens with Halloween 2 |
![]() | Sins of a Werewolf | Screens with Halloween |
![]() | Halloween (1978) | Q & A w/ cinematographer Dean Cundey + Screens with the following short film: Sins of a Werewolf. |
![]() | Halloween 2 (1981) | Halloween 2 Screens with the following short films: Hansel & Human Trash. |
![]() | Friday the 13th Part V: A New Beginning | |
![]() | Initiation | Screens with the Following Horror Shorts: Axe To The Face | Guest | The Last Man on Earth | Regret |
![]() | The Last Man on Earth | Screens with INITIATION and the following short films: Axe To The Face | Guest | The Last Man on Earth | Regret |
![]() | Guest | Screens with INITIATION and the following short films: Axe To The Face | Guest | The Last Man on Earth | Regret |
![]() | Regret | Screens with INITIATION and the following short films: Axe To The Face | Guest | The Last Man on Earth | Regret |
![]() | Axe to the Face | Screens with INITIATION and the following short films: Axe To The Face | Guest | The Last Man on Earth | Regret |
![]() | Fucking Ghosts | Screens with An Ideal Host and the following short films: The Appointment | Circle of Stone | F*cking Ghosts | Good Head | Into the Uncanny Valley ...read more |
![]() | The Appointment | Screens with An Ideal Host and the following short films: The Appointment | Circle of Stone | F*cking Ghosts | Good Head | Into the Uncanny Valley ...read more |
![]() | My Victims of True Crime | Screens with An Ideal Host and the following short films: The Appointment | Circle of Stone | F*cking Ghosts | Good Head | Into the Uncanny Valley ...read more |
![]() | Klaus Eats Butterflies | Screens with An Ideal Host and the following short films: The Appointment | Circle of Stone | F*cking Ghosts | Good Head | Into the Uncanny Valley ...read more |
![]() | An Ideal Host | Screens with the following short films: The Appointment | Circle of Stone | F*cking Ghosts | Good Head | Into the Uncanny Valley | Klaus Eats Butte...read more |
![]() | MURDER FOR DUMMIES | Screens with An Ideal Host and the following short films: The Appointment | Circle of Stone | F*cking Ghosts | Good Head | Into the Uncanny Valley ...read more |
![]() | Mime | Screens with An Ideal Host and the following short films: The Appointment | Circle of Stone | F*cking Ghosts | Good Head | Into the Uncanny Valley ...read more |
![]() | Circle of Stone | Screens with An Ideal Host and the following short films: The Appointment | Circle of Stone | F*cking Ghosts | Good Head | Into the Uncanny Valley ...read more |
![]() | Into the Uncanny Valley | Screens with An Ideal Host and the following short films: The Appointment | Circle of Stone | F*cking Ghosts | Good Head | Into the Uncanny Valley ...read more |
![]() | Mind Over Matter | Screens with An Ideal Host and the following short films: The Appointment | Circle of Stone | F*cking Ghosts | Good Head | Into the Uncanny Valley ...read more |
![]() | Good Head | Screens with An Ideal Host and the following short films: The Appointment | Circle of Stone | F*cking Ghosts | Good Head | Into the Uncanny Valley ...read more |
![]() | RAINY SEASON | Screens with An Ideal Host and the following short films: The Appointment | Circle of Stone | F*cking Ghosts | Good Head | Into the Uncanny Valley ...read more |
![]() | Woodland Cemetery | Screens with anonymous animals and the following short films: Clean | The Creeping Darkness | Facelift | Psycho Therapy | Temporary Void of Reason ...read more |
![]() | Clean | Screens with anonymous animals and the following short films: Clean | The Creeping Darkness | Facelift | Psycho Therapy | Temporary Void of Reason ...read more |
![]() | Psycho Therapy | Screens with anonymous animals and the following short films: Clean | The Creeping Darkness | Facelift | Psycho Therapy | Temporary Void of Reason ...read more |
![]() | A temporary void of reason | Screens with anonymous animals and the following short films: Clean | The Creeping Darkness | Facelift | Psycho Therapy | Temporary Void of Reason ...read more |
![]() | Zwart | Screens with anonymous animals and the following short films: Clean | The Creeping Darkness | Facelift | Psycho Therapy | Temporary Void of Reason ...read more |
![]() | FACELIFT | Screens with anonymous animals and the following short films: Clean | The Creeping Darkness | Facelift | Psycho Therapy | Temporary Void of Reason ...read more |
![]() | The Creeping Darkness | Screens with anonymous animals and the following short films: Clean | The Creeping Darkness | Facelift | Psycho Therapy | Temporary Void of Reason ...read more |
![]() | Anonymous Animals | SCREENS WITH HORROR SHORTS: Clean | The Creeping Terror | Facelift | Psycho Therapy | Temporary Void of Reason | Woodland Cemetery |
![]() | Sclera Absentia | Screens with Caveat and the following short films: Day 14 | Hellevate | Hostile | The Little One | A Night at Camp Heebie Jeebie | Sclera Absentia ...read more |
![]() | You and Me | Screens with Caveat and the following short films: Day 14 | Hellevate | Hostile | The Little One | A Night at Camp Heebie Jeebie | Sclera Absentia ...read more |
![]() | The Little One | Screens with Caveat and the following short films: Day 14 | Hellevate | Hostile | The Little One | A Night at Camp Heebie Jeebie | Sclera Absentia ...read more |
![]() | A Night in Camp Heebie Jeebie | Screens with Caveat and the following short films: Day 14 | Hellevate | Hostile | The Little One | A Night at Camp Heebie Jeebie | Sclera Absentia ...read more |
![]() | CAVEAT | Screens With The Following Horror Shorts: Day 14 | Hellevate | Hostile | The Little One | A Night At Camp Heebie Jeebie | Sclera Absentia | You and...read more |
![]() | DAY 14 | Screens with Caveat and the following short films: Day 14 | Hellevate | Hostile | The Little One | A Night at Camp Heebie Jeebie | Sclera Absentia ...read more |
![]() | Hellevate | Screens with Caveat and the following short films: Day 14 | Hellevate | Hostile | The Little One | A Night at Camp Heebie Jeebie | Sclera Absentia ...read more |
![]() | Hostile | Screens with Caveat and the following short films: Day 14 | Hellevate | Hostile | The Little One | A Night at Camp Heebie Jeebie | Sclera Absentia ...read more |
![]() | The Rule Of Three | Screens with these short films: The Chairmaster | The History of Monsters | I Love Eve | Let The Ghost Pass | Necro-Men | Out of Order | The Rule o...read more |
![]() | Necro-Men (OV) | Screens with these short films: The Chairmaster | The History of Monsters | I Love Eve | Let The Ghost Pass | Necro-Men | Out of Order | The Rule o...read more |
![]() | Let the ghost pass | Screens with these short films: The Chairmaster | The History of Monsters | I Love Eve | Let The Ghost Pass | Necro-Men | Out of Order | The Rule o...read more |
![]() | The History of Monsters | Screens with these short films: The Chairmaster | The History of Monsters | I Love Eve | Let The Ghost Pass | Necro-Men | Out of Order | The Rule o...read more |
![]() | The Chair-Maker | Screens with these short films: The History of Monsters | I Love Eve | Let The Ghost Pass | Necro-Men | Out of Order | The Rule of Three | Stalkers...read more |
![]() | Stalkers | Screens with these short films: The Chairmaster | The History of Monsters | I Love Eve | Let The Ghost Pass | Necro-Men | Out of Order | The Rule o...read more |
![]() | Out of Order | Screens with these short films: The Chairmaster | The History of Monsters | I Love Eve | Let The Ghost Pass | Necro-Men | Out of Order | The Rule o...read more |
![]() | I love Eve | Screens with these short films: The Chairmaster | The History of Monsters | I Love Eve | Let The Ghost Pass | Necro-Men | Out of Order | The Rule o...read more |
![]() | The Haunted Swordsman | Screens with The Brain that Wouldn't Die and the following shorts: A Wake | Becky | The Haunted Swordsman | The Infiltration | Make A Wish | The Po...read more |
![]() | BECKY | Screens with The Brain that Wouldn't Die and the following shorts: A Wake | Becky | The Haunted Swordsman | The Infiltration | Make A Wish | The Po...read more |
![]() | The Teachers | Screens with The Brain that Wouldn't Die and the following shorts: A Wake | Becky | The Haunted Swordsman | The Infiltration | Make A Wish | The Po...read more |
![]() | The Popping | Screens with The Brain that Wouldn't Die and the following shorts: A Wake | Becky | The Haunted Swordsman | The Infiltration | Make A Wish | The Po...read more |
![]() | A Wake | Screens with The Brain that Wouldn't Die and the following shorts: A Wake | Becky | The Haunted Swordsman | The Infiltration | Make A Wish | The Po...read more |
![]() | Make A Wish | Screens with The Brain that Wouldn't Die and the following shorts: A Wake | Becky | The Haunted Swordsman | The Infiltration | Make A Wish | The Po...read more |
![]() | The Brain That Wouldn't Die | Screens with Horror Shorts: A Wake | Becky | The Haunted Swordsman | Infiltration | Make A Wish | The Popping | The Teachers |
![]() | The Infiltration | Screens with The Brain that Wouldn't Die and the following shorts: A Wake | Becky | The Haunted Swordsman | The Infiltration | Make A Wish | The Po...read more |
![]() | SOUND OF SILENCE | Screens With Sanzaru and the following short films: Hammurabi | In the Mirrors | Meat Lovers | The Mime | Sound of Silence | Ten Shots |
![]() | The Mime | Screens With Sanzaru and the following short films: Hammurabi | In the Mirrors | Meat Lovers | The Mime | Sound of Silence | Ten Shots |
![]() | Ten Shots | Screens With Sanzaru and the following short films: Hammurabi | In the Mirrors | Meat Lovers | The Mime | Sound of Silence | Ten Shots |
![]() | Hammurabi | Screens With Sanzaru and the following short films: Hammurabi | In the Mirrors | Meat Lovers | The Mime | Sound of Silence | Ten Shots |
![]() | Sanzaru | Screens the following short films: Hammurabi | In the Mirrors | Meat Lovers | The Mime | Sound of Silence | Ten Shots |
![]() | Meat Lovers | Screens With Sanzaru and the following short films: Hammurabi | In the Mirrors | Meat Lovers | The Mime | Sound of Silence | Ten Shots |
![]() | In the Mirrors | Screens With Sanzaru and the following short films: Hammurabi | In the Mirrors | Meat Lovers | The Mime | Sound of Silence | Ten Shots |
![]() | Kalley's Last Review | Screens with Sweet River and the following short films: A Strange Calm | Fragile.com | Kalley's Last Review | We All Scream |
![]() | Fragile.com | Screens with Sweet River and the following short films: A Strange Calm | Fragile.com | Kalley's Last Review | We All Scream |
![]() | SWEET RIVER | Screens with the following short films: A Strange Calm | Fragile.com | Kalley's Last Review | We All Scream |
![]() | A Strange Calm | Screens with Sweet River and the following short films: A Strange Calm | Fragile.com | Kalley's Last Review | We All Scream |
![]() | We All Scream | Screens with Sweet River and the following short films: A Strange Calm | Fragile.com | Kalley's Last Review | We All Scream |
![]() | MR MERCEDES - FREE SCREENING | Post-screening Q&A with director Jack Bender, stars Justine Lupe, Breeda Wool and Scott Lawrence moderated by Brian Collins follows the screeni...read more |
![]() | Seasonal Depression | Screens with A Ghost Waits and the following short films: BOS | Feed Your Muse | Masterpiece | Mourn | Theourgia | Things We Dig | Seasonal Depression |
![]() | Theourgia | Screens with A Ghost Waits and the following short films: BOS | Feed Your Muse | Masterpiece | Mourn | Theourgia | Things We Dig | Seasonal Depression |
![]() | A Ghost Waits | Screens with the following short films: BOS | Feed Your Muse | Masterpiece | Mourn | Theourgia | Things We Dig | Seasonal Depression |
![]() | Mourn | Screens with A Ghost Waits and the following short films: BOS | Feed Your Muse | Masterpiece | Mourn | Theourgia | Things We Dig | Seasonal Depression |
![]() | Feed Your Muse | Screens with A Ghost Waits and the following short films: BOS | Feed Your Muse | Masterpiece | Mourn | Theourgia | Things We Dig | Seasonal Depression |
![]() | Masterpiece | Screens with A Ghost Waits and the following short films: BOS | Feed Your Muse | Masterpiece | Mourn | Theourgia | Things We Dig | Seasonal Depression |
![]() | BOS | Screens with A Ghost Waits and the following short films: BOS | Feed Your Muse | Masterpiece | Mourn | Theourgia | Things We Dig | Seasonal Depression |
![]() | Things We Dig | Screens with A Ghost Waits and the following short films: BOS | Feed Your Muse | Masterpiece | Mourn | Theourgia | Things We Dig | Seasonal Depression |
![]() | Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers | Q & A with Danielle Harris follows the screening Screens with the short film Alvin |
![]() | Alvin | Screens with Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers |
![]() | Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers (1989) | Screens with the short Abracitos and Teething. |
![]() | Teething | Screens with Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers and the short film Abracitos |
![]() | Abracitos | Screens with Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers and the short film Teething |
![]() | Warm Blood | Screens with Thirst and the following short films: Warm Blood | The Last Leaf | Metavision | My Mother Mary | Miniature | Vikaari | You Wouldn't U...read more |
![]() | Thirst | Screens with the following short films: Warm Blood | The Last Leaf | Metavision | My Mother Mary | Miniature | Vikaari | You Wouldn't Understand |
![]() | Vikaari | Screens with Thirst and the following short films: Warm Blood | The Last Leaf | Metavision | My Mother Mary | Miniature | Vikaari | You Wouldn't U...read more |
![]() | My Mother Mary | Screens with Thirst and the following short films: Warm Blood | The Last Leaf | Metavision | My Mother Mary | Miniature | Vikaari | You Wouldn't U...read more |
![]() | Miniature | Screens with Thirst and the following short films: Warm Blood | The Last Leaf | Metavision | My Mother Mary | Miniature | Vikaari | You Wouldn't U...read more |
![]() | The Last Leaf | Screens with Thirst and the following short films: Warm Blood | The Last Leaf | Metavision | My Mother Mary | Miniature | Vikaari | You Wouldn't U...read more |
![]() | MetaVision | Screens with Thirst and the following short films: Warm Blood | The Last Leaf | Metavision | My Mother Mary | Miniature | Vikaari | You Wouldn't U...read more |
![]() | You Wouldn't Understand | Screens with Thirst and the following short films: Warm Blood | The Last Leaf | Metavision | My Mother Mary | Miniature | Vikaari | You Wouldn't U...read more |
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