2023 Festival Schedule
Tuesday 10|10
6:00pm BLACK CARPET EVENT
7:30pm Divinity (87 min) *West Coast premiere
9:30pm SCREAMFEST OPENING NIGHT PARTY
Wednesday 10|11
7pm The Puppetman (87 min) *West Coast premiere | Plays with SLASHR | Q&A follows
7:15pm My Mother's Eyes (94 min) *West Coast premiere | Plays with Universe 25| Q&A follows
9:30pm Faceless After Dark (87 min) *West Coast premiere | Plays with The Green Ribbon | Q&A follows
9:30pm Howdy, Neighbor (80 min) *LA premiere | Q&A follows the screening
Thursday 10|12
7pm Mimi Prince of Darkness (105 min) *North American premiere | plays with Dinner Game | Q&A
7:15pm Dear David (94 min) *premiere | plays with short film Juliette Wasn't Invited | Q&A
9pm The Well (91 min) *North American premiere | plays with After Hours | Q&A
9pm What You Wish For (111 min) *LA premiere | plays with 13 Steps | Q&A
Friday 10|13
7pm Alone Together (94 min) *World premiere | plays with short film Meadowville | Q&A
7:15pm Friday the 13th Part II (87 min)
9:15pm Masacre en Teques (96 min) *World premiere | plays with The Good Mother | Q&A
9:30pm Friday the 13th Part III in 3D (95 min)
Saturday 10|14
11:30am Student Shorts #1 Block (87 min) A Paw Over Dark - The Spirit Became Flesh - Full Moon - Waipo - Voyager - Trapped
12pm Student Film # 2 Block (83 min) The Wooden Ghost - Lands of Steel - Forgive and Forget - Assimilation - Seraphim - Wake
2pm Shorts Block 1 (95 min) Brenda and Billy (and the Pothos Plant)- The Final Mission 2060 - We Forgot About the Zombies - No. 8 Reporting- Wilis - Overnights - Free bench Must Pick Up Today - Sankta Lucia (Saint Lucy's Day Feast Day)
2:30pm Shorts Block 2 (94 min) Botox Fiction - Dissociation - Batshit Crazy - Flashpoint - Teddy - The Handbook - Hidden Mother - Die Games - Social Media Presence
4:15pm Shorts Block 3 (90 min) El Cristo De La Calavera - They Hunt Without Eyes – Bookworm - Trial 22 – Birdcage – Abominations - Mr. Crockett - Locked In
4:45pm Shorts Block 4 (90 min) Alicia - Nash - NAP - Greed & Gore – High Fun – Detox – Pleroma – D I G
7pm Loop Track (94 min) *North American premiere | plays with short film Oddities | Q&A follows
7:30pm Pandemonium (96 min) *US premiere | plays with short film Red Velvet | Q&A Follows the screening
9:45pm Departing Seniors (85 min) *LA premiere | Q&A Follows the screening
Sunday 10|15
12pm Shorts Block 5 (95 min) Merger - Paloquemao - IVAN - Diversion (Politics Of) - The New Girl - The Looming - DeadDash
12:15pm Shorts Block 6 (90 min) Night-Gaunts - Bloody Groom - Thin Skinned - Mi Zona (My Zone) - Sam & Kiki - LOAB - Souling
2:15pm Shorts Block 7 (70 min) Mist - What's Left Behind - The Bleeding (Sangria) - At the Window - TLG - Hide Behind
2:30pm Shorts Block 8 - (73 min) When One Door Closes - Darkface - Ash - Rezar - How To - Toggle - Last Words
4pm Shorts Block 9 (80 min) Crawlers - Fig Jam - Dativa - Voices - A Good Scream - Drawn Eclipse - The Gourd, The Brad and the Ghostly
4:15pm Shorts Block 10 (84 min) Luna - Bad Vibrations - Facies - Night of the Bride - Sonos - Midnight Snack - Murder - The Lure - Hello No One - Mud On My Shoes - Dear Santa
7pm Monolith - (94 mins) * LA premiere | plays with short film Robbie Ain't Right No More
7:15pm You'll Never Find Me (96 mins) * West Coast premiere | plays with short film A State of
Monday 10|16
7pm Cannibal Mukbang - (94 min) * West Coast premiere | plays with short film Howl at the Dead
7:15pm Do Not Watch ( 83 min) * World premiere | plays with short film The Reclaimers
9:30pm Eight Eyes ( 87 min)*West Coast premiere | plays with The Kindness of Strangers | Q&A follows
9:30pm The Craft ( 105 min)
Tuesday 10|17
7pm Onyx the Fortuitous and the Talisman of Souls (105 mins) | Q&A follows the screening
7:15pm The Wait - (98 min) West Coast premiere | plays with short film Play Me | Q&A follows the screening
9:30pm The Deep Dark - (102 min)* West Coast premiere | plays with short film Blackstar | Q&A follows
9:30pm Free Secret retrospective screening
Wednesday 10|18
7pm Empire V (114 min) * US premiere| Plays with short film Mysteries of the Desert | Q&A follows
7:15pm The Piper ( 90 min)* World premiere | Q&A follows the screening
9:30pm Somewhere Quiet (98 min) West Coast Premiere with short film All-Nighter | Q&A follows
9:30pm Free secret retrospective screening
Thursday 10|19
7:15pm Lord of Misrule ( 104 min) * World premiere | Closing Night Film
