2017 FNTFF AWARD WINNERS REVEALED

Please join us in celebrating all our FNTFF 2017 Award Winners! A creepy congratulations to all our amazing filmmakers, crews, and teams who partook in the festival. Your work and passion are truly exceptional. And a special thank you to all our fans who voted for the Audience Choice Awards across all three nights of the fest.

Without further adieu,  the winners are.....

FNTFF 2017 AWARDS NOMINEES ANNOUNCED

2017 NOMINEES

Each year, the Fright Night Theatre Film Festival recognizes exceptional achievements and performances in the indie horror, cult film, and exploitation genre with our annual FNTFF AWARDS. Although all of our official selections are eligible to win the Best Film or Best Short Audience Choice Award, we are thrilled to announce the following 2017 nominees in our competitive Selection Committee awards.

FEATURE FILM AWARDS

SCARIEST FILM

WHO'S WATCHING OLIVER

RED CHRISTMAS
CAT SICK BLUES

MOST SHOCKING FILM

WHO'S WATCHING OLIVER

RED CHRISTMAS
CAT SICK BLUES

FUNNIEST FILM

POOL PARTY MASSACRE

CAT SICK BLUES
LONG LIVE THE KING

BEST DIRECTOR

Agnieszka Smoczynska (THE LURE)

Richie Moore (WHO'S WATCHING OLIVER)
Dave Jackson (CAT SICK BLUES)

BEST WRITING

Robert Bolesto (THE LURE)

Russell Geoffrey Banks, Raimund Huber, Richie Moore (WHO'S WATCHING OLIVER)
Andrew Gallacher & Dave Jackson (CAT SICK BLUES)

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

Jakub Kijowski (THE LURE)

Richie Moore (WHO'S WATCHING OLIVER)
Douglas James Burgdorff (RED CHRISTMAS)
Daniel Cowan (CAT SICK BLUES)

BEST ACTOR

Andrzej Konopka (THE LURE)

Russell Geoffrey Banks (WHO'S WATCHING OLIVER)
Matthew C. Vaughan (CAT SICK BLUES)
Benjamin Arthur (BLOOD HUNTERS)

BEST ACTRESS

Michalina Olszanska (THE LURE)

Marta Mazurek (THE LURE)
Sara Malakul Lane (WHO'S WATCHING OLIVER)
Dee Wallace (RED CHRISTMAS)
Shian Denovan (CAT SICK BLUES)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

Drew Marvick (POOL PARTY MASSACRE)

Zygmunt Malanowicz (THE LURE)
Marcin Kowalczyk (THE LURE)
Julian Richings (BLOOD HUNTERS)
David Collins (RED CHRISTMAS)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Alexis Adams (POOL PARTY MASSACRE)

Kinga Preis (THE LURE)
Margaret Roche (WHO'S WATCHING OLIVER)
Sarah Bishop as Suzy (RED CHRISTMAS)

BEST SPECIAL FX

THE LURE

RED CHRISTMAS
CAT SICK BLUES

BEST VISUAL FX

THE LURE

RED CHRISTMAS
CAT SICK BLUES

BEST ORIGINAL MUSICAL SCORE

Mike Conway (POOL PARTY MASSACRE)

Barbara Wrońska, Zuzanna Wrońska, Marcin Macuk (THE LURE)
Helen Grimley (RED CHRISTMAS)
Matthew Revert (CAT SICK BLUES)

BEST VILLAIN

Mama (WHO'S WATCHING OLIVER)
Cletus (RED CHRISTMAS)

Ted / Catman (CAT SICK BLUES)


BEST MONSTER

Cletus (RED CHRISTMAS)

Creatures (BLOOD HUNTERS)
Golden and Silver (THE LURE)

ACHIEVEMENT IN MAKEUP FX

THE LURE

RED CHRISTMAS
CAT SICK BLUES

SHORT FILM AWARDS

BEST HORROR SHORT

Curve

Death Metal
Kaska
PYOTR495
When Susurrus Stirs
Your Date Is Here

MOST SHOCKING SHORT

Born Again
PYOTR495
Undress Me
When Susurrus Stirs

BEST COMEDIC SHORT

Born Again
Death Metal
Just Justice III KungFu Karate Annihilator
Your Date Is Here

BEST SCI-FI SHORT

Just Justice III KungFu Karate Annihilator
The Fisherman
When Susurrus Stirs

BEST FANTASY SHORT

Born Again
Flies in May
Kaska
Your Date Is Here

BEST CANADIAN SHORT

PYOTR495
Studded Nightmare
Undress Me

BEST ANIMATED SHORT

JASON
FLIES IN MAY

AWARD WINNERS: March 2016 Fright Night Theatre Film Festival

Now that the March 2016 Fright Night Theatre Film Festival has come to a close we are thrilled to annouce the winners of our Audience Choice and Selection Committee Awards. From the phenomenal five feature films and 15 short official selections that made up our festival, the following films and filmmakers stood out as exceptional beacons of indie talent.

AUDIENCE CHOICE AWARDS

As voted by the in-attendance audience

BEST FILM

Bunny the Killer Thing

(Director - Joonas Makkonen / Producers - Miika J. Norvanto, Matti Pekkanen, Mikko Soukkala)

BEST SHORT

O Christmas Tree

(Director - Greg Kovacs / Producers - Nathan Hawkins, Stephanie Christiaens, Darren Hutchings)

SELECTION COMMITTEE AWARDS

As voted by the Fright Night Theatre programming team

== FEATURE FILMS ==

SCARIEST FILM

She Who Must Burn (dir. Larry Kent)

MOST SHOCKING FILM

Harvest Lake (dir. Scott Schirmer)

FUNNIEST FILM

Bunny the Killer Thing (dir. Joonas Makkonen)

BEST DIRECTOR

Scott Schirmer (Harvest Lake)

BEST ACTOR

Jason Crowe (Harvest Lake)

BEST ACTRESS

Missy Cross (She Who Must Burn)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Kevin Roach (Harvest Lake)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Tristan Risk (Harvest Lake)

BEST SCREENPLAY

Harvest Lake- Scott Schirmer

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

TIE - Brian K. Williams (Harvest Lake) & Nejc Saje (Idyll)

BEST SPECIAL EFFECTS
Harvest Lake

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
TIE - The Barn & Bunny the Killer Thing

BEST MUSICAL SCORE

Harvest Lake - Adam Robl & Shawn Sutta

BEST VILLAIN
She Who Must Burn - Andrew Dunbar, Shane Twerdun, and Missy Cross as The Baarkers

ACHIEVEMENT IN MAKEUP FX
The Barn

BEST MONSTER
Harvest Lake

 == SHORT FILMS ==

BEST HORROR SHORT

Heir (dir. Richard Powell)

MOST SHOCKING SHORT

Die! Sitter! Die! (dir. Lee Boxleitner and Sam Boxleitner)

BEST COMEDY SHORT

Night of the Slasher (dir. Shant Hamassia)

BEST SCI-FI SHORT

They Will All Die in Space (dir. Javier Chillon)

BEST ANIMATED SHORT

Exordium (dir. Morgan Galen King)

BEST FANTASY SHORT

Portal to Hell!!! (dir. Vivieno Caldinelli)

BEST CANADIAN SHORT

The Indestructible (dir. Kalen Artinian)

2015 Fright Night Theatre Awards Announced

The competitive portion of the 2015 Fright Night Theatre Film Festival has officially wrapped, and our fans and selection committee have cast their votes. Out of the nine competitive feature films and 38 competitive shorts we screened this season, we are thrilled to announce this year's Fright Night Theatre Award Winners 

AUDIENCE CHOICE AWARDS

As voted by the in-attendance audience

BEST FILM

Wolfcop

(Director - Lowell Dean / Producers - Sean Buckley, Bernie Hernano, J. Joly, Bill Marks, Deborah Marks, Danielle Masters, Hugh Patterson, Brian Wideen)

BEST SHORT

Dead Hearts
(Director - Stephen W. Martin / Producer - Alex Glua)

SELECTION COMMITTEE AWARDS

As voted by the Fright Night Theatre programming team

== FEATURE FILMS ==

SCARIEST FILM

The Babadook (dir. Jennifer Kent)

MOST SHOCKING FILM

Circus of the Dead (dir. Billy Pon)

FUNNIEST FILM

Bloody Knuckles (dir. Matt O'Mahoney)

BEST DIRECTOR

Jennifer Kent (The Babadook)

BEST ACTOR

Nick Damici (Late Phases: Night of the Lone Wolf)

BEST ACTRESS

Essie Davis (The Babadook)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Conor Sweeney (The Editor)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
TIE - Paz de la Huerta (The Editor) & Amy Matysio (Wolfcop)

BEST SCREENPLAY

The Babadook - Jennifer Kent

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

The Babadook- Radek Ladczuk

BEST SPECIAL EFFECTS
Late Phases: Night of the Lone Wolf

BEST MUSICAL SCORE

The Editor - Jeremy Gillespie, Norman Orenstein, Claudio Simonetti, Vercetti Technicolor, Trevor Tuminski, Brian Wiacek

BEST SONG
Killer Rack - "Fun Bags"

BEST VILLAIN
Circus of the Dead -Bill Oberst Jr. as PAPA CORN

ACHIEVEMENT IN MAKEUP FX
Wolfcop - Emersen Ziffle

BEST MONSTER
TIE  - The Babadook and the Killer Rack

 == SHORT FILMS ==

BEST HORROR SHORT

This Neighborhood (dir. Jerry Ochoa)

MOST SHOCKING SHORT

El Gigante (dir. Luke Bramley an Gigi Saul Guerrero)

BEST COMEDY SHORT

Invaders (dir. Jason Kupfer)

BEST SCI-FI SHORT

La Caja de Pandora aka. Pixel Theory: Pandora's Box (dir. Daniel Hernández Torrado)

BEST ANIMATED SHORT

The Waldgeist & Me (dir. Joe Bichard)

BEST FANTASY SHORT

Extreme Pinocchio (dir. Pascal Chind)