Buffalo Screams Horror Film Festival, now in its third year, has announced the nominees for its Screamer awards, which will be handed out at a ceremony at the Screening Room Cinema Café in Amherst, New York on Sunday evening, October 21st. The festival runs for five days beginning October 17th at the Dipson Theaters Market Arcade Film and Arts Center in downtown Buffalo.
“This year’s nominations reflect the diversity that Buffalo Screams is becoming known for,” says festival chairman Gregory Lamberson. “Our selections run the gamut from arthouse fare to slasher films to science fiction. We try to spotlight as much variety as possible, and we give as many awards to short films as to features.”
Buffalo Screams will screen 47 films, including such non-competition “showcase” films as Snow Shark: Ancient Snow Beast and Crimson: The Motion Picture, two local films which have been acquired for distribution by POP Cinema. Guests include Honorary Chairperson Debbie Rochon, distribution executive Paige K. Davis, Lockport, New York filmmaker Sam Qualiana, and Rochester filmmaker Chris Seaver, who will receive the Genre Spirit Award.
“There will be additional awards in addition to those listed below,” says Lamberson. “We like to surprise people.” A list of the nominees follows:
Best Feature
Billy’s Cult
Exhumed
Rat Scratch Fever
Revenant
Turnpike Killer
Zombie eXs
Best International Feature
The Caretaker
The Casebook of Eddie Brewer
Zero Killed
Best Medium Length Film
Blood for Irina
Community Service: The Movie
The Outlaw
Best Horror Short
Blue Hole
Exit 7A
Midnight Daisy
Stella Buio
What Comes from Within
Whom God Helps
Best International Horror Short
Employee of the Month (Switzerland)
Historia Muerta (Spain)
Prodigal Son (Ireland)
Shadow of the Unnamable (Germany)
Best Horror Comedy Short
De-Fanged: Decline of the Vampire
Employee of the Month (Switzerland)
Hell’s Belles
Kitchen Kombat
Monophobia
Best More than Horror Short
Kill Me Softly (Finland)
A Private Place
Best WNY Genre Film (any length)
Before You
The Camper
De-Fanged: Decline of the Vampire
Kitchen Kombat
Life’s a Bitch, Then You Die
Mean Motherfucker
The Outlaw
A Private Place
Sexquatch
What Comes From Within
Wormchild
Best Director, Feature
Derek Cole, Revenant
Tom Conyers, The Caretaker
Jeff Leroy, Rat Scratch Fever
Michael P. Lucas, Billy’s Cult
Richard Mar-Griffin, Exhumed
Best Director, Short or Medium Length Film
Chris Alexander, Blood for Irina
Erik Gardner, Blue Hole
Louis Mansfield, Whom God Helps
William Peters, Exit 7A
Asa Shumskas, Midnight Daisy
Best Screenplay, Feature
Guy Benoit, Exhumed
Jean Cohen and George Smith, Zombie eXs
Tom Conyers, The Caretaker
Jeff Leroy, Rat Scratch Fever
Michael P. Lucas and Scott R. Weston, Billy’s Cult
Stephen Twardokus, Revenant
Best Screenplay, Short or Medium Length
Rod Durick and Arick Szymecki, De-Fanged: Decline of the Vampire Film
Louis Mansfield, Whom God Helps
Fran Mateu, Historia Muerta
CJ Scuffins, Prodigal Son
Jesse Vigil, Midnight Daisy
Best Actor, Feature
Ford Austin, Rat Scratch Fever
Ian Brooker, The Casebook of Eddie Brewer
Michael Thurber, Exhumed
Stephen Twardokus, Revenant
Mark White, The Caretaker
Best Actress, Feature
Anna Burgess, The Caretaker
Evalena Marie, Exhume
Sarah Nicklin, Exhumed
Debbie Rochon, Exhumed
Tasha Tacosa, Rat Scratch Fever
Best Actor, Short or Medium Length
Ryan Andrews, Prodigal Son
Paul McGinnis, The Camper
Scott Speiser, Blue Hole
Ray Stefanneli, Midnight Daisy
Ben Watts, Exit 7A
Best Actress, Short or Medium Length
Justine Llanes, Birthday Boys
Linnea Quigley, Stella Buio
Mayra Rodriguez, Hell’s Belles
Ariel Teal Toombs, Hell’s Belles
Best Cinematography, Feature
Derek Cole, Revenant
Ken Willinger, Exhumed
Matt Wood, The Caretaker
Best Cinematography, Short
Maximillian Gutierrez, Midnight Daisy
Yong Jin Kim, Blue Hole
Javier Lorente, Historia Muerta
William Peters, Exit 7A
Best Editing
Derek Cole & Stephen Twardokus, Revenant
Tom Conyers, The Caretaker
Florian Eisner & Sasha Renninger, Shadow of the Unnamable
Best Special Make-Up Effects
Tammie Castagna, Kaitlin Kennedy, Ruby Muro, Lauren Palmer, Steve Saturn Whom God Helps
Ron Chamberlin,Demon Messenge
Mercedes Marinucci, The Awakening
Dan Crowley, Hell’s Belles
The Caretaker
Best Special Visual Effects
Richard Calderon, Rat Scratch Fever
Psychic Bunny, Midnight Daisy
The Caretaker
Shadow of the Unnamable
Faux Grindhouse Trailer Award ($500 prize)
The Camper
The Fumigator
Life’s a Bitch, Then You Die
Mean Motherfucker
Motherfucking Zombie Killers
Best Student Film
The Awakening
Kitchen Kombat
Wormchild
Genre Spirit Award
Chris Seaver
Original Feature Length Screenplays
The Caretaker 2 by Tom Conyers
Killer Rack by Paul McGinnis
Rosary by Ed Indovina
Original Short and Medium Length Screenplays
Demon Song by Christopher Lee Wroblewski
Disturbance by Lisa Redmond
Kiss Me You Fool by Hank Shaw
Vengeance is Mine by Christopher Lee Wroblewski
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