Nickel Independent Film Festival

2025 Nickel 48-Hour Horror Film Challenge ☠️🍿 SCREENING

OCTOBER 11, 2025

Welcome to the Nickel 48-Hour Horror Film Challenge! This screening consists of 21 spine-chilling short films. CONTENT WARNING: This is a horror screening including jump scares, scenes of violence, graphic imagery, attempted sexual assault, strong language, and instances of drug use. This screening is recommended for mature audiences, obvs. We have tried to schedule the films with more challenging or potentially disturbing content towards the latter half of the evening. FILM SCHEDULE: The Dark and Stormy Night — Flutz Productions (Declan Foley and Sawyer Lutz) Signal — Daniel Anderson Vinetown — Perfectly Centered Productions The Morbes — Shan Leigh Pomeroy Eggistentialism — EB Reid and MC Hunter Static Face — Molly & Kaitlyn Brown A Stranger is Calling From Inside The Phone — Melissa Wong & Evan Maddick Wrong Direction — Jake Delaney Strangers — Blackmore Barrington Michalewicz Small The Empty Bag — Jacinda Sinclair Imaginary — Whadda Ya Call It Productions Faces — BryanCox Dealer — Bootleg Productions My Movie — Neil King Dickies Duckie Tape — David Mark Gill The Challenge — Hourcle & Cuervos The Final Lesson — Cool Pond Productions The Night of a Thousand Eyes — Flailing Arms Productions Insomnia — Anne Cortez Haut Gout — Julian Blackwood & Madison Healey Lockers — Brother Rice Junior High Film Club

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