CINEMA CHATHAM
210 West 87th Street
Chicago, IL 60620

BEST FEATURE NOMINEES
FORCE TO FEAR
DON'T SAVE ME
OCCURRENCE AT MILLS CREAK
INHERITANCE
BOTTLE MONSTER

BEST SHORT NOMINEES
MOONLIT REQUIEM
THE LAST LEAF
KOREATOWN GHOST STORY
BECKY
THE RAGE

BEST DIRECTOR NOMINEES
MICHAEL KENNETH FAHR - INHERITANCE
BORJA A. ORTIZ - EVERY 75 MINUTES
SIA ALESKOVSKAYA - THE LAST LEAF
ARTHUR EDELMAN - MOONLIT REQUIEM
STEVEN DEROCK - THE RAGE

BEST WRITER NOMINEES
CJ VECCHIO - BEE-EL
RYLAN RAFFERTY - PLAING WITH SPIDERS
BORJA A. ORTIZ - EVERY 75 MINUTES
PETER "DRAGO" TIEMANN & JASON L. LOWE - THE STAIRS
BRITTANY SNYMAN - GOODBYE

BEST ACTOR NOMINEES
RON EREL - DYBBUK
MIKE ANDERSON - CROCK POT
DANIEL J HICKSON - MOONLIT REQUIEM
DEREK EVANS - WHITETAIL
LYSANDRE ROBIC - UNDER THE LATHER

BEST ACTRESS NOMINEES
CANDELA ANTÓN - EVERY 75 MINUTES
YUWI KIM - $TRIP
NOVA GAVER - THE LAST LEAF
LYRICA OKANO - KOREATOWN GHOST STORY
SANDRA KOLPAKOW - THE RAGE

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY NOMINEES
THE RAGE
KILLING SMALL ANIMALS
MOONLIT REQUIEM
THE LAST LEAF
EVERY 75 MINUTES

BEST EDITING NOMINEES
GOODBYE
DYBBUK
MOONLIT REQUIEM
KOREATOWN GHOST STORY
THE LAST LEAF

BEST SOUND NOMINEES
THE STAIRS
THE LAST LEAF
$TRIP
EVERY 75 MINUTES
MOONLIT REQUIEM

BEST MUSIC NOMINEES
FORCE TO FEAR
PLAING WITH SPIDERS
THE RAGE
$TRIP
EVERY 75 MINUTES

BEST SPECIAL FX NOMINEES
GOODBYE
$TRIP
CROCK POT
UNDER THE LATHER
BECKY

DIRECTOR'S CHOICE NOMINEES
$TRIP
EVERY 75 MINUTES
BEE-EL
DON'T SAVE ME
THE LAST LEAF

BEST MUSIC VIDEO NOMINEES
MOMENTO MORI
THE PUMP

SCREENPLAY FINALISTS
NAMESAKE BY AMY BERRYMAN
DISRUPTURE BY ROSS MORIN
JOLLY'S SWEET REVENGE BY JONATHON DOUGLAS
THE FAMILIAR BY CARRIE SPECHT
STASIS* BY ALEX GIANNOULIS

A young girl decides to make a family visit and discovers something horrifying.

A bullied young girl befriends a mysterious entity that’s inside her closet to do her bidding. Hell hath no fury like a little girl scorned!

In this supernatural horror tale based on a Korean ritual starring Margaret Cho and Lyrica Okano, a woman entertains a macabre offer that would let her pursue her dreams, for better or for much much worse.

When Jon and Doris reunite for a date we see how things can go so wrong when two people want something so desperately. It's a story about struggles, dreams and how far people will go to get what they want.

A hunting trip doesn't go as planned.

Remember that you will die. What have you spent your time with in your life? Piano music video with special effects.

Becky, a bullied teen, wants to be Steph and Ariel’s friend, but when she learns that these popular girls are responsible for a nasty rumor about her father, she seeks revenge. Becky and her dad take matters into their own hands... and relish every part.

On the eve of ritual suicide, the most devout woman in a spider-worshiping cult receives a visit from a powerful demon. Should she trust this giant spider over her abusive leader?

When Sophia, a non-binary teenager, moves to a new town, they aren't counting on acceptance, and the last thing they expect to find is love. Rebellious and confident, Gen seems to be exactly what Sofia needs, but as they are drawn deeper and deeper into a world of punk, drugs and black magic, they will learn that bad love has a terrible cost: their life.

After the murder of their parents, Nick and Steve Wellington are left to share their Inheritance. However, when the masked Figure shows back up to finish what was started, The Wellington boys will learn the hard way..... that blood runs thicker than water.

A prisoner seeks escape in this indie horror/dark comedy stop-motion short, featuring original tracks by Depth Hoar.

Upon meeting her husband's family for the first time, Jill becomes suspicious of the family's obsession with Pagan rituals.

A delivery driver gets more than he bargained for when trying to get that five star rating

Haunted by dark visions and unable to protect her family, Cathy has a final chance to save her lover Sue and stand up against the mysterious gentleman that has haunted her since childhood.

In 1997, 11 year old Jesse finds a mysterious staircase in the woods and disappears - - 20 years later, a group of hikers, set off into the very same woods. Unfortunately for them, they come face to face with the very same set of stairs Jesse discovered all those years ago.

While Rachel is waiting for the bus on her way into town, she meets a very special visitor...

A clean-out specialist uncovers a Dybbuk box, unaware of its folklore and the evil spirit that it harvests.

The film follows amateur director, Khadir, on his journey to capture some of the most haunted places in India on film for an upcoming web series.

Khadir’s career depends on the success of the web series and although his relationship with his girlfriend Eisha is falling apart before his eyes, his only focus is completing the project. With a very tight budget, Khadir assembles a cast and crew of misfits who eventually find themselves at an abandoned fort in Madhya Pradesh.
As filming begins, the dark history of the fort comes out to play and one by one, the cast and crew fall victim to the spirits and apparitions that call the fort home.

Will Khadir and the others make it out of the fort alive, or will the fort’s hostile history leave them all doomed?

Mary thinks there is a demonic presence in her and her boyfriend Chuck's home, so she enlists the help of a spirit board in search of answers. However, she forgets the cardinal rule of playing with spirit boards.

It's Penny's first night stripping at an underground club. Will she go all the way? And what happens to her if she doesn't?

Terror awaits a young couple as they fight over going to the young mans parents house the next day for thanksgiving.

A humble cottage in the woods, a young couple lost, and an old woodcutter with a story to tell.

A woman trying to fall asleep gets interrupted by a presence that hides under her bedsheet.

Haunted by his tragic past, Jack LeBlanc, a heavily-scarred introvert, volunteers for a Phase I clinical trial of a miraculous new tissue regeneration medication, dubbed "Obsidian." Soon, under the watchful surveillance of respected pharmacologist, Dr. James Walsh, Jack and the group of hopeful volunteers start to experience hellish side effects from the drug and soon find that the quest for vanity can be deadly.

A country doctor's worst fears that a new blood virus may be hiding something much more sinister come true when his daughter becomes infected, transforming her into a creature with an insatiable lust for human blood.

A bloody legend becomes all too real for a group of kids heading out for a weekend of camping and partying. Will they survive what waits for them in the woods?

A man wakes up in a room. He has no idea where he is. Who did this? He finds out soon enough.

After moving into a new house, a husband and wife try to keep their relationship together as an evil presence starts haunting their lives.

After a home invasion, a depressed father must save his family, or they'll be premiered in the prime time news.

Gothic-fantasy film partly inspired by the original Snow White tale. To recover the beauty that her sister Snow White stole from her, the witch conspires and poisons an apple so that she can eat her body. Snow White ultimately turns out to be more evil than her and kills her with a kiss.

Ghost Girl is the musical journey of a little girl who longs to fit in. The only problem? She's terrorized by malevolent spirits, and nobody believes her—except for her loving but overbearing mother.

A young man working the graveyard shift at an old video store soon discovers something very sinister about the place.

Brooke, a spoiled, cellphone addicted 10-year old girl is dropped off at her Auntie Sam’s farm for a change of scenery. After a head injury, everything gets turned upside down, and Brooke gains insight into the haunted past on the farm.

Trapped in The White Room, Judy is experimented on, poked, prodded and tortured. Her captors aim to turn her into a super weapon for their own benefit, Though in doing so, They and (Everyone they love,) have sealed their fate.

One house. A home intruder. A family of four. Six security cameras running, all at the same time, with no cuts.

A young woman haunted by the death of her sister finds her reality eroding as she is plagued by a darkness hidden in her family's past.

This is a film about a woman who, on the surface, has everything. But something seems to be missing, perhaps the longing for a child who has died or never been born. Suddenly the emptiness, the feeling of how unhappy she really is, comes crashing down. When she kills a butterfly she gets a sense of relief, a feeling of control. But only for a brief moment...

Two roommates hiding from a monster in their mirror must decide if it is safe to leave.

In a nightmarish landscape, a grotesque caricature of the gnostic tree of life dominates a gruesome carnival that falls halfway between Metalocalypse and Hieronymus Bosch’s Garden of Delights.

A photographer has the assignment to shoot Skogskyrkogarden, a cemetery located in the woods of Stockholm. There she sees an old woman placing a lantern on a grave. When the photographer shoots a picture of this very private moment, she soon finds out that this haunting image is more haunted than she bargained for.

Two kidnappers, a dealer, a group of college kids, and a killer converge in an abandoned school. Once they cross paths, chaos ensues, and it's a race to survive the night.

Five years after "The Slashening," 22-year-old Madison Santangeli moves to Brooklyn to start a new life in the wake of her father's suicide. But a series of murders committed by a familiar masked killer starts happening around her. Is it coincidence or is someone sending a message?

Ivan, five years old, is forced to take his bath by his babysitter. Once in the water, he discovers with horror, hidden under the lather, a frightful creature that he will have to face ...

Set against the stunning backdrop of one of Australia’s World Heritage-listed National Parks; a first-time killer is about to be shown what it really takes to pull off the perfect crime.

The story is about Bookwalker, once a useless bum, now turned zombie killer and raider hunter. The story is set in CrittersVille where there is a nuclear meltdown and the dead are coming back to life and you have raiders. roaming the lands.

An alcoholic mother, Allison Key, is desperate to run away from her life. With her young son, Theo, Allison flees from everything she knows, to try to start over. However, she cannot escape the demons within her. Upon renting a what seems to be a perfect house to restart her life, Allison and Theo soon realize that their landlord is hiding a terrifying secret. The newly sober Allison’s fragile state-of-mind begins to unravel, and she turns to the only source of comfort she knows - alcohol. Her son is in increasing jeopardy as she crumbles, as he alone uncovers the truth about the house… the secret that has been hiding in their house.

Anne Hutchinson's troubled relationship with her missing sister is under alien tribunal. Meanwhile, her new roommate's mysterious illness causes her to go on a cannibalistic killing spree.

A troubled couple's lives descend into violence and madness after a demonic entity takes their daughter.

A mad scientist accidentally creates a horrible monster that must be stopped! At ALL costs!