Come Play With Us, New Orleans...
Get ready, NOLA! Screamfest NOLA and Timecode are bringing Stanley Kubrick’s 1980 psychological masterpiece, “The Shining,” back to the big screen one night only - Monday, January 5th, 2026.
2024 Screamfest Nola Film Guide
2024 Films
Nola Film Guide
Film Category
96% COOKED
Meet the Filmmaker
Synopsis
At the tail end of a funeral service, a woman begins to suspect there's something wrong with her father's urn...
Film Category
The Baby
Meet the Filmmaker
Synopsis
A pregnant woman’s obsession with motherhood spirals as she becomes fixated on another mother and her young son.
Film Category
Beach Logs Kill
Meet the Filmmaker
Synopsis
BEACH LOGS KILL is a surrealist daydream-slash-nightmare set in the heightened reality of a teen girl’s mind – a girl who has a burning crush on the school’s celebrated star quarterback, also a girl. The film is a hallucinogenic exploration of the age-old question that frequently complicates a young queer person’s life – do I want to be them, or be inside of them? The answer is not so cut-and-dry, and neither is life, and neither is this film.
Film Category
Behold: Donna
Meet the Filmmaker
Synopsis
Tv show host Donna Gérbage lives with the unfortunate ability to see threatening messages in everything she reads from an unknown entity that wants to harm her. She ignores the issue until it affects the premiere of her sketch comedy show Trash Tv. So, she seeks the help of a mysterious eye doctor, Dr. Visiam, who inadvertently makes things worse.
Film Category
Big Axe
Meet the Filmmaker
Synopsis
A small town gas station cashier offers to split a half million dollar lottery prize with her best friend if he helps her dispose of a customer's body.
Film Category
Blind Spot
Meet the Filmmaker
Synopsis
After a tragic car accident, Jennifer struggles to find absolution and understand the mysterious presence in her house.
Film Category
Blood Orange Tree
Meet the Filmmaker
Synopsis
A conspiracy theorist believes he’s uncovered a plot where people are being systematically replaced, but the more he digs, the closer he gets to the terrifying truth.
Film Category
Clay
Meet the Filmmaker
Synopsis
When a shapeshifter's chance encounter with a long-lost friend goes awry, the shapeshifter secretly enrolls in the same art course to rebuild their connection, no matter the cost.
Film Category
Dead Flesh
Meet the Filmmaker
Synopsis
A young boxer confronts long festering criticisms hidden inside the ring.
Film Category
El Jacho: A Puerto Rican Urban Legend
Meet the Filmmaker
Synopsis
“EL JACHO” comes to life as a love letter and testament to the slasher horror genre that was highly popular in the ‘70s & ‘80s. Witness the terrifying Puerto Rican legend of a supernatural killer looking to purge its sins through its victims.
Film Category
ELSE (screens with short film Reverence)
Meet the Filmmaker
Synopsis
Anx has just met Cass when a mysterious virus breaks out: everywhere, people’s bodies are merging with objects. Stuck in their apartment, the couple must face this dreadful threat.
Film Category
Fishmonger
Meet the Filmmaker
Synopsis
In this supernatural dark comedy, a pathetic Irish fishmonger must survive a sex pact with an ancient fish creature in order to save his mother's soul from burning in hell.
Film Category
Half Lives
Meet the Filmmaker
Synopsis
It tells the story of Luke Marikos. His elegantly constructed bunker has acted as a haven for his small group of survivors, but living behind the sealed doors for so long can drive anyone mad.
Film Category
Hell Is A Teenage Girl
Meet the Filmmaker
Synopsis
Every Halloween, the small town of Springboro is terrorized by its resident SLASHER – a masked serial killer who targets sinful teenagers that break ‘The Rules of Horror’ – don’t drink, don’t do drugs, and don’t have sex! At the center of it all is Parker Campbell, the Slasher’s estranged biological daughter. In an attempt to make things right with the town and clear her family name, Parker sets out on a life-or-death mission in hopes of ending his reign of terror once and for all…
Film Category
Hotline
Meet the Filmmaker
Synopsis
A young woman (Paris Berelc) is manning the night shift at a mental health crisis call centre, when she starts to get harassed in increasingly terrifying ways by one of her callers. ‘HOTLINE’ is a chilling homage to the classic 70’s horror ‘WHEN A STRANGER CALLS’
Film Category
Inked
Meet the Filmmaker
Synopsis
After Dylan’s father passes away in prison, her attempts to honor his memory become eerily dark when, with the help of her close friend Bruno, she decides to tattoo her father’s ashes into her skin. However, what was supposed to be a sentimental tribute quickly turns sinister as Dylan learns the truth of her tattoo and the malevolent secret it holds.
Film Category
THE MEETING SPOT
Meet the Filmmaker
Synopsis
A skeptical science major scours the streets of New York City, searching for proof of the afterlife.
Film Category
New Followers
Synopsis
Four travel Influencers embark on New Zealand’s most famous hike, the Milford Track. Found footage reveals rivalry and jealousy turns to desperation and fear when they discover they are part of someone else’s film.
Film Category
Wes Craven's New Nightmare - 30th Anniversary Screening
Meet the Filmmaker
Synopsis
A demonic force has chosen Freddy Krueger as its portal to the real world. Can Heather Langenkamp play the part of Nancy one last time and trap the evil trying to enter our world?
Film Category
Next Show in 90 Minutes
Meet the Filmmaker
Synopsis
A routine both natural and unnatural unfolds in the heart of one of America's most cherished landscapes. Inspired by the films of Dan O' Bannon and John Carpenter and the artwork of Mike Ploog, William Stout, and Simon Stalenhag Content Warning: This film contains mild body horror and brief violence.
Film Category
A Nightmare on Elm Street - 40th Anniversary Screening
Meet the Filmmaker
Synopsis
Teenager Nancy Thompson must uncover the dark truth concealed by her parents after she and her friends become targets of the spirit of a serial killer with a bladed glove in their dreams, in which if they die, it kills them in real life.
Film Category
One Happy Customer
Meet the Filmmaker
Synopsis
Set in the red-light district of a heightened world that mischievously blends live action and animation, One Happy Customer follows the daily routine of an older sex worker. Luring clients in, snatching up their cash, and using her special trick to leave them satisfied—and more importantly, to get them out of her hair as quickly as possible. She’s listless, even bored.
It’s business as usual, until one customer—an old, seemingly decrepit man—arrives looking for something more. And he’s got a trick or two of his own to impress the woman who’s seen it all.
It’s business as usual, until one customer—an old, seemingly decrepit man—arrives looking for something more. And he’s got a trick or two of his own to impress the woman who’s seen it all.
Film Category
Rare Medium
Meet the Filmmaker
Synopsis
Rare Medium is a bloodless horror-comedy about a straightforward spiritual possession hijacked by murderous cannibals. When Dave, a grieving everyman, hires Gus, a maybe-too-legit spiritual medium, to contact his recently deceased girlfriend, their session starts off hopeful but soon starts to smell off. Twist after relentless twist propel them on a psychological thrill ride driven by an inter-dimensional Bonnie and Clyde, without ever leaving Gus' office. A simple recipe yielding complex results.
Film Category
The Trip
Meet the Filmmaker
Synopsis
Luna, Max and Zoe are on a girls getaway in the desert to do some much needed unwinding and unplugging from the world. After hanging poolside all day, Zoe and Max convince Luna to take psychedelic mushrooms with them to help expand their minds. But when the shrooms begin to take greater effect, Luna's anxieties about climate change and human nature are unearthed, shifting the tide of the trip. As they spiral deeper into a bad trip, each woman finds herself having to confront her inner darkness and anxieties in corporeal forms of hallucinated horrors.
Film Category
There's Someone At Your Door
Meet the Filmmaker
Synopsis
When an invisible intruder begins appearing on camera, a young woman's quiet Halloween night becomes a nightmarish struggle to survive as she is forced to learn: what you can't see will hurt you.
Film Category
They Whisper
Meet the Filmmaker
Synopsis
A young boy emerges from a coma after a fall down an abandoned mine shaft. His family is confronted by dark, threatening spirits and the possibility that the child in their home might no longer be their son.
Film Category
Thirst Trap
Meet the Filmmaker
Synopsis
Lizzie doesn’t believe in vampires—until she becomes one. Burdened by a new kind of thirst, Lizzie realizes that men on dating apps are easy prey … but the more she feeds, the emptier she feels. Thirst Trap is a horror comedy about the isolation of modern dating and the value of connections forged beyond a screen.
Film Category
Wake
Meet the Filmmaker
Synopsis
With a hurricane raging outside their hospital, two nurses have one last job before evacuating: stow the "dead-on-arrival" corpse of a young girl in the downstairs morgue before the building floods. But the corpse quickly reveals itself to be more than it seems.
Film Category
Washed Up
Meet the Filmmaker
Synopsis
Mike, an expectant father, has decided to leave behind his life of thievery. He is convinced by his best friend and partner in crime, Aaron, to join him on one last job, a simple robbery of a local car wash. When everything starts to go wrong, Mike is forced to make a choice between his old friend and his new life.
Articles
News & Videos
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed eiusmod tempor incididunt.
Festival
Nov 02, 2025
New Orleans, LA (Nov 2, 2025) - Screamfest® NOLA, celebrating its 8th annual festival in New Orleans, is excited to announce their 2025 award winners. The festival took place October 30 to Nov 2, 2025 at the Broad Theaters.
Events
Feb 27, 2025
Monday, March 10th, shake off that post-Mardi Gras funk and join us at The Broad to catch the 1998 film “Urban Legend”, presented by Screamfest NOLA and Timecode.
Events
Nov 05, 2024
Stay Updated: See upcoming Screamfest NOLA events with Timecode at the Broad Theater. Sign up for our mailing list!
Festival
Oct 23, 2024
New Orleans, LA (October 20, 2024) - Screamfest® NOLA, celebrating its 7th annual festival in New Orleans, is excited to announce their 2024 award winners. The festival took place October 18 to 20, 2024 at the Broad Theaters.
Festival
Oct 24, 2023
Congratulations to the winners from Screamfest NOLA 2023! Thank you to everyone who came out to support the films this weekend!
Festival
Oct 25, 2021
October 24, 2021 - Zeitgeist Multi-Disciplinary Arts Center Congratulations Screamfest NOLA filmmakers!