Brooklyn Horror Film Festival is an annual film festival in Brooklyn, New York. It was founded in 2016.

With the 2020 edition of the festival cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States, it was one of the partners in the Nightstream online festival.^[1]

Festivals by year

2016

The first annual festival took place from October 14–16, 2016.^[2] The festival took place in multiple theaters including Wythe Hotel Cinema, Videology, Spectacle Theater and Syndicated Theater.^[3]

World premieres ^[4]

• Child Eater Dir. Erlingur Ottar Thoroddsen
• Psychotic! A Brooklyn Slasher Dir. Maxwell Frey & Derek Gibbons

North American premieres ^[5]

• Broken Dir. Shaun Robert Smith

US premieres ^[6]

• Without Name Dir. Lorcan Finnegan Best Feature, Best Director, Best Editing, Best Cinematography ^[7]
• Let Her Out Dir. Cody Calahan
• Therapy Dir. Nathan Ambrosioni
• Fury Of The Demon Dir. Fabien Delage

East Coast premieres ^[8]

• Dearest Sister Dir. Mattie Do
• We Are The Flesh Dir. Emiliano Rocha Minter Best Actor Noé Hernández (actor)^[9]

New York premieres ^[10]

• Beyond The Gates Dir. Jackson Stewart Audience Award Winner ^[11]
• Trash Fire Dir. Richard Bates Jr. Best Actress Angela Trimbur^[12]
• The Master Cleanse Dir. Bobby Miller Best Effects ^[13]
• Pet Dir. Carles Torrens

Retrospective screenings ^[14]

• The Sentinel Dir. Michael Winner

Short Films ^[15]

• Nightmare Fuel: Scary Horror Shorts: Pigskin, The Puppet Man, Tilly, Playback, The Sticks, The Home, The Stylist
• Head Trip: Alternative Horror Shorts: Disco Inferno (dir. Alice Waddington), Eveless, The Push, Empty Bed, Venefica, Shorty
• Local's Only: Shorts by Brooklyn filmmakers: Mute, Chambers, Last Stop Coney Island, Stitched, ETA, The Toothbrush, Wandering

Special events ^[16]

• Grady Hendrix's Summerland Lost: A Ghost Story
• Critical Drinking
• Apparition: A Popup Art Show
• Ghosts We've Known: Storytelling Competition
• Tears - Live music performance by Dani Marie and Johnny Butler