The 2008 festival screened 8 feature films and 40 shorts, from 12 different
countries - A bloody buffet of the world's best horror cinema:
Winning Films:
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Best Film:
Brain Dead
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Best Foreign Film:
La Antena
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Best Short Film:
Pumpkin Hell
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Best Australian Film:
When Sally Met Frank
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Best Lovecraft Film:
The Call of Cthulhu
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Best Animation:
Egg Ghost
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Best Music Video:
Torture Device by Dawn of Ashes
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Best Director:
Paco Limon (Doctor Infierno)
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Best Performance:
Sammi Davis (The Double Born)
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Best Scream Queen:
Tess McVicker (Brain Dead)
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Best Special Make-Up Effects:
Brain Dead
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Best Visual Effects:
Eel Girl
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Directors' Choice Award (Best Feature Film):
Murder Loves Killers Too
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Directors' Choice Award (Best Short Film):
Kirksdale
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Selected Films:
Brain Dead (Kevin Tenney - USA)
The Chair (Brett Sullivan - CAN)
Clay (Ron Bonk - USA)
Doctor Infierno (Paco Limon - ESP)
The Double Born (Tony Randel - USA)
Flick (David Howard - UK)
La Antena (Estaban Sapir - ARG)
Murder Loves Killers Too (Drew Barnhardt - USA)
Short Films and music videos:
Akai (Carlos Gananian - BRA)
Anesthesia (Adam Kargman - USA)
Beta Switch - Music Video - (Jason Boritz - USA)
The Call of Cthulhu (Australian Premiere)
Callous Sentiment (Vincent Grashaw - USA)
Dara (The Mo Brothers - INA)
Eel Girl (Paul Campion - NZ)
Egg Ghost (DongKeun Lee - KOR / USA)
The Eyes of Edward James (Rodrigo Gudino - CAN)
Fine Meats (Guy Verge Wallace - AUS)
Getting Out (Ian Topple - USA)
Go Ask Alice (Shannon Lark - USA)
Halloween High (Tyson Hauff - USA)
Hideous (Benjamin Sztajnkrycer - CAN)
Hungry (Joshua Tyler & Tim Dylan Lee - AUS)
Kirksdale (Ryan Spindell - USA)
La Partition (Leilani Lemmet - FRA)
A Legend Told (Robert P. Olsson - SWE)
The Listener (Kester Dyer - CAN)
Lobe Massage (Heath Hanlin /Megan Ehrhart - USA)
The Lycanthrope (Lucas Peltonen - USA)
The MFF Vs The Evil Dead - Music Video - (Monkey Farm Frankenstein - USA)
Night of the Living Jews (Oliver Noble - USA)
O Negative (Rocky Curby - NZ)
Old World Disorder - Music Video - (Ulf Norstrom - SWE)
On Edge (Frazer Lee - UK)
Peekers (Mark Steensland - USA)
Psycho Hillbilly Cabin Massacre! (Robert Cosnahan - USA)
Pumpkin Hell (Max Finneran - USA)
Red Harvest (Dylan Griffith - USA)
Torture Device - Music Video - (Scott Mei - USA)
Uninvited (Shaune Harrison - UK)
The Vault (Justin Owensby - USA)
Victor and the Machine (Carlos Talamanca - ESP)
When Sally Met Frank (Victoria Waghorn - AUS)
Wretched (Leslie Delano/ Heidi Martinuzzi - USA)
Filmmaker Forum Films:
The Ancient Rite Of Corey McGillis (Dalibor Backovic - AUS)
HR Pufnsnuf (Shane K - AUS)
The New Life (Daniel Giambruno - AUS)
