Best Horror - Stucco

Nominees: Breakfast, Rebuild, Retch, Slice, Split Tongue, The Darlings, The Doula

Best Horror Comedy - Asking For a Friend

Nominees: Come Be Creepy With Us, Dan Brings Home a Cat, Dolls, Fellowship, Ghosted, Zombie Debt

Best Youth Film - Green House

Nominees: A Zombie’s Christmas, Hair Drying the Puddle Out & Away, Invisible, Killer Kids, My Red Ball, Netflix & Kill, The Fear of Being Alone, The Green Ribbon, The Man, Unmasked

ARFF Narrative Drive - Backward Creep

Nominees: A Wake, Broadside, Framed, Red, It Will Happen Eventually

Best Thriller - Cassandra

Nominees: A Noise That Carries, Elixir, Forget Me Nots, Man in the Corner, Return to Sender, The Inside

Best Student Film - Shaken

Nominees: Blood Orange, Blur, Compensation, Kim, Lone Wolf, Paranoia, Restart, The Chills, Whispered Nothings

Best Supernatural - Cleanse

Nominees: A Wake, Always Going Never Gone, Enoch, In Her Shoes, The Last Vacation, The Shadow, Washed Away

Best Socially Conscious - Diabla

Nominees: Burp, Devil Woman, Imagine a World, It Will Happen Eventually, Lili, Listen, Smiley Death Face, Tickle

Indie Spirit - Framed

Nominees: Backward Creep, Black Lake, Broadside, Cold Wind Blowing, Indolence, Playtime’s Over, Toothache

Best Renegade - Essere Amato

Nominees: Dark Water, Daughters of Wolbachia, Embrace, Le Otto Dita Della Morte, Old Man Forever, Red, Solo Punk, The Obliteration of the Chickens, The Only Thing I Love More Than You is Ranch Dressing

Best FX - Stucco

Nominees: Asking for a Friend, Backward Creep, Dark Water, Imagine a World, Love Bite, Maggie May, Split Tongue

Best Art Direction - Dark Water

Nominees: Essere Amato, Honour Thy Mother, Janek, Love Bite, Playtime’s Over, Rebuild, Stucco

Best Performance - Romy Heere (In Her Shoes)

Nominees: Rebecca See (Breakfast), Nina Millin (Burp), Jesse Willhite (Janek), LIsa Smit (Lili), Trey McCuley (Listen), Carlee Baker (Love Bite), Bob Newman (Reformed), April Billingsly (The Dark Red), Rebecca Calder (Tickle)

Best International - Janek

Nominees: Birthday Party, Honour Thy Mother, Maggie May, Reformed, Sorrow, Synthia, The Box

Best Regional - Broadside

Nominees: Backward Creep, Framed, Indolence, Love Bite, Playtimes’s Over, Toothache

Audience Choice - Dan Brings Home a Cat

Best Director Feature - Dan Bush (The Dark Red)

Nominees: K/XI (Black Lake), Dionne Copland (Cold Wind Blowing), Arielle Cimino & Jeff Ryan (Mass Hysteria)

Best Short Screenplay - Baby Blue

Nominees: Betwixt, CareFull, Dawn, Eleanor, Love as a Practice for Dying, Mary, Dispossessed, Misstep (Runner up), The Big Rubout, The Pledge

Best Writing (produced) - Broadside

Nominees: A Noise that Carries, Burp, Janek, Lili, Listen, Playtime’s Over, The Dark Red

Best Feature Screenplay - Bawl Park

Nominees: Life at Sandy’s, Motel, Mother, Maiden & Crone, Our Father’s House, Parasomniac, Spectrum (runner up), The Night Bell, The Silo, Witch Water

Best Short Film - Diabla

Nominees: Come Be Creepy With Us, In Her Shoes, It Will Happen Eventually, Janek, Lili, Maggie May, Playtime’s Over, Reformed, Tickle

Best Editing - Cassandra

Nominees: Breakfast, Framed, Janek, Le Otto Dita Della Morte, Reformed, Retch, The Obliteration of the Chickens

Best Cinematography - Black Lake

Nominees: A Wake, Always Going Never Gone, Dark Water, Devil Woman, Diabla, Essere Amato, Janek, Reformed, Stucco, The Dark Red

Horror Icon Recipient - AMANDA WYSS

Best Score - Fellowship

Nominees: Always Going Never Gone, Asking for a Friend, Black Lake, Burp, Cold Wind Blowing, Essere Amato, Slice

Best Director Short - Muriel Naim (Janek)

Nominees: Ashley George (Diabla), Yfke Van Berckelaer (Lili), Jessica Graham (Listen), Samantha Timms (Reformed), Chris Chalklen (Tickle)

Best Feature Film - The Dark Red

Nominees: Black Lake, Cold Wind Blowing, Mass Hysteria