This year, the participating filmmakers gave the Screaming Room Film Festival audience everything from chills to thrills to laughs.
Each film that played gave a unique spin on the horror genre, displaying the talent and passion of the filmmakers. We thank and appreciate every filmmaker for their participation in the 2026 Screaming Room Film Festival.
Among all of these talented filmmakers, were the winners who dazzled and impressed the audience over the Midsummer Scream Convention. Congratulatio...

This year, The Screaming Room Film Festival is bringing another year of screams, chills, and bloody thrills to all three days of Midsummer Scream.
The biggest privilege of this festival is to bring together the unique and original horror of incredible talent on the big screen, to the horror hungry Midsummer Scream guests to enjoy.
To celebrate another amazing year of The Screaming Room Film Festival, we’ve interviewed a few select filmmakers whose films will get your spine-tingling this weekend....

Coming back to this year’s Midsummer Scream (August 7th, 8th, and 9th), is the nightmare inducing good time, the Screaming Room Film Festival.
Incidentally, you can create your own account on the festival app here. Don’t forget to download the Midsummer Scream app HERE.
Eric Ryan and Amantha Ryan, the festival directors, have helped shape this fantastically bloody festival over the years at Midsummer Scream, creating a unique and exciting experience for audiences and filmmakers alike. With their...

The US-Mexico Borderlands in Contemporary Horror, the latest book of the Edinburgh University Press 21st Century Horror series, evaluates the real and supernatural horrors of the United States and Mexican borderlands from an array of media from film to television to comic books to video games.

Since 1848, when the earliest form of the United States and Mexican border was developed, a unique culture was born, creating its own stories and horrors. Stories of mythical figures like La Llorona and E...