Horror-Noir
Justice Served
///DESCRIPTION
A lone detective wanders the neon-dotted streets of her city in search of justice for her murdered partner. What she finds in the seedy underbelly of back-alley cage matches leads her to a horrible revelation about the twisted eco-system of a dying world.
///VOTING CATEGORIES
Horror-noir
Marginalized gender identity – Creator
Marginalized gender identity – Character
LGBTQIA+ – Character
Original music
Original SFX
///CONTENT WARNINGS
Death/dying
Injury
Loss of assistive technology/prosthetic
Dystopia
Body horror
Cannibalism
SFX: A few loud humming noises, loud crowds, whirring blades, crunching, wet noises
Strained Airs
///DESCRIPTION
Evidence Log for Case #9002172: Disappearance of Richard Folner, private detective. Evidence includes recorded notes by subject in the days leading to his disappearance. Recording follows.
///VOTING CATEGORIES
Horror-noir
LGBTQIA+ – Creator
Single Person Production
//CREDITS
Sound effects from zapsplat.com
Music: Spooky Theme by Mystified from freemusicarchive.org
///CONTENT WARNINGS
Infidelity
Sounds of fear/distress/crying
Brief body horror
The End of the Storm
///DESCRIPTION
A career criminal makes 3 deliveries during a supernaturally long storm, and discovers many uncomfortable truths.
///VOTING CATEGORIES
Horror-noir
Marginalized gender identity – Creator
Disabled/neurodivergent – Creator
Marginalized gender identity – Character
Single Person Production
//CREDITS
Sounds by Zapsplat!
///CONTENT WARNINGS
Suicide
Drugs
Depression
Profanity
Death
Pandemic
Gambling
Apocalypse
The Ex-Wife
///DESCRIPTION
A man and his employee discuss the man’s ex-wife and his suspicious yet horrific past.
///VOTING CATEGORIES
Horror-noir
Single Person Production
//CREDITS
Music by ASTROFREQ from Pixabay
Sound effects from the wonderful artists of Pixabay
///CONTENT WARNINGS
Blood/gore
Horror-Comedy
Beyond the Veil
///DESCRIPTION
A washed-up team of paranormal investigators search for ghost activity in a local hardware store. What could possibly go wrong?
///VOTING CATEGORIES
Horror-comedy
LGBTQIA+ – Creator
Marginalized Gender Identity – Creator
Disabled/Neurodivergent – Creator
Marginalized Gender Identity – Character
Original Music
Original Art
//CREDITS
SFX – freesound.org
///CONTENT WARNINGS
Death
Graphic Violence
Frightening Situations
Group Tensions
Confinement
Loud noises
Mentions of Catholicism
Damned If You Do
///DESCRIPTION
Three friends pitch in to help an old mentor take care of some unfinished business at his church. But why is he so insistent that they avoid that one specific room?
///VOTING CATEGORIES
Horror-comedy
LGBTQIA+ – Creator
Marginalized Gender Identity – Creator
Disabled/Neurodivergent – Creator
///CONTENT WARNINGS
Loud sounds
Cursing
Some blood and gore
Physical violence
Sexual inferences
Possession
Double Booked
///DESCRIPTION
At the advice of their therapist, a couple on the verge of divorce books a weekend getaway in the country to try to iron out their differences. Things get dicey when they find out they aren’t the only inhabitants of their quaint little home in the woods.
///VOTING CATEGORIES
Horror-comedy
LGBTQIA+ – Creator
Marginalized Gender Identity – Creator
Original Music
Original Art
///CONTENT WARNINGS
Language
Gory sound effects
Frequent insults about model trains
Philly accents
Blood
Death
Mutilation
Improper usage/pronunciation of medical terms
Puns
Serial killer
Flesh to Add to Its Own
///DESCRIPTION
Poker night at Spencer’s house is wrapping up, but a strange sound convinces Frank to shut up about Wittgenstein and investigate what is going on.
///VOTING CATEGORIES
Horror-comedy
LGBTQIA+ – Creator
Original music
///CONTENT WARNINGS
Profanity
Violence
Animal Death/Injury
Banging Noises
Body Horror
Scratching/Itching
Hexpress Hotline
///DESCRIPTION
Hexpress Hotline is not your average 9-5. Between providing curses to unhappy couples and dealing with complaints, Circe has to deal with rival witches, the HR (human remains) department, and cats predicting the end of the world… wait, what?
///VOTING CATEGORIES
Horror-comedy
LGBTQIA+ – Creator
BIPOC – Creator
Marginalized Gender Identity (e.g. woman, non-binary, etc.) – Creator
Disabled/Neurodivergent – Creator
Original Music
///CONTENT WARNINGS
SFX: Leeches, breaking glass, screaming, scraping metal, retching, static
Depictions of violence
Mentions of leeches
Cheating
Breaking and entering
Murder
Vomit
Death
Mice
Bones
Apocalypse
Monster Mash Live!
///DESCRIPTION
Monster Mash Live! is a horror / comedy about a social media sasquatch hunter who accidentally finds his way into a different dimension where a very strange tournament is taking place and the only way out, is through!
///VOTING CATEGORIES
Horror-comedy
LGBTQIA+ – Creator
BIPOC – Creator
Marginalized Gender Identity – Creator
Disabled/Neurodivergent – Creator
Original Music
///CONTENT WARNINGS
Sudden/loud sounds
Profanity
Death / Violence
Gross sounds
Drugs
Supernatural threat
Spiders
Worms
Mentions of family disagreements, harm to animals
SFX: Roaring, weird noises, crowd screaming, snake hissing, spider noises
Pemberley’s Big Break
///DESCRIPTION
Aspiring journalist Pemberly Pennington interviews the aloof detective Lois Charcutier.
///VOTING CATEGORIES
Horror-comedy
LGBTQIA+ – Creator
Marginalized Gender Identity – Creator
Disabled/neurodivergent – Creator
Marginalized Gender Identity – Character
///CONTENT WARNINGS
Mention of death
Murder
Abuse
Vehicular accidents
Profanity
Suckers
///DESCRIPTION
Demon-hunting podcaster Larry is out to disrupt the summoning of the Great Cleanser by cult leader Candace. Candace’s Latinist friend Forest has other plans for the evening…
///VOTING CATEGORIES
Horror-comedy
LGBTQIA+ – Creator
Marginalized Gender Identity – Creator
Disabled/Neurodivergent – Creator
Marginalized Gender Identity – Character
///CONTENT WARNINGS
Pandemic humor
Mild physical violence
Discussion of cults
Stalking mention
SFX: wet squishy sounds
Occult Rituals
Apocalypse references
Profanity
Eldritch entity
Horror-Fantasy
Clear Your Mind
///DESCRIPTION
A group of friends go skinny dipping one Halloween night, but something in the water takes control of their bodies instead, leading them to a cave with a dark secret.
///VOTING CATEGORIES
Horror-fantasy
LGBTQIA+ – Creator
BIPOC – Creator
Marginalized Gender Identity – Creator
Disabled/neurodivergent – Creator
Marginalized Gender Identity – Character
//CREDITS
Music used with license from Dark Fantasy Studios
SFX used with license from Zapsplat.com
///CONTENT WARNINGS
Death
Profanity
Violence
Mention of nudity
Allusion to sex
Mention of blood and gore
Insects
Sounds of person being devoured
Brief body horror
Depths
///DESCRIPTION
Poachers awaken an ancient evil.
///VOTING CATEGORIES
Horror-fantasy
LGBTQIA+ – Creator
Disabled/neurodivergent – Creator
BIPOC – Creator
Original music
Original SFX
///CONTENT WARNINGS
Swearing
Sounds of fear/distress/crying
Mention of blood
Kidnapping
Sounds of violence
Spooky eldritch whispers
Mention of drug use
Emet
///DESCRIPTION
A desperate king and his concubine, who carries his only child and heir, seek the cure for the plague on their land from a legendary golem: a being of truth. The truth they find may not be the one they expect.
///VOTING CATEGORIES
Horror-fantasy
LGBTQIA+ – Creator
Marginalized Gender Identity – Creator
BIPOC – Creator
Disabled/neurodivergent – Creator
LGBTQIA+ – Character
Marginalized Gender Identity – Character
BIPOC – Character
Disabled/neurodivergent – Character
Original Music
Original Art
///CONTENT WARNINGS
Loud noises
Blood
Suicide
Death
Disease
Recollections of war and cultural oppression
Reference to child death
Reference sexual relationships
In a Blink
///DESCRIPTION
A man and woman meet and connect at a festival of light and art, but all is not as it seems.
///VOTING CATEGORIES
Horror-fantasy
LGBTQIA+ – Creator
Marginalized Gender Identity – Creator
Marginalized Gender Identity – Character
Original SFX
//CREDITS
Swing Sound by voho on freesounds.org under a Creative Commons 0 License.
///CONTENT WARNINGS
Death
Discussion of mortality
John Smith and the Cost of the Hungry Blade
///DESCRIPTION
The Guardians of the Forest have sent an envoy to the human world. But they’ve found a new candidate to represent them — too bad he doesn’t believe in magic.
///VOTING CATEGORIES
Horror-fantasy
LGBTQIA+ – Creator
Marginalized gender identity – Creator
Disabled/neurodivergent – Creator
LGBTQIA+ – Character
Disabled/neurodivergent – Character
Original Music
Original Art
///CONTENT WARNINGS
Murder
Profanity
Implications of violence
Mild threat
Loss of autonomy
Rot/decay
Supernatural harm
SFX: Birds calling, eldritch voices whispering, vocal distortion
Meant to Be Seen
///DESCRIPTION
Ariadne, cleric of Sylk, was simply trying to do her job. The voice calling to her in the night wasn’t meant to enrapture her, so why did she follow? And what will happen to her now that she has?
///VOTING CATEGORIES
Horror-fantasy
LGBTQIA+ – Creator
BIPOC – Creator
Marginalized Gender Identity – Creator
Marginalized Gender Identity – Character
Single Person Production
///CONTENT WARNINGS
Lack of control/forced actions
Discussions of kidnapping
Nonconsensual touching (non-sexual)
Brief mentions of strangulation
Ambiguous character death
Distress/crying
Mentions of alcohol and gambling
Polaris
///DESCRIPTION
The UK is at war with an unknown enemy, she is blockaded by a multinational coalition headed by the United States which aims to prevent the ‘conflict’ from spreading. After a stunning victory which supposedly ‘turned the tide’ of the war…a father returns home to his family… but nothing is as it seems, and no one is sure of anything…except that everything they are being told is a lie…
///VOTING CATEGORIES
Horror-fantasy
BIPOC
///CONTENT WARNINGS
Sounds of gun violence
Warfare
Inferrable PTSD
StrixNet
///DESCRIPTION
Two parents caught up in an internet worshiping cyber-cult try to protect their child from one of its ancient prophecies.
///VOTING CATEGORIES
Horror-fantasy
Marginalized Gender Identity – Creator
Disabled – Creator
Marginalized Gender Identity – Character
//CREDITS
SFX – zapsplat.com
SFX – soundsnap.com
///CONTENT WARNINGS
General distress/horror
Mention of bugs
Emotional manipulation
Arguing
Character death
Kidnapping
Noises: Electronic noises, bone snapping, screaming, chanting
Cults/cult behavior
Child endangerment
Body crushing
Sudden loud sounds
Profanity
The Bone Collector
///DESCRIPTION
A tale of a little village in the snow, and a deal between children under the full moon.
///VOTING CATEGORIES
Horror-fantasy
LGBTQIA+ – Creator
BIPOC – Creator
Marginalized Gender Identity – Creator
Disabled/Neurodivergent – Creator
Original Music
Original Art
//CREDITS
SFX – zapsplat.com
SFX – freesound.org
///CONTENT WARNINGS
Blood/gore
Death/dying
Body horror
Harm to children
SFX: Child crying
The Ecdysis of Sarah
///VOTING CATEGORIES
Horror-fantasy
LGBTQIA+ – Creator
Marginalized Gender Identity – Creator
Marginalized Gender Identity – Character
Original Art
///CONTENT WARNINGS
The Occult
Blood
Injury
Terminal/degenerative illness and pain
Death/dying
Body horror
SFX: Slicing, wet sloughing sounds
The Teeth Thief
///DESCRIPTION
In France and in other countries, it is a tradition to put a tooth a child just lost under their pillow, for La Petite Souris, the little mouse, to come get it in exchange for a coin. How could it turn out bad? Bonne écoute!
///VOTING CATEGORIES
Horror-fantasy
LGBTQIA+ – Creator
Marginalized Gender Identity – Creator
Disabled/neurodivergent – Creator
//CREDITS
Chase by Alexander Nakarada | https://www.serpentsoundstudios.com
Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Multiple sounds and sound effects from Zapsplat.com
hums from Pixabay
25347980 from Pixabay
Feslyian Studios (https://www.fesliyanstudios.com/)
BigSoundBank (https://BigSoundBank.com)
BBC Sound Effects
Squadda B
Mixkit
///CONTENT WARNINGS
Mention of blood
Rodents
Loud sounds
Profanities
Torture
Pain
Screams
You Are Powerful Beyond Measure
///VOTING CATEGORIES
Horror-fantasy
LGBTQIA+ – Creator
BIPOC – Creator
Marginalized Gender Identity – Creator
LGBTQIA+ – Character
Marginalized Gender Identity – Character
Original Art
//CREDITS
Jingle Bells by brolefilmer http://pixabay.com/music/christmas-jingle-bells-12255/
Aurora by Kevin Hartnell https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Kevin_Hartnell/ Umbra_1955/Kevin_Hartnell_-_Umbra_-_10_Aurora/
All other sound effects from Soundly Pro library https://getsoundly.com/faq/how-can-i-use-the-sounds
///CONTENT WARNINGS
Second person POV
Occult/magic
Manipulation
Conflict between characters
Reference to body horror
Profanity
Loud SFX: Wind, Distorted voices, voices overlapping.
You Deserve This
///DESCRIPTION
What do you do when you wake up in a strange, dark place? Do you trust the voice that’s guiding you? Do you really deserve this?
///VOTING CATEGORIES
Horror-fantasy
Original music
Original SFX
///CONTENT WARNINGS
Supernatural horror
Psychological Trauma
Torture
Drowning
Profanity
Inferrable Murder