Phonic Fiction Fest

Horror-Noir

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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.

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    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