Carolina Fear Fest Horror Convention - celebrating all things horror at our 6th show in May 2025!

Convention will include Guest Appearances, Film Screenings, Vendors, Panels, Entertainment and more!

Accepting shorts to full-length films in the Horror and Fantasy genres, with a preference in screenings to horror.

Awards & Prizes

We are currently working towards bringing on Sponsors and culling prizes from our vendor partners. Previous category winners were provided a comp pass for the event and opportunity to intro film at the screening.

Current awards: Lovely printed certificate with Laurel and bragging rights.

Possible awards: Carolina Fear Fest merch and sponsor swag. And the bragging rights - always the bragging rights!

Rules & Terms

Films should fall under genre categories of Horror or Fantasy. Not all films submitted will be shown at the event. Screenings schedule priority will include those films that do win award categories. Additional films will be slotted for screening as time allows.
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  • Jordan Miller

    Carolina Fear Fest has a great lineup of guests and films, it was an honor to have our film “The Only Ones” as one of the Best Feature Film winners!

    May 2025
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  • Harker Jones

    Was thrilled to be included in this year’s festival. Though I couldn’t attend, the communication with the fest’s director was consistent and clear. Couldn’t have asked for a better experience.

    June 2024
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  • Raymond Wallace

    Had the great fortune to be able to attend one of the days and had a fantastic time at the event, as well as getting to see some truly great films from other filmmakers. I was bummed that I was only able to attend for one of the days, as the various events and films made it more than worth attending all of the days.

    January 2020
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  • J. Zachary Thurman

    Had a blast at this one! These guys are true horror fans and really took care of me and the crew. Plus, we got to meet some famous horror icons!!!!

    October 2019
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  • Colin Francis Costello

    Unfortunately I was not able to attend, but the festival seemed wonderful. The communication was quick and amazing. I am grateful for having The After Party play there.

    June 2019
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