A fearsome festival of fiendishly spooky celluloid. This September Cork City will be the backdrop as Spook Screen will provide a petrifying plethora of thrills and chills as well as talks and interviews on a wide array of horror topics.
We take scary and funny films as long as the subject matter is spinechilling and supernatural. Enter now if you dare! And if you scare!

Each year we bring a number of special guests to the festival to date we have hosted people such as Liam Cunningham, Patrick Bergin, Chris Roe, Ros and John Hubbard, Caroline Munro, Madeline Smith, Nicholas Vince, Courtney Gains, Meg Foster.

Our panel of judges has included people such as Simon Barrett as well as people who work for the likes of Delirium magazine, Disney and Warner Brothers.

Awards & Prizes

Beast In Festival (Best in Festival)

Gave Us the Creeps award (scariest film)

Ghoul Days (Student Award)

Best Director

Best Actor

Best Actress

Best Make up/ Effects

Catergory for Two Minute Terrors- Best Horror under 2 mins.

All Films are automatically in contention for the awards winners will be announced at the awards ceremony on the closing night.

Rules & Terms

All films which are accepted will be eligible for any applicable awards.

*****Films must be in the horror or Fantasy genre, while it does not matter if they are drama, out and out horror or even comedy so long as horror or fantasy topics or themes are at the core of the film. If they are not horror based they will not be accepted.******

Please note also Students films will only be accepted for the student section, proof of Student ID will be asked for at some stage before films are selected*****

Winners will be announced at the awards Ceremony on September 9th.

Short films must be under 21 minutes to be accepted and features over 60 minutes.

only films made in Ireland or made by Irish citizens are permitted in the Irish shorts section.

while it is not mandatory it is encouraged that people whose films have been selected try to attend their screening.

Music videos with a horror theme may be submitted to the short film sections.

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  • Matthew SILVA

    Solid communication and very friendly team. Hope to be back with them this year (and maybe attend in person).

    April 2026
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  • Laurie Garner

    Honored to have my film SEA LEGS screen at Spook Screen in 2025. As was the case the first time one of my films was an official selection a few years ago, the Festival communicated excellently with filmmakers & put together a wonderful batch of films & events for the fest. We wish we could have attended!

    January 2026
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  • Nina Romain

    Thanks Spook Screen for selecting my microhorror 60 seconds scare No Such Thing as Werewolves! I never thought it would do this well as it was both shot and edited in a single day!

    December 2025
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  • Zoe Kavanagh

    Had a great time hanging out with the Spook Screen crew and to see the film screened at the Arc Cinema. Was an honor to win the Spirit of the Fest award!

    December 2025
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  • Elisa Manzini

    Spook Screen is a lovely festival made by passionate people who really love horror. It was great to such a variety of shorts over the course of three days. We're very proud our lead won Best Actress and so thankful for the honorable mention for our movie TEETH.

    December 2025
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