Tampa Bay Screams Horror Convention and Film Festival is now in our 10th year in 2025. Enter your Horror, Sci-Fi or Thriller movie for a chance to screen it at this years event. The next Tampa Bay Screams horror convention and film festival will have distribution representatives, celebrity guests, publicity, and awards at the event.

Awards & Prizes

Best Film, Best Actor, Best Actress and Best Director, Best Special F/X
*For full-length and short films*

2024 Award Winners:

Best Feature Film: The Clock
Best Featurette Film: He Comes to Kill
Best Short Film: A Vampire's Kiss
Best Actor: Joel D. Wynkoop (187 Times: The Movie)
Best Actress: Aimee Rolfsen (The Clock)
Best Director (Feature): Rick Danford (The Clock)
Best Director (Short): Victor Bonacore (Our Amityville Apocalypse)
Best FX (Feature): 187 Times: The Movie
Best FX (Short): They're Real
Best Cult Movie: Psycho Ape

Rules & Terms

The rules are: Your full-length film or short must be Horror/Sci-Fi/ Thriller or Exploitation.
No waivers!

Short: below 40 min.
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  • Matthew Speak

    So honored to have On Halloween Night screened at this event. It looks like a really fun convention with some nice celebrity guests. Wish I could have attended.

    January 2025
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  • Michael Dorfman

    Absolutely honored to have our short film BEYOND THE BLEED LIMIT selected to screen at this years festival. Although we weren't able to attend, we followed along with all the detailed updates on social media. Excellent communication, fantastic films and incredible filmmakers. Highly recommend!!

    July 2024
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  • Karolina Morrongiello

    We had a blast. What a great event Sean the host was awesome 👌 Karolina took best female actress for her new film " The American Ripper " coming soon here in 2023 through ITN films

    August 2023
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  • Terry Jarrell

    Absolutely fantastic festival experience! Thank you soooo much for selecting our film, Harlow's Haunt for your event and we are humbled and very much appreciate for our award!!!

    June 2023
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  • Matt Robb

    Wish I could have attended, but great thanks for the consideration! Will definitely submit future films here.

    May 2023
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