Terror on Tyne is the North East’s only dedicated horror short film festival. It’s run by horror filmmakers and fans, and puts the genre filmmakers and fans at the forefront of the experience.

Following on from the massive success of our inaugural festival, we’ve moved to a cinema venue complete with bar, to ensure that the fun we had at last year’s event will be even greater this time round!

Films will be screened at Star and Shadow, a comfortable, modern cinema venue, where your film will be shown on the big screen to genre fans. The festival has a relaxed, fun atmosphere, where we’ll all get to watch and talk about horror films.

Following the success of last year’s event, we will have a very special guest speaker (announced closer to the time) there for an audience Q&A, and to judge one of the categories.

The evening includes a networking event, so that filmmakers and fans can make connections in order to collaborate on future projects. There will be filmmaker Q&As, so that we can discuss the films we’re watching.

The night will close with an awards ceremony, ensuring that your film gets the recognition it deserves.

All films entered into the festival will be promoted on our social media before and after the festival.

As well as being passionate about horror and about having a festival in the North East that champions the area, we’re also passionate about hearing the voices of women, LGBTQ+ and minority groups who are often overlooked in the horror genre, so will be very grateful to receive entries from people who aren’t just old white blokes.

Awards & Prizes

Best horror short
Best horror comedy short
Best micro short (2 minutes or under)
Best first time or student film
Best smartphone film
Best North East horror film

Rules & Terms

- Submissions must be categorized as horror, a horror sub-genre or horror-adjacent.

- Micro short films must be no longer than 2 minutes in runtime. Short films must be 2 minutes or more in runtime.

- Submissions must be entirely original works with all media being owned or created by
the submitter or their team.

- Submissions must not be submitted more than once, although submitters are
encouraged to submit multiple projects.

- All film submissions must include a submission fee and a completed online FilmFreeway entry form. Submission waivers are NOT provided.

- All non-English films must include English subtitles burned in.

- When final films are selected, filmmakers may be contacted for alternative film formats for programming purposes.

-Films that have screened and or have received awards at other festivals can be submitted provided they adhere to all rules and regulations.

- Only films that have been completed from January 2024 will be accepted as part of the competition.

- Terror on Tyne reserves the right to accept, reject, or disqualify any submission at its discretion without a refund. That said, it should be noted that we will watch every film received in its entirety.

- Terror on Tyne does not maintain ownership of any film submitted but does have the legal right to use images and as much as 30 seconds of footage for current and future festival promotional materials.

- Film submission entry fees must be paid through the FilmFreeway portal as instructed.

- Award winners will be revealed at the ToT awards ceremony at the end of the festival this October.

- Submission does not guarantee entry into the festival. Filmmakers will be notified whether or not their film has been accepted to HorrorFest International no later than 1 October 2024.
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  • Cybelle Elena

    Cool horror festival with great hosts. I was thrilled to be included

    November 2024
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    Response from festival:

    We were so pleased to have you. Your film, Telogen Effluvium, was so original and interesting; we really loved it.

  • James Campbell

    I Had a great time at the festival seeing the films on the big screen but meeting like-minded filmmakers from around the country. Will definitely be coming back next year! Congrats to all the team involved!

    November 2024
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    Response from festival:

    Glad you had such a good time. We loved your award-winning film! Look forward to seeing you again next year!!!

  • Jim Zounis

    It was such a great honor to have our short selected to participate in the "Terror on Tyne Horror Film Festival". Thank you all

    November 2024
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    Response from festival:

    Thanks very much for your kind words. We loved having ‘The Ghost…’ at our festival. Look forward to seeing what you do next.

  • Margaret Kane-Rowe

    Super friendly genre festival, great communication, couldn't be nicer, so sorry I did not get a chance to attend. Highly recommend.

    November 2024
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    Response from festival:

    Thanks so much for your kind words. We loved the film and hope to see you next time!

  • Paul Laight

    Thanks to Terror on Tyne Horror Film Festival for screening my film INFERIS (2024). As an independent filmmaker who funds, writes and directs his own short films festivals like Terror on Tyne are the life-blood of the industry. By supporting indie filmmakers and screening our films it encourages us and gives us an outlet for our creativity. I love horror films and festivals such as Terror on Tyne for championing the genre too. Congratulations to the organisers and carry on the great work!

    November 2024
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    Response from festival:

    Thanks for your kind words Paul. We loved Inferis and look forward to seeing what you do next.