Summer Scream Fest aims to highlight great horror shorts. Our goal is to find the horror audience and bring great horror entertainment that is outside the window for a traditional theatrical release.
This year's festival will be held in Parkersburg, WV. The 2022 festival is excited to be running as part of the Deep Focus Indie Filmmaker Convention.

Selected films are screened both in a theater for one day and are made available via our online festival for 30 days in order to bring these amazing films to the largest audience possible.

Categories
Horror Shorts with a run time under 70 minutes.
Judging will divide shorts into Micro, Short, and Extended.
Micro Shorts are under 5 minutes
Shorts are 5-19 minutes
Extended Shorts are 20-70 minutes

Outstanding Women In Horror
Productions must be primarily female. At least one major technical role must be female i.e. Writer, Director, Cinematographer, Director of Photography, etc. Films submitted as Women in Horror will automatically be considered in the general horror category.

Animated
Animated projects will also be automatically considered for the general Horror Short category as well.

Student
Student projects must be produced by students. Submit valid student ID when submitting your project. Student projects will also automatically be considered for the general Horror Short category

Photography
Design and create your most original and terrifying horror photography.
Selected photography submissions will be displayed throughout the festival as well as online.

Best Micro Short - Under 5 minutes
Best Short - 5 minutes to 19 minutes
Best Extended Short - 20 to 70 minutes
Best Animated Short
Best Student Production
Outstanding Women In Horror
Best Photography

*Films must by under 70 minutes including opening titles and end credits.

*Entries are only selected through FilmFreeway. Physical copies are not accepted.

*The Festival does not require premiere status for consideration.

*All selections will screen ONLINE. Keep this in mind when submitting. Selected entries will be made available through Exploding Tarantula's ONLINE outlets. Once final selections have been made public a selection cannot be withdrawn!

*Entrant hereby grants permission to Exploding Tarantula Entertainment and The Little Box of Horrors Film Festival to make submission available in its entirety ONLINE.

*Selections will be made available from October 1, 2023 through November 1, 2023

*Selections will be publicly announced September 1, 2023

*Selections may be withdrawn any time prior to the public announcement on September 1, 2023

*Entrant hereby grants permission to ETE and The Festival to use footage, stills, title, and information for promotional purposes of all submissions regardless of selection status.

*Screening schedule is set by the festival director and is subject to change at any time.

*Entrant certifies submission is free from legal disputes and entrant has cleared all rights to music and exhibition

*Due to the volume of submissions we are not able to provide feedback on entries

*One image per photography entry

*Photography submission must be a hi-resolution file. Image may not have watermark or other logo visible.

*Lo-Resolution images with watermark and/or logo visible maybe used for the online display. This may be submitted via email after notification of selection.

*Selected images will be publicly displayed during online The Festival.

*Selected images will be featured on the Exploding Tarantula Entertainment website and promotional material

Overall Rating
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  • Excellent organization and very friendly and warm team  

    January 2021
  • Robert Hensley

    Extremely pleased to be selected for this fest! THANK YOU!

    August 2019
  • FABIO LEONE

    A great experience. I'm proud for the selection at this Film festival. many thanks :)

    August 2019
  • Great experience cant wait to submit my next project

    August 2019
  • Brian Nestor

    It is a great film festival, I encourage people to submit your film!

    January 2019