2003 New York City Horror Film Festival Award Winners

The best of the horror film world gathered in New York to celebrate the New York City Horror Film Festival. The festival kicked off October 21 with a huge party at Don Hills followed by four days of sold out film screenings, celebrity appearances, and an incredible and informative panel discussion at the Tribeca Film Center in Lower Manhattan.



Best Feature:
MALEVOLANCE Directed by Steven Mena
The story begins ten years earlier with the kidnapping of a six year old boy named Martin Bristol, who is forced to witness unspeakable acts of torture and murder by a madman. Fast forward to 1999, where a group of friends plan a bank job that goes tragically wrong, only to reveal treachery among friends and a matured evil lying in wait.

Best Short
SCREAM FOR ME Directed by Christopher Broadstone
I this psychological horror-thriller, in which one killer becomes the victim of another, Garrott Druck seeks the truth of what lies beyond death within the screams of the women he murders. Tonight, however, he will fall fate to a killer more insane than himself, and come face to face with the horrible truth that hides within the screams of his own violent death.

Best Cinematography: Richard Siegel
FLESH FOR THE BEAST Directed by Terry West
When a crack team of parapsychologists get a call to investigate a manor and former brothel, they jump at the chance to cleanse the vast estate of its restless spirits. They get more than they bargained for upon exploring the house, being confronted by blood-thirsty demons disguised as beautiful women, a horde of zombies bent on a rampage of carnal slaughter and a madman with a satanic secret.

Best actress: Kristina Copeland
SAVAGE ISLAND Directed by Jeffrey Lando
Steven & Julia are having marital troubles but a weekend visit with Julia's family on remote Savage Island makes that the least of their worries. Squatters demand Steven and Julia's newborn as payment for the death of one their own.

Best Make up and effects
G&S Effects - FLESH FOR THE BEAST directed by Terry West
When a crack team of parapsychologists get a call to investigate a manor and former brothel, they jump at the chance to cleanse the vast estate of its restless spirits. They get more than they bargained for upon exploring the house, being confronted by blood-thirsty demons disguised as beautiful women, a horde of zombies bent on a rampage of carnal slaughter and a madman with a satanic secret.

The audience choice
STRANGE THINGS HAPPEN AT SUNDOWN Directed by Marc Fratto
A pulse pounding story of vampires run amuck in NYC. There's a group of low level mobsters with fangs, an age-old vampire who does mob hits for money, a pair of vampire lovers on the run, an Italian girl from Brooklyn bitten by vampires, and a psychotic 400 year old blood-sucking housewife with a fetish for cleanliness. All of them are being hunted by a nefarious vinyl clad woman whose intentions are mysterious and powers are unmatched.