Jersey City Horror Film Festival
August 16, 2025

*asterisks indicate the winner

BEST UNPRODUCED SCREENPLAY
Cowpocalypse (written by Greg McCabe Jr.)
*Girls vs. Hell (written by Juliette Roberts)
The Forest (written by Zach Gossett)
Toilet Sharks (written by Bruce Griffiths)
Whispers (written by Aaron Galgoci)

BEST ACTRESS
Emily Battles (Impunity)
Elliot Frances Flynn (The Babysitter Murders: Timing's Off)
*Daphne Gaines (Memory Room)
Ashlyn Nolan (The Marwoods)

BEST ACTOR
Joseph Hernandez (Consequences)
Brandon Manderville (Quit Deacon Me Around)
*Glenn McBride, Jr. (The Final Walk)
Isaac Platizky (The Monitor)

BEST CONCEPT
A Creature Was Stirring
Gains
*Game On (Peek-A-Boo)
Little Deaths
Prey: Murder by Moonlight
Quit Deacon Me Around

BEST TWIST
Bash
Prey: Murder by Moonlight
Scared 13 Seconds Flat
*Sound Mind

BEST STUDENT FILM or FIRST TIME FILMMAKER
*A Creature Was Stirring
Bash
The Babysitter Murders: Timing's Off
The Marwoods

AWARD OF MERIT
*The Marwoods

BEST FILM
Memory Room
The Babysitter Murders: Timing's Off
The Brooklyn Butcher
The Final Walk
*The Monitor








 


















































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