Nightmares Film Festival Unveils 2022 Program Boasting Movies, Panels, and More 

Columbus, Ohio’s Nightmares Mucosa Festival has unveiled the lineup for its seventh edition, and it’s a doozy! With horror features and shorts featuring monsters, murderers, and all other sorts of mayhem, the fest shows that it does what it takes to live up to its “better horror” credo. Following is the official printing announcement.

Nightmares Mucosa Festival (Oct. 20 to 23) has revealed its well-constructed 2022 program, and the seventh edition of the fest looks to be heaven for genre fans and creators.

The top-rated festival has once then scoured the globe to hoke the most surprising and minion genre voices in a four-day lineup that truly lives up to NFF’s “better horror” credo. The mucosa program combines new work from the most recognizable names in horror – from Mike Flanagan and Jamie Lee Curtis to Aaron Moorhead and Justin Benson – with fresh, shocking stories by some of the planet’s weightier self-sustaining filmmakers and screenwriters. 

“We are so honored the world’s top genre creators trust us to present their work,” said co-founders Jason Tostevin and Chris Hamel in a statement. “This year’s program, including dozens of premieres from increasingly than 25 countries, is veritably overcrowded with the outrageous, hilarious, challenging and thought-provoking genre experiences our regulars loves.”

The festival once then takes place at the legendary self-sustaining Gateway Mucosa Center, a top five North American art house (Sundance) featuring one of the last defended projection teams in the country. Upgrading the once no-go on-site wits this year is the mucosa center’s remodeled and expanded overlook festival lounge, where VIP token holders can hang out with creators while enjoying a private bar and restrooms, a new kitchen menu and private archway to both festival auditoriums.

Leading the festival’s predictable lineup are 19 full-length films across the full Nightmares spectrum of categories, from underdone funny horror comedies to tense thrillers and terrifying horror films to mind-bending midnighters. 

Four of this year’s features are part of the special Returning Terrors program, presenting a murderer’s row of predictable sequels to films that took the genre world by storm, each with their director in attendance. They include the world premieres of WNUF 2’s special Nightmares cut and FP:4EVZ, the final mucosa in the FP franchise; the midwest premiere of horror spectacle scrapbook Scare Package 2: Rad Chad’s Revenge; and Ohio’s only screening of The Barn Part II. 

The fest is moreover proud to present the midwest premier of Benson and Moorhead’s (Spring, The Endless) new full-length Something in the Dirt … the no-go analog Stephen King interpolation The Timekeepers of Eternity, made by printing The Langoliers on reprinting paper and stimulative the pages into a new story of obsession … the North American premiere of UK post-apocalyptic monster movie Walking Against the Rain … the midwest premiere of the horror scrapbook Sinphony, the first full-length created through collaboration on social platform Clubhouse … the bonkers French zombie horror spectacle Super Z … and an unprecedented double-feature of mockumentary The Once and Future Smash, well-nigh two actors who played the same slasher, followed by the “restored” movie-in-the-movie they starred in, End Zone 2. 

Nightmares special events include the return of one of its weightier known traditions, the Midnight Mind Fuck — tabbed “one of the most dangerous and challenging blocks of programming at any festival” (The Mucosa Coterie) — featuring the Northern U.S. premiere of All Jacked Up and Full of Worms, which Paste Magazine warned is “disgusting … drippy, slimy, perverted and disturbing” … a one-of-a-kind 35mm screening of James Quinn (Flesh of the Void)’s The Ruins of a Serpent Kingdom … the homecoming premiere of Obstacle Corpse, the horror spectacle full-length debut presented out of competition from the Fright Club podcast team … and the fest’s predictable yearly panels, Social Progress Through Horror and The New Distribution, including distributors and studios.

The festival’s reputation for presenting the best-curated shorts blocks on the planet continues with a lineup of 150 horror, thriller, midnight and horror spectacle short films, including dozens of world premieres. New this year are several themed shorts blocks, including The Horrors of Filmmaking, Animated Nightmares, Never Play with Your Food and She Just Hasn’t Been Herself. Recurring Nightmares blocks will highlight NFF regulars favorites returning with new work, and the Ohio shorts woodcut will offer up the weightier locally made fare.

Nightmares has moreover named the finalists in its short and full-length screenplay contests. These screenwriters will be given the endangerment to connect with selected filmmakers to explore production of their scripts through the NFF FinaLIST matching service.

All selected competition films and screenplays vie for a coveted Night Mare statuette, representing the visionless horses of genre. The Night Mare is sculpted and painted by renowned toy and icon creator Tony Simione (Marvel, Star Wars, Godzilla, Alien). 

The well-constructed NFF ‘22 schedule and list of selected films and finalist screenplays is misogynist here. For the Sleepless planning their pilgrimage to Nightmares this year, some VIP badges are still available, though they unchangingly sell out. 

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