VHS 2021

The Vancouver Horror Show Film Festival (VHS) returned to theatres in 2021 as a hybrid event with both in-person and virtual screenings at Cineplex Entertainment theatres.  

The VHS live event was held at Vancouver’s Scotiabank Theatre with a screening of 10 short films. The full VHS 2021 Hybrid Event lineup included 46 short films and three feature-length films from 12 different countries, with each program included virtual Q&As with participating filmmakers. Also returning in 2021 was the VHS Table Read Series, and screenplay competition.

Award Winners Gigi Saul Guerro (Mistress of Bones), Lisa Ovies (WItches Midnight), and Brodi Jo Scalisi (Itsy Bitsy Spider), whose films screened at the live in-person VHS 2021.

The creative team behind Witches Midnight on the red carpet.

Feature Films

Dark Stories - Guillaume Lubrano and François Descraques (FRA) | The Columnist - Ivo Van Aart (NLD) | Night at the Eagle Inn - Erik Bloomquist (USA)

SHORT FILMS

Becky - Nicole Ihasz (USA) | Feed Your Muse - Brendan Beachman (USA) | Keith - Alex Baro-Cayetano (UK) | Larva - Arik Bauriedl (DEU) | Belfast 1912 - Dominic O'Neill (IRE) | Wich - Anthony Williams (USA) | Hunter's Cabin - N'cee van Heerden (CAN) | Milk & Cookies - Alex Baró-Cayetano, Bear Winter-Perreau (UK) | Face Your Fears - Neil Stevens (USA) | Hazel - Jordan Doig (USA) | Swipe - Niels Bourgonje (NLD) | Alaska - Chris Wilson, Briana Templeton, Gwynne Phillips (CAN) | Little Willy - Andrew Bowser (USA) | The Relic - J.M. Logan (USA) | Solutions for Sadness - Marc Martínez Jordán, Tuixén Benet (ESP) | Processing - Renetta G. Amador (USA) | Witches Midnight - Lisa Ovies (CAN) | Tea Time - Tara Price (USA) | Lili - Yfke van Berckelaer (NLD) | Don't Let It In - Jessica Henric (USA) | Koreatown Ghost Story - Minsun Park & Teddy Tenenbaum (USA) | Tekenchu - Carlos Matienzo Serment (MEX) | Mr. Thisforthat - Thomas Mendolia (USA) | Smile - Joanna Tsanis (CAN) | Safe and Sound - Ian Kammer (USA) | Audionomie - Maximillien Rolland (CAN) | Witches of Bushwick - Catherine Delaloye, Joe Pardavila (USA) | Script - Piero Cannata (ITA) | Mistress of Bones - Gigi Saul Guerrero (CAN) | The Axe and The Iron - Matthew Roseman (USA)| Carmentis - Antony Webb (AUS) | Nova - David McAbee (USA) | Can Someone Hear Me? - Oskar Sjöberg (CAN) | He Murdered Sleep - Jeremy Boxen (CAN) | Human Trash - Aitor Almuedo Esteban (ESP) | She - Eugenio Villamar (USA)| Itsy Bitsy Spider - Brodi-jo Scalise (CAN) | Lucid - Deanna Milligan (CAN) | Eyes Out - Julian Vetrone, Christian Vetrone (CAN) | Dark Water - Erin Coates, Anna Nazzari (AUS)| Tapehead - Jason Zink (USA) | The Lake Parasite - Joe Reilly (USA) | Numerus Duo - Nick Fiorella (USA) | Fat Camp - Sacha Pavlovic (CAN) | Karaoke Night - Francisco Lacerda (PRT) | Guts - Chris McInroy (USA)

Ebony Obsidian in Niels Bourgonje’s Swipe (NLD)

Margaret Cho in Koreatown Ghost Story (USA)

Karlos Aurrekoetxea in Aitor Almuedo Esteban’s Human Trash (ESP)