Unrestricted View Horror Film Festival Awards 2025
Nominations
UVHFF 2025 Awards
Nominations for UVHFF 2025
BEST WEB SERIES -
Do You Want to See Me Do the Striptease Too? (China)
Fine Valentine (USA)
Burns & Song (Zimbabwe)
BEST HORROR MOMENT
Announced on the night
BEST MAKE UP
Pearls
No Exit During Nighttime Hours
The Men from Damnation Control
Sleepeater
Lily of the Valley
Undying Love
BEST COSTUME -
The Pearl Comb
The Devil’s Lair
Sleepeater
Lily of the Valley
Lost Hope
Head First
BEST SCREENPLAY (filmed) -
Itch (Joe Savage)
Blink (Parpadear) – (Barto Muñoz, Daniel Raja, Fran Marín)
Scratch (Alexandra Wetherall & Gaz Hayden)
Irish Son (Cameron Tharmaratham)
The Abyss (Josh Flower)
BEST SHORT SCREENPLAY (un-filmed) -
The Coal Kids (Alessandro Biacca, France)
Test of Death (Linda Niccol & Michael Botur, New Zealand)
Rage (Crystal Muma Rivers, USA)
Bugged (Metin Bulent, UK)
Doubting Thomas (Joseph Millson, UK)
The Prism (Philip Shanahan, Ireland)
Iustitium (Roy Scintei, UK)
Emancipation (Todd Ryan Jones, USA)
BEST SFX -
Aetherium
Archaic
Pearls
The Pearl Comb
Snare
The Quackening
BEST SOUND DESIGN -
Undertone
1 Star Review
The Devil’s Lair
A Drive at Dawn
Irish Son
BEST SCORE -
Undertone
Wrapped in Celluloid
Revenant
Lake on the Cabin
I See You’re Alone
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
The Devil’s Lair
Archaic
1 Star Review
Itch
Fly Over
Lake on the Cabin
BEST EDITING -
Undertone
COPE [illustrations of the mind]
Body Worn Video
The Devil is in the Detail
One Star Review
BEST COMEDY HORROR -
Coarse Truth
The Quackening
Night Whispers
Surprise!
A Long Way from the Ziggurat
BEST ART DIRECTION
RING RING
COPE [illustrations of the mind]
Catcher
Undertone
Sleepier
Lost Hope
ONE TO WATCH AWARD
Lisa Geurts (Post)
Andrew Dornan (Is Someone There?)
Jade Kemble (Lily of the Valley)
Joe Savage (Itch)
BEST FOREIGN FEATURE FILM -
Tabula Rasa
The Reckoning
Weekend at the End of the World
Welcome to Kittytown
BEST ACTRESS FEATURE FILM -
Anna Tarsh (Porcelain Presence)
Caitlin Cameron (Ghoul Squad)
Kristin Griffith (The Reckoning)
Troian Bellisario (Weekend at The End of the World)
Macarena Gómez (Tabula Rasa)
BEST ACTOR FEATURE FILM –
Stuart Horobin (Porcelain Presence)
Michael Weaver (The Reckoning)
Pedro Casablanc (Tabula Rasa)
Thomas Lennon (Weekend at the End of the World)
Matthew Devitt (Ghoul Squad)
BEST DIRECTOR FEATURE FILM –
Alex Breaux (The Reckoning)
Gille Klabin (Weekend at the End of the World)
Douglas James Luciuk (Welcome to Kittytown)
Eliza Bibb & Sparky Jones (Porcelain Presence)
Esteban Roel & Juanfer Andrés (Tabula Rasa)
BEST UK FEATURE FILM -
Virus Detected
Video Shop Tales of Terror: Lust & Revenge
Ghoul Squad
Porcelain Presence
THE SI SPENCER AWARD
Night Whispers
1 Star Review
Irish Son
Itch
The Pearl Comb
BEST FOREIGN SHORT -
COPE [illustrations of the mind] (Italy)
Nightfall (USA)
Hide (USA)
Catcher (USA)
The Things We Do (Netherlands)
12 Cors (France)
BEST ACTRESS SHORT FILM -
Jessamie Waldon-Day (Wrapped in Celluloid)
Olivia McDermott (Lake on the Cabin)
Vicky Allen (Irish Son)
Phoebe Sparrow (Snare)
Carlotta De Gregori (Exhibit B)
Rachel Rooney (Itch)
BEST ACTOR SHORT FILM -
Joseph Adelakun (Ghost Story)
Cameron Tharmaratnam (Irish Son)
Max Boast (The Men from Damnation Control)
Atilla Akinci (Still There)
Tom Whittaker (Itch)
Gaz Hayden (Scratch)
BEST DIRECTOR SHORT FILM -
Ali Cook (The Pearl Comb)
Tolu Ogunware (Irish Son)
Livvy Edwards (Aetherium)
Max Ward (Fly Over)
Snovonne “Sno’ Drake (COPE [illustrations of the mind])
Zac Villanueva (Nightfall)
FESTIVAL DIRECTOR’S CHOICE
Announced on the night
BEST UK SHORT FILM -
The Pearl Comb
Aetherium
Irish Son
Wrapped in Celluloid
Undertone
Itch