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Vote now for our Quarantine Short Film Competition – “Audience Choice Award”

by Andrea SubissatiMay 19, 2020

Sinister Nights, the SIN Film Festival, Rue Morgue, and Slasher are excited to reveal the Top 12 films received for the Quarantine Online Short Film Competition! We invite all horror fans to visit our scoring platform to review and evaluate these short films. The highest scoring film will receive the AUDIENCE CHOICE AWARD. Other awards include BEST OVERALL and MOST CLEVER. These awards will be decided by our judging panel, which includes horror industry professionals such as Kane Hodder, Linnea Quigly, Michael Berryman, Debbie Rochon, Adam Marcus, Felissa Rose, Kevin Tenney, and many more!

To access the scoring platform, go to sinisternights.com and scroll down to “AUDIENCE VOTING IS NOW OPEN”. The scoring window will be open until May 29th, so get your votes in soon! The awards winners will be announced on June 1, 2020. The winning films will be screened on Rue Morgue TV and will be included in the upcoming SIN Film Festival (Halloween Weekend 2020, Miami, FL).

Andrea Subissati

Executive editor; Rue Morgue Magazine

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