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After being abducted by a suburban couple running an underground trafficking ring, a determined young woman discovers her missing best friend among the captives and rallies a group of women to fight back, outsmart their captors, and take their freedom by force.

Audience Awards:Best Feature Film: Stratagem The MovieBest Direction: Tea TimeBest Short Film: Excess Baggage Stratagem The Movie, 111min.,Directed by Rick E. CuttsRellik and his girlfriend Nosaer witness a crime and are immediately on the run as they try and elude a killer who seems to always be one step ahead of them. Will they escape… Continue reading HIGHLIGHTS: July 2025 THRILLER/SUSPENSE Film Festival

After a wrongful execution sends rock star, John Santo to the morgue, he rises from the dead, thinking he has a second chance to clear his name, but when he’s thrust into a life-and-death struggle to rescue his kidnapped daughter, Angela from renegade pastor, Sonny Romeo — Satan stands in John’s way, demanding his soul… Continue reading THRILLER Best Scene Reading: EXECUTED AND RISEN, by Salvatore A. Bono

After being embedded with the U.S. military in Afghanistan, which ends in tragedy, a journalist heads to rural Maine to fully recover and finds herself on the frontlines of another battle, between a family of wolves and the ruthless land developer who wants them hunted down. After a comrade dies in a horrific incident on… Continue reading THRILLER/SUSPENSE Best Scene: THE LANGUAGE OF WOLVES, by Nan Schmid

Dr. Frank vows to climb Machu Picchu after his son is killed in Afghanistan and he suffers a major myocardial infarction. A feel-good story. https://www.machopicchu.movie/ CAST LIST: Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morriss Frank: Geoff Mays Mack: Sean Ballantyne Larry: Shawn Devlin

Mark Tyler gets out of prison after twelve years for a robbery gone awry. The loot is still out there. A corrupt cop, a local grifter, a femme fatale and the partner he left for dead all come marching out of his past to come for it. CAST LIST: Narrator: Steve Rizzo Counselor: Geoff Mays… Continue reading THRILLER/SUSPENSE Best Scene: Gang Agley, by Jeremy Hogan, Aaron Krygier

In post-Civil War America, a tormented young woman marked by ancestral abuse becomes the unwilling vessel for a curse born of ancient blood—but as the darkness awakens within her, so too does a scream powerful enough to end it. CAST LIST: Narrator: Steve Rizzo Whispers/Teen Girl: Val Cole Eliza: Elizabeth Rose Morris

A grieving oceanographer and his fearless research partner discover a rogue North Korean general has built a hidden nuclear missile base beneath the Pacific’s Great Garbage Patch and must outwit his deadly forces and sabotage the launch before millions die in an undetectable first strike. CAST LIST: Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morris The Crowd/Man: Geoff Mays… Continue reading THRILLER/SUSPENSE Festival 1st Scene: THE GARBAGE PATCH, by Jonathan Fear

A showcase of the best thriller/suspense films from around the world. AUDIENCE FEEDBACK VIDEO: Best Feature Film: THE DAUGHTERBest Short Film: NO END LANEBest Direction: THE COMMUTERBest Story: DEVIL MAKES THREEBest Performances: BAY FOR BLOOD See the Full Lineup of Films: THE DAUGHTER, 97min., Ukraine Directed by Egor Olesov25 February 2022. War-torn Ukraine. Seventeen-year-old hearing-impaired… Continue reading HIGHLIGHTS: April 2025 THRILLER/SUSPENSE Festival

Thirty years after a world-wide zombie apocalypse in which man kind prevailed — life is nearly back to normal, aside from the occasional residual zombie roaming about. When Tara and her new fiancé Paul finally decide it’s time for him to meet Tara’s father, Paul has one major fear: that her shotgun wielding, beer drinking,… Continue reading THRILLER/SUSPENSE Best Scene: THE OLD MAN & THE DEAD, by Robert Benjamin