New York City’s Longest Running Horror Festival Turns THIRTEEN !

As he has for the past thirteen years, festival curator Jeffrey Wengrofsky has amassed creep-a-zoid cinema of the highest lowest order.   Secrets of the Dead Short Horror Film Festival 2025 will explore spooky terrain hitherto unchartered with films from Switzerland, Spain, and across the United States and featuring a live musical performance by NYC Goth greats FRENCHY and the PUNK!

The films which have been selected for the 2025 program, their country of origin, their director, and running time (NOT in the order in which they will be screened) are:

“Dig” directed by Jandro (Spain) 11:38

“Saturday Morning Coffee” directed by Erick Freitas (Mahopac, NY) 4:21

“Silent Screams” (North Carolina) directed by Gregory Scotiniadis 8:30

“Pandora, Inc.” directed by Joe Leuben (Brooklyn) 11:45

“We Regret to Inform You” Michelle Bossy (Greece) 13:20

“To The End” directed by Rulying Sun (New York City) 13:30

“Wild Growth” directed by David Maydell (Switzerland) 17:41

“Bloody Geiser” directed by John Maslowski (Ohio) 1:23

“Where the Water Sleeps” directed by Julie Neira Campoverde (Brooklyn) 4:54

“Silent Fragments” directed by Andy Perez (California) 12:35

“Hook, Line, & Kill” directed by Michael Horn 14:36

The greatest certainty and the greatest mystery of our existence is the nature of death.