Pittsburgh loves horror movies, and horror movies love Pittsburgh. The love affair started with George Romero’s locally-shot legend Night of the Living Dead, and is still going strong today with Pittsburgh’s strong film industry and the hundreds of horror and alternative artists living and thriving in the city. We want to create a festival that uses this city’s love for the genre to showcase amazing horror films from all around the world.

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Nightcrawler Film Fest will be a five-day horror and sci-fi film festival hosted at Row House Cinema’s two locations. Filmmakers and fans alike can come together to see incredible horror features and shorts, and attend special guest panels. Attendees can see new independent and studio features, classic horror films rarely shown on big screens, and of course the strangest, grossest, scariest short films out there.

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This festival will be both an opportunity to strengthen Pittsburgh’s vibrant horror community, and act as a destination festival where fans, critics, and industry professionals can travel to see.