Reel Fear
Two days of curated horror at MOCA Jacksonville. Programmed, not flooded — every film earns its slot. Reel Fear opens the season the weekend before Halloween, anchored by an A-list featured guest.
The headliner is locked.
KEVIN GREVIOUX is coming.
Reel Fear’s Inaugural Special Guest of Honor is a working A-list voice in the genre we’re honoring. Across two days in Jacksonville, our guest will join us for:
- A 30-minute moderated audience Q&A on Saturday
- One dedicated hour of autograph & merchandise lobby time each day
- An on-stage presentation of the inaugural Lumina Excellence in Cinema Award
- Informal mixer presence Friday evening
2026 Celebrity Guest.
Two days.
Themed shorts blocks.
Our guest of honor.
An award.
Reel Fear programs psychological, atmospheric, supernatural, body, slasher, and folk horror across curated blocks — a feature anchor, shorts, and microshorts in each session. Saturday includes a moderated featured-guest Q&A, the Lumina Excellence in Cinema Award presentation, and a costume contest open to all attendees.
- Curated short films
- Micro-shorts (under 10 min), shorts (10–39 min), features (40 min+)
- Themed blocks distributed across two programming days
- Moderated up to 30-minute featured-guest Q&A on Saturday
- One-hour autograph & merchandise lobby time each day
- VIP filmmaker lobby mixer Friday
- Saturday afternoon: Lumina Excellence in Cinema Award presentation
- Reel Fear Costume Contest with audience prizes
How Lumina unfolds.
After Dark
A lobby mixer, with a curated opening block: REEL FEAR sets the season’s tone. Featured-guest signing in the lobby between blocks.
Closing Feature
The night’s anchor — Official selection of horror that plays throughout Opening Night.
Daytime Mix · Q&A · Award
Reel Fear Costume Contest, a daytime mixer experience, an afternoon block mix of official films followed by a moderated featured-guest Q&A, the Lumina Excellence in Cinema Award presentation.
Closing Night
Ending Block with the night’s closing films and a second look at horror by the festival director herself — Reel Fear’s strongest cinema, played with the festival energy at its peak.
Block sequencing and final lineup locked by Lumina programming three weeks before the weekend.
Submit to Reel Fear.
Submissions are now closed. Early Bird closes June 30 · Regular Deadline July 31 · Final close September 20. All three chapters accept submissions through one FilmFreeway listing.