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New York, United States · Est. 2024 · Multiple structural red flags — exercise caution before submitting
New York Monsters is a new Brooklyn-based genre festival launching at Film Noir Cinema and built around horror, sci-fi, gore, and other boundary-pushing work. It is notable for combining cult films, indie premieres, audience costume events, and a broad welcome for shorts, features, and even dark experimental or shocking documentary films, positioning it as an emerging niche event in New York’s genre-festival scene.
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Last updated Aug 27, 2026
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2024
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