SHORT DRAMA The Nominees for Best Screenwriting in a Short Drama are… Kris Elgstrand - Big Head Kelly-Ruth Mercier - No Ones Knows You Like Your Mother Lucia Frangione - Pop Switch Linda Theodosakis - [...]

THE FAMILIAR is a 22-minute short from Canadian filmmaker Kody Zimmermann, and Buffalo Screams honored it with Best Horror Short and Best Screenplay (competing against shorts and features). It is the hilarious and somewhat heartbreaking [...]

Sam is obsessed with vampires, until one day, he is given the unique opportunity to become one's assistant. At first, finding victims and hiding corpses seems great, but after a few years of doing his [...]

“YOU MAY THINK YOU HAVE THE BOSS FROM HELL, BUT YOU DON’T HAVE MY JOB, BECAUSE I REALLY DO HAVE THE BOSS FROM HELL” Sam Matheson vampire connoisseur lands the job of the century, when [...]

Sam Matheson (Torrance Coombs) sounds like a nerd. Sam Matheson sort of looks like a nerd. Heck, with his early in life vampire movie obsession it's entirely likely that Sam Matheson was a nerd. On [...]

For those of you unaware of Kody Zimmerman and his wildly successful short film THE FAMILIAR, you’re in for a hilariously dark treat. After nearly two years of festival haunts and with more nominations and [...]

THE FAMILIAR is a 22-minute short from Canadian filmmaker Kody Zimmermann, and Buffalo Screams honored it with Best Horror Short and Best Screenplay (competing against shorts and features). It is the hilarious and somewhat heartbreaking [...]

The Familiar is a cross between obsessions and choices versus a boss and the treatment of an employee, while wrapped up in a comedy vampire film, which is not over the top. A misinformed vampire [...]

The Familiar (dir. Kody Zimmerman)is a fantastic blend of comedy and horror. It takes a behind the scenes look at what being a vampire’s personal assistant would look like. I like the two philosophical questions [...]

"...It was not until “The Familiar,” by Kody Zimmermann, that I was reminded where actually was because of the sheer brilliance encompassed within it. Zimmermann constructed a spoof of the Dracula myth, while creating a stable [...]