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The Jacksonville Horror Film Festival<\/a> is set to make its debut on March 13-14, 2026, at Hick\u2019s Auditorium in the Downtown Public Library, promising a chilling celebration of horror cinema.<\/p>\n This inaugural event, themed \u2018First Blood,\u2019 will feature two days of screenings, panels, celebrity judges, and an awards ceremony, drawing independent filmmakers and horror enthusiasts from around the world.<\/p>\n \u201cWe want people to step into this festival and feel like they\u2019ve crossed into another world,\u201d said DJ Remark, one of the festival directors. \u201cThis is a celebration of horror film and the fans that make it truly shocking.\u201d<\/p>\n >>> STREAM ACTION NEWS JAX LIVE <\/b><\/a><\/p>\n The festival will transform Jacksonville into a horror destination, with local vendors, distillers, and horror-themed partners contributing to the atmosphere.<\/p>\n Festival Directors DJ Remark and Samantha Spaniak aim to boost local tourism and energize downtown businesses through this event.<\/p>\n Submissions for the festival are currently open on FilmFreeway, and tickets can be purchased through Ticketbud<\/a>.<\/p>\n [DOWNLOAD: <\/b>Free Action News Jax app for alerts as news breaks<\/b><\/a>]<\/b><\/p>\n [SIGN UP: <\/b>Action News Jax Daily Headlines Newsletter<\/b><\/a>] <\/b><\/p>\n Click here<\/b><\/i><\/a> to download the free Action News Jax news and weather apps, <\/b><\/i>click here<\/b><\/i><\/a> to download the Action News Jax Now app for your smart TV and <\/b><\/i>click here<\/b><\/i><\/a> to stream Action News Jax live.<\/b><\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Jacksonville Horror Film Festival is set to make its debut on March 13-14, 2026, at Hick\u2019s Auditorium in the Downtown Public Library, promising a chilling celebration of horror cinema. This inaugural event, themed \u2018First Blood,\u2019 will feature two days of screenings, panels, celebrity judges, and an awards ceremony, drawing independent filmmakers and horror enthusiasts […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2014010,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[368958,317163,368959,368960,341229,33801],"class_list":["post-2014009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-downtown-public-library","tag-film-festival","tag-horror-cinema","tag-inaugural-event","tag-independent-filmmakers","tag-jacksonville"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Jacksonville-Horror-Film-Festival-to-make-its-debut.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2014009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2014009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2014009\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2014010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2014009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2014009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2014009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}