Gary John Davies

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2025-10-16

Writers' Room Member

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The laurels as of October 2021 for Gary Davies' short horror film, Be Quiet.

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Hostile Universe: The Nightmare Cinema of Gary Davies

Be Quiet - Award-winning Short Horror Film

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Awards

'Be Quiet' Best Horror Micro Film finalist Austin After Dark Film Festival
(2021)
'Be Quiet' Short Film Finalist Monsterflix Awards
(2021)
'Be Quiet' 2nd place Micro Short Indie Suspense Horror Sci-fi Film Festival
(2021)
'Be Quiet' Runner-up Best Film Taupo Halloween Film Festival
(2021)
'Broken' feature script Nominated Best Script Beyond Time Genre Awards
(2021)

'Be Quiet' short film nominated for Outstanding VFX Work at the MLC Awards
(2021)

'Be Quiet' short film nominated for Best Color Treatment in a Production at the MLC Awards
(2021)

Short script 'Second Skin' top 10 finalist 2020 Killer Shorts Horror Short Screenplay Competition
(2020)

'Coulrophobia' Best Feature Script at the 2020 Independent Horror Movie Aw
(2020)

'Beneath' feature script Quarter-Finalist Page Turner Screenplay Competition
(2020)

'Broken' feature script Nominated Best Script Bloodstained Film Festival
(2020)

Supreme Award - "Golden Nikau" - for short horror, "Look Out", AllShorts Film Festival, Golden Bay, NZ 2014.
(2015)

Short doco, "Raising the Peaceable Kingdom", finalist in VOFF4 Viewster Online Film Festival 100K competition 2014
(2015)

Short fantasy, "Labyrinth Rocks", official selection VOFF3 Viewster Online Film Festival (only NZ representative) 2014
(2014)

'Highly Commended' for short comedy script, "Boom", by Short n Sharp Executive Producer group, NZFC funding 2013
(2011)

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Credits

Be Quiet (2021)
Film (short) by Gary Davies Writer-Director A young girl is woken in the night by her brother, who believes something is in the house with them.
AUGMENTED (2019 - 2020)
Film (short) by Gary Davies Writer-Director DON'T LOOK
Nextdoor (2015)
Film (short) by Gary Davies (Horror) Writer-Director-Producer A man conducting an inspection of a quirky old house happens upon a dark secret when something draws him to the attic.
Look Out (2014)
Film (short) by Gary Davies (Horror) Writer-Director-Producer After completing a forest walk, a young couple notice something strange on the edge of the bush...
Labyrinth Rocks (2014)
Film (short) by Gary Davies (Fantasy and Horror) Writer-Director-Producer A young girl must enter her fantasy world in order to save her older brother from a shadowy nemesis.
Two in the Bush (2014)
Film (short) by Gary Davies (Comedy and Horror) Writer-Director-Producer Things get weird for two kids playing Frisbee in the back yard one afternoon.
Home Alone? (2013)
Film (short) by Gary Davies (Comedy and Horror) Writer-Director-Producer A Young Man shows up to house-sit and makes himself very much at home. However, he soon starts to wonder if he is in fact home alone.
Rosy Visions (2013)
Film (short) by Gary Davies (Comedy, Fantasy and Horror) Writer-Director-Producer A triptych. Magical visions are experienced by three doppelgangers in their individual realities.
Hemp: NZ's Crop of the Future (2013)
Documentary by Gary Davies (Documentary) Writer-Director-Producer A short overview of New Zealand's growing hemp industry, featuring Anne and Dave of The Hemp Farm NZ Ltd.
Raising the Peaceable Kingdom (2012)
Documentary by Gary Davies (Documentary) Writer-Director-Producer A short film about author Jeffrey Masson.
Whites Beach (2012)
Film (short) by Gary Davies (Drama and Horror) Writer-Director-Producer A man comes to on a remote beach after an ocean swim. As he heads for home over the bush-covered hills he begins to experience strange phenomena.
Wake Up: The Truth About Our Modern Diet (2011)
Documentary by Gary Davies (Documentary) Writer-Director-Producer Dr Aryan Tavakkoli reveals how our everyday dietary choices impact on ourselves and our planet.
Hypnagogia (2011)
Film (short) by Gary Davies (Horror) Writer-Director-Producer A man tells of experiencing a bad dream.
The Nightmare (2010)
Film (short) by Gary Davies (Horror) Writer-Director-Producer A young man receives an unsettling phone call late one night.
The Void (2009)
Film (short) Writer-Director-Producer
What's Happening Wellington?! (2008)
Television Writer-Director-Producer
The Creeping (2007)
Film (short) by Gary Davies (Horror) Writer-Director-Producer A Young Man all alone in a house suffers an accident which disturbs something in the roof. The Young Man assumes it is rats that he is hearing. Unfortunately for him, it isn't.
Flatmates Wanted (2004)
Film by Gary Davies (Comedy and Horror) Writer-Director-Producer Waking alone in his flat with no memory of the night before, young musician Luke finds the lines blurring between reality and dreamworld as he struggles to solve the mystery of the forgotten night and his missing flatmates.

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Loglines

OUT OF TIME Budget: $5M - $10M | Science Fiction ⋄ Horror A wounded teenage girl with a unique ability is discovered hiding on an isolated propertyby a lonely widow, who insists on helping the girl defeat a terrifying creature relentlessly chasing her through Time.
Ascending Budget: $1M - $5M | Horror When his teenage cousin goes missing from the ageing twelve-story hotel where the boy's father died, a world-weary PI struggles to save him from the building's impossible and frightening 13th floor.
Coulrophobia Budget: $5M - $10M | Horror While breaking a wave of creepy clown sightings exploding across the nation, a young journalist with a childhood phobia is plagued by a supernatural entity linked to the death of her mother.
Psychomanteum Budget: $1M - $5M | Horror A stressed skeptic’s retreat to the countryside descends into chaos after his wife vanishes from a strange room of mirrors they find hidden inside their new home.
Killer Script Budget: $1M - $5M | Horror ⋄ Comedy After a series of grisly attacks on agents who read his latest horror story, an aspiring writer struggles to defeat a monstrous demonic curse before his shot at a career goes to Hell.
Augmented Budget: $5M - $10M | Horror After receiving prototype AI augmented reality glasses on the anniversary of his wife's death, a grieving author battles to close a terrifying doorway when the tech malfunctions and manifests his fears into monstrous reality.
Broken Budget: $1M - $5M | Horror After discovering an ancient standing stone circle in the mountains, an estranged couple struggle to defeat a malevolent force hunting them and their friends.
In the Moonlight Budget: $1M - $5M | Thriller / Suspense ⋄ Horror A desperate youth reluctantly taking part in a home invasion must team up with one of the hostages when the tormented family’s monstrous secret is unleashed.
Beneath Budget: $1M - $5M | Horror After discovering an ancient tunnel under an old garden shed, a man with a tragic past struggles to reach impossible depths and face the horrors that lie beneath.