The first annual Knoxville Horror Film Fest was held at The Pilot Light on October 23, 2009, consisting of an evening-long block of shorts split evenly between local and touring films.

Missing from Letterboxd: Coventry, Flesh Of My Flesh, Last Rendezvous, Red Mornings, Road To Oblivion, Shapes, Submerged Intent, The Bride, The Lucky Break, The Statement Of Randolph Carter, Uomo Giallo and Witch Bottle