About COSMIC NIGHTMARES
ABOUT THE COMPANY
Cosmic Nightmares is an LA based film and television production company founded in 2019 by Haven Johnson. Cosmic Nightmares was established to develop and produce hard hitting, progressive genre feature films and TV shows with an emphasis on horror, science fiction and thrillers.
Cosmic Nightmares is partnered with producers Marc Rosenzweig and Mike Smith, as part of a rebrand of our former company Zephyr Entertainment, as we transition into producing genre features. Together we are producing a slate of independent genre features in the $1-10 million range and seeking producing, financing and distribution partnerships.
With a decade of experience, our team of USC grads, has produced a wide variety of short-form content including music videos, commercials, narrative shorts, web series, sketch comedy and live music/performing arts recordings. Our content has premiered on platforms including Amazon Prime and Dust, and at film festivals including Slamdance, Raindance and LA Shorts International. Our team of producers have done commercial work for HBO and GMR Marketing, music videos for multi-platinum hip hop artists, and produced original web-series distributed on Amazon Prime, as well as individual videos that have generated over twenty seven million views on YouTube alone, won numerous awards and garnered international critical acclaim.
Cosmic Nightmares' survival horror feature film, THE COLD, is slated to shoot in 2026 and has horror icon Adam Green (Hatchet franchise, Frozen - Saturn Award Nominee) attached to direct, from a script by Haven Johnson.
Cosmic Nightmares’ supernatural horror feature film, THE HOUSE ON THE HILL, has horror icon and Emmy-nominated filmmaker Neil Marshall (The Descent, Game of Thrones) attached as Executive Producer with Haven Johnson attached as writer/composer/director.
Our psychological horror feature film, THE WIHT, from a script by Haven Johnson, is currently in development with Emmy-nominated producer/director Rod Blackhurst (Blumhouse's Night Swim, Netflix's Amanda Knox, Amblin's upcoming The White Room) and is in talks to be distributed by Shudder.
ABOUT HAVEN JOHNSON (FOUNDER/CEO) - HISTORY OF COSMIC NIGHTMARES
Haven is founder/CEO of Cosmic Nightmares and is a writer/director/producer and composer with over half a dozen market ready feature genre screenplays and completed pilot scripts.
An honors graduate of USC’s School of Cinematic Arts with a BA in Film Production (directing emphasis) and a minor in Screenwriting, Haven has written, produced and directed episodic web-series for Amazon Prime, as well as music videos and multiple award winning horror and thriller shorts that have premiered and won awards at festivals all over the world including Slamdance, The 120 Hour Film Festival, Crypticon Seattle, the Diabolical Horror Film Festival, the Los Angeles Crime & Horror Film Festival, the Haunted House FearFest, and the Northeast Film Festival. Individual projects he has produced have generated over 27 million views on YouTube alone.
Haven is also a lifelong, award-winning, multi-instrumentalist and composer. His music has received extensive FM radio airplay, and he’s had numerous live-on-air performances on Bay Area rock station KFOX. While still in high school, Haven’s bands opened for Grammy winning, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame artists Jefferson Airplane, Big Brother and the Holding Company, The Doors and The Grateful Dead. He has performed events with the Grammy nominated band Skillet and on television with the heavy metal band Y&T. He has performed at The New Orleans Superdome and the main stage at the 60th Anniversary of the Monterey Pop Festival. With a diverse sound from rock to modern electronic to classical orchestral and jazz, Haven composes the music for all the films he directs and is a composer for hire.
After graduating USC, he worked as a producer's assistant for Lenny Beckerman (Anonymous Content and Lotus Entertainment) where he assisted in the development, writing and production of multiple studio feature films with Academy Award winning A-List talent.
A lifelong writer, Haven has written over 20 feature films and TV pilots on spec. His sci-fi horror screenplay NEUROSIS placed as a Top 10 Finalist of the 2024 Stage 32 Sci-Fi/Fantasy Screenwriting Contest. His other scripts have placed in the semi-finals of the 2021 Stage 32 Search For New Blood Screenwriting Contest, as well as the quarter finals of the 2021 Stage 32 Sci-Fi/Fantasy Screenwriting Contest, the 2021 Emerging Screenwriters Genre Screenplay Competition, the 2021 Stage 32 Feature Comedy Screenwriting Contest, the 2020 ScreenCraft Horror Screenplay Competition, the 2022 ScreenCraft Action/Adventure Screenplay Competition, the 2020 Stage 32 Search for New Blood Screenwriting Contest and the 2019 and 2022 PAGE International Screenplay Awards.