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2010 Festival Film Guide

2010 Films

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...Or Treat

Director(s)

Tyler Ham

Director
Synopsis
...Or Treat is a look into a home where Halloween's most beloved tradition is taken to the extreme. It was conceptualized last Halloween at a pumpkin carving party when I turned to my friend and said "What if? A few days later a script was written, an animator was hired, and several months later my dark, twisted little tale was completed." extreme. It was conceptualized last Halloween at a pumpkin carving party when I turned to my friend and said "What if? A few days later a script was written, an animator was hired, and several months later my dark, twisted little tale was completed."
Film Category

Alice Jacobs Is Dead

Director(s)

Alex Horwitz

Director
Synopsis
Dr. Ben Jacobs saved the world. The drug he created allowed mankind to fight back against the Zvirus, which nearly destroyed civilization as we know it. Now, in the aftermath of the crisis, he's trying to cure the last victims of the virus. But what will happen when he brings his mysterious work home?

Film Category

Alma

Director(s)

Rodrigo Blaas

Director
Synopsis
Alma, a little girl, skips through the snow covered streets of a small town. Her attention is caught by a strange doll in an antique toy shop window. Fascinated, Alma decides to enter.

Film Category

ALTITUDE

Director(s)

Kaare Andrews

Director
Synopsis
Five teenage friends including rookie pilot Sara (Jessica Lowndes of 90210) rent a small plane for a weekend getaway. But shortly into the flight, something suddenly goes wrong. The instruments begin to malfunction. The plane won't stop climbing. A storm is closing in and fuel is running out. Now for everyone on board, the true horror has just begun: A mysterious force wants them all to die...and only one of them has the power to stop it. Julianna Guill (FRIDAY THE 13TH), Ryan Donowho (BANDSLAM, THE O.C.), Landon Liboiron (DEGRASSI: THE NEXT GENERATION) and Jake Weary (AS THE WORLD TURNS) co-star in this white-knuckle shocker directed by award-winning graphic novelist Kaare Andrews (SPIDER-MAN: REIGN) that takes the supernatural to terrifying new heights.

GRANNY, a short film/ promo piece directed by STEVEN C MILLER (Automaton Transfusion) and produced by JAMIE KENNEDY (Scream) is a very dark, over the top, bloody comedy/horror in the vein of Dead Alive. This short will have you going senile!
Film Category

Attack!

Director(s)

Adam White

Director
Synopsis
When a tumour is discovered in Harold Myers brain, his only chance for survival is to undergo laser surgery. However, inside the tumour, in the brain of Harold Myers, is a world under attack. All that the inhabitants want is a chance to survive. But then again, so does Harold.

Film Category

Black Death

Director(s)

Chris Smith

Director
Synopsis
Medieval England has fallen under the shadow of The Black Death. In this apocalyptic world, filled with fear and superstition, a young monk called Osmund is charged with leading a fearsome knight, Ulric (Sean Bean) and his group of mercenaries to a remote marsh. Their quest is to hunt down a necromancer - someone able to bring the dead back to life. Torn between his love of God and the love of a young woman, Osmund discovers the necromancer, a mysterious beauty called Langiva. After Langiva reveals her Satanic identity and offers Osmund his heart's desire, the horror of his real journey begins....
Film Category

Cabine of the Dead

Director(s)

Vincent Templement

Director
Synopsis
Patrick, an ordinary man about thirty years old, gets stuck in a phone booth the night when the dead return to life...

While struggling with zombies, he decides to call his close relations to ask them for help.
Film Category

Caged (Captifs)

Director(s)

Yann Gozlan

Director
Synopsis
Somewhere in Eastern Europe. Carole is a young nurse with a humanitarian aid group that has reached the end of its mission. But just then, the young woman and her two colleagues are kidnapped by strangers for mysterious reasons. Held captive, cared for and kept alive in an oppressive and sinister setting, the three prisoners soon discover with horror what their kidnappers truly have in store for them...
Film Category

THE CLINIC

Director(s)

James Rabbitts

Director
Synopsis
Young mother-to-be Beth is traveling across country with her fiance, Cameron, when one night she wakes alone to a nightmare situation, faced with an unknown enemy and a deadline for survival. Her child has been abducted and she is trapped in an isolated clinic together with a group of other mothers. Something has drawn these women together, and will ultimately tear them apart.
Film Category

Closure

Director(s)

Roei Tzoref & Isaac Rosen

Director
Synopsis
it's the end of the world. the city is silent and dead. from time to time you can hear the screaming of the last remaining survivors followed by violent growls. on top of a crumbling rooftop lies Moria on the verge of losing her mind. suddenly there's a noise coming from behind the blocked door... it's Oded her ex-lover injured and bleeding. this is their last confrontation. will love triumph over zombie apocalypse?
Film Category

Comatose

Director(s)

Desmond Dolly

Director
Synopsis
Anna Scott is in a horrific auto accident that leaves her brother Sean in a coma, and her relationships paralyzed. When modern medical science fails to reanimate the comatose brother, Anna turns to prayer. Tonight, Anna's prayers are answered when her brother is awoken from his coma, and his attempts to communicate are fraught with fear and pain. She will soon realize that sometimes...dead is better.
Film Category

Compulsion

Director(s)

Jon Myers

Director
Synopsis
Curtis, a gleefully sadistic serial killer who preys on young women, follows Leslie home one night and terrorizes her only to discover he may have bitten off more than he can chew. An unexpected game of cat and mouse ensues, culminating in a violent conclusion. However, the situation takes an even more sinister turn when Special Agent Randolph and Special Agent Blake show up and assume jurisdiction from the local authorities to preserve their own hidden agenda.
Film Category

Dead Running

Director(s)

Dylan Cahall & Kevin Neal

Director
Synopsis
Shannon, I'm coming to save you. Everyone here is either starving or being eaten alive by the dead.

There aren't enough bullets to get me through the city, but I'm not going to let that stop me. I'll get there... the only way that I know how.

If I don't make it and you find this note, know that I tried, and that I love you.

-K.C.
Film Category

Death And Cremation

Director(s)

Justin Steele

Director
Synopsis
In a typical American suburb filled with middle class morals, a lonely 59-year-old, Stan, contributes to society by offering cremation services from his basement. In fact, Stan murders neighbors he perceives to be social bullies. Jarod, a fatherless 17-year-old high school outcast, lands an after-school job in Stan's cremation house and the two develop an unusual working relationship. As detective Matt Fairchild puts together clues, Stan must decide if protecting his newfound trainee is worth killing for.
Film Category

DemiUrge Emesis

Director(s)

Aurelio Voltaire

Director
Synopsis
A mummified cat is tormented by the skeletons of past meals in this stop-motion short by MTV and Sci Fi Channel station ID veteran, Aurelio Voltaire. The 4th in his "Chimerascope" series of animated shorts narrated by singers, DemiUrge Emesis is narrated by composer and singer extraordinaire, Danny Elfman and has an original score performed by chamber rock ensemble, Rasputina.
Film Category

Derailed

Director(s)

Nicolas Simonin

Director
Synopsis
A dark night has come over Paris. Eric is waiting on a train station platform, all alone.
Exhausted by a tense day, Eric has one single thought in mind: to escape from this city he hates.
But the train he's waiting for is not coming.
Suddenly... a strange cry resounds in the night. A gravelly moan of pain, like that of a woman or a wounded animal. Is this someone asking for help? This voice came from the other side of the railways, in the distance... a strange cry for help.
Eric hesitates: he is no hero. But the cries comes again. It's a woman asking for help.
Eric has to do something. He staggers towards the end of the platform.
Just darkness. Eric takes a breath then goes down on the railways where it's not safe.
Walking 2 miles from here, Eric suddenly realizes that the train station has just disappeared.
How could the train station have vanished?
A pale human form emerges from the darkness: a slender, distraught figure, stuck in a mass
of fabrics and metal... she was waiting for him. Will Eric escape from this nightmare?
Film Category

Devil's Creek

Director(s)

Mohit Ramchandani

Director
Synopsis
Adam Mathews, a small town preacher, awakens from an accident on the banks of Devil's Creek, seriously injured and unable to remember what's happened to himself. Rescued by a Park Ranger, his wounds are treated at a remote ranger station. After a quick recovery, Adam is questioned about the circumstances of his brush with death. As Ranger's seemingly benign investigation turns into a hostile interrogation, Adam realizes his rescuer might also be his captor.
Film Category

Dracula's Daughter Vs. The Space Brains

Director(s)

Frank Ippolito & Ezekiel Zabrowski

Director
Synopsis
Two vampire sisters, Marketa and Marya are the stars of a Ballet troupe touring small towns across America. It's the perfect cover to feed on the young men that attend the shows. But when a meteor crashes to earth, and an alien life form infects and possesses an entire town, Marketa and Marya find that they have bitten off more than they can chew. Now Marketa must find untainted human blood to save her sister before her brain hatches from her head and flies away.
Film Category

He Dies At The End

Director(s)

Damian McCarthy

Director
Synopsis
Working late in the office, he sits at his desk alone, when he gets the feeling someone is watching him. It is then the first question appears on his computer screen:

"Would you like to know how you will die? If so, click here."
Film Category

Hysteria

Director(s)

Frank Lin

Director
Synopsis
To celebrate their 10th year high school reunion, a group of twenty-somethings throw an intimate house party to celebrate the event. However, when one of the group accidentally kills another with no explanation. As more brutalities occur, could this be the work of the individuals themselves or possessions by "The Walker?"
Film Category

It Could Be You

Director(s)

Andrew Morse

Director
Synopsis
How could the Local 6 Cash Splash Squad have known that this week's big winner was a crazed, cold-blooded killer? Stay tuned.
Film Category

The Killing Strain

Director(s)

Daniel Maldonado

Director
Synopsis
A new human-engineered virus escapes its lab and spreads from person to person, turning ordinary neighbors into carnivorous creatures. A man attempts to escape from these unstoppable monstrosities, and finds a group of uninfected survivors who come up with a plan to get the virus genetic code to government scientists. The group doesn't know that one of them has started the relentless metamorphosis, because she has already been infected with "The Killing Strain."
Film Category

The Lake

Director(s)

Jason Dodson

Director
Synopsis
Four young campers discover a small mountain lake secluded from the rest of civilization. It isn't long before the serene setting turns to terror. In the middle of the night, the group is tormented by humanoid creatures who live in the surrounding woods. The existence of the creatures is tied to a legend that the lake possesses mystical healing powers. "The Lake" is the Fountain of Youth story at it's most HORRIFYING!
Film Category

Le Miroir

Director(s)

Sébastien Rossigno

Director
Synopsis
Deeply traumatized and disfigured following a car crash, famous actress Vera Bella leaves Saint-James Hospital, right after having undergone a one-last-chance procedure.

Fleeing media pressure, her assistant takes her to the family home, a manor edging the ocean which she has not seen since her childhood.

There, confined in her own silence, she locks herself in the bedroom, refusing any social contact, when odd phenomena will force her to face her deepest fears.
Film Category

The Legend Of Beaver Dam

Director(s)

Jerome Sable

Director
Synopsis
When a campfire ghost story awakens an evil monster, it's up to nerdy Danny Zigwitz to be the hero and save his fellow campers from a bloody massacre. Crank up the volume and get ready to scream along to this musical gore-fest in the woods. Beaver Dam will blow your brains and rock your world.(Fangoria) One of the most inventive horror shorts ever produced. (Dread Central) Watch the trailer at stumpysam.com
Film Category

Mirrors 2

Director(s)

Victor Garcia

Director
Synopsis
The grisly slaughters continue after a young woman is brutally murdered in front of a mirror that is a portal to the world of the undead. Embarking on a murderous rampage, one by one she stalks the men and women responsible for her horrific death, exacting bloody revenge by dismembering and eviscerating the guilty. They can't run, they can't hide and they can't look in the mirror because inside the mirrors the dead live on...waiting for vengeance.
Film Category

My Super Psycho Sweet 16 Part 2

Director(s)

Jacob Gentry

Director
Synopsis
Skye Rotter (Lauren McKnight) is on the run, having fled the Rollerdome massacre from My Super Psycho Sweet 16. With nowhere left to turn, Skye heads to the quiet town of Mill Basin and the mother who abandoned her years ago. There, she meets her younger half-sister, Alex (Kirsten Prout), and Alex's manipulative best friend, Zoe (Stella Maeve). Skye hopes she's finally found safety in her new family, but she's about to learn she can't outrun her past. While Brigg (Chris Zylka) desperately tries to locate her, Charlie Rotter (Alex Van) comes to town with one bloody mission: to turn Skye's upcoming birthday into a Sweet 16 she'll never forget. You're invited to the year's most killer party...as a weekend rager
Film Category

Needle

Director(s)

John V. Soto

Director
Synopsis
A killer uses an 18th century machine with supernatural powers to terrorize students at a college.
Film Category

Night of the Demons

Director(s)

Adam Gierasch

Director
Synopsis
Angela (Shannon Elizabeth) is throwing a decadent Halloween party at New Orleans infamous Broussard Mansion. But after the police break up the festivities, Maddie (Monica Keena), Colin (Edward Furlong) and a few friends stay behind. Trapped inside the locked mansion gates, the remaining guests uncover a horrifying secret and soon fall victim to seven vicious, blood-thirsty demons.
Film Category

Night Of The Punks

Director(s)

Dan Riesser

Director
Synopsis
Small town punk rockers "The Brain Deads" have their first out of town gig. Only the venue is deserted, the promoter is a creep, their bass player is missing, and the only kids in the audience are bloodthirsty monsters from hell.

It's gonna take a lot more than power chords and teenage angst to survive this night. Inspired by fun 80's classics like "The Return of the Living Dead" and "Night of the Demons."
Film Category

Not Even Death

Director(s)

Monica Winter Vigil

Director
Synopsis
Living among zombies has become commonplace. Under threat of infection, humans are required to gun down the undead - even killing a loved one. Then there's David. Jackie, the love of his life, is infected. Unable to annihilate her, he keeps her chained in the basement. Bringing her tasty brainy morsels, he has managed to keep her satiated. There is hope that a cure is near in Germany but will it come in time?
Film Category

Obits

Director(s)

Paul Hart-Wilden Joel Umbaugh

Director
Synopsis
Obits is an homage to the horror anthology movie. The film comprises four chapters; chapter 1 - 'The Pack' Life on the run in a world under siege from werewolf-like creatures. Chapter 2 'See No Evil' A blind man wakes up beside his dead wife. Chapter 3 'The Hood' A tale of retribution set in the deep south. Chapter 4 'Meredith' A father struggles with the problems of raising a daughter with an unusual appetite.
Film Category

Outcast

Director(s)

Colm McCarthy

Director
Synopsis
Taking place in modern day Edinburgh, Scotland, OUTCAST unmasks an ancient Celtic society, where black magic and witchery exist. When a hunter with mythical powers is assigned to capture Mary and kill her son, two dark powers collide and a greater evil is unleashed.
Film Category

The Pack

Director(s)

Franck Richard

Director
Synopsis
In the middle of a snowy no man's land, Charlotte picks up Max, a hitchhiker; they stop in a truck-stop restaurant, and when Max doesn't come back from the bathroom, Charlotte starts looking for him in vain. She decides to return during the night but gets kidnapped by the bartender, La Spack, who turns out to be Max's mother and needs to feed her kids, 'The pack', a bunch of blood lusting ghouls. Charlotte now faces a terrifying reality: these ghouls are already dead... and hungry. Alone and in the middle of nowhere, she quickly realizes... she's next on the menu!
Film Category

Phoebe

Director(s)

Matt Blundell Nati Braunstein

Director
Synopsis
Phoebe is a young, beautiful woman condemned to a life of

loneliness. She suffers from a rare condition that prevents her from being exposed to light, her only window to the outside world an Internet video blog. Despite her condition, she keeps a sunny disposition.

But when a mysterious visitor invades her home and threatens to expose her world to sunlight, she is forced to find shelter in the dark.
Film Category

Psych:9

Director(s)

Andrew Shortell

Director
Synopsis
A young woman (Sara Foster) with a troubled past takes a job at a recently closed down hospital. Working the nightshift alone she begins to experience a series of unsettling events that lead her to believe that the hospital may be connected to a number of recent murders in the area. To uncover the truth she will have to revisit the past behind the walls of Psych:9.
Film Category

The Psycho Legacy

Director(s)

Robert V. Galluzzo

Director
Synopsis
Shout! Factory presents THE PSYCHO LEGACY, the first documentary to unite and explore decades of Psycho movies in one place, revealing surprises and insights into what is considered the "grandfather of modern horror. Includes rare and never-before-seen interview footage with Anthony Perkins and dozens of interviews with the films cast, crew, writers and directors including Robert Loggia, Olivia Hussey, Henry Thomas, Diana Scarwid, Hilton Green, Tom Holland, Mick Garris, Richard Franklin and many more!
Film Category

Recollection

Director(s)

Federico D'Alessandro

Director
Synopsis
A man awakens with no memory, finding himself in a freshly dug grave. Lost, injured and afraid, he struggles to get through a macabre lair, making shocking discoveries while desperately trying to escape from a man intent on killing him.
Film Category

Rogue River

Director(s)

Jourdan Mcclure

Director
Synopsis
Mara sets off on a solitary journey to Oregon's Rogue River to scatter her father's remains. But all is not as it seems on the picturesque Rogue River. Mara's world soon devolves into a harrowing nightmare as she fights for survival in the dark and violent world of Jon and Lea. A nightmare shockingly unfolds into a spine-tingling crescendo of terror that will drag Mara into the most twisted recesses of the human psyche...
Film Category

Short Lease

Director(s)

Prano Bailey-Bond Jennifer Eiss

Director
Synopsis
Maura Jameson visits a country house to perform a structural survey for the new estate agent. Upon finding a man hanging by his necktie in the foyer she calls the police; during the fifteen-minute wait for their arrival, she experiences in nail-biting detail the events that led to the man's death.
Film Category

St. Christophorus Roadkill

Director(s)

Gregor Erler

Director
Synopsis
Chris, a young lawyer, drives on a nightly road heading towards Hamburg. But his ride takes an unexpected turn as he witness a tragic accident. A crime, two sadistic police men and a bestial ranger: The angst-ridden Chris realizes, that this horrifying night won't be over soon.
This tremendously thrilling and fast-paced movie grabs you from the first minute and surprises as a spine-chilling shocker with some nasty black humor.- Not for the faint-hearted!
Film Category

Stag Night

Director(s)

Peter A. Dowling

Director
Synopsis
Out on the town in New York to celebrate Mike's last night of freedom a group of friends attempt an all night bar crawl in search of some bachelor's action. But, when they board the last subway of the night to head downtown they take a premature exit at a deserted station that was closed years ago trapping them beneath the busy streets above. With mobile phones that don't have reception and a maze of tunnels that all look the same, they decided to walk the tracks in search of a way out. But deep in the tunnels, they witness a horrendous act of violence that terrifies them and places their lives in danger. While being haunted beneath the streets of New York City it begins to look like Mike's last night of freedom could very well be his last night ever.
Film Category

The Tell-Tale Heart

Director(s)

Michael Swertfager

Director
Synopsis
Experience a world of terror and psychosis from the creator of horror, Edgar Allan Poe. As his madness slowly consumes him, watch Edgar stalk his unsuspecting victim and prey upon the evil vulture eye.

Set in 1842 Richmond, The Tell-Tale Heart comes to life in Edgar Allan Poe's real childhood mansion, Moldavia. Enjoy the thrills of this classic story while also absorbing bits and pieces of Poe's world an homage to the great American author.
Film Category

Third Shift

Director(s)

Bruce Guido

Director
Synopsis
Larry works the night shift in a convenience store. He struggles with women and is miserable with his place in life, a life in which he abandoned another for and desperately misses. But before he can face those issues he must learn to embrace his new powers as a vampire in order to survive.
Film Category

Together

Director(s)

Gigi Romero

Director
Synopsis
A loving father hides his violent tendencies by working secretly as a professional thug. One day, determined to quiet down his noisy neighbor, he goes up to his apartment to beat him up. What he does not expect is that this place has been holding his secret...
and his worst nightmare.

Film Category

The Shrine

Director(s)

Jon Knautz

Director
Synopsis
After a young American backpacker goes missing in Europe, a group of journalists link his disappearance to a remote village in Poland. They travel there hoping to get the story, but as they unravel the secrets behind this mysterious village, they are suddenly pursued by hostile locals. Unable to escape, they soon become the next victims of ritualistic human sacrifice. Forced into the gruesome reality of true survival horror, the journalists will discover that this village hides a much darker secret than they could ever imagine."
Film Category

Tucker & Dale VS Evil

Director(s)

Eli Craig

Director
Synopsis
"A laugh-yourself-stupid movie about lovable hicks mistaken for TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE-type psychos by camping college kids. It does for massacre flicks what the 2004 spoof SHAUN OF THE DEAD did for zombie movies."

-USA Today
Film Category

Undocumented

Director(s)

Chris Peckover

Director
Synopsis
A small group of documentary filmmakers chronicle the trials and inequities faced by Mexican illegal immigrants. When they join a group of families illegally crossing the border to record the experience firsthand, their truck is pulled over and detained. What happens next plunges their group into unimaginable horror.
Film Category

United Monster Talent Agency

Director(s)

Greg Nicotero

Director
Synopsis
You're likely already familiar with the classic monster films of Hollywood's golden age. Now, learn how tough it was to get those monsters to behave on camera!
Film Category

The White Face

Director(s)

Jason Bognacki

Director
Synopsis
A thrilling tale of love and jealousy, takes a supernatural turn when a crime of passion and greed becomes an inescapable nightmare. Filmed on location in the haunted Negresco Hotel in the south of France.
Film Category

Yellow Brick Road

Director(s)

Andy Mitton Jesse Holland

Director
Synopsis
One morning in 1940, the entire population of Friar, New Hampshire walked north together up an unmarked trial and into the wilderness. They left behind their clothes, money, and essentials. Their dogs were tied to posts and left to starve. Many were later found frozen to death. Others were found slaughtered. But most were never found. In 2010, the coordinates for the 'YELLOWBRICKROAD' trailhead are declassified.
Film Category

You Are So Undead

Director(s)

Alex Epstein

Director
Synopsis
A teen vampire sex comedy.

Teenage MARY MARGARET no longer reflects in the mirror she let her vampire boyfriend Drew go all the wayand now she's undead! Her mom is going to so ground her.

Her plain, loyal best friend JO is shocked, and a little envious. But Drew is not the devoted boyfriend Mary Margaret thought he was ... and Jo's got a secret of her own.
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