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2018 Festival Film Guide

2018 Films

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Aliens

Director(s)

James Cameron

Director
Synopsis
Ellen Ripley is rescued by a deep salvage team after being in hypersleep for 57 years. The moon that the Nostromo visited has been colonized, but contact is lost. This time, colonial marines have impressive firepower, but will that be enough?
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The Amityville Murders

Director(s)

Daniel Farrands

Director
Synopsis
You have heard the stories about the Amityville house being haunted by evil spirits. But you don't know the terrifying story of the family that died in the house at the hands of the eldest son.

On the night of November 13, 1974, Ronald DeFeo, Jr. took a high-powered rifle and murdered his entire family as they slept. At his trial, DeFeo claimed that "voices" in the house commanded him to kill. This is their story.

Starring John Robinson ("Transformers"), Chelsea Ricketts ("Jackals") and featuring Diane Franklin and Burt Young (both seen in 1982's "Amityville II: The Possession").

Q&A with writer/director Daniel Farrands and cast members after the screening. Moderated by Lydia Hearst.

Screening sponsored by Skyline Entertainment.
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And the Winner is

Director(s)

Cameron March

Director
Synopsis
When tennis champion and international superstar Stanley finds himself caught in the midst of a public scandal, he's left with no other choice but to seek out the very best in the world of PR and crisis management. Company representative Anja promises Stanley he's come to the right place: their service offers full redemption, in exchange for his commitment to the process… no matter the direction it takes. A desperate Stanley agrees.

What begins as an undefined stint in isolation slowly descends into a living nightmare as Stanley is 'triggered' by memories from the night of the incident. Driven to destruction, it's only when Stanley comes face to face with his darkest moment that he's pushed further beyond his limits than he ever expected - and met with the most unforeseen of consequences as he pays the ultimate price for freedom.
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Atomic Ed

Director(s)

Nicolas Hugon

Director
Synopsis
While his little town is in horror because of a mysterious serial killer, Ed, at the dawn of adulthood, only has eyes for Julia.
But when danger hits his door, Ed has no choice but to take responsibility and an improvised weapon to become the one he has always dreamed of being.
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Attack of the Potato Clock

Director(s)

Ji young Na Victoria Lopez

Director
Synopsis
In a stormy night, a potato clock experiment gets struck by lightning in an elementary schools' science lab. The mutated Potato Clock rises from death and sees the cafeterias' lunch lady chopping potatoes, creatures of his own kind. He begins to haunt her by taking potatoes away from her. The lunch lady feels suspicious, however it does not stop her from doing her job. The Potato monster will do everything he can to avoid the killing of his friends. But how far will he go?...
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Black Eyed Child (BEC)

Director(s)

Tony Morales

Director
Synopsis
Since 1998 the appearances of the BEC has been constant, and the consequences of looking directly into their eyes has been irreversible. A terminally ill women will receive a visit from a BEC, who will not come alone on a stormy night, who will be accompanied by a malignant entity.
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Blame it on Toby

Director(s)

Richard Knight Jr

Director
Synopsis
BLAME IT ON TOBY - Arthur Prentiss-Wilcox (Kevin J. O'Connor, Lord of Illusions, The Mummy, There Will Be Blood), one of the World's wealthiest men, is also one its most eccentric. For starters, he is never seen in public without his closest confident “Toby“ the doll that was given to him for his sixth birthday and is rumored to be responsible for the death of dozens. Despite his infamous reputation, a young gay couple, Calvin and Edward, become ensnared in Arthur's world with horrifying consequences.
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The Bloody Ballad of Squirt Reynolds

Director(s)

Anthony Cousins

Director
Synopsis
The kids at Camp Nawgonamakit are about to find out the tragic tale of Squirt Reynolds is more than just a legend.
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bnb

Director(s)

Hunter Stiebel

Director
Synopsis
A couple spends the night at a mysterious airbnb fearing for their lives or worse... getting a bad review.
Film Category

Bride of Chucky

Director(s)

Ronny Yu

Director
Synopsis
Chucky, the doll possessed by a serial killer, discovers the perfect mate to kill and revive into the body of another doll.
Film Category

Bullets of Justice

Director(s)

Valeri Milev

Director
Synopsis
During the Third World War, the American government initiates a secret project code named "Army Bacon" in order to create super soldier by inbreeding human beings with pigs.
25 years later a breed called "Muzzles" have occupied top of the food chain, eating and farming humans like animals.
Rob Justice is an ex-bounty hunter working for the last line of human resistance - a group of survivors hiding in a nuclear bunker deep underground. His mission is to find out how muzzles came to power and destroy them.
Film Category

Carga

Director(s)

Yad Deen

Director
Synopsis
Marta and Juan travel to Iraq to uncover the secrets of an abandoned cigarette factory.
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Catcalls

Director(s)

Kate Dolan

Director
Synopsis
A man cruises around late at night looking for something. He pulls in to ask two young girls for directions - only to flash them to get a cheap thrill. Unfortunately, he has picked the wrong girls. They are also out hunting tonight and they will stop at nothing to get their kill.

"Catcalls" explores the themes of street harassment and the idea of women being made victims in safe spaces like their own communities. In this fictional horror, the power is shifted and the predator becomes the prey.
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To Catch a Mouse

Director(s)

Alex Coleman

Director
Synopsis
A thief posing as an injured civilian seeks refuge in the home of a suburban couple. Little does he know the couple has lured him into a trap of their own.
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Chuck Steel: Night of the Trampires

Director(s)

Mike Mort

Director
Synopsis
It’s not 1985 anymore…it’s 1986, and Chuck Steel is ‘the best God damn cop on the force’ according to his long suffering boss, Captain Jack Schitt. But even this maverick, renegade, loose cannon, lone wolf, cop on the edge, who doesn’t play by the rules has his work cut out when the Governor of LA decides to reduce the licensing hours for clubs and bars triggering a sudden, inexplicable spate of high profile disappearances in the city. The disappearances all have the same thing in common, a crime scene covered in blood but with no sign of the victim. The police are perplexed until they get a break in the case when one of the victims manages to escape. Chuck goes to interview the victim at the hospital but is confronted by a crazed old man who introduces himself as Abraham Van Rental. He warns a disbelieving Chuck that an evil scourge is about to descend on the city of Los Angeles – the scourge of the TRAMPIRES – a mutated hybrid of vampire and tramp…
Film Category

CLOVEN

Director(s)

Mohamed Fakhro

Director
Synopsis
Short horror film based on a Bahraini folktale.
Film Category

The Coatmaker

Director(s)

Scott Dale

Director
Synopsis
When a tailor closes his store at night, he quickly discovers that he is not alone.
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CODA SACRA

Director(s)

Pol Barrós

Director
Synopsis
A small group of people are determined to protect their way of life. They know they are exposed to the worst stalking, because their enemy is nature dressed in Satanism and witchcraft. They will have to face that darkness only with the help of their faith, and against the unknown until their last breath.
Film Category

The Collection

Director(s)

Carlos Baena - Rani Naamani - Carlos Puertolas

Director
Synopsis
An elderly man's morning routine is disrupted by sounds of a turbulent struggle next door. As the man continues to clean his house it becomes apparent that all is not what it seems.
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The Converted

Director(s)

Sean Winans

Director
Synopsis
After Mitch doesn't show up at a neighborhood bar on Halloween night, Josh and Trent decide to pay their evasive friend a visit at home.
Film Category

Deep Clean

Director(s)

Matt Harlock

Director
Synopsis
A troubled kid forced into boring work experience on his Uncle's road crew
discovers it is hiding an amazing secret...
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Deliria

Director(s)

Tomas Stark

Director
Synopsis
A slow, hot summer afternoon. A father sleeps while his child is drawing colors in a cross word puzzle. A wind moves through the grass - something bad is about to happen.
Film Category

Dementia Part II

Director(s)

Matt Mercer Mike Testin

Director
Synopsis
Suzanne wasn't always this confused. She wasn't always DEAD either... When an ex-con takes a job as a handyman for an unstable elderly woman to avoid a parole violation, it becomes a choice he may regret.
Film Category

The Den

Director(s)

Iago de Soto

Director
Synopsis
Mario is driving under the rain. It's dark in a lonely road.

Suddenly he has to stop. In the middle of the way there's a woman. She is disorientated and covered in blood. She doesn't remember where she's been or what happened to her.

Mario needs to look for assistance. They stop at the first place they can find: A quiet bar called La Guarida / The Den. People in the bar kindly will help them out. Until the truth starts to surface.
By then the bar won't look like a safe place anymore.
Film Category

Discarnate

Director(s)

Mario Sorrenti

Director
Synopsis
A neuroscientist's obsession with a drug that expands the human mind inadvertently unleashes a deadly supernatural force on his team
Film Category

DISTORTION

Director(s)

Grégory Papinutto

Director
Synopsis
In a small town, seven lifelong friends hit it off with a guy who arranges for them to party at the abandoned convent where he is night watchman.
When Dianne awakens from the euphoric haze of the rave, things aren't quite right. That's when everything spins out of control.
Do you have what it takes to withstand the mind-bending horror of Dianne's nightmare?
Film Category

The Dollhouse

Director(s)

Kyra Gardner

Director
Synopsis
A filmmaker who grew up with the Chucky doll seeks out the other families surrounding the franchise to get their perspective on life with Chucky.
Film Category

Draug

Director(s)

Klas Persson & Karin Engman

Director
Synopsis
In the 11th century a missionary goes missing somewhere in the huge forests bordering the northern parts of Sweden. Among the rescue party chosen to find him is Nanna, a young woman on her first real mission and her first return to the part of the country where she was born.
But what they will find deep inside those woods is something else entirely. Something dark. Something ancient. Something evil.
Film Category

Dylan

Director(s)

Cory Miller

Director
Synopsis
A young woman, Maritza, comes home to find her fiance's college buddy, Dylan, preparing an elaborate meal in celebration of their wedding. But as the night unfolds, she slowly begins to suspect that...something may be horribly wrong.
Film Category

EVA

Director(s)

Xheni Alushi

Director
Synopsis
Though being a swimmer, Eva was unable to save her brother from nearly drowning at sea. He now lies in a coma and the cold relationship with her mother is not helping Eva's conscience either. She stumbles upon a mysterious puddle in her bathroom, which takes her to the depths of the sea. As her mother looks for Eva, she only finds a puddle of water that she starts to wipe away.
Film Category

The Familiar Fingers of Culture

Director(s)

Conscian Morgan

Director
Synopsis
The Familiar Fingers of Culture is a dark psychological horror that explores our societies' extremes through a high-class escort and mother of one.
Film Category

Fears

Director(s)

Germán Sancho

Director
Synopsis
The most terrifying fears creep into a little girl in her room when the lights turn off, just before she goes to sleep. Her father tries patiently to calm her; however, the darkness and the unknown are much more powerful and voracious. There's something even worse there, that hides a frightening reality.
Film Category

The Final Wish

Director(s)

Timothy Woodward Jr.

Director
Synopsis
From the creator of the Final Destination franchise comes a new tale of death. Following the passing of his father, Aaron Hammond (MICHAEL WELCH) returns to his hometown to help his devastated mother (LIN SHAYE) and to confront his past demons. Shifting through his father's belongings, Aaron comes upon a mysterious item that is far more than it seems.
Film Category

The Golem

Director(s)

Doron Paz Yoav Paz

Director
Synopsis
During an outbreak of a deadly plague, a mystical woman must save her tight-knit Jewish community from foreign invaders, but the entity she conjures to protect them is a far greater evil.
Film Category

Gregory

Director(s)

John William Ross

Director
Synopsis
When a difficult passenger refuses to give up his seat, the airline calls in a special employee named Gregory to remove him.
Film Category

THE HAUNTED

Director(s)

DAVID HOLROYD

Director
Synopsis
In a rambling, isolated house, Emily's first night-shift as carer to an elderly dementia patient turns into a nightmare as she is tormented by a vengeful spirit and uncovers the house's dark secrets.
Film Category

Heartless

Director(s)

Kevin Sluder

Director
Synopsis
Based on Edgar Allan Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart". An overlooked associate struggles to complete a corporate presentation as a horrific secret gnaws at her conscience.
Film Category

Killer Black

Director(s)

James Berry

Director
Synopsis
A Pulitzer-prize winning author, who hasn't been seen in decades, has an unexpected knock at the door...
Film Category

The Last Wish

Director(s)

Jarno Lee Vinsencius

Director
Synopsis
Angelica and Rob are tied up in a cellar not knowing how they got there but soon they realize they are being a part of an elaborate, diabolic game of life and death.
Film Category

THE SILVER

Director(s)

DAVID YOHE

Director
Synopsis
Driving back from a weekend in Las Vegas, a normal pitstop in the middle of the desert becomes an otherworldly nightmare. Jenna, with a broken leg, finds herself fighting for survival against an unknown enemy that has taken over her boyfriend Matt. With no help in sight and more aliens on the horizon, she has only one option, escape.
Film Category

Lost In Apocalypse

Director(s)

Sky Wang

Director
Synopsis
A group of seemingly unrelated individuals fight their way out of a virus-infested hotel, only to find themselves at a worse place than before.
Film Category

Meet You in the Parking Lot

Director(s)

David Sloan Jordan Eakin

Director
Synopsis
Following the cryptic instructions from a battered Mead composition book, best friends Sam and Alex hope to get a glimpse of their lives-to-come by performing a ritual designed to conjure their future selves. But when Sam's future self arrives, she learns that her 'future' may not last through the night.
Film Category

Mouras

Director(s)

Olga Osorio

Director
Synopsis
Do you want to meet the fairies?
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No Friend in the Forest

Director(s)

Sam Dixon

Director
Synopsis
A boy on a fishing trip, a girl camping with friends and a hunter looking to vent his frustration on the local wildlife, all fall prey to a mysterious and sinister presence lurking in the woods.
Film Category

Open 24 Hours

Director(s)

Padraig Reynolds

Writer-Director-Producer
Synopsis
A paranoid delusional woman, Mary White (Vanessa Grasse), has just been released from a mental hospital for setting her serial killer boyfriend on fire. Her boyfriend, James Lincoln Fields is brutal serial killer known as The Rain Ripper. After being released from the Hospital, Mary's vulnerable demeanor aids her in obtaining employment at an all-night petrol station. However, left alone to her own devices, her paranoia and hallucinations return with furious consequences. Customers and friends suddenly start turning up dead, mutilated, all around her. Is The Rain Ripper back to finish her off?
Film Category

Or Best Offer

Director(s)

Sean Winans

Director
Synopsis
When Maureen places an online advertisement for her used coffee table, an unexpected buyer surprises her at home on a Friday night.
Film Category

Out of the Darkness

Director(s)

Jonas Gramming

Director
Synopsis
A mysterious old man is moving into the abandoned apartment next to Sara.
Someone is now in trouble. Destiny is no matter of chance.
Film Category

PLASTIK

Director(s)

Valerio Mazzarella

Director
Synopsis
A wannabe Actress opts for plastic surgery to join the social elite in Hollywood, broke and near destitute she doesn't know if she can make it happen but dreams of it desperately. Her plastic surgeon though, goes above and beyond to give her what she wants - little does she know what she will have to pay.
Film Category

Pledge

Director(s)

Daniel Robbins

Director
Synopsis
A group of college freshmen pledge an exclusive fraternity but soon realize there's more at stake than they could have ever imagined.
Film Category

Prey

Director(s)

Bill Whirity

Director
Synopsis
While on a first date, a young couple finds themselves pursued by more than just each other.
Film Category

REFORMED

Director(s)

Samantha Timms

Director
Synopsis
John, an old reformed criminal, is stranded after his release from prison and is forced to take public transport to a halfway house. His abrupt return to society instantly exposes him to old temptations that challenge his righteous, new-found path. John's conflicted as suppressed memories of his childhood and dark past resurface. He begins to realise his faith may not be enough to keep his inner demons at bay.
Film Category

SANG PAPIER

Director(s)

Kevin T. Landry

Director
Synopsis
A strange Romanian trying to enter Canada is confronted by an overzealous custom officer and his curiously cooperative colleague.
Film Category

The Serpent and the Rainbow

Director(s)

Wes Craven

Director
Synopsis
In a time of social and political unrest in Haiti, anthropologist Dennis Alan (Bill Pullman) travels to the torn country to study a Voodoo drug used in religious practices to turn victims into living zombies. With the help of a witch doctor (Brent Jennings) and a fellow researcher (Cathy Tyson), Dennis pieces together the deadly mystery. But as Dennis uncovers the secrets behind the mysterious powder, he must evade the Haitian authorities who view his research as a potential threat.
Film Category

Slayer

Director(s)

Dimitri Kanjuka

Director
Synopsis
Slayers are people who hunt vampires and other monsters in a steampunk world. For them, it's like every other job. But not always everything goes according to plan...
Film Category

So She Might Live

Director(s)

Patrick Sanchez Smith

Director
Synopsis
A young girl tries to save her mother from a deadly illness.
Film Category

Splinter-versary

Director(s)

Toby Wilkins

Director
Synopsis
Trapped in an isolated gas station by a voracious Splinter parasite that transforms its still-living victims into deadly hosts, a young couple and an escaped convict must find a way to work together to survive this primal terror.
Film Category

Stray

Director(s)

Dean W Law

Director
Synopsis
After three long years away, Thomas Elliot, a crippled war-hero, returns home expecting a heartfelt reunion with his beloved wife, Bonnie. However, their reunion takes an unexpected turn when Bonnie fails to recognise him. Thomas soon comes to realise that Bonnie's life now revolves entirely around serving a sinister stray cat that has taken up residence in their house. As Bonnie commits bizarre and horrific acts in service of the stray, Thomas desperately tries to reconnect with her. Pushed to the brink of madness, Thomas soon comes to realise he is up against something far greater, older, and darker than he had ever imagined.
Film Category

Taylor is Missing

Director(s)

Mia Sorensen

Director
Synopsis
A woman hiking long-distance, struggles trusting a stranger she meets after he comes across her lost in the woods. She must decide how far she is willing to travel with someone who may prove dangerous.


Film Category

Terminator

Director(s)

James Cameron

Director
Synopsis
A seemingly indestructible android is sent from 2029 to 1984 to assassinate a waitress, whose unborn son will lead humanity in a war against the machines, while a soldier from that war is sent to protect her at all costs.
Film Category

Tumbbad

Director(s)

Rahi Anil Barve Anand Gandhi

Director
Synopsis
A greedy village boy, in 19th century India, pursues a cursed Ancestral treasure, guarded by the devil himself.
Film Category

The Unthinkable

Director(s)

CRAZY PICTURES

Director
Synopsis
When Sweden faces a mysterious attack Alex is forced back to his childhood village. There he must be reconciled with both his father and youth love, Anna, while they all struggle to survive.
Film Category

Vonnis

Director(s)

Walt Bladt

Director
Synopsis
When Linus tries to bite through the loneliness at his farm, he gets confronted with a dream about his past and a guilt he carries within.
A nightmare that becomes soon reality.
Film Category

Waterloo

Director(s)

Nicolas Sicurella

Director
Synopsis
In the backcountry of Missouri, an unhinged man struggles to murder his wife.
Film Category

Welcome to Mercy

Director(s)

Tommy Bertelsen

Director
Synopsis
A young woman struggles against the unholy forces that possess her in this terrifying occult thriller. After being stricken with stigmata, single mother Madaline (Kristen Ruhlin) is sent to a remote convent where nothing is what it seems and her friend August (Lily Newmark) is seemingly the only person she can trust. Together, they must confront the demons inside Madaline before she becomes the Antichrist.


Film Category

You Die - Get the app, then die

Director(s)

Alessandro Antonaci, Stefano Mandalà Daniel Lascar

Director
Synopsis
Asia, a young student finds an app on her phone. It looks like an augmented reality game, but soon she realizes it's much more than that.
It's an app that connects to the world of the dead, which allows her to see the dead through the camera of the phone. The timer starts counting down from 24 hours and Asia's insanely horrific experience begins.
People around her struggle to believe her as she ends up facing this evil curse and fighting for her survival, all by herself.
Film Category

Young Liars

Director(s)

Adam Christy

Director
Synopsis
In hopes of breaking a lucrative story, a young journalist tests out an experimental psychic technology only to find himself trapped inside someone else's nightmare.
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