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2020 Festival Film Guide

2021 Films

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Film Category

#Blue_Whale

Director(s)

Anna Zaytseva

Director
Synopsis
After her younger sister Julia commits suicide, troubled adolescent Dana decides to find out what led to her death. Examining her sister's computer, Dana finds a secret chat group where adolescents are encouraged to kill themselves through a challenge called "Blue Whale". Dana's investigation leads her ever closer to the truth, but to really discover what happened, she herself must play the deadly game.#blue_whale // #I_want_to_play_the_game is inspired by real events that happened in Russia in 2015 and 2017.
Film Category

#Nofilter

Director(s)

Nathan Crooker

Director
Synopsis
Beth, an insecure twenty-something, becomes obsessed with an insidious filter, leaving her to question true beauty. It is a cautionary tale for all those obsessed by "likes," being flawless, and thinking that somehow social media is the magical cure-all for happiness. The film stars Kelly Lamor Wilson and Misha Osherovich from "Freaky" and was shot by Jason Banker, the DP of such genre festival darlings as "Toad Road" and "Felt."
Film Category

99 PROBLEMS

Director(s)

MICHAEL G KEHOE

Director
Synopsis
A Stranger enters a diner to close out a prior mission with a woman whom he helped change her future and to save her life.
Film Category

A Real Killjoy

Director(s)

Tara Erickson

Synopsis
Sam Jones is stuck in a zombie apocalyptic world and surrounded by incapable survivors. She may have found love, but she's got a zombie to contend with, and her surprise guest does her no favors.

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Film Category

Afterlife

Director(s)

Daniel Butler

Director
Synopsis
A dead man wakes to discover he's a vampire only to struggle to follow through with his dreams of escape.

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Film Category

Aileen Wuornos: American Boogeywoman

Director(s)

Daniel Farrands

Director
Synopsis
Based on a little-known chapter in the life of America's most notorious female serial killer, "Aileen Wuornos: American Boogeyman" takes place in 1976 when 21-year-old Aileen (Peyton List) arrives in Florida attempting to escape her tragic past. Soon she marries wealthy yacht club president Lewis Fell (Tobin Bell) who offers her the chance to become part of Florida's high society. Ultimately, the victimized Aileen surrenders to her murderous impulses and wreaks havoc on the peaceful seaside community of Deland, Florida.
Film Category

Alma Mater

Director(s)

Matthew P. Higgins

Director
Synopsis
Arthur discovers disturbing information while reading his father's high school yearbook.
Film Category

Alone With You

Director(s)

Emily Bennett & Justin Brooks

Director
Synopsis
Charlie (Emily Bennett) is setting the atmosphere in her sleek, two-story apartment in Brooklyn for a romantic homecoming for her distant girlfriend Simone (Emma Myles) who's been away for work. There are past glimpses of visual tension between the two, so we're led to feel that this meticulous setting of mood may be a peacemaking gesture. Enamored beyond all good sense, Charlie begins to experience a myriad of unsettling incidents, and the horrors of what has transpired are slowly revealed in the shards of Charlie's resistant memory.
Film Category

ANGEL CITY HORROR

Director(s)

Matthew McWilliams

Director
Synopsis
Los Angeles, 1951. Detectives George Hard and Glenn O'Brian investigate the disappearance of a mental patient from LA's most notorious insane asylum and discover something evil lurking inside.
Film Category

Anniversary

Director(s)

Craig Ouellette

Director
Synopsis
Rubin and Lilly are just married, expecting a baby and driving off into the sunset. It was supposed to be the best day of their lives.
Film Category

ARE YOU IN HEAVEN

Director(s)

Nick & Adam Hayes

Director
Synopsis
When our main protagonist is challenged to go against his principles - will he stand-up against the group, and fail the test? Or stay silent in the hope of success?
Film Category

As Good as Dead

Director(s)

Dave Reda

Director
Synopsis
A horribly sweet tale with Zombies and 80's music, what's not to love??
Film Category

As Long As You Both Shall Live

Director(s)

Peter Macaluso

Director
Synopsis
A recent widower attempts to make amends after the death of his wife.
Film Category

BEHIND YOU

Director(s)

Gavin Williams & Mark Lediard

Directors
Synopsis
A woman recovering from eye surgery starts to imagine she sees an ominous figure waiting behind everyone she encounters. Slowly, she begins to wonder what also might be hiding behind her...

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Film Category

Bring Out The Fear

Director(s)

Richard Waters

Director
Synopsis
Rosie and Dan are a couple in a doomed relationship. While taking a final walk in their favourite forest, they find it has trapped them in an unsolvable maze. The paths lead nowhere, the trees never end, the sun never sets, and a sinister presence stalks and torments them, trying to drive them insane... There is no escape. But what exactly are they hiding? This dark folk horror will leave you questioning what is real and what is malicious trickery.
Film Category

C.R.E. (Collection of Relevant Experiences)

Director(s)

Jacob & Brittany Cornett

Director
Synopsis
A corporation called C.R.E. has formed a collective consciousness that is made up of people's experiences. By documenting your experiences through this consciousness, you can be known while also learning from the experiences of others. This story follows a young woman named Ava, who is dying. At the end of her life, she strives to become part of this consciousness in hopes of being remembered.

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Film Category

CARMENTIS

Director(s)

Antony Webb

Director
Synopsis
Mac, a grief stricken miner, wakes to find himself injured on the desolate planet Carmentis. At odds with his own emotions and EVE, the AI that controls his space suit, he struggles to reach both physical and mental safety. Exacerbating the situation is an oncoming eclipse that threatens Mac's life with freezing temperatures. Mac, pushed to the limit, must confront his personal grief in order to survive.
Film Category

Crockpot

Director(s)

Ty Jones

Director
Synopsis
Terror awaits a young couple as they fight over going to the young mans parents house the next day for thanksgiving.

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Film Category

The Changed

Director(s)

Michael Mongillo

Director
Synopsis
Something has taken possession of the hearts and minds of the populace. Kim (Clare Foley), Mac (Jason Alan Smith), and Jane (Carlee Avers) try to convince themselves it's paranoia, but before long the city is besieged by the changed. By the time they realize an alien intelligence has merged with their neighbor, Bill (Tony Todd), a horde of changed is amassing outside their suburban home.
Film Category

Crossing

Director(s)

Ruslan Bosenko

Director
Synopsis
Desparate father who is struggling to find his daughter's killer meeting a stranger asking for help at the river's bank. This encounter turns to be a fatal one for both men.
Film Category

Cut

Director(s)

Fred Sprinkle & Tyler Clair Smith

Director
Synopsis
When she discovers something sinister on the set of a short film, an aspiring actress must fight back against a system that sees her as a disposable commodity.
Film Category

Dana

Director(s)

Lucía Forner

Director
Synopsis
After being attacked one night, Diana decides that something must change.
Film Category

Dark Tales

Director(s)

Michael Yosef

Director
Synopsis
A dark and twistedly comedic tale of two lovers who embark on a series of violent events that all take place over the course of one night.

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Film Category

Deep Tissue

Director(s)

Brian L. Tan 'BLT'

Director
Synopsis
Upset with his girlfriend, Adam finds himself avoiding her apology calls as he explores the nightlife of Bali. There's food, music, and a massage parlor that peaks his interest. Soon Adam finds himself trying something new as an alluring masseuse does her best to have him forget his troubles. Little does he know, something sinister is afoot.

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Film Category

The Dead Collectors

Director(s)

Brendan Cleaves

Director
Synopsis
During a pandemic in an alternate reality, two men have the job of collecting the deceased.
Film Category

Demon Juice

Director(s)

Shannon Brown

Writer, Director, Producer
Synopsis
A group of friends travel to a quaint vacation town for a weekend getaway, but discover a decades-old party drink that's more dangerous than it seems.

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Film Category

Dream Board Nightmare

Director(s)

Joe Zerull

Director
Synopsis
A chaotic love story based on true events.

Dysfunctional couple kidnap a successful real-estate broker, in an attempt to jumpstart their unrealistic aspirations for a better life.
Film Category

The Departure

Director(s)

Nico Van den Brink

Director
Synopsis
Nora has had a rough year. The situation is not getting better when she keeps running into the same man...
Film Category

DYSTOPIA

Director(s)

Laura Ugolini

Director
Synopsis
Forget reality shows and Instagram beauties; a young girl's fantasy becomes the playground for a gang of women set to create the perfect man, one limb at a time.
Film Category

Echthaar

Director(s)

Dominic Kubisch

Director
Synopsis
The smell of shampoo and cigarettes hangs in the air. The hair buns tear at the scalp and the newest hits play on a small radio. It’s the golden 50ies and Victor has his hair salon in perfect order – or so it seems. Because from her first day at the new job, Paula just can’t take her eyes off the strange jukebox in the corner. She senses that the machine is somehow connected to a dark secret. As Paula starts to take a deeper look at it, she doesn’t understand that her own life is on the line.
Film Category

The Exorcism of God

Director(s)

Alejandro Hidalgo

Director
Synopsis
Peter Williams, an American priest working in Mexico, is considered a saint by many local parishioners. However, due to a botched exorcism, he carries a dark secret that's eating him alive until he gets an opportunity to face his own demon one final time.
Film Category

Father of Flies

Director(s)

Ben Charles Edwards

Director
Synopsis
A haunting tale of family life. A vulnerable young boy finds his mother pushed out of the family home by a strange new woman, and he must confront the terrifying supernatural forces that seem to move in with her.
Film Category

FINAL PICKUP

Director(s)

Kraig Krueger

Director
Synopsis
A share ride driver struggles with what to do when he realizes that there is something very wrong with the passengers in his backseat.
Film Category

GIRLS NIGHT IN

Director(s)

Alison Roberto

Director
Synopsis
Girls Night In is a satirical horror short that was created based on the Bechdel test. The test examines works of fiction to see whether there are interactions between female characters that don't involve discussing a man. Which of course begs the question, where is the most ridiculous place these two women could be fighting over some dude…
Film Category

Good Head

Director(s)

Matt Servitto

Director
Synopsis
When megastar Coop Bradley buys a sad, superhero franchise to resurrect his fading acting career he goes to Atlanta to shoot the latest installment and gets more than he bargained for when he goes to the lab of special effects artist Shane Morton to get a mold made of his head. Not only does Shane torture the claustrophobic actor--he may have in turn stolen Coop's soul--which leads to a madcap chase through Shane's "house of horrors".
Film Category

Imaginary Portrait

Director(s)

Felipe Martinez Carbonell

Director and Producer
Synopsis
Through the creation of a family portrait, a mentally imbalanced young artist connects with her dead mother to exact revenge on her ghoulish father and abusive grandfather.
Film Category

The Island of the Dolls

Director(s)

Julio Caesar Padilla

Director
Synopsis
This intensely emotional untold story explores the life of a teenager, Xóchitl. After discovering that her boyfriend is cheating, she makes a drastic decision that will take her to suffer traumatic experiences and to do things that she never imagined.
Film Category

Isolation

Director(s)

11 Directors

Director
Synopsis
Woven together are nine tales of terror that follow isolated citizens from around the world as they confront their darkest fears in an attempt to survive an increasingly deadly outbreak.
Film Category

Juiced

Director(s)

Stephen Steelman

Director
Synopsis
Computer programmer Donald (Ian Gary) is a man on a deadline, grappling with sanity...and a roommate that spends a little too much time with his blender. When Donald's cohabitant Mickey (Ekon Soong) and his girlfriend, Jessica (Tatiana Paris), go overboard with their smoothie-making as part of their prep for Burning Man, Donald is pushed to the brink. Inspired by Edgar Allan Poe's “The Tell-Tale Heart,” we see Donald's professional success ultimately reveals his horrific actions.
Film Category

KRATT

Director(s)

Rasmus Merivoo

Director
Synopsis
When children are left at Grandma's without smartphones they're bored to tears. That is until
Granny finds them loads to do. She also tells them about a magical creature named KRATT that'll do
whatever its master says. When they stumble upon an instruction on how to build one they don't
hesitate. All they have to do now is to buy a soul from the devil...
Film Category

The Junket

Director(s)

Sean Bell

Director
Synopsis
Celebrity interviewer and self-proclaimed feminist Stan hears something he shouldn't when eavesdropping on Olivia Sarkin, the attractive star of a new vampire movie. She's just taken a toilet break in the middle of their chat, but left her microphone on. Stan decides to listen in, but he's not the only one doing something clandestine.
Film Category

La Ciguapa Siempre

Director(s)

Monica Moore Suriyage

Director
Synopsis
Shy Milagro always knew she was adopted, but has just found out there is no record of her birth parents at all. To help her relax, Milagro's boyfriend Davis takes her on a camping trip, even though she has been wary of his loyalty. As the night progresses and the couple argues, somehow Milagro knows Davis has been cheating on her. Davis adamantly denies it, but a deep rage builds inside Milagro, transforming her into what she's always been meant to be: a ciguapa
Film Category

LAKELAND

Director(s)

Mark Alex Vogt

Director
Synopsis
This retro-horror nightmare follows a historic preservationist who digs too deep into the twisted past of a now demolished Lakeland Asylum only to discover that some secrets are better left buried. Inspired by a true story.
Film Category

LeaveWork

Director(s)

HyoLim Lee

Director
Synopsis
Downtown in the evening. A man waiting to get off work. The taxi stops in front of him and is inertiaally boarding the taxi. driver talks to a man who looks tired. He answers in a straightforwardly. The taxi driver, who has met all sorts of people, starts talking about passengers he never forgets.
Film Category

Let the Wrong One In

Director(s)

Conor McMahon

Director
Synopsis
Let the Wrong One In follows young supermarket worker Matt, who is a little too nice for his own good. When he discovers that his older, estranged brother Deco has turned into a vampire, he's faced with a dilemma: Will he risk his own life to help his sibling, with blood being thicker than water? Or will he stake him before he spreads the infection further? The film stars upcoming Irish talent Karl Rice and Eoin Duffy, along with Buffy the Vampire Slayer icon Anthony Head, in the role of Henry; a taxi driver with a sideline in vampire hunting.
Film Category

Little Brother

Director(s)

Dikega Hadnot

Director
Synopsis
Keith, a white elementary school teacher, journeys to South Los Angeles to investigate the home life of his gifted student Lamont. When he meets the boy's elderly Grandmother, they begin a polite dialogue about Lamont's frequent absences from school, but the conversation grows increasingly hostile. Unbeknownst to Keith, there's a special ingredient in Grandma's sweet tea... and the teacher may be in store for learning a powerful lesson of his own.

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Film Category

The Light

Synopsis
19th century. In a small coastal village, Olalla and her family prepare for the night of “The Truce”. There is only one rule: no lights should stay on tonight. Olalla, unlike her parents, does not believe in superstitions. And she doesn’t think They are coming either…
Film Category

The Lost Boys (1987)

Director(s)

Joel Schumacher

Director
Synopsis
After moving to a new town, two brothers discover that the area is a haven for vampires.
Film Category

Macabre Night

Director(s)

Felipe Iesbick

Director
Synopsis
During a nighttime transfer, maximum security inmates escape and head for a small town. The authorities call on citizens to assist in the capture of the fugitives—by any means necessary—offering a large cash reward. Amid the chaos that ensues, a young couple in crisis tries to stay alive.
Film Category

Mad Machine

Director(s)

Sergio Guerra

Director
Synopsis
In the not-too-distant future, personal security androids fill the void left by a fully privatized police force. When one woman's android malfunctions, she must fight to survive his murderous onslaught.

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Film Category

Mask of the Evil Apparition

Director(s)

Alex Proyas

Director
Synopsis
Olivia, a young woman with no memory, searches a deserted nocturnal city looking for something or someone. Only problem is she can't remember who or what. She encounters twin brothers Angelo #1 and Angelo #2 who may be her salvation, but Angelo #1 warns her that the “Mysterious Ones,” a nefarious group of clones, are after her for some unknown reason. And Sandra, a woman in disguise, also offers to help, but can she be trusted?

A short film about identity, by Alex Proyas, made with virtual production. A story from the cinematic universe created by Proyas with his own Dark City (1998).
Film Category

The Mad Shagger

Director(s)

Ciaran Lyons

Director
Synopsis
A woman searches for a missing loved one who, unknown to her, has been afflicted with a terrible curse.

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Film Category

Meat

Director(s)

Lander Castro

Director
Synopsis
Mother wakes up in the middle of the night due to the noises coming from her daughter Angela's room. When she gets there, she realizes that her daughter is not behaving normally.
Film Category

Misophonia

Director(s)

Julianna Robinson

Director
Synopsis
A woman is driven mad by the sound of something chewing.
Film Category

Mitowolksyphon

Director(s)

Jacque Rabie

Director
Synopsis
A young man lives in a mansion alone after his parents' death. His days are routine and unimportant, though hints of a deep, inhuman rage sometimes seep through. When the family physician pays him a surprise visit, a truth is uncovered.

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Film Category

Movin Day

Director(s)

Craig Low

Director
Synopsis
How much of your partner's past should you really unpack?

When a newly engaged couple moves in together, they quickly discover some skeletons should stay in the closet.

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Film Category

My Condition

Director(s)

Coke Arijo

Director
Synopsis
Walking home alone at night is not a tasteful dish for any woman. Nor for Sofia, who must wait at the stop for her bus to arrive. When a tired art teacher arrives there is a conversation between them in which nobody is who they say they are.
Film Category

Nagual: The Sin Eater

Director(s)

Dan 'Laz' Lazarovits

Director
Synopsis
Two outlaws, wounded and on the run, struggle across the unforgiving landscape of Northern Arizona after a botched robbery in 1887. Their foredoomed path is crossed by a mysterious nun bearing gifts who is not what she seems.
Film Category

Night at the Eagle Inn

Director(s)

Erik Bloomquist

Director
Synopsis
Fraternal twins spend a terrifying night at a remote inn to investigate the last known whereabouts of their father. As they dive deeper, the property's dark secrets ensnare them in a hellish labyrinth they must escape before dawn.
Film Category

NOCTURNA: SIDE A - THE GREAT OLD MAN'S NIGHT

Director(s)

Gonzalo Calzada

Director
Synopsis
Ulysses is a hundred-year-old man, he lives alone and is on the verge of death. The last night of his life, he will experience something that will force him to rethink his past, his present and his view about his reality.
Film Category

Obstacle Corpse

Director(s)

Hope Madden

Director
Synopsis
Teammates struggle to compete in the deadliest race on earth.
Film Category

The Occupant

Director(s)

Francisco Ohem

Director
Synopsis
Pedro, a miserable office worker, finds a cheap place to rent, the only problem is that it is haunted. Not being a believer in the paranormal he moves to the apartment, unleashing a war between him and the ghost.
Film Category

ORMUR

Director(s)

Einar Baldvin

Director
Synopsis
A man kills another for a piece of meat.
Film Category

Our Family

Director(s)

Jacob Kellar

Director
Synopsis
A young woman, desperate to overcome past trauma, finds company in an alluring community.
Film Category

The Other One

Director(s)

Lukas Baier

Director
Synopsis
When the physicist Walter moves into a new apartment in the 1970s, he tries to clear up the enigmatic disappearance of his previous tenant and realizes that the old man is haunting him in an eerie way - from the future.
Film Category

Pizza Boy

Director(s)

Paul Kruse

Director
Synopsis
An oblivious pizza delivery boy is unable to realize the world around him is slowly turning into a zombie apocalypse. Will he realize before it's too late?
Film Category

Poor Glenna

Director(s)

Jean-Paul DiSciscio

Director
Synopsis
When her mutant son develops a taste for human flesh, a timid mother must find a victim to satisfy his ravenous appetite.
Film Category

Preston Castle

Director(s)

The Boxleitner Brothers

Director
Synopsis
Preston Castle is known for paranormal activity. The Screamfest team had the opportunity to spend the night in Preston Castle, one of the most haunted places in California.

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Film Category

THE RELIC

Director(s)

J.M. Logan

Director
Synopsis
A group of adventurers in search of a mythological object get more than they bargained for when they discover the legend foretelling the end of all life in the universe could actually be true.
Film Category

The Repeater

Director(s)

Grete Suarez

Director
Synopsis
A radio repairman hikes up a mountain to fix the repeater tower. A simple task turns into an arduous journey when he encounters a string of strange occurrences that forces him to face a painful truth in his life.

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Film Category

The Retaliators

Director(s)

Samuel Gonzalez Jr.

Director

Bridget Smith

Director
Synopsis
In THE RETALIATORS, an upstanding pastor uncovers a dark and twisted underworld as he
searches for answers surrounding his daughter's brutal murder. A high-octane original
soundtrack and cameos from some of the biggest names in rock music set the tone as this
horror-thriller reveals a game of revenge played using a new set of rules. Marc Menchaca (Ozark),
Michael Lombardi (Rescue Me), and Joseph Gatt (Game of Thrones) star. Five Finger Death
Punch, Tommy Lee, Papa Roach, The Hu, Ice Nine Kills, Escape The Fate, and more appear
onscreen and on THE RETALIATORS Original Soundtrack, coming soon via Better Noise Music.
Film Category

THE RETURNED (LOS QUE VUELVEN)

Director(s)

Laura Casabe

Director
Synopsis
In 1919 South America, a landowner's wife is desperate for a child of her own, having suffered through multiple miscarriages. She finds hope in a seemingly outlandish plan: she'll pray to a mythical deity to resurrect her stillborn son. The plan works, but with the child comes something else...something evil.
Film Category

Rhyme or Die

Director(s)

Max Lincoln

Director
Synopsis
Five kidnapped strangers are forced to rhyme to their captor's funky beats - or die.
Film Category

The Rickety Man

Director(s)

Cameron Gallagher

Director
Synopsis
Edward, a distant widower discovering his children are grieving their mother's death in their own terrifying way, after having met a mysterious entity in the woods.

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Film Category

The Root Of Evil

Director(s)

Jackson Litte

Director
Synopsis
A man in debt is forced to find quick cash to pay off his bookie. In search for money, the man stumbles across an old cash register that generously helps him, but at what cost?
Film Category

Selfie

Director(s)

Dallas Harden

Director
Synopsis
Social media influencers are stalked by a killer wearing their faces as masks on the night of an event opening.
Film Category

Serial Dating

Director(s)

Eric C Castro

Director
Synopsis
Serial Dater, Kyle, uses the same online apps we all do. Things start innocent and honest. Kyle's manipulative text and social media stalking creates an uncomfortable experience as we, the audience, recognize our most innocuous and positive interactions used against us. The week ends in sex, but that isn't enough. Things take a dark turn, intentionally leaving his dates with the possibility of a STD and the audience scared to swipe right.
Film Category

Shallow Graves

Director(s)

Jake Stark

Director
Synopsis
Two hitmen bury a man in the desert, but when he starts walking around town, things get complicated.
Film Category

She and the Darkness

Director(s)

Daniel Romero

Director
Synopsis
A cleaner suffers a deep depression after the death of her daughter. On one of her night runs to fight insomnia, she feels someone is watching her from the darkness of an alley.
Film Category

Shielded

Director(s)

Jan Verdijk

Director
Synopsis
Amidst a worldwide pandemic, two young sisters are stuck in an isolated home. An odd man appears in a hazmat, claiming he can help..
Film Category

Shiny New World

Director(s)

Jan Van Gorkum

Director
Synopsis
Fifty-year-old Barry is a special kind of cleaner: he cleans crime scenes where demons have wreaked havoc. While making a corporate film about his work, a normal working day for Barry gets out of hand in a bloody way.
Film Category

Sleep Talker

Director(s)

Carl Firth

Director
Synopsis
A woman comes home to find that her husband is talking in his sleep, but soon realizes that something else is talking through him.
Film Category

Smile

Director(s)

Joanna Tsanis

Director
Synopsis
When a young woman struggles to smile, her depression becomes something truly monstrous.
Film Category

Some Thing

Director(s)

Dan Riesser

Director
Synopsis
Kate arrives home to find a bloody body in her kitchen and her husband Mark in the middle of a manic episode, convinced that the dead man on the ground is something other than human.

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Film Category

Spare Body

Director(s)

Ethan Hunt

Director
Synopsis
While searching for some extra money, a teenager discovers the shocking truth behind what his parents have been hiding, and soon finds out about its beyond sinister intentions.

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Film Category

SPORE

Director(s)

Adrian Picardi

Director
Synopsis
Leah is a 30-something single woman searching for love online in a world under siege. When the sanctuary of her home becomes a cage in which she's hunted, the line between hopeful fantasy and stark reality gets blurred.
Film Category

STRANGERS IN THE NIGHT

Director(s)

Richard Keith Quintero

Director
Synopsis
A serial killer bored to death in Covid quarantine and desperate for a victim picks up an innocent hitchhiker, but what he thinks will be a quick and easy kill, turns into a long and challenging night.

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Film Category

Survivers

Director(s)

Carlos Gomez-Trigo

Director
Synopsis
Natural selection says that only those who adapt will survive. What if humans have become stupid?
Film Category

TECH SAVVY

Director(s)

Scott Vasey

Director
Synopsis
When a single mom discovers her Photoshop tweaks impact the real world, excitement turns to terror after she makes a horrifying mistake in need of an "undo" button.

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Film Category

They're Here

Director(s)

Sid Zanforlin

Director
Synopsis
They're Here is a short film about a twelve-year-old girl named Sam whose grandmother suffers a severe stroke that leaves her catatonic. Unable to cope, Sam becomes convinced that her grandmother has been invaded by an alien and will stop at nothing to prove she is right... before it's too late.

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Film Category

user_

Director(s)

Alex Montilla

Director
Synopsis
"user_" is a screenlife short about a Bubbly camgirl, Amber, who is menaced during a private chat by a mysterious and frightening user.
Film Category

Wanna Go Camping?

Director(s)

Zach Siegel

Director
Synopsis
Corey takes his new boyfriend Luis on a cute little camping trip -- but something feels off that they can't quite place.
Film Category

Welcome to Our Home

Director(s)

Gregory M. Schroeder

Director
Synopsis
When Brad brings his liberal girlfriend home to meet his conservative parents, tensions escalate and monsters are unleashed.

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Film Category

What Josiah Saw

Director(s)

Vincent Grashaw

Director
Synopsis
Everyone in town knows about the haunted Graham Farm on Willow Road. You'll hear there's a bad history to it. Josiah and his youngest son, Thomas, are all that remain of this estranged family. But after experiencing terrifying visions from beyond, Josiah decides they must change their ways to right a great wrong. After being away for over two decades, Eli and Mary, Josiah's eldest children, are enticed to sell the property and reunite at the old farmhouse in hopes of closing this haunting chapter of their lives for good. Sins of the past will be paid in full.
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When I Consume You

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Perry Blackshear

Director
Synopsis
Siblings Daphne and Wilson Shaw practically raised one another. They've protected each other from everything life has thrown their way. Daphne's professional life is soaring and she's looking to adopt a child. Wilson is interviewing for a position at a local school, hoping to become a teacher. But Daphne has an unsettling, dangerous stalker whom she can't seem to shake, and now threatens to destroy them both. They hunt for their tormentor through the shadowy streets of Brooklyn, honing their bodies and minds for a showdown. But this foe may prove to be more than they can handle. They will break and rebuild themselves if necessary to save each other, and protect the light they know is in this world for them... if only they can persevere.
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WICKED GAMES

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Teddy Grennan

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Synopsis
When Harley joins her new boyfriend for a long Halloween weekend at his country estate, they're invaded by a band of masked freaks and forced to play a Wicked Game. To the intruders' unpleasant surprise, Harley's hard-boiled history has endowed her with a bag of tricks which give the game a surprise ending.
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Wolves

Director(s)

Travae Davis

Director
Synopsis
Ensuing their father's abandonment, two young brothers quarrel for control over their farm. Little do they know, there is a looming wolf in the woods.
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Z

Director(s)

Caroline Branders

Director
Synopsis
A world ravaged by the apocalypse.
Two regular people (Marc and Stella) and four people with a disability have locked themselves in an abandoned office building where they seek protection against the danger from outside.
Marc and Stella get more and more frustrated with the four residents who are completely dependent on them for their survival.
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Z.O.I.

Director(s)

Rich Ragsdale

Director
Synopsis
Zombies in the age of social media.
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ZTV Sympathy for the Devil

Director(s)

Jason Ragosta

Director
Synopsis
DOUGLAS SIKES, a convicted war criminal from the American Zombie War, runs a black-market trading ring from the bowels of a walled-in quarantine zone turned for-profit prison. He and the other prisoners live under the watchful eye of the ZTV broadcasting company, and at the whim of THE PREZERVE, a capital punishment reality game show that uses zombies, and horrific devices, to torture, infect, and execute prisoners and their families on prime time network television. PAUL, and his daughter, LILY, arrive at Doug's home to find him grief-stricken and consumed with rage after his daughter Steffie's gruesome episode has broadcast her terrible fate for all the world to see. Paul and Lily find themselves in the cross-fire as Doug readies to unleash bloody vengeance on the institution and the vengeful woman who has oppressed him.
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