North American Premieres at Screamfest
The first public screening of the film in North America.
Film Category
La Nueva
Meet the Filmmaker
Synopsis
Maria is the new teacher who arrives at an old religious school. On her first day, she will have to teach a group of rebellious teens who are part of a punishment class. An unexpected event will turn the classroom into a real hell. Not knowing the lesson can cost you your life.
Film Category
Faceless After Dark
Meet the Filmmaker
Synopsis
Following her breakout success as the star of a killer clown horror flick, Bowie now finds herself struggling to capitalize on its success. But when she is suddenly held hostage by an unhinged fan posing as that same killer clown, horror becomes her reality as she fights to survive the night and escape before he completes his sinister plan to recreate the film's fatal plot.
Film Category
Abominations
Meet the Filmmaker
Synopsis
A dark infatuation begins to fracture the bond between a man and his unsightly creature.
Film Category
The Domestic (2022)
Meet the Filmmaker
Synopsis
The Domestic tells the story of an upper-class, happily married couple who hire the daughter of their recently deceased housekeeper as their new helper, only for things to take a dark and macabre turn when she tries to destroy them from within... Exploring themes of tradition versus modernity, African witchcraft and muti, and the extreme class differences in our society, THE DOMESTIC is a tense, disturbing descent into suburban horror.
Film Category
The Wooden Ghost
Meet the Filmmaker
Synopsis
An adaptation of one of the most famous horror poems of all time. How, in a fever dream, a carver finishes the portrait of a young woman. Then suddenly something flies into the workshop and strange things start happening. Stop-motion animation is combined with live action to create a terrifying experience from flesh, blood, wood and feathers.
Film Category
MY MOTHER'S EYES
Meet the Filmmaker
Synopsis
Both Hitomi and her daughter Eri are cellists. One day, they are involved in a traffic accident and Hitomi loses her sight. She wears camera-equipped contact lenses and Eri, injured and hospitalized, wears VR goggles, and the two share one vision.
Film Category
Lanbroa (Mist)
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Synopsis
Father and daughter live in an isolated, inhospitable forest, terrified by a mist that emerges from between the trees and that has a devastating effect on the minds and bodies of all living things. While they try and protect themselves, the mist grows closer and closer.
Film Category
Mimi The Prince of Darkness
Meet the Filmmaker
Synopsis
Mimì is an orphaned teenager born with deformed feet who works at a pizzeria in Naples. One fateful day, he meets Carmilla, a young girl convinced she is a descendant of Count Dracula. Together, they decide to escape the cynical and violent world they live in.
Film Category
LUNA
Meet the Filmmaker
Synopsis
Ismael sweeps the floor of an amusement park. On the floor, a crumpled sheet of paper with a photo of a missing girl stands out above the rest of the trash. A woman nervously asks if she has seen her daughter and Ismael tells her that she hasn't.
Ismael drives down a dark road. In the back of the van, separated by a fence, a girl can be seen. She is Luna, the missing daughter. Ismael has kidnapped her, but Luna tells him that her mother doesn't let him go out at night. Suddenly Luna seems to transform into a creature with superhuman strength. Frightened Ismael crashes into a tree. Ismael is defenseless against Luna. Nothing has turned out as Ismael expected.
Ismael drives down a dark road. In the back of the van, separated by a fence, a girl can be seen. She is Luna, the missing daughter. Ismael has kidnapped her, but Luna tells him that her mother doesn't let him go out at night. Suddenly Luna seems to transform into a creature with superhuman strength. Frightened Ismael crashes into a tree. Ismael is defenseless against Luna. Nothing has turned out as Ismael expected.