US Premieres at Screamfest
The first public screening of the film in the United States.
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Rojo Sangre
Meet the Filmmaker
Synopsis
Pablo Thevenet, an out-of-work actor must face humiliating casting sessions and disregard of young directors and the indifference of old compatriots. Nearly broke and desperate, Thevenet accepts a job offer at the strange Pandora Club run by the bizarre Refi cul. Without knowing, Pablo soon becomes an agent of the dark side and finds himself on a descent into hell.
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Lost Things
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Synopsis
Four teenagers defy their parents to have a wild end-of-school beach vacation. They arrive at a private beach cove; however there is something odd about this beach. After a surprise encounter with a creepy beachcomber named Zippo, the friends want to go home. But now they are trapped, thrashing like fi sh caught in a net as the terrifying mysteries of their fate are revealed.
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The Locals
Meet the Filmmaker
Synopsis
Two best friends Grant and Paul hit the road for a weekend of surfing, booze and hopefully . . . girls. With night falling they take a short cut and meet Lisa and Kelly, a couple of babes with a fast car, who invite them to a party. Lust takes the wheel and a game of cat and mouse begins leading them deep into the heartland of evil where they meet . . . The Locals.
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Drowning Ghost
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Synopsis
Over 100 years ago, three students at the Hellestads Boarding School were brutally slaughtered, the murderer drowned himself in a lake nearby and his body was never found. The story has become a legend for generations of students as well as a yearly festivity. Sara, a student, is writing an essay based on the legend and uncovers new facts from the event that will cast dark shadows on the family name of one of the school's main benefi ciaries. On the night of the hundredth anniversary, the festivities go awry, students disappear and something dark and unknown is moving through the schools corridors...
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Deadline
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Synopsis
Alex and his pregnant wife Laura, are isolated in a mountain road during to a breakdown of their jeep. They are helped by an ambiguous man, that brings them to a bleak desolated hotel shrouded in the fog. The man's speeches even if illogical, have a double and deep meaning of their own.
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Darkness (The Dark)
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Synopsis
There's something in this house that's been awakened. Something ancient, something evil:.it remains still, hidden and silent, concealed in the shadows for years. This house hides a secret, a terrible past, an inconceivably evil act. More than forty years ago, a ritual tried to summon it. Seven children, faceless people, a circle that must be completed. But something went wrong. One of the children got away, and the circle wasn't completed. What lives here isn't fi nished. It's waiting to become complete...
Film Category
Cube Zero
Meet the Filmmaker
Synopsis
In the latest chapter to one of the most successful sci-fi thrillers of the last decade, a new group of unwilling participants frantically moves through an ominous construct of cubeshaped rooms. While some rooms provide momentary solace, others offer hideously inventive and painful death. On the outside, a young man charged with watching over the cube is beginning to understand that there's more going on than he's been told. In order for all of them to survive, they are going to have to trust each other in navigating through this complex killing machine.
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Blessed
Meet the Filmmaker
Synopsis
Happily married, Samantha and Craig Howard are trying to have a baby, however, an accident has left Samantha unable to conceive. They spend their savings for the In vitro procedure at a special fertility clinic and their happiness peaks as the In Vitro procedure works and Samantha becomes pregnant with twins. Their joy is soon short lived when she learns that she is not carrying her children, but instead she is carrying the fate of the world in her womb.
Film Category
Staring At The Sun
Meet the Filmmaker
Synopsis
When a fortune teller refuses to reveal her vision of a man's future, he becomes so obsessed with knowing the answer that he unwittingly fulfills his fate.
Film Category
Sigaw (Echo)
Meet the Filmmaker
Synopsis
A young man named Marvin moves into a unit of an old apartment building. Except for the occasional noise from an apartment down the hall, the place is almost perfect. The noise turns out to be an abusive husband who frequently beats his wife in front of their young daughter. Marvin musters up enough courage to find out more about the quarrelling couple, but he uncovers a secret that sets into motion a series of hauntings that follow Marvin and his girlfriend around. Marvin and his girlfriend must now confront the evil in the apartment building, or be forever haunted by its secret.