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West Coast Premieres at Screamfest

The first public screening of the film on the West Coast. 

Film Category

Crockpot

Meet the Filmmaker

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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ANGEL CITY HORROR

Meet the Filmmaker

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.
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Alone With You

Meet the Filmmaker

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.
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THE DEEP DARK

Meet the Filmmaker

Mathieu Turi

Director
Synopsis
Miners are forced to take a professor underground with them, to take samples for his measurements. After a landslide prevents them from going back up, they discover a crypt from another time, unknowingly waking up a bloodthirsty creature.
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THE WAKE

Meet the Filmmaker

Luis Gerard

Director
Synopsis
A restless 15-year-old has spent his life surrounded by death, raised in his parents' funeral business in a small town. Viewing his alcoholic father as profiting from the dead, our hero does him one better leading to some unexpected consequences.
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EVERYONE WILL BURN (Y Todos Arderán)

Meet the Filmmaker

David Hebrero

Director
Synopsis
In a small village in Leon, Spain, María José (30 COINS and SEXY KILLER’s Macarena Gomez) prepares to end her life after failing to get over the death of her son years before. Everything changes when she receives a visit from Lucía, a strange little girl who might be connected to a local legend about stopping an impending apocalypse. With the enigmatic girl by her side, María José faces the corrupt community, triggering strange events and a series of horrific deaths among the local population.
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Next Exit

Meet the Filmmaker

Mali Elfman

Writer/Director
Synopsis
NEXT EXIT follows a research scientist (Karen Gillan) who makes national news proving she can track people into the afterlife - Rose (Katie Parker) sees a way out and Teddy (Rahul Kohli) sees his chance to finally make it. These two strangers, both harboring dark secrets, race to join the doctor's contentious study and leave this life behind. While Rose is haunted by a ghostly presence that she can't outrun, Teddy is forced to confront his past. As these two misfits humorously quarrel their way across the country, they meet people along the way who force them to reckon with what is really driving them. The film also stars Tongayi Chirisa, Tim Griffin, Diva Zappa, and Nico Evers-Swindell.
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Do Not Disturb

Meet the Filmmaker

John Ainslie

Director
Synopsis
Do Not Disturb is a psychedelic exploration of love, lust and carnal desire. It follows Chloe and Jack's honeymoon in Miami where a peyote trip to strengthen their marriage bond forces them to confront their toxic relationship while it awakens a desire to consume human flesh. Love is all consuming in this narcotic nightmare crafted by writer/director John Ainslie.
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The Loneliest Boy In The World

Meet the Filmmaker

Martin Owen

Synopsis
'The Loneliest Boy in the World' is a modern fairytale - with zombies. A satire and a celebration of family values, of the imagery of horror films, of suburban life, of the American Dream and of the ultimate taboo; death.
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Living With Chucky

Meet the Filmmaker

Kyra Gardner

Director
Synopsis
A filmmaker who grew up alongside Chucky the killer doll seeks out the other families surrounding the Child's Play films as they recount their experiences working on the ongoing franchise and what it means to be a part of the, "Chucky" family.
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The Leech

Meet the Filmmaker

Eric Pennycoff

Synopsis
A devout priest welcomes a struggling couple into his house at Christmas time. What begins as a simple act of kindness quickly becomes the ultimate test of faith once the sanctity of his home is jeopardized.
Film Category

UNHEIMLICH

Meet the Filmmaker

Fabio Colonna

Director
Synopsis
During a rainy night, a girl wakes up after a nightmare. She will discover that things are not as normal as the house has become a surreal maze, with a sinister creature waiting in the shadows.