World Premieres at Screamfest
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Film Category
Damned If You Do
Meet the Filmmaker
Synopsis
A group of friends who sold their souls to the devil years ago must reunite before their 25th high school reunion to try and escape Hell's grasp before the contract's deadline expires.
Film Category
Host
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Synopsis
Host follows Ing (Baipor), who is sent to an all-girls reform school on a remote island. Ing quickly learns that the school’s only rule is simple — total obedience to the school’s principal. The school operates under a strict hierarchy, with the principal’s favored student, Aim (Perth), at the top and Ing at the bottom. Shortly after her arrival, a series of disturbing incidents begin to unfold. As these unsettling events accumulate, Ing must confront a terrifying question: is she merely a victim of these supernatural occurrences, or could she herself be their source?
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Hellevator
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Synopsis
Two couples applying for their marriage licenses at city hall find themselves trapped in the liminal hellscape of THE THIRTEENTH FLOOR where they face trials and tribulations from demon bureaucrats that threaten the foundations of their relationships... and their lives.
Film Category
The Cauldron
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Synopsis
In 1918, during the Spanish flu pandemic, a young boy must protect his family from an unknown threat in their remote, isolated home. As fear closes in, he must confront not only the dangers outside but also the darkness within himself, facing his trauma and the shadow it casts in order to break free from the cycle of violence and become the man he is meant to be.
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SÁRÚ
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Synopsis
When a young girl moves into a secluded house on the edge of an ancient forest, she discovers a mysterious fairy ring hidden within. Drawn by curiosity, she crosses a threshold never meant to be broken - unleashing the preternatural, as the forgotten rules of the old world claw their way back.
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Love is the Monster
Meet the Filmmaker
Synopsis
Troubled couples head to a transformative retreat, where they fall prey to a sinister cult seeking to resurrect the Finnish ancient goddess of love.
Film Category
The Trees Have Eyes
Synopsis
Among a mystical forest of ice and snow, a hunter reaps the consequences of what he sows.
Film Category
Affection
Meet the Filmmaker
Synopsis
Ellie wakes to a living nightmare – she is suffering from horrifying and erratic memory resets, leaving her unable to remember her husband or child. Haunted with vivid memories of a life she supposedly never lived, Ellie is determined to get to the truth, no matter how gruesome the real tale may be. A gripping horror sci-fi starring scream queen Jessica Rothe (Happy Death Day).