World Premieres at Screamfest
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Stud Muffin
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Synopsis
An awkward loner finds himself in grave danger when he ingests a potion that renders him irresistible to the opposite sex.
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The Night Driver
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Synopsis
One night in the middle of the country, traveling salesman Hurdis Matheson drives down a dark stretch of highway when he accidently hits a longhaired stranger. The stranger survives, but is badly wounded. Hurdis agrees to drive him to the hospital. As they drive, he realizes something is wrong with his passenger. Before he knows it, The Stranger becomes violent and attacks him. A couple of days later in California, Hurdis’ wife Cheryl Jones begs for her old friend Detective Hank Granger to help find her husband. She hasn’t heard from him in two days, and suspects something happened to him. Granger agrees to help but becomes entangled in a bigger case with the FBI regarding Hurdis Jones. They suspect he is a serial killer on a rampage, leaving a trail of homicide scenes across the country. Meanwhile, Hurdis is running, driving and speeding to get home. But everywhere he turns, The Stranger stalks him. He can’t seem to lose him. What will happen next will lead to a climax that will leave audiences speechless. Reminiscent of films such as High Tension or The Sixth Sense, The Night Driver swerves with twists and turns that deliver shocking surprises that no one can anticipate.
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The Cryonicist
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Synopsis
When her lover is taken off life support by his family, a brilliant but obsessive college student risks everything to steal his body and DIY cryogenically freeze him.
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Processing Charlie
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Synopsis
An act of kindness quickly becomes a nightmarish fight for survival when a young man, dealing with his fractured marriage, takes in a needy, long-lost cousin. Part pervert, part psychopath, Cousin Cole’s dark secrets slowly bubble to the surface as Charlie realizes too late that no good deed goes unpunished.
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The Double
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Synopsis
On New Year’s Eve, 1986 Oleg Proshkin, a low-level Soviet investigator, gets called out to a disturbance — in his own apartment building.
Something’s off the moment he steps into the courtyard, and when he unlocks his door, he finds strangers inside. They’ve made themselves at home. Waiting for him: a Santa Claus he’s never seen before — and a disturbingly intelligent dog named Shapka. Santa says he’s been looking for Proshkin for years. When Proshkin was a boy, he mailed a postcard asking to be sent into space — the same space where, according to his mother, his father flew and never came back. Proshkin tries to fight. Tries to shout. It doesn’t matter. Santa drops the jolly act. He overpowers him, yanks a gift sack over his head, and hauls him off — past the rooflines, out into the black.
A surreal ride into the unstable architecture of human memory, and the hairline crack between reality and madness we all balance on — right up until it gives way.
Something’s off the moment he steps into the courtyard, and when he unlocks his door, he finds strangers inside. They’ve made themselves at home. Waiting for him: a Santa Claus he’s never seen before — and a disturbingly intelligent dog named Shapka. Santa says he’s been looking for Proshkin for years. When Proshkin was a boy, he mailed a postcard asking to be sent into space — the same space where, according to his mother, his father flew and never came back. Proshkin tries to fight. Tries to shout. It doesn’t matter. Santa drops the jolly act. He overpowers him, yanks a gift sack over his head, and hauls him off — past the rooflines, out into the black.
A surreal ride into the unstable architecture of human memory, and the hairline crack between reality and madness we all balance on — right up until it gives way.
Film Category
DANGLING
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Synopsis
Mart appears to have the perfect life: a loving wife, a beautiful home in a good neighborhood, and a baby on the way. Yet, he feels unfulfilled. For as long as he can remember, he has been tormented by an overwhelming urge to kill. One he has managed to suppress until now. His self-control is pushed to the limit when he stumbles upon his neighbor’s failed suicide attempt. Unable to resist his dark obsession, he drags the barely conscious man up to his attic, where he faces an impossible choice: give in to his long-repressed urges or continue a life of restraint.
As the pressure mounts, Mart’s situation grows even more dangerous—especially when he realizes that just downstairs, his wife is leading the village-wide search for the missing neighbor.
As the pressure mounts, Mart’s situation grows even more dangerous—especially when he realizes that just downstairs, his wife is leading the village-wide search for the missing neighbor.
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Insecta
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Synopsis
A famous horror novelist returns to an isolated farm to say goodbye to her dying father. There, she discovers that the enigmatic young woman taking care of him knows more than she lets on, the monstrous imaginary insect that tormented her in childhood may be more real than she ever thought.
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Shadow in the Desert
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Synopsis
After a reckless, drug-fueled robbery at an old house on the Navajo reservation, Deidra and her boyfriend escape with stolen goods and a mysterious black leather pouch. As they exchange their loot at a remote desert party in the Arizona desert, Deidra begins to realize the pouch's actual significance, a medicine bundle, one that holds a dark truth and energy that is much more than she bargained for. Realizing the sinister importance of the pouch and its owner, Deidra must face a desperate showdown with the malevolent entity and her own inner demons, as the creature's sinister energy and her drug addiction converge to destroy her sanity and soul.
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Damned If You Do
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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.
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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?