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World Premieres at Screamfest

The first public screening of the film in the world. 

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Inch Thick, Knee Deep

Meet the Filmmaker

Anatasha Blakely

Director
Synopsis
The heat gets turned up on a seething exchange between two women. There is Quinn, a haughty daydreamer, who is stewing over a heartbreaking situation with her soulmate; and Adrienne, the woman who's caught his eye. Once brought to a boiling point, neither woman will leave tea time without peeling back the masks they've painted an inch thick and revealing who they are in the face of bitterness.
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FINAL PICKUP

Meet the Filmmaker

Kraig Krueger

Director
Synopsis
A share ride driver struggles with what to do when he realizes that there is something very wrong with the passengers in his backseat.
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Father of Flies

Meet the Filmmaker

Ben Charles Edwards

Director
Synopsis
A haunting tale of family life. A vulnerable young boy finds his mother pushed out of the family home by a strange new woman, and he must confront the terrifying supernatural forces that seem to move in with her.
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Echthaar

Meet the Filmmaker

Dominic Kubisch

Director
Synopsis
The smell of shampoo and cigarettes hangs in the air. The hair buns tear at the scalp and the newest hits play on a small radio. It’s the golden 50ies and Victor has his hair salon in perfect order – or so it seems. Because from her first day at the new job, Paula just can’t take her eyes off the strange jukebox in the corner. She senses that the machine is somehow connected to a dark secret. As Paula starts to take a deeper look at it, she doesn’t understand that her own life is on the line.
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Dream Board Nightmare

Meet the Filmmaker

Joe Zerull

Director
Synopsis
A chaotic love story based on true events.

Dysfunctional couple kidnap a successful real-estate broker, in an attempt to jumpstart their unrealistic aspirations for a better life.
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Demon Juice

Meet the Filmmaker

Shannon Brown

Writer, Director, Producer
Synopsis
A group of friends travel to a quaint vacation town for a weekend getaway, but discover a decades-old party drink that's more dangerous than it seems.

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Deep Tissue

Meet the Filmmaker

Brian L. Tan 'BLT'

Director
Synopsis
Upset with his girlfriend, Adam finds himself avoiding her apology calls as he explores the nightlife of Bali. There's food, music, and a massage parlor that peaks his interest. Soon Adam finds himself trying something new as an alluring masseuse does her best to have him forget his troubles. Little does he know, something sinister is afoot.

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Dear David

Meet the Filmmaker

John McPhail

Director
Synopsis
Shortly after comic artist Adam (Augustus Prew) responds to Internet trolls, he begins experiencing sleep paralysis "” while an empty rocking chair moves in the corner of his apartment. As he chronicles increasingly malevolent occurrences in a series of tweets, Adam begins to believe he is being haunted by the ghost of a dead child named David. Encouraged by his boss to continue the "Dear David" thread, Adam starts to lose his grip on what is online...and what is real. Based on the viral Twitter thread by BuzzFeed comic artist Adam Ellis.
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Deer Camp '86

Meet the Filmmaker

L. VanDyke Siboutszen

Synopsis
The year is 1986. Chernobyl has the worst nuclear disaster in history. Mike Tyson becomes the youngest ever heavyweight champion. Hands Across America inspires an awful song, and in Michigan, six knuckleheads from Detroit travel north to partake in the annual tradition of deer hunting. But upon arrival, something horrific has been awakened... In an ironic twist of fate, the hunters have become the hunted.
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KillHer

Meet the Filmmaker

Robyn August

Director
Synopsis
Mattie and her three besties--Eddie, Jess, and Rae--head into the woods for a weekend to plan Mattie's upcoming wedding and bachelorette party. Eddie, Mattie's roommate and an unrelenting practical joker, leads them to believe they will be setting up camp near Mattie's hunky fiancé, Jagger, and his friends. They soon realize the tent they've snuggled up next to belongs to a mysterious recluse named Mr. Rogers, rather than Jagger, and this is definitely his neighborhood! With zero cell reception and only a literal pot to piss in, their weekend camping trip is beginning to look like a bad idea. But it only gets worse when people start to die and a terrible secret is revealed. All these girls wanted was a killer pre-bachelorette party... and that's exactly what they got.
Film Category

Slayers

Meet the Filmmaker

K. Asher Levin

Synopsis
Kick-ass vampire slayer, Elliot Jones (Thomas Jane), made it his life's mission to take revenge on the bloodsuckers who murdered his teenage daughter. After years of tracking them, he has finally reached their secret and hidden base. But to get to them he will need to use a motley crew of social media superstars. Enter "˜The Stream Team': party-girl Jules (Abigail Breslin), gen-z pro-gamer Flynn (Kara Hayward) and their team of trend-makers and breakers! With a hundred million-plus combined followers, they have attracted the attention of reclusive billionaire Beverly Rektor (Malin Akerman), who invites them to party at her multimillion-dollar vacation compound. They soon discover these rich people are none other than the ancient vampires that Elliot Jones is chasing. When the team is being held captive in a house of horrors to serve the vampires plan to take over the world, Elliott is their only hope of survival. As he links up with Flynn, a slayer in her own right, will he take down the vampire hoard and save The Stream Team?
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The Ratcatcher's Daughter

Meet the Filmmaker

Jim Bryson

Director
Synopsis
In the bitterly cold streets of Petrograd, the daughter of an infamous Ratcatcher flirts with a revolutionist and is thrust into a nail-biting, journey into the dark, mysterious forgotten underworld.
Based on a tragic love story by Alexander Grin, 'The RatCatcher's Daughter' paints a grim tale of 1920's post war Russia, plagued by poverty, addiction and the threat of revolution.