US Premieres at Screamfest
The first public screening of the film in the United States.
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Cube Zero
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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
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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.
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Staring At The Sun
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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.
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Sigaw (Echo)
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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.
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Severed
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A multi-national forestry company engages in genetic experimentation to increase logging yield in a remote section of forest. But the experimentation goes disastrously wrong, transforming a disparate group of loggers and environmental activists into the "infected" -- ravenous, zombie-like creatures who prey upon the few terrified survivors while they attempt to understand and control the disaster.
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The Intruder
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When Zoe, captive in her home and terrorised by a stalker, receives an unexpected visitor, she learns that when you're trapped in the past, you have no future ...
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Happy End
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A young writer moves into an old apartment complex because of a writing block. While searching for the right story for his new novel, he comes upon the remains of the previous tenant and suddenly the apartment seems to develop an uncanny life of its own. He digs deeper and uncovers the path of a well kept secret which robs him of his sleep and almost drives him towards insanity.
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Death Tunnel
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An upscale college initiation strands five girls in Waverly Hills Sanatorium, one of the scariest places on earth. Within five floors of this diseased hospital, haunted by five ghosts of it's tortured past, the girls, one by one become infected of its tragic history. A 500-foot underground body chute, built to remove the dead bodies of its patients reveals the real terror as the only way out is through the Death Tunnel.
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Curandero
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Be the first to see the new feature film debut from Director Eduardo Rodriguez....a Screamfest 2003 alumni! CURANDERO was written by and executive produced by Robert Rodriguez! You don't want to miss this amazing Spanish film. (Shown with subtitles)
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Cruel World
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Nine contestants are excited about the prospect of winning a million dollars on the hottest new reality show. At first it looks like it is going to be a blast, but things get dark very quickly. The contestants soon learn that a scorned reality TV show runner up has trapped them, and getting voted off will cost them their lives.
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Bushinsaba (Ouija Board)
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A high school girl moves from Seoul to a remote village. She leads a terrible life at her new school because of constant harassment and bullying by classmates. In a desperate bid to escape the traumatizing experience and get back at the school bullies, she chants "Bunshinsaba," an incantation that is supposed to facilitate communication with a spirit. Over the next couple of days, her tormentors mysteriously begin to die. Due to the mysterious deaths, the entire village is gripped by horror and hysteria. But the elders of the village are hiding a dirty secret.