West Coast Premieres at Screamfest
The first public screening of the film on the West Coast.
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The Green Ribbon
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Synopsis
Sorority girl Brittany is desperate to be the hottest girl on campus, so when she learns about an occult book said to contain a spell promising to make her the most beautiful girl in the world, she becomes hell-bent on retrieving it. Together with her friend MJ, Brittany ventures inside an abandoned house to find the book - the same house once inhabited by Jane, the mysterious girl with a green ribbon around her neck...
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Cannibal Mukbang
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Synopsis
An introverted nerd finds himself dangerously deep inside the crazy world of mukbanging after he falls head over heels for a mysterious woman.
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BATSHIT CRAZY
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Synopsis
Often targeted for their East Asian or 'Chinese' looks, racism is an ugly fact of life for the Northeasterners of India. In Batshit Crazy, a Northeastern young man runs into a bunch of racist junkies on a lonesome night in the Covid pandemic. But little do both know that they'd end up getting more than they ever bargained for.
Based on a story by Andhadun Co-writer Arijit Biswas with Telugu dialogues by filmmaker Venkat Ramji and directed by Yogesh Chandekar (Writer of Andhadhun and Monica, O my darling).
Based on a story by Andhadun Co-writer Arijit Biswas with Telugu dialogues by filmmaker Venkat Ramji and directed by Yogesh Chandekar (Writer of Andhadhun and Monica, O my darling).
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Drive Back
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Synopsis
Struggling artist Reid and his pregnant fiancée, Olivia, celebrate their new engagement, happily surrounded by family and friends. After a cryptic warning from Reid’s father, a car accident leaves them lost in the woods. Searching for directions leads to a rundown store run by a creepy older couple, who suggest the best way home is by taking an old shortcut through dark backroads. But after violent visions, lost memories, a troubling hitchhiker encounter, and an inability to escape the road itself, their car breaks down, and they discover a terrifying killer is hunting their every move.
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Animale
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Synopsis
Camargue, France - famous for its traditional bull race, an exhilarating and graceful challenge of agility and respect between man and beast. Surrounded by men, 22-year-old Nejma trains hard to fulfill her dream of winning the upcoming annual competition - but news of a rogue and violent bull on the loose terrifies the community. Young men are being murdered everywhere, and the beast is nowhere to be seen.
Anchored in a unique western setting and centring on a stunning performance by César-winning actress Oulaya Amamra (Divines), ANIMALE is an unforgettable and blazingly confident supernatural fable that blends with the classic body horror, and the rape-revenge thriller.
Anchored in a unique western setting and centring on a stunning performance by César-winning actress Oulaya Amamra (Divines), ANIMALE is an unforgettable and blazingly confident supernatural fable that blends with the classic body horror, and the rape-revenge thriller.
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The A Frame
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Synopsis
A quantum physicist develops a machine that creates a tunnel to a subatomic universe. In his quest to prove the machine's efficacy, he inadvertently discovers a radical treatment for cancer.
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The Lost
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Synopsis
Based on the novel by Jack Ketchum, Ray, Tim, and Jennifer were just three teenage friends hanging out in the campgrounds, drinking. But Tim and Jennifer didn't know what their friend Ray had in mind, but when they saw what he did to the two girls at the neighboring campsite--and knew he was dead serious.It's now four years later and Ray has not been charged with the murders, there's one cop determined to make him pay, but Ray fi gures he's in the clear. Tim and Jennifer think the worst is behind them, that the horrors are all in the past. They're wrong. The worst is still to come.
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Welcome to Mercy
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Synopsis
A young woman struggles against the unholy forces that possess her in this terrifying occult thriller. After being stricken with stigmata, single mother Madaline (Kristen Ruhlin) is sent to a remote convent where nothing is what it seems and her friend August (Lily Newmark) is seemingly the only person she can trust. Together, they must confront the demons inside Madaline before she becomes the Antichrist.
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The Unthinkable
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Synopsis
When Sweden faces a mysterious attack Alex is forced back to his childhood village. There he must be reconciled with both his father and youth love, Anna, while they all struggle to survive.