West Coast Premieres at Screamfest
The first public screening of the film on the West Coast.
Film Category
Drink Up
Meet the Filmmaker
Synopsis
When Carter, a man celebrating three years of sobriety, loses his job, he’s lured into a mysterious bar offering free drinks in exchange for his recovery chip. But what begins as one drink turns into a nightmarish spiral through time, addiction, and guilt—until he realizes the true cost of trying to drown his demons.
Film Category
Influencers
Meet the Filmmaker
Synopsis
In Southern France, a young woman's chilling fascination with murder and identity theft sends her life into a whirlwind of chaos.
Film Category
Humanzee
Meet the Filmmaker
Synopsis
In a quiet house in the suburbs, a lonely woman’s grizzly past comes back to haunt her when an old friend knocks at the door.
Film Category
IT IS WATCHING
Meet the Filmmaker
Synopsis
A paranoid woman attempts to go about her day whilst being deeply afraid of a potential watcher who she fears is following her.
Film Category
Meat Kills
Meet the Filmmaker
Synopsis
In Europe, 133 million pigs suffer in cruel livestock farms. For Mirthe (19), this is unbearable. To prove herself worthy of joining ‘Animal Army’ a radical activist group led by the fearless Nasha (22), she secretly films the horrors of a local pig farm.
Her footage earns her a mission to free the pigs, but when Mirthe and the group return at night, they find the cages empty: the pigs already slaughtered. Enraged, Nasha shifts her focus to revenge, targeting and torturing the farmer’s children. Mirthe objects, but chaos erupts when the farmer returns, determined to protect his family as he hunts down the activists.
The farm becomes a bloody battleground while Mirthe is trapped between Nasha’s vengeance and the farmer’s fury. Mirthe must get her hands bloody if she wants to get out alive.
Her footage earns her a mission to free the pigs, but when Mirthe and the group return at night, they find the cages empty: the pigs already slaughtered. Enraged, Nasha shifts her focus to revenge, targeting and torturing the farmer’s children. Mirthe objects, but chaos erupts when the farmer returns, determined to protect his family as he hunts down the activists.
The farm becomes a bloody battleground while Mirthe is trapped between Nasha’s vengeance and the farmer’s fury. Mirthe must get her hands bloody if she wants to get out alive.
Film Category
Appofeniacs
Meet the Filmmaker
Synopsis
Enthralled with exploiting our instinct to believe what we see and hear, Duke (Aaron Holliday) sows havoc with a callous disregard of consequences as he goes on a frenzy of reckless deepfake creations for little reason beyond the fact that he can. Things quickly spiral into bloody chaos and Duke just doesn’t give a shit.
Film Category
SWORD OF VENGEANCE
Meet the Filmmaker
Synopsis
In a post-apocalyptic future a young warrior must take revenge on his enemies for the crimes they committed against his family.
Film Category
Clifton Park
Meet the Filmmaker
Synopsis
Mari loves The Ambassadors. The aspiring actress, and college undergrad, has seen every single one of their experimental theater productions in NYC, and now she has been chosen to travel to upstate New York with the famed theater troupe to work on their new play about a real-life sex cult.
When the group announces that they will be building this new show by staying in character all weekend, Mari salivates at the opportunity to show off her commitment to her craft. But when the line between reality and fiction becomes blurred in a deadly way, Mari must choose between giving over to the dangerously unconventional methods of The Ambassadors or escaping with her own life.
CLIFTON PARK is a short psychological horror that highlights the parallels between coercive communities and auteur directors while exploring the lengths that one will go to for their art.
When the group announces that they will be building this new show by staying in character all weekend, Mari salivates at the opportunity to show off her commitment to her craft. But when the line between reality and fiction becomes blurred in a deadly way, Mari must choose between giving over to the dangerously unconventional methods of The Ambassadors or escaping with her own life.
CLIFTON PARK is a short psychological horror that highlights the parallels between coercive communities and auteur directors while exploring the lengths that one will go to for their art.
Film Category
HIGH FUN
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Synopsis
Plagued by depression and loneliness, a desperate young man seeks the one vice that may not solve all his problems but can at least numb or distract him for a while. Set against the background of the death of an Indian film star due to drug overdose and the following moral policing on national news during the peak of covid19 in India, High Fun (commonly known as 'Party and Play' or 'Chemsex' in the west) is a queer-themed horror film about living with your demons.
Film Category
LOOKER
Meet the Filmmaker
Synopsis
Anna learns she is inexplicably cursed to melt away when not being perceived and must go to greater and greater lengths to be seen... with terrifying consequences.