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Los Angeles County Premieres at Screamfest

The first public screening of the film in Los Angeles County. 

Film Category

Devil's Creek

Meet the Filmmaker

Mohit Ramchandani

Director
Synopsis
Adam Mathews, a small town preacher, awakens from an accident on the banks of Devil's Creek, seriously injured and unable to remember what's happened to himself. Rescued by a Park Ranger, his wounds are treated at a remote ranger station. After a quick recovery, Adam is questioned about the circumstances of his brush with death. As Ranger's seemingly benign investigation turns into a hostile interrogation, Adam realizes his rescuer might also be his captor.
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Derailed

Meet the Filmmaker

Nicolas Simonin

Director
Synopsis
A dark night has come over Paris. Eric is waiting on a train station platform, all alone.
Exhausted by a tense day, Eric has one single thought in mind: to escape from this city he hates.
But the train he's waiting for is not coming.
Suddenly... a strange cry resounds in the night. A gravelly moan of pain, like that of a woman or a wounded animal. Is this someone asking for help? This voice came from the other side of the railways, in the distance... a strange cry for help.
Eric hesitates: he is no hero. But the cries comes again. It's a woman asking for help.
Eric has to do something. He staggers towards the end of the platform.
Just darkness. Eric takes a breath then goes down on the railways where it's not safe.
Walking 2 miles from here, Eric suddenly realizes that the train station has just disappeared.
How could the train station have vanished?
A pale human form emerges from the darkness: a slender, distraught figure, stuck in a mass
of fabrics and metal... she was waiting for him. Will Eric escape from this nightmare?
Film Category

DemiUrge Emesis

Meet the Filmmaker

Aurelio Voltaire

Director
Synopsis
A mummified cat is tormented by the skeletons of past meals in this stop-motion short by MTV and Sci Fi Channel station ID veteran, Aurelio Voltaire. The 4th in his "Chimerascope" series of animated shorts narrated by singers, DemiUrge Emesis is narrated by composer and singer extraordinaire, Danny Elfman and has an original score performed by chamber rock ensemble, Rasputina.
Film Category

Death And Cremation

Meet the Filmmaker

Justin Steele

Director
Synopsis
In a typical American suburb filled with middle class morals, a lonely 59-year-old, Stan, contributes to society by offering cremation services from his basement. In fact, Stan murders neighbors he perceives to be social bullies. Jarod, a fatherless 17-year-old high school outcast, lands an after-school job in Stan's cremation house and the two develop an unusual working relationship. As detective Matt Fairchild puts together clues, Stan must decide if protecting his newfound trainee is worth killing for.
Film Category

Dead Running

Meet the Filmmaker

Dylan Cahall & Kevin Neal

Director
Synopsis
Shannon, I'm coming to save you. Everyone here is either starving or being eaten alive by the dead.

There aren't enough bullets to get me through the city, but I'm not going to let that stop me. I'll get there... the only way that I know how.

If I don't make it and you find this note, know that I tried, and that I love you.

-K.C.
Film Category

Compulsion

Meet the Filmmaker

Jon Myers

Director
Synopsis
Curtis, a gleefully sadistic serial killer who preys on young women, follows Leslie home one night and terrorizes her only to discover he may have bitten off more than he can chew. An unexpected game of cat and mouse ensues, culminating in a violent conclusion. However, the situation takes an even more sinister turn when Special Agent Randolph and Special Agent Blake show up and assume jurisdiction from the local authorities to preserve their own hidden agenda.
Film Category

Comatose

Meet the Filmmaker

Desmond Dolly

Director
Synopsis
Anna Scott is in a horrific auto accident that leaves her brother Sean in a coma, and her relationships paralyzed. When modern medical science fails to reanimate the comatose brother, Anna turns to prayer. Tonight, Anna's prayers are answered when her brother is awoken from his coma, and his attempts to communicate are fraught with fear and pain. She will soon realize that sometimes...dead is better.
Film Category

Alma

Meet the Filmmaker

Rodrigo Blaas

Director
Synopsis
Alma, a little girl, skips through the snow covered streets of a small town. Her attention is caught by a strange doll in an antique toy shop window. Fascinated, Alma decides to enter.

Film Category

...Or Treat

Meet the Filmmaker

Tyler Ham

Director
Synopsis
...Or Treat is a look into a home where Halloween's most beloved tradition is taken to the extreme. It was conceptualized last Halloween at a pumpkin carving party when I turned to my friend and said "What if? A few days later a script was written, an animator was hired, and several months later my dark, twisted little tale was completed." extreme. It was conceptualized last Halloween at a pumpkin carving party when I turned to my friend and said "What if? A few days later a script was written, an animator was hired, and several months later my dark, twisted little tale was completed."
Film Category

Vamperifica

Meet the Filmmaker

Bruce Ornstein

Director
Synopsis
A clueless, flamboyant college kid discovers that the soul of a great vampire king resides within him. Now he must choose between his friends and his destiny.
Film Category

Singularity

Meet the Filmmaker

Shian Storm

Director
Synopsis
Two friends, Erik and David find themselves cornered in the garage by something they can't identify. They try desperately to piece together what happened to them, which raises more questions than it answers. Injured and confused, they plan to wait until the thing gives up and leaves them be, but when their wounds take a turn for the worse, they are brought face to face with true terror.
Film Category

Rosa

Meet the Filmmaker

Jesús Orellana

Director
Synopsis
In the near future, humanity has disappeared, leaving behind a large megalopolis devoid of natural life. From the destruction awakes ROSA, a robot part of the KERNEL project, mankind's last attempt to restore the earth's ecosystem using recovered samples of long-extinct plant species. Wandering among the ruins of the lifeless city, Rosa will soon discover that she is not the only part of Kernel that has awakened.