Los Angeles County Premieres at Screamfest
The first public screening of the film in Los Angeles County.
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The History of Monsters
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Synopsis
Haunted every night by monsters of unknown origin, an isolated woman finds a stranger in the woods and struggles between her safety and her sexual desires.
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The Haunted Swordsman
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Synopsis
In this epic handcrafted puppet film, a lone samurai and his odd companion, a cursed severed head, seek vengeance in a haunted world.
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Hammurabi
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Synopsis
HAMMURABI is a short about a woman on a mission in the desert with her beat-up Toyota Celica. Communication is hard, so she must use all the tools at her disposal to deliver an important message to a man she believes is her estranged father‘ the guy she has hog-tied in the trunk of the car.
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F*cking Ghosts
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Synopsis
What if a family bought a new house that was haunted by ghosts... that had sex all over the place? What if the ghosts were just people under sheets? What if there was a Scottish priest involved? I set out to find some answers.
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Fragile.com
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Synopsis
A teenage girl with acting dreams, an empty wallet, and a broken heart is approached by a charming man who promises her fame, fortune, and affection‘”if she agrees to livestream herself crying for his niche website, Fragile.com.
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CAVEAT
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Synopsis
A lone drifter, Isaac suffering from partial memory loss accepts a job from his old landlord Barrett, to look after his niece Olga, a psychologically troubled woman living in an abandoned house on an isolated island. When Barrett convinces Isaac to confine his movements to the house and leaves the two of them alone, a game of cat and mouse ensues with Isaac fighting to survive amid the terrifying resurgence of his own memory.
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The Brain That Wouldn't Die
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Synopsis
Dr. Bill Cortner (Patrick D. Green), a brilliant but ethically-challenged surgeon, revives the severed head of his recently deceased fiance, Jan Compton (Rachael Perrell Fosket). Ignoring her pleas for a quick death, Bill vows to find Jan a new body by any means necessary-a task that takes him through the seedy underbelly of the city in search of ‘the perfect body.‘ All the while, Jan uses her newfound psychic abilities to communicate with another of Bill's failed experiments. Together, they plot their revenge‘¦
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BECKY
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Synopsis
Becky, a bullied teen, wants to be Steph and Ariel's friend, but when she learns that these popular girls are responsible for a nasty rumor about her father, she seeks revenge. Becky and her dad take matters into their own hands... and relish every part.
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Axe to the Face
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Synopsis
Anna and Dylan meet on a dating app, and the two begin a budding relationship. As their chemistry progresses, we begin to see there is more to this seemingly chance encounter than we were originally led to believe. One thing's for sure ‘” someone is getting an axe to the face.
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The Appointment
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Synopsis
In this playful, supernatural tale by visual artist Alexandre Singh, a curmudgeonly novelist, Henry Salt, wakes from a nightmare to find a troubling entry in his diary: 12 o'clock at the restaurant ‘La Folie'. But whom is Henry meeting, and why doesn't he remember making this appointment? When no one shows, Henry becomes obsessed with solving the mystery. Charging through a series of increasingly surreal encounters, Henry discovers that the truth is more disturbing than he could have possibly imagined.