Films
Films showing October 2-4, 2026 at the Hollywood Theatre in Portland, OR! This list will be updated frequently until the festival dates. Check back for updates.
Feature Films
Short Films
Films at this event
A man is sent a disquieting videotape after his 36th birthday. Some of the worst horrors hide between the scan lines.
Hilda is hired by a man called Wilder to translate a mysterious book called "The King in Yellow". Her brother Louis has doubts about Wilder, the book and Hilda in general. But to Hilda this might be much more than a simple translation job.
Two amateur cave explorers, Guy and Phil, decide to split up in order to cover more ground. Guy gets lost and it isn't long before he determines that he is not alone. Just who or what is down there with him is the real mystery.
A new resident at Dr. North's suspicious lab discovers a creature that feeds on our fear.
When Zoe is violently attacked by a strange woman, she begins to experience horrible visions. She has only minutes to get help or uncover the mystery behind the madness that surrounds her.
While visiting home from college, Sophie's parents bring her to meet a reclusive elderly uncle who controls the family's estate.
What if reality is not what it seems? On a winter night, a taxi driver picks up a silent stranger and drives her along an empty road. Accompanied by H. P. Lovecraft's Beyond the Wall of Sleep, the familiar world begins to fracture — and something ancient surfaces through its fabric.
A couple is on the move, traveling through a country struck by unexpected weather phenomena. As they navigate through this unpredictable environment, it becomes clear that the time for strong emotions seems to have passed.
On Halloween night, a deaf girl and her grandmother carve pumpkins and wait for trick-or-treaters. They are about to receive a menacing visitor.
In 1842, Sarah Aldridge murdered her father, then removed her own head; a century and a half later, a curious filmmaker digs through Sarah's writings seeking inspiration, but finds her life and Sarah's bound across time and space in mysterious ways.
An amateur archaeologist arrives on a desolate peatland in Lancashire, their mind filled with the strange power that peat-bog waters hold to preserve organic matter. They have come to excavate the peatland. They have come to exhume a body. But, in digging into the peat — and into the past — they unearth much more than mere relics.
The peat holds forgotten histories, uneasy truths, and vast stores of climate-change-accelerating carbon. Reflecting the attempt to document and preserve this landscape via the moving image, the film becomes both a lament and a call to action for local peat-bog restoration and protection.
Inspired by the stories of Algernon Blackwood and M.R. James, shot on black and white Super 16 film by Morgan K. Spencer (Ungentle), edited by Anthony Ing (director of Jill, Uncredited) and scored by Richard Skelton (Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead), Out of the Peat is a queer eco-horror which reflects on what it means to bury, to archive, to capture, to unearth.
The film was supported by the BFI Network Film Fund, and shot in collaboration with the Lancashire Wildlife Trust.
A redhead girl born into Appalachia’s hidden clan of soul stealers runs from the violent destiny awaiting her. When sanctuary becomes another trap, she must choose between her humanity and the hunger that defines her bloodline.
Set in 1973 against a simmering Cold War, the energy crisis, and the dawning of the Age of Aquarius, two budding clairvoyants take part in the Remote Viewing Program, a scientific study on so-called “psi” energy. But both seers have ulterior motives that will test the limits of what can be discovered with psi.
A coroner’s inquest into an inexplicable death reveals the existence of an enigmatic creature.
1980, Dunwich City, USA. A couple mistakenly summons a heretic priest, killed 100 years earlier by four gunmen hired by the residents of what was then Dunwich Town, intent on revenge and opening the gates of hell. Will they be able to stop him?
The bizarre tale of a young boy and his puritanical family who must grapple with the morality and consequences of deceit
The secret cult known as the Rite of Cycle summons Julian to return to the community to search for a missing boy whose disappearance threatens the life of his adult son, Thomas. Against his mother’s wishes, Thomas accompanies Julian into the woods to help find the missing boy. What begins as a rescue mission quickly descends into a psychological nightmare. Thomas is forced to confront not only the cult’s twisted philosophy but the darkness festering within his own lineage.
After surviving a mysterious ritual, a young warrior flees beneath an ancient pyramid in search of a way out. As he navigates its forgotten depths, he uncovers the secrets of a lost civilization and a hidden reality beyond his understanding.
When two self-destructive best friends accidentally kill their drug dealer, they have to flee town. Stopping at a roadside antique shop, they quickly discover that the older woman running the place isn't as sweet as she seems.
A jaded forensic cleaner discovers an ancient shroud that lets him possess the bodies of sleeping strangers.
In desperation, a hungry man orders a pizza that seems to be out of this world. A feast of the extraterrestrial kind.
Two decadent grave robbers, obsessed with death and forbidden relics, steal an amulet from an ancient tomb. Haunted by nightmares, guilt, and the distant howling of an unseen beast, the men find themselves pursued by a terror that refuses to remain buried.
Pilar fights for survival in a devastated world, clinging to the fragments of hope she still has left. Between alien creatures and men without sanity, Pilar’s great conflict remains in her own head: What’s the reason to keep fighting?
In the XIX Century there’s a music school where it’s always dark.
An unknown cosmic horror infiltrates a family through a VHS player.
Sent to investigate a research team that has gone silent while drilling the last remaining glacier, data analyst Sasha Sirkovsky encounters mysterious vapors rising from the ice, blurring the boundary between the frozen landscape and her own perception.
An unexpected visit from an addict brother stirs things up at home. Is he strung out again? Or is there something else going on?
Dutch Lazarus is a detective who specializes in strange cases. When a new client walks into his office and stymies him at every turn, we begin to wonder what her game is, and if Dutch already knows a lot more more than she's telling.
Cunning insects invade a house and disrupt the lives of those who live there.
An unsuspecting young couple bring a cursed candle to a friend's 30th birthday party and unleash an unlikely evil that comes to collect its just desserts.
A bookish lab technician uses her access to a DNA database to find a date, but the ‘chance’ meet cute turns into something much more sinister.
A late night clothing donation takes an unexpected turn.
Raised in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro, Damião joins a local drug gang to help pay for college. During a night shift, he spots hooded figures sneaking through the forest toward a church, uncovering an NGO tied to powerful politicians hiding rituals devoted to the King in Yellow.
Snowbound high in the mountains, a lone ski patroller races to save her injured colleague, only to find herself hunted by a cosmic cannibal demon bent on finding its next meal.
Shipwrecked off the coast of Iceland, an explorer must fight for survival on a desolate island inhabited by the bloodthirsty witch Grýla. This handcrafted film uses live action bunraku puppetry, stop-motion animation, and rotoscope animation to tell an epic tale set in the world of Icelandic folklore.
During the decline of the 1800's fur trade, a mercenary struggles to unite the survivors of a famine-stricken outpost plagued by a dark force that leaves its victims with an insatiable hunger for flesh.
Juan works as a night watchman in a warehouse, where the arrival of a mysterious box forces him to confront his feelings about his mother’s recent death.
One of the last surviving scientists wakes up in a research station with no memory and no way out. The crew is gone. Something happened here, and she is the only one left who can piece it together. To survive, she has to face amnesia, betrayal and a force that should not exist.
Kids in the Hall meet Grand Guignol in this horror comedy. In turn of the century France, a victim of an acid attack is visited by the perpetrator who begs for forgiveness. Starring Scott and Dave from the Kids in the Hall and directed by Amit Itelman. Based on the Grand Guignol play by Maurice Level.
Felicia Highmore suffers from an eye disease that slowly makes her blind. She infiltrates the house of Dr. Ito to steal an experimental eye drop that could potentially heals her. After using the eyedrop without permission, Felicia discovers a sinister secret behind Dr. Ito and the eye drop…
Two clashing Special Agents in the Pacific Northwest who struggle to find out what happened the night of a search and secure mission of an asteroid that crashed in the Siskiyou forests that left five other agents MIA and only one found alive but disfigured and nonsensical.
Aiden rents a cabin getaway for his friends. They find it suspicious but could not have been prepared for the artifact dagger they are presented with that seems to be a radio for a cosmic voice.
Abominable plumbing and violent deaths. MARIANNE, extremely pregnant, and BEN, a plumber and one-night stand, team up to survive an epic night and face the monsters of a building beset by an unknown evil.
Three friends in search of the Loveland Frogman are about to find out he is more than just a local legend.
There’s unfinished business in Loveland. Dallas, Amy and Frogman are back to settle the score.
On the first night of Hanukkah, a grandfather and his estranged granddaughter are pulled into a sinister game of dreidel.
Father Liam, a young and uncertain priest, discovers that his mentor, Father Machen, has returned from a retreat claiming to have seen God. Seemingly possessed, Machen tempts Liam to join a pagan ritual that promises to put an end to his doubts.
Three trappers lost in the wilderness of the 1830s Pacific Northwest must face more than the elements to survive after a fateful decision.
On a remote Oregon farm, a couple grieving from a miscarriage finds hope in a mysterious flower. But as it heals her, something else takes root in him. Nurture is a dialogue-free folk-horror fable about love, grief, and the consequences of taking too much from nature.
A desperate woman pushes her ailing mother into a remedial cult in the hopes of hearing "I love you."
In a universe where the strong reign supreme, the mighty Cthulhu asserts his power over human frailty - but upon whom do *we* humans unleash our own power?
The story follows retired professor Henry Armitage, who witnesses an eccentric ritual: a colony of ants has organized itself into ceremonial circles, seeking to draw his attention. What is their desire? What horrors might they awaken?