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These series of festival bumpers were made especially for the festival by returning filmmaker Noah Weisel!
Wilmore Jefferson is a lovable schlub who's longing for connection. From his unremarkable job to his disastrous dating history, his life is going nowhere fast. However, all that changes when Ellen Connor, the gorgeous new office temp, invites him over for dinner.
This is a super sneak peek at the upcoming television series! Inspired by Lovecraft’s “The Thing on the Doorstep,” Black Goat is an 8 episode series that spans over 400 years. The pilot episode, set in 2019, introduces us to Elita Waite and her boyfriend as they travel to a mysterious Bed & Breakfast deep in the untamed Chesuncook region of Maine.
A cathartic journey that Qais, a Pakistani-Canadian filmmaker embarks on he traces the life of H.P. Lovecraft, from woodland cemeteries in Rhode Island, to the docks of New York and on to the cobbled stoned streets of Quebec City.
A documentary that proves that the truth is weirder than fiction.
Desperate to gain entry to an alternate dimension, physicist Arthur Whateley allows his mentor Crawford Tillinghast to change his material constitution, a procedure that will enable him to physically pass through to the other side. But Arthur soon discovers that Crawford is making him undergo this transformation for an altogether different and sinister purpose.
Based on the story by H.P. Lovecraft. Arkham, New England, 1934. A scientist, after a horrifying discovery, shows his findings to a former colleague.
A young woman grieving the loss of her fiancé books GATEWAY STAYS, a home rental company uniquely designed to deliver spirits from the afterlife. When she accidentally breaks a rule — "Keep The Hereafter Candle Lit" — a spirit other than her fiancé appears.
Psychopathologist Professor West works by day at Arkham Sanatorium, but at night is conducting private research into creating a cure for all forms of anxiety. He is determined to find the answer at any cost.
There is a lonely cabin in the woods. There are two human species inside... and a tragedy.
Mallory has decided to venture out into the world of online dating and gets more than she bargained for. The guy is a jerk, she runs into an old bully from high school,
and just when she thinks things couldn‘t get any worse... the Alaskan king crab on her dinner plate starts talking to her.
A German explorer brings his wife with him to the jungles in South America on the hunt for a lost city. Frustrated, hungry and tired, she wants the expedition to come to an end, but he pushes them closer to their goal.
A centuries-old forest, an archaic waterfall that could be anywhere and a mature man who, to escape the noise of civilization, look for a space for reflection in inaccessible places. In a house of apparently abandoned stone awaits him - as if he had an appointment - a homo selvaticus which, as readers of the original story recall (The Picture in the House, H. P. Lovecraft, 1920), will mark the most radical emotional turn of his life.
[excerpt from an article in il fatto quotidiano, translated from the original Italian]
This film was begun 35 years ago. In the spring of 1985, after having printed a working copy destined for editing, the production was interrupted and the material shot was lost. It was rediscovered in 2010 and with the help of some friends, a digital copy was made. In 2020, more scenes were shot and the film was finished.
Franco Leo is the extraordinary protagonist of the story, but time - 35 years of it - has become his stunt double, has carved out his face and entered the plot by moving the original script to another level.
The film is a journey through time also for Gianni Di Nino and Danilo Marabotto who wrote the screenplay, direction and photography: with this short they return for a moment to the cinema after a life spent on television. In fact, both began as cinematographers of the Rai headquarters in the Aosta Valley and both shot the first images of the film 35 years ago.
A young man with everything to prove and nothing to lose sees his life overtaken by murder, madness and the macabre. Based on the works of Edgar Allan Poe.
A man has a strange encounter at a train station late at night.
A young woman spots a horrifying figure in her painting.
Waking on an unfamiliar shore, a man plagued by memories of his past must grapple with the nightmarish landscape of his present.
In the decay in which they live, tiny holes reveal themselves to Edith. They are present in everything from the fruit in the kitchen to the caves at the beach she visits. However, holes are none more present than in the grotesque black pimples that seem to be getting larger in size on Fred’s back and face. No matter what, Edith cannot help herself from popping them. As grow the holes on Fred’s back so too does the mess in the house. The chaos of Fred and Edith’s relationship is exacerbated by the visit of a mean and oppressive matriarchal figure. The situation culminates in a bizarre and disgusting premarital feast, that emulates Peter Greenaway’s ‘The Cook the Thief and Her Lover’.
A father is hypnotised in his death bed with his own method, and suspended between life, death and dream.
While on his long journey home, haunted by the life he abandoned, the Ferryman is violently warped to a mysterious, ancient world. He must now face the ultimate test: succumb to the darkness that invades his mind or continue to fight to honor those he loves, even if triumph comes at a price.
After thunderstorms begin to appear in the sky, Jacobo loses his sanity.
An up-and-coming cartoonist returns to his family home to seek his fortune in Hollywood, where he's plagued by strange visions and revelations of his family's bizarre history with a forgotten cartoon character that could be his ticket to success... or complete destruction.
Middle Ages, witch-hunt are out of control in Europe, a man accused of witchcraft desperately takes refuge in a forest, but the real danger to escape from is a sinister legend, more menacing than reality.
Two boricuas walk into a bar... How many will walk out?
As a man searches for his missing fiancée, he encounters threatening supernatural forces that make him suspicious of her true identity.
Trapped in a room, unable to break from maddening monologue, An Actor reckons with A Monster slowly driving him insane.
The story of Erika, a young violinist who must spend her days playing on the streets for spare change and her nights warding off an otherworldly entity. Inspired by H.P. Lovecraft's "The Music of Erich Zann."
After a summer of drifting apart, Will and his friends reunite. But when a mysterious event makes the sky change color, what started as a normal night becomes a harrowing fight for survival.
Deep in the snowy Green Mountains, two damaged lives come crashing back together when they discover something in the forest not of this world.
A young Navy pilot’s life is shattered after being shot down by a UFO in World War II. Consumed by obsessive fear and hatred, he sets out on a quest to find and kill the creature that put him burning into the sea.
Demon hunters Daniel and Jeremy answer a call from Kyle, a sexy, mysterious man who tells them there's been paranormal activity in his home and he fears for his life. But when they go to investigate, they discover Kyle might not have been telling them the whole truth.
A man facing financial troubles stumbles across a bizarre and sinister solution to his predicament. He soon finds himself in a spiraling descent into darkness as dependence takes the reins.
A mysterious sailor is probing a high valley lake for the unknown, but is unaware that what he is trying to find has already found him.
When ten-year-old Olivia goes missing overnight, Detective Fiona Barnes suspects a textbook kidnapping. A tip-off takes her deep into the mysterious forests surrounding the town, where strange events defy easy explanation. Fiona is called in to defend her report and her actions to the department after Olivia's disappearance does not add up.
Einreichen is the story of Redd Jacobson who gets trapped by Henry Wilmbusse, a German hypnotist who wants to use his body to carry out his evil wishes.
Written and Directed by Kody Newton and shot in the Old Haunted Idaho State Penitentary by cinematographer Ryann Race, Einreichen is a fun mixture of history and dark fantasy.
The story of a female documentary filmmaker who's revealing the mystery of her husband's idiosyncratic birthplace, Muhr in Austria, where a giant wooden totem called “The Samson”, brings death to the inhabitants and also threatens her unborn daughter, Emma.
Grief is a cruel but necessary mistress to Poe's psyche as she processes the end of a long-term relationship with Lenore. Living in and with shadows, what was evermore is nevermore.
Time seems to stand still for a village hidden in the mountains up until a colourful couple in search of a second-hand TV set disturbs its silence. Once in the home of Mr Levi, the only apparent habitant, the two lovers, Luca and Carla, reveal their true intentions. But why is the town so very, very quiet?
When Hollywood mega-star Cooper Bradley goes to a special effects lab in Atlanta to get his head molded for his latest film--all hell breaks loose--and he has to not only try to escape from this freakish funhouse of props and make-up --but retrieve his very soul (which the VFX master has stolen) in the process....
Graduate student Alice Gilman is running from an abusive past. She seeks refuge in the infamous Hannah house; Determined to prove the possibility of alternate dimensions, she unknowingly unlocks a gateway to unimaginable horror. Based on H. P. Lovecraft’s short story The Dreams in the Witch House, WITCH HOUSE blurs the boundaries between reality,dreams...and the beyond.
Jean, a lonely collector of the curious and odd, learns of the death of a dearly loved friend and finds herself pulled into a labyrinth of memory, loss, and regret. In desperation, she reaches out to her sweet caretaker for consolation, but her advances are rejected with nefarious and heartbreaking consequences.
In the depths of the basement, lurks something terrible, something horrifying, something awful... Don't open the door: Keep Closed At All Times! Starring Linnea Quigley (Return of the Living Dead, Silent Night, Deadly Night, Night of the Demons).
Conducting a series of experiments in his makeshift home-lab, a skeptic IT worker tries to cure his harrowing hearing impairment. But where will his research lead him?
Masking Threshold combines a chamber play, a scientific procedural, an unpacking video, and a DIY YouTube channel while suggesting endless vistas of existential pain and decay. Glimpse the world of the nameless protagonist in this eldritch tale, which is by no means for the faint of heart.
When her mutant son develops a taste for human flesh, a timid mother must find a victim to satisfy his ravenous appetite.
Detective Frank Ramirez is in it up to his neck. First he loses his partner in a nightmare bust gone wrong, and now he has to explain to Internal Affairs otherworldly events that occurred and how Joseph Crist died... and why they all might be next. This tale explores what we choose to see versus what the reality actually is.
After driving all night, two sisters come across a dilapidated roadside bathroom. Horrific events follow when a strange message is found and a mischievous resident wants to play a terrifying game.
In the fall of 2021, an obscure online channel streamed what has become the most talked-about mystery on the internet.
A mother who attempts to get her son to pick up his dirty laundry finds herself in a load of trouble.
Two characters are forced to navigate a stark and brutal calculus in hunger, sex and death when routine facility maintenance veers wildly towards conflict and the instinct for self-preservation.
An injured woman crosses the desert in an attempt to reach civilization, knowing that once the sun sets, what took her friends will surely come to finish her off.
A group of adventurers in search of a mythological object get more than they bargained for when they discover the legend foretelling the end of all life in the universe could actually be true.
Everything was coming up aces for associate professor Wilkins, that was until he brought home a lab sample... and left it in the tub.
Jane, a young mother and writer, is prescribed a rest treatment by her physician husband John who locks her in a room for the summer. She becomes obsessed with the peculiar wallpaper and in her isolation, she secretly writes about a woman trapped in the wallpaper—that she alone can free.
Daniel Upton, a freshly-promoted dean at Miskatonic University, becomes suspicious of his friend's new relationship with an intimidating student, as it draws out traumatic experiences that connect to his past.
To his great surprise, Elias Duyster, a serial killer sentenced to life, is visited by his estranged daughter Fia. Elias hopes for reconciliation, but all Fia wants from him is a signature on a medical certificate. Then their conversation takes a sinister turn.
A young woman wakes in the dead of night to a world devoid of sound. Yet, through this silence, she hears a mysterious call which draws her deep into the woods...
Two detectives are investigating an attempted murder of a young girl. However, the circumstances confuse them more and more. The investigation reveals a criminal secret society that manipulates the minds of people.
Based on the Secrets of Arkham board game
A man finds a ancient cosmic glove that opens doorways into new worlds and dimensions.
A needle-worker is toiling away when his world collides with that of an unknown darkness.
Consumed by a mysterious low-frequency hum that only few can hear, Andrea Abner discovers the truth about her son’s fate and an evil force that threatens humanity.
There are events in this world that can’t be explained... and shouldn’t. This is an "atmos-fearic" story about a direct lineage of men feeding a centuries-old creature in the woods that has a taste for human flesh. On a hunting trip that goes awry, Hank must pass down responsibility of the sacred land to his son, Caleb. With this land comes great duty. They must be fed. Sacrifices are needed...
After investigating an Elder cult's meeting place, a professor wakes to find himself in an interrogation room with a grotesquely scarred hand.
Celebrated author H.P. Lovecraft’s classic tale of alien horror bursts onto the screen in the style of the classic horror films of the 1930s. Folklore professor Albert Wilmarth investigates legends of strange creatures in the most remote hills of Vermont. His inquiry reveals a terrifying glimpse of the truth that lurks behind the legends. The Whisperer in Darkness returns us to the golden age of movies for a thrilling adventure of supernatural horror. Filmed on location in New England in Mythoscope™ by the H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society, The Whisperer in Darkness treats audiences to a cinematic thrill not felt since the Hoover administration.
Erin's new hearing aids have been picking up odd voices and sounds she's unable to explain. In an attempt to silence the voices she confronts them head on-- only to find there may be something more sinister lurking in the depths of silence.