Short Film Block 6 w/Filmmaker Q&A
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Z-GOAT: First Bleat
The year is 2078. Resources are scarce and the world is slowly dying. Darwina the young huntress will encounter a new threat very soon.
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Neris
Archie arrives at an old farmhouse for a dangerous tryst, only to have his plans interrupted by a strange creature come up from the lake. And the foreign tones she speaks in may be more seductively deadly than anything Archie was prepared for. A fable adjacent to the Lovecraft Mythos, 'Neris' features the little spoken language of R'lyehian.
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Exhibit Man
A police forensic photographer known as the exhibit man discovers some town folk have been infected by an alien.
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The Cultist Next Door
In this 1950s style educational film, viewers learns how to keep horrible creatures at bay by fighting the Cultists who work to expedite the destruction of mankind.
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In a Foreign Town
Based on the stories of acclaimed horror author, Thomas Ligotti. A troubled man recounts a strange childhood journey to a town with no name.