Films
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Feature Films
Short Films
Films at this event
Troubled waters and accursed thaumaturges: Lovecraft's haunting vision of the sea and the unfathomable mysteries that lie within its depths, but also the ancient lore hidden beneath the waters.
On Halloween night, a young man wakes up sweating from a nightmare. He decides to go for a walk to go back to sleep. On the way, he comes across an old decrepit video store run by a strange old man.
Jay gets more than he bargained for when he goes upstairs to tell off his noisy neighbors.
A man's search in a cluttered garage claims an unlikely victim.
When a daring mission leads a deep sea submarine team into a mysterious opening on the ocean floor, they uncover a lost underwater ruin and accidentally awaken an ancient otherworldly being.
Two Kenyan college students travel to an old hunting lodge in search of work, when they are plunged into a colonial past.
In this sci-fi retelling of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart," a pair of astronauts work on a small space station orbiting a distant planet. As the mysterious narrator attempts to convince himself of his sanity while describing his brutal act of murder, he becomes haunted by a thunderous heartbeat that could only come from the far reaches of space.
A lovelorn Howie is at the beach, bemoaning his fate at his love being rejected when a Deep One walks toward him out of the surf.
A traveler is snatched away on a monstrous voyage. Based on the poem by H. P. Lovecraft.
A 'tale of the unexpected' about an 8-year-old schoolboy with a nasty habit of picking his nose.
"It was great... Snot what I expected." -Joe Dante, director of Gremlins
The famous short-story by North American worldwide known writer Edgar Allan Poe takes a twisted and never seen turn when adapted to the the controversial and harsh world of the Portuguese dictatorship times of the "New State" in the 20th century.
Everything is great when the investigators Augusto and Franco get their hands on a pair of strange glasses that enables them to travel through time and space. As they begin to understand them, Augusto gets obsessed with their power, without knowing that beyond time and space lurk and wait entities that prey for those with unearthly ambitions.
The hosts of a horror chat show celebrate their favorite fictional dark deity, Bapholeth, by selling a cute toy in his image. Only to be attacked by a very real cultist offended by the adorable blasphemy. A horror film about how we love horror.
Mankind must pay for their sins when, in their hubris, they create the affront to God that is the stool with pants and shoes on.
Early one winter morning in the rural town of Rhuthun in North Wales, three men are called upon once again to carry out a terrible assignment on the Bwlch Pen Barras mountain pass.
Shot on 16mm by cinematographer Sean Price Williams (Good Time, Her Smell) and featuring a score by Cian Ciaran and Dafydd Ieuan from The Super Furry Animals, The Wyrm of Bwlch Pen Barras is a Welsh language folk horror film about modern Wales, rooted in the country's rich mythology.
"Dissociation” is a psychological horror film that follows ‘The Genealogist’, a curious and driven researcher, as she delves into the history of a family that vanished over a century ago. In her search for answers, she finds herself in a dangerous situation involving a mysterious old man, where she is forced to confront the dark side of her own psyche and the dire consequences of her actions. This film is sure to keep you on the edge of your seat with its heart-pounding plot and haunting atmosphere.
In rural 17th-century England, a group of men gather to carry a coffin on the long walk to the local graveyard for burial. Much ancient folklore and superstition surround the pathway to the church, and several of the party are afraid to walk it after dark. Squire Marlow, the grieving father of the dead man, promises to double their wages if they agree to make the mysterious journey full of unexpected revelations.
*North American Premiere
At the end of his life, a writer recollects his visit to Beaumanoir, forty years earlier. The strange customs of the folks he met back then left him scared with an unspeakable burden. By telling his story, his hope is to exorcise his past and finally rest in peace.
Guillermo travels to the countryside to take care of Héctor, his sick father for three nights. Upon his arrival, Guillermo finds that Héctor's condition changes at night, in which, in turn, something coming from the sky seems to approach.
True crime documentarian Olivia Brandreth was nine years old when her father disappeared. The official police statement was suicide though no body was ever recovered. Twenty five years later, Olivia has returned to her childhood home to finally get closure in an unrelenting attempt to set the record straight. Blue Hour chronicles the journey of a dedicated film crew in their search to figure out what really happened that night in 1997. When conversations with family and law enforcement offer hints at a yet to be explained conspiracy, an increasingly dangerous truth comes to light. One that not only puts the lives of Olivia and her team at risk, but challenges the fabric of reality itself. In this genre-bending supernatural drama, Blue Hour manages to be both a thought provoking media criticism as well as a heartwarming story of self-discovery.
A disaffected, young gas-station clerk on the midnight shift must learn to give a damn about something after malevolent mind-controlling bugs are set loose by irresponsible oil drillers.
Three friends in search of the Loveland Frogman are about to find out he is more than just a local legend.
Convinced his career is the result of years of otherworldly possession, a troubled LA punk frontman must face his demons - both real and metaphorical - in a maximum-volume battle for survival after a bandmate's attempt at an intervention spirals into supernatural mayhem.
CW: flashing images, body horror, references to depression and mental illness, and an attempted suicide
Successful psychiatrist Elizabeth Derby (Heather Graham) has brutally murdered her young patient Asa Waite (Judah Lewis). Locked up in a psych ward, she recounts to her friend Dr. Daniella Upton (Barbara Crampton) an insane, obsessive tale of erotic attraction, out-of-body experiences, ancient curses, grisly deaths and unspeakable evil. The things Elizabeth has felt, seen and done have destroyed her marriage, ruined her reputation, left bodies in her wake, and led her to a ‘kill or be killed’ desperation. If Daniella doesn’t believe her now, more deaths will follow, and Elizabeth will be forever lost. But who would believe such a mind-bending story? And worse, if it is all true, who will be left to tell it?
An eccentric man's prank leads to eternal torture.
A brother attempts to bring his sister's sense of hearing back by performing an occult ritual involving vinyl records. (in American Sign Language, English)
When a drugged-out duo attempts to rob an antique store, they realize the older woman running the shop isn't as defenseless as she seems...
The sole survivor of a mountain climb struggles to come to terms with a supernatural incident.
Two woman connect over the magic and mystery of a bottomless pit in this short folk horror film allegorizing the terrors of poverty in America.
The crew of a German u-boat on a mission in the North Atlantic witness strange phenomena on board. After an inexplicable explosion in the engine room, the submarine slowly sinks to the abyssal depths, while madness decimates the submariners.
A young woman hears a mysterious noise over the radio and pursues it -- with dangerous consequences.
Based loosely on a character from "Call of Cthuhlu", "Death Parts Us" explores nostalgia's relationship to grief. After losing his wife, Henry turns to an old power to bring her back, only to find that “when we mourn our losses, we also mourn ourselves” and that nostalgia comes at the sacrifice of sanity.
1944, Northern Italy. US Army Officer Howard Bailey is sent on a secret mission beyond the enemy lines in order to retrieve contact with Crawford, a local partisan leader and radical scientist gone off the radar weeks before.
A writer is haunted by his feline muse set to excerpts from H. P. Lovecraft's writings.
A young, blind woman visits her father, but when she gets to his home, everything is off. He has become obsessed with something horrible, seen through his telescope, which he names 'Ihruqax'. Unable to see the thing he's talking about, the woman can only latch on to the clear signs of mental degradation in him, and tries to get him the help he needs. This task is difficult and only reveals deeper, more horrifying delusions in the father. When she finally persuades him to go to the doctor, there are much bigger problems at stake.
A mortally wounded Astronaut awakens in the upper atmosphere after a catastrophic event. He struggles to remember how he got there.
A nurse goes to visit an old lady at her home. He soon realizes she has a few screws loose. And maybe she is not an old lady at all?