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In 16th Century England, Pathologist Tennebris and his son Lux - mourn the passing of Agatha, the revered matriarch of their family stronghold. Amidst their solemn preparations to inter the deceased, simmering paternal animosity within the crypt awakens an ancient spirit, Belial. This malevolent force breathes life back into Agatha's corpse, opening the gates of hell for a nightmarish family reunion steeped in bloodshed and ruin.
Following a devastating and inexplicable interstellar event, a fracturing working class family struggles with their place in the cosmos. Based on the short story by Jeffrey Thomas.
A man longs for something he encountered in the forests of Austria.
A self-promoting influencer inadvertently conjures an evil version of herself.
Taylor is a seasoned lady of the night, settling into her usual quiet routine. But when a strange customer hires her, her night takes and unexpected and otherworldly turn.
Three friends awaken something supernatural through a thrifted Ouija board—only to discover it’s far more interested in exposing their secrets than answering their questions. As paranoia and betrayal spiral, a deadly rift erupts between two best friends.
Detective Beaubien, armed only with his vast knowledge and a copy of the Necronomicon, is investigating mysterious disappearances on a windy island.
In "THE DÆMON," Tom's quest for closure after his father's suicide leads him to a mysterious lakeside cottage. Confronting his past, he faces an unknown entity that preys on grief and threatens his sanity. With his wife Kathy, her brother Mark, and trauma counselor Jess, they find themselves in a place where reality bends and fears come alive.
A lonely prisoner longs to escape isolation and experience human connection.
Based on the short story by H. P. Lovecraft.
A cleaner in a library becomes aware of a book – or two – that promise a gateway to the The Old Ones.
This film was made for the Film Intensive as part of the Bachelor of Screen Arts at Massey University in Wellington, New Zealand
Unable to get over the loss of his wife, David, a talented painter, encounters an enigmatic blind woman who gives him a key with the promise of meeting her once again. Following this encounter, David develops an overwhelming obsession with triangular shapes, culminating in the acquisition of a pyramidal lamp with the power to open a door to the afterlife.
The leaves have started to change, but Professor Jonathan Rust is still woefully ill-prepared for the coming semester. With the help of a fellow professor, his teaching assistant, an old friend and a hired hand, the team searches for a suitable dig site for the archeology department’s field work course. The trip presents a rare opportunity for Jonathan to get his hands dirty and success could mean publication and just maybe - tenure. The expedition is quickly derailed when a member of the team mysteriously vanishes. Soon, the group finds themselves at the intersection of reality and the afterlife in a harrowing descent into madness.
The distant sound of church bells signals the beginning of an apocalypse.
In this H.P. Lovecraft adaptation, Carter, a grief-stricken young man, and his mentor Warren, an elder female professor of the occult, search for a portal to the underworld in an abandoned cemetery.
When Maya commits to a month of sobriety and takes up sculpting as a hobby, her crab sculptures terrorize her former drinking buddy, her brother Toby.
While grieving the loss of her father in his remote countryside home, a young woman makes a chilling discovery that suggests eternal life.
A young woman traveling solo on a road trip stops in a small town in the middle of the night, where she learns of an urban legend about the area.
A tentacled lake monster exacts revenge upon a noble but flawed fisherman.
When a merman kidnaps two fisherman traditional Icelandic wrestler and monster slayer Gústi the strong comes to the rescue.
When contact is lost with Samuel Harth, the Algan Space Corporation looks into his memories to see what unfolded during a mission to Planet COR-73, unraveling a cosmic mystery in the process.
Stefano spends his last doubloon on a sexy Siren at Sea Legs Inn, but Sawney Beane gets the last laugh.
A fragmented astronomer looks to the stars to find comfort in the darkest of places.
Investigators visit the site of a strange disappearance – a solitary birdwatching hut, deep in the forest.
A young man awakens in an unfamiliar apartment only to find himself under surveillance… and decaying rapidly. He relies on an enigmatic set of vaccines he discovers in the bathroom to slow his decline, but quickly plots revenge on his unseen watcher as his condition continues to deteriorate.
A girl visits her grandmother, whom she hasn't seen in years. But what she finds will not be exactly what she expected.
A social worker's obsession with a case plunges him into a fight for survival against malevolent forces.
Marion Wheeler is called in to a routine meeting with her boss, a high ranking suit at the shadowy SCP Foundation, only to end up with a gun to her head and her identity in question. These are the perils of being the organization's Chief of Antimemetics, a division dedicated to fighting memory consuming entities. Marion must convince her superior and his trigger happy assistant that she's not a spy before gettting dragged off to Xi-3 in this atmospheric sci-fi noir short starring Jasika Nicole, Neil Napier, Mateus Ward and Syd Kilroy.
A desperate man lost in the mountains has to reconstruct his past to understand how he reached the edge of insanity.
A sound recordist captures strange sonic phenomena underneath their house and things... escalate from there.
DAGON is a stop motion animation short film freely inspired by the story of the same name by cult author H.P. Lovecraft. In 1919 San Francisco, a man is standing on the ledge of a building ready to jump. Desperate, he relives in his memories the absurd and shocking episode that led him to the brink of suicide: the encounter with the monstrous and mythological Great Old One, DAGON.
A determined researcher at the Insmouth Center for Marine Science uncovers a mysterious, glowing specimen linked to a doomed ship, the S.S. Fortuna. As she dives deeper into the investigation, the discovery of a regenerative, alien-like substance leads to dangerous consequences, blurring the line between scientific curiosity and cosmic horror.
Five Star tells the story of Soung Kang (4x Best Actor Canadian Screen Awards Winner, PAUL SUN-HYUNG LEE, Kim’s Convenience), a diligent locksmith and first-generation immigrant whose quest for a perfect score from his client Maya leads him into an unexpected adventure. Called on an unusual job – to keep Maya’s closet door shut for good – Soung discovers a dark secret that challenges him to go to extraordinary lengths to secure his five star review.
The new 4K restoration of the film that made us!
"A dedicated student at a medical college and his girlfriend become involved in bizarre experiments centering around the re-animation of dead tissue when an odd new student arrives on campus." Well, that's what IMDB says, but we all know what Re-Animator is about, right?
This story revolves around a student of metaphysics, Charles Dexter Ward who befriends Erich Zann an aging violinist who lives on the floor above him. Restored from the original 16mm print.
A young man names Jacques, joins a group of wreckers in order to wreck and harvest a specific ship. But the night might take a stranger turn than expected and certainly not at all restful for any of our three protagonists.
After decades of men, women and children vanishing into the darkness of their rooms, a detective and mother must follow her child’s voice into the shadows, coming face to face with the shadows themselves.