Films
These are the amazing films we're bringing to Providence, RI, Friday Aug 19 - Sunday Aug 22, 2022! Check the full schedule to see when you can catch each one. GET TICKETS!
Feature Films
Short Films
Films at this event
A woman and her strait-laced fiancee get more than they bargained for when they visit her eccentric younger sister and her unusual boyfriend in the mountains.
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.
A late night knock on the door has an unexpected turn...
Mr. Wilde claims to be the architect of a vast conspiracy which uses, amongst other devices, blackmail to influence and command powerful men whose reputations the conspiracy has saved from scandal. Hildred imagines that, with Wilde's help, he will become the heir to the "Last King" of "The Imperial Dynasty of America", which Wilde says is descended from a lost kingdom within distant stars in the Hyades. However, Hildred perceives his cousin Louis standing before him in the line of succession.
In 1990 a paranormal investigator, Martin Rowe delves into a series of terrifying seance recordings in search of the truth behind a mysterious disappearance of a respected professor.
1982, somewhere in Germany: In search of a mysterious jade amulet, two grave robbers encounter a sinister beast that will protect its possessions at all costs.
Inspired by the works of H.P Lovecraft, a suicidal man recounts the day that broke him through a letter, detailing his life as a missing persons investigator and the case he was following to Wales. Expecting to find a missing girl, he soon realizes how far he fell into the rabbit hole; with murders, cults, and a cosmic entity.
After moving into a new apartment a student becomes obsessed with a strange tune his neighbor plays on her viola. Despite her warnings the student learns the melody and his world is changed forever.
Adapted from HP Lovecraft's "The Music of Erich Zann"
An amateur content creator unboxes more than he can handle. A darkly comic cosmic horror story about the fear of amounting to nothing.
1900, Cambridge, Easter holidays. A young professor of Ontography, who only believes in science and facts, takes a one-week vacation in a little village by the sea, Burnstow, in a beautiful hotel. A colleague of his, teacher of Archaeology, asks him to take a look at a Templars' ancient site that is near the beach. Here, the young man will find a strange bronze whistle and, seeing no danger in it, he proceeds to take it to his room to study it. But what lies beneath those old Roman ruins...?
Two young explorers of the Miskatonic Expedition are tasked with finding their leader who has mysteriously disappeared. In the search they discover an ancient evil that will plunge them into madness. Based on the novel by H.P. Lovecraft.
Turin, 1909. Cesare Lombroso, the world-famous founder of the School of Criminal Anthropology, arrives at the isolated mansion of Lazar, an elderly illusionist. Lombroso, attracted to Spiritualism, challenges Lazar: to prove that the supernatural exists and that it may be the cause of a heinous crime. What could have unleashed the murderous fury in the young seminarian Tommaso and what binds him to the paranormal faculties of Lazar and his son Lorenzo? Is it illusionism or is there something real? The ancient and decadent house of Lazar hides many truths and Lombroso's scientific vision will have to open up to new perspectives.
When her best friend turns to her for help, a tortured young girl shares her darkest, most powerful secret. This was a mistake.
BOOK | TEASER from Eric Swiz on Vimeo.
Orphanages are filled with devastating sadness, fading glimmers of hope, and weird mysteries… that sometimes turn into deadly traps. After all, childish curiosity can be somewhat treacherous. But is it all so black-and-white? Simply about good and evil? Is there no in-between? No secret deals behind the walls of reality? Does every child beyond this doorstep follow their path towards doom? And for what? Well… the new kid has just arrived! So let’s find out where this mystery will lead him, shall we?
Glass Ship is a narrative music video for IDM/electronic artist Defrag. It navigates a space between two disparate worlds, following a man haunted by the spectre of a strange being in a black void that somehow influences his reality.
A storm brews over Victorian Dublin as post-mortem photographer, Mr.Huxley, returns to his hallowed practice within the gloomy townhouse in which he resides. His latest subject is a recently-deceased young woman, whose presence conjures the demons of Huxley's character - compelling him to confront the narcissistic life he has chosen to lead.
A stop motion adaptation of the novel by E. A. Poe 'The Black Cat'.
Just wanting to relax, a man takes up a hobby that has sinister side effects.
A faux trailer for a film that does not exist. Three friends travel to a gaming convention, where they uncover a dark secret, and must race against time and eldritch horrors to stop the end of the world.
Anabella decides to spend a weekend with her best friend, Lorena, and her boyfriend, Iván Lobo (Daniel Martinez), in a house on the outskirts of the city. This place belongs to Salvatore, Iván's uncle, who suffers from senile dementia and who is constantly repeating a strange legend about a woman who appears on holy days. Iván and Lorena disdain Salvatore's story, but Anabella is interested in it because since she arrived at the house she has noticed that there is something “strange” that seems to be observing them from afar and that it is getting closer and closer.
Walfrido Larduet, a lonely electrical inspector, dreams of the Red Woman, whose image persists and becomes an obsession. Something tells him she is near. Over the course of a day, Walfrido will follow her trail as he travels through the suburbs of an infested city.
Tundra (official trailer) from Gabriel Aleman on Vimeo.
Vietnam, 1968. A feared American colonel nicknamed “the Black Dragon” by Vietnamese locals must face his inner shadow when his platoon presents him with a captured Vietcong girl who harbors some very unusual powers. A Jungian psychological thriller/parable examining the capacity for monstrous evil lurking within us all, the film is loosely inspired by the My Lai Massacre, one of America’s most pernicious wartime atrocities. Hailing from the producer of “Cabin Fever”, the film stars Matthew Del Negro (Scandal, The Sopranos, West Wing, City on a Hill, Wind River) and Celia Au (Lodge 49, Nora From Queens, Wu Assassins).
After his wife's suicide, a scientist tries to use new technology to determine if there is life after death. But some things are better off being put to rest.
Dr. Nova Thorpe must warn everyone that something is on the loose. Something, different.
A woman suffers a terrible, cryptic nightmare whose origins may lie beyond the horizons of the known. From this surreally ominous vision, the viewer is invited to draw their own conclusions about the nature of their reality.
A relaxing day off is turned upside down when a strange man comes to the door talking about "The King In Yellow". As the day moves on, things spiral out of control and reality breaks down leading to the all important question...Have You Seen The Yellow Sign?
When a cold case novelist’s career implodes, she seeks refuge in her friend’s remote vacation home. Upon arrival, she encounters a strange couple who claim to be the caretakers. As tensions build, a dark secret begins to emerge.