A village that feeds a frozen lake their dead to harvest the methane, suffers the loss of most of their people. The remaining 3 encounter the last survivor from another village that also feeds their dead to a lake. The stranger tells them that one season there were no dead to feed the lake, and their dead ancestors rose from the lake and killed everyone. As night falls, the rational villagers do not fear the undead, but they are ignorant of something just as horrible...
New England, 1929. Thomas Highland is a veteran of the Great War, a scholar of the occult, and the newest professor at Miskatonic University. Arriving at the prestigious institution, he quickly attempts to ingratiate himself with the mysterious Professor Eliot and his beautiful daughter, while concealing a great secret: Highland’s purpose at Miskatonic extends well beyond the advancement of his research. In fact, he harbors a powerful curse, acquired in foreign lands, and believes that certain forbidden texts located at Miskatonic may be his last chance at salvation.
Six years after Earth has discovered the possibility of alien life within our solar system, a probe was launched to collect samples, but crashed upon re-entry over Central America. Soon after, new life forms began to appear there and half of Mexico was quarantined as an infected zone. Now the American and Mexican military still struggle to contain "the creatures". Our story begins when a US journalist agrees to escort a shaken American tourist through the infected zone in Mexico to the safety of the US border.www.monstersthemovie.com
A couple traveling in a remote part of the French Pyrenees cross paths with a lustful witch. Adapted from the Clark Ashton Smith story.
The Narrative of Victor Karloch is a Victorian ghost story puppet short film that utilizes 30 inch tall rod puppets, traditional shadow puppetry, rotoscope and rear projection to present the adventure of Victor Karloch, an alchemist, scholar, and ghost hunter, as he battles the supernatural forces of the Unknown. In this short film (which will the first of many tales), Victor Karloch receives a journal from a colleague who is involved in a salvage operation for a series of missing sea freighters in the North Sea.
Do you want to be a nicer person? Are you looking for inspiration to do good things? Well keep looking. But if you're into opening up terrifying vistas of reality then the Esoteric Order of the Old Ones and Cthulhu Cultists want to help.From Bad Advice for Good Times, the team that brought you Elder Sign and Casting Call of Cthulhu, comes The Necronomicon; a short and biting spoof of faith-based commercial advertising and accepted religious dogma.
Two girls subject themselves to a discussion of horror movies, until they are interrupted by an unexpected guest. Quickly, the girls are exposed to a nightmarish world of terror.
A college professor discovers that his wife has been practicing magic for years to protect him and further his career. Being the rational man that he is, he forces her to destroy all her magical charms and protective devices. He discovers almost too late that his rivalsare using magic as well...
The skeleton of a rat-monkey comes to life in a room full of cursed objects in this Gothic tale with a sci-fi twist. This is the 5th film in the award winning 'Chimerascope' series by MTV and SY FY channel station ID veteran, Aurelio Voltaire. Narrated by electro-Goth, New Wave icon, Gary Numan.
A man investigates the recent disappearance of his friend, artist Richard Pickman.