The Rules of Ruin

Film

Minerva, a single mother, works long hours a day to keep her ailing daughter in the hospital. One day, a mysterious man arrives at her door offering her to work in the translation of an ancient book in exchange for a substantial sum of money. Minerva accepts without knowing that this will change her life and that of those around her forever.

 

Doorknobs

Film

A man confides in a friend about odd dreams he's been having.

Miskatonic 1927

Film

Clark Ashton Smith and a reluctant H.P. Lovecraft begin an English translation of the infamous grimoire: The Necronomicon.

Corpse

Film

Corpse is a surreal adaptation of the classic supernatural anthology "The King in Yellow" by Robert W. Chambers. A C-list reality TV star, her best friend and a group of young entrepreneurs encounter a forbidden book which induces madness in those who read it. Shifting between moments from their interwoven stories and bizarre visions, the film used a kaleidoscope of psychedelic imagery and atmospheric sound design to move through a viscerally mesmeric journey.

Hammer of the Gods

Film

Hammer of the Gods is the story of falling-from-grace rock group, Sled Dog, half a decade after the release of their hit single, Backfire. Since Backfire, they have only put out one album—a critical and financial failure. After another lackluster tour, guitarist and songwriter, Eric Patrick, is ready to throw in the towel to the dismay of his friend and bandmate, Olivia Greenwood.

Rebeccah's Statement

Film

Rebeccah answers a craigslist add seeking help. Desperate for money, she agrees to assist in a bizarre experiment which terrifyingly goes according to plan.

The Fabric

Film

In a strange, dark asylum, a brilliant physicist with no memory, sits incarcerated. One thing occupies his mind: escaping - to what or where, he has no clue. Haunted day and night, by creatures that roam the halls - or his imagination, he scribbles equations on every surface of his his cell. Not knowing whether he is insane, or on to something truly groundbreaking, every combination of symbols etched onto the walls might be the key to his escape, or just his madness laughing back at him. One day he has a breakthrough…

Phototaxis

Film

“Phototaxis” draws parallels between Mothman, a prophetic and demonized creature in West Virginia lore, and Narcotics Anonymous, the main treatment program in West Virginia’s addiction epidemic. Rooted in nonfiction, this film contemplates synchronicity and the role of belief systems in perception; the tendency to assign supernatural meaning to tragedy and the unknowable; anonymous and apocryphal oral histories; and the moth to the flame.

Chimera

Film

A brilliant but disturbed scientist freezes his children alive, while he races to cure their deadly genetic disease by decoding the DNA of the immortal Turritopsis jellyfish.

Zygote

Film

Stranded in an Arctic mine, two lone survivors are forced to fight for their lives, evading and hiding from a new kind of terror.

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