LOOKER
Directed by Max Kaplan
Anna learns she is inexplicably cursed to melt away when not being perceived and must go to greater and greater lengths to be seen… with terrifying consequences.
They’re in the Water
Directed by Bennett Kim
Retired shark hunter CLARKE learns a nearby nuclear plant sank in the ocean. When his deckhand MARTY spots a shadow outside, fellow fisherman MCCOY arrives, claiming his boat was sunk by a shark.
Suspicious, Clarke interrogates him, tensions mounting until McCoy tries to kill him—prompting Clarke to shoot. Just then, the power fails, and a zombified creature breaks in. After barely surviving, they hear a radio warning of mass infection. As the survivors step outside, a massive horde emerges from the ocean…
The Innkeeper’s Nightmare
Directed by Rauno Laikjõe
A stranger carrying the face of the past steps into the Innkeeper’s world, and his presence threatens to lift the curtain between reality and nightmare. The mysterious Visitor asks for glass after glass of vodka and ominously sharpens a dagger. When the night falls, the inn is submerged in music, whispers, screams – the Visitor has come for blood.
Omega-Pharm
Directed by Ryan Michael Hughes
When the character in a series of 1960’s style ads becomes self aware, he glitches himself out of his false reality, and is hunted by Omega-Pharm itself.
Stained
Directed by Brennan Rosser
After waking up covered in blood with no memory of the night before, a young woman must unravel what happened with her ex-boyfriend, whose eerie presence forces her to confront their toxic past—and the truth about his fate.
CAROUSEL
Directed by Christopher Kosakowski
Charlie is a circus clown celebrating his birthday alone when he receives a mysterious gift box harboring an antique zoetrope. The toy, at first amusing, quickly brings about supernatural terrors that spin Charlie’s world into mayhem. Will he be able to escape the chaos, or will he whirl deeper into darkness?
Holy Afterbirth
Directed by Alesandra Caroline
Holy Afterbirth is an experiment in absurdist horror. A person holds many versions inside themself. Religious and patriarchal ideals imbed arbitrary rules. The mind tries to make sense of pain through nightmare. Thoughts act as ghosts, haunting reality. Like memory, the film degrades, distorts, and reimagines a moment in time.
Interweaving live action, stop-motion and rotoscope animation, Holy Afterbirth captures the breakdown where divisions between real and imagined dissolve. At its heart, this mirrors the deconstruction and transformation in queer lives. Queer bodies are villainized by church and state, which are allied in the current nationalist regime. Yet, our bodies remain precious.
Work flow
Directed by Fatima Isse
Katie hasn’t been the same since she lost her brother, living in silence and melancholy. After being questioned about his death, she is given a mysterious package containing a token her brother left behind, a beautiful seashell… but something, a presence, follows it into her home. With her solemn peace stolen in recompense, can she help break the ocean-dark cycle her dearly departed brother unknowingly began?
The Midnight Hitchhiker
Directed by Lucas Nathaniel Kachadorian
A young man allows envy to consume him, only to face otherworldly consequences after picking up a hitchhiker in the dead of night
Do or Die
Directed by Phong Nguyen
What starts as ‘Do or Drink’ becomes ‘Do or Die’ when four friends face a dark force that tests their bonds and their will to survive.
Pain d’épices
Directed by Reese Elizabeth Whipple
After being thrown to the landfill, a gingerbread man decides to dedicate himself to studying the meaning of life, and how animals exist. Being confused by his own anatomy, he befriends another one of his kind to dissect and take apart convincing them it’s for a greater cause, until this experiment inevitably gets tired of the abuse and snaps on him.
Model 072
Directed by Thomas Tierney
In a shadowy lab on the edge of civilization, a reclusive scientist repairs a damaged android with a human face and a fractured past. As memories are erased and identities rewritten, a hunter closes in—and the line between man and machine begins to blur.
Mother of Mercy
Directed by Adria Branson
A teenage girl finds herself as the lead suspect of a FBI investigation after a Catholic high school retreat turns into a horrific cult ritual.