Opening Block: Friday Nightmares

 

The Scalpel
Directed by Richard H Lyford
A mad doctor transforms into a monstrous killer and creates mayhem in a medical institute. (The Scalpel is a 1936 never-released film by then 19-year-old filmmaker, Richard Lyford with a score by Ed Hartman.)

VINES
Directed by Luke Zwanziger
A mad botanist experiments on an unwilling human subject to give plants a fighting chance against climate change.

The Palm Springs Home Shopping Network
Directed by Misty Shipman
In the chaotic underbelly of a late-night shopping network, washed-up former child star Julian Fletcher Ford grapples with the ghosts of his past and a seedy present, as he navigates the manipulative world of entertainment while forging an unexpected connection with a young production assistant who sees the man behind the fading fame.

Long Time, No See
Directed by Donald Saunderson
A dark and uncomfortable comedy in which a heart-warming dinner party reunion turns into a violent nightmare as the host and the guest revisit their traumatic shared history to extreme ends.

Firecrow
Directed by Markham Samuels
Two farm workers are tasked with moving a cryptic scarecrow one day, which unbeknownst to them, has been afflicted with a powerful curse.

In The Valley: A Cosmic Queer Abduction
Directed by Adam Van Dyke
Lost in the vast Southern California desert, Josh wakes alone after a night with a mysterious Cowboy. As the landscape twists into a waking nightmare, Josh must uncover the truth about the Cowboy, the cloaked figures watching him, and his own forgotten past—before the desert claims him forever.