A writer is writing his latest work. Suddenly, a strange man appears in his apartment and brutally stabs him to death. On his way out of the house, the obviously deranged killer kills other residents...
Social & External
The people behind it
Christian Citron
Boris Bürgel
Sven Berndt
Thomas Schweer
Timothy Doulton
Thilo Bürgel
A girl is disturbed by the noises coming from the couple upstairs.
A television photographer is commissioned by his boss to take still photos of diseased trees for a documentary. On location, he observes a mysterious man burying something. He later discovers a severed hand in the same place. The journalist smells a big story and gets caught up in a vortex of violence. People disappear inexplicably, but then the unexpected happens...
All the researchers of the IMPS laboratory are males - with one exception : Mademoiselle Clara, Antoine, the cleaner, desperately yearns for. Night after night, when Clara is alone, going on with her experiments, the young man awkwardly manoeuvres with a view to declaring his flame. But the cold scientist remains unconcerned. In his trouble, Antoine regularly drops and breaks phials and other test tubes full of dangerous chemical products. He doesn't care when his skin gets into contact with acid. His heart burns too much for him to be able to feel the burning of his skin. And if he can't GIVE his hand to Clara will he really mind to... LOSE it ?
Angela Wood, a tabloid reporter, with her own tortured past, is assigned to do a story of the Twilight Slashings.
A clown has a children's program, but strange things are happening in this program.
An exhausted nurse slaughters what she thinks is a horrifying bloody mangled monster to survive the night, but the truth she uncovers in the aftermath is far more horrifying than any creature.
A social statement on the irreversible and detrimental impact of gas and oil exploration on our planet and in particular the impact that hydraulic fracturing or 'fracking' will have on Kainaiwa, or the Blood Reserve in Canada. This film was shot with a completely Indigenous cast and crew.
In this horror-comedy short, a remake with an original twist of Hideo Nakata's "RINGU", two drag queens, mourning the sudden death of their "Drag Mother", discover a mysterious VHS tape. When they watch it, a frightening figure appears, provoking an unexpected reaction from the duo.
A short film, set two years after the main event of the horror novel of the same name, written by Sepia Gore.
Sometimes you're caught in the moment. Sometime you're just caught!
Short film by Marran Gosov
Things become shrouded when The Loner discovers a dead body outside his home. His mind becomes a prison of contradiction, falsification and fear when a series of dreams push him to realize the truth.
Lilly's casual hookup turns nightmarish when she meets Patrick from an online dating app.
Maria and Radu are a couple in love planning their wedding. But there is a secret between them that will change their lives forever. (Screamfest)
Telephone psychic Clementine Carter is pulled into a complex web of mystery when she receives a call from a serial killer. Predicting his murders before he commits them puts her into a terrifying game of cat and mouse. Enlisting the aid of her invalid father and clairvoyant co-worker, they must use their unique abilities to stay one step ahead of a maniac whose unspeakable acts in the present are nothing compared to his past and future.
July, 1925. Thurber Phillips, an art collector, is invited by his favorite painter, the elusive and mysterious Richard Upton Pickman, to visit his home, a sinister place where his friend's macabre paintings seem to threaten him from the walls in shadows.
When a miniature black hole shows up in a man's house, he has to learn to deal with it. But as time passes, his obsession with the anomaly grows, and he begins to dance with danger as he utilizes it in his every day life.
Beth, an insecure twenty-something, becomes obsessed with an insidious filter, leaving her to question true beauty.
A man traumatized by his childhood relationship with his mother is fueled by jealousy and desire to protect other children in horrific ways.
A bank teller becomes involved with a hold-up, counterfeiters and a theatrical troupe posing as spooks in a haunted house.
Evan values family above all else, and anyone who gets between him, his wife, and newborn son learns that the hard way. But when it comes to violent tendencies, it seems the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.
A woman wakes up injured in a basement surrounded by corpses. To survive, she pretends to be dead while a grotesque ritual unfolds in the house above.
Nothing is what it seems when a twisted one-night stand spirals into a serial killer’s vicious murder spree.
As a serial killer stalks the city, Julia — a young actress who just moved to town with her husband — notices a mysterious stranger watching her from across the street.
A couple’s romantic vacation at a secluded lakeside estate is upended when they are forced to share the mansion with a mysterious and attractive couple. In this darkly hilarious and seductive horror story, a dream getaway spirals into a nightmarish maze of sex, lies, and manipulation, bringing terrifying secrets to light and triggering a bloody battle for survival.
A forensic psychologist must determine if a minor should be charged with murder.
When an unsuspecting woman stops at a remote gas station in the dead of night, she's made the plaything of a sociopath sniper with a secret vendetta. To survive, she must not only dodge his bullets and fight for her life, but also figure out who wants her dead and why.
After witnessing a brutal murder on Halloween night, a young woman becomes the next target of a maniacal entity.
When a stranger enters a quiet, country town and is seduced by a sensuous married woman he unwittingly finds himself at the centre of a storm of sexual guilt and murder.
A malevolent being known as The Jester terrorizes the inhabitants of a small town on Halloween night, including two estranged sisters who must come together to find a way to defeat this evil entity.
A private investigator is forced into a dangerous alliance with a killer in order to uncover a quiet town’s grisly criminal underbelly and clear the name of her mentor, who is implicated in the crimes.
A group of young horror fans go searching for a film that mysteriously vanished years ago but instead find that the demented killer from the movie is real, and he's thrilled to meet fans who will die gruesomely for his art.
Detectives are thrust into a chilling hunt for a sadistic serial killer from the past whose return marks the beginning of a new wave of grotesque, otherworldly crimes tied to a cosmic force.
After a 4 a.m. knock at the door and haunting voices, Kristen McKay and James Hoyt’s remote getaway becomes a psychological night of terror as three masked strangers invade. Now they must go far beyond what they thought themselves capable of if they hope to survive.
Nicole Walker always dreamed of being swept away by someone special — someone strong, sexy and sensitive who would care for her more than anything else in the world. David is all that and more: a modern-day knight who charms and seduces her, body and soul. But her perfect boyfriend is not all he seems to be. His sweet facade masks a savage, dark side that will soon transform Nicole's dream into a nightmare.
Neighbors in a block wake one morning to find they have been sealed inside their apartments. Can they work together to find out why? Or will they destroy each other in their fight to escape?
When teen magician Max crosses paths with the sinister Jester on Halloween night, she must outsmart a supernatural killer whose magic is all too real and whose tricks always end up in blood.
Sinister things begin happening to kidnappers who are holding a young boy for ransom in a remote cabin.
A group of young activists set out to make an environmental statement by vandalizing a home superstore as it closes. But their plan goes terribly wrong when they become trapped inside and must face a deranged security guard with a gruesome passion for primitive hunting. As the night fills with violence and terror, the teenagers find themselves in a desperate fight for their lives.
A series of down-on-their-luck individuals enter the decrepit and spine-chilling Rialto theater, only to have their deepest and darkest fears brought to life on the silver screen by The Projectionist – a mysterious, ghostly figure who holds the nightmarish futures of all who attend his screenings.