Me, The Maggot

A human larva, viscous, faceless, covered in wounds, moves through an ordinary day of its existence: bathing, getting a haircut, watching its favorite film, and working on its art. A self-portrait about the loneliness and self-acceptance of filmmaking.

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Bureau of Paranormal Phenomena looks into the case of a mysterious broadcast that might have possibly led to the deaths of 4 families in the town of Lander in May 1986.

Origins

We go back in time, to the very beginning of Kaala's journey; when he was just a scared young man, dealing with the burden of his gifts. However, his life soon takes an interesting turn when he meets a mysterious figure who offers to help him. This is Origins.

AVE MARA. Ignosce mihi et ama.

Mara—the spirit of the night, the weaver of darkened dreams—pressed upon my chest as sleep held me captive. My memory. In the haze of a dream, I saw those I loved, their faces bathed in an otherworldly glow. The nightmare was not the shadows nor the fear they whispered, but the cruel certainty of waking—of losing them to the morning light

Jack Hunter's Paranoia Tapes: The Movie

When a mysterious set of dvd's surfaces, on the front door of YouTuber's Clyde's front porch, The Jack he knows becomes a suspect with each segment more disturbing than the last, who is Henry, who is chase and who is Jack Hunter?

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Alone

A man stays isolated in his room and refuses to open the door when a mysterious knock is heard. A Bolex horror microshort inspired by the Mandela Catalogue.

Flying Daddy

One morning, Papa transforms into a giant insect in the futon, emerges instantly in front of the astonished family, breaks through the window and flies into the sky. Short animation by Keita Kurosaka for MTV Japan.

Memory of a Mycelium

In "Memory of a Mycelium," human prototypes sprout from the building like strands of a fungal network. Inspired by the Chinese mythology of the creator goddess Nüwa, the prototypes initiate a process of emancipation by freeing themselves from the long braids reminiscent of umbilical cords. A never-ending journey of self-liberation begins.

Routine

A man goes through his daily routine, long after it has begun to destroy him.

Toast

A slice of toast is not what it seems.

A Train Arrives

A woman is chased by the wind of an arriving train. What follows is a visual ride, the camera becomes a protagonist of the film itself. The levels of inner film reality and the film material itself influence each other more and more to the point of physical destruction.

Synchronicity

A daring physicist travels into the past to stop a mysterious woman from stealing his invention. But once there, he uncovers a surprising truth about the machine, the woman, and his own fractured reality.

Atrocity Exhibition

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A girl is stalked by her subconscious fear of intimacy.

ARCHAEOLOGY OF UNBORN FACES

"Archaeology of Unborn Faces" is a silent cinematic excavation of the AI latent space. It stands before a digital purgatory, witnessing the agonizing struggle of algorithms trying to manifest into human form. In an epoch drowning in simulation, the film reveals that the machine creates nothing from the void, but rather recycles our abandoned memories, culminating in a terrifying emotional resonance.

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Angel Hare

A festival-exclusive re-edit of the Angel Hare web-series' first season, with new live-action scenes replacing the web version's text-driven narrative. Jonah has discovered a nostalgic TV show that he'd all but forgotten about.

The Grey Machine

In 1921, an untitled text reminiscent of Edgar Allan Poe's writings was discovered in Boston. It was made by unknown creators, perhaps a techno-spiritualist cult of enthusiasts, for an automaton, that would attempt to model Poe's mind.

Esta Persona No Existe

A young man explores a page of fictional faces for fun; everything seems normal, until he sees his own face on the screen.

Books of Blood

A journey into uncharted and forbidden territory through three tales tangled in space and time.

Frankenstein Unbound

The ultimate weapon, claimed to be safe for mankind, produces global side-effects including time slides and disappearances. The scientist behind the project and his car are zapped from the year 2031 to 1817 in Switzerland where he meets Dr. Victor Frankenstein, Mary Shelley and others.

The Return

After the death of his father, a brilliant college student returns to his family home where he learns that the horrors from his childhood aren't as dead and gone as he once thought.

Year 10

After the fall of civilization, the few survivors have been driven to cannibalism. A young man must confront a violent tribe that has murdered his father and stolen the medicine that keeps his girlfriend alive.

The Resurrected

Charles Dexter Ward, a wealthy scientist, uses an ancient diary and human remains to begin a terrifying and bloody pursuit for immortality.

Death Machine

Chaank Armaments is experimenting with the ultimate fighting machine which is part human - part machine. So far, the Hardman project has been unreliable and has killed a number of innocent people. The genius behind this project is Jack who lives in a world of models, toys and magazines. When he is fired by Cale for killing a few corporate officers, he unleashes the ultimate killing machine called the 'Warbeast' against Cale and those who would help her.

Mad God

A silent figure known as The Assassin travels through a nightmare underworld of tortured souls, ruined cities and wretched monstrosities forged from the primordial horrors of the unconscious mind of Phil Tippett, the world's preeminent stop-motion animator.

Southbound

The film contains five stories set on desolate stretches of a desert highway. Two men on the run from their past, a band on its way to a gig, a man struggling to get home, a brother in search of his long-lost sister and a family on vacation are forced to confront their worst fears and darkest secrets in these interwoven tales.

Margaux

As a group of seniors celebrate their final college days at a smart house, the house's highly advanced AI system, Margaux, begins to take on a deadly presence of her own. A carefree weekend of partying turns into a dystopian nightmare as they realize Margaux's plans to eliminate her tenants one way or another. Time begins to run out as the group desperately tries to survive and outsmart the smart home.

Containment

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?

The Signal

A horror film told in three parts, from three perspectives, in which a mysterious transmission that turns people into killers invades every cell phone, radio, and television.

The Devil Conspiracy

A powerful biotech company has breakthrough technology allowing them to clone history’s most influential people with just a few fragments of DNA. Behind this company is a cabal of Satanists that steals the shroud of Christ, putting them in possession of Jesus’ DNA. The clone will serve as the ultimate offering to the devil. The Archangel Michael comes to earth and will stop at nothing to end the devil’s conspiracy.

Zygote

The two remaining crew members of a mining operation in the Arctic Circle fight to survive against an alien creature.

Die Alone

Lost in a world reclaimed by nature and overrun by mysterious creatures, Ethan, a young man with amnesia navigates the dangerous landscape in search of his lost love Emma. His journey takes an unexpected turn when he encounters Mae, a hardened and eccentric survivor. Together, Ethan and Mae face threats both human and otherwise before a fateful encounter with Kai unravels a secret that lies just beyond Ethan's fractured memory.

The Hidden

When average, law-abiding citizens suddenly turn to a life of hedonistic behavior and violent crime, Detective Tom Beck is tasked with helping young FBI agent Lloyd Gallagher determine the cause.

Hollow Man

Cocky researcher Sebastian Caine is working on a project to make living creatures invisible. Determined to achieve the ultimate breakthrough, Caine pushes his team to move to the next phase — using himself as the subject. The test is a success, but when the process can't be reversed and Caine seems doomed to future without flesh, he starts to turn increasingly dangerous.

The Town that Dreaded Sundown

A masked maniac terrorizes the same small community where a murderer known as the Phantom Killer struck decades earlier.

They Reach

In 1979, a young girl stumbles upon a possessed tape player. She unknowingly unleashes a demonic entity that haunts her family while slowly dragging the small town of Clarkston to Hell.

Eraserhead

First-time father Henry Spencer tries to survive his industrial environment, his angry girlfriend, and the unbearable screams of his newly born mutant child.

V/H/S/94

After the discovery of a mysterious VHS tape, a brutish police SWAT team launches a high-intensity raid on a remote warehouse, only to discover a sinister cult compound whose collection of pre-recorded material uncovers a nightmarish conspiracy.