NAILS is a black and white, dialogue-free surreal horror short film. The story is carried through image, rhythm, and score rather than dialogue.
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A new film by Sheik Althaf Hussain. The plot is unknown at this moment; currently in private screenings and festival submissions.
When actress Nikki Grace gets the lead role in a cursed film, her world becomes more and more surreal, blending realities and ideas of infidelity, reincarnation, and supernatural forces.
After his mother's death, a young man edits the family's home videos to bring back her image. As he delves into the occult he begins to reveal the paradoxical magic of memories and cinema.
What are they? What do they seek? When all the lights go out, they will wander. And you will never see them.
Elise is running from a strange, obscured figure. The danger is at her home, her street - inside of her. She runs and runs, but doesn't seem to get away from it. Meanwhile, a mirrored figure is playing a chess game with her life.
This is the tale of a meandering nomad, from a starved and barren rummage to a plunge into immaterial primitive madness and chaotic metamorphosis, narrated through a four-chapter surreal descent, where sight and sound are one if not none.
On a distant planet, a lonely creature is stuck in a never-ending jam-making nightmare.
Set over three generations and beginning with a sexually frustrated orderly during WWII who relieves his tensions in the most outlandish, gross ways. The result of his liaison is a glutton who grows up to be a champion speed eater. He produces a child who becomes obsessed with taxidermy.
An experimental sampled film which shows the pleasurable art of movies about movies through scenes inside of theaters.
A witch and other strange things live in the attic above lonely, dope-addled artist, Grey. After meeting Renee, Grey struggles to appease these beings, as she tries to find her place in the world outside of her home.
A young woman finds herself completely lost in a nightmare.
An unnamed character is trapped in a cubical white room where others can enter and leave, but which he himself apparently cannot leave. A stool is brought in covered in strawberry jam, the furniture changes throughout the play. The main character is subjected to an increasingly puzzling and frustrating series of encounters, as a variety of people come through various hidden doors. But, as many remind him, he can only leave through his own door, so he must find it.
Begotten is the creation myth brought to life, the story of no less than the violent death of God and the (re)birth of nature on a barren earth.
Two cold colors, although similar, can have different effects: one man whose soul has been drowned by obsession with the color blue, is now addicted, devout, dejected and weak, and the other man, whose head has been consumed by green, something that emanates disgust, completely infects his head, leaving behind only the greenish shadows of an insane man. Infection and devotion, this is the bichromatic man.
A desperate woman experiments with leaving reality within the digital technology of today and yesterday.
Hamlet and Ophelia reckon with their doomed narratives. Adapted from the 1977 East German Heiner Müller play of the same name.
Set in a nightmarish Bardo, a place between death and rebirth, a tormented writer faces down demons of his own making. Forced to confront the darkest moment in his life, he mines fractured and repressed memories for a way out. A woman is at the center of all the writer’s afterlife encounters. She is the subject of his life’s greatest regret, and she materializes everywhere in this Otherworld. The writer cannot detach any thoughts of his life from her.
An immersive dive into the heart of the discomfort felt by anyone struggling to sleep.
Self Decapitation is a Janus-headed self-portrait by Rouzbeh Rashidi and Maximilian Le Cain in which death and desire each take possession of this film in two parts. The ambiguities of inhabiting a human body are conjured by way of film technology in its faults, faulty memories and false promises. There is no escape from its haunting – except perhaps to haunt it in turn…
A woman commits a violent suicide in a bathroom, involving the use of Harakiri. "I wonder how it feels to cut your own stomach open. Even though it is very scary, I dream about it as if someone deep inside me is provoking me. Just thinking about what would happen if I had to have my stomach cut off makes my heart pound in my chest. The self-deprecating desire of an office lady who dreams of the pleasure of hara-kiri."
The Shadow Mountains, 1983. Red and Mandy lead a loving and peaceful existence; but when their pine-scented haven is savagely destroyed, Red is catapulted into a phantasmagoric journey filled with bloody vengeance and laced with fire.
First-time father Henry Spencer tries to survive his industrial environment, his angry girlfriend, and the unbearable screams of his newly born mutant child.
Young Macy is abducted by a deranged, monstrous figure who wants to raise her as its child.
To escape neglect and abuse from his parents, a young boy plants some strange seeds and they grow into a grandmother.
Clinging to a smooth, curved surface high above a sentient abyss, a woman tries to cover the few feet back to safety without losing purchase and falling to her death.
After witnessing a brutal murder on Halloween night, a young woman becomes the next target of a maniacal entity.
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 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.
A research scientist explores the boundaries and frontiers of human consciousness. Using sensory deprivation and hallucinogenic mixtures from Native American shamans, he explores these altered states of cognizance and finds that memory, time, and reality itself are states of mind.
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.
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.
When a group of misfits is hired by an unknown third party to burglarize a desolate house and acquire one rare VHS tape, they discover more found footage than they had bargained for.
Trapped on her family’s isolated farm, Pearl must tend to her ailing father under the bitter and overbearing watch of her devout mother. Lusting for a glamorous life like she’s seen in the movies, Pearl’s ambitions, temptations, and repressions collide.
A masked maniac terrorizes the same small community where a murderer known as the Phantom Killer struck decades earlier.
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.
Nothing is what it seems when a twisted one-night stand spirals into a serial killer’s vicious murder spree.
Loner Mark Lewis works at a film studio during the day and, at night, takes racy photographs of women. Also he's making a documentary on fear, which involves recording the reactions of victims as he murders them. He befriends Helen, the daughter of the family living in the apartment below his, and he tells her vaguely about the movie he is making.
Frankenstein, a young medical student, trying to create the perfect human being, instead creates a misshapen monster. Made ill by what he has done, Frankenstein is comforted by his fiancée; but on his wedding night he is visited by the monster.
In the heart of Styria the Karnstein Family, even after their mortal deaths, rise from their tombs spreading evil in the countryside in their lust for fresh blood. Baron Hartog whose family are all victims of Karnstein vampirism, opens their graves and drives a stake through their diabolical hearts. One grave he cannot locate is that of the legendary beautiful Mircalla Karnstein. Years of peace follow that grisly night until Mircalla reappears to avenge her family's decimation and satisfy her desire for blood.
