"The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear"
For this anthology movie, producers Vestra Pictures assigned international directors with a phobia and set them to work making a horror short about it.
Social & External
The people behind it
Roberta Gemma
Michael J. Epstein
Elijah (segment "Somniphobia")
Lianne O'Shea
Delivery person (segment "Somniphobia")
Tyler Sage
The boss (segment "Somniphobia") (voice)
Edwin Garcia
Edwin
Alessandro G.A. D'Alessandro
Jesus
Clint Beaver
Redneck #1
Elisa Carrera Fumagalli
Lily (segment Hemophobia)
Kehinde Bankole
Mary
Mark Thompson-Ashworth
The fish (voice)
A black female security guard gets trapped inside of a hospital with a deadly creature.
A HAM radio enthusiast discovers a mysterious object in his backyard that might be a window into another world.
Once upon a time in a cheap Jerusalem hotel room, Jesus and Judas are spending their time away from Nazareth between hot, sweaty, carnal love and preparing sermons for Jesus' growing fanbase. Enter Mary Magdalene, jealousy, Satan, and the Romans, and the once-perfect love affair between Judas and Jesus becomes a hellish ring of fire, leading Judas to betray his beloved Christ and the Romans to punish everyone for trying to turn everyone gay.
One strange night, a woman possessed by the spirit of La Llorona has a reunion with a man who claims to be the son she once drowned in the river.
After a power cut one night, Stan thinks he is seeing things. All alone, he must face what lurks in the dark.
A troubled woman is tormented by the malevolent spirit of her mother after forging her will.
Will Olivia survive the night, well she certainly will with some help from some friends...
A woman accidentally invites an unexplained supernatural presence into her home after being woken up in the middle of the night by a knock at the door. This presence will put her and her family in danger.
A desperate mother searches for her daughter in the chaos of a zombie outbreak.
A man meets a guitar-playing ghost. Winner of the 2023 Eugene Film Society 72 Hour Horror Film Festival.
Unusual times create unusual ways of finding connection.
A young couple is struck with tragedy when Catalina suddenly dies of tuberculosis, leading a depressed Rosauro to commit a disturbing act. Based on the song by Julio Jaramillo.
Young Penny goes on a retreat with her psychologist; the intention is to help her overcome her phobia, an intense fear of cars. Unexpected events find her in a nightmarish situation where her worst fears come true.
Following the outbreak of an aggressive virus, a young woman awakes in a hospital bed. As the horrifying events that led her there are revealed, it becomes clear that the cure is just the beginning. This short film is a prequel for the feature film, The Third Wave, which was written at the Binger FilmLab 2012. The project also won the Best Story Pitch award at the Edinburgh Film Festival, June 2012.
French pantomimist Pierre Étaix plays an insomniac who makes the mistake of trying to read himself to sleep with a book about vampires. Short film included in the anthology film As Long as You've Got Your Health (1966).
A queer teenager struggles with her sexuality, as desires manifest their way from the depths of her eerie closet into reality.
A night ride, a few beers with an old friend, memories of better times. One seemingly ordinary drive reveals the dark truths of men’s past and a sinister web of strange events.
A mockumentary about a young artist who murders people and uses them as her medium.
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.
Oliver, a lonely autistic boy, seeks solace and refuge in his ever-present cell phone and tablet. When a mysterious creature uses the boy's devices against him, his parents must fight to save their son from the monster beyond the screen.
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.
As an evil takes over the world beyond their front doorstep, the only protection for a mother and her twin sons is their house and their family’s protective bond.
A journey into uncharted and forbidden territory through three tales tangled in space and time.
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.
A maniacal clown named Art terrorizes three young women on Halloween night and everyone else who stands in his way.
Young Macy is abducted by a deranged, monstrous figure who wants to raise her as its child.
When Polly receives a mysterious box, it comes with one rule: place inside something she needs, something she hates, and something she loves. If she doesn’t obey, it will consume everything—and everyone—she’s ever known.
A collection of Halloween-themed videotapes unleashes a series of twisted, blood-soaked tales, turning trick-or-treat into a struggle for survival.
Rebecca must unlock the terror behind her little brother's experiences that once tested her sanity, bringing her face to face with a supernatural spirit attached to their mother.
A mother of two inherits a home from her aunt. On the first night in the new home she is confronted with murderous intruders and fights for her daughters’ lives. Sixteen years later the daughters reunite at the house, and that is when things get strange...
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.
The haunted Lambert family seeks to uncover the mysterious childhood secret that has left them dangerously connected to the spirit world.
A ragtag group barricade themselves in an old Pennsylvania farmhouse to remain safe from a horde of flesh-eating ghouls ravaging the Northeast.
What starts as a poignant medical documentary about Deborah Logan's descent into Alzheimer's disease and her daughter's struggles as caregiver degenerates into a maddening portrayal of dementia at its most frightening, as hair-raising events begin to plague the family and crew and an unspeakable malevolence threatens to tear the very fabric of sanity from them all.
A single mom is raped by an invisible force. Her psychiatrist believes the experience stems from childhood trauma, while she knows something supernatural is at play.
An animated retelling of ‘Night of the Living Dead’, in which a group of people in a rural farmhouse struggle to survive the threat of bloodthirsty zombies.
First-time father Henry Spencer tries to survive his industrial environment, his angry girlfriend, and the unbearable screams of his newly born mutant child.
A thirsty teenager's home video leads to a series of horrifying revelations, harkening back to the final punk rock analog days of VHS, while taking one giant leap forward into the hellish new millennium.