Somewhere between a music-video, a documentary and a fantasy - created with and around a Toronto-based acting-collective called LUSTR.
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To be attacked by a knife-wielding masked stranger in the dead of night could be a woman's worst nightmare or her darkest fantasy. But which is it? Both perception and reality are challenged in this taut contemporary thriller.
A woman finds a beautiful seashell on the beach, and then something unexpected happens...
A routine exorcism performed by a novice priest takes a terrifying turn where he must deal with evil in person.
Two athletic spider women quarrel over one tasty man. Can he escape?
An isolated man, suffering from obsessive-compulsive disorder, finds himself trapped inside his home, when a shadowy creature materializes at his doorstep.
A woman's car stops in the middle of the woods. She and her son must return before nightfall, or they will find themselves in big trouble.
Mad Max Renegade follows the further adventures of Max Rockatansky after his desertion from Main Force Patrol in his famed Pursuit Special, more commonly known as the Interceptor.
Two room mates finally get a new fridge from their landlord but it is old, broke, and haunted.
While preparing for a show in an old theatre, a couple of actors find the dress rehearsal is not going to go according to plan.
Kyra Gardner's loving tribute to growing up in the world of the psycho killer doll, Chucky.
Two high school girls invite a new friend to join their secret game of summoning spirits for the thrill of being possessed.
A short film about dating a werewolf.
As a faithful child of God, Mary regularly repents for her sins. Over time, her faith drives her crazy as she pushes herself to the extremes.
A short animated film about censorship.
A money launderer finds himself in a bind on Christmas Eve when a case of mistaken identity leads to him spending the evening with an unpredictable runaway instead of his family.
A trans woman dies on the operating table during facial feminization surgery, but death is no match for a determined transsexual.
In 1992, the rising rock band “Le Slouch” is on the verge of stardom. With a scorching new single lighting up the airwaves, and their debut music video premiering on MTV’s “Headslammers Bash,” everything seems to be falling into place—until disaster strikes. Following a sudden and tragic turn of events, the band is thrust into a violent psychedelic spiral, leading them down a blood-soaked path of death and destruction.
Taking place the same night as Halloween (1978), Michael Myers' killing spree is not yet finished
A Final Girl confronts the killer, desperately seeking closure- and revenge.
Once upon a time, a mysterious stranger visits a tavern with his unusual barrel organ and gives a scary musical performance to the beggars within.
Rainbow Dance is a 1936 British animated film released by the GPO Film Unit. This is Lye's second film. It uses the Gasparcolor process.
Street dancer Skyler comes out of the shadow of her trained dancer sister, Tosha, & joins a dance competition with the Honey dance studio; the prize is a college scholarship.
Embarking on a journey to fulfill her dreams as a dancer, a young girl discovers a new style of dance that will prove to be the source of both conflict and self-discovery.
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.
Mal emerges from the shadows of a mystical forest onto a dark coastline where she crosses paths with Dizzy.
Short film to a song of love lost and rediscovered, a woman sees and undergoes surreal transformations. Her lover's face melts off, she dons a dress from the shadow of a bell and becomes a dandelion, ants crawl out of a hand and become Frenchmen riding bicycles. Not to mention the turtles with faces on their backs that collide to form a ballerina, or the bizarre baseball game.
After the death of her mother, Sara moves to the South Side of Chicago to live with her father and gets transferred to a majority-black school. Her life takes a turn for the better when befriends Chenille and her brother Derek, who helps her with her dancing skills.
In a short musical film directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, Thom Yorke of Radiohead stars in a mind-bending visual piece. Best played loud.
After her life falls apart, soft-spoken actress Laura Franco finds her voice again when she meets a terrifying, yet weirdly charming, monster living in her closet.
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.
In the town of Normal Valley, an eccentric magician named Maestro entertains the local children every day in his spooky mansion. One stormy night, the town's mayor leads a group of angry citizens to the mansion in an attempt to run Maestro out of town.
When household tensions and a sense of worthlessness overcome Evan, he finds escape when he clings with the orphans of a throw-away society. The runaways hold on to each other like a family until a tragedy tears them apart.
During the night shift in a colony greenhouse, a botanist does her best to contain suspicious soil samples that have alarmed her sensitive lab dog.
A couple receives a mysterious package from an old friend.
As a police officer investigates the gruesome murder of her colleague, she discovers that a mysterious supernatural force is behind it.
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.
While doing the inventory for a lingerie outlet in a high rise office building, five attractive women are terrorized by a series of bizarre killings. They suspect that the strange janitor, who witnessed another series of killings years back, is at the bottom of the whole thing. Little do they know the real horror that they face in the end.
A down-on-his-luck coach is hired to prepare a team of the best American dancers for an international tournament that attracts all the best crews from around the world, but the Americans haven't won in fifteen years.
A cat named Lorenzo is dismayed to discover that his tail has developed a personality of its own.
Four young thrill-seekers (Erin Cahill, Andrew Walker, Alexia Barlier) race cars on the streets of Germany.