Traveling businessman David Mann angers the driver of a rusty tanker while crossing the California desert. A simple trip turns deadly, as Mann struggles to stay on the road while the tanker plays cat and mouse with his life.
A professional cellist has an encounter with a stranger on the subway which has unexpected and far-reaching ramifications on his life.
After a dreadful incident coupled with an ungovernable paroxysm of violence, a butcher will fall into a downward spiral that will burn to the ground whatever dignity still remained in him.
After discovering his mother crying, a boy is stalked by unknown presences.
Thousands of birds flock into a seaside town and terrorize the residents in a series of deadly attacks.
John Anderton is a top 'Precrime' cop in the late-21st century, when technology can predict crimes before they're committed. But Anderton becomes the quarry when another investigator targets him for a murder charge.
ATITHI is a Kannada short film about a caring father whose growing health concerns lead to a terrifying ordeal. Haunted by a mysterious, unseen visitor, he struggles to distinguish between reality and his own fears. As the line between the real and imagined blurs, he fights to maintain his sanity amidst the haunting presence.
Four young adults venture to a remote location in the high desert of California and are mysteriously preyed upon.
Shocking Shorts 2003
Las Vegas showroom magician Cris Johnson has a secret which torments him: he can see a few minutes into the future. Sick of the examinations he underwent as a child and the interest of the government and medical establishment in his power, he lies low under an assumed name in Vegas, performing cheap tricks and living off small-time gambling "winnings." But when a terrorist group threatens to detonate a nuclear device in Los Angeles, government agent Callie Ferris must use all her wiles to capture Cris and convince him to help her stop the cataclysm.
When a mysterious stalker strikes at a small campus, the some students find themselves stunned and terrified by the going-ons around them. One student, however, becomes fascinated with the murders.
When legendary hunter Bob Rainsford is shipwrecked on the perilous reefs surrounding a mysterious island, he finds himself the guest of the reclusive and eccentric Count Zaroff. While he is very gracious at first, Zaroff eventually forces Rainsford and two other shipwreck survivors, brother and sister Eve and Martin Towbridge, to participate in a sadistic game of cat and mouse in which they are the prey and he is the hunter.
A mother battles with her son's fear of a monster lurking in the closet, but soon discovers a sinister presence all around her.
Summertime on the coast of Maine, "In the Bedroom" centers on the inner dynamics of a family in transition. Matt Fowler is a doctor practicing in his native Maine and is married to New York born Ruth Fowler, a music teacher. His son is involved in a love affair with a local single mother. As the beauty of Maine's brief and fleeting summer comes to an end, these characters find themselves in the midst of unimaginable tragedy.
An isolated man, suffering from obsessive-compulsive disorder, finds himself trapped inside his home, when a shadowy creature materializes at his doorstep.
A photographer girl enters a street to take street photographs as usual and takes a few photos that she thinks are normal. When she washes the photos and hangs them, she sees that she is actually in one of the photos and goes in search of that person.
An aspiring documentary filmmaker records the post-college struggles of her best friend.
A private investigator is invited to come to an address. He realizes that it is a trap and take some precautions before going there. Once in place, he is overpowered and tied to a chair with a time bomb.
Emma Zunz, who is planning a crime, intends to get away with it by presenting an audacious alibi.
Carousel is a story of love, loss and the hope for redemption when a criminal escapes death and gets a second chance at life in more than one way.