Left Behind

Everyone loves a killer Tattoo

Final film by Selina Thiermann and Janina Reins of the "Digital Film & VFX" 914 course at the SAE Institute Hamburg.

The freely adapted short story, written by the famous author HP Lovecraft, will reveal dreadfully poetic images to the viewer and give insight into a man's struggle for survival and his fight against the loss of memory. His spectacular escape from human creatures that live in the woods,who have lost all humanity and turned into animals, leads him directly to a mysterious house whose owner will very soon confront him with his mad rage. The subtle dialogues between the two of them, will end in a carnage. At full tilt, the kinkiness of H.P Lovecraft's short story transforms into the transparent struggle of survival of a man who has lost everything in this post-apocalyptic world, a world that slowly wipes him out.

Humans encounter various monsters, but each encounter has a consequence.

Dark Mountain is an old New Hampshire tale about the Dreadful Doc Benton, a man who was a grave robber and found the secret to immortality in the early 19th century.

Camp counselors are stalked and murdered by an unknown assailant while trying to reopen a summer camp that was the site of a child's drowning.

This is the story of an isolated Alaskan town that is plunged into darkness for a month each year when the sun sinks below the horizon. As the last rays of light fade, the town is attacked by a bloodthirsty gang of vampires bent on an uninterrupted orgy of destruction. Only the small town's husband-and-wife Sheriff team stand between the survivors and certain destruction.

A young girl experiences the horrors of getting her first period.

A lonely man with a dark past is haunted by the choices that led him to the shadowy, desolate place he is now forced to live.

Set in the beauty industry, colliding the worlds of glamour and body horror in a supernatural tale of one girl's deadly pursuit of perfection.

The cheerful critique

What are they? What do they seek? When all the lights go out, they will wander. And you will never see them.

An old man tells the tale of his dark past in Jersey. After warning two young men not to go to the bay, they do... and they regret it.

Just days from retirement, a veteran detective and his partner must race against the clock to stop a serial killer before it's too late. As the bodies pile up, they start to wonder if the killer is one of their own, and if they may be next.

A group of children go on an excursion in the Gibraltar Tunnels, when suddenly things start happening.

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

A girl who lives alone finds a mirror in the trash, takes it home and strange things start to happen.

"Red Flower" is an animated adaptation of Vsevolod Garshin’s haunting short story. This film follows a mentally ill patient consumed by an all-encompassing obsession. Convinced that three bright red flowers in the hospital garden embody the world’s evil, he believes that destroying them will free humanity. As his fixation deepens, he sacrifices his own health and sanity in a desperate battle against an invisible foe. Through evocative animation and psychological depth, the film explores themes of madness, sacrifice, and the fragile boundary between delusion and reality.

After ten years cinematographer Joe Newton feels compelled to face his trauma, and return to interview his subject - The notorious Hayden Reef. Completely consumed by his now infamous original documentary, Joe knows he'll need Hayden to relaunch his name as a daring, controversial filmmaker turned video blogger.

A footage of a strange door.