Into the Cringeverse

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Set in a near future where overpopulation, pollution, war, famine, and anarchy have been a decades-long plague. Gladiatorial arenas are commonplace, designed to help with overpopulation and unemployment, promising major rewards. As a mysterious fungal outbreak rips through the globe, the world is flipped upside down as friends quickly become ravenous scourge. The story follows a mysterious leader nicknamed ‘Top Trooper’ and his mission to guide a safe zone on its daily struggle against starvation, scourge, and a mysterious syndicate which slowly reveals itself more and more. As time progresses it becomes apparent that there is something extremely strange and dangerous looming behind the scenes.

Dr. Frankenstein, in an effort to become the greatest scientist that ever lived, succeeds in bringing the dead back to life.

“It Came from the Tap” is a 4-minute film made with a group of friends for a local 48-hour horror film competition called “Lost Weekend”. For this challenge we were given three rules: we had to include a mask as a prop, the following line of dialogue: “Is this politically correct?”, and lastly, we had to pull a horror sub-genre out of a hat to allow for a different sub-genre for every team. We pulled “Creature-Feature”. The film was eventually screened in one of our local cinema’s.

Set in a near future where overpopulation, pollution, war, famine, and anarchy have been a decades long plague. Gladiatorial arenas are commonplace, designed to help with overpopulation and unemployment, promising major rewards. As a mysterious fungal outbreak rips through the globe, the world is flipped upside down as friends quickly become ravenous scourge. The story follows a mysterious leader nicknamed ‘Top Trooper’ and his mission to guide a safe zone on its daily struggle against starvation, scourge, and a mysterious syndicate which slowly reveals itself more and more. As time progresses it becomes apparent that there is something extremely strange and dangerous looming behind the scenes.

After narrowly escaping an Antagonist, the Protagonist receives an unwanted phone call concerning the future of his world, but not everything is as it seems.

Gwen, a college student grappling with a chaotic life, succumbs to a spiralling path of tragic insanity as a sinister paranormal being takes watch, feeding off of the growing anxiety consuming her.

Anakin Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi attempt to stop the Separatists from invading Kashyyyk. Meanwhile, Master Yoda must defeat an evil army of droids.

What is life without friendship? The threads of our lovers’ handkerchief bring to life the Portuguese tradition and tie the bond between two best friends. Peak with us into what makes up a connection between two little girls.

In the heart of the Douro Valley, the sun still illuminates the last gestures of the grape harvesters. The abundant nature sees the children wandering around, the landscapes change over the hours but already, a light wind lets herald the end of the holiday.

A young woman opens an old family cookbook. From the pages appear miniature nuns in pop-up illustrations. The nuns come to life, jumping out of the book, and help the woman prepare convent sweets recipe for her bakery.

The sun rises in the city of Lisbon, the morning after its biggest festival, Santo Antonio. As the citizens wake up and start their day, the decorations from the party come to life to leave the city.

On the hilly lands of Portugal, a fire breaks out. Right after the blaze come the ashes, and following the ashes, the forest begins its rebirth.

On a cork oak farm deep in the village of Aldeia Velha, the warm Portuguese sun beams down on the white walls of a family home. Life is sweet here. Cherish these moments spent together.

It is cold and dark. In between surreal waves and the morning haze, we catch a glimpse of the emerging glows. The sea breeze wiggles and writhes, twisting and turning, embracing the shore under its steady growl. And on the sand, a young man stares into the far end of the ocean.

Lisbon, 1980, the city, the intensity, the chaos, the noise, the crowd. Overwhelmed by the commotion, a young woman sets off in search of peace in the palace gardens of Sintra. Her red umbrella glides across the pearly whiteness of the rising mist.

The sea can be many things; provider of food and work, playmate or harbinger of death. Set in the 1950s in the fishing town of Nazare, the ocean takes different shapes as it interacts with each member of a small family.

Hungry for an A-list interview that could launch him into the gossip rag stratosphere, Jiminy Glick, a small-time journalist with big aspirations and an even bigger appetite, drags his wife and kids across the country to the star-studded Toronto Film Festival. But in between the nonstop parties and all-you-can-eat buffets, Glick soon finds himself in the middle of an outrageously scandalous mystery that becomes the celebrity scoop of the decade!

A 2008 comedy brickfilm by Maxime Marion. It follows the story of a new Russian neighbour of Henri and Edmond's who invites the pair to his housewarming party, but is suspected by Henri to be an escaped cannibalistic mental patient he has heard of on the news. It is the first film in the Henri & Edmond series and was also the first brickfilm released by Maxime Marion.

A 2011 comedy adventure brickfilm directed by Maxime Marion and co-written with Lilian Ginet. It is the second film in the Henri & Edmond series. After downloading a song, Henri is tracked down by a copyright protection agency. There's only one plastic figure who can save him, his best friend Edmond, the fireman.