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A short Avant-Garde experimental film

The Guest is a modern dark fable starring Olivia Williams (Rushmore, Sixth Sense, An Education) and with an original score by Tom Hobden of Noah and the Whale. A graduate, Matthieu, turns up to his old professor's dinner party to discover he is the only guest. Marguerite, the professor's wife, ignores her husband in favour of devoting her full attention to Matthieu. As the evening progresses it becomes clear the couple are concealing a dark secret. Matthieu's curiosity gets the better of him.

A young artist is caught in a physical and mental battle against a supernatural entity that forces him to free it from its dark prison, ¿or is it just his imagination?

A serial killer is using Periscope video streaming app to film his grizzly murders live.

They meet. It's Cute. Then it's not.

After a whirlwind romance in Mexico, a beautiful heiress marries a man she barely knows with hardly a second thought. She finds his New York home full of his strange relations, and macabre rooms that are replicas of famous murder sites. One locked room contains the secret to her husband's obsession, and the truth about what happened to his first wife.

A prize-fighting boxer with a lethal right punch falls for a gangster's moll on the run in Mexico.

Victor and Ana are enjoying their holidays at an idyllic lake. After having a huge row, the girl walks away into the forest. When he decides to go and look for her, Victor finds out that a man, hidden behind the trees, is watching him.

Collaborating with Australian circus company Gravity & Other Myths, 2020 BAFTA Newcomer and Berlinale Talent Campus alumna Alies Sluiter crafts a disquieting, quasi-surrealist tale of bravery and grief.

A police couple's worst fears are realized when their baby is kidnapped and must fight to get her back.

An alienated man, has no idea of what's going on outside his decrepit apartment in Burbank. When surrealistic events start happening around him, an inner struggle begins in which he'll have to figure out whether there's a strange presence haunting him or if it's just all inside his head.

Unable to deal with her mother's death, Samantha turns to her drawings for solace. She discovers she is able to bring her drawings to life and attempts to bring her mother back. In doing so, she finds out the truth behind her mother's death.

KIX’s first short film experiment, Lalu is a hyper-stylized Malaysian short thriller directed by Ion Furjanic. The word “Lalu” is used to refer to the passing of time or to pass through something. Synopsis: Three friends’ trip into the jungle is blurred by something they see far across a deserted lake.

Both, a store owner and her young ward are terrorized by a maniac...

A mother battles with her son's fear of a monster lurking in the closet, but soon discovers a sinister presence all around her.

Flesh and Blood

Portraying the events leading up to "12/15/1996", delving a little deeper into the relationships and motives of our anti-heroes.

Second in the series, dysfunctional friends Adam and Quentin are on the road, taking care of business in their own inimitable fashion.

A rabbi is murdered. Detective Llonrot is called in on the case and looks for a 'rabbinical explanation' for the murder. Other murders are committed and deliberate clues left in chosen locations. Llonrot, convinced he is on the trail of a 'mystical intrigue' is lured to the 'crime scene' when the tables are turned by his nemesis, the master criminal Red Scharlach.

This is Stake's entry for the ABC's of Death 2013 competition.