For this anthology movie, producers Vestra Pictures assigned international directors with a phobia and set them to work making a horror short about it.
A slow, hot summer afternoon. A father sleeps while his child is drawing with pencils in a cross word puzzle. A wind moves through the grass - something bad is about to happen.
After Saturn XVI crashes back to Earth, ex-astronaut Arthur struggles with an infection. Richard and his friends are blind to it's origin but his victims won't be. The Doorway is open.
In 19th century Vermont, a young woman's parents drink sleeping tea in order to survive the harsh winter, but an early thaw leads to horrifying results.
Three friends staying at a motel are soon interrupted by an increasingly unsettling local emergency broadcast. With every message of caution that goes by, a growing threat looms over them as they fall under the eye of an unknown figure.
A young man journeys through a desert, where he is kidnapped by a sadistic stranger clad in a pig mask. The stranger proceeds to brutally torture the young man, who then finds himself escaping into his imagination, with fantasy and reality intersecting.
Ferdinand is trying to cope with the breakup with his girlfriend.
"Highway Hypnosis" - alternatively referred to as "white line fever" - is a dazed state in which a driver may travel long stretches of open road in a compliant and normal fashion, yet with little-to-no recollection of how their destination was reached.
Following the death of her parents, a Girl returns home to confront the monsters of her past.
A young man is forced to eat constantly because of a strange condition that causes deformations on his body.
A man calls home one day. His wife doesn't answer the phone and his suspicions grow.
A broke college student finds a modeling gig online to help her make ends meet: an all expenses paid trip, a dream beach photoshoot, and a big paycheck. It’s almost too good to be true…
Hopelessly stuck in a dead-end job and forced to move in with his disapproving mother-in-law, Eddie Mathews sets out to make his Hollywood dream come true -- urged on by his imaginary villainous companion, who wants to be brought to life.
A real estate agent shows a house to a woman who is more than she seems.
When a charming stranger invites her to a party, a shy woman's fear of socializing turns into real terror.
Soura stumbles upon a bluebell field and is left in a haunting trance, plagued by disturbing visions. She returns to the field, desperate for a solution, and meets a girl suffering a similar fate.
Despite his boyfriend’s insistence to the contrary, Ethan has come to believe their home is slowly being overtaken by bugs. As his life spirals out of control, Ethan learns that there’s more than one way to be infested.
On a quiet night, a young couple find themselves caught up in a nightmarish ordeal after they witness a murderer disposing of a body in this claustrophobic thriller.
"Tarantella" was an early Super 8 short film directed by Christopher Nolan with his childhood friend Roko Belic. It was made in 1989 while Nolan was studying at University College London. The film aired on "Image Union," a PBS programme in Chicago. It is about the suffering of a young man while he has nightmare about spiders and demons.
Florence, 1631. The black plague rages, the streets are deserted, healthy citizens are confined. Alvise, a plague doctor, discreetly paces the city in search of infected bodies to conduct his experiments, in the hope of finding a cure. One day, during an autopsy, a strange creature springs from one of the corpses...