Palliative

A married couple throws a dinner party for their neighbors, with a special gumbo recipe on the menu.

Joe and Angela's marriage is on thin ice. When they invite their enigmatic upstairs neighbors for a dinner party, the night spirals into unexpected places. Have they reignited the spark or lit the match that burns it all down?

Host Scott Forrest presents a curated compilation of eight independent short films in this rapid-fire science-fiction feature. Genres collide, narratives twist, aesthetics clash, and even humor, both campy and dystopian, showcase the vast creative possibilities of each story's individual world, offering the viewer a brief glimpse into the lives of every character's attempt to survive the otherworldly chaos around them. Released in 2001, the selected shorts span original creation dates of 1997 to 2001; most of the featured filmmakers also appear as themselves in short video interviews to talk about their inspirations, creative process and motivations while working on their individual shorts.

His Lust for Killing is Insatiable... His Need for Vengeance is Eternal... His Drive for Sadism is Unstoppable... all Hell will break loose in just One Night...

Brock follows twelve simple steps to fix his busted kitchen drawer.

A woman in grief. A stalker in pursuit. A prophecy fulfilled.

Two fate-stricken antiheroes embark on a path of criminal machinations to avert their total financial collapse. The goods are there, the buyer is found, and the secluded place is determined for the deal. It's just too bad that these wanna-be gangsters are not aware that they have chosen a handover location that turns out to be a gateway to hell. Ignoring the ominous omens, everyone involved soon finds themselves in a maelstrom of panic, violence and death.

Filmed play about two very different brothers, one a criminal and the other a screen-writing family man who becomes appalled by his wayward brother's relationship with a producer.

A doctor goes to a dinner party where he's made fun of and soon afterwards returns home and sends a monster to attack the people.

An awkward ghoul makes his television debut as he presents the 1968 horror classic Night of the Living Dead, with the help of a reluctant crew.

Necropolis

Young Swedish woman Alice travels with her abusive American boyfriend in the Balkans. As their relationship goes from bad to worse, Alice drifts more and more into an emotional void, which leads to violent repercussions.

A dark comedy horror about a little girl joining a girl guide group in the 1980s.

A man is hired by a group of people he believes to be gangsters to escort a briefcase from America to Hong Kong. When he arrives, however, his contact is nowhere to be found. With no further instructions, he decides to take in the sights of Hong Kong, which consist of him taking part in a great deal of blood, sex and general weirdness, all while wearing a briefcase handcuffed to his arm.

Balding advertising executive Mr. Baum spends more time on a new ad campaign for purple sunglasses than he does with his own family. But suddenly he is forced to reexamine his life after a doctor tells him that he has an 'aggressive' brain tumor and will die in 90 minutes.

After learning that a brain aneurysm will kill him in about 90 minutes, a perpetually unhappy man struggles to come to terms with his fate and make amends with everyone he has ever hurt.

A sharp-tongued, self-destructive New York actress, arrives in Los Angeles to rehearse a revival of the play that made her famous opposite the charismatic former lover who abandoned her at the height of their careers. One savage rehearsal day strips away every performance they’ve perfected in the 15 years since.

When a petty criminal escapes from jail, she lays low by posing as a babysitter for two seemingly precious children. But when she decides to sell them for a quick profit, she gets more than she bargained for.

In Coimbra, law student José Duarte and the beautiful Maria de Lisboa experience an intense love story, but after finishing his studies and feeling betrayed, José Duarte abandons Maria and goes to Porto, seeking success as a singer of Coimbra fado. But, unknowingly, he leaves her pregnant with a child.

A filming exercise becomes a memory of young Nico's crush and fall for his classmate, Iris.