Deadly Blessing

A Christmas horror anthology. Twelve of the world's leading indie horror directors bring you twelve twisted tales of terror with a yuletide twist.

Thomas Kaiser inherits an ancestral mansion that has been in his family for generations — only to learn that he has also inherited an ancient curse stemming back to the Crusades. Forced into his new role as “protector” — the guardian appointed to keep the evil demons in the house at bay — Thomas teams with an ambitious local realtor and paranormal cleric to unravel the mystery of the house, while struggling to awaken the beautiful Briar Rose, held captive in a terrifying netherworld seen previously in his dreams.

Something is happening. It is happening nationally and locally. It is an ideology that manifests itself in graveyard desecrations, animal mutilations, human sacrifices and suicide. It categorically involves drug/ alcohol abuse, pornography, sexual perversion, physical/mental abuse, heavy metal music and drinking blood. And it is highly organized. Satanic/Occult organizations (churches) have corporate charters, own buildings, maintain national/ international computer networks, publish magazines/newsletters and hire professional public relations firms to polish their public image. It is both generational and self-styled. Some groups are esoteric while others are pantheistic.

A Chicago artist's sanity starts to unravel, unleashing a terrifying wave of violence when he begins to explore the macabre history of the Candyman.

In a California desert town, a short-order cook with clairvoyant abilities encounters a mysterious man with a link to dark, threatening forces.

Catherine is a young and sexually liberated girl with a boyish figure who lives with her older boyfriend Carlo, the author of erotic novels, in a seaside villa. There is also a maid there, with whom Catherine dallies on the side, lighting a fire under Carlo's creativity. A photographer named Ian is determined to take provocative nude photos of Catherine and, when Carlo is summoned to Rome on business, it seems his chance has come.

Nine Strangers each receive a mysterious invitation to a night in a seemingly empty house. Nobody has any clue as to why they are there, but when one of them shows up dead at the front door, they'll realise that leaving may not be an easy task.

A cheating wife goes off the deep end when her side piece finds love with a single woman.

When a missing news reporter's camera resurfaces, it reveals fragments of a deadly political conspiracy, murder, and corruption hidden from the public. As the footage falls into the hands of a disturbed stranger who continues recording his own descent into chaos, the camera becomes a chilling witness to an escalating nightmare where truth is as dangerous as the people trying to bury it.

Bureau of Paranormal Phenomena looks into the case of a mysterious broadcast that might have possibly led to the deaths of 4 families in the town of Lander in May 1986.

As a serial killer emerges through a small suburban town, fear increases within the residents.

A mad man recounts the events leading up to his arrest.

New Bye

Doug was never heard from again.

A group of strangers find themselves trapped in a maze-like prison. It soon becomes clear that each of them possesses the peculiar skills necessary to escape, if they don't wind up dead first.

From the youth directed novel of the same name by Greogor Tressnow comes a film by Detlev Buck that is a realistic portrait of life in the section of Berlin called Neukölln. It’s about power and weakness, delinquents and victims, and the difficulties a 15-year-old faces in a poor and criminal environment.

A young programmer whose job is to watch over the reality-warping Cube defies orders to rescue an innocent mother trapped in one of its rooms.

Four teenagers at a British private school secretly uncover and explore the depths of a sealed underground hole created decades ago as a possible bomb shelter.

Paul Rivers, an ailing mathematician lovelessly married to an English émigré; Christina Peck, an upper-middle-class suburban housewife and mother of two girls; and Jack Jordan, a born-again ex-con, are brought together by a terrible accident that changes their lives.