A mother battles with her son's fear of a monster lurking in the closet, but soon discovers a sinister presence all around her.
Hunger always strikes in the dead of night.
An actress answers a call from an unknown number and the conversation takes a strange turn as the man on the other end preys on her deepest vulnerabilities.
After her mother comes back from an extended hospital stay, a young girl begins to envision an ominous monster lurking in her home.
A young woman comes home one night and parks her car in the garage. Suddenly a blackout happens and she is trapped in the dark, but she is not alone...
A woman with a perfect life learns she's carrying a baby she didn't expect. With no one to turn to for help, she carries to term and really comes to understand the saying ‘your life is over when you have kids’.
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.
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A mysterious stranger comes between a happy couple, with deadly consequences.
A woman working as a cashier at an illegal gambling parlor pushes her luck by stealing money from gamblers as a way to pay off her own debts. When one gambler realizes he’s been cheated, he returns with murderous intent and the already dismal situation spirals out of control.
After being left to sleep on the couch alone, an apathetic husband is visited by an eerie stranger with a tempting offer.
A recent graduate is urged by an impossibly perfect woman to start digging a hole in a nearby park, setting in motion a chain of events that threaten her emotional balance and carefully maintained routines.
A sick woman is relieved to hear her partner return home... at first.
A man's nightmare proves just as unsettling after he wakes.
Martina and Sonja, cross-dress in vampire capes and werewolf claws, re-enacting familiar horror tropes. A corresponding soundtrack of stock screams and "scary" music suggests that the girls' toying with gender roles and power dynamics may have dire consequences.
A woman in a traffic jam desperately tries to help another woman she sees in the back of a van hold held by a hand that appears from the dark background of the vehicle.
When starting a chess game, João does everything he can to try to emerge victorious. During the game, strange things start to happen in your home. To try to understand what is happening, João will need to gather strength to defeat his biggest adversary: himself.
A young man and his elderly father are terrorised by a mysterious black dog in Connemara in 1910.
Dara, an enigmatic and beautiful woman with macabre secrets, invites an unwitting bachelor into her home. But when two unexpected suitors arrive, all hell breaks loose.
Two unexpected trick-or-treaters torment an isolated farmer after he has no treats to offer.