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After unearthing a wooden crate containing a seemingly innocuous porcelain doll in the dusty attic of the historic Warwickshire Museum, unsuspecting curator David Whittaker starts to experience unusual and hair-raising happenings. Utterly unaware of the haunted artifact's dark heritage rooting back to 1692 Salem, David, his family, and his colleagues come face-to-face with an ancient, malevolent force that craves innocent souls.

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.

You wake up in a warehouse where a bunch of degenerates is willing to execute you.

VICKI is a loving, somewhat subtly comedic homage to John Carpenter’s truly underrated Christine, adapted from the novel by Stephen King. It’s also a stand-alone tribute to 80′s horror in general, with very controlled compositions, non-choppy edits, a natural lighting style (like the master, Dean Cundy), and a killer synth soundtrack by Umberto and Time Fighter.

A demonic dagger passed throughout a small village starts to disrupt the lives of those it comes into contact with.

In 1964, during the construction of an electric dam, a macabre discovery causes a serious incident. Thinking that the communication outage on the construction site is caused by a broken telephone line, Raymond and Fleurian are sent to the site to repair it. They will be the first to discover what really happened to the workers...

Late night in Jakarta, a woman walks home alone and becomes a man's sexual harassment target, but things take an unexpected turn when the hunter suddenly becomes the hunted.

A mind-bending psychological horror about a deadly game played by five friends after a night out.

A young boy in a dark room must face alone a mysterious threat.

A man engulfed in the suffocating grip of loss finds his life fragmented. Struggling to navigate through his emotional fog, his mother suggests a retreat to her cabin – but an ancient entity that thrives on sorrow has taken root. The New England winter punctuates this love letter to creeping horror and slow cinema.

Jacob, Tony, and Brandon are on a night drive through the wooded outskirts of an unknown city. While his friends sleep, Jacob remembers where he's seen the upcoming overpass, the man standing on the other side of it, and the abandoned parking garage sitting above the road.

A Group of tourists in Azores are lost in the woods, they see a old couple that tells them that there is a hotel nearby that can host them that night. When they arrive to the horrible place they find out that the hotel is haunted by a bride's ghost that gained life to destroy them. Will they get out alive?

On the anniversary of his wife's untimely death, a man convinces her twin sister to perform a ritual to allow him to see her again.

After watching his favorite TV program, Medical Emergency, Alberto (8) asks he father, Félix (50) to play with him. Alberto, trying to ask and bug his father to play with him, provokes his drunk and nearly unconcious father to try to hit him. However, when Félix gets up, he falls under his own weight and hits his head. Alberto attempts to save his dad by following the step by step directions of the medical TV show.

A young woman brings a friend over for family dinner...

Caleb, came from a rich family with extraordinary perks in almost every avenue of life, albeit sports, college or his social life. This made him attract girls from everywhere, but surprisingly, he always kept to himself. Until one day.

Children of the past reach through the folds of time

A homeless eats a strange biscuit and begins to hallucinate; everything around him becomes an evil space.

A grief-stricken brother drags his skeptic sister to a medium in hopes of connecting with their dead mother.

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.