Films we selected this year
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Level One, Director Roxy Shih
Level One follows one woman's surreal journey through an unsolvable escape room as she comes to terms with the hidden structures that keep her trapped.
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Fido, Directors John Norris Ray, Maria Victoria Sanchez
A young girl watches an old dog. Taking the dog on a walk, a rough encounter with a bully has dire consequences.
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Off Course - The Short, Director Spencer Stander
Inspired by real endurance race disappearances, desert survival stories, and ultra-marathon disasters, Off Course is a survival horror feature built around creators with a massive built-in audience. Isaiah Miranda has 6M+ followers, Nikki Howard has 1M+ followers, and together they bring a digital-native fanbase into a grounded, terrifying horror story.
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500 Tunnels Under Los Angeles, Director Harry Valentine
In “500 Tunnels Under Los Angeles,” we follow Mika, an Urbex Vlogger cataloguing the forbidden underground in Los Angeles. Unable to live with survivor’s guilt after losing her friend Haley in a pedestrian crosswalk tunnel, she tries to leave her painful memories behind.
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Shadows, Director Sophia Terranova
When three teenage boys break into a tourist attraction: a vast maze of underground caves, they discover the only way to save their lives is to work together to outsmart an evil and human-consuming creature.
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Stage Plays and Screenplays we selected this year
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Cascade Crusader, Writer Regan Young
Cascade Crusader is a Western Horror set in the late 1870's about a steam locomotive “Chapel on Rails” transporting a clergy and its dangerous occult cargo. The train is ambushed by cannibalistic raiders, and inadvertently wrecked in a tunnel avalanche. Trapped in the cold darkness with an occult beast that feeds on the passengers, the survivors must find a solution among the dark wreckage and freezing temperatures to destroy the beast and bury it forever.
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Dead Station, Writer Anthony SalamonWhen a communications specialist joins a six-person crew aboard the International Space Station, a mysterious breach threatens their survival, and as paranoia tears the crew apart, she must uncover the truth before the air, and trust, runs out.
After an ISS crew begins to suspect a drilled hull leak is sabotage, a rookie mission specialist uncovers a classified “observer” simulation, and something far worse, forcing her to question what is real and what isn’t, as an evil that is killing those aboard the space station may already be inside her. |
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Feral Mountains, Writer Terry Luke Podnar
A man with stricken anxiety is forced to move his family to a remote area of the Appalachians where they make a shocking discovery lurking in the mountains when their dog captures a baby monkey.
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Death Can Be a Funny Business, Writer Joe Fishel
A funeral home director who moonlights as a stand-up comedian must learn to cope with four ghostly visitors who appear during his daily life and performances. While the spirits of his past heckle him from the limelight of the comedy club to the shadows of his family’s mortuary, Pete Perman must decide if humor is a way to honor the dead or a way to hide from the living.
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Gated Community, Writer Erin ReinAfter an infidelity, a millennial couple leaves LA for an idyllic small town to fight for their marriage - but when they discover their friendly new neighbors belong to a depraved polygamist cult, they end up fighting for their lives.
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Cedar Creek Falls, Writer Chris BennettsA private investigator returns to his home town to investigate a mysterious local legend that many fears is responsible for the surge in missing children.
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Grad Nite, Writer Sion-Raize
While enjoying an overnight celebration at a regional theme park, a group of graduating high school students are targeted by a vicious killer wearing a dragon mask.
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Sanguis Septem, Writer Caprice Castano
When seven women are found dead in ritualistic formation, a detective arrives in a small town where grieving husbands share an uncanny unity. Beneath their respectable facades, the husbands are bound by something darker than grief. The investigation unfolds exactly as it should.
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Morbidly, Writer Don StroudA young physical therapist slowly loses his grip on reality as he succumbs to the seductiveness of his only patient, a morbidly obese woman with a grisly secret.
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Against the Devil, Writer Timothy JohnAn ex-reporter turned college professor is in a race against time to save the two students he sent out to investigate a satanic cult from being sacrificed to the demon Belial.
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