Seven festival-winning shorts. Seven horrifying and hilarious tales of people trapped in their own special hells. The perfect Halloween movie.
Jack (segment "Jack Attack")
Oscar (segment "Jack Attack")
Elliot (segment "Jack Attack")
Kelly (segment "Incident on Highway 73")
Jeff (segment "Incident on Highway 73")
Alex (segment "Black Sugar")
Adam (segment "Cold Turkey")
Teacher (segment "Cold Turkey")
Cass (segment "Killer Kart")
8.0Emmy is babysitting Rhian and Sophie on Halloween night when Rhian demands a scary bedtime story. Sophie, Rhian's teenage sister, joins them for a story after some playful goading by Emmy. After each tale, the girls request another until they find out that sometimes you should be careful what you wish for. Haunting Tales is a Thriller/Horror anthology that explores different stylistic stories from Avant-garde and Hitchcockian Black Comedy to the tried and true Psychological Thriller.
9.2Michaela 'Traps' Sinclair is a trans sex worker trying to get by in Vancouver while also mentoring her recently-out friend Adeline and making an attempt at pursuing actual motherhood. Meanwhile, lowly production assistant Turner finds himself dangerously spiraling into inceldom as his current relationship implodes.
7.7This anthology film, whose Chinese title begins with a romantic name for human excrement, premiered internationally at Rotterdam and won Best Screenplay from the Hong Kong Film Critics Society. A variety of Hong Kong people wrestle with nostalgia when facing an uncertain future. Their stories give way to a documentary featuring a young barista turned political candidate.
0.0Cursed videos included: 13 Years of the Curse, Policeman Doll, The Woman Looking at Afunruparo Part 1, Riverbed Madness, The Woman Looking at Afunruparo Part 2, Private Bath, Creepy Figurine, The Woman Looking at Afunruparo Part 3 & Cursed Home Movie.
6.9An anthology of eleven vignettes featuring star-studded casts of extremely unique individuals who all share the common activities of conversing while drinking coffee and smoking cigarettes.
0.0An anthology of tales from Hong Kong.
8.0A year after the death of his paternal grandmother at the age of 101, filmmaker Martin Villeneuve brings her back to life using a special talent.
A short comedy about two officers who go deep undercover, things are not all as it seems.
5.0Two friends hide in an old theater to escape ravenous hordes of vampires, zombies and werewolves.
5.4One camera in one setting, one attic and eight young directors – the result is a unique Dadaistic collage of seven short sketches. The original task for each filmmaker was to keep each short under three minutes, to set it in one hotel room, and to include the sentence “I miss Sonja Henie." This experimental film was shot over a single night at the international film festival FEST in Beograd in 1971.
5.8One-night stands, Internet dates and unrequited love are among the topics in this anthology of 7 gay-themed short films. In Signage (2007), a middle-aged man hooks up with a deaf younger man, while the offbeat 41 Seconds [41 Sekunden] (2006) chronicles a brief but steamy encounter. Shahram & Abbas (2006) follows two Iranians pretending to be homosexual in order to be granted asylum in Holland, and Mr_Right_22 (2007) focuses on a waiter who dispenses farsighted advice to a customer. Also includes: Scarred (2007); Serene Hunter (2007); and Solace (2007).
5.6An anthology film consisting of four segments based on literary works by Edogawa Ranpo.
0.0Unraveling the fantastical orgins of lizards, bats, monkeys, and water lilies.
6.0This anthology features three chilling horror movies that include tales of supernatural beings and other beasts, such as "Nieves" in which a local hero must save her hometown from rampaging nature spirits known as Engkanto. In "Emergency," ghoulish creatures attack a remote hospital, and in "Class Picture," the ghost of a sadistic nun attacks a group of college friends. Mike Tuviera and Topel Lee direct these hair-raising films.
3.3A horror movie duology: "The Black Veil" is set in 1888, as the widow of a psychiatrist visits a college friend who is performing in a theatre that enacts gruesome mutilations and torture. In "Listen to Midnight" a photographer recounts the events leading up to his murder, which is linked to a story he had heard in Japan about a female dragonfly luring the male to his death.
6.23 horror stories based on the writings of Nathaniel Hawthorne. In the 1st story titled "Dr. Heidegger's Experiment", Heidegger attempts to restore the youth of three elderly friends. In "Rappaccini's Daughter", a demented father is innoculating his daughter with poison so she may never leave her garden of poisonous plants. In the final story "The House of the Seven Gables", The Pyncheon family suffers from a hundred year old curse and while in the midst of arguing over inheritance, a stranger arrives.
5.1When an awkward date on Christmas Eve leads a couple into a strange theater, they're treated to a bizarre and frightening collection of Christmas stories, featuring a wide ensemble of characters doing their best to avoid the horrors of the holidays. From boring office parties and last-minute shopping, to vengeful stalkers and immortal demons, there's plenty out there to fear this holiday season.
4.2An anxious young drag queen searches for a way out before a revealing news story hits the airwaves, two silent strangers wander out into the night in a city under curfew, and a lively summer camp seeks to rid the youths of America of their sinful heterosexual desires. A defiant collection of shorts exploring passion, persecution and revolt from eras past, present and future. The 5 short films are: AYOR (2021); All the Way (2018); Lost Queens [Locas perdidas] (2015); Gay Camp (2018); Undercurrent [宵禁] (2020).
6.3A young and excentric radio DJ airs a successful program in which diverse calls come in from anonymous listeners, who reveal their love stories, all charged with mix-ups, disputes and passion.
