SICK

BENEATH CORPORATE SKIN(en)

In a cold, indifferent office, a worker's mind begins to slip, distorting the fabric of his life. As he spirals further into chaos, the only way out is through the very thing he fears: becoming what he sees.

Origins(en)

We go back in time, to the very beginning of Kaala's journey; when he was just a scared young man, dealing with the burden of his gifts. However, his life soon takes an interesting turn when he meets a mysterious figure who offers to help him. This is Origins.

Ingest(en)

Whilst clearing through his dead dad's apartment, David discovers an unmarked videotape. Which, upon playing, draws him to a sinister self-reflection.

SIGN-OFF(en)

Three friends staying at a motel are soon interrupted by an increasingly unsettling local emergency broadcast. With every message of caution that goes by, a growing threat looms over them as they fall under the eye of an unknown figure.

Mr. Whispers(en)

In Mr Whispers, we unveil a chilling story of long-buried horror, set in a town desperate to forget its tragic past. For decades, rumours have swirled about a place on the outskirts... a derelict cinema where something unspeakable once occurred.

Black & Blue(en)

In this Afro-surrealist tale, Coltrane, a gifted saxophonist haunted by trauma, struggles to stay paid and relevant in Harlem’s speakeasy scene. One drunken night, she plays for a mysterious presence promising to "feed her soul and lick her wounds"— but its price may be her sanity, safety, and self.

Experiments in the Dark(en)

A mysterious figure explores the uncanny and terrifying space between light and darkness.

KUMLAN(th)

The older brother and younger sister filming a documentary about the story of a man who recounts that after he drove through a forest at night, he began experiencing strange events that haunted him. He believes that something from that forest followed him back. The local legends about that forest provide clues that lead the siblings to encounter something that will haunt both of them for the rest of their lives as well.

El Fantasma(es)

Camp Minneshanka(en)

The young and reluctant new owner of Camp Minneshanka stumbles upon an old staff training video, unleashing a vengeful spirit that wants just one thing: to make a music video.

FaceTape(en)

A junkie decides to come clean from abusing an analog VR drug called FaceTape only to find his life outside of his addiction is far from stable.

Knifeman(en)

Mild-mannered IRS employee Horatio Hunt takes justice into his own hands to combat a monstrous threat to his city.

Spirit of the Flesh(ta)

A new film by Sheik Althaf Hussain. The plot is unknown at this moment; currently in private screenings and festival submissions.

Forever And Ever(en)

After a young child is kidnapped by a terrible monster, their loyal teddy bear sets off into the woods to rescue them.

Broadcast Signal Intrusion(en)

In the late 90s, a video archivist unearths a series of sinister pirate broadcasts and becomes obsessed with uncovering the dark conspiracy behind them.

Hamletmachine(de)

Hamlet and Ophelia reckon with their doomed narratives. Adapted from the 1977 East German Heiner Müller play of the same name.

Playland: A Dream-O-Vision Experience(en)

While attending a Dream-O-Vision experience at Playland, Annie finds herself far from the dreams and memories she was told she would be able to explore, instead, she stumbled into something claimed to be non-existent at Playland, a bad dream inhabited by an angry and long-forgotten memory.

Friends Are Forever: A Barney Analog Horror Film(en)

After purchasing a Barney doll, friends Kyle and Derek uncover a piece of Barney lost media that ensnares them in the schemes of a mysterious and dangerous superfan. Friends Are Forever unfolds as a grounded, psychological analog-horror told through found-media fragments, ARG breadcrumbs, and 2010s digital ephemera to explore how fandom, nostalgia, and exploitation collide in the internet age. Praised as “insanely well executed and thought out,” viewers highlight its “high production quality for a first-timer to the horror genre.”

Wafflehead(en)

Two documentarians settle into a small town and persuade a few hillbilly locals to help them find the sole survivor of a massacre.

The Tragedy of Images(pt)

The plot revolves around two completely different and distant women — a nurse and a fashion model — who are haunted by their own spectre after going through the same experience: they can no longer see their reflections in the mirror.

Black Box(en)

After losing his wife and his memory in a car accident, a single father undergoes an experimental treatment that causes him to question who he really is.

Never Let Go(en)

As an evil takes over the world beyond their front doorstep, the only protection for a mother and her twin sons is their house and their family’s protective bond.

Ghostland(en)

A mother of two inherits a home from her aunt. On the first night in the new home she is confronted with murderous intruders and fights for her daughters’ lives. Sixteen years later the daughters reunite at the house, and that is when things get strange...

Play Dead(en)

A woman wakes up injured in a basement surrounded by corpses. To survive, she pretends to be dead while a grotesque ritual unfolds in the house above.

Crimes of the Future(en)

With his partner, a celebrity performance artist publicly showcases the metamorphosis of his organs in avant-garde performances. An investigator from the National Organ Registry obsessively tracks their movements, which is when a mysterious group is revealed... Their mission — to use the artist's notoriety to shed light on the next phase of human evolution.

Begotten(en)

Begotten is the creation myth brought to life, the story of no less than the violent death of God and the (re)birth of nature on a barren earth.

The Town that Dreaded Sundown(en)

A masked maniac terrorizes the same small community where a murderer known as the Phantom Killer struck decades earlier.

V/H/S/94(en)

After the discovery of a mysterious VHS tape, a brutish police SWAT team launches a high-intensity raid on a remote warehouse, only to discover a sinister cult compound whose collection of pre-recorded material uncovers a nightmarish conspiracy.

V/H/S/99(en)

A thirsty teenager's home video leads to a series of horrifying revelations, harkening back to the final punk rock analog days of VHS, while taking one giant leap forward into the hellish new millennium.

Hollow Man(en)

Cocky researcher Sebastian Caine is working on a project to make living creatures invisible. Determined to achieve the ultimate breakthrough, Caine pushes his team to move to the next phase — using himself as the subject. The test is a success, but when the process can't be reversed and Caine seems doomed to future without flesh, he starts to turn increasingly dangerous.

Terrifier(en)

After witnessing a brutal murder on Halloween night, a young woman becomes the next target of a maniacal entity.

Eraserhead(en)

First-time father Henry Spencer tries to survive his industrial environment, his angry girlfriend, and the unbearable screams of his newly born mutant child.

Nightmare Cinema(en)

A series of down-on-their-luck individuals enter the decrepit and spine-chilling Rialto theater, only to have their deepest and darkest fears brought to life on the silver screen by The Projectionist – a mysterious, ghostly figure who holds the nightmarish futures of all who attend his screenings.

The Devil Conspiracy(en)

A powerful biotech company has breakthrough technology allowing them to clone history’s most influential people with just a few fragments of DNA. Behind this company is a cabal of Satanists that steals the shroud of Christ, putting them in possession of Jesus’ DNA. The clone will serve as the ultimate offering to the devil. The Archangel Michael comes to earth and will stop at nothing to end the devil’s conspiracy.

The Entity(en)

A single mom is raped by an invisible force. Her psychiatrist believes the experience stems from childhood trauma, while she knows something supernatural is at play.

The Dogs(en)

After fleeing his psychotic father, a young teen and his mom seek refuge in a remote farmhouse, only to face a pack of ferocious dogs and the sinister spirits that haunt the property.

Southbound(en)

The film contains five stories set on desolate stretches of a desert highway. Two men on the run from their past, a band on its way to a gig, a man struggling to get home, a brother in search of his long-lost sister and a family on vacation are forced to confront their worst fears and darkest secrets in these interwoven tales.

Latency(en)

When professional gamer Hana, who suffers from acute agoraphobia, receives new equipment that enhances her game, she begins to wonder if it is reading her mind – or controlling it.

Eli(en)

A boy named Eli with a rare autoimmune disorder is confined to a special experimental clinic for his treatment. He soon begins experiencing supernatural forces, turning the supposedly safe facility into a haunted prison for him and his fellow patients.

Altered States(en)

A research scientist explores the boundaries and frontiers of human consciousness. Using sensory deprivation and hallucinogenic mixtures from Native American shamans, he explores these altered states of cognizance and finds that memory, time, and reality itself are states of mind.