Ruby's Secret

The Beckoning(en)

In the days preceding a total solar eclipse, the receipt of a peculiar and intriguing gift sets a reclusive man on a path to discover an ancient and unworldly power.

Santa Claws(en)

Produced for Glass Eye Pix as part of their 2008 Creepy Christmas Online Film Festival, in which each short was inspired by the inhabitants of a Christmas diorama advent calendar. Each filmmaker was assigned a specific date and given the props that were used in that window to use in their short. This is the eighth film in the series.

Five Minutes(en)

When John and his daughter Mia are attacked by zombies, they manage to escape to their apartment at the last second. But John was injured in the fight against one of the undead. Unsure whether he has been infected, there is only one test he can take: he must remember, because the first symptom is memory loss within five minutes. While the zombie horde tries to break into the apartment, John and Mia are faced with a terrible decision.

If There's a Hell Below(en)

Abe is an ambitious journalist. Debra is an idealistic whistle-blower. In a few minutes, they will meet. An hour later, one of them will be dead.

Deformed(es)

A young man is forced to eat constantly because of a strange condition that causes deformations on his body.

Cold Comfort(en)

A dark, futuristic love-story about a woman consumed by a broken heart and her attempt to replace her lover.

The Escape(en)

In an attempt to sneak out of his house, a high school senior will have to play a dangerous cat and mouse game to avoid his father.

Ten Times Love(xx)

Ten fragments of an exciting romance without love and feelings in the life of Numa, an anti-romantic hero of our liquid time.

Mum's Sweater(en)

After her mother's death, Kim finds solace in wearing her mother's old sweater. However, the sweater begins to itch and even hurt her, but she still can't bring herself to take it off.

Skeleton Frolic(en)

Ub Iwerks dusts off the skeletons from his early-Disney days and puts them to work at Columbia… in a graveyard replete with eerie owls and surrealistic bats, skeletons begin to rise from their graves and form a loosely-jointed band.

Como Não Arranjar um Namorado(pt)

More Than You Can Chew(en)

The story follows two paramedics who get “more than they can chew” when responding to a 911 house call.

Bunnicula, the Vampire Rabbit(en)

When strange accidents happen at the factory where Mr. Monroe works, and vegetables are drained of their juices, the neighbors as well as Harold the dog and Chester the cat suspect that the new-found family bunny is really a vampire.

Shadows(es)

A veteran judge is nominated to the Supreme Court, sparking a fierce battle between opposing sides. As his past comes under scrutiny, accusations and rumors threaten to change everything.

Train de nuit(fr)

The man is seated in the compartment. Alone, he speaks to Lise through his memory. He goes towards the sea. It’s the goal of the travel. There in this big house with a view on the waves, despite Lise not being there, despite her death, he sees her, he is with her.

Cat in the Eastern Palace(zh)

Su Jin meets Li'er. As their bond grows, the weight of Su Jin being the crowned prince and Li'er as a cat spirit grows heavy.

Maniac(fr)

Short horror mockumentary about a camera crew that follows two serial killers.

Roger Is a Serial Killer(en)

A podcaster implicates her step-father in a series of unsolved murders, which makes for a compelling show but an awkward family reunion.

Sugar Babies(en)

Kieran is making hard cash from a con he's recently developed: blackmailing married men out of a few hundred quid by claiming to be only 15 when he sleeps with them. It's not long before he ropes his boyfriend, Jamie, in for the ride but his first job goes terribly wrong. The couple are at odds and tension builds to an explosive point where Kieran confesses to having never loved Jamie to begin with. But when Kieran is arrested for a crime he did not commit and Jamie runs over to check if the police found the cash-stash, Jamie finds hidden evidence that Kieran really did care all along.

The Right Girl(en)

There is always a right girl for all of us; sometime, somewhere, somehow we find her. But often the discovery leads through strange channels and peculiar by-ways. A young heiress, discouraged by fruitless efforts to secure a suitable husband at the seashore and fashionable summer resorts, decides to go to visit her old nurse, to recuperate. She does not want the town people to know she is an heiress, so she changes places with the nurse's daughter. A youth who is pretty much "down and out" receives a letter from a city friend saying that the heiress is in town. The friend advises him to board at the house at which she is staying with the intention of courting the her.