The Cleanse
The Queer Clique loves fresh meat. Newbie Kayden must complete the sacred initiation: The Cleanse. No food. No sex. Just juice. Let the cravings begin.
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Martina and Sonja, cross-dress in vampire capes and werewolf claws, re-enacting familiar horror tropes. A corresponding soundtrack of stock screams and "scary" music suggests that the girls' toying with gender roles and power dynamics may have dire consequences.
The Queer Clique loves fresh meat. Newbie Kayden must complete the sacred initiation: The Cleanse. No food. No sex. Just juice. Let the cravings begin.
When Michael attempts suicide and doesn’t leave a note, he inadvertently awakens Hattie, a demon that haunts the psychiatric hospital he's in. Now he must find a way to stop her rampage before she kills everyone he connects with.
A Hamlet-inspired tale of two sisters running their late mother's business. When one sister has a run-in with her (presumed to be dead) mother, chaos ensues.
The mysterious Count Orlok summons Thomas Hutter to his remote Transylvanian castle in the mountains. The eerie Orlok seeks to buy a house near Hutter and his wife, Ellen. After Orlok reveals his vampire nature, Hutter struggles to escape the castle, knowing that Ellen is in grave danger. Meanwhile Orlok's servant, Knock, prepares for his master to arrive at his new home.
After kidnapping a father and his two kids, the Gecko brothers head south to a seedy Mexican bar to hide out in safety, unaware of its notorious vampire clientele.
Three criminals pledge to free the soul of their friend from his gibbeted corpse in this short film based on 'The Highwayman' by Lord Dunsany.
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A woman is chased into her apartment by an unknown entity.
In this horror-comedy short, a remake with an original twist of Hideo Nakata's "RINGU", two drag queens, mourning the sudden death of their "Drag Mother", discover a mysterious VHS tape. When they watch it, a frightening figure appears, provoking an unexpected reaction from the duo.
Sugar the good vampire, her boyfriend Dex, and Marvin the homunculous attempt to hunt down a powerful vampire in order to resurrect Marvin's dead son.
An innocently chosen birthday present backfires in dark, weird and deeply disturbing ways in this dark comedy short film.
A young girl witnesses the murder of her family by a mysterious killer. Now she must try to survive before the killer finds her.
In a solitary existence, a man is unexpectedly gifted a plasmaball at his doorstep, unraveling a startling revelation. A gateway to an alternate realm situated on the opposite end of his world.
A young man journeys through a desert, where he is kidnapped by a sadistic stranger clad in a pig mask. The stranger proceeds to brutally torture the young man, who then finds himself escaping into his imagination, with fantasy and reality intersecting.
Tasked to create new DNA and bring about the rebirth of the Planet Earth. Ravens, the engineered executioners, were designed to rid humankind of its very nature when a relationship between extraterrestrial intelligence and humanity occurs.
A boy ferociously slaughters his friends, family, neighbors, and even strangers.
Serbia, in the year 1910: Milena Strasek has lived with her 12-year-old son Stefan in a small village since the father abandoned the family shortly after Stefan was born. Many years of uncertainty concerning the man’s whereabouts have taken their toll: Milena Strasek falls seriously ill and dies, leaving her son alone in the empty house. The father appears the following night. He has come to take his son, but Stefan refuses to go with him. It is a fateful encounter, changing Stefan for the rest of his life.
A group of teenagers decide to follow the path that Althea, an old witch, took, before her disappearance. They find a tunnel, and when they enter, it's not what they think.
Filmed only a few months after Tatsumi Hijikata’s first explosive public butoh performance, “Gisei” features Hijikata and members of his Asbestos Hall Troupe in a brutal allegory of a closed society. Shot by noted Japanese film scholar Donald Richie, “Gisei” still conveys the shock that Japanese audiences in 1959 must have felt at the birth of Hijikata's ankoku butoh, or "dance of darkness". Richie met Hijikata through mutual friend Yukio Mishima. They decided to collaborate on a film about segregation. Richie memorialized the film in his diary: “It is more than ever about the death of an individual, a distinct kind of human sacrifice.”
In the mountains of the Basque Country, a mother and her daughter take shelter in a ruined hut that seems uninhabited.