Los Angeles County Premieres at Screamfest
The first public screening of the film in Los Angeles County.
Film Category
The Call
Meet the Filmmaker
Synopsis
Benoit, 50, is a police lieutenant wounded by the disappearance of his wife, Lise. Unable to perform his grief, he sees his physical and mental health decline when she mysteriously surface again years later. Then, Benoit begins to undergo a strange transformation...
Film Category
THE AUTUMN OF ZAO
Meet the Filmmaker
Synopsis
Zao is a little boy with an incurable disease, in a house beside a lake. A little girl, Cloe, leads through the forest and tells him the legend of the lake monster. Beyond the pain, death and time, The Autumn of ZAO is a hymn to dream, life and childhood.
Film Category
The Abandoned
Meet the Filmmaker
Synopsis
THE ABANDONED is a claustrophobic thriller that follows a troubled young woman who, in a last-ditch effort at getting her life together, takes a job working nights as a security guard at an abandoned luxury apartment building. Stuck with a brusque rent-a-cop as her partner, she tries to not let her mind play tricks on her while she patrols the empty halls. But as the night progresses strange things begin to happen - and she realizes it may not all be in her head.
Film Category
A Tricky Treat
Meet the Filmmaker
Synopsis
A man is kidnapped by a very strange family, and his fate is held in the hands of two kids.
'A Tricky Treat' presents a shocking tale of the unexpected with a twist.
'A Tricky Treat' presents a shocking tale of the unexpected with a twist.
Film Category
The Unseen
Meet the Filmmaker
Synopsis
A man, who years earlier mysteriously abandoned his family and isolated himself in a small northern town, returns for one last chance to reconnect with his troubled daughter. When she goes missing, he risks everything to find her, including exposing the fact he is becoming invisible.
Film Category
Trash Fire
Meet the Filmmaker
Synopsis
When Owen is forced to confront the past he's been running from his whole adult life, he and his girlfriend, Isabel, become entangled in a horrifying web of lies, deceit and murder. You'll laugh. You'll cry. You'll be scarred for life.
Film Category
Those Among Us
Meet the Filmmaker
Synopsis
Two men living in isolation kidnap, torture and kill seemingly innocent victims; but all is not what it appears to be in this gritty short horror film.
Film Category
Therapy
Meet the Filmmaker
Synopsis
Jane and Simon are two young police officers leading a routine investigation following the discovery of hidden video equipment in an abandoned house by a night watchman. At first glance, they don't seem to contain anything unusual. They show five tourists taking advantage of the seasonal weather to go camping. As they continue watching, they discover that the group's fresh-air excursion takes a sudden turn for the worst. Seized with panic, the young campers reluctantly end up in an abandoned building where it quickly becomes obvious that they are not alone, and that they've stepped into their own graves. To save them, Jane and Simon will have to act quickly, even if it means risking their own lives in the process.
Film Category
The Sunken Convent
Meet the Filmmaker
Synopsis
A man wakes up, he goes to work, he eats in, he does a bit of home surgery, he drives to the woods. Told without words and loosely inspired by the tale by Hans Christian Andersen, 'The Sunken Convent' is a grotesque and slightly surreal story of bad habits.
Film Category
Un Réflexe
Meet the Filmmaker
Synopsis
It is the story of the man who the routine and the commonness of its life made embittered, expressionless and insensible. In the grip of a relation of couple with a woman whom he hates, he avoids the family home every day to go to his work where he repeats an endless movement..