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Anniversary

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Craig Ouellette

Director
Synopsis
Rubin and Lilly are just married, expecting a baby and driving off into the sunset. It was supposed to be the best day of their lives.
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ANGEL CITY HORROR

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Matthew McWilliams

Director
Synopsis
Los Angeles, 1951. Detectives George Hard and Glenn O'Brian investigate the disappearance of a mental patient from LA's most notorious insane asylum and discover something evil lurking inside.
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Afterlife

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Daniel Butler

Director
Synopsis
A dead man wakes to discover he's a vampire only to struggle to follow through with his dreams of escape.

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Writer's Block

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Steven Schloss

Director and Cinematographer
Synopsis
In hopes of earning his freedom, a prisoner embarks in a bloody process involving dismemberment, excessive smoking and mutilated bunnies.
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THE WAKE

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Luis Gerard

Director
Synopsis
A restless 15-year-old has spent his life surrounded by death, raised in his parents' funeral business in a small town. Viewing his alcoholic father as profiting from the dead, our hero does him one better leading to some unexpected consequences.
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Buzzkill

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Peter Ahern

Director
Synopsis
Tune into the blind date woes of Rick and Becky (who has something in her eye...and her closet).
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VRDLK: Family of Vurdulak

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Sam Chou

Director
Synopsis
VRDLK: (pronounced Vor-Du-Lac) centers around a traveling diplomat that is caught in a snowstorm and forced to take shelter with a poor Serbian family.
When the family warns him of “beasts” that hunt in the night, he is quick to dismiss their fears as superstition and fairy tales - a mistake he may not have a chance to make twice.
Based on acclaimed Russian writer, Aleksey Tolstoy's 1839 gothic novella, "The Family of The Vourdulak"
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The Ratcatcher's Daughter

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Jim Bryson

Director
Synopsis
In the bitterly cold streets of Petrograd, the daughter of an infamous Ratcatcher flirts with a revolutionist and is thrust into a nail-biting, journey into the dark, mysterious forgotten underworld.
Based on a tragic love story by Alexander Grin, 'The RatCatcher's Daughter' paints a grim tale of 1920's post war Russia, plagued by poverty, addiction and the threat of revolution.
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RINGWORMS

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Will Lee

Director
Synopsis
After discovering her boyfriend's plan to propose on their weekend vacation, a young girl undergoes a crisis of commitment which attracts the attention of a sinister local cult.
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UNHEIMLICH

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Fabio Colonna

Director
Synopsis
During a rainy night, a girl wakes up after a nightmare. She will discover that things are not as normal as the house has become a surreal maze, with a sinister creature waiting in the shadows.
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Code One Eighty Seven

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Buz Wallick

Director
Synopsis
Two detectives begin a routine investigation of what appears to be a homicide but there are no visible signs of death, the apartment is spotless, and there is a strange portrait of a little girl with bloody words written on it. It doesn't take them long to realize that something else is at the crime scene, lurking in the shadows.
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The Eyes

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Mike Timm

Director
Synopsis
Nothing goes unseen in this 80s camp creature short where the eyes of karma haunt one man's wrong choices.