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In a decaying Universe where black holes are increasing, disillusioned young people seek to escape their bleak reality by using sonic drugs or pretending to be antisocial hikikomoris posing as robots. A rumor of a mythical rave beyond the cosmic microwave background circulates among them, where cosmic rhythm and meaning are believed to be controlled. Crooner-Boy (CB), a clumsy 40-year-old singer with a powerful voice, and Lena Ivkovic, a young activist, performer, and DJ, cross paths with the shared goal of reaching the rave. They persuade Commander Plank to take them on his ship, the Discovery 2. Plank, a narcissistic space traveler, is on a mission critical to the Universe's destiny: finding a new home for a wise but endangered cosmic species. The fates of these characters collide as they struggle, love, sing, and explore the Universe in the original space opera "Quantum Rave," blending music, humor, science fiction, action, relativity, and quantum mechanics. Themes like anthropocentrism, estrangement, and the role of art are humorously examined in this comedic adventure.
In a forsaken world long after humanity’s end, two eternal angels — once sent to watch over mankind — wander alone in the ruins of a forgotten theater. When one is possessed by the spirit of a dead actress, desire and damnation collide in a surreal battle of love, ghosts, and destiny.
A scientist and his daughter will have to face Him, a capricious god, as they interfere with His goal: stripping people of their memories and turning them into creatures known as "Forgotten Ones."
After a sexually frustrated hammer salesman steps on a rusty nail, he must determine whether the world’s sudden and violent turn against him is real or the result of an infection consuming his body and mind.
A strange encounter at a used bookstore leads four young seekers to a Video Course from the 1980s where they are introduced to Howard French and his twisted lessons on enlightenment : The Framework to Truly See.
After being cancelled, a BookToker stumbles into a mysterious book store looking for a comeback.
A strange and joyfull character comes to the friendly city of Teruel, with the intention of appearing at the casting of an audition. Unfortunately for the poor devil, everything will go wrong with dire consequences.
Follow, if you can, jazz driven inventor and tweed jacketed intellectual Jaque Gorgeaux, flung on a roller coaster ride through new and bizarre dimensions in time, light and mind as he removes the mask of sanity and dives within the strange interior of his self actualisation machine, the Mysterium Device.
Realities collide and merge as one as our hapless professor pursues the fearful redemption of the deadly but darkly erotic Moon Goddess Ilunia, hurled through an inner realm filled with weird and wonderfully frightening characters emerging from his subconscious on this, a quest to know the very nature of the quest itself!
From the haunted forests of a lost Portuguese village, an evil energy is born. Without fearing God or Man, it roams the valleys harvesting the souls of those who are distracted by the fleeting pleasures of the immediate... The only thing that separates these entities from the final apocalypse that will enslave humanity in the seventh circle of hell is a retired construction worker, a bottle of wine, a Zündapp 50cc motorcycle and a sword possessed by a strange demon.
The Stew is almost ready, but there is one thing missing… a dark adventure of unrequited love, societal decay and insatiable hunger.
'Stew to Eat' is a silent narrative in the style of 1920’s German Expressionism with modern flourishes peppered in throughout. It takes inspiration from a wide range of classics (Dr. Caligari, Carnival of Souls, The Marx Brothers' Paramount films, etc.) but also emerges as something new - it’s not quite horror, not quite comedy. It’s story-driven, and yet also formally experimental. More than anything, it’s a celebration of DIY world-building, unlikely communities, and the overwhelming urge to be seen.
Witness director Jeff Leroy's approved exclusive festival cut of this shot-on-video classic!
Deadly spiders are accidentally unleashed from a top-secret military installation. Army specialists and Tanks are called in to exterminate the deadly predators, but the outbreak is worse than expected. Weapons of mass destruction have little or no effect on the venomous spiders. Civilians are strangled with spider webs and eaten alive. The Military in a desperate effort to eradicate the killer spiders, decide to demolish the entire city.
In a dark corner of the universe, the exciting ritualistic birthday celebrations of a close-knit group
of friends are interrupted by a mysterious string of brutal murders.
A terrifying zero-budget tale of Birthdays and Blood (and sometimes Diarrhea), 12 years in the
making!
A man takes too much LSD and his hallucinations are confounded by a strange puppeteer selling cookies.
After 18 years in the underground music scene, Individual Distortion sets his sights on Indonesia's most prestigious music awards. Blending documentary with self-performance, the film uses humor, noise, and personal obsession to question how artistic legitimacy is constructed. What begins as a search for success slowly transforms into an intimate portrait of an artist learning to live with distortion rather than resolve it.
A stranger obsessed with the unsolved Redwood murders, convinces a group of bereaved family members to venture into the wilderness in hope of proving the existence of the infamous killer. Their quest for truth sees a sinister turn of events, as the hunters become the hunted. A blood-soaked fight for survival ensues when they find that the tales told of the axe-wielding manic is very real.
A young couple wakes up disoriented inside their overturned car. They are unsure of what happened following a heist that has clearly gone wrong. Trapped within the claustrophobia of the vehicle, their relationship is pushed to the brink by past mistakes and a profound emotional breakdown. What appears to be a tragic misfortune soon reveals a far darker reality.
A creatively stifled beautician-turned-mortician, provides makeovers at a funeral parlour for living teens.
An invasion of strange insects disrupts a family's world.
A young boy's pimple bursts, leading to a bloody disaster.
Kevin thought he was in for a simple one-night stand. But Jeanne, his date, is a shape-shifter. She takes the form of his fantasies, transforms to please him… until everything goes off the rails. What begins as a game of seduction turns into an intimate, brutal, and deeply unsettling reckoning.
A grumpy Welshman reluctantly visits his grandmother, only to discover she has only gone and got herself cursed! So now he needs to bloody save her (and the world) from a demon duck...before midnight.
16-year-old Treesa confronts monstrous manifestations of her insecurities during therapy. Escaping a nightmare world of vermin and plague, she discovers her fears still follow her beyond the treatment room.
Guilt-ridden after a fatal crash, LAYLA descends into sleep paralysis where nightmare and memory collide.
The storyteller tells a story. A story about unfinished business. When a mans business is unfinished he has unfinished business.
Lost in the vast Southern California desert, Josh wakes alone after a night with a mysterious Cowboy. As the landscape twists into a waking nightmare, Josh must uncover the truth about the Cowboy, the cloaked figures watching him, and his own forgotten past—before the desert claims him forever.
In August 2022, a group of squatters in Marseille discovered a treasure trove: the archives of the founder of France's first hard bdsm club, Mineshaft, which opened in 1967. What follows is a quest to trace the archives, pick up the pieces of history, and try to build a filiation, a dialogue with its ghost.
Two young gay male metalheads get locked and trapped inside a bombed out town and have to face the repercussions of a nuclear fallout and radiation poisoning while a supernatural horror begins to engulf their lives.
Two female friends on a road trip through the American Deep South become trapped by demented backwoods locals in this action-packed, ultra-violent tribute to Grindhouse movies of the 70s.
Sylvie, a mechanic, raises Léa alone — a rebellious teenager. During a freezing autumn, animal behaviour suddenly changes: nature revolts. In their isolated house at the edge of the forest, mother and daughter will have only each other to rely on…
KIM and PARK have been wandering the universe for 500 years in search of "answers" when they crash land on the strange planet of Spoilia.
7th century. Dymphna flees Ireland and her father, an incestuous king, to seek refuge in Flanders with her confessor. But when a wandering vagabond arrives at their hermitage, the repressed fears and desires of the young girl begin to surface.
On the night of the national holiday of April 21st (Tiradentes Day), a group of young students breaks into the university where they study in order to play a tabletop RPG game. Throughout the night, they are brutally attacked by a mysterious killer who dresses as Joaquim José da Silva Xavier (the historical figure known as Tiradentes) and who harbors a dark secret involving the political course of Brazil over the last decade.
It’s been years since anything spooky has happened in the town
of Helen’s Valley, and for good reason. Josh Harper (Courtney
Gains of ‘Children of the Corn’) has dedicated his entire life to
making sure those barn dwelling monsters never come back from
hell for anyone in the town or his sister, Heather (Kelli Maroney
of ‘Chopping Mall’). However, something far sinister is lurking in
the shadows, trying to resurrect the legend once again.