2022 Official Selections
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2022 Season
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Writer: Katelin Stack
Elaine got stood up by her date and left as prey for the infamous Card Killer stalking her town…will she escape his clutches or become his next victim?
Writer: Wes Worthing
Violet, an 11 year old shy outcast, wants to be friends with her classmates, but is bullied instead. Her Grandma Iris, a feared witch, joins her on a field trip, and in an attempt to teach the bullies a lesson, Iris conjures an overzealous creature from a nearby forest.
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Writer: Dark Hoffman
Detective Vance discovers a cult hellbent on raising an ancient evil that spread terror in the Georgetown, DC area 20 years ago. With the help of a Priest, they fight the demonic presence that threatens to take more lives.
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Writer: Martin Keady
After a drunken night out, a student goes looking for food and gets stuck in a walk-in freezer in his dormitory/hall of residence: he has to find a way out or face a slow, cold death.
Writer: Stephonika W. Kaye
Miranda, bent on revenge, crosses paths with Atlas on a desolate world in a withering galaxy. She is faced with the choice to continue on her hellbent path or help him on his journey to save thousands.
Writer: Brandon Salazar
It all begins in the movie theater, where people were being attacked by a rancor type of demonic creature called The Demonicor after they were booing at a Star Wars ripoff called Space Forces.
Writer: Sam Vanivray
A woman wakes to find she's imprisoned in a space jail as several disasters occur.
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Director: Natasha Pascetta
Chet, a washed up fake knight, loses everything after being fired from his job at a Medieval themed restaurant. In a booze fueled depression, Chet wanders into a house from hell and faces the fight of his life against an undead warrior. A battle ensues and Chet learns that it’s never too late to be your own hero.
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Director: Daniel Kerr
After being cut off from his only friend, Norm determines that in order to seem acceptable to those around him that he will go on a five week intensive diet. While the end goal is health and happiness it becomes clear that his methods are unlikely to achieve that.
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Director: Stephen Schlager
Detained, injured and tormented by her wicked and sometimes laughable captors, Katie is dragged through an emotional night of cruel games and quirky circumstances before finding a last chance at salvation from somewhere unexpected.
Director: Dorian Matthew Kelley
When a scientist succeeds in erasing one of their patients from existence, an empty human shadow is imprinted at the beginning of the universe. As the shadow awakens in the distant past, it feels a bitter drive to return to the blue planet from which it was cast. In the present, a soulless alien vessel filling itself with all knowledge of humanity resolves to defy its ancient creators after an unexpected connection with a human girl reveals their grim intentions and unnatural origin.
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Director: Wyatt Bukowski
A young man test the limits of his mind in his bedroom.
Director: Rene R Rivas
On the eve of her wedding, JUDY feels lost. Although happy to be engaged to her supportive and charming fiancé, PETER, she can't help but feel hidden in the shadow of his success. As she longs for a deeper meaning to her life, Judy's prayers are answered when a dark force calls out to her that night in her dreams. With a renewed sense of purpose, Judy proceeds down a new frightening path and embraces a change that will cost her everything she has ever known.
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Director: Tyler Mann
In a dystopian future where everyone is powered by batteries, Jace and Em decide to risk everything at the hope of a better future.
Directors: Peter McCarthy, Ben Conway
Theo is on the run from the police while still in handcuffs. He hides out in a nearby mansion with the help of Arthur, the supposed owner. Things take a turn for the strange when Arthur challenges him to a game of Bugaloo and Theo realises Arthur has his own problems. A failed escape leaves Theo playing a game for his own life. REVIEW BY FILM IRELAND: Directors Peter McCarthy and Ben Conway have produced 14 perfect minutes of high tension juxtaposed over an incredibly distressed soundtrack that is flawlessly synchronised with the action. Moe Dunford is aptly cast as the sinister Arthur. So too is the hapless Theo played by Ruairi Heading. Bugaloo is well worth a second and third viewing.
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Director: Kyle Kuchta
Bernie Davis, a Christmas tree salesman, has three trees left to sell on Christmas Eve. As the night progresses, his anxiety (and alcohol) leads him to take unconventional measures to ensure that his lot is sold and his soul is safe.
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Directors: Brette Taylor, Jack Roberts (Co-director)
Like a slow motion train wreck we watch Detective Becky Rawlings plunge into the depths of alcohol psychosis and its grim consequences. Suspended from the force and spiraling within a web of denial, Detective Becky Rawlings attempts to make the unworkable work.
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Directors: Marisa Cohen, Peter Issac Alexander
Set several decades in the future, The Interrogation is a cat and mouse game between a corporate media executive performing a “loyalty test” and a savvy news director harboring a potentially game-changing secret. The Interrogation explores a mind-bending and often-psychedelic world where an all-powerful media company sets all the rules and demands religious like devotion from its employees. In just 6 minutes, this short animation takes the audience on an unexpected ride full of twists and turns. Based on the award-winning The Cloaked Realm Universe created by Peter Issac Alexander and Marisa L. Cohen, The Interrogation features hand-drawn animation, an original score by John Baxter, and sound design by Dara Crawford.
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Director: Jerad S Marantz
A group of friends frantically try to escape an abandoned fallout shelter when they make the terrifying discovery that they're not alone.
Director: Luke Lidell
A novice detective investigates a murder. Different women in different worlds. Is he playing a dangerous game?
Director: Aidan White
When a mysterious parcel containing a children’s book on meditation arrives on the doorstep of a man suffering from crippling anxiety, he finds himself face to face with the darkest corners of his mind.
Director: Jason Warriner
Fed up with vermin trashing her vegetable beds, a gardener conjures some supernatural help, but unearths a bloodthirsty problem instead.
Director: David Glass
Vincent is a French international student coming to the US for his studies. As his plane lands, he panics, fearing to have lost his passport. This anxiety stays with him as he goes to be processed through border control. However, he is stopped. The border control officer can’t find any country that matches his passport. He doesn't seem to come from anywhere that exists. As he is taken away for interrogation, he learns that things are not always what they seem.
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Director: Matthew Dooley
A wounded survivor fights to maintain her sanity as she awaits her partner's return to their post-apocalyptic shelter.
Director: Piero Cannata
Two screenwriters, a ghost story, the night that goes on. Who will put an end to this?
Director: Dark Hoffman
A lineage of terror needs to be fed as a father and son's hunting trip goes terribly wrong
Director: Brandon Torres
A father must decide whether he can fight the creature outside the door, or if he must spare his daughter from a grisly death.
Director: Randy Memoli
A deadly virus forces a family to quarantine in their home. What happens next is unexplainable.
Directors: Asali Echols, Montgomery Samuel Thomas
What's black and white and dead all over? Something is rotten in Booneville. The Mayor turns up dead, and Detective Humphrey Trowell is uncovering a thicker and thicker web of lies. Will anyone come out of this wreckage alive?
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Director: Patrick Devaney
After two decades of controlling the world’s Virtual Reality market, MDI and its founder, Douglas McKinney, are in complete financial ruin. His toughest rival, multi-billionaire Blake Harper, founder of HarperSoft, is making a quick stop to buy what is left of MDI on his way to Tokyo for a five-day trade summit/mini-vacation. It has also been agreed that during their brief meeting, Harper will be buying one other thing: namely, McKinney’s entire identity as a human being. Harper’s legal guru, world-renown corporate attorney Sherri Prentiss, has choreographed every detail of both this acquisition and their Japanese excursion and tries to make quick work of the meeting. McKinney and his attorney, Magdalene Walsh, offer little resistance to the takeover. But will this be so quick and easy a deal? IDENTITY CHECK stars Lauren Clover, Marc L. Abbott, Matthew J. Kaplan, and Heather Drew. Written and directed by Patrick Devaney ("Impervia", "Aemorraghe", "Slingspeare")
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Director: Tate J. Navarro
This screen dance explores the psychological turmoil of an individual who seems to be caught in her own mind.
Director: Gavin Edmonds
Social outcast, David Green, experiences an accidental tragedy and must face the repercussions of an unwarranted mass following.
Director: Dan McPeake
A young girl and her imaginary friend have fun in the forest. But not all is as it seems as her reality begins to crumble on itself.
Director: Michael William Hogan
A young woman’s conflicted life battling multiple addictions and questionable choices culminates with an autopsy-like introspective journey when she finds herself locked in a morgue with the body of a long-lost love.
Directors: J Matt Wallace, E Brett Voss
Mad Man's Scream is a uniquely original concept and narrative mashup short based on Edvard Munch’s art "The Scream” while re-imagining scenes from The Shining, Night of the Living Dead, Psycho, Rosemary's Baby, Silence of the Lambs, and Scream. It’s an experimental film produced as an educational exercise by the Bosque Film Society, a non-profit organization in conjunction with The Cliftex Theatre in Clifton, Texas, the longest continuous running movie theater in Texas showing film since 1916.
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Director: Damon Abwon Clindinin
Someone looking for a good time, gets more than what they've bargained for.
Director: Florian Le Tavernier ARM
A birthday turns tragic when Charles, a young law student, accepts his friends' challenge. He is far from suspecting that his act will have serious consequences.
Director: Ryan Querubin
The manager uncovers the underbelly of his office when one of the employees mysteriously resigns by email.
Director: Shawn Robinson
30 year old Sarah finds herself locked in her bedroom with no way out. She soon realizes she is not alone.
Director: Edward Mizner
Troy seeks revenge on Frankie for stealing his film idea.
Directors: Sylaz Udee, Serhat Kaner, Berk Koca
Fred comes back to get his revenge for his daughter's death
Director: Peter Dorn-Ravlin
A thirteen year old girl finds she is not alone in the house. Can she survive the sinister presence?
Director: Fabricio Estevam Mira
While shaving his head in a dark and shabby bathroom, Jesus, thin, filthy, and in torn clothes, nurtures doubts about everything. Until the owner of the crumbling hotel where he lives knocks on the door, shouting at him for months of unpaid rent. Jesus is at his limit and runs away without direction. From humanity and from the obligation to save it. He flees from an omnipresent and manipulative father, cowardly and adored by hypocrites and murderers. Jesus flees but he is not the only one. Magdalene and Lucifer are out there. Watched by God. Lambs refusing to be slaughtered in a world of wolves hungry for eternal life.
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Director: S Francis Livisay
Axé follows the story of Nasim; a contractor in a morally gray enterprise rife with ambiguity, anonymity, and violence. In such business, it is not enough to be careful. You must have foresight. The consequences of action and inaction will always hit home.
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Director: Greg Berg
Nicole, pushed to her breaking point by a recurring nightmare of her mother's death, returns to her estranged step-father's house hoping he will use his invention to delete her haunting memory, but using the machine leads to more than she bargained for when it reveals what happened to her biological father.
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Director: Peter Anthony
A continuation of Friday The 13th Part VII The New Blood. The story takes place 13 months after the events of Part VII. Tina Shepard is being studied in the Camp Crystal Lake research facility for her telekinetic powers.
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Director: Brendan Rudnicki
In October, four filmmakers disappeared in a haunted house while live streaming on social media. A year later, their footage was found.
Director: Devin Shane Hylton
Attempting to save his sick child, a memory repairman and former hitman, Jack Whitlock, is drawn back to a life he thought he had left behind. When he is blindsided, unintended consequences arise and cause everyone from law enforcement, his former boss and current job to begin to question his motives and close in on him for the truth.
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Director: Matt Benton
Four paranormal researchers and YouTubers document the paranormal claims of the former Arnold family farmhouse built in 1736. Now known as the Harrisville Farmhouse and the inspiration for the well known movie "The Conjuring". Are the extreme Paranormal claims from the film real? Come along with researchers Matt Benton, Joe Vitale, Bill Cook, and Eric Conner as they delve into this mysterious haunting and share their incredible findings and evidence.
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Director: Duane Brown
In 1955 an unidentified flying object touched down on our planet in rural Kentucky. Meet the ambassadors that welcomed it. The Great Kentucky Goblin Spree is a campy 1950's sci-fi that is a moonshine-fueled assault on the senses detailing the backwoods standoff between The Baker Clan and visitors from the Unknown.
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Director: Mitsuo Kurihara
A story surrounding a statue built in 1600 called the Haunted Jizo. An evil ghost is eliminated by the power of the Haunted Jizo.
Director: Ray Mercer
Strange mysteries are enveloping Seattle, as unusually bloody crime scenes begin popping up with ever greater frequency. Compounding the chaos is the discovery of a new and deadly virus that is turning its victims into zombies. Eight strangers find their lives intersecting as they fight to stay alive while searching for answers, only to discover the origins of the pandemic are more frightening than anyone could have imagined. Humanity faces its greatest challenge yet as it comes to grips with the possibility of total annihilation.
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Director: Chuck Angell
In a home invasion gone wrong on Halloween, the beautiful hostage shares tales of dread in this anthology film.
