Written/Directed by Yiyi Yin; Produced by Saad Nawab
Xiao’s perfect girlfriend, Wan Mei, has left him. Heartbroken, he gets a mannequin to fill the void, but Wan Mei unexpectedly comes back to him. Xiao is relieved, but when he realizes she is still in love with another man, he resorts to revenge… and the love of a mannequin.
15 minutes
Written/Directed by Adam Bolt; Produced by Matt Miller, Erich Lochner
In a dangerous, abandoned city, a mother has been bitten by a zombie. Locked in a house with a violent survivor, she must find a way to get her child to safety before her deteriorating mind and body turn her into a monster.
13 minutes
Written by Walt Guthrie; Directed by Matt Green, Produced by Richard Rosenthal
A criminal’s plan goes toxic.
7 minutes
Written/Directed by Mark G. McFarlane; Produced by Mark G. McFarlane, Jimmi Johnson & Alex Morrison
Mara suffers from a living hell every day and night due to the exhausting effects of recurring sleep paralysis. Her waking moments are plagued by exhaustion, and her nights become fraught with dread due to the terrifying hallucinations the condition brings. However, the things Mara sees may not always be hallucinations…
4 minutes
Written/Directed by Michael Chaves; Produced by David Moore & Lynda Prybil
A desperate real estate agent is pushed to the edge as she tries to sell a mansion with a mysterious past. Who is her client and what do they really want? And when she starts to discover the truth, how far will she go to make the sale?
9 minutes
Written/Directed by Kaitlin Tinker
A senior fisherman is obsessed with capturing a mermaid and has been doing extensive training to be ready for a possible life in the sea. This puts considerable strain on his marriage. One day, everything changes. Fantastical and hard-hitting, this enthralling breakout short explores the depths of the human shadow. Swim beneath the surface.
16 minutes
Written/Directed/Produced by Darva D. Campbell
In 1892 Lizzie Borden’s parents were brutally murdered. In 2016 the jumprope rhyme still haunts our psyches, and perhaps with good reason. In this modern take, little Elizabeth just doesn’t like being told what to do, and so takes some advice from the mesmerizing tale on her TV screen.
4 minutes
Written by Walt Guthrie; Directed by Matt McGahren; Produced by Richard Rosenthal
A young girl is haunted by a strange grinning man.
8 minutes
Written/Directed by David Osorio & Kieran Shea; Produced by Wolfram Parge, David Osorio & Kieran Shea
While on patrol, Border Patrol Agent Manny Bonilla makes a grisly discovery. But has someone – or something – led him to it?
11 minutes
Written/Directed by Mike Pecci
12 Kilometers is a true edge-of-your-seat film, dragging you down to the darkest depths of the human psyche, while taking you on a beautiful ride through director Mike Pecci’s nightmare. The film serves as a prologue and proof of concept for a feature film that Pecci wrote while in intensive care suffering from a massive head injury. Early last year, when attempting to ice skate for the first time, he slipped and cracked open his skull. A massive blood clot formed around his brain causing hallucinations and nightmares, Pecci dreamed of a creature that could control your inner voice. Two weeks later he wrote the script for a first film in a horror franchise. One month later he was starting production on the prologue…this film. All the FX and visuals for 12KM were shot in-camera, and biologist and micro photographer Linden Gledhill filmed the creature FX on sets no larger than the surface of a dime. The film is in Russian dialect to immerse the audience a reality that is based on the actual events at the Kola Borehole in Russia. Imagine if Spielberg, Carpenter, and Lynch teamed up to direct an episode of X-files and created a fresh new look for horror.
28 minutes
