Horror

Across the country, video calls are interrupted when hackers break into a widely used chat application and broadcast a message using AI to all users that will change their lives forever.

Screened as part of the Sarasota Filmmakers Narrative section.

When a phone scammer makes one last late night call, the woman on the other end gives her much more than she bargained for.

Two former best friends reunite in a changed world, finally confronting the demons that ripped them apart.

Halloween night, three friends high in a van, and an urban legend surrounding a cult singer’s mysterious death in a fire – what could go wrong?

From the Academy Award winning team behind Curfew, The Helping Hand explores the ties between technology and a growing family. With a new baby at home, young parents adopt a hi-tech monitoring system. Will it be an answer to their woes or have they invited a monster into their home?

Eduardo (Tavinho Teixeira) has a mysterious disease in his body. The appearance of crabs everywhere in the tropical city of Recife may have something to do with it.

Evelyn lives isolated in a cabin in the woods haunted every night by monsters of unknown origin. One day she finds a dying man in the forest and decides to help him. Unable to trust him to stay or exile him into a certain death, she ties the stranger up inside the house and becomes entranced by him, struggling between her safety and her sexual desires.

Being a mother is supposed to be joyful. Being a child is supposed to be fun. Having a family is meant to be life-affirming. But nothing in this home is like it’s supposed to be.

WASH is a short horror film about the worst fear a parent can have.

Kerry is at a sleepover with the socially awkward, mysteriously orphaned heiress Katie. Friendship–in a society that grows ever isolating–is explored as Kerry learns the hard way that Katie always gets what she wants.

The (partly) real story of a cruise ship vacation for conspiracy theorists that takes a turn for the surreal when their most outlandish theories come true on board. Starring Henry Zebrowski and supported by Borscht Corp.

This moody and atmospheric thriller examines the proclivity some have to lay claim to power and the autonomy others surrender in letting them have it. When a tenement building boards up due to Soviet threats, will anarchy take hold? Fear-mongering maintain order? Or can unity bring the tenants together…?

Despite hard fought battles, will Sergio lose the war for his stability to Lucifer himself?

A man’s nightmares and waking hours begin to blur in this tense and terrifying thriller.

An online troll inadvertently invites a real one into his dreary cave of an apartment.

A sculptor strives to recreate the female form in this macabre, disturbing, and sensual examination of obsession.

Armed with Scripture and sage, inexperienced priest Carl and pet-psychic Christina perform an exorcism.

In this slow-burn feminist standoff, two women repairing their car unleash a surprise when harassed.

In this ode to silent cinema, a deranged inventor kidnaps ballerina’s to create a mechanical dancer.