A couple move to the countryside looking for a new beginning. But a mysterious mirror turns everything inside out. A young care worker agrees to care for a dying man, only to stumble unto secrets that refuse to stay hidden. A musician struggling with writer's block is haunted by his own muse and a psychologist starts losing her grip on reality following a harrowing accident. Four separate yet interconnected chapters, each of them a contemporary horror-adaptation of a story by Hans Christian Andersen, tell four stories about fate and acceptance, about love and loss. Made on a budget of 70.000 EURO, ADORABLE HUMANS is an anthology film made in close collaboration between its four directors, looking to shine a new light on Denmark's most beloved author and showcase the darker side of Hans Christian Andersen.

In a dystopian future gripped by water and medicine shortages, inventor Lucio races against time to repair his malfunctioning medical robot—a last hope for survival in a crumbling world.

Set in the fictional Sendai City, the film portrays an oppressive regime forcing its citizens to watch "The Truth on Sendai City," a TV series that celebrates violence as a model and ideal for living. Reality is distorted by propaganda, while the black flag symbolizes absolute control and the loss of individual freedom.

Carmilla Vive! (2023) is the no-budget feature film follow-up to the award-winning Modern Gothic vampire film Carmilla (2015). In Carmilla, our hero is fleeing religious persecution in France. Carmilla travels down the Mississippi River with one of the early French expeditions of the “new continent,” entertaining her fellow voyageurs with ancient stories of pagan goddesses and warrior women. When a priest overhears Carmilla’s stories, he condemns her as a heretic and has her buried alive. Over three centuries later, Carmilla rises from her grave in Northern Iowa and seeks revenge on a small rural community. In many ways, Carmilla Vive! is not a sequel but a re-imagining of the story, themes, and the central character Carmilla. CARMILLA VIVE! This time, the vampire Carmilla is a pop singer searching for Laura/Ostara, the setting is Chicago, and trolls are about to confront their worst nightmares. Though on the surface, Carmilla Vive! is a horror film, the central focus of the narrative is a love story between Carmilla and Laura. The two, joined by Brigid and Kara, battle with legions of trolls who exist online and in the physical world. It will not be the apocalypse you expect! “This genre effort packs a lot of delights, but at its core it is a subtle film – which is very rewarding.” The Monkey Bread Tree Film Awards.

Dead Bloom unfolds as a socially charged horror story about the lingering effects of environmental contamination and corporate denial. Set across generations, the film follows a family living on land poisoned by a buried chemical compound. As the contamination seeps into soil, fruit, and bloodline, the story evolves into a chilling allegory about capitalism, exploitation, and survival. It shines a disturbing, yet relevant light on corporate malfeasance and environmental injustice turning them into modern folklore.

A twisted true crime nightmare where serial killer granny Dorothea Puente lures the vulnerable, kills without remorse, and buries secrets in her garden. Evil wears a smile. You’ll never trust kindness again.

Rico is tormented by nightmarish visions after enduring head trauma while camping in the Catskill Mountains. Billy creates a reality of horror for him by persuading Rico to go along with his beliefs which delve him deeper into despair.

A dark comedy showcasing the wide variety of evil behaviour human beings are capable of.

Xian and Ikki are an Asian couple with an all-you-can-eat buffet threatenedby bankruptcy. Their problems seem to be solved by an improvised plan:killing all their enemies. But... what if they themselves are their ownenemies?

A doorman is unexpectedly invited to a dinner at the secluded estate of one of the wealthy families he serves. But as the evening unfolds, he begins to suspect that the invitation wasn't just an act of kindness.

Incorporeal Man follows Jim, a drunk who inexplicably has the ability to walk through walls. Arrogant, manipulative, and selfish, Jim is the opposite of heroic in every way, but feels that his power entitles him to the privileges of a superhero. As the movie begins, he has just left his job as a carnival sideshow performer and hitchhiked to town so that he can catch The Northside Butcher, a serial killer who has been terrorizing the city. Jim then checks into a flophouse and meets Roger, his mentally challenged neighbor, who gets him a job at the shit factory. In the end, his binge drinking, his half-assed attempts to “look for clues” at The Northside Butcher’s crime scenes, and his animosity towards his boss at the shit factory, Vern, collide into a violent finale. Incorporeal Man was written and storyboarded before 2008 and sat unmade for several years until generative Ai video made it affordable to make. The images were made primarily in MidJourney (with some starting as photographs taken around Seattle) and animated mainly in Pika and Runway. ElevenLabs was used for voices and sound effects, and it was scored with Ai music from Suno and old public domain recordings of classical music.

Having just moved to a rural, Japanese town, Elena, a “half” Japanese high school girl, feels out of place because of her foreign appearance and name. Troubled by a sense she doesn't belong, Elena struggles under the constant attention of those around her. She soon discovers that she is also being watched by something else—a monster that can only be seen through her smartphone and whose sounds can only be heard through her earphones. Life will never be the same for Elena, when the invisible monster begins its hunt. The Invisible Half is 25-year old director Masaki Nishiyama’s feature film debut. Cao Moji, who won an Academy Award last year for his work on Godzilla -1.0 designed the VFX, and the cinematography was led by Shuhei Yamamoto, who served as the DoP for the live-action JoJo's Bizarre Adventure spin off movie Rohan au Louvre. Director Biography - Masaki Nishiyama

In the summer of 2006, five teenagers break into an abandoned prison that is supposedly haunted. As they explore the place, they discover that what inhabits it is much more dangerous than the paranormal. What was once an innocent last adventure before college becomes a vicious fight for survival.

Director Otso Tiainen’s fascinating study of an esoteric community hidden within the French Pyrenees begins by exploring the seekers drawn to this place, supposedly the home of the Holy Grail. However, it is the appearance of charismatic film director Richard Stanley that truly ignites the story. Before long, accusations about his conduct surface, and the residents find themselves caught in a battle for their very souls. The dangers of blind faith and the magnetic pull of certain personalities are put under the microscope in this breathtaking examination of a small microcosm of society forced to confront who they are when everything they believe is challenged. A vital film that urges us to scrutinize our heroes, SHADOWLAND is a must-see—not only to contextualize the inner battles we all face but also to finally see the truth laid bare.

Logline: The origin story of your friendly neighborhood comic shop. Tracing the 50-year history of the local comic book store's far-reaching impact, we examine their cultural significance and the numerous threats they face today. After a 75% industry contraction, floundering sales, superhero fatigue, and online retail competition, can our heroes survive? Synopsis: Shopping for Superman explores the history of comic book stores through the experiences and first-hand accounts of the people who helped to create the modern-day comic shop. Beginning with shop owners from around the country sharing their reasons for opening a comic shop and how they've become a vital part of their communities. Traveling back to the 1970s we introduce viewers to the Brooklyn school teacher who first realized the potential of breaking with the traditional distribution model for newsstands and drug stores and began shipping comics directly to retailers, resulting in an eventual controlling monopoly of the comics distribution business. Through the boom of the 1980s and early 90s we see a market explode to over ten-thousand shops across the U.S. before the two major comics publishers, DC and Marvel Entertainment's disastrous choices would lead to a 75% contraction of the overall market. Despite the market's crash, the creation of so many spaces across the U.S. led to a revolutionary sophistication of graphic storytelling through censorship-resistant environment of the comic store. Stories that would win literary awards, become standard in many a curriculum, and go on to create some of the most valuable IP in the history of entertainment would come as a direct result of the comic store. Catching up to the present, we explore the comic book store's community importance as safe spaces for marginalized people, providing opportunities for identity fulfillment and self-discovery, and how comic shops continue to be one of the greatest influences in both childhood and adult literacy. Closing our film with a call to action, Shopping for Superman, explores the threats and challenges facing store owners today, as well as a road map to navigate them for the sake of future generations.

The future is just another past. In an isolated City-Building marked 7, where human knowledge is preserved in the minds of the gifted and time moves in endless loops, a young man reappears again and again, confronting love, rebellion, and the elusive promise of escape. A woman, who meets him each time, becomes the mirror of this repetition, keeping alive the fragile hope that something might finally change.

Assigned to a missing person case, reporter Trish Bostwick follows the trail to a secluded asylum hidden in the New England woods. But everything changes when a knife-wielding stranger hijacks her car, plunging her into a descent of paranoia and madness. "Where Darkness Dwells" is a psychological thriller that thrusts viewers into the shadowy heart of New England lore, where Lovecraft meets Folk Horror in terrifying ways. Starring Katie Parker (Fall Of the House Of Usher, The Haunting of Hill House, The Beldham), and Tara Perry (12 Hour Shift, The Fresh Beat Band).

Three battle-hardened friends are pulled into a web of deception when ex-Navy SEAL Kent Collins is asked "off the record" to evaluate Whisper Breach - an independently trained AI built for covert operations. What starts as a simple assessment quickly spirals out of control as the AI entangles itself in their lives. From that moment every decision they make will affect their friendship - and possibly the future of humanity.