Los Angeles County Premieres at Screamfest
The first public screening of the film in Los Angeles County.
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Estranged
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Synopsis
January is forced to return home after six wild years abroad. A road accident has left her wheelchair-bound with amnesia. Not only has she forgotten her family, but also her childhood and is surprised to discover her home is a stately country manor. Trying to settle in with boyfriend Callum at her attentive side, she becomes even more distant from her family, who just want their old daughter back. The trouble is she cannot remember who that person was, or why she fled in the first place. Now she must learn all over again how terrible relatives can be.
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El Espejo Humano
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Synopsis
Based on a real story. A 17-year-old girl with social anxiety has hardly any contact with the outside world. Never leaving her home she watches the cruelties being reported on the news every day, bringing her mind closer and closer to the dangerous nature of society.
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El Bosque Negro
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Synopsis
Sir Hector, a brave knight in armor and steed, prepares to enter the wicked Black Forest to deliver a beautiful and virginal lady prey of a terrible ogre.
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Dough
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Synopsis
When a traumatized runaway finds solace in a secluded farm home, her attempt to liberate the house from a disturbing secret uproots a rage that should have remained hidden.
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Don't Let Them In
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Synopsis
A struggling author, consumed with the urban legend of the Black Eyed Kids, fears his obsession has led their evil to his door.
Film Category
Don't Fall asleep, Motherfucker
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Synopsis
When Manolo's girlfriend invites him for a sleepover in a far away cabin and irrational fear possesses him. Because he's terrified of her....
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Daddy's Little Girl
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Synopsis
The story of a precocious young girl who uses her self-taught science knowledge to take control and finally tackle the problem of her abusive father head on.
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The Call
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Synopsis
Benoit, 50, is a police lieutenant wounded by the disappearance of his wife, Lise. Unable to perform his grief, he sees his physical and mental health decline when she mysteriously surface again years later. Then, Benoit begins to undergo a strange transformation...
Film Category
THE AUTUMN OF ZAO
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Synopsis
Zao is a little boy with an incurable disease, in a house beside a lake. A little girl, Cloe, leads through the forest and tells him the legend of the lake monster. Beyond the pain, death and time, The Autumn of ZAO is a hymn to dream, life and childhood.
Film Category
The Abandoned
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Synopsis
THE ABANDONED is a claustrophobic thriller that follows a troubled young woman who, in a last-ditch effort at getting her life together, takes a job working nights as a security guard at an abandoned luxury apartment building. Stuck with a brusque rent-a-cop as her partner, she tries to not let her mind play tricks on her while she patrols the empty halls. But as the night progresses strange things begin to happen - and she realizes it may not all be in her head.
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A Tricky Treat
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Synopsis
A man is kidnapped by a very strange family, and his fate is held in the hands of two kids.
'A Tricky Treat' presents a shocking tale of the unexpected with a twist.
'A Tricky Treat' presents a shocking tale of the unexpected with a twist.