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Dirty Bad Wrong

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Erica Orofino

Writer/Director
Synopsis
Desperate to keep her promise to host the best superhero party for her 6 year old, young mother Sid, a sex worker, takes extreme measures and books a last-minute client with a dark fetish. Dirty Bad Wrong is a realist drama with a horrific twist.
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Fresh Blood

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Emma Westenberg

Director
Synopsis
Doe eyed and in love, Anna attends the housewarming party of her new boyfriend Nico. The night quickly unravels as she meets his friends, some classic Hollywood pricks. Tales about ex girlfriends and Nico’s promiscuity swirl and her new lover also tells his guests about a “haunted” basement that he warns them not to enter. Anna starts drinking to suppress her discomfort, but instead becomes increasingly intoxicated and paranoid. After losing track of Nico, Anna escapes his friends and searches frantically for him in the maze-like house. She follows an odd banging sound down to the foreboding basement where the true horror is revealed.
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COLEOPTERE

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Martin Gouzou

Writer/Director
Synopsis
In this free and contemporary interpretation of Franz Kafka’s “The Metamorphosis,” Grégoire Samsa is a solitary building caretaker who undergoes a dramatic physical and psychological transformation while seeking love and acceptance.
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Will Helm

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Bobby Roe

Director/Writer
Synopsis
Better to watch cold without synopsis. Starring Spencer Charnas (Ice Nine Kills) & Mara Marini (Parks & Rec)
"A Chat With Genre Icon Bobby Roe"
https://horrorobsessive.com/2021/10/09/the-interview-october-built-a-chat-with-genre-icon-bobby-roe/
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The Weekend

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Daniel Oriahi

Director
Synopsis
Nikiya, an orphaned woman yearning for a sense of belonging, issues an ultimatum to her fiancé, Luc: either introduce her to his estranged family or risk losing her. Reluctantly, Luc agrees, concealing the dark truth behind his family's past to preserve their relationship. Upon meeting Luc's family, Nikiya is initially enamored by their seemingly idyllic and welcoming demeanor. Their warmth temporarily quenches her longing for family, blinding her to any underlying issues. However, as she settles into their seemingly perfect life, cracks begin to surface, revealing the family's sinister secrets. Nikiya soon uncovers the truth that drove Luc away from his family, realizing that the price of belonging may be more than she bargained for. Caught in a web of deception and danger, Nikiya must act swiftly to protect herself and her unborn child from the menacing reality that threatens their lives.
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Until It Stops Beating

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Sebastián Cortez

Director/Writer
Synopsis
Dani (14) starts to fall in love with Leo, the ghost of a boy he meets while playing with a Ouija board on his computer. One night, after almost being caught by his mother, he has a rather strange dream in which he is given the opportunity to get to know his friend better, although an evil presence lurks without him being aware.
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Unravelling

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Aimie Willemse

Director/Writer
Synopsis
FIONA tries to care for her chronically ill grandmother MAEVE as she struggles to retain her autonomy. As her invisible illness begins to physically manifest into a malignant entity, Fiona is forced to confront her worse fears.
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The Underground

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Rachel Talalay

Director
Synopsis
Trying to get home from a late-night business event, a career woman finds herself alone and menaced on a New York City subway platform.
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Umbra

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Enzo Hui

Writer/Director
Synopsis
In a workplace plagued by harassment, an oppressed office worker’s life takes a chilling turn when a blood-red umbrella releases a vengeful spirit, transforming her into a merciless killer.
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The Trip

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Arabella Anderson

Writer/Director
Synopsis
Luna, Max and Zoe are on a girls getaway in the desert to do some much needed unwinding and unplugging from the world. After hanging poolside all day, Zoe and Max convince Luna to take psychedelic mushrooms with them to help expand their minds. But when the shrooms begin to take greater effect, Luna's anxieties about climate change and human nature are unearthed, shifting the tide of the trip. As they spiral deeper into a bad trip, each woman finds herself having to confront her inner darkness and anxieties in corporeal forms of hallucinated horrors.
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TRAGEDIUM

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Gaston Haag

Writer/Director
Synopsis
An unresolved debt and three thugs who are going to take care of the matter, but what is going to happen is not going to go at all as planned.
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Tinkerhell

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Noah Sterling

Writer/Director
Synopsis
A young girl learns the consequences, after she incites the wrath of a very small and very deadly entity.