A collage about "operator awareness" and enilghtenment.
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Hopper, a Vietnam vet riddled with PTSD is taken under the wing of a charismatic undercover CIA agent, Reese, promising him a newly repaired mind. Unbeknownst to the vet, he'll be treated less like a patient, and more like a test subject.
In a cold, indifferent office, a worker's mind begins to slip, distorting the fabric of his life. As he spirals further into chaos, the only way out is through the very thing he fears: becoming what he sees.
A young man tries to sleep as a mysterious voice wants to be let in.
Husband and father Dwayne McKinney tapes all of the most important moments with his family, but his home videos document more than just the day to day lives of his wife and children. A family torn asunder by an unseen force lurking the murky darkness of plain sight, the McKinney Family Home Videos is a father's plea for forgiveness and a mother's vindictive grip on her family.
Something is staring at me from the corners of my house.
In the heart of the city, nestled between office towers, stands a grand building no one talks about anymore: the No No Place Hotel. Once an upscale destination for business travelers and honeymooners, the hotel was abruptly and permanently shut down after twelve minutes of surveillance footage was seen by authorities.
A story of praise and destruction. A story of worshipping the darkness in the sky. Of contempt in death. Of the crown of thorns stuck in the stone head and the water flowing from it. A story of treason...in the name of God and the human.
An analog horror short film about a man in solitary confinement battling paranoia. (free to watch on youtube now)
In the stillness of night, a lone man is trapped in a state of sleep paralysis. As darkness closes in, he must confront the ghosts of his past.
Two documentarians settle into a small town and persuade a few hillbilly locals to help them find the sole survivor of a massacre.
You are born — without warning — into a dystopia.
We go back in time, to the very beginning of Kaala's journey; when he was just a scared young man, dealing with the burden of his gifts. However, his life soon takes an interesting turn when he meets a mysterious figure who offers to help him. This is Origins.
After purchasing a Barney doll, friends Kyle and Derek uncover a piece of Barney lost media that ensnares them in the schemes of a mysterious and dangerous superfan. Friends Are Forever unfolds as a grounded, psychological analog-horror told through found-media fragments, ARG breadcrumbs, and 2010s digital ephemera to explore how fandom, nostalgia, and exploitation collide in the internet age. Praised as “insanely well executed and thought out,” viewers highlight its “high production quality for a first-timer to the horror genre.”
A man goes to meet a prostitute.
Sydney, 2004. Leo, a young film buff, comes across a mysterious VHS tape while working the nightshift at a DVD store. He soon realises his mistake, upon discovering its contents are obscurely edited snuff films, that only he can see.
Atmospheric horror from the perspective of a child who tells us about his beloved, yet strange older brother, Jeremy, who only comes out at night and loves to play hide and seek.
There is a bird inside each human; either prey or predator, which is just the prey of their own selves. When that bird's fear turns into frustration, all logic is absent and "one shall become the birdman". This crow is a bird of absurdism.
A musician recording an album in the woods finds mysterious cassette tapes being left for him. On them, a woman researching an urban legend was being terrorised by a man and his vicious dog. Now, those same things are happening to the musician...
While attending a Dream-O-Vision experience at Playland, Annie finds herself far from the dreams and memories she was told she would be able to explore, instead, she stumbled into something claimed to be non-existent at Playland, a bad dream inhabited by an angry and long-forgotten memory.
A series of down-on-their-luck individuals enter the decrepit and spine-chilling Rialto theater, only to have their deepest and darkest fears brought to life on the silver screen by The Projectionist – a mysterious, ghostly figure who holds the nightmarish futures of all who attend his screenings.
After the discovery of a mysterious VHS tape, a brutish police SWAT team launches a high-intensity raid on a remote warehouse, only to discover a sinister cult compound whose collection of pre-recorded material uncovers a nightmarish conspiracy.
Inside a darkened house looms a column of TVs littered with VHS tapes, a pagan shrine to forgotten analog gods. The screens crackle and pop endlessly with monochrome vistas of static white noise permeating the brain and fogging concentration. But you must fight the urge to relax: this is no mere movie night. Those obsolete spools contain more than just magnetic tape. They are imprinted with the very soul of evil.
The film contains five stories set on desolate stretches of a desert highway. Two men on the run from their past, a band on its way to a gig, a man struggling to get home, a brother in search of his long-lost sister and a family on vacation are forced to confront their worst fears and darkest secrets in these interwoven tales.
A malevolent being known as The Jester terrorizes the inhabitants of a small town on Halloween night, including two estranged sisters who must come together to find a way to defeat this evil entity.
Clinging to a smooth, curved surface high above a sentient abyss, a woman tries to cover the few feet back to safety without losing purchase and falling to her death.
A thirsty teenager's home video leads to a series of horrifying revelations, harkening back to the final punk rock analog days of VHS, while taking one giant leap forward into the hellish new millennium.
A masked maniac terrorizes the same small community where a murderer known as the Phantom Killer struck decades earlier.
When a group of misfits is hired by an unknown third party to burglarize a desolate house and acquire one rare VHS tape, they discover more found footage than they had bargained for.
A woman wakes up injured in a basement surrounded by corpses. To survive, she pretends to be dead while a grotesque ritual unfolds in the house above.
Grindhouse combines Robert Rodriguez's Planet Terror, a horror comedy about a group of survivors who battle zombie-like creatures, and Quentin Tarantino's Death Proof, an action thriller about a murderous stuntman who kills young women with modified vehicles. It is presented as a double feature with fictitious exploitation trailers preceding each segment.
Young Macy is abducted by a deranged, monstrous figure who wants to raise her as its child.
Criminology student Chloe fakes her own death to break into a morgue, in order to retrieve a piece of evidence that ties her younger brother to a crime gone wrong. Once inside, she discovers that a sadistic coroner is using the corpses for his sick and twisted business, and when he realises that Chloe still has a pulse, a terrifying game of cat and mouse ensues.
A gothic tale of obsession between a haunted young woman and the terrifying vampire infatuated with her, causing untold horror in its wake.
A journey into uncharted and forbidden territory through three tales tangled in space and time.
A group of old college friends reunite on a Caribbean scuba diving trip exploring the wreckage of a WWII battleship and find themselves trapped inside the underwater labyrinth of rusted metal surrounded by great white sharks.
A collection of Halloween-themed videotapes unleashes a series of twisted, blood-soaked tales, turning trick-or-treat into a struggle for survival.
After witnessing a brutal murder on Halloween night, a young woman becomes the next target of a maniacal entity.
First-time father Henry Spencer tries to survive his industrial environment, his angry girlfriend, and the unbearable screams of his newly born mutant child.
Frederick Loren invites five strangers to the party of a lifetime and offers each of them $10,000 if they can stay the night in the reportedly haunted house. Armed with a gun for protection, each guest arrives in a hearse and will either leave in it much richer…Or dead.
