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Mullet Gut

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World Premiere
Showtime: 
Monday, October 14, 2013 - 4:45am
Run Time: 
10m
Country: 
Australia
Synopsis: 
Two lifelong friends in the twilight years of their life, seek retribution against the schoolyard bully that tortured them as children. Things don’t go to plan as one of them begins to question whether they have the right man. At its heart, MULLET GUT is a mystery that will keep you guessing until it’s final moments.
Directed By: 
Steve Boyle
Produced By: 
Steve Boyle, Samantha Lyttle, Charles Mitchell & Shane Krause
Written By: 
Steve Boyle
Main Cast: 
Errol O'Neil, Chris Betts & John Rees-Osbourne

Steve Boyle After a childhood of making monsters and watching movies, (often at the same time) Steve completed film school and decided to focus on becoming a special effects artist fulltime.

After working on films such as Star Wars EPII, The Matrix Reloaded, Ghost Ship and the Spierig brother’s UNDEAD, Steve had the pleasure of showcasing his talent to Academy Award winner Richard Taylor who promptly offered him work in New Zealand on Pet...read more

The Barista

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Showtime: 
Monday, October 14, 2013 - 2:45am
Run Time: 
7m 35s
Country: 
USA
Synopsis: 
Through extensive research, a scientist discovers that a slacker coffee barista holds a deep, dark secret.
Directed By: 
Rebekah McKendry
Produced By: 
Elric Kane & Matthew Currie-Holmes
Written By: 
David McKendry
Main Cast: 
Amanda Fuller & Chase Willamson & Morgan Peter Brown

About the Director

Rebekah McKendry In addition to being a filmmaker, Rebekah McKendry is the Executive Director of Marketing for Fangoria Entertainment. She is also a college professor teaching classes focused on film history and horror films. She has Bachelors degrees in Film and English, a MA in Media Education, a second MA in Film Theory, and she is currently completing her PhD in Film Theory focused on horror ...read more

Viscera

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World Premiere
Showtime: 
Monday, October 14, 2013 - 2:30am
Run Time: 
1 hour 20 mins
Country: 
USA
Synopsis: 
In the aftermath of a flesh-eating plague that has wiped out most of humanity, a surviving man and woman face unimaginable horrors when he suddenly becomes infected. Confined to the basement of an abandoned farmhouse, she tends to him as his body rapidly deteriorates over the next four days. But they soon find themselves up against more than just the disease. A crazed infected woman begins to stalk the farmhouse. A suspicious stranger arrives promising the key to survival. And the only possible cure is an injected drug that slowly drives you insane.
Directed By: 
Pete DiFolco & Craig DiFolco
Produced By: 
Michael Izquierdo, Matthew Rauch, Brad Shelton, Pete DiFolco & Craig DiFolco
Written By: 
Pete DiFolco & Craig DiFolco
Main Cast: 
Michael Izquierdo, Kathleen Wise & Matthew Rauch

About the Directors

Pete DiFolco & Craig DiFolco PETE DIFOLCO received his BFA from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. He has been working in film and television production since 2006 on such acclaimed TV programs as “Damages,” HBO’s “In Treatment” & “Bored to Death,” ABC’s “Castle” & “The Michael J. Fox Show”, and Fox’s upcoming “Us & Them”. He has also worked on independent features such as 2007′s “We Own the Ni...read more

Schism

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Showtime: 
Sunday, October 13, 2013 - 2:30am
Run Time: 
1 hour 37 mins
Country: 
USA
Synopsis: 
Dylan White has a normal, boring life. Then horrifying visions start to interrupt his waking moments, and he must face the fact that he literally doesn't know who he is. Following clues that take him to the dark underbelly, Dylan soon finds both his life and soul in danger. Featuring a masterful performance by Callum Blue, SCHISM is a trip to the dark side, noir-style: bad men, bad dames, bad sex and bad intentions.
Directed By: 
Adam Gierasch
Produced By: 
Kate Hoffman, Ray Markovich, Adam Gierasch, Jace Anderson & Andrew Cohen
Written By: 
Jace Anderson & Adam Gierasch
Main Cast: 
Callum Blue, Vinnie Jones, Ashlynn Yennie & Nicole LaLiberte

About the Director

Adam Gierasch Adam Gierasch has written screenplays for horror legends such as Dario Argento (MOTHER OF TEARS) and Tobe Hooper (TOOLBOX MURDERS). SCHISM is his fourth outing as a director and his most personal film to date: he's been wanting to combine his two favorite genres, horror and noir, for years. And even though he's a nice Jewish boy from upstate New York, he's haunted by questions of damnation ...read more

Dembanger

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World Premiere
Showtime: 
Saturday, October 12, 2013 - 4:30am
Run Time: 
8m 55s
Country: 
USA
Synopsis: 
A teenager is harassed by a blocked caller who is accessing all of his information from his Facebook page.
Directed By: 
John Berardo
Produced By: 
John Berardo
Written By: 
John Berardo
Main Cast: 
Wes Andrews, Maxwell Hamilton Courtney Williamson, Lindsay N.W. LaVanchy, Jake Rude, & Jordan Reddout

About the Director

John Berardo John Berardo has been on the forefront of directing and producing since childhood. As a native from Norman, Oklahoma, John always had an immense drive and the ability to expand his creative boundaries. After winning a student Emmy for technical achievement in 2005 for a local public service announcement, John ventured to California to begin his career as a director. Before starting the Cine...read more

Woodland Heights

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Showtime: 
Saturday, October 12, 2013 - 4:30am
Run Time: 
10m 11s
Country: 
USA
Synopsis: 
"There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it." Hitchcock. In tradition with drive-in horror movies of the 1950's, Woodland Heights tells the story of a young couples prom night taking a bizarre turn for the worse. Based on the classic urban legend "The Hook."
Directed By: 
Samuel Gonzalez Jr.
Produced By: 
Roxy Shih
Written By: 
Samuel Gonzalez Jr.
Main Cast: 
Arielle Brachfeld & James Preston

About the Director

Samuel Gonzalez Born in the Bronx, New York and raised in Central Florida, Samuel Gonzalez Jr. showed an interest in film at an early age. Spending most of his youth making home movies with neighborhood friends, Gonzalez never had any doubt about his path to storytelling in film.

After graduating high school and without a way to pay for film school, he enlisted in the U.S. Army. Immediatel...read more

Capstone's Oak

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Showtime: 
Saturday, October 12, 2013 - 4:30am
Run Time: 
21m 05s
Country: 
USA
Synopsis: 
A short film following Mike Capstone, a bankrupt rancher, as he tries to resist the temptations of greed after stumbling across a dark family secret... an oak tree that grows money when the dead are buried at its roots.
Directed By: 
Will Phelps
Produced By: 
Dilan Swain
Written By: 
Will Phelps
Main Cast: 
Nick George, Nicole Wyland, David Alan-Graf & Sophia Flot-Warner

About the Director

Will Phelps Will Phelps is a filmmaker from Denver, Colorado. He started making films in high school and has been busy ever since. He made several films while attending Chapman University and recently graduated Magna Cum Laude with a B.F.A in Film Production. Will prides himself on exciting camera movement and his unique visual aesthetic. Will currently lives in Los Angeles and looks forward to a career di...read more

Torment

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World Premiere
Showtime: 
Saturday, October 12, 2013 - 2:30am
Run Time: 
1 hour 22 mins
Country: 
Canada
Synopsis: 
Newlyweds Cory and Sarah Morgan take Cory's 7-year old son Liam to their country home for some much needed family time. When it appears as if Liam has run away, psychological suspense becomes straight-out horror, as Sarah and Cory must now confront a sadistic cult-like family who have been hiding in the house all along and have taken Liam for themselves.
Directed By: 
Jordan Barker
Produced By: 
Borga Dorter, Jordan Barker & Allan Fung
Written By: 
Michael Foster & Thomas Pound
Main Cast: 
Katharine Isabelle, Robin Dunne & Stephen McHattie

About the Director

Jordan Barker A native of Toronto, Canada, Jordan Barker studied film production at York University and graduated from Sheridan College’s world-renowned digital animation program. He made his feature film debut as director with the award-winning MY BROTHER'S KEEPER starring Shawn Ashmore, which was released theatrically in Canada through Lions Gate Films. His other directing credits include the horr...read more

King of Miseries

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Showtime: 
Thursday, October 10, 2013 - 4:45am
Run Time: 
9m
Country: 
USA
Synopsis: 
A fortune teller in the demon world, called an interpreter of signs, reads the fortune of a paranoid demon named Christopher, and discovers he's not telling her the full story. After forcing him to reveal he's found a device, a chronolet, that allows its user to travel back in time, the interpreter pleads with Christopher not to use the device. Not only is it impossible for her to read the fortune of a past which hasn't happened yet, the device poses too great a danger. Will he take her advice or will he risk our future and his own for a demon's chance at an untold fortune?
Directed By: 
Tom Woodruff, Jr.
Produced By: 
Brian Lubocki & Michael Hayes
Written By: 
Brian Lubocki & Michael Hayes
Main Cast: 
Stacy Haiduk John Robinson & Denesa Chan

About the Director

Tom Woodruff

After years of working under Stan Winston, the godfather of special effects, known for everything from Aliens to Terminator to Avatar, Tom Woodruff Jr. partnered with Alec Gillis to create Amalgamated Dynamics Inc. in the late 1980’s. Their first film was Tremors, followed by David Fincher’s sequel, Alien 3. ADI quickly grew to become one of the major character effects companies in the busine...read more

Evaded

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World Premiere
Showtime: 
Thursday, October 10, 2013 - 2:00am
Run Time: 
9m 58s
Country: 
Sweden
Synopsis: 

A mother and her son are struggling through the frozen countryside. The birds no longer rule the sky and whatever is to be found on the ground is as dead as winter itself. A spark of hope lights up when they find an abandoned car. But after the mother discovers two of the previous owner dead, she realize that something is missing, or rather someone.

Directed By: 
Johannes Persson & Rasmus Wassberg
Produced By: 
Johannes Persson & Rasmus Wassberg
Written By: 
Johannes Persson & Rasmus Wassberg
Main Cast: 
Annika Ryberg Whittenbury, Jonathan Bökman, Pernilla Thelaus, Petter Eriksson & Dead woman

About the Director

Johannes Persson Johannes Persson is mostly known as a musician and has toured the planet for the last 15 years with his critically acclaimed band Cult of Luna. Evaded is his directing debut.

Rasmus Wassberg has been working behind the camera for many years in the Swedish film industry on different positions. Evaded is Rasmus directing debut.