Shorts

Cocky investment analyst Sam Larson has a lot on his mind. After a financial scam goes horribly wrong, he hits the road in a desperate bid to outrun his guilt. A fragment of a radio broadcast, that may or may not be a distress call, lures him to an isolated transmitting station and into a terrifying mystery of murder, madness and the insatiable hunger of a power beyond his comprehension.

AM1200 is a 40 minute horror thriller written, produced and directed by award-winning DVD producer David Prior (Zodiac, Fight Club, Master & Commander).

Not to be missed.

In a gloomy cellar an evil man plans to open a portal to another world. His research in a dark tome has revealed what he needs to do to open the gateway. He has acquired the mystical object needed to breach the threshold and he has obtained a sacrifice to offer to the dark gods. Now, nothing can go wrong….

Saturday only 5:00pm. A couple of Ghouls go out one night to a cemetery for dinner and have a healthily conversation about life in general. But on this night, the dead aren't so conversational. For tonight the dead will have revenge! Great short film not to be missed by artist Gris Grimly.

What would a casting session for a film based on the work of H.P. Lovercraft look like? The director suffers through a strange cluster of actors with monstrous features, think Monty Python meets Doctor Who, before an actual Old One shows up courtesy of some serious CGI. Produced by Bad Advice for Good Times, directed by Joseph Nanni, and featuring music by Darkest of the Hillside Thickets.

Loosely based on the short story by M.R. James - previously adapted for film in Jacques Tourner's classic Night of the Demon - was adapted for television by BAFTA-nominated playwright Clive Exton, and directed by Lawrence Gordon Clark, who also helmed the "Ghost Story for Christmas" series. When a TV series devoted to debunking mediums and mystics lampoons infamous demonologist Julian Karswell (played with exquisite menace by Iain Cuthbertson), its producer (Jan Francis) and cast soon find themselves threatened by mysterious, malevolent forces.

Justin Sayer (Brad Renfro) suffers from a mental illness which causes vivid hallucinations. The voices in his head have forced him to isolate himself from the world and from his two year old son. After several unsuccessful attempts by visiting therapists to cure him, Justin attempts to hide his illness from a new therapist. But this therapist is unlike the others.

Late one night, a young female college student finds herself home alone. A phone conversation with a friend devolves into an argument about the existence of God and the possibility of an afterlife. The young woman is a vehement atheist and professes that she neither wants nor needs eternal life. She has no need for the 'fairy tale' of a loving god. In fact, she declares, oblivion would be heaven enough for her. But when the darkness around her sinks inward and her faith is tested, can she really maintain such convictions?

In a secure military laboratory, a scientist has become obsessed with the half-human half eel creature he's studying. When she beckons him to her, it's the call of a siren...

Music video for the song 'H.P. Lovecraft' by Cockfight Club, an industrial rock band from Tupelo, Mississippi.

Enter the surreal world of Cthulhu, and other creations and characters from the imagination of one of the most influential horror writers of the 20th century, H.P. Lovecraft.

When a convicted killer escapes his prison transfer, he seeks refuge in a nearby forest. With a manhunt underway he moves deeper into the woods, unaware he's become host to a mysterious infection that gives rise to a strange and eerie metamorphosis...

A young clerk is sent deep into the dungeon of the Seven Bloody Torturers, where he discovers they are about to face the most painful torture of all: a threat to their name-brand recognition.

An experimental surgeon in the 1940’s develops a new life support device, one that promises to maintain the health of the human brain no matter what condition the body is in. Eager to prove the worth of his research, he persuades a terminally ill colleague, Professor Julian Maxwell, to become his test subject.

When fate brings two souls together, sometimes they cannot be torn apart- even after death. On a fateful day in the park, a lonely man meets Morella, a beautiful yet singularly bewitching woman. And from their first meeting their souls become inseperable, their lives bound together forever. Morella is a woman of great intelligence and powers of the mind, she spends her days studying the occult and reading to the man from her collection of ancient texts.

During a bout of insomnia the artist Pickman discovers the diary of his eccentric great uncle. Discoveries within the diary lead Pickman on a maddening search for the embodiment of true horror. His obsession leads him to the lair of one who is willing to feed his dark desire... for a price. The Faustian conclusion brings the artist's work to darkness and the subject, at last, to horrible light.

Eastern Front 1942: As bombs drop and the fighting closes in, Dr. Herbert West (Derek Meinecke) and his assistant (Justin Tacchi) work in a makeshift basement laboratory to re-animate the rotting corpse of a Waffen SS Soldier (Conor Timmis)... What could go wrong?

Makeup-Fx by Norman Bryn (Cloverfield).

A young man nervously tapes his statement about how he sneaked into a small cabin in the woods and made a grisly and horrifying discovery. Just as he's about to finish his story, he's interrupted by an unexpected and unwelcome visitor.

This animated adaptation of the one-shot comic from Hellboy's Mike Mignola follows the adventures of a steampunk secret agent for Abraham Lincoln who, indeed, possesses a robotic screw-on head. Originally aired as the pilot for a possible TV series, this stand-alone episode pits the Amazing Screw-On Head against the treacherous Emperor Zombie, his batty vampiric lover, a lycanthropic granny, and a gunslinging chimp. From the back rooms of Marrakesh to the banks of the Mississippi, the Screw-On Head pursues Emperor Zombie to prevent the resurrection of an ancient supernatural warlord.

In 1893, two book dealers arrive at a prairie home to pick-up their latest occult acquisition. They discover a dark supernatural force has been unleashed upon the home's owners and use turn of the century technology to exorcise the eldritch evil. A Steam-Punk tale inspired by the works of H.P. Lovecraft.

An excerpt from Plato's Republic, the 'Allegory of the Cave' is a classic commentary on the human condition. It is an example of the philosophical underpinnings of Lovecraft's thought and fiction. Fans of cosmic horror should have no trouble discerning in Plato's allegory the roots of Lovecraft's theme of awakening to a vast and terrible ultimate reality

Three classic Lovecraft tales brought to life through puppets and miniatures:

The Picture in The House
A traveler seeks shelter from a sudden storm in a decaying old house. In the living room of the apparently abandoned house, he finds a weird old book entitled "The Kingdom of Congo." What secrets does it hold?

The Dunwich Horror
Awakened in the middle of the night by the snarls and barks of his watchdog, a University professor makes a grim and disturbing discovery in his library. Will he be able to thwart the plans of the degenerate Whateley clan?

One man's attempt to escape his life long subterranean prison, to find his way into the light of the world above. Adapted from the classic HP Lovecraft short story written in 1923. Produced with a mix of live action, original artwork and animation.

A man finds the remains of a friend who has descended into madness while attempting to convey a dark secret through his art. He reads the dead man's final letter, and learns of things too horrible to be true.

A dark, robed figure recounts his tale of discovering the secret truth behind the fabled Wendigo, while transforming perhaps more than his life in the process. From the mind of Algernon Blackwood comes the short tale of discovery, transformation and of absolute obscurity. A teaser reel for the up-and-coming 2008 production from Woodruff Laputka.