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The Vampire
The Doctor
In the midst of a plague, a lonely priest must confront his fears when faced with an ominous knock at the door of his abandoned church.
In 1697, an exorcism on the young French girl Rapunzel Gothel in Germany failed. The girl was killed, but the demon continued to live in the castle of Father Petrosinus, who carried out the exorcism and sold the building shortly afterwards. Centuries later, one of the last relatives of the priest enters the castle. Alina Grimm and her friends want to shoot their final student film, a horror movie, in the castle. Unsuspecting that their presence will conjure up Rapunzel Gothel's demon again, they roam the castle to take test shots for their project. But the demon wants revenge... and if he can't have the Father, then at least a relative of the same blood.
The prejudiced Christian, Chrissander, has traveled far on a pilgrimage, but what will he do when he finds out that the people he is resting with are two gay men?
A young detective in 1950’s Los Angeles comes to terms with their identity while tracking down a serial killer targeting the city’s top detectives.
John's first independent work from 1989. Won Best of Fest Shorts at the Cinequest Film Festival, CA. The film is comprised of highly rendered drawings with very little moving parts to tell a complex story of relationships "gone to the birds".
Dual is a student film about a Vanier student named Danny who has double personalities, in the form of a devil and an angel. He experiences a lucid dream during the Ravens & Shadows sleepover--featuring the legend of the suicidal Vanier nun, the staircase she hung herself in, a devil, an angel, Asian Patra, her rabid dog, the reaper, and a cemetery--where all his fears are brought to life. Are they real, or imagined?
A strange old hermit uses witchcraft to give life to the Frankenstein monster. Will the creature be his instrument of revenge, or will it turn on its creator?
Throughout a night out in downtown Tijuana, Laura waits for her destiny to arrive.
Four strangers meet in a mysterious home. There for different reasons, they slowly begin to realize something is terribly wrong with their host… and their chef.
A female vampire from the planet Arus tries to vampirize the descendants of Dr. Fun Helsing. With her poisoned olive oil she transforms some teenagers into sex maniac vampires, over whom the crucifix has no power! Only Andrej Tarkowski videos make them shrink back in agony! The vampire hunters soon find themselves "sucked" into a whirlpool of lust and passion...
When the chances of winning the heart of a newslady are slimmed by a wealthy rival of his, a caring yet clumsy college professor creates a love potion from the DNA of a praying mantis. However, a lack of testing mutates him into an insectoid monster that can only be stopped by the professor's friends as well as 2 hectic detectives, before the hateful vice principal finds everything out.
In the aftermath of an emotional shock, a ruthless high-class manager faces her own abyss, becomes pervaded by a sensory spirit and undertakes a purifying voyage.
A doctor goes to a dinner party where he's made fun of and soon afterwards returns home and sends a monster to attack the people.
Max, a failed writer, goes in search of her estranged girlfriend while simultaneously, trying to unload a large quantity of drugs she stole off her bosses to pay for a trip back East to care for her dying mother. She also might have her dead sister in the trunk of her car.
Two writers and their girlfriends visit the castle of an actor who specializes in playing vampire roles. As the night progresses, they begin to wonder if the man is an actor playing a vampire, or a vampire playing an actor.
A woman walks by a familiar alleyway, reminding her of a past that she regrets. As she walks away she suddenly is frozen in her tracks. Something part of the woman yearns for that ugly past.
A boy left alone on Halloween befriends an introverted girl to go trick or treating with.
In the tradition of such classics as NOSFERATU & HAXAN, and with a dash of early American film (Famous Players Film Company, D.W. Griffith, etc.) comes GARDEN OF SOULS. A horror photoplay in that harkens back to the old tinted silent films of yesteryear. Partly filmed on-location in Hollywood before Hollywood -- Fort Lee, NJ. Dedicated to film pioneers D.W. Griffith and Mary Pickford.
A church service is interrupted by a father who blames his daughter for all the evil in the world.
A student's late-night study session is violently interrupted by a giant centipede who has sneaked into her apartment through her shower drain.
