A surreal silent short composed of symbolic imagery and allegorical tableaux centered on themes of death and mortality.
Social & External
The people behind it
Orson Welles
Death
William Vance
Indian in Blanket
Edgerton Paul
Bell-Ringer in Blackface (as Paul Edgerton)
Virginia Nicolson
Keystone Cop
The author Stefan König has writer's block. This changes when he witnesses the murder of a prostitute. He doesn't alert the police because he sets out to hunt down the murderer himself. The closer he gets to the killer, the more crimes he observes, which provides him with endless ideas for his texts. But the killer is very close...
A man is completely alone in his apartment. He looks for ways to combat his boredom: he smokes, watches TV, masturbates, eats - but none of it helps. The depressed man's real problem is not mere boredom, but profound loneliness. He sees suicide as his last resort...
A writer is writing his latest work. Suddenly, a strange man appears in his apartment and brutally stabs him to death. On his way out of the house, the obviously deranged killer kills other residents...
A guy is terrorized on the phone and receives death threats. He should have taken them seriously...
Three kids find themselves coming of age and going through changes after sneaking into a house on Halloween night.
In a backwoods cabin, a boy called Little Man lives with his dad (a trapper), his older sister Missy, and his younger sister Kid, who is feral, spends most of her time under the table, and can imitate the sound of any animal. Their mother is dead. One day, while dad's in town selling skins, Missy teases Kid and gets bitten. There's Hell to pay when dad gets home, and Kid runs off into the night to spend it with her animal friends. Little Man, who narrates much of the story as well as his reflections in a whisper, must sort out loss and emptiness.
A dreamer falls into sleep paralysis.
The shadowing forth of Our Lord Lucifer, as the Power of Darkness gather at a midnight mass. The dance of the Magus widdershins around the Swirling Spiral Force, the solar swastika, until the Bringer of Light—Lucifer—breaks through.
A boy breaks his sister's doll and it mends, grows, tears him up and eats him.
A miser dies of shock when the ghost of a poor woman appears.
After getting on the "dance cam" at a professional sporting event, Drew quickly loses his mind along with his sense of reality.
Beleaguered adventurer Carl Denham returns to the island where he found King Kong.
A deteriorating sex addict spots a sex doll outside of his underground apocalypse bunker.
A family gathers and sells waste. One day, the mother finds a cylinder in an abandoned hospital and takes it home. The family situation becomes worse when, without them realizing it, the cylinder begins to change them from within.
A young girl is taking a bike trip on a hot summer day. Enjoying her time in nature, she soon finds herself on a desolate wooded path, not aware that somebody is watching her from behind the trees, getting closer every second. Seems like a classic setting for a slasher. Would this girl become a classic final girl as well?
After the death of Paolo Monte, his friends Nespolo, Maradona and Maicol have the idea of resurrecting.....................their friend???
A construction of obscured VHS footage. A distortion of childhood memories.
Strange things happen when an ordinary guy that lives alone slowly starts to realise that maybe he isn't...
Radioactive waste dumped off the coastline creates mutant monsters. The beasts attack slumber parties, beaches, tourists, and terrorize a waterfront community as a scientist, his daughter, her boyfriend and the local police try to find a way to stop them.
To escape neglect and abuse from his parents, a young boy plants some strange seeds and they grow into a grandmother.
After witnessing a brutal murder on Halloween night, a young woman becomes the next target of a maniacal 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.
Egyptian gods summon the angel Lucifer, in order to usher in a new occult age.
The Shadow Mountains, 1983. Red and Mandy lead a loving and peaceful existence; but when their pine-scented haven is savagely destroyed, Red is catapulted into a phantasmagoric journey filled with bloody vengeance and laced with fire.
As the president of a trashy TV channel, Max Renn is desperate for new programming to attract viewers. When he happens upon "Videodrome," a TV show dedicated to gratuitous torture and punishment, Max sees a potential hit and broadcasts the show on his channel. However, after his girlfriend auditions for the show and never returns, Max investigates the truth behind Videodrome and discovers that the graphic violence may not be as fake as he thought.
There's something in his apartment. A man looking for an insect-like thing devolves into a bout of insanity as his subconscious mind begins to strangle his waking one.
First-time father Henry Spencer tries to survive his industrial environment, his angry girlfriend, and the unbearable screams of his newly born mutant child.
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.
Begotten is the creation myth brought to life, the story of no less than the violent death of God and the (re)birth of nature on a barren earth.
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.
As he helps a young artist with her upcoming exhibition, the owner of a mannequin shop's deadly, suppressed desires come to the surface.
Two couples vacationing together in an R.V. from Texas to Colorado are terrorized after they witness a murder during a Satanic ritual.
Rebecca must unlock the terror behind her little brother's experiences that once tested her sanity, bringing her face to face with a supernatural spirit attached to their mother.
David, an orderly at a hospital, tells his horrific story of being kidnapped and forced to play a vile game of survival.
Night in an old mill is dramatically depicted in this Oscar-winning short in which the frightened occupants, including birds, timid mice, owls, and other creatures try to stay safe and dry as a storm approaches. As the thunderstorm worsens, the mill wheel begins to turn and the whole mill threatens to blow apart until at last the storm subsides.
A silent figure known as The Assassin travels through a nightmare underworld of tortured souls, ruined cities and wretched monstrosities forged from the primordial horrors of the unconscious mind of Phil Tippett, the world's preeminent stop-motion animator.
A group of high school outcasts get revenge on the students that torment them.
A call to a quiet suburban home unleashes unthinkable carnage when two officers mistakenly shoot a man and his infant child, spiraling the tragedy into a fierce, unrelenting fall into the unknown.
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.
