The Buildout (2023)

Invaders From Within!

July 7, 1977. Tormented by tinnitus and fiending for fame, folk musician Paul Cody has isolated himself at a remote cabin in the sweltering summer woods. Plagued by indescribable sights and sounds, he’s about to uncover what creeps and crawls within the house's walls.

Veined

Andrew, a teacher, is attacked while leaving work in a failed mugging which results in him becoming critically injured. While he is bleeding out a Deity appears healing Andrew but this is at a cost.

Bagdad Cafe

A German woman named Jasmin stumbles upon a dilapidated motel/diner in the middle of nowhere. Her unusual appearance and demeanor are at first suspicious to Brenda, the exasperated owner who has difficulty making ends meet. But when an unlikely magic sparks between the two women, this lonely desert outpost is transformed into a thriving and popular oasis.

the coming of baphomet

A guy comes home from college. Then the end begins.

Galaxy of Horrors

Trapped in a damaged cryogenic pod, a man is forced to watch a series of horrific science-fiction tales while his life support systems run out. Featuring eight intense stories of the unknown and other-worldly, equally wonderful and terrifying. Visit the GALAXY OF HORRORS, if you dare! Curated from Rue Morgue & Unstable Ground's Little Terrors Festival.

SKY//BLUE

Two activist friends investigate into strange occurrences after they witness a man lose his mind in a bar. While they dig deeper into who the man was, sinister forces converge to control the situation.

Voidcaller

Several people with amnesia realize they may have been involved in something sinister on a cosmic scale.

Selva Oscura

A woman finds a corpse along a familiar path. She begins to investigate and soon becomes wrapped up in a mystery.

A Visual Poem

Surreal environments take center stage in this visual odyssey.

Black Mountain Side

A group of archaeologists uncover a strange structure in Northern Canada, dating over ten thousand years before the present. The team finds themselves isolated when their communication systems fail and it's not long before they begin to feel the effects of the solitude.

Salsiccia

In a reimagined industrialized post-WWII Italy, a middle-aged man named Dante is met with an ill fate once he discovers a curious egg in the forest. By taking it home with him, he unwillingly unleashes terrors beyond human imagination and understanding.

Miskatonic U

Visionary Miskatonic University student Crawford Tillinghast follows in his late father's footsteps and becomes obsessed with completing work on the Resonator, an inter-dimensional device that opens doorways to other worlds.

The Five Fingers of a Dog

In this gothic neo-giallo: A depraved killer, a deadly cycle, a possessed detective, and a perverse world merge to form the most disreputable piece of horror.

The Breach

John Hawkins is set to retire from his post as police chief of the small town of Lone Crow, that is tucked away in the deep woods of northern Ontario. But following the discovery of a gruesome body with uncanny injuries, he’s pulled into an investigation to solve the horrifying mystery, which evades explanation.

Flash

Arturo, a retired photographer, sees on TV that the building where his love of youth died will be demolished. Arturo is determined to find answers to the sudden death of Daniela, he will embark on a journey where he will relive the last moments he spent with her and discover the mysteries behind her death.

Curse of the Re-Animator

Herbert West is totally out of control on campus, sticking his glowing green reagent into every corpse he can find!

Shutdown

An office worker gets terrorized by an unknown force through an error on his computer.

O Breu

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3 Women

Two co-workers, one a vain woman and the other an awkward teenager, share an increasingly bizarre relationship after becoming roommates.

ART MADE ME DISAPPEAR

A young artist is caught in a physical and mental battle against a supernatural entity that forces him to free it from its dark prison, ¿or is it just his imagination?

LISTEN

A young woman begins to uncover the mystery of a cassette tape left by her estranged father, causing her to question the sanity of her father and face the dark forces that lie outside our world.

Children of the Pines

Riley, a junior in college, is persuaded by her estranged parents to visit during winter break, only to find they have taken up a supernatural practice in order to fix the deep-rooted issues plaguing their family.

The Statement

Descending into a cave, two men seek answers to a book of unknown horrors. What will they find and will their sanity prevail?

The 11th Commandment

A murderous psycho breaks out of a mental hospital and goes after his rich uncle who killed his father and raped his mother.

Please Respond

Two detectives begin investigating a series of teen suicides that unravel into a chilling discovery.

Colt 38 Special Squad

The city of Turin is in the grip of a brutal crime boss known as "Il Marsigliese" and plenty of cops have good cause to want him dead — none more than Inspector Vanni, whose wife was murdered by the ruthless gangster. Having exhausted every other avenue, Vanni forms a crack squad of motorcycle-riding, Colt .38-toting elite officers, tasked with meting out justice on the margins of the law. But when "Il Marsigliese" launches a bombing campaign designed to extort a vast ransom from the city's authorities, Vanni finds himself in a race against time to exact his revenge and avert disaster.

Sungazer

A short, wordless horror film about the terrors lurking just beyond the veil of reality. Shot almost entirely on Super 8 and taking an experimental narrative approach to cosmic horror, Sungazer is an ultra-grainy, high contrast nightmare beamed from another dimension.

A Warm December

Widower Dr. Matt Younger and his daughter go to London for a month of dirt-bike racing. While there, Dr. Younger is surprised by finding himself attracted to Catherine, a charming but elusive woman who seems to have some mysterious men following her. A romance slowly develops between the doctor and Catherine, but there are complications to their happiness.

Gods of the Deep

When a daring mission leads a deep sea submarine team into a mysterious opening on the ocean floor, they uncover a lost underwater world and awaken its ancient race of otherworldly beings.

Black Kettle

A student moves into their accomodation, only to find their room already decorated, a strange, inhuman flatmate, and a kettle that won't stop boiling.

The Empty Man

Retired cop James Lasombra is asked by a friend to investigate the disappearance of her daughter, who seemingly packed in the night and left an ominous message on the bathroom mirror - "The Empty Man Made Me Do It." As he investigates this mysterious figure further, James begins to see and hear strange things, and is forced to come to terms with his past and what it means for his future.

Irradiation

While being escorted to a mysteriously irradiated site, a scientist experiences strange visions.

Pale Dot

Father and son facing something beyond their comprehension.

1710 Bunker Hill Avenue

Six months have passed since the "Ascension Event" and the Soliatite invasion of planet Earth. Mason Redgrave scours the wasteland with the help of his virtual companion Riley-B12 as they search for answers regarding The Astral Brotherhood.

Archons

Archons is the story of falling-from-grace rock group, Sled Dog, half a decade after the release of their hit single, Backfire. After a chance encounter with rock-legend and life-long idol, Emerson Gilmore, Eric is willing to take one more chance at success, the way Emerson Gilmore did it back in the 70s—out in the Canadian mountains with a guitar and a bag of psychedelic drugs.

Delicate Arch

Four young friends with fracturing relationships take a camping trip to Southern Utah in order to escape an ecological disaster up North. Alone in the desert, they begin to suspect that their reality might not be as it seems, and soon realize they’re being observed by a mysterious cosmic force.

Color Out of Space

The Gardner family moves to a remote farmstead in rural New England to escape the hustle of the 21st century. They are busy adapting to their new life when a meteorite crashes into their front yard, melts into the earth, and infects both the land and the properties of space-time with a strange, otherworldly colour. To their horror, the family discovers this alien force is gradually mutating every life form that it touches—including them.

The Statement

After investigating an Elder cult's meeting place, a professor wakes to find himself in an interrogation room with a grotesquely scarred hand.

Quiet Apocalypse

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It's Something Else

Martin is a hoarding collector living a solitary life on a small plot of land. While out magnet fishing for metal, Martin stumbles upon a mysterious object that possesses a dark and terrifying greed that is larger than even his own.

Beyond the Resonator

The malevolent inter-dimensional machine is still channeling monsters and blowing minds, but this time things get even more complicated with the arrival of mad med student Herbert West and his dreaded reagent!

The Void

In the middle of a routine patrol, officer Daniel Carter happens upon a blood-soaked figure limping down a deserted stretch of road. He rushes the young man to a nearby rural hospital staffed by a skeleton crew, only to discover that patients and personnel are transforming into something inhuman. As the horror intensifies, Carter leads the other survivors on a hellish voyage into the subterranean depths of the hospital in a desperate bid to end the nightmare before it's too late.

Cordura Island

The Cordura Island lighthouse keeper is left alone when his companion leaves for the mainland. On a stormy night he finds a letter. The story it tells and his fear of the loneliness at night will take him to the limits of madness.

A Dollar Short For The Ferryman's Fee

Gideon embarks on a journey that forces him to face his many sins, while driving him toward an altercation with the demons that haunt him.