O Despertar De Selma (2016)

Bugcrush

A teenager's infatuation with the new bad boy at school leads him onto a dark path.

Otto; or, Up with Dead People

A young zombie named Otto appears on a remote highway. He has no idea where he came from or where he is going. After hitching a ride to Berlin and nesting in an abandoned amusement park, he begins to explore the city. Soon he is discovered by underground filmmaker Medea Yarn, who begins to make a documentary about him with the support of her girlfriend, Hella Bent, and her brother Adolf, who operates the camera. Meanwhile, Medea is still trying to finish Up with Dead People, the epic political-porno-zombie movie that she has been working on for years. She convinces its star, Fritz Fritze, to allow the vulnerable Otto to stay in his guest bedroom. When Otto discovers that he has a wallet that contains information about his past, before he was dead, he begins to remember details about his ex-boyfriend, Rudolf. He arranges to meet him at the schoolyard where they met, with devastating results.

Pig

A young man journeys through a desert, where he is kidnapped by a sadistic stranger clad in a pig mask. The stranger proceeds to brutally torture the young man, who then finds himself escaping into his imagination, with fantasy and reality intersecting.

Something on the roof

On a stormy night, an old Catholic hears a thunderous bang on the roof of his house. A woman has fallen on the roof of him, he will discover that it is what he fears the most.

Blinded

Whilst on a camping trip in the woods, Sarah and her boyfriend (Joseph) begin driving back home after a long weekend. When they suddenly hit something on the road, they are pulled into a new world where Sarah must endure to find Joseph and get him back.

Don't Die First

Finding himself trapped in a cabin in the woods with his white friends, Jay makes a call to a mysterious organization.

Halloween

Fifteen years after murdering his sister on Halloween Night 1963, Michael Myers escapes from a mental hospital and returns to the small town of Haddonfield, Illinois to kill again.

Ghosthunters

When one of their own loses his wife and daughter at the hands of a serial killer, a team of ghost hunters is determined to capture the spirits of the loved ones so their spirits can finally rest in peace. But as the team goes deeper into the house, the ghosts become more hostile, and the group discovers the true secrets of the house and its murderer.

La última cena

Manuel, a thief from Mexico City, steals to survive and pay his debts. One night, like anyone else, he goes out to steal without knowing that he is followed by a supernatural entity that heralds his death.

A Tale of Two Sisters

A recently released patient from a mental institution returns home with her sister, only to face disturbing events between her stepmother and the ghosts haunting their house – all of which are connected to a dark past in the family's history.

Frankenstein

Frankenstein, a young medical student, trying to create the perfect human being, instead creates a misshapen monster. Made ill by what he has done, Frankenstein is comforted by his fiancée; but on his wedding night he is visited by the monster.

First Blood

A teenage girl goes through a bizarre transformation after she gets her first period.

Shallots & Garlic

When polar opposite sisters Nur and Karina reunite for their grandparents' wedding anniversary dinner, Karina starts itching and blames Nur for putting garlic in her food.

How to Be Alone

When her husband leaves for a night shift, a woman battles physical manifestations of her repressed fears and desires.

The Scary Movie

Martina and Sonja, cross-dress in vampire capes and werewolf claws, re-enacting familiar horror tropes. A corresponding soundtrack of stock screams and "scary" music suggests that the girls' toying with gender roles and power dynamics may have dire consequences.

Play House

The only thing keeping Harold's family bound is his unconditional love for them.

Dokurogeki: atoaji no warui sasupensu

An omnibus drama that delivers suspense with a bad aftertaste, a number of bad endings with a hopeless aftertaste, and indescribable "unbearable" emotions, this feeling will surely become a habit.

Hiraeth

The story of a lonely young man as he inexplicably wakes up in his dark and empty apartment one day. What follows is his journey through this mysterious and unrecognizable world he is thrown into. As he tries to grasp the surreal occurrences happening around him, he comes closer to unraveling the truth behind his existence and his dark past.

Sweet, Sweet Lonely Girl

Soon after moving in with her aging aunt Dora, Adele meets Beth, seductive and mysterious, who tests the limits of Adele's moral ground and sends her spiraling down a psychologically unstable and phantasmagoric path.

Rakshasa Tantra

Rakshasa Tantra is a story of a group of friends who come online on a video call to catch up and chat with each other. Soon they come across dangerous content on the dark web.

The Other Side of the Witching Hour

A spellbinding journey into the mind of an insomniac, who spends each night haunted by strange and wonderful illusions from another world.

Critters

Carnivorous aliens arrive unannounced at a Kansas family farm; two intergalactic bounty hunters soon follow, determined to blow them off the planet.

The Last Laugh

A stand-up comedian on the verge of breakout success must make a terrible choice when he discovers a murderer on the loose in the theater where he's about to perform his biggest show.

Satan's Bite

Made for straight 8's 2018 competition on one cartridge of super 8mm film with only in-camera edits and no post-production. Premiered on may 14th 2018 at straight 8's Cannes film festival screening.

Harvested 3 - Stay off His Land

Harvested 3 is the trilogy to Harvested The Holiday Horror Franchise, Produced by Culture Forward Media Group LLC and Distributed by Culture Forward TV. Writer and Director Ali West Ashe aka Alex West the 23X international award winning filmmaker (4X platinum); will also be starring as Detective Axel Edwards, while Cortney Elise returns as Tiff, Gregor Haley returns as Harold Rice, Elester Latham returns as Ottis (Motel Owner, Dean Wil returns as Jemel, while Watts Homie Quan (Tyquan Givens) makes his franchise debut. Creature Concept design by Veniesa Dillion and Mylina Baez, SFX by Jessica Seifert, Soundtrack byThe Vanguards, Cazo Cas, Judell Rome and ClintD. Harvested 3 returns to streaming on 11.25.24 Just tap in on Roku and Channel search Culture Forward TV to stream it for free!

The Pledge

Three criminals pledge to free the soul of their friend from his gibbeted corpse in this short film based on 'The Highwayman' by Lord Dunsany.

Intruders

A seven-year-old boy notices a strange activity in his room at night. Sometimes it is better to stay in bed than to try to escape.

Hostel

Three backpackers head to a Slovakian city that promises to meet their hedonistic expectations, with no idea of the hell that awaits them.

Adoration

Based on the real life story of Sagawa, a Japanese student who killed, dismembered and ate a young Dutch girl in Paris.

Unlocked

Charlotte lives a very mundane and regular life. Juggling between school works and social life her day-to-day couldn't have been more routinely. But that is about to change when she forgets to lock her door one day.