How to Meal Prep During a Famine (2023)

Echo Torch

An inventor creates an electrical torch that reveals a hidden world layered upon our own - filled with beautiful spirits, strange creatures, and dangerous phantoms.

Brenda and Billy and the Pothos Plant

Two estranged siblings, a botanist and a magician, come together to try and raise their mother’s body from the dead.

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.

Rougarou

In rural Louisiana, 11-year-old Sabine's widower father misses Ash Wednesday Mass, so she pushes him to give up drinking for Lent. He breaks his vow, evoking the wrath of the ROUGAROU, a mythical bayou beast who punishes bad Catholics. Now Sabine has to step up to save him from the monster or risk losing her only living parent.

Forbidden

A man opens up about his fears in a long-overdue therapy session, only to learn there is something deeply more sinister to be afraid of.

Bad Hair

Insecure and balding Leo has closed himself in his apartment to try a hair growth liquid for fixing up his looks. As Leo tries to get his bodily changes under control the evening quickly turns into chaos.

No Touching

In a shady haunted house attraction where the performers are assaulting female patrons in order to make a name for themselves, the tables are turned when the performers attempt to take on two women who bring a new level of terror as they do some ass kicking of their own.

Anya

When a sinister entity emerges from the forest on a 1970s Halloween night, a young woman's true motives are revealed - and her future is decided forever.

The Clock

An unusual obsession threatens to ruin a lunch date.

Silent Hill: The Room (Short)

Henry Townshend [Brian Dole] wakes up in his apartment and finds it's been chained shut from the inside... A Fan Film Based on the game Silent Hill 4: The Room by Konami.

Suffer the Little Children

A strict elderly teacher suddenly begins to seem (or not to appear?) That the students in her class are no longer children, but terrible monsters, pursuing their mysterious goals.

Lights Out

A woman prepares for bed, but realizes that something may be lurking in the shadows.

Screen

This short film, shot during quarantine in coherence with social distance regulations, asks the question: What if you treated every dangerous situation the same way you did a pandemic?

Invidia

While going for a casual jog on bright yet cloudy morning, a young girl discovers the dead body of a teenager. But when she recognizes the face of the cadaver, she comes face to face with her own dark secrets.

Georgie

Near the intersection of Witcham and Jackson, Georgie Denbrough’s young life came to an abrupt and tragic end. His paper boat, assembled from a Derry News newspaper with care by his older brother Bill, had careened down a sewer drain on its doomed maiden voyage and into the hands of what—not who—would be Georgie's killer. But what if Pennywise the Dancing Clown hadn’t killed Georgie after all? What if Georgie had somehow escaped death and managed to live some semblance of a normal life in the not-so-normal town of Derry? What might his world look like? Or that of the Denbrough family? Would this horrific experience color their view of the universe?

The Beast Will Kill Us All

During a recruiting trip that turns extreme, a company's new employees arrive in a forest where everything takes an unexpected turn.

The Heritage

After growing up adopted, a man makes a gargantuan discovery when meeting his biological father.

Other Side of the Box

A couple receives a mysterious package from an old friend.

Please Speak Continuously and Describe Your Experiences as They Come to You

A psychiatric patient with a brain implant that allows her to relive her dreams finds her reality being encroached upon in unappetizing and surreal ways.

Lurk

In every generation there is a Chosen One. She alone will stand against the vampires, the demons, and the forces of darkness. She is the Slayer. This fan-film imagines one night in the futuristic city of Haddyn and the 19-year-old Slayer, Melaka Fray.

Wicken

A young woman Skyping with her long distance boyfriend late night realizes that an ancient evil presence may have been unleashed upon her.

All the Flowers That Cut Through the Earth

As a man searches for his missing fiance, he encounters threatening supernatural forces that make him suspicious of her true identity.

Skin & Bone

After taking a job on a farm run by a reclusive woman, a drifter begins suffering from visions of men trapped inside the bodies of animals.

Franco Sex Doll

A man "unboxes" a vintage doll that bears a likeness to television and film star James Franco. As the man plays with the doll, it spouts soundbites from Mr. Franco's past; the man becomes obsessed.

Within the Woods

The low budget film starring the young Bruce Campbell that influenced the Evil Dead films.

The House Call

We meet Dr. Stevens, a psychiatrist, on her first day back to work since burying her sister. Tasked with paying a visit to a radically religious family who believe their mother is possessed.

Mama's Watching

On her first business trip away after the birth of her child, a young mother has to fend off the unwanted advances of her boss, triggering a traumatic childhood event involving a monstrous figure called Mama.

The Puppet Asylum

Otto Baxter, a filmmaker with Down's Syndrome, directs and stars in this musical horror-comedy short based on his life, set in Victorian London.