It Stares Back (2023)

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.

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.

Pale Red Dot

It's 1991. A strange triangular-shaped object made of metal and human flesh misteriously appears at the campus of an university. However, after an incident involving the "Scarlet Obelisk" as it was called, chaos begins.

Cthulhu

A Seattle history professor, drawn back to his estranged family on the Oregon coast to execute his late mother's estate, is reacquainted with his best friend from childhood, with whom he has a long-awaited tryst. Caught in an accelerating series of events, he discovers aspects of his father's New Age cult which take on a dangerous and apocalyptic significance.

Irradiation

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

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.

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.

The King In Yellow

In four intersecting stories, a supernatural play causes supernatural horror to befall any who read it

Fossil

An old man's vision of a drowning world is clouded. He decides to take radical actions inflicting damage to his surroundings. Instigating a self-destructive chain of events, coming from the dark abyss of his subconsciousness.

A Visual Poem

Surreal environments take center stage in this visual odyssey.

Man Finds Tape

Pulled in by a series of strange and unexplainable video clips, a brother and sister team up to investigate the events captured in the footage, only to discover a shocking secret that’s overtaking their small-town Texas community.

The Empty Man

On the trail of a missing girl, an ex-cop comes across a secretive group attempting to summon a terrifying supernatural entity.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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.

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.

Dagon

Based on H.P Lovecraft's Dagon, a man makes a twisted discovery, leading to an event that leave him marked.

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.

The Art of Descent

When a student affairs officer investigates a reclusive art professor at Arkham University, he uncovers a horrific secret that blurs the lines between artistic genius and madness.

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 Taxidermist

Samuel is a taxidermist commissioned to dissect a fish, however, he begins to be stalked by his Neighbor, who seems to be plotting something terrible against him. Samuel becomes obsessed with this idea, and little by little he will unravel the truth of his harassment, without knowing that this will lead him to a destiny wrapped in horrors, blood and cosmic delusions.

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 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.

Pale Dot

Father and son facing something beyond their comprehension.

El Coleccionista

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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 coming of baphomet

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

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 Spine of Night

When ancient dark magic falls into sinister hands and unleashes ages of suffering onto mankind, a group of heroes from different eras and cultures must band together in order to defeat it at all costs.

The Wall

A man is compelled to do terrible things by mysterious whispers.

A Dollar Short For The Ferryman's Fee

In an unforgiving battle for his soul, a grizzled middle aged man, plagued by a myriad of ailments, becomes the target of nightmarish creatures dispatched by the Ferryman of the River Styx. Refusing to settle his debt, he battles to outlast these henchmen of Death in a high stakes struggle for his very existence.

Shutdown

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

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.

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.

Selva Oscura

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