The Box Cult (2024)

The Last Nap

During a summer afternoon, the thin line that separates dreams from wakefulness blurs into obscurity during a long nap.

Pigskin

A high school cheerleader faces a grisly manifestation of her self-deprecating inner demons.

Echoes Of Ivory

Deep in the frigid valleys of northern rural Canada, two survivors atop a desolate peak run thin on supplies and hope. The only remaining from their group, they wait naively for help to come. Fighting long days of paranoia and an unidentifiable entity lurking in the darkness of night, their situation grows bleaker by the minute. What follows are the last 24 hours spent on their mountaintop campsite.

Francis

Francis is a short story written by american novelist Dave Eggers. This is the story of a young boy growing up in the suburbs of chicago. He spent his vacations in Quetico Provincial Park, up on the border of Minnesota and Canada. But he won't be going back any day soon, not after what happened to a girl called Francis Brandywine.

In The Tall Grass

Joseph is mentally deviated. He is a prisoner of his own flat and always in permanent war with his own mind.

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.

Curiosity

On a quiet night, a young couple find themselves caught up in a nightmarish ordeal after they witness a murderer disposing of a body in this claustrophobic thriller.

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.

Goodnight Cinderella

Cinderella escapes at midnight, leaving behind one of her glass slippers. In the days that follow, the gay prince can't give up the idea of completing the pair.

The Coatmaker

When a tailor closes up shop for the night, he quickly discovers that he is not alone.

COME IN

Pipes sing and cracks spy. Where to go if inside is as dangerous as outside?

Who Goes There?

Minnesota 1880: The trust of three Norwegian sisters is tested when a stranger appears on their prairie. When the eldest invites him in to heal her dying sister, she doesn’t realize that a supernatural force is crossing her threshold.

There's a Monster Behind You

Three nights. Two Friends. One monster

Actos impuros

Oscar works in a public bath, where he murders several people.

Bugcrush

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

Deep Breaths

A psychologist suffering from an anxiety disorder begins to have a mental breakdown when she hears a sinister voice through her headphones.

Dead Crossing

The story of a group of Mexican immigrants who discover a horrifying secret about the US government while trying to cross the border.

2 Weeks

When 20-something-year-old Tanya begins to realize she’s asexual, the highly charged sexualized world she lives in as an actress and partner begins to fall apart and feels more and more like an unbearable nightmare.

TRUE DARKNESS: KEEP MOVING

Jake can help people move on after death, but now he may need to help someone move on from life.

Wicken

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

Swallowed

Sam, newly a mother, shops at a supermarket with her baby and husband Carlson. She throws a neighborhood shishkabob party in her den. Her family shares a Sunday breakfast. But through her smiles and picturesque tasks, there's a suppression. Sam’s grown something she can no longer contain. As she purges this parasite, we move inside her body and experience this wildness as a feverish dance.The parasite ejects us back into the kitchen of another woman, alone eating breakfast as she looks at a happy couple pictured on the back of her cereal box. It’s Sam and Carlson. What's beneath a picture? A dream within a dream. Horror meets dance, SWALLOWED suggests a complex truth to motherhood and domesticity. (The Criterion Channel)

Ghost Burger

Two kids go hunting for ghosts to help their dad run a burger cafe. An epic sequel to Hardcastle's "T is For Toilet" segment of the horror anthology film "The ABCs of Death", it takes place 12 years after the accident.

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.

Sons of Lilith

Vengeance lies upon the snowy mountains of Eresfjord when the unhinged Ask E. Laedden returns to his cabin 15 years after the spine-chilling night that scarred him for life.

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.

Ofusco

The arrival of Gabriel, a new priest to the town of Pátzcuaro, triggers a series of disappearances. Julián, a young blind man, is involved after suspecting the true nature of this being.

Monastery

There is a religious congregation founded by Saint Igneous, a saint and martyr who is believed to have been burned alive for spreading the faith. Several centuries later, a young monk prepares to be part of the order and thus, redeem his sins of the past. In the ritual ceremony he realizes that the sacrifice will be greater than he expected. Between prayers and agony, the young monk without waiting obtains what he wanted: redemption by emulating Saint Igneous.

The Revelation of Isabel

Isabel is a young woman who tries to escape from what wants to hurt her, a shadow chases her through the streets, to finally reveal her fateful reality.

Delirium

A young man haunted by hereditary psychiatric problems, is convinced that he must carry out something unthinkable.

The Butcher

A murderer, knife in hand and face covered, breaks into a wealthy house causing a massacre.

The Invitation

Three schoolgirls get more than they bargained for when attempting to communicate with the dead.

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.

The Predator Holiday Special

In this stop-motion animated holiday short, the Predator tangles with his most formidable foes yet – Santa and his reindeer.

How to Be Alone

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

Diabla

After surviving assault, an enigmatic 17-year-old Mexican girl finds retribution through her untapped female power and local witch culture.

Delirium

A man is accused and tortured for a crime he did not commit, but soon, the Police will receive an unexpected surprise.

My Dead Husband

A widow is being haunted by her dead husband. She must find a way to face her fear.

A Message from Fallujah

Daniel Crane is an American civilian engineer working to rebuild war torn Iraq who is kidnapped on his last day in Fallujah. Beaten and alone he is hostage caught up in the drama of war.

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.

La Boca Del Diablo

Daniel is challenged by his classmates to go at dusk to a cave people say goes straight to hell. Armed with holy water, he arrives to the appointment; this is the story of how Daniel meets Devil.

Gator Green

A demented Vietnam veteran and his pals run amok at an alligator farm in 1973 Florida.

Saw

David, an orderly at a hospital, tells his horrific story of being kidnapped and forced to play a vile game of survival.

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.

Creature

A newly wedded husband and wife try to repair their already struggling relationship, while battling an unknown evil that is hunting them down from within their home.