The Tormented (2024)

Beautiful Dreams

Samantha Moon, A young woman who lives by herself in the city must confront her past and future through her dreams whilst being stalked by a mysterious entity…

Wanita Ahli Neraka

Seeking to become a wife, a conservative Farah marries Wahab. But terror engulfs her life as she realizes he may not be who he seems.

Sunfall

A girl sitting on an autumn leaf-filled sidewalk communicates with a mysterious figure across the street.

Kakurenbo: Hide & Seek

Among the ruins of the city, there is a game only children can play. It is called “Otokoyo”; a game of hide-and-seek. But whenever children play this game, one by one they would disappear into the blinds of the buildings… The story begins when a boy enters the world of Otokoyo, to find his missing sister.

House of Spoils

An ambitious chef opens a restaurant on a remote estate where she battles kitchen chaos, crushing self doubts… and a haunting presence who threatens to sabotage her at every turn.

Exit 8

A man gets lost in an underground passage. He follows the "guide" through the passage, but one after another, strange things happen to him. Is this space real? Or an illusion? Will the man be able to escape the passage?

Darkside Blues

The Persona Century Corporation has purchased nearly every parcel of land on earth. Dissension is not tolerated within the corporation's borders and those who oppose Persona are dealt with swiftly. Of those few places not yet under Persona's control is the free town of Kabuki-cho, also known as "The Dark Side of Tokyo". Within the town, under the leadership of a woman named Mai, is a small resistance group called Messiah. Into this world steps a man who takes the sobriquet of Kabuki-cho: Darkside. Sealed up in another dimension eighteen years ago by Persona Century, Darkside now returns to aid Messiah using his unique mystic power of renewal.

Monster

After being abducted and taken to a desolate house, a girl sets out to rescue her friend and escape from their malicious kidnapper.

Devilman - Volume 3: Devilman Apocalypse

Fear runs rampant throughout Tokyo with the revelation that demons in fact exist amongst us. Paranoia and the darker side of humanity boils onto the streets as people turn on one another, suspecting that anyone could in fact be a demon hiding in human clothing. Amidst the growing tensions, tragedy strikes Akira causing his mind to snap, retreating into his subconscious, allowing his Devilish alter-ego Amon to break free from Akira's cage of flesh and wreak havoc on both human and demons alike.

Dead Mail

An ominous help note finds its way to a 1980s post office, connecting a dead letter investigator to a kidnapped keyboard technician.

The Blue Hour

A bullied loner finds solace in another boy's arms when they meet at a haunted swimming pool.

Indera

Set against the backdrop of the violent Memali Incident in 1985. This psychological thriller is about a visiting handyman and his young daughter who experience mysterious visions in a remote village amid the fatal police raid against fundamentalists.

DIABLO

DIABLO is a 2021 short film about a masked stalker who hunts down his victims like prey and ends up driving them into a state of paranoia and insanity.

Outbreak

A State Park Ranger and his wife, grappling with the disappearance of their teenage son, face a mysterious outbreak that threatens not only their relationship, but in the end, their grip on reality.

Gyo: Tokyo Fish Attack

To celebrate their graduation from university Kaori and her two friends visit Okinawa in southern Japan for a short vacation. At the vacation house, provided by Tadashi's uncle, a numbing stench awaits the girls, and can be traced to a horrendously deformed, legged fish that Kaori kills. More and more of these creatures appear and portend a horrific change for the animal life in the area. A phone call from Kaori's fiancé Tadashi in Tokyo quickly shows the scope of this epidemic, when he is also attacked by these mechanized fish. Kaori immediately sets out on an perilous voyage to find out what happened to Tadashi, helped by Shirakawa — a videographer in search of the truth behind all this...

Marianne: The Ghost Inside

The life of Krister has become an unending nightmare, ever since his wife's death. There seems to be no respite for this man, tormented by the errors of his past and held prisoner by a grim daily existence.

DID I?

Genevieve attempts to navigate her life with DID, but begins to see flashbacks of memories she had no part in creating. Nervous of how dangerous she may be, she descends into hallucinations as she gets closer to the origin of her trauma.

Temurun

After their mother dies during a violent break-in, two siblings move in with their estranged father discover their family's sinister heritage.

The Empire of Corpses

The story takes place in 19th century Europe, and revolves around John Watson. He is scouted by the government to become a secret agent. However, Watson lives in a world where "Frankensteins"—human corpses that are re-purposed with a false soul in order to use them as laborers—are used to improve industrial development.

Black Mold

Photographers Brooke Konrad and Tanner Behlman travel to rural, abandoned buildings to capture the inherent beauty of long-forgotten locations, but far from forgotten are the traumatic memories that surface in Brooke when they meet The Man Upstairs, an unsuspecting squatter. As tensions and uncertainties arise, Brooke must determine if this mysterious stranger will provide her the closure she so desperately seeks or let the fears of the past consume her.

Possession: Kerasukan

A young woman leaves her family for unknown reasons. Her husband, determined to find out the truth, starts following her. He initially suspects that a man is involved, but gradually, discovers more and more strange behaviors and bizarre incidents that indicate something more than a simple love affair.

Threshold

When two men regain consciousness in a locked, windowless room with no memory of how they got there, panic quickly gives way to suspicion. Bound to chairs and watched by unseen observers, they must work together to escape—but as they unravel clues hidden in the room, it becomes clear that their meeting wasn’t by chance.

Brooding

When wildlife photographer Tara returns home from a photo trip to the California mountains, she's beset by violent agoraphobia. Her boyfriend Matthew tries to get her into treatment as she escalates episodes of self-harm, convincing herself that her house has become home to a dark insect brood.

In the Flesh

Ted, an unlikable office manager, is one day kidnapped by Jeremy, a bereaved recluse, and forced to play-act his dead brother David. Slowly gaining Jeremy's confidence, Ted discovers his captor's true intentions and makes a plan to escape.

Follower

Billie is secretly photographed by best friend Jenny and ends up on a social media platform against their will. As viewership of the images grows, internet anonymity turns out to be a source of supernatural horrors and Billie's real nightmare begins... Follower is a suspenseful and chilling film that uncovers the abysses of the internet and the human psyche.

A Catalyst

A teenage boy is forced into making a decision within 60 seconds between a possible death, or being pulled into an unknown reality.

The Secret

A collector of occult artifacts endangers himself when he seeks forbidden knowledge.

LEASH

A man looks for his missing dog in the middle of a strange night.

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.

Cocoon

Reality unravels when Cora suffers a mental breakdown at university. Locking herself away from the real world, she invites in a darker one.

Listen

Eli has an unusual relationship with music. When the music stops, that's when the voices begin.

Tenure

When a dedicated college professor is denied tenure, he turns to black magic in a moment of desperation but finds himself trapped in a private hell of his own making.

Deformed

A young man is forced to eat constantly because of a strange condition that causes deformations on his body.

Cult Affairs

Following a business arrangement gone wrong, Mr. James is brought before the very Cult he crossed to figure out a proper solution. It's on the inside, where they realize, the Devil truly lives.

Meliora

Young painter Emma struggles to balance a rocky art career and complicated relationship with her husband. All the while, a dark presence looms over her picture perfect life.

What's Wrong With You?

When five random teenagers are brought together during a school lockdown, the sight of an inexplicable figure launches a series of sinister events that will bring the group together - for better or for worse.

Curtain Call

A young theater technician is left alone overnight to finalize lighting cues for his high-school’s upcoming play. As he faces technical difficulties and mounting pressure, eerie events begin to unravel, blurring the lines between reality and something darker.

The Thesis

A college student working on a thesis gets a mysterious phone call regarding his subject.

OROBORO!

In this horrifying psychological horror short, a man finds himself stuck inside an impossible time loop. Will he escape?

Put on a Face

Students walk into a photography studio to have their photograph taken, and put on a smile for the picture. But as soon as the camera flashes, it reveals their true nature...

pistanthrophobia

A girl is stalked by her subconscious fear of intimacy.

Routine

A man goes through his daily routine, long after it has begun to destroy him.

Hobal

The Saudi family is following strict instructions from their grandfather to remain confined in the desert during the early 1990s. A series of events shakes the family's foundation and they find them in a struggle between life and death.

Honeycomb

Teresa and Peter settle down in their new home after the wedding. Things are going well until her childhood furniture arrives, sending Teresa into horrible flashbacks of turmoil from memories of her youth.

Tekkonkinkreet

Two penniless orphans, Black and White, struggle to survive on the mean streets of Treasure Town. When a megacorporation threatens to tear down the town to build an amusement park, Black and White engage in the fight of their life.

Our Body

In a Parisian public hospital, Claire Simon questions what it means to live in women’s bodies, filming their diversity, singularity and their beauty in all stages throughout life. Unique stories of desires, fears and struggles unfold, including the one of the filmmaker herself.

RahXephon: Pluralitas Concentio

Ayato and Haruka are middle-school sweethearts whose lives take a dire turn when the mysterious Mu invade Tokyo in the year 2012. Protecting humanity from the Mu may be Ayato's destiny, but what he really wants is to regain the relationship he once had with Haruka... a love that will have to transcend space, time, and reality itself.

RE:cycle of the PENGUINDRUM Part 1: Your Train Is the Survival Tactic

What would you do to save someone you love? All brothers Shoma and Kanba know is that, after collapsing in an aquarium and apparently dying, their terminally ill sister Himari was somehow revived by a Penguin hat that she had wished for. Now they're on an impossible mission, because the price of keeping Himari alive is to find a mysterious object called the Penguindrum, and they'll do anything to save their sister. Anything. As they travel separate paths in their search, they'll have to unravel complex riddles, make alliances with strangers they know they shouldn't trust, and question the very fabrics of time and destiny.