The Sardonic Smile (2019)

Un Chien Andalou

Un Chien Andalou is an European avant-garde surrealist film, a collaboration between director Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dali.

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.

Wild Love

While on a romantic getaway, Alan and Beverly cause a fatal accident. This crime won't remain unpunished...

Forget Me Not

A father takes his two children eating in a public park. While the older sister feels unwanted because of her baby sister, she wanders off in a distant corner where sinister red eyed animals talk to her.

Polygamy Gone Wrong

Sister wives living on a secluded ranch decide to plot revenge against their abusive husband.

Within the Woods

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

The Sound of Blue, Green and Red

A mysterious woman staying at a desert motel meets a man looking for his missing wife.

I Am Your Punishment

An avid moviegoer sees several films depicting grisly murderers and decides to commit a crime himself, only to discover that there's quite a difference between fantasy and reality.

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.

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.

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.

Small Talk

A young phone sex operator named Al's career takes a strange turn as her more unpleasant clients begin dying under mysterious circumstances after speaking with her. Al is left with sudden, intense headaches after each incident, the likes of which she has never experienced before. Is this coincidence, or is she somehow causing these deaths? Al attempts to keep her grip on reality and enlists her best friend investigate--battling violent ex boyfriends and the horror of the service industry along the way

Lorenzo

A cat named Lorenzo is dismayed to discover that his tail has developed a personality of its own.

Audionomie

Loïc is alone in the anechoic room. What had he done to find himself in there? Since when? He only came to the audiology clinic for a little hiss in his ear...

Nathalie: The first and last prom

Christine attends her first and last prom accompanied by Martin Fredericksen

Hybrid Hazards

A teenage rock band performs their music for a small audience. At the end of their performance, lead singer Lacy who is in love with one of the members, gets a text from her mother to invite the band to her family’s factory, possibly for jobs. However, the family has a dark secret that will forever transform or fatally devour their friendship.

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.

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.

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.

The Moogai

Moogai is Bundjalung for ‘ghost’, and it is precisely a moogai that intrudes on the quiet home life of Sarah, Fergus and their newborn baby.

Line 17

A young woman is stalked by a wicked entity in subway cars in Latin America.

Fear

When finishing a drawing, a man will face a real nightmare.

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.

Anular

A grave robber, trying to steal a ring stuck from a corpse, is forced to cut off her finger to avoid being caught by a policeman.

In Luna There Are Spirits

In a ghost town, Luna seeks to help her brother Balám from whom is in danger, before fainting, a being disguised as an old man appears in front of her.