Greed

A revolutionary message for women everywhere to break the binds of their patriarchal overlords, dispel the myth of greed and take what is rightfully theirs. Men take heed, a reckoning is coming.

Directed by Amber Danger Johnson
United States, 4 minutes
Massachusetts Premiere

Hen

Gem and Trisha have been friends since childhood, and Gem is going to be at Trisha's side on the big day. But their bond is no match for the Three Bridesmaids of the Apocalypse. Under the influence of bad vodka and worse friends, Trisha turns from girl-boss ally to monstrous beast in the space of a Ginuwine remix.

Directed by Alice Tovey
Australia, 11 minutes
Salem Premiere

Incomplete

Evan is on house arrest in a haunted house. Or so he thinks? Evan’s sister went out of her way to rent him a house off the DOC database, in a boughie-ass suburban neighborhood so he could serve the remainder of his sentence in the Jail Diversion Program on house arrest. When his breathalyzer Machine starts to act strange, the Polaroid pictures it routinely prints suggest that Evan is not alone. A faceless figure is also occupying this suburban home. Evan must make a decision to either stay and face his fears or end up serving his remaining time in Jail.

Directed by Zoey Martinson
United States, 10 minutes
New England Premiere

Knit One, Stab Two

This essay film examines the representation of knitters and knitting, in over sixty horror films made by women, from the 1920s - 2020s.

Directed by Alison Peirse
United Kingdom, 10 minutes
East Coast Premiere

Mud on My Shoes

Narrated by horror legend Doug Bradley (Hellraiser), Mud on My Shoes is a stop-motion adaptation of a childhood nightmare based off the poem of the same name from author Count D.’s book, "All My Friends Are Creeps". 

Directed by Rosie Geozalian
United States, 2 minutes
East Coast Premiere

O

A woman sees a fist-sized hole in a brick wall. She's hypnotically drawn to it and can't focus on anything else. An increasingly morbid obsession begins, until the hole suddenly disappears...

Directed by Dominik Balkow
Germany, 14 minutes
Northeast Premiere

Picnic

A young couple goes out for a picnic on a big empty field. When another couple shows up with identical clothes and food everything takes a strange turn.

Directed by Jonathan Elfving & Saga Stoltz Sörnäs
Sweden, 14 minutes
Swedish w/ English subtitles
United States Premiere

Pumpkin Boy

This Halloween... he's born.

Directed by Trent Shy
United States, 2 minutes
Massachusetts Premiere

Smiley Face

Three young women experience the nightmare of being devoured by a humanoid creature.

Directed by François Ricard-Sheard
Canada, 9 minutes
Massachusetts Premiere

That Halloween

On October 31, 1955, June & Frank Marsters met their grisly end when an escaped killer known as the Willow Woods Wolfman broke into their home. In the decades since the night has grown to be the stuff of local legend, but what really happened THAT HALLOWEEN?

Directed by Mike Hickey
Canada, 13 minutes
Massachusetts Premiere

Weekend Two • Official Selection

A man is tormented by nightmarish visions after enduring head trauma while camping in the Catskill woods.

Directed by Scott Goldberg
United States, 80 minutes
New England Premiere

Weekend One • Weekend Two

Strange things begin to occur as a tiny California coastal town prepares to commemorate its centenary. Inanimate objects spring eerily to life, Rev. Malone (Hal Holbrook) stumbles upon a dark secret about the town’s founding. radio announcer Stevie (Adrienne Barbeau) witnesses a mystical fire, and hitchhiker Elizabeth (Jamie Lee Curtis) discovers the mutilated corpse of a fisherman. Then a mysterious iridescent fog descends upon the village, and more people start to die.

Directed by John Carpenter
United States, 91 minutes

Friday, April 21 • 11:55 p
Weekend One

Sunday, April 30 • 2p
Weekend Two

Aftertaste

Following the death of her mysterious Amah (grandma), a young chef is haunted during her first night of dinner service at a high-pressure Michelin Star kitchen.

Directed by Christianne Cruz
United States, 10 minutes
New England Premiere

Canceled

On Halloween night, an arrogant TikTok influencer refuses to acknowledge her cultural appropriation of Mexican culture as strange things happen in the shadows.

Directed by Christopher Guerrero
United States, 5 minutes
New England Premiere

He Watches

40-something Tom has his boyfriend Mikey move in. What seems like domestic bliss at first gives way to creeping dread as a malevolent spirit makes itself known. This gay ghost will stop at nothing to get close to Tom, even if that means eliminating Mikey.

Directed by Joshua Conkel
United States, 14 minutes
World Premiere

Kiddo

On a rickety bus trundling through wilting countryside, a mysterious older woman named 'Kiddo' and a cohort of overexcited teenagers meander towards Wonderland, a theme park like no other. Sinister secrets await as Kiddo and her compatriots face off with their hosts and draw closer to discovering the truth of their journey.

Directed by Brett Chapman
United Kingdom, 15 minutes
United States Premiere

Marked

When a contraceptive implant sends twenty-one year old Andrea violently insane, she must find a way to remove it before she does something that she’ll regret for the rest of her life.

Directed by Catherine Bonny
Australia, 14 minutes
Northeast Premiere

My Cat Lucy

A boy tries to prove that his pet cat is possessed by a demon.

Directed by Kate Vaillant
United States, 2 minutes
Massachusetts Premiere

La Nueva (The Newcomer)

Maria is the new teacher who arrives at an old religious school. On her first day, she will have to teach a group of rebellious kids who are part of a punishment class. An unexpected event will turn the classroom into a real hell.

Directed by Ivan Villamel
Spain, 15 minutes
Spanish with English subtitles
New England Premiere

Old Time Radio: Your Move

We find ourselves back in the macabre world of Old Time Radio. Riktus Grim and his half-brother, Edward Mise, have once again managed to climb their way out of their graves and make their way up to the ancestral home for a simple game of chess. What could go wrong…?

Directed by Joel Harlow
United States, 12 minutes
New England Premiere

Wolf Whistle

A young woman goes for a run. Once the sunsets, she finds herself vulnerable and alone in the park, but all is not what it seems.

Directed by Jennifer Handorf
United Kingdom, 5 minutes
East Coast Premiere

Burlington Paranormal

Introducing a team of paranormal investigators in a Mississippi River town led by a woman who has the ability to punch ghosts with her right fist. The team consists of a drag queen psychic (the Bay area's iconic Peaches Christ), a non-binary tech noise musician (Ellie Desautels from NBC's Rise), a silent video artist camera operator and a brand new intern (comedian Johnny Pemberton of Superstore and 21 Jump Street).

Directed by Zachary Eli Lint
United States, 21 minutes
Northeast Premiere

Darker

When her father goes missing, young Rhena (Adriana Bakker) enters the woods to seek out a mythological creature believed to collect the stories of dying beings.

Directed by Frank van den Bogart
Belgium, 15 minutes
Dutch with English subtitles
New England Premiere

Diptera

A passenger traveling alone on a train is haunted by something decaying just beyond her sight, as well as visions of her past sins.

Directed by Anna Harestad
Canada, 3 minutes
New England Premiere

Eat

A terrifying new plague turns people into zombies, but as one couple comes to find out, the cure may be worse than the disease...

Directed by Nora Unkel
United States, 8 minutes
New England Premiere

He Knows

Jamie's job at a local coffee shop isn't anything remarkable, until he meets a new customer: Claire, a beautiful and spirited dancer. As Claire becomes a frequent visitor, Jamie's scope of knowledge broadens from her likes and interests to her personal routines and home address. Attention becomes obsession, leading Jamie down a dark path that will alter their lives irrevocably.

Directed by Cassie Keet
United States, 8 minutes
East Coast Premiere

The October Martyr

In a totalitarian state where individual liberties are crushed and people who speak out are executed without trial, a judge has to confront a prisoner who will not be intimidated by their death sentence.

Directed by Robert Tiemstra
United States, 15 minutes
Salem Premiere

Ringworms

After discovering her boyfriend’s plan to propose on their weekend vacation, a young girl undergoes a crisis of commitment which attracts the attention of a sinister local cult.

Directed by Will Lee
United States, 14 minutes

That’s Our Time

Danny's stuck in a dead-end job. It keeps him focused on the clock and unable to connect with those around him. At their final session, his sympathetic therapist tries to help him realize that it's more important to focus on the time you have left than the time you've already spent.

Directed by Alex Backes
United States, 10 minutes
Massachusetts Premiere

Tooth

Fed up with decades of suffering through the forced perfection of modern beauty standards, a tooth takes matters into its own hands.

Directed by Jillian Corsie
United States, 4 minutes
East Coast Premiere

Yummy Mummy

Ignored throughout her pregnancy, Lilith senses her identity is being smothered by her burgeoning motherhood. Her anxieties begin to have physical manifestations - then she starts to fall apart - literally.

Directed by Gabriela Staniszewska
United Kingdom, 15 minutes
New England Premiere

Weekend Two • Official Selection • Filmmaker Q&A

On a weekend campout, a dark monster terrorizes a group of campers who fall prey to an ancient legend and conspiring local townsfolk. For preteen Dug, Mel and Fatt, and Dug’s older brother and girlfriend, a night out in the desert becomes a survivalist horror adventure. Zach Passero’s heartfelt coming-of-age tale about growing up and surviving a night of terrors juggles frights, laughs, and an amputated arm in this unique hand-animated joy ride of a creature feature.

Directed by Zach Passero
United States, 80 minutes
Massachusetts Premiere

Weekend Two • Presented with Horror Queers - Live Podcast

While transporting a car from Chicago to San Diego, Jim Halsey (C. Thomas Howell) picks up a hitchhiker named John Ryder (Rutger Hauer), who claims to be a serial killer. After a daring escape, Jim hopes to never see Ryder again. But when he witnesses the hitchhiker murdering an entire family, Jim pursues Ryder with the help of truck-stop waitress Nash (Jennifer Jason Leigh), pitting the rivals against each other in a deadly series of car chases and brutal murders.

Directed by Robert Harmon
United States, 97 minutes

Absolution, Parsin

A famously unsolved true-crime story describes a woman who’s skeleton was found in the hollow of a tree, with no clues as to how she got there except for an ominous graffiti nearby, reading “Who put Bella down the Wych Elm”. In this stop-motion animated short film, the imagined killer is confronted about his past by an unearthly Bison.

Directed by Jack Nop
United States, 5 minutes
Massachusetts Premiere

Demon Box

After festival rejections, a director revises his intensely personal short film about trauma, suicide, and the Holocaust, and transforms it into a painful, blunt and funny dissection of the film and his life. Ten years in the making.

Directed by Sean Wainsteim
Canada, 14 minutes
Northeast Premiere

Domestic Bliss

A woman with a surprise up her sleeve hopes to get a commitment-phobic man to propose.

Directed by Jennifer Scott & Nicole Townssend
United States, 10 minutes
New England Premiere

The Five Fingers of a Dog

In this gothic neo-giallo, a depraved killer, a deadly cycle, a possessed detective, and a perverse world merge to form the most disreputable piece of horror.

Directed by Charlie Compton and Justin Landsman
United States, 24 minutes
Salem Premiere

Honeymoon at Cold Hollow

In the winter of 1974, newlyweds are snowed into a remote cabin in the wilderness and learn that they never really knew each other at all.

Directed by Nat Rovit
United States, 14 minutes
East Coast Premiere

Kickstart My Heart

After a brutal car accident, a young woman fights her mind's 3 levels of hell to wake up again.

Directed by Kelsey Bollig
United States, 14 minutes
New England Premiere

Lethalogica

Relationships can be killer, but the best advice for a successful one, is patience and a short memory.

Directed by Tony Reames
United States, 6 minutes
New England Premiere

Pool Party

Outcast Freya attempts to make it through the night at her childhood best friend's seventeenth birthday party without revealing her most dangerous secret.

Directed by Ellie Stewart
Canada, 8 minutes
Salem Premiere

South

In the frozen expanse of the South, a weary scavenger discovers someone in need of aid.

Directed by Carl Shanahan
Norway, 6 minutes
East Coast Premiere

Violet Butterfield: Makeup Artist for the Dead

Anticipating a quiet night in her mortuary salon, Violet receives a visit from a new client and discovers that sometimes a person feels they cannot authentically live their best life until after they're dead.

Directed by Brooke H. Cellars
United States, 13 minutes
Northeast Premiere