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Influencers

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Kurtis David Harder

Writer, Director, Producer
Synopsis
In the sun-drenched countryside of southern France, CW lives a quiet, idyllic life with her girlfriend Diane, hiding a dark obsession with murder and stolen identities. During an anniversary getaway, they cross paths with Charlotte, a bold, alluring influencer whose curiosity quickly turns intrusive. When CW acts on a violent impulse, the consequences spiral out of control, and as Diane begins to suspect the truth, CW’s carefully constructed life threatens to collapse around her.
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The Red Mask

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Ritesh Gupta

Director
Synopsis
When outspoken queer screenwriter Allina Green is chosen to pen the final instalment of the legendary slasher franchise 'The Red Mask', anger, outrage, and online death threats from die-hard fans causes a rift in her relationship with reticent fiancé Deetz. Desperate for a creative breakthrough, the pair escape to a secluded Airbnb, where Allina concocts a dangerous game to play to unlock her writer's block. But when two uninvited houseguests crash the scene, the weekend turns dark and a twisted contest devolves into a duel to the death in a love letter to the stalk and slash genre.
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Meat Kills

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Martijn Smits

Director
Synopsis
In Europe, 133 million pigs suffer in cruel livestock farms. For Mirthe (19), this is unbearable. To prove herself worthy of joining ‘Animal Army’ a radical activist group led by the fearless Nasha (22), she secretly films the horrors of a local pig farm.
Her footage earns her a mission to free the pigs, but when Mirthe and the group return at night, they find the cages empty: the pigs already slaughtered. Enraged, Nasha shifts her focus to revenge, targeting and torturing the farmer’s children. Mirthe objects, but chaos erupts when the farmer returns, determined to protect his family as he hunts down the activists.
The farm becomes a bloody battleground while Mirthe is trapped between Nasha’s vengeance and the farmer’s fury. Mirthe must get her hands bloody if she wants to get out alive.
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SHED

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Steven J Mihaljevich

Writer/Director/Editor
Synopsis
On Christmas Eve, a crazed, strange man with nothing to live for, embarks on a murderous rage, killing a family in cold blood. As he starts to take over the families property, unbeknownst to him is one more family member - a curious, courageous 10 year old girl Mia, who has found herself locked in the farms' work shed accidentally through a game of hide and seek . Mia must survive in the shed for days, without food or water, until someone comes for her - but soon that person will eventually be the insidious dying man and the two characters must come face to face. What unravels is a thrilling game of cat and mouse through desperation, revenge and incredible endurance.

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Appofeniacs

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Chris Marrs Piliero

Writer/Director
Synopsis
Enthralled with exploiting our instinct to believe what we see and hear, Duke (Aaron Holliday) sows havoc with a callous disregard of consequences as he goes on a frenzy of reckless deepfake creations for little reason beyond the fact that he can. Things quickly spiral into bloody chaos and Duke just doesn’t give a shit.
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Jimmy

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David-Jan Bronsgeest

Director
Synopsis
After years away, Dilara returns home for the funeral of her childhood friend Jennifer. The town feels different, her old friend group even more so. Grief hangs in the air, but something else lingers too. The name no one says out loud: Jimmy.

Once convicted of a violent crime, Jimmy became the town’s urban legend. Now, his story is back in circulation: as a true crime podcast everyone’s listening to. Against her better judgment, Dilara starts listening too. But the voice in her headphones feels too familiar. Too close. And after listening, something seems to be triggered when Jimmy returns to set right what was done to him.

What begins as a search for answers slowly unravels into something dangerous. When another tragedy strikes during a memorial rave, Dilara realizes the past isn’t done with them and Jimmy’s story isn’t over.
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Dolly

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Rod Blackhurst

Director
Synopsis
A young woman, Macy, fights for survival after being abducted by a deranged, monster-like figure who wants to raise Macy as their child. A daring blend of New French Extremity and 1970s American horror.
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SWORD OF VENGEANCE

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Nemanja Ceranic

Director
Synopsis
In a post-apocalyptic future a young warrior must take revenge on his enemies for the crimes they committed against his family.
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THE DOLLMAKER

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Jose Maria Cicala

Director
Synopsis
In a small rural town, a charming dollmaker becomes an unlikely suspect when a new detective investigates the disappearance of several women.
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Big Baby

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Spider One

Director & Writer
Synopsis
"A nightmare involving a maniac killer in a baby mask serves as inspiration for horror writer Adam Lewis's new script. As more nightmares, visions and real life terror begin to challenge Adam's sanity, he finds himself in a desperate struggle to control his writing, his reality, and who will be Big Baby's next victim."
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The Mannequin

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John Berardo

Writer, Director
Synopsis
When aspiring fashion designer Sofia Rojas dies alone in a historical downtown Los Angeles building, most people accept it as a tragic suicide. Her younger sister Liana, however, remains unconvinced. When she returns to the site with plans to rekindle her sister’s ambitions, Liana begins to have paranormal experiences that quickly escalate from unsettling to downright terrifying. She discovers that the building is haunted by a serial killer who brutally murdered and dismembered his victims there over half a century earlier. Now that he’s marked Liana and her friends as his next victims, they have to find a way to escape the ghost’s deadly grasp before they lose their own body parts.
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My First Horror Film

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Shihan Van Clief

Writer/Director
Synopsis
An aspiring influencer documents her journey to booking her first film; now her and the rest of the cast are trying to survive the film they were just casted in.