For films premiering in Screamfest New Orleans.
Film Category
The Trip
Meet the Filmmaker
Synopsis
Luna, Max and Zoe are on a girls getaway in the desert to do some much needed unwinding and unplugging from the world. After hanging poolside all day, Zoe and Max convince Luna to take psychedelic mushrooms with them to help expand their minds. But when the shrooms begin to take greater effect, Luna's anxieties about climate change and human nature are unearthed, shifting the tide of the trip. As they spiral deeper into a bad trip, each woman finds herself having to confront her inner darkness and anxieties in corporeal forms of hallucinated horrors.
Film Category
Wake
Meet the Filmmaker
Synopsis
With a hurricane raging outside their hospital, two nurses have one last job before evacuating: stow the "dead-on-arrival" corpse of a young girl in the downstairs morgue before the building floods. But the corpse quickly reveals itself to be more than it seems.
Film Category
Thirst Trap
Meet the Filmmaker
Synopsis
Lizzie doesn’t believe in vampires—until she becomes one. Burdened by a new kind of thirst, Lizzie realizes that men on dating apps are easy prey … but the more she feeds, the emptier she feels. Thirst Trap is a horror comedy about the isolation of modern dating and the value of connections forged beyond a screen.
Film Category
There's Someone At Your Door
Meet the Filmmaker
Synopsis
When an invisible intruder begins appearing on camera, a young woman's quiet Halloween night becomes a nightmarish struggle to survive as she is forced to learn: what you can't see will hurt you.
Film Category
The Shadow of Dawn
Meet the Filmmaker
Synopsis
An incorporeal Shadow takes up a dangerous adventure through a mystical forest, fancy castle and dream world to save her frivolous owner from a cursed Beast.
Film Category
El Jacho: A Puerto Rican Urban Legend
Meet the Filmmaker
Synopsis
“EL JACHO” comes to life as a love letter and testament to the slasher horror genre that was highly popular in the ‘70s & ‘80s. Witness the terrifying Puerto Rican legend of a supernatural killer looking to purge its sins through its victims.