Filigree Pictures' entry to the 2014 Nickel Independent Film Festival's 48 Hour Horror Challenge.
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Jackie Whitten
Steven Berard Gosse
Ryan Patrick Walsh
Tyler Burry
Nataile Constantine
Becca Constantine
Fans flock to a festival celebrating the most iconic horror movies, only to discover that the charismatic showman behind the event has a diabolical agenda.
In 1960s Bengal, a young man, Gouranga, is tormented by grief and guilt after his wife’s tragic death. Venturing into a mysterious forest, he confronts his past and a looming supernatural menace in this chilling tale of loss and dread.
The wind carries an aspiring healer into a chaotic, virulent parallel world. Paralyzed by a familiar universe that is gradually becoming distorted, she discovers she has the power to stop time.
“It Came from the Tap” is a 4-minute film made with a group of friends for a local 48-hour horror film competition called “Lost Weekend”. For this challenge we were given three rules: we had to include a mask as a prop, the following line of dialogue: “Is this politically correct?”, and lastly, we had to pull a horror sub-genre out of a hat to allow for a different sub-genre for every team. We pulled “Creature-Feature”. The film was eventually screened in one of our local cinema’s.
A Hamlet-inspired tale of two sisters running their late mother's business. When one sister has a run-in with her (presumed to be dead) mother, chaos ensues.
While attending a festival to commemorate the original zombie attack, Ash and her friends encounter the living dead and must fight back or be devoured.
A documentation and celebration of 13 years of the Horror-on-Sea film festival in Southend-on-Sea, Essex, U.K.
This is the 31th installment of the “Posted Grudge Spirit Footage” film series.
When two teens make a new friend at the park, you never really know what someone has been through until you experience it yourself.
On the eve of the annual Scarecrow Festival, two St. Charles police officers search for a return killer the same night four teenagers go missing on Munger Road
Married couple Jock & Nora are visiting the town of Litan during Litan's Day, with its carnivalesque atmosphere. When Nora wakes that morning from dreaming the bizarre death of her husband, she sets out across town to find him and warn him. But as she does, she encounters stranger and stranger people and events erupting into a frenzy in front of her. Now, she and Jock must elude all of the impediments in their way of reaching safety on the outskirts of town.
A tense psychological horror short that follows a young woman trapped in a dangerous and unsettling situation, forcing her to confront fear, survival, and a disturbing reality.
When Lisa applies for a job everything seems to be turning out pretty well. Until the boss, Marie, starts asking strange questions and the job interview turns out to be a little different than expected.
Tragedy strikes a small town's monster movie festival when the monster featured in the films comes to life.
Flicker is a 2023 American short horror film written, directed and produced by Lisa Mackel Smith. Produced by Headhunter Productions and premiered on December 2, 2023 at the Hammond Horror Film Festival (United States). The film stars Nicholas Delaune as Ben, Daniel Donahoe as Tom, Christopher Keys as Chaz, Raeghan Keys as Nikki, Hunter McGregor as Dad, Evangeline Rose as Kit and Sidney Seither as Amy. Cinematography and camera by Eric Carle, edited by Bob Krieger. Producers: Bob Krieger, Hunter McGregor, Brandon Oseka and Lisa Mackel Smith. Original language English, Color. Hammond Horror Film Festival 2023 entry.
A cautionary tale of meeting with strangers met online. Winner of the 2018 Eugene Film Society 72 Hour Horror Film Festival.
A paranoid agoraphobe's visions become reality while being visited by her friend. A submission for the 2025 Eugene Film Society 72-Hour Horror Film Competition.
A man meets a guitar-playing ghost. Winner of the 2023 Eugene Film Society 72 Hour Horror Film Festival.
Betriek lives at the edge of a peat bog in the North of the Netherlands. When she and her family are attacked by a random stranger one night, Betriek sets out to find an explanation. The more she digs, the more she becomes convinced that she is being hunted by something ancient.
A multiversal relic falls into the wrong hands. A group of heroes must travel back in time and stop the villains before it's too late.
To escape neglect and abuse from his parents, a young boy plants some strange seeds and they grow into a grandmother.
When Polly receives a mysterious box, it comes with one rule: place inside something she needs, something she hates, and something she loves. If she doesn’t obey, it will consume everything—and everyone—she’s ever known.
Like any other teenage girl, Tara is just surviving high school — yet her father and mother seem strangely distant. Amidst a nearby spree of gruesome ax murders, Tara has sightings of terrifying entities, forcing her to question her own sanity and shocking ancestry.
When an unsuspecting woman stops at a remote gas station in the dead of night, she's made the plaything of a sociopath sniper with a secret vendetta. To survive, she must not only dodge his bullets and fight for her life, but also figure out who wants her dead and why.
A malevolent being known as The Jester terrorizes the inhabitants of a small town on Halloween night, including two estranged sisters who must come together to find a way to defeat this evil entity.
Ebony Jackson, a struggling single mother fighting her personal demons, moves her family into a new home for a fresh start. But when strange occurrences inside the home raise the suspicions of Child Protective Services and threaten to tear the family apart, Ebony soon finds herself locked in a battle for her life and the souls of her children.
After her twin sister Aubrey goes missing, Jennifer uncovers the scandalous, secret double-life that Aubrey leads - and that has put both of them in danger.
Clinging to a smooth, curved surface high above a sentient abyss, a woman tries to cover the few feet back to safety without losing purchase and falling to her death.
In medieval England, Anne and her domineering mother-in-law Morwen struggle to survive on the outskirts of society. But when a man from Anne's past returns from war, a curse begins to take shape through a mysterious knight and threatens to destroy them all.
Evan values family above all else, and anyone who gets between him, his wife, and newborn son learns that the hard way. But when it comes to violent tendencies, it seems the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.
After her father’s suicide, a young mother investigates what led to his death. But when she is haunted by spirits and unearths an unsolved mystery from 30 years ago, she discovers a dark family history that could prove deadly for her child.
A woman wakes up injured in a basement surrounded by corpses. To survive, she pretends to be dead while a grotesque ritual unfolds in the house above.
A horror anthology containing three stories: a female college professor is aggressively pursued by one of her students; a prudish brunette determines that her free-spirited blonde sister is evil; and a woman's night turns upside down after she purchases an ancient Zuni fetish doll.
A powerful biotech company has breakthrough technology allowing them to clone history’s most influential people with just a few fragments of DNA. Behind this company is a cabal of Satanists that steals the shroud of Christ, putting them in possession of Jesus’ DNA. The clone will serve as the ultimate offering to the devil. The Archangel Michael comes to earth and will stop at nothing to end the devil’s conspiracy.
A series of down-on-their-luck individuals enter the decrepit and spine-chilling Rialto theater, only to have their deepest and darkest fears brought to life on the silver screen by The Projectionist – a mysterious, ghostly figure who holds the nightmarish futures of all who attend his screenings.
A Chicago artist's sanity starts to unravel, unleashing a terrifying wave of violence when he begins to explore the macabre history of the Candyman.
Unable to conceive, a couple seeks to build a family with a young orphan, survivor of tragic childhood. But their act of love turns to horror when they realize the violence in their foster's past has returned to destroy the new family.
In the town of Normal Valley, an eccentric magician named Maestro entertains the local children every day in his spooky mansion. One stormy night, the town's mayor leads a group of angry citizens to the mansion in an attempt to run Maestro out of town.
Vice detective Bob Hightower finds his ex-wife murdered and daughter kidnapped by a cult. Frustrated by the botched official investigations, he quits the force and infiltrates the cult to hunt down the leader with the help of the cult’s only female victim escapee, Case Hardin.
The film contains five stories set on desolate stretches of a desert highway. Two men on the run from their past, a band on its way to a gig, a man struggling to get home, a brother in search of his long-lost sister and a family on vacation are forced to confront their worst fears and darkest secrets in these interwoven tales.
