Canada

Satan Wants You

Genre
Satanwantsyou

Satan Wants You tells the untold story of how the Satanic Panic of the 1980s was ignited by "Michelle Remembers", a lurid memoir by psychiatrist Larry Pazder and his patient Michelle Smith. Supported by the Catholic Church, the bestselling book relied on recovered-memory therapy to uncover Michelle’s childhood abduction by baby-stealing Satanists. Amplified by law enforcement and America’s Daytime TV boom, satanic rumors spread through panic-stricken communities across the world, leaving a wave of destruction and wrongful convictions in their wake.

Production year
2023
Film duration
88minutes

Expect No Mercy

Expect No Mercy

Federal Service Agent Justin Vanier has been assigned to infiltrate the mysterious Virtual Arts Academy in search of Eric, a fellow agent. In this high-tech facility, the maniacal leader Warbeck is training assassins to become even more efficient killing machines using virtual reality. Penetrating the organization as a new recruit, Justin finds Eric, and together with the idealistic Vicki must bring down Warbeck before he succeeds with his deadly plans.

Production year
1995
Film duration
91minutes

BUM

Genre
BUM

A freelance news crew and a hotshot reporter search for a violent vagrant and get more than they bargained for.

Production year
2025
Film duration
39minutes

Worm Burner

Worm Burner

Nearly thirty years after the strange disappearance of a Canadian baseball team, a recovered VHS tape reveals their shocking final moments as they're hunted down by a backwoods psychopath.

Production year
2024
Film duration
6minutes

Brain Bucket

Genre
brainbucket_poster

Three popular snowboarders hit the slopes on the latest episode of the Canadian hit show "Brain Bucket" However, during the filming, they're hunted down by a sadistic sniper.

Production year
2024
Film duration
8minutes

Hunting Party

huntingparty_poster

Death row inmates participate in a game show where they have to fight for survival against TV sport hunter Tad Nightingale.

Production year
2023
Film duration
5minutes

The Bait Man

thebaitman_poster

He hates people. He loves smoking. And he grows the world's finest fish bait. What's his secret?

Production year
2025
Film duration
5minutes

Frankie Freako

Genre
Frankie Freako

After calling a late-night party hotline that promises out-of-this-world fun, uptight yuppie Conor Sweeney must battle the pint-sized forces of evil unleashed through his phone line, led by the maniacal rock n’ roll goblin FRANKIE FREAKO.

Production year
2024
Film duration
85minutes

Bath Bomb

Poster Bath Bomb

A possessive doctor prepares an ostensibly romantic bath for his narcissistic boyfriend, but after an accusation of infidelity, things take a deeply disturbing turn.

Production year
2024
Film duration
10minutes

Head Like a Hole

Genre
Head Like a Hole

Cash-strapped, a man accepts a strange, high-paying job where he must measure a hole in the wall to determine whether or not it's growing.

Production year
2024
Film duration
92minutes

The Stickman's Hollow

Genre
The Stickman's Hollow

A young couple on a fishing trip with their son decide to explore an area of remote wilderness known as the Stickman’s Hollow. Told through the surviving pieces of footage from their fateful trip, the film documents the family’s vacation as they are mercilessly hunted in the forest by an unknown force, and the dark past of the hollow is brought to light.

Production year
2024
Film duration
81minutes

Monsterdyke

monsterdyke

This transgressive portrait of desire shot on 16mm, examines trans-lesbian love and longing with humour, heat, puppetry and a subversive twist.

Production year
2021
Film duration
5minutes

World Naked Bike Tour

Genre
Still World Naked Bike Tour

A nude cycling event is hounded by a right-wing picketer attempting to sabotage it....

Production year
2024
Film duration
10minutes

Cheese Turd

Genre
cheeseturd

In a world dominated by cheesy chips, a Game Show tyrant will meet his fate.

Production year
2023
Film duration
5minutes

3pm Thursdays

Genre
3pmthurdays

A dancer's shift in a dive bar takes an unexpected turn.

Production year
2023
Film duration
6minutes

Tomato Sandwich

Genre
tomatosandwich

You'll never slice a tomato the same way again.

Production year
2023
Film duration
3minutes

Pornoway

Genre
Pornaway poster

In 1996, two brothers go over the top to reach satisfaction from their interactive television. Worst nightmare or dream come true?

Production year
2024
Film duration
5minutes

The Monster Inside my Head

Genre
Still The Monster inside My Head

A woman is tormented by a menacing creature who tries to take control of her body.

Production year
2023
Film duration
7minutes

Après-ski

Genre
Poster Après Ski

A young woman offers her special services as a virtual après-ski partner.

Production year
2023
Film duration
5minutes

The Editor

the editor 2014

Rey Ciso was once the greatest editor. Since a horrific accident left him with four wooden fingers on his right hand, he's had to resort to cutting pulp films and trash pictures. When the lead actors from the film he's been editing turn up murdered at the studio, Rey is fingered as the number one suspect. The bodies continue to pile up in this absurdist giallo-thriller.

Great film-about-film that seems tailor-made for our festival and will be presented in the presence of our special guest: actor par excellence Laurence R. Harvey!

 

Production year
2014
Film duration
95minutes

The Hunter

poster_the hunter

The sensual art of cooking breakfast.

Film duration
8minutes

Greed & Gore

poster_greed & gore

Make sure to not lose your head when dealing with this much money.

Production year
2023
Film duration
16minutes

The Smoke Master

Genre
smoke master movie

Two brothers and a fistful of friends have to face the Chinese mafia. Counting on The Smoke Master and his unique Cannabis fighting style, they stand a chance. A stoner comedy from Brazil that brings sillyness to a well crafted film and also contains well-executed, realistic Kung-Fu. Stick this in your pipe!

Production year
2022
Film duration
104minutes

Cult Hero

Genre
cult hero film

Manager-summoning control freak Kallie Jones attempts to rescue her husband from a "wellness center" with the help of a washed-up expert Cult Buster.

Production year
2022
Film duration
94minutes

Day Zero

Genre
day zero movie

When society breaks down due to a violent outbreak that turns victims into undead monsters, a former elite soldier breaks out of jail to find his family.

Production year
2022
Film duration
82minutes

Kill Her Goats

Genre
killing her goats movie

Audra's graduation gift is her dream house, but it soon becomes a living nightmare when some uninvited guests come to her homecoming party who aren't very subtle.

Blood-on-the-boobs film with many playboy girls, as if Hugh Heffner and Russ Meyer teamed up.

Production year
2023
Film duration
90minutes

She Whistles

Genre
she whistles

The Northern Lights shine down on a prairie city with a notorious history of anti-Indigenous racism. Seeing the lights, Stephanie, a 2 Spirit nêhiyaw, sadly remembers her missing mother. Not wanting to be alone, she decides to go see her girlfriend, Jackie. She gets into a cab with a seemingly harmless, but nosey male settler cab driver. As Stephanie tries to evade increasingly invasive questions from the driver, the ride takes a dangerous turn when he locks her in the vehicle and speeds out of the city. In a deserted lot she is faced with this predator.

Production year
2021
Film duration
12minutes

Rolling Vengeance

Genre
Poster

In rural Canada, six brothers drinking and joyriding in a pickup truck cause an accident that kills Joey Rosso's mother and sisters. As it turns out, the brothers are the sons of an influential entrepreneur named Tiny Doyle, and they all get off scot-free. When Joey's father is murdered as well, there's only one thing left for Joey to do: build a massive truck to mow the entire Doyle family down.

Production year
1987
Film duration
90minutes

The Sadness

Genre
sadness

A young couple trying to reunite amid a city ravaged by a plague that turns its victims into deranged, bloodthirsty sadists.

Production year
2021
Film duration
99minutes

Desert Shadows

Genre
desert shadows poster

After the death of their father, two brothers decide to embark on a hunting trip to help bring them closer together. They become the prey of a deadly creature.

Production year
2021
Film duration
94minutes

Crabs!

Genre
crabs

Get ready for shellshock! It’s the ZOMBEAVERS meets GODZILLA hybrid you always craved in the creature feature comedy horror of the year

Production year
2021
Film duration
80minutes

Asmodeus

Genre
Amodeus

A man invokes and meets three different woman-like incarnations of the lustful demon.

Production year
2021
Film duration
10minutes

Opération Luchador

Genre
operation luchador

Probably the greatest story ever told, after FORGOTTEN SILVER by Peter Jackson. Suddenly, everything makes sense in history. But you will not be able to tell what you just saw. During World War II, the Allied Secret Service recruited a Mexican masked wrestler named the Golden Angel. Recently discovered secret files reveal that this agent thwarted several plans that could have changed the course of the conflict in favor of the Nazis. This documentary chronicles the perilous missions of the Golden Angel and how he came to face Hitler in person.

Production year
2021
Film duration
85minutes

Tin Can

poster Tin Can

As the world faces a deadly plague, a front-lines parasitologist is imprisoned in a life-suspension chamber. To escape she must destroy the last of her kind.
Slow-burning, captivating, and totally outrageous. With a fantastic soundtrack that will keep you in your seats till after the end credits.

Production year
2020
Film duration
104minutes

HALL

Genre
Hall

Fear Goes Viral

When a debilitating sickness spreads across a long hotel hallway, a few scattered victims fight for survival, and try to escape from the dark narrow stretch of isolated carnage.

Production year
2021
Film duration
80minutes

Is Your Teen a Homosexual?

Genre
Is Your Teen a Homosexual (short)

'Is Your Teen A Homosexual?' is a short allegorical comedy that satirizes Trump's America by using the style of “teen hygiene” educational films of the 1950s. Johnny comes out to his family, who is helped by an off-screen Narrator, but stereotypes and prejudices prove to be stronger than family ties.

Production year
2018
Film duration
7minutes

Come true

Genre
poster come true

High school student Sarah is at her lowest point when she runs away from home and finds herself with no one to rely on and struggling with recurring nightmares. She chances upon a university sleep study that offers the promise of safety and money, and which also brings her an unexpected friend and confidant in the overseeing scientist Jeremy. But there's something curious about proceedings, and being under observation seems to make Sarah's disturbing dreams even worse.

Production year
2020
Film duration
105minutes

The Good Son

Genre
poster good son

SWEET SICK TEENS

Following his mother's death, Mark is sent to Maine to visit his aunt and uncle while his father goes on a business trip to Tokyo. Mark meets his cousin Henry, and the two quickly form a friendship. However, Henry shows signs of violent behavior that worry Mark.
With a young Macaulay Culkin and a young Elijah Wood, now how creepy is that?

Production year
1995
Film duration
87minutes

The Pit

Genre
poster the pit(1981)

SWEET SICK TEENS

Production year
1981
Film duration
96minutes

Psycho Goreman

Genre
poster psycho goreman

Siblings Mimi and Luke unwittingly resurrect an ancient alien overlord who was entombed on Earth millions of years ago after a failed attempt to destroy the universe. They nickname the evil creature Psycho Goreman (or PG for short) and use the magical amulet they discovered to force him to obey their childish whims. It isn’t long before PG’s reappearance draws the attention of intergalactic friends and foes from across the cosmos, and a rogues’ gallery of alien combatants converges in small-town suburbia to battle for the fate of the galaxy.

Production year
2020
Film duration
95minutes

SLAXX

Genre
poster slaxx

When a possessed pair of jeans begins to kill the staff of a trendy clothing store, it is up to Libby, an idealistic young sales clerk, to stop its bloody rampage. Canadian horror-comedy from the team behind TURBO KID (BUT 2019), that manages to slip in some social comments between the tight possessed jeans.

Production year
2020
Film duration
77minutes

Bark

Genre
poster bark

When a perfect day in the park descends into horror, the only witness is completely useless.

Production year
2020
Film duration
6minutes

Spare Parts

Genre
poster spare parts

In a godforsaken bar in the middle of nowhere – an all-girl punk band, Ms. 45, rip the stage apart with their punk spirit. Their performance impresses an enthusiastic fan who lures the girls into a trap, sedates them, and starts… customizing them. The four wake up with an axe, drill or chainsaw attached to one arm and are forced to fight gladiator-style, in an arena-style auto-wrecking yard for the amusement of the Emperor and his sadistic townsfolk. The women must now truly band together and use all of their talents if they're going to get out alive.

Production year
2020
Film duration
91minutes

Aquaslash

Genre
poster aquaslash

To celebrate their graduation, the teenagers from Valley Hills High School have organized an '80s-themed party in an old water park. Things grow gruesome when it turns out that a mysterious maniac has inserted giant razor blades into the water slides. The Wet Valley water park thus becomes the backdrop for a bloodbath (literally), and everyone is a suspect.

Production year
2019
Film duration
71minutes

Aquaslash

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To celebrate their graduation, the teenagers from Valley Hills High School have organized an '80s-themed party in an old water park. Things grow gruesome when it turns out that a mysterious maniac has inserted giant razor blades into the water slides. The Wet Valley water park thus becomes the backdrop for a bloodbath (literally), and everyone is a suspect.

Production year
2019
Film duration
71minutes

The Legend of Rasputin

Genre
poster the legend of Rasputin

The Legend of Rasputin presents the amazing last days of Russia's Mad Monk, Gregori Rasputin, infamous for his debaucherous lifestyle and his talents as a prophet and a healer.

Production year
2017
Film duration
13minutes

Dead Dicks

Genre
dd

DEAD DICKS follows Becca (Jillan Harris) as she attempts to pry her way out of a trap, only to be dragged into a world that defies nature and reason — the dilapidated apartment of her brother Richie (Heston Horwin). Answering an all too familiar barrage of calls from her down-and-out, suicidal brother, Becca rushes to his rescue only to find him… and an apartment full of corpses that look just like him. She scrambles to make sense of the heap of dead copies and the strange orifice that is producing them.

Production year
2019
Film duration
83minutes