Prepare for a fiendishly good time with this spine-tingling anthology that presents winners from North America's only short-film festival dedicated exclusively to the genres of horror, science fiction and fantasy. The chilling featurettes include "Vision" (Josiah Polhemus), "Horla" (Stephen Kellam), "Recharge" (Chris Meyer), "Cell-U-Lar" (Patrick Rea), "Last Stop Station" (Andy Kumpon), "The Suffering: Static" (Daniel Sukara) and "Gridlock" (Dirk Belien).
A baby is supposed to crown the dreamlike marriage of the divorce attorneys Pia and Uli, but the success of all their efforts – ranging from “sex on a schedule” to artificial insemination – fails to materialize.
A girl from a peaceful, Edo-era Japanese village seeks revenge for the death of a disgraced elder with the help of her sister and a lethal lady ninja nun.
In the 1920s, former coal miner Harry Hoxsey claimed to have an herbal cure for cancer. Although scoffed at and ultimately banned by the medical establishment, by the 1950s, Hoxsey's formula had been used to treat thousands of patients, who testified to its efficacy.
In a 19th-century European village, a young man about to be married is whisked away to the underworld and wed to a mysterious corpse bride, while his real bride waits bereft in the land of the living.
Ray Ferrier is a divorced dockworker and less-than-perfect father. Soon after his ex-wife and her new husband drop off his teenage son and young daughter for a rare weekend visit, a strange and powerful lightning storm touches down.