Fantastic Fest 2009

After just embarking on a roadtrip, six friends stop to pick up a girl who has just been robbed and return her to her home at the end of an isolated forest. Their act of kindness ends up being repaid by a night of unspeakable horror and butchery.

Two sisters cower in their bedroom, fearing their mother's arrival. When she finally returns home, there's no escape.

The mysterious, rampaging outbreak of [REC] wreaks bloody havoc on the citizens of Madrid.

An Iraq war casualty turns the frown of returning from the dead as a blood-sucking vampire upside-down by reveling in the power of infallibility and feasting on the dregs of humanity.

Blossoming to adulthood sure ain't no picnic. A dreamish, jarring vision of growing up.

Three marines follow a wounded man to a cave that may be the home of evil incarnate.

Claire's old enough to know there's no monster in the bedroom, but when the lights go out...

A self-serving developer learns that money can't buy everything when he visits an abandoned coalmine shrouded in darkness.

When his latest film is panned for its sub-par effects work, veteran grindhouse filmmaker Able Whitman (David Hess, LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT, HOUSE ON THE EDGE OF THE PARK) is struck with inspiration: the most realistic gore effects will come from actual dismemberment and corpses!