Come Downstairs

After unearthing a wooden crate containing a seemingly innocuous porcelain doll in the dusty attic of the historic Warwickshire Museum, unsuspecting curator David Whittaker starts to experience unusual and hair-raising happenings. Utterly unaware of the haunted artifact's dark heritage rooting back to 1692 Salem, David, his family, and his colleagues come face-to-face with an ancient, malevolent force that craves innocent souls.

A young woman brings a friend over for family dinner...

Ana, a poor woman, agrees to be locked in an anechoic chamber, the most silent place in the world.

A man engulfed in the suffocating grip of loss finds his life fragmented. Struggling to navigate through his emotional fog, his mother suggests a retreat to her cabin – but an ancient entity that thrives on sorrow has taken root. The New England winter punctuates this love letter to creeping horror and slow cinema.

A radical remix of the recent Transformers film, via synthetic collapse and critical revenge on its old & new fascist tropes > celebrating SPEED. NOISE. + DANGER. The fervent declarations & violent poetry of the Futurists are superimposed on the mythic morphology of the Autobot blockbuster’s machine mayhem. Images of death & destruction reign in a delirium of transformations as, to quote Marinetti: “We Decompose the Universe!”

Jacob, Tony, and Brandon are on a night drive through the wooded outskirts of an unknown city. While his friends sleep, Jacob remembers where he's seen the upcoming overpass, the man standing on the other side of it, and the abandoned parking garage sitting above the road.

When a single mom, facing eviction, is offered a night’s work, she unsuccessfully seeks a babysitter for her two small children. Desperate, she reaches out to the last person she wants to ask for a favour.

A young boy in a dark room must face alone a mysterious threat.

A Group of tourists in Azores are lost in the woods, they see a old couple that tells them that there is a hotel nearby that can host them that night. When they arrive to the horrible place they find out that the hotel is haunted by a bride's ghost that gained life to destroy them. Will they get out alive?

Late night in Jakarta, a woman walks home alone and becomes a man's sexual harassment target, but things take an unexpected turn when the hunter suddenly becomes the hunted.

A mind-bending psychological horror about a deadly game played by five friends after a night out.

Host Scott Forrest presents a curated compilation of eight independent short films in this rapid-fire science-fiction feature. Genres collide, narratives twist, aesthetics clash, and even humor, both campy and dystopian, showcase the vast creative possibilities of each story's individual world, offering the viewer a brief glimpse into the lives of every character's attempt to survive the otherworldly chaos around them. Released in 2001, the selected shorts span original creation dates of 1997 to 2001; most of the featured filmmakers also appear as themselves in short video interviews to talk about their inspirations, creative process and motivations while working on their individual shorts.

Children of the past reach through the folds of time

The main character of the picture - military scientist Major Kovpaev Sergey Alexandrovich is working on a secret government project codenamed "Cerebrum". He is so passionate about his research that he does not notice how from year to year he is moving more and more away from his family, bringing work to the fore. By a tragic coincidence, Sergei's family gets into a car accident, during which both of his sons are killed, and his wife is in critical condition in intensive care. Realizing the depth of his loss and blameing himself for what happened, the protagonist decides to take advantage of the ghostly opportunity to realize the results of his ten-year research.

When Brian meets Amy after a night out on the town, things move a lot faster than he'd anticipated.

Caleb, came from a rich family with extraordinary perks in almost every avenue of life, albeit sports, college or his social life. This made him attract girls from everywhere, but surprisingly, he always kept to himself. Until one day.

On the anniversary of his wife's untimely death, a man convinces her twin sister to perform a ritual to allow him to see her again.

After watching his favorite TV program, Medical Emergency, Alberto (8) asks he father, Félix (50) to play with him. Alberto, trying to ask and bug his father to play with him, provokes his drunk and nearly unconcious father to try to hit him. However, when Félix gets up, he falls under his own weight and hits his head. Alberto attempts to save his dad by following the step by step directions of the medical TV show.

A homeless eats a strange biscuit and begins to hallucinate; everything around him becomes an evil space.

In 1964, during the construction of an electric dam, a macabre discovery causes a serious incident. Thinking that the communication outage on the construction site is caused by a broken telephone line, Raymond and Fleurian are sent to the site to repair it. They will be the first to discover what really happened to the workers...