The Virgin Sacrifice
★ 5.6 · 2011 · 9m · Horror
“Before ‘Virgin’, I never put much stock in the idea of a ‘cursed’ production. Take a film like ‘Incubus’. Just cause the director’s nephew died, the production company went belly up, and Roman Polanski and Sharon Tate attended the premiere....Those could all just be coincidences. Shit happens. But with ‘Virgin’, you could just smell the vapor of evil clouding the set. It didn’t help that our chief investor was a ranking member of the Church of Satan. In the end, we tallied three OD’s, a maimed-for-life set designer, bankruptcy, and a car bombing (sort of). Even the film itself disappeared. Not just the prints. The film lab burnt down and we lost the negative. All I’ve got left is the nine minute opening to the main feature and the sound-sync is fucked.” —JXW
More Like This
Funny Man
The 30-minute original short film that Funny Man (1994) was expanded from. It has a more darkly humorous atmosphere than the feature-length version, and instead only follows the Taylor family as they explore their new mansion and meet the Funny Man.
More info →Shock Value: The Movie — How Dan O’Bannon and Some USC Outsiders Helped Invent Modern Horror
2014
Image Archive archivist Dino Everett assembled a feature-length compilation of SCA student works from the late ’60s and ’70s. The compilation features recently uncovered and previously unseen student films by Dan O’Bannon and John Carpenter. • BLOOD BATH (1969, written and directed by Dan O’Bannon) B/W (original 16mm) 7 min. • THE DEMON (1970, written and directed by Charles Adair) B/W (original 16mm) 19 min. • GOOD MORNING DAN (1968, written and directed by Dan O’Bannon, camera by John Carpenter) Color (original 8mm) 19 min. • CAPTAIN VOYEUR (1969, written and directed by John Carpenter) B/W (original 16mm) 7 min. • BLOOD BATH (1976, written and directed by Dan O’Bannon) Red tint (original 16mm blown up to 35mm) 8 min. • JUDSON'S RELEASE (1971, written by Alec Lorimore, directed by Terence H. Winkless) (original 16mm) Color 15 min. Total program time: 80 minutes.
More info →
An Ultraviolent Colour
2018
Obsessed with gaining notoriety with her death. A woman brutally harms herself for scenes in a film made to be spread around the internet.
More info →
Funeral Sunshine
2018 · ★ 8
Wake up on your commute through your dream as it consumes you again.
More info →
CELSIUM
When a young man opens his window on a hot summer night, an unwanted demonic creature is allowed inside - throwing him into a hot, sweaty fight for his life.
More info →
31m²
2010
For several days now, the dead have been coming back to life. People attacked by these revenants remain strangely motionless before falling to the ground and getting back up to hunt in turn. Amid the chaos, Tom and Sarah hide in their apartment, eyes glued to their security camera, hoping that the decline of humanity will not reach them.
More info →
Routine
2016
Light years from home, floating aimlessly through space, Flight Engineer Matthew Spencer and his crew battle isolation and despair aboard a failing escape pod. While attempting to regain satellite contact with Earth, Spencer struggles to fight against not only his imminent demise, but the demons inside of him that are beginning to take hold of his sanity.
More info →
Devil's Advocate Redux
2025
In this recut remaster of Michelle Iannantuono's first short film Devil's Advocate, a paranormal believer claims to have a recording of the devil's voice.
More info →
Mr. Dentonn
2014 · ★ 6.5
On a cold winter night, Laura reads her brother David the story of a strange creature that attacks children. Suddenly, a shiver runs Laura's body, feeling a strange presence in the house. It's him.
More info →
The Mysterious Retort
1906 · ★ 5.7
A wizard sleeps at a table in his well-appointed sitting room. From a drawer in the table, a snake appears.
More info →
Bluebeard
1901 · ★ 6.3
A young woman becomes the eighth wife of the wealthy Bluebeard, whose first seven wives have died under mysterious circumstances.
More info →