Edition - 1

Dark Scream Film Festival announces the OFFICIAL SELECTION LIST of edition - 1 (2022).
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Horror Short Film

Stuck

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David A. Roncone

8 minutes 37 seconds

Italy

Sophia, a fearful young woman, accidentally lets a demonic entity loose while moving to her new house. She has to face the entity who reflects her personal struggle with insecurity.

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Aleksander Szeser

15 minutes 59 seconds

Poland

A routine evening of a young babysitter turns into a real nightmare when the AI system supervising the house begins to receive the secret commands of someone, or something, who is clearly dissatisfied with her presence in this house.

Smiley Face

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François Ricard-Sheard

9 minutes 22 seconds

Canada

Three young women experience the nightmare of being devoured by a humanoid creature.

INCUBUS

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Tito Fernandes

16 minutes 45 seconds

United Kingdom

Trapped on a boat, a woman is haunted by fear itself.

DOG EYES

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Helena Aguilera

8 minutes 20 seconds

Mexico

In a cabin in the middle of a forest, a student shares with his two friends a mexican legend about the dog's eye clusters; if you put them in your own eyes, you will see the alternate dimension dogs see. When one of them, doubting the legend, decides to try them, discovers that this dimension it is so real that your own mind will drive you to madness.

The House

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Rosie Grypma & Wayne Lai

14 minutes 50 seconds

Canada

On a cold day in 1957 a house was built on the closest point to Hell on Earth. Present day, a cable man makes one last stop on a day where nothing seems to be going his way and things are about to get worse as he enters... The House.

The Devil in Bitter Woods

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Katherine Sainte-Marie

16 minutes

United States

In 1875, a slow-witted man meets the Devil in the woods and tries to bargain for his life.

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Piero Cannata

8 minutes 10 seconds

Italy

Two screenwriters, a ghost story, the night that goes on. Who will put an end to this?

Rise & Shine

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Arnaud Pierre Baur

11 minutes

Switzerland

Nancy works in a small gas station shop. Disillusioned, not even the news of an apocalypse seems to worry her. But the sudden arrival of a mysterious customer could change all that. Will Nancy finally find meaning in her life? Or in her death?

The Wild Roots

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Nicolas Millot

13 minutes 59 seconds

France

Adam, a young hunter, is convinced that a danger lurks in a forest plagued by strange phenomena. But when one of his friends is found dead, this fear becomes a certainty. Adam decides to return to the woods, determined to find the source of this threat.

Thriller Short Film

Latir Amargo

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Yolanda Belvis

16 minutes 57 seconds

Spain

Maria and her son Jan are about to start a new life with Tomas and his daughter Sonia but a dire circumstances will change their lives forever.

Charlotte On The Rebound

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Evan A. Baker

12 minutes 42 seconds

United States

The story follows Charlotte, a cold and controlling woman with a dark secret, her rebellious daughter Ava, and Charlotte’s new boyfriend Gene, whom Ava comes to suspect may be the infamous Panty Hose Killer.

State of Mind

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Jordyn Braaten

7 minutes

United States

A year after he loses his father on September 11th, Naveed struggles to cope with the ongoing harassment from his peers on top of a looming psychological breakdown.

Fostered

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Alyssa Scott

12 minutes 58 seconds

Australia

Penelope arrives at her new foster home full of hope, but things turn from good to bad when she becomes trapped along with Charli who has been in the home for 11 years. The girls form an unbreakable bond against all odds and become the family they both needed.

Student Horror Short Film

Protector

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Mallory Shofi

23 minutes 13 seconds

United States

After a mother-of-two's wife leaves the family to join a cult, she silently suffers through a mythological transformation.

Meatballs

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Julen Higuera Lozano

13 minutes 32 seconds

Spain

A young chef and his mom are having a sordid relationship while being in charge of a declining restaurant. When an important customer, whose hunger is insatiable, appears; the young boy is forced to cut his own leg in order to make meatballs.

Student Thriller Short Film

The Flesh of Another

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Jack Cosgriff

10 minutes

United States

Two forever intertwined lovers, Edwin and Rosko, recollect on their long spanning relationship. What seems like a normal healthy relationship is revealed to have a dark brewing secret underneath. They explore their sexuality together but everything changes once the begin to taste the flesh of another...

Animation Film (Horror/Thriller)

Eat The Rich (short version)

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Niven Wilson

10 minutes

United States

You are what you eat

Dissós

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Steven Elford

4 minutes

Canada

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Whispers

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Andre Schuck

Brazil

Two children face the neglect and violence of their parents every day. If they want to get out alive, they will have to accept the help of supernatural forces, however, all help comes at a price.

Christmas Bloody Christmas

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Alice Wells

United States

1980 – A malevolent virus plagues tourists and locals, trapped on a remote U.S. fishing island, during a violent Christmas Eve snowstorm.

Send Help

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ROBERT PALMER

United States

Two Burglars break into an empty house and find more than they bargained for... They find a dying man trapped.

Apocryphal

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Hudson Henry Franzoni

United States

After discovering a mysterious violin, a family struggles to prevent a sinister entity from terrorizing their home. They unveil secrets that lead to a harrowing truth, as they fight to survive in this music-themed horror.