Season 2019 2019

A custodian numb to the gruesome reality of his job faces the specter of the chair's last casualty.

A thief breaks into a house and makes an unexpected discovery.

Jack and Ella travel alone taking the path less trodden. Disheveled and dirty they keep away from people towns and cities off the grid. They are hiding and on the run but from what and why?

In the aftermath of a violent break in a young woman held captive desperately fights for her freedom.

A scientist struggles to unravel the terrible truth about a mysterious catastrophe that destroyed his lab right when he was on the cusp of stopping death itself.

In a dystopian world a new form of A.I. weaponry has been created. All these drone bots need is a profile: age sex fitness uniform and ethnicity. Nuclear is obsolete. Take out your entire enemy virtually risk free. Just characterize him release the swarm and rest easy.

For estranged sisters Liz and Ellie being a family has never been easy – but there are some horrors you create yourself.

Immigration is hell.

A struggling actress moves to Hollywood where she discovers a piece of furniture in her apartment is haunted by a malicious ghost.

When a man's television mysteriously shows him a brutal murder being committed in his building a scream from the hallway compels him to investigate. What he stumbles upon will change his life forever.

A dark and strangely surreal snapshot of sexual desire aimed at the exotic.

When a young man meets up with his dating app hookup he encounters something much more sinister than he could ever imagine.

This is a story about how toxic love can eat you alive.

Love hurts. And it makes a bloody mess.

Doug is in love with Traci Traci is in love with Josh and Josh chose the wrong day to eat pizza.

For little Norman the Piñata isn't the only thing to bleed candy...

"The Cloud" is an intense short will have you wondering how much power you should give the technology you use to help run your life.

A lonely housewife fears for her life when a women's prayer group meeting turns into a fanatical intervention to rid her soul of evil.

Emily is a quiet girl who comes from an unusual family. On the night of her 18th birthday they gather together to reveal an important secret to her. It's a secret that will shape the rest of her life!

"Smear" is a lube-tastic horror-comedy inspired by "Gremlins Tremors and Little Shop of Horrors about a woman going in for her first pap-smear test "starring Sophia Di Martino of the BAFTA-nominated Flowers."

Jerry is a strange and solitary boy who lives alone with his young neglectful mother in a run down apartment. Behind the bedroom wall he discovers a seductive alien creature with which he has sex. After the creature becomes pregnant Jerry is filled with panic and guilt and attempts to abort the alien creature leading to a horrific outcome which neither himself nor his mother will ever forget.

How much would you bet to bring a loved one back?

Jenny has to make a choice: her family or her daughter.

Jenny thinks she's won the game. But fate can be fickle.

A child psychologist attempts a breakthrough with a troubled little boy but unleashes the demonic fury of his "imaginary friends" in the process.

Rejected from yet another audition a dancer heads back to her rehearsal space late at night. But when her reflection takes on a terrifying life of its own she must try to conquer her self-doubt before it devours her completely.

Deep underground a second-rate scientist mans a discarded research facility as he struggles to cope with extreme boredom a desperate voiceless companion and a mystery he'd really rather not have to solve...

An experimental documentary exploring a sinister theory surrounding the death of Cleveland Indians baseball player Ray Chapman in 1920 and the subsequent rise of the New York Yankees dynasty.

You can forget your sins but you can never forget your Gwilliam.

A grieving mother latches on to a magical surrogate for her lost child. But small miracles come with big consequences.

After the tragic death of his wife in a house fire Richard returns home on the night of her funeral to find he may not be as alone as he thought.

A mother lays dead in the kitchen. A father with blood on his hands. Not all is what it seems.

They will feel her wrath.

Young Louis learns the horrifying truth behind the family business.

Over the course of one terrifying seance two sisters must defeat an evil demon.

An inquisitive girl is convinced by her controlling mother that her dead dad will resurrect if they show how much they miss him. That is until he begins to rot...

An Instagram star's self-image grows increasingly warped and begins to spiral out of control.

Enraged by an unseemly love affair between her best friend and a teacher a student carelessly awakens a wraith that feeds on its victims' most shameful regrets.

In this existential thriller a man must face his personal demons as a consequence of a mysterious bargain he has made.

A naive young girl becomes the target of a murderous sociopath when she attempts to reinvent herself to impress the boys in her small Texas town.

A deadly contagion. A world on the brink. A little boy alone.

In one man's attempt to exploit his date night via video-chat he ends up sharing something far more disturbing.

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 Mr. Dentonn.

Locked in a room with only a light switch for entertainment an innocent game becomes something much sinister on every click...

She needed to get away from the stress of society. What happened next will haunt her for the rest of her life.

Clare is a caring nurse opening the door to her new job. But maybe some doors are best left shut...

When high school cheerleader Laurie is asked out by the dreamy quarterback her budding physical attraction is plagued by a grisly manifestation of her own bodily insecurities. As the threat of intimacy closes in Laurie is pushed further and further into a self-destructive nightmare.

An introverted mother's worst fears are amplified when she is seemingly stalked by the feral children living in the woods surrounding her home.

A young boy and his parents race against dawn to escape home as the reality beyond their scavenged life finally catches up with them.

K just crashed his Mercedes-Benz into a tree moments after trying to avoid running down a small wild animal that ran across his path. He is on a backwater road in the countryside and it's a very dark night. His evening has only just begun...

Today is special. Apocalypse or not.

A trio of nuns take matters into their own hands when a priest commits a terrible sin.

A tired coroner is stalked by the living dead, but only when she isn't looking.

One woman’s simple, three-step guide to surviving a night on your own.

A man finds purpose in his meaningless life when he becomes host to an ancient creature named Susurrus.

A man thinks he's found his missing wife inside a seedy roadside motel but he's wrong, horribly and deathly wrong.

Between mean girls her first romance and budding hormones Lucy begins to realize that she's not like the other teenagers in her class in this coming-of-age horror.

Following the death of her parents a girl returns home to confront the monsters of her past.

When a tailor closes his store a night he quickly discovers he is not alone.

A cult of women summon a demon but one rogue member Carol gets in the way of their plans.

The violence and horror found within each ALTER film serves an artistic importance to the narrative. Our mission is to provide terrifying and innovative voices within the genre but to do so for entertainment purposes only. In no way does ALTER or its filmmaker condone the violence seen within these stories.

Nikki a sound recordist picks up a strange sound whilst filming on location in a forest. After a disturbing encounter she wakes up alone confused and filthy in her house. Her only chance at finding out what happened to her lies within her sound recorder.

In the aftermath of a zombie outbreak the zombies have been cured and exiled to secluded camps. A prejudice journalist decides to prove that they are not fit to be rehabilitated.

A traumatized woman seeks penance and personal transformation through tattooing after surviving a devastating pregnancy. One night drenched in booze and ink her deepest fears threaten to consume her.

What was supposed to be a romantic night in for a young couple quickly turns into a terrifying encounter with Drudge.

A man's peaceful life is disrupted when three dangerous travelers lay siege to his secluded cabin in the woods.

On her way home, Jayla, a Muslim girl, notices that she is being followed. Terror and confusion take over as Jayla struggles to escape the powerful force that is menacing her.

Bigfoot attacks summer camp. Summer fun is on the run when an ancient totem pole is desecrated and a vengeful Sasquatch is unleashed on the hapless counselors of Camp Eaglewalk. What follows is a 24-hour nightmare of terror as one by one the counselors are slaughtered by the rampaging beast. With no hope of rescue the survivors must make a desperate last stand or die running.

Set during the Great American Eclipse this is a story about the sacrifices we make for love and the intensity of a looming moment that can change everything. This short Stars Tatiana Maslany ("Orphan Black") & Tom Cullen ("Downton Abbey").

A family's apartment is invaded in the middle of the night, while neither their lives nor their valuables are taken -- instead, they're given a grim glimpse at how alone they are when a dozen neighbors did nothing to help them.

Sam's fear of her childhood home is brought to light when her ageing father claims there is another presence in the house.

Two unsuspecting victims spend their night off watching scary movies in an apartment rented from their boss until they uncover something much more sinister than what they're watching on screen.

Chased by two malevolent entities a babysitter's child care session turns into a nightmare as reality becomes more and more twisted. An atmospheric piece inspired by the classic ghost story "The Turn of the Screw" by Henry James.

You can't see what's below the surface.

A young couple must drive through an ash cloud which has turned day into night. A terrifying encounter on their journey forces them to make a life changing decision.

Humankind narrowly avoided an apocalyptic event but some of those who survived struggle to move on after their horrific losses.

A metalhead inherits a satanic guitar that riffs to shreds.

With the ability to travel in time a lonely girl finds love and comfort by connecting with her past self. Eventually faced with rejection she struggles with her identity and gender and as time folds onto itself only one of them can remain. With music from Flying Lotus.

One night Rosa wakes up when she hears that someone is breaking in to her house. Then she discovers that the "burglar" is her own father that again has escaped from the retirement home where he lives. Just as Rosa is calling the retirement home somebody knocks on the door. Then that night gets even weirder.

This sci-fi horror stop-motion web series is about a corporation that unleashes a plague of bio-mechanical parasites on its workers. The web series picks up where the short left off following workers that escape the initial infection as they fight back against the company. Chaos grows as upper level employees turn against the company the mastermind of the bio-mechanical parasites seeks to take control of the company and everyone deals with the fallout of the Rhizomect system.

A lonely man (Diamond Dallas Page) with a dark past is haunted by the choices that led him to the shadowy desolate place he is now forced to live.

A lonely gallery owner falls for a performance artist but at what cost?

Two brothers on a road trip to their parents funeral stop at an AirBnB for the night only to discover it's being robbed by violent intruders.

When two day laborers are picked up for work they quickly realize that their new employer may be hiding a deadly secret.

Bree a dishonest 9-year-old meets a terrifying visitor after a parenting lesson goes horribly wrong

Set in a small Texas town a young Black woman becomes the prey of a cult built on a secret that is skin-deep with a Southern virtuous figure at its forefront.

Would you bear the horror of the DISTORTION of your mind?

A vicious drifter stalks a hapless couple only to get exactly what he desires.

In this 80s inspired horror-comedy two friends perform a ritual to try and help make one of them cool enough to get a date with Brenda. Instead they get a demon.

A horror-comedy about two teenage goths that try to summon a demon using a satanic ritual they found on Reddit.

That which is neglected is lost.

Two imprisoned women: One is injured and the other one is unaware of the situation she got into.

"The Bride" is a modern day ghost story set against the horrors of war in the Middle East.

Tonight Hada comes to visit Daniel because his last child tooth has fallen out. What Daniel doesn't expect is that his worst enemy is the light.

Witches and a whole lot of blood.

A centuries-old vampire contemplates the meaning of immortality in a hospital bed while a small piece of wood embedded in his chest slowly stakes him.

The kids at Camp Nawgonamakit are about to find out the tragic tale of Squirt Reynolds is more than just a legend.

LOVE
HURTS
UNTIL
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VERY
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To give in the blood must flow.

As they go from house to house four young trick-or-treaters collect strange treats that could signal the end of Halloween.

Juliette is a shy girl terrified to catch a ride with two women that are not paying any attention to the road.

It's Halloween night and Renee is madly in love with Jim. On their way to a party Jim detours to a haunted house where Renee is forced to confront a terrifying situation.

A young man who videotaped a fatal assault and didn't intervene finds himself haunted by his own guilt and something far more insidious. It stars Toby Hemingway (The Covenant and Black Swan) and Rainn Wilson (The Office) with a cameo by Jane Badler (V).

Circles is a comedy/horror which follows a pair of paranormal investigators as they discover a string of crop circles around their small town of Totnes Devon. Will they be the first to gather evidence of extraterrestrial life and prove the world wrong or are Andy and Martine the real Aliens.

A self-conscious psychopath struggles with his body image while terrorizing a group of unsuspecting campers.

Road Trash is a short horror film about a girl who is addicted to burying road kill. One day she unknowingly buries a werewolf. The burial incites the beast and he escapes his grave to stalk the girl around the town she lives in. Chaos ensues.

When a young deaf schoolgirl is bullied and left to take the long walk home alone she realizes that she's being followed and a frantic game of cat and mouse begins.

A romantic getaway goes horrifically wrong when a couple tries to help a hunted girl.

Two Asian women have horrific nightmares unknowingly involving each other.

A med school dropout in crippling student debt swipes a wild couple on a dating app to make some fast cash in this modern twist on a classic urban legend.

A young woman who is getting over the recent death of her sister comes home one night to find her front door unlocked and suspects she might not be alone in the house.

An ambitious scientist takes the perilous decision to inseminate herself with an embryo combining both human and animal cells. Discovering that she is carrying a "pig child" she is torn between scientific drive and maternalistic urges.

The Johnson's are a model of the perfect American family. But sometimes things aren't always what they seem.

An irreverent financial thriller where the thrill is in the company you eat.

The complicated love between two serial killers.

As a man shedding worn-out garments takes other new ones likewise the embodied soul casting off worn-out bodies enters into others that are new.

A man suffering from writer's block thinks he needs to commit murder to get inspiration. Then he realizes that murdering people who are madly in love each other is never easy at all.

A failing writer loses his grip on reality as his wife grows pregnant with their child...

A recently divorced man struggles to set up his new home when he discovers a terrifying truth as he confronts the person living next door.

A lone woman in a desolate snowscape on a quest to take care of an ailing relative.

Two men renovating a mysterious old house try to leave before the building enters lock down and seals them inside. Unfortunately the house has different plans for them.

A nurse is taking care of an elderly dying woman on a small island near Torshavn. An old repressed memory of the island resurfaces to haunt the nurse and as the elderly lady's health deteriorates so does the sanity of the nurse.

Shhh' is a fantasy short tale about a young boy Guillermo who uses his imagination to overcome a monstrous bully. Tired of being scared he eventually takes matters into his own hands. Inspired by the lucid dreams of director Guillermo del Toro during childhood.

In a post-pandemic society a vampire in hiding is forced to make a stand when confronted by the oppressive regime who kidnapped and enslaved her family.

The reunion between a woman and her estranged daughter is interrupted by a man with an unusual request.