Necropolis

The Cleanse

July 2018 •English

The Queer Clique loves fresh meat. Newbie Kayden must complete the sacred initiation: The Cleanse. No food. No sex. Just juice. Let the cravings begin.

The Quiet Room

February 2018 •English

When Michael attempts suicide and doesn’t leave a note, he inadvertently awakens Hattie, a demon that haunts the psychiatric hospital he's in. Now he must find a way to stop her rampage before she kills everyone he connects with.

To Zombie... Or Not to Zombie

February 2024 •English

A Hamlet-inspired tale of two sisters running their late mother's business. When one sister has a run-in with her (presumed to be dead) mother, chaos ensues.

The Pledge

July 1982 •English

Three criminals pledge to free the soul of their friend from his gibbeted corpse in this short film based on 'The Highwayman' by Lord Dunsany.

The Making of 'The Thing'

June 1982 •English

The Laughing Man

August 2016 •English

The Laughing Man references Scott Snyder’s “Death of the Family” Batman comic and takes place in a psychiatric facility where a new, unidentified arrival is being questioned. Viewers are taken on a tense excursion into brutal, bloody territory as the dialogue unfurls into a high-stakes role reversal.

Not today

March 2024 •English

In this horror-comedy short, a remake with an original twist of Hideo Nakata's "RINGU", two drag queens, mourning the sudden death of their "Drag Mother", discover a mysterious VHS tape. When they watch it, a frightening figure appears, provoking an unexpected reaction from the duo.

Bear Hugs

May 2017 •English

An innocently chosen birthday present backfires in dark, weird and deeply disturbing ways in this dark comedy short film.

Luna

October 2013 •English

A young girl witnesses the murder of her family by a mysterious killer. Now she must try to survive before the killer finds her.

Yep

August 2022 •English

In a solitary existence, a man is unexpectedly gifted a plasmaball at his doorstep, unraveling a startling revelation. A gateway to an alternate realm situated on the opposite end of his world.

Carne

May 1991 •French

After a dreadful incident coupled with an ungovernable paroxysm of violence, a butcher will fall into a downward spiral that will burn to the ground whatever dignity still remained in him.

Pig

January 1999 •English

A young man journeys through a desert, where he is kidnapped by a sadistic stranger clad in a pig mask. The stranger proceeds to brutally torture the young man, who then finds himself escaping into his imagination, with fantasy and reality intersecting.

Fata Morgana

October 2009 •Russian

Who look after whom - the guard after the video system or the video system after the guard, wondering about the emptiness of mammalian life?

Vomitose

January 1996 •English

A boy ferociously slaughters his friends, family, neighbors, and even strangers.

Sacrifice

January 1959 •Japanese

Filmed only a few months after Tatsumi Hijikata’s first explosive public butoh performance, “Gisei” features Hijikata and members of his Asbestos Hall Troupe in a brutal allegory of a closed society. Shot by noted Japanese film scholar Donald Richie, “Gisei” still conveys the shock that Japanese audiences in 1959 must have felt at the birth of Hijikata's ankoku butoh, or "dance of darkness". Richie met Hijikata through mutual friend Yukio Mishima. They decided to collaborate on a film about segregation. Richie memorialized the film in his diary: “It is more than ever about the death of an individual, a distinct kind of human sacrifice.”

Dar-Dar

September 2020 •Basque

In the mountains of the Basque Country, a mother and her daughter take shelter in a ruined hut that seems uninhabited.

The Cop Cam

May 2016 •English

A police officer enters an abandoned house. His body cam records everything.

Harbinger

January 2016 •English

A man led by horrific visions to a mysterious cabin hopes to put a stop to his nightmares. An H.P. Lovecraft inspired film.

Honour Thy Mother

October 2019 •English

Liz is homeless, living life adrift. In a moment of despair and loneliness, she returns home after many years to her God-fearing mother and discovers time has changed more than she ever could have imagined.

Season's Greetin's

Invalid date •English

A Christmas comedy short in which two friends discover a corpse in the trunk of the car they were hoping to buy.