Maniac

The Silence of the Lambs

February 1991 •English

Clarice Starling is a top student at the FBI's training academy. Jack Crawford wants Clarice to interview Dr. Hannibal Lecter, a brilliant psychiatrist who is also a violent psychopath, serving life behind bars for various acts of murder and cannibalism. Crawford believes that Lecter may have insight into a case and that Starling, as an attractive young woman, may be just the bait to draw him out.

And that secret that moves the tides of your chest

December 2018 •English

After having contemplated the final scene and the credits of the movie “Your light disappears”, a man, absolutely moved, feels how his emotions materialize in his face.

Carne

August 2013 •Portuguese

fuji_jukai.mov

September 2016 •Japanese

A smartphone is found at the TV shoot for a show about the Sea of Trees near Mount Fuji. The phone contains videos of three high school girls who met online: Ami (Okuma Ami), who is suicidal, Hinata (Kohinata Setsu), who yearns to witness the instant someone dies, and Mitan (Otonari Mirei).

Am I a Psycho?

January 2024 •English

The short film surrounds Cassie and her struggle, confusion, and eventual discovery of her OCD. We take a glimpse into her interactions with her friends and family, often paired with flashbacks (intrusive thoughts) of supposed violence towards herself and others. Unknowing of her condition, she is distraught at each thought, and as a result reluctant to share with her loved ones what she is going through.

Star.Wav

Invalid date •English

After prophesying the end of humanity, a reclusive conspiracy theorist receives a troubling call into his radio show.

Horror House Vol. 2

March 2021 •Japanese

Eight men and women were gathered. What is the identity of the woman who joined late?

Fatal Lane

Invalid date •German

Paul is visibly confused after a meeting, late in the night. He drives through the night, experiencing a chaos of his feelings and emotions. He celebrates, cries, laughs and screams. But why all this? Again and again his mood is interrupted by strange seeming incidents, in his immediate vicinity...

Murder Van

Invalid date •English

Two women are abducted by a serial killer in a van and must work together to escape before it's too late.

Remembrance

June 1963 •Japanese

A woman and boy visit an ominous graveyard.

“Sredni Vashtar” by Saki

November 1940 •English

David Bradley creates a faithfully suspenseful adaptation of a story by Saki which boasts an inadvertent post-modern attitude.

Sons of Lilith

August 2022 •Norwegian

Vengeance lies upon the snowy mountains of Eresfjord when the unhinged Ask E. Laedden returns to his cabin 15 years after the spine-chilling night that scarred him for life.

Suicide by Sunlight

January 2019 •English

Valentina, a day-walking Black vampire protected from the sun by her melanin, finds it difficult to suppress her bloodlust when a new woman is introduced to her estranged twin daughters.

The Honeymooners

November 2021 •English

An experimental look at love, sex, and aggression

Havenhurst

August 2016 •English

A troubled young woman takes up residence in a gothic apartment building where she must confront a terrifying evil.

SAFE

November 2022 •German

A newbie of the criminal underworld is tasked to transfer and extract some mysterious data, but they bit off more than they can chew.

TransTrans (TransformersTransformed)

September 2009 •English

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!”

The Wrong Side of Town

October 2018 •English

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.

The Birch

June 2016 •English

A bullied schoolboy takes drastic measures against his tormenter, summoning an ancient being in the woods using a spellbound book passed down through the generations of his family.

Anorexia

June 2010 •English

Marisa suffers from anorexia. But there's something that befuddles the doctors.