Northeast Wisconsin Horror Film Festival
Director's Cut - Pol Diggler
A dark comedy about an indie filmmaking crew shooting the first snuff movie with a plot.
I Love You Puppet Man - Bry Troyer
A financially-challenged puppeteer accepts a side job with a grandmotherly scientist who needs someone to watch her invention - a machine that contacts the dead.
They Will All Die in Space - Javier Chillon
The starship Tantalus drifts through space, proving that horror and science fiction can co-exist.
Graveyard Girl - Steven Oder
A quirky teenage girl that hangs out in graveyards must cope with loss, a shady boyfriend, and an overbearing sister, all while being stalked by a demon.
Lured - Jeremy Mercer
On the verge of his latest social experiment an internet personality enlist the help of a young girl's parents to teach the girl a lesson.
Next/Door - Nathan Suher
A treacherous and toxic love triangle links three people together in a way you will not expect.
Peelers - Sevé Schelenz
A small town strip club owner must defend her bar, her strippers and her life when violent infected patrons show up on the final closing night.
Bloody Birthday - Dave Lojek
For Vin’s birthday his older brother had a fabulous idea to surprise the young man with a present that will change their lives forever. This surprise makes Vin run around like mad.
Hi Neighbor - Chad Halvorsen
Successful suburbanite Erin is slowly realizing that not every neighbor is super-dee-dooper.
The Barber's Cut - Mark Brocking
Two cut off but living heads wake up in a fridge and manage to escape while trying to avoid a psycho barber.
Sparks - Tancredi Di Paola
In a world where witches and wizards are persecuted, Mathilde, a young witch, has to save her best friend from being assaulted without revealing her true nature.
Munchies - Sinead Stoddart
Zombie Lee has an outrageous hunger that won’t be silenced by food alone. With his growing need to feed increasing, misjudgment and disaster arise in the kitchen, until a simple solution is found. And his rumbling is quenched.
The Face Swap - Isaac Rodriguez
You'll never want to face swap again.
Windigo Revolution - Matthew Barber
In the midst of the American Revolution an eccentric man unknowingly provokes a Sasquatch while on a direct mission to deliver an important military document.
Ray Gets Robbed: Da Bear - Robert McBride
Rob finds a Teddy Bear in a hidden cabinet and leaves it with his roommate Ray....
The Terrible Typewriter - Marko Kattilakoski
The battle between a writer and his typewriter. A violent showdown seems unavoidable. The Terrible Typewriter, set in the 1930’s, is a thriller/dark comedy swedish Noir with a touch of H.P. Lovecraft.
Amari's Secret - Wes Kotansky Jr.
A man comes home from a long day of work to his fury feline companion, who has a serious staring problem. What the feline is fixated on, the man may not want to know.
Mr.Dentonn - Ivan Villamel Sanchez
On a cold winter night, Laura reads his 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.
The Stylist - Jill Gevargizian
Claire is a lonely hairstylist with an unnerving desire to escape her disappointing reality. When her final client of the evening arrives with the request to look perfect, Claire has plans of her own.
Sitophobia - Bradford Uyeda
A nightmare of culinary proportions as we take a trip through a possessed box of doughnuts!
Scary Little Fuckers - Nathan Suher
It's Christmas eve. An inebriated dad brings home to his adolescent son a gift he hopes will mend their faltering relationship, a Fookah, a devilish and disgusting creature that in turn wrecks havoc on their lives.
Lab Rats - David Wayman
Kat and her eco-warrior friends embark on a mission to expose bio-chemistry company Ring-Amnion as liars, following a tip-off that they ran an animal testing lab. Despite their public profile claiming otherwise; it soon becomes clear that Ring-Amnion are willing to test on more than just animals.
Tailypo - Cameron McCasland
In this re-telling of the classic American folk tale, a reclusive man living in a cabin with his hungry hunting dog are stalked by a creature with sharp teeth, claws, and glowing yellow eyes after a blind shotgun blast severs the creatures tail. The hermit begins to question his own sanity as the unseen menace lurking in the shadows of the lonesome woods hauntingly taunts “tailypo, tailypo, give me back my tailypo.”
Selfie - Geoff Harmer
A woman is haunted by a mysterious figure in her selfie photos.
The Thin Place - Alexander Mattingly
For two minutes each night, a woman's daughter is being taken by some unknown thing--a thing which lives in the thin places of our imagination and fears. Unfortunately, things are only going to get worse.
Innsmouth - Izzy Lee
Detective Diana Olmstead (Diana Porter) arrives on the scene of a body with a mysterious egg sac on its back. A clue leads her to Innsmouth, where she meets a seductive and horrific fate in the form of Alice Marsh (Tristan Risk: American Mary, The Editor).
Gags - Adam Krause
You've probably already heard about Gags the Clown. Now it's your chance to see the film starring this terror from Titletown.
The Chair - Chad Ferrin
An innocent man on death row witnesses savage killings at the hands of the prison's sadistic Warden. To survive, he must match the brutality in the prison and confront his own horrifying past.
The Call - Alban Ravassard
Benoît, 50, is a police lieutenant wounded by the disappearance of his wife, Lise. Unable to perform his grief, he sees his physical and mental health decline when she mysteriously surface again years later. Then, Benoît begins to undergo a strange transformation...
Bullet of Madness - JB Whirtley
BULLET OF MADNESS is a madcap dark comedy short film about a happy-go-lucky plastic surgeon named Dr. Jeffery Mishlove who one day gets an unusual request from a fast food tycoon to give his dead father a nose job. But being open minded to unusual things opens up doors to unusual events such as: discovering dark secrets within your past, a little body modification and how happiness is at the end of a gun.
The Unconventional Gourmet - Wendy Keeling
A dark comedy about a woman stuck in the 50's searching for the perfect ingredients in an unusual family recipe. The film tells an age old tale with an added modern twist.
Kill Them All Big and Small - John Gigrich
Reluctant adventures attempt to kill the ghost of Norwood Rank in an underground tunnel system.
Bitch, Popcorn, and Blood - Fabio Soares
At Salt’ n Sugar, a popcorn bar in the middle of nowhere, LILY a bored waitress, is goingto turn her life around when two fishy strangers show up in the bar.
SLOVEN - Marc Cartwright
A man comes home to find his untidy roommate has left the house particularly messy.... Or has something unearthly created the disorder?
The Watcher - Isaac Rodriguez
A man learns to never clown around.
Bloodsucker's Handbook - Mark Beal
(Originally titled "Enchiridion") Set in 1966, Bloodsucker's Handbook is the story of Father Noah Gregory, a young priest who is approached by federal marshals with an unusual request: help them deal with a vampire they have taken into custody. Drawn in by the vampire's narrative, Noah's own life begins to take strange twists. And when the vampire disappears, things get very weird.
Everyone's Famous: Bill's Landscape and Exorcism Service - Angus Swantee
A trio of bumbling landscapers bite off more than they can handle while fighting a malicous demon.
O Christmas Tree - Greg Kovacs
Carolers out to spread Christmas cheer get more than they bargained for at Mabel's house.
Boots - Keith Hopkins
While working to restore an old derelict home, a handyman encounters the unexplainable.
Demon in the Waiting Room - Ben Wydeven
After a heavy night of drinking, Raven encounters an aggressive visitor... in his subconscious.
Z.A.F - Michael Fausti
Commander Olson, tormented by the demons of his military past, is the sole witness to an apparently motiveless suicide. The resulting insomnia adds to the Commander’s already increasing sense of paranoia. Olson is forced to accept treatment from a mysterious civilian doctor named Gottlieb. However, Commander Olson is unaware that his treatment is being overseen by a shadowy figure known only as “Helms”. Olson’s hold on reality is soon to be shattered, resulting in a shocking and violent confrontation.
TEAM - Pete Tomkies
With her staff on a team building exercise a business owner in an empty office is under threat from the attentions of lecherous parcel delivery man. But just who is hunting who?
PLAYBACK - Nathan Crooker
PLAYBACK is a three-minute film shot in one take, which makes the suspense it conjures up all the more impressive. A man turns on his TV but can only find static, when suddenly the static cuts out to show security camera footage of a masked killer chasing a scantily-clad woman and brutally gutting her in an apartment hallway. The channel turns itself off, and then he hears a strange noise outside his front door and decides to investigate. As he leaves his apartment, we realize the hallway looks eerily familiar, and it’s soon made clear that he was watching footage from inside his own building.
Tres Dentes De Ouro (Three Golden Teeth) - Diego Lara
Domitila is a girl who has to deal with the secrets of their adoptive parents amid the loneliness of her new home.
Holy Hell - Ryan LaPlante
HOLY HELL is the over-the-top, outrageous, sexually-deviant, blood-drenched story of Father Augustus Bane: a priest pushed too far who begins praying to a revolver and hunting down the gangsters who killed his parishioners. Having been described as "DEATH WISH meets THE TOXIC AVENGER, by way of HOBO WITH A SHOTGUN" (nerdly.co.uk), HOLY HELL is a modern take on classic Action, Horror and Exploitation film tropes. The goal of this feature length movie is to break through every limit set by film, taste and reasonable societal behavior: all with anarchic glee.