Mad Monster Party Film Fest 2023

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Director Juan De Dios Garduño

Spain

Two antagonistic forces fight over a woman's unborn child. On the result depends our salvation.

All You Can Eat

Director Kieran Reed

United Kingdom

A young waitress at a fast food diner has a bad feeling about things going on behind the chrome and neon facade of the diner. She finally believes she has the proof she needs to bring this secret to light, but unseen evil forces are unleashed in a blood thirsty attempt to stop her.

Beneath Us All

Director Harley Wallen

United States

Julie a foster kid not far from the age of 18 find a mysterious coffin in the woods not far from the shore. What she finds inside is something dark and it’s starving as it hasn’t fed for over a thousand years.

Betur sjá augu (See No Evil)

Directors Sesselía Ólafs, Peter Callow

Iceland

Betur sjá augu (See No Evil) is about isolated people yearning for human contact and connection. Their search leads them to the discovery of something new and unexpected within themselves.

BOOK

Director Eric Swiz

United States

When her best friend turns to her for help, a tortured young girl shares her darkest, most powerful secret. This was a mistake.

Dead Men And Devils

Director Robert W. Filion

United States

Abby Carlson is AB Negative and immune from a deadly virus that is sweeping the globe. She is on the run from The Devils, a band of AB Negative thugs that will take anything and anyone they want.

Elsewhere

Director Simon S. O'Reilly

Canada

Elsewhere is a gentle story about love and loss told through the perspective of a grief stricken laborer. As the first snow descends on the province, she spends her day harvesting oysters along the river bank, and contemplating the nature of her grief. Waist high in the water, she pushes through the meandering currents, when she suddenly encounters a familiar creature rising from the shallows. Her muses awash, she finds herself elsewhere, succumbing to another shell.

Familiar

Director David J. Ellison

United Kingdom

It is 1942, in the dark woods of Pennsylvania, Richard Mason is the Familiar to a hideous ancient vampiric creature living in the bowels of an isolated mansion. Every day he must bring a new victim for it to feed on and tolerate its physical and mental abuse.

Found You

Director Marijane Vargas

United States

During a game of Midnight Hide and Seek at summer camp, an anxious Lucy struggles to hide her werewolf identity from her fellow campers! And it’s a full moon! Will Lucy be successful in concealing herself?

Game Night

Director Trent T Duncan

United States

Abby, Becca, Scott, and Brittany are enjoying a casual game night when the stakes are raised to a new level. The killers from the board game come alive and are content on killing the four players. However, the tables are turned when the group discovers that they have inherited the skills from their characters in the board game.

Golem

Director Ryan Cauchi

Australia

Nazi-occupied Prague, 1939. A group of German soldiers search for a fugitive Rabbi in the basement of an abandoned synagogue - unaware of the horror awaiting them.

House of the Unholy

Director Daniel Merlot

United States

A bloodthirsty Princess puts out a bounty to hunt down the last of the Indigo Elder tribe. She is on a quest to attain a magical elixir that's harvested in his heart .The elixir can grant her the powers to reign over the Kingdom for an Eternity.

Intinction

Director Bobby Canipe Jr.

United States

A dark history doesn't stop 4 young adults from venturing into the old house on the edge of town. Once the home of 3 nuns that cannibalized the rest of the convent, the group has no idea of the presence that still dwells there.

Lady of the Lagoon

Director Jezibell Anat

United States

A paranormal talk show host gets his best story while interviewing an apparition on the Southeast coast!

OKHOTSK OF THE LIVING DEAD

Director Sean Kurosawa seankurosawa

Japan

A cinema crew goes to Hokkaido Japan. They meet a nuts girl and go crazy and kill.

On/Off

Director Jurg Slabbert

South Africa

An Afrikaans-speaking man helps his elderly German neighbor in a time of need, despite a language barrier. In the process, he learns volumes about himself.

ONEIRA

Director Christine A Banna

United States

Operation Teak

Director Peter Kotas

Canada

A cleaning company hires grad students with disastrous results, and infinity comes to Iowa.

Part Forever

Director Alan Chung-An, Ou

Taiwan

In the dark hall, candles flickered faintly. A body lay in the middle of the hall. Huei and her husband Wen Hsiung came to say goodbye to Huei’s dearest sister. The seemingly calm and sad farewell ceremony seemed to hide an astonishing and dark secret......

Phoenix Incident

Director Keith Arem

United States

BASED ON TRUE EVENTS. Thursday March 13th, 1997 marks the date of the Phoenix Lights, the largest mass UFO sighting in US History. The night of the incident, four Phoenix residents vanished in the Estrella Mountain National Park, south of Phoenix, becoming the longest unresolved missing person’s case in Arizona history.

Rainy Season Director's Cut

Director Vanessa Ionta Wright

United States

Based on the story by Stephen King, Rainy Season follows a young couple on their way to the small town of Willow, ME. After ignoring warnings by the locals to leave, they stay and learn the horrific price the town must pay for prosperity. The rainy season has come back to Willow and when it rains...they pour.

Rogue Guardian

Director Nick Fraser

United States

Following the murder of fifteen people, a military general and a security guard must work together to find the motive and stop the killer, a god-like being named Guardian, from acting again.

Scary Story

Director Larry Guernsey

United States

A scary campfire story told to a young Elder God with scary effect.

SHE MADE A MONSTER!

Director Jay Reel

United States

She's a little girl. She's a genius. She's also a bit of a mad scientist. Dottie tries out her homemade teleportation device on her family's TV and accidentally transports a movie monster into the real world! What to do now?

Sights Unseen

Director Jesse Terrell

United States

A student's fascination with extra dimensions will lead to an obsession with the mysteries of what is beyond our comprehension. Is it math or is it magic?

Spellbound

Director Robin Rippmann

Switzerland

James' dull daily routine is disrupted by a strange apparition that begins to haunt him in his waking moments and dreams alike. Suspecting who might be behind these disturbances, James sets out to confront the culprit.

STALAG III-C

Director Jason Rogan

Belarus

In the final days of World War II, US paratrooper Joe Boyd leads a daring escape from a Nazi POW camp, only to face a more horrifying evil beyond the prison walls.

Stalker Grandma

Director Patrick Michael Rea

United States

Deb has been jokingly nicknamed "Stalker Grandma" by her grandkids because of her constant need to take pictures with her phone. Soon, Deb suspects something sinister and unexplained is happening around her, but is it all in her mind or has the past come back to haunt her.

Tekenchu

Director Carlos Matienzo Serment

Mexico

Rafael, a seriously injured man, falls into the darkness of the Tlalpujahua forest, is found by Teresa and her sister Dolores who take care of him, until they discover his dark past and return him to the forest but now at the mercy of Tekenchu.

The Anomaly

Director Paul Saladino

United States

In this homage to The Twilight Zone, Raymond is convinced he's being stalked by a mysterious man. After surviving a disaster, he finds that the man is still following him.

The Barn Part II

Director Justin M. Seaman

United States

The sequel to the 2016 film takes place three years later and follows our final girl Michelle who is now in college. However, she is still plagued with the questions of what truly happened after a night of terror that left her friends missing. This years annual haunted house thrown by the sorority girls of Gamma Tau Psi is forced off campus, but thankfully the ban on Halloween has been lifted by the town mayor. Unfortunately for Michelle some uninvited trick or treaters from her past come knocking...

The Burned Over District

Directors James Thomas Coleman, Vincent John Coleman

United States

A grieving man discovers that the seemingly quiet town is hiding a very terrifying secret. Now he must find a way to overcome his grief, and fight back against the darkness that has consumed the town and its people.

The Devil's Tromping Ground

Director Chuck Chapman

United States

Would you have the courage to spend the night at the Devil's Tromping Ground? A beer drinking YouTuber thinks he does.

The Estate

Director Josh Thurm

United States

Howard, looking to start a life with his fiancé and unborn child, attempts to sell his deceased father's estate. Alone on the sprawling grounds, he discovers his estranged father's diary and quickly learns the secret to his disappearance. Now Howard is unsure if the doors he's opened can be closed. Will Howard return to his family, or will he repeat his father's deadly mistakes?

The Fifth Chair

Director Chris Vaughn

United States

A conservation is lured to a study group by an opposing sect and finds himself in more danger than he could possibly imagine.

The Law Of The Jungle Gym

Director Yoon Hei Cho

United States

Lunchtime at a peaceful school, children discover that they can transform into animals, the only problem is when would they stop?

The Monster Mash

Directors Richard Terrasi, Kevin Losani

United States

An anthology of three gruesome tales that will take you back to the days of creature features.

The Trail

Director Adam Clark

United States

Lost in the woods, a woman encounters a terrified stranger.

Valley of the Shadow: The Spiritual Value of Horror

Director Tyler Smith

Documentary 

United States

In the new documentary Valley of the Shadow: The Spiritual Value of Horror, director Tyler Smith and host Bill Oberst, Jr. explore the world of scary movies, finding the psychological, emotional, and spiritual complexities within the genre. The result is an academic celebration of film and its ability to engage and challenge its audience.