Feature Films
Halloween 5
with special guest Don Shanks
Idaho Horror is elated to be celebrating the 25th Anniversary of the 1989 classic with the star of the film, Don Shanks. Question and Answer to follow post-screening.
The film opens up exactly one year after the events depicted in Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers. The Shape has returned to Haddonfeld, Illinois to murder his niece, Jamie, who is now mute.
Plays with:
Domestica (Spud and Guts)
American Hell
The Muck
Chip and Bernie's Zomance
with Director Pasquale Murena
World Premier! IHFF is proud to host special guest Director, Pasquale Murena. Question and Answer session to follow the screening.
The film takes the viewer straight into the Zombie appocolyse. With human caught unaware and unprepared, the zombies take over. A made-for-TV competition has been created, the rules are simple: Rule 1: Each team has 48 hours to kill as many zombies as possible. Rule 2: Don't Die.
Plays with:
Ghost of a Chance Trailer and The Other Side of September Trailer
Cargo
4 Brothers. Or Three. Wait...Three
Dead Snow 2:
Red vs Dead
If the worst day of your life consisted of accidentally killing your girlfriend with an axe, chain-sawing your own arm off, and watching in horror as your closest friends were devoured by a zombified Nazi battalion, you'd have to assume that things couldn't get much worse. In Martin's case, that was only the beginning.
Plays with:
Krawll (Spud and Guts)
Jigsaw
Killer Kart
Faust
F.W Murnau's Faust is an iconic film about a scholar who sell his soul to the Devil. This exclusive screening of this 1926 silent classic will be performed with an original score composed by musician, Sean Dahlman and friends.
Presented by The College of Idaho
Blood Riders: The Devil Rides with Us
Join Director, Lari Teras in presenting his new film Blood Riders: The Devil Rides with US. Blood Riders is a blood soaked adventure comedy about 4 young friends who stumble upon a body after stealing a car. That discovery pushes the friends on a road trip around town during which they try get rid of the increasing amount of corpses. Along their wild ride the kids encounter neo-Nazis, punk artists, devil worshipers and a plan to resurrect Hitler.
Friday Midnight Movie
Plays with:
Directors on Directing
Good Doggie (Spud and Guts)
Timothy
Blood Punch
A young man finds himself drawn into a dangerous love triangle gone haywire in this genre-bending neo noir mind f**k of a movie!
Saturday Night Midnight Movie
Plays with:
Malovelent (Spud and Guts)
Butterflies
Xana
Short Films
Lucy
Director: Chaz Gentry
Year: 2014
Country: USA- Spud and Guts
Runtime:
Lucy is a poetic fantasy about an infatuated boy who follows a young girl into the dark snowy night, only to find to his horror how far he would go in order to please her.
How far would you go?
The Muck
Director: Tony Wash
Year: 2014
Country: USA
Runtime: 6 min
Laverne arrives home and decides to relax in the bathtub. She strips down, settles into the tub, and closes her eyes. Serenity at last
... or so she thought! The Muck will leave you never wanting to take a bath again!
The Stomach
Director: Dan Dixon
Year: 2014
Country: United Kingdom
Runtime: 15 min
Frank's had enough. A spirit medium whose unique and grotesque method of channeling the dead is putting his own life at risk, he wants out. But others, in this world and the next, have plans of their own. Part body-horror, part ghost-story, The Stomach is a unique tale of Supernatural Noir.
Salvage
Director: Daniel Flood
Year: 2014
Country: Australia
Runtime: 8 min
Following a disaster, a solitary rescue worker scours a hazardous region, salvaging what she can.
Four Brothers. Or Three. Wait ... Three.
Director: Philip Buiser
Year: 2014
Country: USA
Runtime: 4 min
Three brothers have to figure out what to do with their newly undead brother before their parents wake up. A touching farce about brotherly love starring Emmy-winner Greg Rikaart, Marc Valera, Jeremy Glazer and Robert Sudduth.
The Heebie-Jeebies
Director: Todd Slawsby
Year: 2014
Country: USA
Runtime: 9 min
When two kids convince Mom to read a scary story right before bedtime, it’s hardly a wonder no one gets any sleep. But is it really all just make-believe?
Viscera (Animated)
Director: Lauren Morrison
Year: 2014
Country: USA
Runtime: 4 min
By referencing the human body and the absurdity of high society manners, Viscera examines the disconnect between food and source, rich and poor, and the intentional ignorance that allows exploitation to flourish.
Insane
Director: Adam O'Brien
Year: 2014
Country: Canada
Runtime: 19 min
A young talented director on a location scout in the abandoned psychiatric hospital of a rural community inadvertently awakens the ghost of a tormented soul seeking retribution.
Temporal
Director: Betty Kaplan
Year: 2014
Country:USA
Runtime:13 min
A widow gets illegal gravediggers to dig up her recently deceased husband, who is about to wake up because the innovative device in his brain will malfunction.
Turncoat
Director: Emily Sandifer
Year: 2014
Country: USA (Spud and Guts)
Runtime: 13 min
After the Civil War, Confederate soldier Levi Haywood battles with his new life out west in Idaho and the secrets he struggles to keep quiet.
Happy B-day
Director: Holger Frick
Year: 2014
Country: Germany
Runtime: 8 min
When a young man starts his early morning run in the snowy woods, he could not in his wildest dreams have expected the birthday surprise waiting for him there.
American Hell
Director: Robert Bryce Milburn
Year: 2014
Country: USA
Runtime: 7:30
A family's worse fears are realized when their apartment is invaded in the middle of the night. While neither their lives nor their valuables are threatended, their would-be attackers provide a grim glimpse at how alone and helpless the family is when their entire hallway of neighbors did nothing to help them.
The Headless Nun
Director: Nuno Sa' Pessoa
Year: 2014
Country: Portugal
Runtime: 7 min
A thief meets the maker of the universe at the back room of a gas station
Small Talk (aka 1-900-kill-you)
Director: Nicole Witte Solomon
Year: 2014
Country: USA
Runtime: 23 min
A young phone sex operator's more horrible clients begin dying under mysterious circumstances after she becomes upset during their sessions. Is she somehow connected to--or accidentally causing--these deaths?
Krawll
Director: Matthew Wade
Year: 2010
Country: USA (Spud and Guts)
Animated
Runtime: 2 min
Man's technological advances are so well built that some, without our aid, will continue on after we do not.
Grave Shivers
Director: Brent Sims
Year: 2014
Country: USA
Runtime: 14 min
Three tales of monsters, killers, and things that go bump in the night.
Timothy
Director: Marc Martinez Jordan
Year: 2014
Country: Spain
Runtime: 10 min
Simon is a little boy that has to deal with his babysitter, Sonia, a total nuisance. But that same night Simon will recieve and unexpected visitor, Timothy, the main character of Simon's favourite show, a visit he will never forget.
The Operator
Director: Sam Barnett
Year: 2013
Country: United Kingdom
Animated
Runtime: 7 min
Operator is a stop motion animated short film about a man named Bob, attacked by a bio-mechanical parasite, fighting for his life and family against forces much greater than himself.
The Jigsaw
Directors: Basil Al-Safar and Rashad Al-Safar
Year: 2014
Country: Portugal
Runtime: 8 min
The purchase of a mystery Jigsaw Puzzle from a strange and unsettling vendor leads a man to an evening of frightening consequences.
The Damned Thing
Year: 2014
Director: Jesse Cordtz
Country: USA (Spud and Guts)
Runtime: 12 min
An inquest takes place to investigate a suspicious death. A man, Morgan, living in the West of 1890, is troubled by a phenomenon he cannot see. He goes hunting with a friend, Harper and they disturb the unseen creature. Morgan is savagely killed. Harper recounts the events, but the jury rules death by mountain lion. The Coroner reads Morgans diary and its story of the strange creature and why Morgan believes he cannot see it. The Coroner discounts the narrative and burns the diary.
One
Director: Andres Rovira
Year: 2014
Country: USA
Runtime: 7 min
After having learned of six brutal murders in her own bedroom, a young girl must force herself to sleep, while an evil horror lurks in the dark.
Xana
Director: Anton Razvan
Year: 2014
Country: Canada
Runtime: 4 min
The Xana is a character found in Asturian mythology. Always female, she is a creature of extraordinary beauty believed to live in fountains, rivers, waterfalls or forested regions with pure water. Often they enter traveler's dreams through an erotic manifestation and cause them harm through blood spilling. Those who have a pure soul and hear the xana's song will be filled with a sense of peace and love. Those whose souls are not pure will feel they are being suffocated and may be driven to suicide.
The End
Director: Jeremy Brown
Year: 2012
Country: USA (Spud and Guts)
Runtime: 13 min
Zombies, social media websites, and a girl. What would you do if you were by yourself and your only friends were online? Katherine Brooks finds that she is now one of the rare few survivors of a zombie apocalypse.
The Body
Director:Paul Davis
Year: 2013
Country: USA
Runtime 17 min
The tale of a murderer (Allen) who uses the cover of Halloween night to causally transport his latest victim from the scene of the crime to his final resting place. Wrapping the body in tarpaulin and dragging it through the busy streets of London as a bloody Halloween prop, all goes to plan until an old school mate (Brassington) recognises the murderer and drags him along to a swanky Halloween party nearby, where a chance meeting with a beautiful girl (Tointon) takes his evening on an even bigger turn for the bizarre!
Lady and the Tooth
Diretor: Shaun Clark
Year: 2012
Country: United Kingdom
Runtime: 8 min
Hidden away in a village where the most precious commodity is teeth, a toothless man lives in fear of being sacrificed by the villagers. Lonely and in search of acceptance he resorts to kidnapping as a desperate way to find love and freedom.
The Tell-Tale Heart
Diretor: Gregory Green
Year: 2012
Country: USA (Spud and Guts)
Runtime: 15 min
This film dramatizes a young man's decent into madness by his obsession of an old man’s “vulture eye." Here's a fresh re-telling of Edgar Allen Poe's classic THE TELL-TALE HEART like you've never seen before! Starring Darren Burrows (NORTHERN EXPOSURE).
10K
Director: Hendrix Caudill
Year: 2014
Country: USA
Runtime: 16 min
Escaping their hectic big-city life, a couple relocates to a remote country farmhouse. However the illusion of tranquility crumbles as a peaceful run on the rural backroads turns into 6.2 miles of terror.
Killer Kart
Director: James Feeney
Year: 2013
Country: USA
Runtime: 15:00
An evil grows, hiding in plain sight. Just four wheels and a basket, but forged of aluminum in the fires of Hell. Tonight, it will strike, and the closing crew of a small-town grocery store will be thrust into the fight of their lives against the devastation of… The Killer Kart!
Domestica
Director: Zach Lorkiewicz
Year: 2014
Country: USA (Spud and Guts)
Runtime: 3 min
A master chef finds herself in a losing battle against an army of buzzing foes.
Butterflies
Director: Isabel Peppard
Year: 2012
Country: USA
Runtime: 12 min
A young artist sits on the sidewalk, struggling to make a living. She makes drawings the passerby.
A business man recognizes her talents and offers her paying job. The prospect seems inviting but the reality threatens to kill her imagination...
Carolina Parakeet
Director: AJ Briones
Year: 2014
Country: USA
Runtime: 15 min
A couple running for survival from the undead find temporary shelter in the company of a newly retired schoolteacher who has a unique perspective on human nature and a grim prognosis for mankind. This film is the directorial debut of VFX Artist / Previsualization Supervisor A.J. Briones (AVATAR, WORLD WAR Z, DAWN OF THE PLANET OF THE APES).
Malevolent
Director: Robert Emfield
Year: 2012
Country: USA (Spud and Guts)
Runtime: 6 min
Shot 100% on an Apple Iphone in Idaho, Malevolent is a short indie horror/thriller film about an old woman and evil spirits that reside in her home. The Spirit longs for more...
Directors on Directing
Director: Damien Patrik
Year: 2013
Country: USA
Runtime: 4 min
Pontificating film directors, dancing nuns, sweet little girls and puppy dogs. Who could ask for anything more? 3 successful film directors explain the REAL secrets to success.
Good Doggie
Director: Matt Robinson
Year: 2014
Country: USA (Spud and Guts)
Runtime: 9 min
Good evening ladies and gentlemen I've come to tell you a small tale of a man who loves dogs more than people , a woman pushed to the edge - scorned if you will, and the ties that bind them together: marriage, children, infidelity.
Meat Puppets
Director: Roger Scholz
Year: 2013
Country: USA
Runtime: 13 min
Three young women are held by a psychotic mad-man... what will he do to them?
Abyssus Abyssum Invocat
Director: Wes Simpkins
Year: 2012
Country: USA
Animated
Runtime: 10 min
Abyssus Abyssum Invocat is a short film that utilizes stop-motion animation and live-action puppetry to create a darkly comic meditation on capital punishment and religion. The surreal and macabre world of Abyssus Abyssum Invocat is inspired by the animation from masters of the stop-motion craft such as Jan Svankmajer and The Brothers Quay. The film's title is interpreted to mean 'Hell invokes Hell.'
Playing with the Devil
Director: Nick Stentzel
Year: 2014
Country: USA
Runtime: 7 min
While home alone, three sisters conduct a Japanese ritual of Hitori Kakurenbo or "One Man Tag" with their beloved doll. Terror ensues as the girls realize that one should never play a game with the Devil.
Cargo
Directors: Yolanda Ramke and Ben Howling
Year: 2013
Country: Austrailia
Runtime: 7 min
Stranded in the midst of a zombie apocalypse, a man sets in motion an unlikely plan to protect the precious cargo he carries: his infant daughter.
The Tour
Directors: Alex Mathieson
Damon Rickard
Year: 2014
Country: United Kingdom (Spud and Guts)
Runtime: 15 min
Darkmoor Manor is England's most haunted house, its doors closed to the public. It is now just part of a tour which helps attracts visitors to a struggling town. That is until the tour guide, trying to impress two attractive American visitors promises to get them inside. But none of them could be prepared for what was waiting within the shadows of the house.