Block E: The Devil in Bitter Woods, Three Ways to Dine Well, Cookies by the Fire, Nightmare at Camp Bloodbath, CAUTIONARY TALES, Lethalogica, Vision of the Vampyre, Welcome to Our Home, Smile, Breaking News

Three Ways to Dine Well

I had three aims for this film.

First, I wanted the audience to discover that women worked in major roles on such horror classics as The Shining, The Evil Dead and Rosemary’s Baby.

Second, I wanted to illuminate little known horror films helmed by women, such as Nettie Peña's Home Sweet Home, Tracey Moffatt's Bedevil and Jackie Kong's Blood Diner.

Third, I wanted to showcase the work of the women filmmakers who are now - finally - being written about in horror scholarship: Daria Nicolodi, Mary Lambert, Karen Arthur, Stephanie Rothman (and many more). To achieve this, I've created an essay film composed of film extracts from narrative and experimental shorts and features, and grant-supported, no/lo budget and commercial film. And the remit is global: this film contains women-made horror cinema from South Korea, Australia, USA, UK, Poland, France, New Zealand, Japan, Canada, Sweden, Taiwan, Laos, India, Italy, Iran, Finland and Czechoslovakia.

Sit back, enjoy, and prepare to stack up a TON of new viewing recs.

Welcome to Our Home

When Brad brings his liberal girlfriend home to meet his conservative parents, tensions escalate and monsters are unleashed.

The Devil in Bitter Woods

In 1875, a slow-witted man meets the Devil in the woods and tries to bargain for his life. 

Cookies by the Fire

A desperate teenage girl digs up a dark family secret to ensure she can celebrate a peaceful, merry Christmas, with her mother and brother.

Lethalogica

Relationships can be killer, but the best advice for a successful one, is patience and a short memory.

Vision of the Vampyre

'Vision of the Vampyre' - Directed by James Caley, Director of Photography Juan Pablo Ayala. Shot in anamorphic 16mm.

Breaking News

A short horror film about a paranoid girl trying to stop the future after a news channel announces her mysterious disappearance, a short film written and produced by Zoe Gherman, directed by Taylor Conley, and staring Elisabeth Clements. 

Filmed in Atlanta, Georgia, with a budget of less than $4,000.

CAUTIONARY TALES

A 2D stop-motion animated short about lessons taught in a very odd school.

Smile

When a young woman struggles to smile, her depression becomes something truly monstrous. 

Nightmare at Camp Bloodbath

After discovering their lodge totaled by a neighboring camp, two counselors are stalked and prayed upon by the local legend Terrance Fisher in his slapstick parody.