Preparing for the Worst

Four college journalists begin to question everything when a bloody fairy tale, read around the campfire from a stolen journal, starts to come to life.

Lux searches for the eraser he needs to fix his drawing, but when his attempts to get his family's attention are ignored, he begins to disappear.

According to Daisy, high school gym class is the perfect setting for catching the attention of her crush, Devon. As the chaos of dodgeball ensues Daisy's best friend, Phoebe, is roped into helping Daisy execute her plan of getting closer to her crush. Daisy is set on winning, just not at dodgeball.

In a world not so different from ours, the sun is going to rise for the first time in 20 years. David is determined to block the sun out much to the dismay of his daughter, Samantha, whose drive to watch the sunrise forces David to acknowledge a pain he’d rather keep hidden.

After her mother’s funeral, Wren returns to her childhood home for the first time in years. There she finds a ruined house, strange clues, and a dark presence among the trees.

A soon-to-be father’s attempt to win back the affection of his ex is complicated when he accidentally shoots an arrow at the sun.

Unimpressed with her actors and running out of time, film director Ash turns to dark and powerful methods to get the perfect shot and finally finish her movie.

Insurmountable medical bureaucracy pushes Roland, a transmasculine college student, to the absolute brink. Desperate for top surgery but blocked by systemic gatekeeping, his reality fractures when he discovers a classmate running a clandestine, illegal dissection operation. What started as a struggle against healthcare politics instantly devolves into a grim, body-horror bargain for survival.

A year after her dismissal from a Michelin-starred restaurant, Chef Grace Collins, now managing a more modest eatery, has an unsavory encounter with the critic responsible for her firing.

An inventor tries to parent her wall-powered robot son. When he tries to discover a world beyond the boundaries she designed for him, she has to choose between keeping him safe and letting him live on his own.

Pete, a janitor at Super Fun Cinemas, clocks into work and begins his usual routine, but is rudely interrupted by the invasion of an otherworldly threat taking control of the theater. For the first time in a long time, today is quite different from yesterday.