Tales From Strangerville

Markarth is shaken awake by a strange sight: a colossal dragon calmly seated in the middle of the town square. Initially assumed to be a threat, the townsfolk panic and report it to King Erik. In response, he dispatches the kingdom’s finest — Dragon Slayer Xander — to eliminate the creature. But things aren’t as simple as they seem. As Xander prepares to strike, the mother dragon’s children emerge from hiding, revealing that this wasn’t an invasion — it was a family seeking refuge. Before anyone can act further, the town is suddenly stormed by aliens, throwing the entire narrative off course.

Set near the cursed Hellfrozeover Lake, the story centers on Billy Bob (Zachary Chambers), a reclusive and mentally impaired man who stalks young campers engaging in premarital sex. Raised by his puritanical and deeply traumatized mother (Belinda Soprano), Billy was taught that sex is evil and that his disability is a divine punishment for his mother’s own non-consensual encounter with a family member.

Sanctuary Hills is a 24-minute animated machinima drama created using Fallout 4 and Blender. Set during the final hours of the Sino-American War, the film follows the Washingtons, the only Black family in a gated community, who are denied access to the nuclear vault they paid for due to government-enforced racial discrimination. As the bombs fall, they are left to die—only to survive through a horrific mutation caused by radiation. Transformed and enraged, the Washingtons return to claim vengeance on the community that betrayed them.

Two college couples, Pierre and Sophie, and Frank and Maddison, who seek a relaxing retreat at an Airbnb in rural Cornwall, Connecticut. Their host, Jonah, possesses an unsettling demeanor and provides a curious warning about a locked basement. What begins as a pleasant escape quickly devolves into a struggle for survival as the group confronts an insidious force stemming from the forbidden basement and a broken mirror. As the possessed girls turn on their friends, the couples are drawn into a terrifying ordeal that culminates in the shocking revelation of Jonah's involvement in a continuing, dark ritual.

Set at a remote beach house rental, the story follows two couples — one straight, one lesbian — as they awaken from a night of celebration to find that the internet, smartphones, and all forms of modern digital technology never existed. With only a landline, analog TV, and a CD stereo system in sight, the five friends are thrown into an alternate version of reality that feels like the 1980s — despite the newspaper still reading March 2015.

Howard Stern, once the most adored actor in the world, falls from stardom when his wife Mary is found dead under suspicious circumstances. Though acquitted in court, he’s convicted in the public eye, becoming a symbol of tabloid shame. Disgraced and reclusive, Howard vanishes from public life, retreating to his coastal estate in Brindleton Bay.

In the foggy town of Hemlock Springs, a string of animalistic killings has left the townspeople terrified. Caroline (Alvin Soprano), a sarcastic high school senior with a love for B-movies, starts to suspect something supernatural when her classmate Donnie (Victorius Kingston) begins acting extra weird… even for a teenage boy.

Lilith Marek doesn’t remember the man’s face. She only remembers the alley, the darkness, and the sensation of dying. After surviving a brutal sexual assault that left her unconscious and transformed into a vampire, Lilith wakes up changed — body, blood, and soul. But she doesn’t run. She doesn’t hide. She hunts.

In "Jack," a troubled police officer who accidentally shoots his girlfriend, Melanie, finds himself in a spiral of guilt and remorse. Trapped in an endless acid trip, Jack confronts a blurred line between reality and surrealism.

In a world previously untouched by the supernatural, all dead bodies suddenly disappear and 46 deceased individuals mysteriously return to life. Among the resurrected is Heather, the sister of police officer David Thompson. David, along with his journalist wife Fiona, are drawn into the heart of this global enigma. They enlist the help of scientists Bryan Carter and Samantha Willis, who specialize in cellular regeneration and necrology, to unravel the mystery. The team discovers unsettling patterns and hidden truths about the resurrected individuals, who are exhibiting strange behaviors and slowly transforming into something otherworldly. Fiona's investigation leads her to a Satanist organization that may be behind the mass disappearance and resurrection. The stakes escalate as they realize the resurrections are not miraculous, but sinister, and a race against time begins to prevent a catastrophic event that threatens to unleash a nightmarish force upon the world.

The film is set in the quiet town of Sunset Valley, where secrets bubble beneath the surface of suburban charm. A secret witch named Shelley Van Dembewbs is murdered by her lover — Mayor Daniel Deekless — after she threatens to expose their affair to his wife, Valerie. Wanting to protect his reputation and political power, the mayor strangles Shelley and buries her in an unmarked grave outside the town cemetery. But Shelley's soul doesn’t rest. During the next blood moon — a total lunar eclipse — her spirit casts a revenge curse on the town. The spell seeps into the soil, awakening ancient vampires sealed in tombs under the graveyard.

The story follows Hermia Summerdream, a young woman plagued by a recurring dream of a forest she’s never visited and voices that echo in languages she doesn’t speak. As the veil between sleep and waking life begins to erode, Hermia becomes increasingly drawn to the ruins at the edge of Veronaville — ruins said to be cursed by the spirits of wronged lovers.

In 2004, Bella Goth disappears without a trace. Nearly a decade later, her teenage children, Cassandra and Alexander, uncover a secret: their mother’s disappearance was not natural — and may still be preventable. Using experimental time-travel technology, the siblings go back to 1984 to find their young mother and warn her about what’s to come. But time is fragile. Their well-meaning interference causes unforeseen changes to the present. When Cassandra and Alexander return to 2013, they find everything... perfect. Bella never vanished. Their childhood was happy. Their family is intact. But something feels wrong. Reality is unraveling beneath their feet. The price of rewriting history is catching up.

Grieving artist Svetlana discovers her neighbor's involvement in a string of cat deaths, sparking a dark obsession for avenging her cat's death. She channels her grief into creating a twisted masterpiece as her ultimate act of retribution.

O, a creator who has become lost within his own creation. As Death arrives at 3:33 am—the witching hour—to claim him, O is forced to confront the flaws in his work and his own mistakes. Through a series of flashbacks, the film reveals O's influence on the world he built, using various characters from different eras to maintain his followers' worship. The narrative explores themes of creation, legacy, and the consequences of a creator’s flawed intervention in their own work, ultimately suggesting that his removal is the only way for the game (a metaphor for life) to be truly fixed.

Seven years after the devastating vampire attack on Sunset Valley, Samantha Barnett (Alvin Soprano) remains the sole survivor of her family and Sunset Valley. Haunted by her past and determined to end the vampire threat, she travels to Midnight Hollow — a town cursed to eternal darkness except for two rare days a year when sunlight briefly breaks through.