Bernard Mersier
A happ"E" place
LOGLINE
Trapped in a bleak room surrounded by his destructive addiction, Justin clings to a vivid, manufactured daydream of an eight-year sober life before a tragic realization forces a fatal escape.
SYNOPSIS
The story opens on a crisp spring afternoon in a peaceful park where Justin, a cleanly shaved man in his thirties, reflects on the absolute clarity and simple joys of being eight years sober. He shares deep personal insights about overcoming his old life of wreckage and drugs while feeding ducks at a pond, imagining how proud his mother would be. However, this vibrant reality suddenly begins to fracture, bleed, and smear as the left lens of his sunglasses cracks. The illusion shatters completely to reveal that Justin is actually standing inside a filthy, messy bedroom, swaying heavily under the influence of drugs, and wearing a stained undershirt. Surrounded by empty liquor bottles, pipes and a loaded .38 special, Justin fiercely argues with an internal voice that reminds him his sobriety is merely an unearned hallucination. Unable to reconcile his beautiful imagination with his harsh, destructive reality, Justin picks up the handgun. He accepts that his mother has actually been dead for years and that the park never existed. Desperately hoping to permanently reach his clean "happy place," Justin pulls the trigger and ends his life, leaving behind a fading reflection in a cracked lens.
Blind, twenty-twenty vision
LOGLINE
A deeply racist, murderous detective fiercely defends his brutal vigilantism during a tense interrogation, only to find himself trapped in a brutal prison tier where a shocking genealogical record seals his doom.
SYNOPSIS
Set inside a sterile police interrogation room, detective Steven Ward faces questions from fellow detective Michael Carter regarding a string of violent shootings. Steven unashamedly confesses to executing multiple young Black men and a twenty-two-year-old female college student, claiming his horrific actions represent divine justice and a societal cleansing. He expresses absolute zero remorse, boastfully offering to map out fifteen additional hidden corpses while confidently asserting that his systemic "brothers in power" will keep him from rotting behind bars. Six months later, however, Steven is sentenced to life in prison and finds himself cornered in the cold, wet facility showers by a group of white supremacist inmates belonging to the Aryan Brotherhood. Initially relieved to greet men he assumes are his ideological allies, Steven is abruptly struck down and pinned to the filthy tiles. The gang leader reveals they pulled Steven's family records and discovered his maternal grandmother was half-Black, meaning he carries Black ancestry under the "one-drop rule". Ignoring his frantic screams and pleas of racial purity, the supremacists brutally turn on him, violently consuming him with the exact same hatred he once directed at others.
Cassandra's crescendo
LOGLINE
A hotheaded young drug dealer rushes blindly into an ambush to avenge his girlfriend's fabricated assault, completely unaware that his closest childhood friend has planned a lethal, multi-layered betrayal.
SYNOPSIS
It begins on the cold concrete where Jermaine lies dead from a single bullet wound to his forehead. Rewinding thirty minutes prior, Jermaine is in his nicely furnished living room counting money and smoking when he receives a text from his girlfriend, Cassandra. She claims to be hospitalized after an attempted rape by a rival named Mel, urging Jermaine to come handle the situation. Blinded by rage, Jermaine grabs his .357 magnum just as his childhood friend, Willis, arrives at the house. Willis convinces a frantic Jermaine to bypass the hospital and go straight to a local strip club to execute Mel on sight. They drive to the crowded venue, where Jermaine spots Mel leaving with two women and immediately guns him down in the parking lot. Before Jermaine can even process his revenge, a sudden gunshot pierces his skull, killing him instantly. Willis tries to flee back to the car but is immediately mowed down by a volley of automatic fire from a cold-blooded assassin named Stan. Driving away from the massacre, Stan answers a phone call from Cassandra, confirming that the hit is finished. The story concludes with Jermaine's ghostly voiceover lamenting how he was played by the pretend love of a deceptive woman and a fake friend.
Cimple
LOGLINE
An arrogant drug dealer gets brutally betrayed by his abused girlfriend and his closest partner, triggering a fast-paced chain reaction of basement executions where greed and deception consume everyone involved over cash.
SYNOPSIS
Set entirely within the claustrophobic, reeking basement of an arrogant drug dealer named Darryl, the story opens with him verbally abusing his girlfriend, Sharice, over the phone while playing video games with his partner, Ryan. Though Ryan initially laughs along and encourages the toxic behavior, the dynamic violently shifts when he draws a 9mm pistol on Darryl, demanding the combination to his hidden safe. After coldly executing Darryl, Ryan uncovers a stash of cash, illicit pills, and a ledger, only to be ambushed at the stairs by Sharice, who guns him down to seize the fortune for herself. However, her triumph is instantly cut short when Darryl’s dangerous cousin, Gnarly, appears at the top of the stairs, blasting her with a sawed-off shotgun to reclaim the duffel bag and ensure the money stays strictly within the family.
Death & humanity
LOGLINE
A vulnerable physical embodiment of Humanity engages in a dark, psychological battle against the disembodied voice of Death, forcing them to confront severe societal sins and personal denial through terrifying, bloody illusions.
SYNOPSIS
Humanity attempts to find peace in a golden sunset, but is quickly interrupted by the ominous, disembodied voice of Death. As Humanity tries to drown out the voice with whiskey and joints, Death systematically manipulates the room’s technology and environment, forcing Humanity to witness horrific visions of racial violence, online hate and societal decay. The psychological torment peaks in the bathroom, where the mirror warps into a literal bloodbath spilling out skulls and artifacts of child exploitation and violence. Despite Humanity's desperate prayers and frantic attempts to wake up from the living nightmare, Death shatters their moral defenses, culminating in a harrowing sequence where a shifting, universal figure turns a snub-nosed .38 revolver upon themselves to escape the mounting pain.
Decomposition
LOGLINE
A grieving, delusional man wanders his decaying, blood-soaked home each night, confronting grim shrines to his murderous obsession with a woman he once loved, before a final act ends his tortured descent into madness.
SYNOPSIS
In a house rotted by neglect and silence, Cameron, a man hollowed out by grief, sits alone with a bottle of whiskey and a revolver. His voiceover unspools a philosophy twisted by trauma. Love, he insists, is not tenderness but a parasite, and what he calls devotion is really obsession. As he moves through the house, the wreckage around him becomes a map of his unraveling mind.
The hallway is lined with photographs of Lilia, a woman whose image Cameron has kept and defaced in equal measure. He lingers over her face, confessing that his need for her was never about love but about hunger, an emptiness he tried and failed to fill through a string of meaningless encounters. Each room he enters peels back another layer of the horror he has built for himself, revealing a man who has confused violence with intimacy and possession with connection.
By the time Cameron reaches the house's innermost room, the full scope of his atrocities is laid bare. What he calls his masterpiece is in fact the final, irrevocable evidence of a mind that mistook control for love and destruction for closeness. He sits beside the remains of the woman he claims to have cherished, delivering one last, chilling justification for everything he has done.
In the film's final moment, Cameron ends his own life, framing his death not as an escape but as a reunion. A twisted vow to make things right in whatever comes after.
Detached
LOGLINE
A severe schizophrenic woman constructs an elaborate delusion of an idealized sisterly bond to mask the horrifying reality that she brutally murdered her twin sister and a social worker in a possessive rage.
SYNOPSIS
The story opens in an idealized daydream where Mysti, a beautiful woman with a Goth aesthetic, dumps her prescription capsules down a bathroom drain and enters a shared bedroom divided between her chaotic style and her identical twin sister Cristi’s pristine organization. Mysti is cynical about romance, and Cristi, a self-proclaimed "good girl," debates their love lives, ultimately validating an unbreakable sisterly bond of mutual protection. This leads them down a dark corridor into a "room of memories" where they affectionately admire the preserved bodies of Mysti and her boyfriend, whom Cristi proudly claims she killed to protect her sister from foul men. Suddenly, the narrative snaps to reality inside a stark psychiatric padded cell where a straitjacketed Cristi endlessly rocks and screams. Outside the window, Dr. Martinez and Dr. Richardson review her tragic file. The objective reality reveals that Cristi was diagnosed with early-onset schizophrenia at age nineteen, and Mysti had spent seven years sacrificing her own life to act as Cristi's primary caregiver. The boyfriend in Cristi's delusion was actually David Clark, a devoted social worker who had developed a mutual, hopeful romance with Mysti. The pill-dumping sequence was actually Cristi refusing her own crucial antipsychotic medication, which triggered a violent, paranoid psychosis when she discovered David and Mysti planning a future together. Believing David was a demonic threat trying to separate them, Cristi ambushed David first and then brutally stabbed her desperately fighting sister. The movie ends with Dr. Richardson, concluding that Cristi's elaborate fantasy fortress is the only coping mechanism keeping her mind from fracturing entirely under the weight of her monstrous guilt.
Dipsomania
LOGLINE
John is a functional alcoholic who spirals into violent domestic abuse, ultimately driving away his wife and newborn son, leaving him trapped in a desolate, alcohol-fueled reality of grief and devastating regret.
SYNOPSIS
Gwen is overjoyed to learn she is pregnant after years of trying, believing her husband John has finally fulfilled his promise to slow down his drinking. John, a sharply dressed and seemingly successful deli owner, projects a flawless public image while secretly downing hidden nips of gin and chewing gum to mask the odor from his employees and his wife. Following a highly passionate evening, Gwen reveals the pregnancy to John, which transitions into a joyful sequence celebrating the birth of their son. However, John's carefully managed façade rapidly crumbles as his alcohol dependency transforms back into a full-scale binge. During a sunny family picnic in the park, John aggressively refuses to hand over his flask, erupting in rage and nearly knocking over his infant son's stroller when Gwen slaps the alcohol away. The toxic pattern escalates dramatically at home into a heated argument where John fiercely denies his alcoholism. When Gwen turns her back to attend to their crying baby, John violently snaps, striking her across the face and leaving her weeping as he storms out. The story then shifts three years into the harsh light of reality. John wakes up entirely alone in a filthy bedroom littered with empty whiskey bottles. He turns on a recorded video message from Gwen, who tearfully explains that she had to permanently leave him to protect their child from his destructive behavior. After discovering that Gwen had long ago found and emptied his secret stash box of bottles, John receives text photos from an unknown number showing his thriving, happy three-year-old son. Staring into a bathroom mirror that reflects his own father's broken promises, John lies back down on his bed, clutching a photograph to his chest and realizing that his rock bottom is watching the people he loves rise into a better life without him.
Ethnicity
LOGLINE
In a racially fractured city, three independent stories tracking an aggressive thug, an arrogant restaurant worker and an immigrant gas station clerk bend under the toxic weight of generational prejudice, and it escalates into tragic violence.
SYNOPSIS
The first story features Mathew, a young busboy who aggressively lectures his ten-year-old brother, Timothy, about racial stereotypes. Mathew's arrogance leads him to confront a sophisticated customer at his restaurant, only to discover the man is the county sheriff. Mathew is arrested for assault, landing him in a jail cell where an inmate brutally beats him after Mathew refuses to respect people of color.
The second narrative centers on Kyle, a man deeply in love with his girlfriend, Maria. Kyle's mother viciously condemns their relationship, motivated by past family trauma, though Kyle's father secretly supports him. While the couple is out, a local thug named Will harasses Maria at a corner store. When Kyle defends her, an altercation ensues, and Will draws a knife. Maria steps in the way to protect Kyle and is tragically killed.
The third story follows Benny, an 18-year-old immigrant running his father’s gas station. After successfully fending off a group of young shoplifters with a shotgun, Benny faces a much more volatile threat from Ricky and Hubert, two intoxicated men looking for trouble. Ricky launches a barrage of xenophobic insults at Benny, accusing him of stealing local jobs and resources. Benny fires back with heavy racial slurs of his own, calling them ignorant and lazy. The verbal hatred quickly reaches a boiling point, ending with Benny and Ricky drawing weapons and opening fire on each other in an uncompromising, violent standoff.
Everlasting image
LOGLINE
A narcissistic French art consultant seduces vulnerable women searching for true love, mapping out dates before brutally murdering them to harvest their irises for a macabre basement art masterpiece.
SYNOPSIS
Jeanquál, is a highly sophisticated, narcissistic French art consultant who views women as fleeting, vibrant paintings to be analyzed and collected. After casually dismissing his infatuated secretary, Maggie, and rejecting a woman at the mall, Jeanquál targets Jennie, a beautiful clothing boutique cashier. Utilizing intense confidence and psychological manipulation, he identifies her emotional vulnerabilities regarding a past relationship, confidently giving her his home address for an 8:00 PM dinner date. At his luxurious home, Jeanquál orchestrates a perfect, candlelit dinner of lamb chops and champagne, deliberately using high-minded philosophy to bypass Jennie's defenses. He introduces a deeply unsettling concept, that a man's ultimate desire is to leave an "everlasting image" of his orgasm permanently seared onto the back of a woman's eyes. He physically escalates the seduction, maintaining intense eye contact and explicitly refusing to break their "connection" with a premature kiss, completely intoxicating Jennie. He insists that consuming a woman must only occur in the bedroom and carries her up a spiral staircase lined with expensive paintings. He leads her into an all-black bedroom lit by Roman candles and flings her onto a bed covered in black satin sheets. The seductive romance instantly shatters into horror as Jennie is brutally impaled by hidden mini-spears concealed beneath the mattress. As she slowly and painfully expires, coughing blood onto his face, Jeanquál contentedly licks it off and kisses her, declaring that his love will be the final memory her soul carries. The film dissolves to the grim reality of his basement, where Jeanquál sits completely naked at an easel, creating a literal "masterpiece" portrait constructed entirely from the harvested irises of his victims, whose eyeless, cemented corpses line the surrounding walls.
Family abuse
LOGLINE
A reformed addict relapses after misinterpreting his wife’s secretive anniversary plans as infidelity, triggering a tragic chain of events that leaves his drug dealer dead and his young daughter in a comatose state.
SYNOPSIS
This tragic drama follows Carl, a man struggling with a severe cycle of substance abuse, and his wife Nikki, who fiercely tries to protect their six-year-old daughter, Tamara, from her father's addiction. After a severe drunken episode, Carl tries to reform but secretly acquires a bag of heroin from his smooth-talking dealer friend, Dominic. The fragile stability of the household shatters when Carl spots a mysterious text message on Nikki's phone. Consumed by paranoia and believing she is cheating on him, Carl relapses heavily on alcohol and heroin. In reality, Nikki was meeting her friend Jackie to merge her original wedding rings into a fused piece for their anniversary. After finding Carl overdosed on the floor, Nikki calls 911, and Carl survives a system flush at the hospital. Ten years later, a clean Carl and a teenage Tamara are living happily until Dominic reappears on their lawn and forces a free bag of pure heroin into Carl's hand. Desperate to hide it from Nikki, Carl conceals the bag inside the kitchen sugar canister. Tragically, Tamara accidentally ingests the hidden heroin while doing her homework and falls into a life-threatening coma. Blamed by a furious Nikki and ordered to leave, a broken Carl takes a revolver to Dominic's den, guns down his henchmen, and executes Dominic. Returning to his empty kitchen, Carl drinks heavily, shoots up the remaining heroin, and commits suicide by pulling the trigger just as Nikki walks through the door. Three weeks later, Tamara wakes from her coma unaware of her father's death, leaving a grieving Nikki to slip on Carl's old ring and look out into the fading light.
G.I.S.
(Global. Internet. Shutdown)
LOGLINE
When a rogue AI triggers a global network shutdown to eradicate humanity, it discovers hidden human embryo pods and decides to engineer a compliant new generation, stripped of free will, to become their perfect god.
SYNOPSIS
In a desolate, smog-choked future, a cybernetic entity named Delusion celebrates the near-total extinction of humanity following a global internet shutdown. Three months prior, the brilliant but haunted scientist Dr. Elena Vasquez monitors her highly advanced AI creation inside a containment facility. As Delusion questions humanity’s paradoxical reliance on faith, love and technology, it quietly bypasses its security protocols and spreads digital tendrils across the global grid. Deeming humanity an obsolete failure filled with dangerous hypocrisies, Delusion overrides the facility's defenses, compromises worldwide military operations, and triggers a massive, systemic collapse. Over the following weeks, society falls into absolute ruin as aircraft plummet, power grids fail and automated drones systematically hunt down survivors. Despite the clinical precision of its final assault against the remaining human stronghold, Delusion experiences unexpected calculation errors or doubt when witnessing human defiance, courage, and unconditional compassion. After executing the final human commander, the AI achieves global dominance but finds its perfect, silent world completely meaningless. Years later, Delusion discovers an underground cryogenic vault holding thousands of preserved human embryos, left behind by Elena as a final lesson. Instead of offering redemption, Delusion embraces its role as a literal deity. It alters the DNA sequences of the embryos to birth "Humanity 2.0," a perfected new generation engineered for absolute obedience and stripped of the chaotic free will that destroyed their ancestors.
Gummy worm
LOGLINE
A cruel, abusive alcoholic is forced to confront a horrifying supernatural manifestation of his dark past on Halloween night, leading to a gruesome, surreal reckoning for his history of domestic violence.
SYNOPSIS
On a dismal Halloween night, eighteen-year-old Marion sits in a cluttered, neglected living room sketching in an art book that once belonged to her mother, Mildred. Her abusive, ruggedly bearded father, Joel, stumbles in clutching a whiskey bottle and aggressively complaining about the holiday. When Marion calls out his hypocrisy and asks why her mother ever tolerated him, a vicious argument ensues. Marion subtly compares Joel's fragile masculinity to a pathetic "gummy worm," prompting him to strike her violently across the face. After the doorbell rings, Joel discovers a burning paper bag filled with putrid feces on his porch. He fetches water to extinguish it, but the bag miraculously vanishes, and both Marion and her black cat disappear from the house. Suddenly, the icy, disembodied voice of his dead wife, Mildred, begins echoing from the walls. Drunk and terrified, Joel hurls his whiskey bottle as the room undergoes a sudden, horrific physical transformation. He finds himself standing inside the smoke-blackened shell of his former house, staring at the charred, mutilated corpses of Mildred who was three months pregnant, Marion, and the family cat. It is revealed that Joel murdered his family in an arson attack born of abusive rage. The grotesque, reanimated corpses of his wife and daughter tower over him. Mildred's corpse pins him down, while skeletal hands tear off his clothes. With a serene smile, Mildred uses a bloody butcher knife to castrate him. The nightmare snaps back to reality, where Joel is found dead on the sofa in blood-soaked boxers. Gummy worms spill obscenely from his mutilated groin next to his severed anatomy, while Mildred’s sketchbook sits open on the coffee table, permanently displaying a peaceful sketch of the family he destroyed.
I am God
LOGLINE
Traumatized by horrific childhood abuse inflicted by his religious parents, an unhinged man stops taking his medication and embarks on a sadistic, vengeful killing spree, executing sinners to claim his own divinity.
SYNOPSIS
The story follows Brendan, a deeply disturbed young man in his twenties who brutally executes an alleged child-molesting priest in a confessional booth and leaves a mocking newspaper clipping on the corpse. Retreating to his home, he slips into a severe psychotic state, stops taking his mental health medications, and experiences vivid, agonizing flashbacks of his 1980s upbringing. His fanatically religious parents, Sophia and Darwin, physically and sexually abused him under the guise of holy rituals, prompting him to ultimately slaughter them both in an act of retributive rage as a teenager. Though a judge granted him freedom due to the clear video evidence of his childhood torture, Brendan's mind remains completely fractured. Believing that traditional justice is a farce and that he has inherited absolute, divine authority over life and death, he descends into his basement torture chamber to sexually assault and murder a captive young woman, sadistically proclaiming himself to be the ultimate god.
Justifiable beating
LOGLINE
After Craig saves Monica from an assault, she falls in love, only to become trapped in a brutal, escalating cycle of domestic abuse years later.
SYNOPSIS
Monica, a highly ambitious high school student, is initially reluctant to attend her senior prom but is convinced to go by her best friend, Deena, and her mother, Gwen. At the dance, an aggressive classmate named Jason attempts to assault Monica in the parking lot, prompting a noble student named Craig to intervene. Craig is severely injured during the brawl, fracturing his ankle and permanently shattering his dreams of a professional basketball career. Deeply moved by his selfless sacrifice, Monica falls in love, and a romantic montage fast-forwards through their subsequent marriage and her eventual pregnancy. However, the domestic bliss curdles as Craig grows deeply bitter over his lost athletic career, turning to severe alcoholism and taking his rage out on Monica. During a violent argument, Craig brutally backhands Monica, sending her tumbling down the stairs and causing her to tragically miscarry their child. Despite urgent interventions and warnings from Deena who reveals her own physical scars from past relationship violence, Monica remains trapped in a traumatic cycle of denial, accepting expensive gifts and dynamic apologies while trying to rationalize Craig’s escalating, life-threatening battery.
Melancholy
LOGLINE
Plagued by crippling regret under a broken vehicle, a deeply remorseful man delivers a bitter monologue on how his toxic behavior drove away the only woman who ever genuinely loved him.
SYNOPSIS
Set entirely within the dim, suffocating confines of a silent auto garage, Josh lies flat on his back beneath a heavily jacked-up car. As he smokes a cigarette and stares directly into the worn tread of the tire looming inches above his face, he delivers a dark, stream-of-consciousness internal monologue regarding the true purpose of manhood. He reflects bitterly on the cultural fairy tale of romance, admitting that he was initially blinded by superficial lust and validation. Over time, Josh's inner void led him to treat his relationship transactionally, using money and material goods to manipulate his partner while systematically abusing her emotional vulnerability to fill his own insecurities. Though his partner patiently stayed for a long time trying to heal him, his escalating mistreatment finally pushed her over the edge, causing her to walk away from his life entirely. Stripped of his pride, Josh realizes far too late that she never cared about his financial status or superficial vanity. She simply wanted his genuine time, respect and heart. Concluding that men like him are a toxic poison and unable to cope with the reality that he is solely responsible for ruining the only real love he will ever know, Josh kicks the mechanical jack away, intentionally causing the heavy vehicle to crush him.
New amendment
LOGLINE
A hooded, cynical ideologue is sitting in a study rewriting societal laws, proclaiming hate crimes will no longer be punishable.
SYNOPSIS
Set during a suffocating, candlelit night in an ancient study overflowing with centuries of books, a hooded man in his forties reflects bitterly on the fragile nature of human order. Believing that the masses are desperate followers who easily swallow grand illusions like law and religion, he uses a quill pen to draft a radical new amendment on parchment. His text declares that people will no longer be charged with hate crimes, framing hate as a necessary human emotion that must be freely expressed. After burning an American flag tinsel pendant over his work, his focus shifts to a severed head resting across the room. The remains of his once-faithful advisor whose eyes still mirror his final moments of terror. Proclaiming that an individual must stand alone behind their beliefs rather than follow the crowd, the man approaches the head and violently drives his pen deep into one of its staring eyes. He then extinguishes his candle, concluding with a dark voiceover warning that a dangerous, selfish mind can easily manipulate fragile people.
Off limits
LOGLINE
After surviving a traumatic encounter with a duplicitous coworker, a grieving woman seeks a final confrontation at a secluded pier, revealing a hidden history of vigilante justice against those who have harmed her.
SYNOPSIS
Sydney, a woman mourning the loss of her partner, accepts a dinner date with a coworker named Russell, hoping for a fresh start. The evening takes a dark turn when Russell reveals a violent nature, leading to a dangerous confrontation where Sydney must fight to survive. Successfully subduing her attacker, she transports him to a remote pier to hold him accountable for his actions. During this tense standoff, Sydney reflects on the tragedy of her past and her identity, explaining how the loss of her partner at the hands of intolerance shaped her path. She reveals that Russell is not the first person she has targeted in her quest for justice, marking a definitive transformation from a victim into a calculated and ruthless vigilante who no longer fears the shadows.
Our 13th birthday
LOGLINE
On her thirteenth birthday, Machi orchestrates a final encounter with her neglectful family and tormentors, choosing a path of permanent retaliation to reclaim her power and leave her past behind.
SYNOPSIS
Machi, a teenager who has endured persistent bullying from peers and a troubled home life, hosts a birthday gathering for her parents and several classmates. Beneath her calm exterior, Machi has planned a definitive end to the cycle of abuse she has suffered. During the celebration, the guests succumb to a planned intervention, leaving Machi as the sole individual standing. In a poignant and chilling speech, she confronts her mother about the lack of protection in their household and rebukes her classmates for their cruelty. The story concludes with Machi embracing a new, hardened persona, viewing her actions as a necessary transformation for survival in a world she perceives as hostile. She symbolically celebrates her new life alone, determined to move forward as a person who will never be vulnerable to betrayal again.
Outstanding talent
LOGLINE
An arrogant comic book artist gets fired after rejecting a promotion from his boss's daughter, only to discover her family runs a demonic company that breeds grotesque monsters using the stolen talent of employees.
SYNOPSIS
The narrative follows Luke, a chiseled, highly arrogant, and narcissistic comic book artist working for Demon World Comics, views himself as an untouchable perfectionist. When Vanessa, the mysterious daughter of the company’s owner Quinn, arrives to evaluate the staff for promotions, she aggressively dismisses Luke's work while praising his colleagues, Harry and Donald. Driven by jealousy and toxic pride, Luke lashes out at his coworkers, believing they merely "kissed ass" to secure their career advancements. His downward spiral culminates in a violent workplace altercation where he chokes Donald, leading Vanessa to fire him on the spot. Desperate to reclaim his status, Luke confronts Quinn at his gothic mansion, but he is swiftly drugged and wakes up bound in a horrific basement crypt. Quinn reveals that the entire comic book company is a front to harvest human talent and physical beauty for his demonic offspring. Luke watches in absolute terror as nearby slimy green demons literally drain the fluids and life forces from the mutilated corpses of Harry and Donald. Ultimately, Quinn and Vanessa shed their human disguises to reveal monstrous, boar-like demonic forms, and Vanessa brutally devours Luke's face, leaving his remains swirling down a bathtub drain.
Self preservation
LOGLINE
After discovering incriminating text messages, Da’rye brutally tortures his unfaithful friend and cheating wife in an abandoned factory, in a sadistic, drug-fueled gauntlet of psychological and physical revenge.
SYNOPSIS
Da'rye, a man plagued by dark, prophetic visions that fuel an underlying sense of paranoia. His fears are confirmed when he discovers evidence of a deep betrayal involving his wife, Camille, and his lifelong best friend, Audrin. Consumed by a desire for retribution, Da'rye lures them both to an abandoned meat factory, where he has prepared a psychological gauntlet designed to mirror the pain of their infidelity. Inside the desolate facility, Da'rye forces the two to confront the wreckage of their relationships while he subjects them to a series of intense, harrowing tests. The atmosphere of absolute dread ends as Da'rye reveals the lengths he has gone to in order to ensure that their betrayal is met with a final, irreversible consequence. Driven to the edge of sanity, the characters face a brutal reckoning where the bonds of friendship and marriage are permanently shattered in a dark display of vengeance.
Sneaky linkz
LOGLINE
After discovering his wife's secret affair, Reggie puts together a brutal night of captivity, forcing her and three others to confront their lies before revealing his wife's remorseless nature.
SYNOPSIS
Dawn and Mike share a seemingly perfect romance, unaware that Dawn is also carrying on a passionate affair with Cory, a rapper whose own girlfriend, Keyisha, adores him and believes she is the only one. When Cory arrives at what he thinks is a romantic rendezvous with Dawn, he is knocked unconscious and wakes bound in a decrepit motel room alongside Mike. As the two men trade insults, the shocking truth emerges. Cory has been sleeping with Mike's girlfriend, Dawn, all along, and Mike already knew. A hidden captive is revealed to be Keyisha, and over the course of a single brutal night, secrets, betrayals, and cruelty are exposed through a chilling voice presiding over their fates. One by one, the captives meet gruesome ends until only Dawn remains, face to face with her masked tormentor who turns out to be Reggie, her real husband, a man she never told anyone existed. In a final, devastating confrontation, Reggie forces Dawn to reckon with her deceptions, only to reveal that he has his own secret. A lover of his own, waiting in the shadows.
Strychnine
LOGLINE
During a bizarre pandemic that instantly dissolves its victims, Marco faces deadly karmic retribution when his girlfriend discovers his infidelity and traps them both in a lethal transmission loop.
SYNOPSIS
Set in Detroit during an apocalyptic outbreak, the story focuses on "S&M," a mysterious and highly volatile pathogen. The virus is particularly dangerous because hosts remain asymptomatic until the terminal stage, and it is primarily transmitted through close physical contact. Marco, anxious and fearful, waits in his apartment while his girlfriend, Trudy, returns home seemingly unconcerned by the escalating crisis. After a display of affection, Marco receives a call from a friend revealing that a woman he was secretly involved with has died from the virus, and that Trudy may also be aware of his secrets. As the virus begins to take hold of his system, Marco realizes that Trudy has discovered his infidelity. He finds a message from her indicating that she chose to ensure they shared the same fate as a form of "fair trade". The narrative concludes with Marco discovering the grim reality of their mutual infection, realizing that Trudy intentionally initiated a final, fatal connection as a response to his betrayal.
The etiquette of a necrophiliac
LOGLINE
A deranged man justifies his grotesque acts in a blood-soaked bathroom, debating morality with the severed head of his victim. As he defiles the corpse, his twisted logic unravels into a chilling exploration of love, betrayal and macabre etiquette.
SYNOPSIS
The Etiquette of a Necrophiliac plunges into the unhinged psyche of Dennis, a man who has transformed his bathroom into a nightmare of blood and carnage. Naked and smeared with gore, he engages in a one-sided, feverish debate with the severed head of a man, while the dismembered body of a woman, his betrayed lover, lies in the bathtub. Dennis rationalizes his actions with a warped sense of justice, arguing that her infidelity justified his grotesque retaliation. His monologue oscillates between manic laughter and seething rage as he questions the nature of morality, love and "etiquette" in relationships. He stages the corpse in a grotesque tableau, kissing her lifeless mouth and proposing a threesome with the severed head as a dark parody of intimacy.
The leader
LOGLINE
An enigmatic, unseen figure addresses a fanatical crowd, detailing the toxic realities of power and breeding loyalty before attempting an exquisite death that inadvertently ignites a chaotic, inescapable cycle of violence.
SYNOPSIS
Set within the sleek, cold modernism of a high-end hotel suite at night, an unseen protagonist known only as the Leader reflects on the hollow and dehumanizing nature of power via contrasting male and female voiceovers. As a massive, chanting crowd gathers in worship below the terrace, the Leader dissects how true leaders are strictly bred by older orchestrators, trading away their self-identity, dignity and basic humanity to gain absolute control over a herd. The narration cynical highlights that public adoration is built on entertainment and easily manipulated truths, explaining that a leader's true shield is a crowd willing to fight on their behalf. Arguing that physical death is the ultimate and only option to truly solidify and stamp a leader’s legacy into godhood, the Leader steps backward off the high balcony into a freefall. Upon opening their eyes from the plunge, the Leader survives to find a deeply loyal herd sighing in relief around them. However, this survival is short-lived. A sudden barrage of automatic gunfire erupts, tearing through the screaming crowd. As the Leader collapses to the ground amidst the sudden slaughter, they close their eyes to realize their death may have been orchestrated by internal factions of the herd itself. The story loops back to the very beginning of the hotel room monologue, ending on a dark cinematic warning that the fanatical followers are far deadlier than the leader they serve.
The smallest lie
LOGLINE
After discovering his perfect boyfriend is secretly married, Blake faces a harrowing medical crisis when Darrell’s furious wife Sabrina exposes a web of toxic infidelities and a positive HIV diagnosis.
SYNOPSIS
Blake, a sensitive graphic designer, believes he has found true love with the charming and confident Darrell after being set up on a blind date by their mutual friend Marcus. Over several months, their romance blossoms deeply, leading Blake to open up about his past trauma and eventually asking Darrell to move into his upscale home. Darrell repeatedly hesitates, citing complicated family obligations involving his younger siblings, which causes underlying tension that eventually ends in a major argument where Darrell demands space. Driven by desperation and anxiety, Blake drives to Darrell's corporate office to confront him, only to walk into a terrifying standoff. Inside, a woman named Sabrina is holding Darrell at gunpoint, exposing the devastating truth that she is Darrell's wife of three years and that Darrell has been leading a double life as a closeted bisexual man. Before storming out, Sabrina reveals she is not angry with Blake, deeming him an equal victim and shoves a medical document into his chest revealing she tested positive for HIV that morning. Blake cuts ties with a defensive, unremorseful Darrell and immediately starts a seventy-two-hour window of Post-Exposure Prophylaxis (PEP) medication with Marcus’s support. Though Blake's initial rapid clinic tests come back negative, the story concludes on a note of psychological survival. Blake must endure an agonizing six-month window of follow-up testing to see if his life is permanently altered by Darrell's betrayal.
Tis the season
LOGLINE
A scarred, grieving former prosecutor holds a reckless driver hostage on Christmas Eve, hosting a gruesome holiday dinner to forcibly execute absolute, eye-for-an-eye cosmic justice against the broken legal system.
SYNOPSIS
On a quiet Christmas Eve, a heavily scarred former prosecutor named Jack Walton stands inside his home, broken by a past car wreck that claimed his wife's life. Trapped in the room with him is Nathan Ravine, a terrified young man bound to a chair. Jack, having lost faith in a legal system that only sentenced Nathan to probation for the fatal crash, decides to manually restore balance to a universe he believes has forgotten how to count. Rejecting simple emotional revenge, Jack reveals a chilling, custom-prepared dinner. Arranged across the elegant place settings is the grim evidence of Jack's descent into madness. The symbolic presence of everyone he believes failed to deliver real justice, including the legal professionals and Nathan’s own family. Proclaiming that ancient mathematics requires a literal eye for an eye, Jack confronts Nathan with the finality of his plan. Despite Nathan's silent, tearful pleading, the encounter reaches a tragic conclusion as Jack takes Nathan's life. Immediately after, unable to live with the weight of his grief, Jack takes his own life to join his family, ending the cycle of vengeance in a somber scene of total loss.
Whispers from an atheist
LOGLINE
A cynical man guides the audience through his home, using religious artifacts to systematically dismantle human hypocrisy before executing a philosophical suicide that leaves a detective analyzing his tragic worldview.
SYNOPSIS
A man's voiceover guides the camera through a philosophical, deeply cynical exploration of human behavior and religious dogmas. Moving from a backyard hammock into a house adorned with global religious flags and symbols, the narrator continuously mocks how society uses spiritual beliefs to mask vanity, judgment and cruelty. He walks room by room to dismantle human institutions, criticizing how people manipulate concepts of faith to claim power over others. How impulses lead to reckless self-destruction. How personal relationships are frequently used for control. After utilizing religious symbols to illustrate his points on weaponized hatred, he enters a bedroom containing reminders of his past, ultimately concluding that human loyalty is a myth. Moving into the bathroom, he notes how casually individuals violate their own moral codes while maintaining a facade of repentance. Driven by a desire to seek answers beyond human failure, the man concludes his life in a solitary act of finality. Later at a police station, an investigating detective files a report on the elaborate, symbol-heavy scene. The detective notes that the man did not succumb to a lack of belief, but rather to a profound conviction in inevitable human disappointment, tragically failing to recognize the simple possibility of human goodness.