Snowfort Pictures

(2017)

Scraping by flushing septic systems is not Chip's vision of a perfect life. But he's a simple guy and he's got a great girlfriend in Liza. Sure, she supplements their income with a sugar daddy, but every relationship has it's own complexities.

When Liza suggests that they relieve her sleazy benefactor of a stack of cash, Chip begins to see a side of her he never knew existed...or never wanted to admit. Now he's got a gun in his hand, a girl in his trunk and less than 24 hours to figure his way out of this mess.

A punk-rock romantic comedy for our jagged times.

Director: Trent Haaga

Starring: Matthew Gray Gubler, AnnaLynne McCord, Sheila Vand & Alisha Boe

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"68 Kill is one of the best films to come out of SXSW this year and one of my top films of 2017.  It’s unique in that it combines incredible and concise storytelling with precise character development, over the top bloodshed and quality humor which makes this film unlike anything else out there."  - iHorror

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FESTIVALS

World Premiere: SXSW, 2017 

Boston Underground Film Festival 2017

Chattanooga Film Festival 2017

Florida Film Festival 2017

AWARDS

SXSW 2017 Audience Award (Midnighters)

BUFF 2017 Most Effectively Offensive Award

(2017)

An all female horror anthology featuring new work from Karyn Kusama, Annie Clark, Roxanne Benjamin and Jovanka Vuckovic.

Director: Jovanka Vuckovic, Annie Clark, Roxanne Benjamin, Karyn Kusama & Sofia Carillo

Starring: Christina Kirk, Melanie Lynskey, Sheila Vand, Natalie Brown, Angela Trimbur, Mike Doyle, Kyle Allen, Breeda Wool, Payton Kennedy, Morgan Krantz, Brenda Wehle, Jonathan Watton

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"This could be the first great horror film of 2017." - Esquire

"Dully unsettling." - Nerdist

"Chilling." - Rolling Stone

“Skin-crawling creepy.” - LA Weekly

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FESTIVALS

World Premiere: Sundance, 2017

(2016)

Movie posters have changed over the years because the film industry has changed as well. The days when movie studios could market films in complex ways are over. There was more balance between art and commerce in both studio movie making and movie marketing. Now, films made for artistic reasons are largely made outside of the Hollywood studio system and the methods to market studio films are almost solely focused on what works for audiences who don’t want to be creatively challenged, and “just want entertainment.” But there are always those who never forgot that the movies they loved could be celebrated in ways beyond just viewing them. Their love for movies extended to their appreciation of illustrated poster art. Just because studio marketing had changed didn’t mean that the art of movie posters had to die.

24 x 36 tells this story. Learn how artists like John Alvin and Roger Kastel created iconic posters. See why the poster world changed and most importantly, about the people that helped bring it back: the companies that commission modern posters, the galleries that display them and the fans who collect them. (James Emanuel Shapiro)

Director: Kevin Burke

Starring: Joe Dante

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"Part history of US film promotion and part video art-gallery, part survey of modern artists and part nerdy fan letter." - Ars Technica

"This doc is so much fun..." - Ain't It Cool News

"A crisp, focused and at times heartbreaking look at these iconic images that have played such an influential part in all of our lives..." - Glide Magazine

“24x36: A Movie About Posters maligns all the boring-ass staid key art churned out for contemporary films — Gotham typeface, I’m coming for you — giving the movie posters of yore and their artists much love and credit.” - LA Weekly

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FESTIVALS

World Premiere: Fantastic Fest, 2016

Canadian Premiere: DEDFest, 2016

Hamilton Film Festival, 2016 (CAN)

Rio Grind Film Festival, 2016 (CAN)

Blood In The Snow Canadian Film Festival, 2016 (CAN) BEST POSTER, BEST EDITING & BEST DIRECTING AWARDS

(2016)

An eccentric mountain man on the run survives the winter by breaking into empty vacation homes. He's haunted by a recurring dream of being lost at sea only to discover that the dream is real. He is one man in two bodies. This is the story of how he split in two.

Director: Sarah Adina Smith

Starring: Rami Malek, Kate Lyn Sheil, DJ Qualls, Toby Huss, Lin Shaye, Lance Barber, Mark Kelly, Bruce Bundy and Teresa Yenque.

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"A philosophical exploration whose themes are big and universal..." - The Daily Beast

"A chilling and surreal thriller..." - The Michigan Journal

"A feast for the mind..."  - The Moveable Fest

"The film dares us to question our place in the grand scheme of things..." - Film School Rejects

"A fable set in the past, and an atheist's prayer for the future..." - The Matinee

"An unconventional indie that doesn't follow the standard ways of storytelling, this is one of the upcoming dramas not to miss." - Cultjer

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FESTIVALS

World Premiere: Toronto Internation Film Festival, 2016

US Premiere: Fantastic Fest, 2016

Cucalorus 22 (USA)

AFI FEST 2016 (USA)

(2016)

Feeling confined by their small town and overbearing parents, Annie and Jules hatch a scheme of running away. The only issue is, they need the money to get there. Jules suggests the couple try webcam modelling. Although she’s nervous at first, Annie can’t argue when the money starts rolling in. But as the girls soon find out, consequences can blindside you. Sometimes violently.

Director: John Carchietta

Starring: Nichole Bloom, Fabianne Therese, Pat Healy, Michelle Borth, Joshua Leonard and AJ Bowen

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"A riveting romantic rollercoaster and successful thriller at the same time..." - Collider

"Most impressive about Carchietta's approach to the rather sound script (which the director co-wrote with Sage Bannick and Chris Sivertson) is how he refuses to pass judgement as these girls make one reckless decision after another..." - Birth.Movies.Death

"Both Bloom and Therese shine in TEENAGE COCKTAIL, conceiving their characters in ways that feel wholly authentic to the teenage experience..."  - DailyDead

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FESTIVALS

World Premiere: SXSW, Visions Section

Boston Underground Film Fest

Greenwich International Film Fest

Fantasia International Film Fest (International Premiere)

Sidewalk Film Festival (USA) WINNER BEST SHOUT! NARRATIVE FEATURE

Deauville American Film Festival (France)

NewFest (USA)

DEDFest (Canada)

RazorReel (Belgium)

(2016)

When Owen is forced to confront the past he's been running from his whole adult life, he and his girlfriend, Isabel, become entangled in a horrifying web of lies, deceit and murder.

Director: Richard Bates Jr.

Starring: Adrian Grenier, Angela Trimbur, AnnaLynne McCord, Fionnula Flanagan, Matthew Gray Gubler, Ray Santiago

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"If you find hateful people spewing venom at one another punctuated by random acts of violence amusing, then buckle up, you sick fuck. You're about to go on a ride." - AV Club 

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FESTIVALS

World Premiere: Sundance Film Festival, Midnight section

International Premiere: Fantasia International Film Festival

Boston Underground Film Festival BEST FEATURE AWARD

Neuchatel International Fantastic Film Festival  (Switzerland) 

Fantasy Film Fest (Germany)

Sydney Underground (Australia) 

Strasbourg Fantastic Film Festival (France)

Chicago Critics Film Festival (USA)

/FilmFest Vienna (Austria) 

Toronto After Dark (Canada)

Brooklyn Horror Fim Festival (USA) BEST ACTRESS AWARD

LA Screamfest (USA)

(2015)

In the cold, wintery fields of New England, a lonely old house wakes up every thirty years - and demands a sacrifice.

Director: Ted Geoghegan

Starring:  Barbara Crampton, Andrew Sensenig, Larry Fessenden, Lisa Marie and Monte Markham

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"A more nuanced (and spookier) European approach to the haunted-house drama"  - The Wall Street Journal

"It might be the single most terrifying movie of 2015."  - Paste Magazine

"Genre fans with a sense of history should make this entertaining chiller a sought-after item for midnight slots."  - Variety

"We Are Still Here is so relentlessly terrifying it speaks for itself."   - The New York Observer

"Old-fashioned, unreconstructed horror film, complete with creepy townsfolk, squawky soundtrack, and what looks like a fair lashing of gore."  - IndieWire

"Geoghegan establishes what seems to be a simple haunted house set-up but adds complications which make the outcome less predictable."  - Screen International

"A refreshing yet disturbing thriller."  - Twitch Film

"WE ARE STILL HERE is a deeply weird, unsettling movie, one that begins small and still and quiet and steadily climbs to a demented, blood-drenched frenzy." - Birth.Movies.Death

"WE ARE STILL HERE is a masterfully crafted slow creeper that knows when to ratchet up the tension and release."  - Bloody Disgusting

"The modern day haunted house-house subgenre receives a particularly stylish, uniquely vivifying shot in the arm via WE ARE STILL HERE."  - Fangoria

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FESTIVALS

World Premiere: SXSW 2015

International Premiere: Sydney Film Festival

European Premiere: Neuchâtel International Fantastic Film Festival

Asian Premiere: Bifan Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival

Official Selection: Fantasia International Film Festival, Film4 FrightFest, Sitges Film Festiva

AWARDS

Audiences Everywhere Best New Horror Director 

Jury Award Winner, Best Special Effects – International Film, Fantaspoa International Fantastic Film Festival

Fright Meter Awards Nominations: Best Director , Best Actress (Barbara Crampton), Best Supporting Actor (Larry Fessenden), Best Supporting Actress (Lisa Marie) Best Makeup (Marcus Koch), Best Editing (Josh Ethier, Aaron Crozier), Best Cinematography (Karim Hussain)

Fangoria’s Chainsaw Awards Nominations: Best Limited-Release / Direct-to-Video Film, Best Actress (Barbara Crampton), Best Supporting Actor (Larry Fessenden), Best Score (Wojciech Golczewski), Best Makeup / Creature FX (Marcus Koch)

NOTEWORTHY

Rotten Tomatoes #2 Best Horror Films of 2015, with 95% Fresh Rating

One of Rolling Stone’s 10 Best Horror Movies of 2015

One of Fangoria’s Top 10 Movies in 2015 Horror

One of Horror News’ 10 Best Films of 2015

One of Fandango’s Top 10 Horror-Movie Posters of 2015

WE ARE STILL HERE on Amazon

(2014)

A hopeful young starlet uncovers the ominous origins of the Hollywood elite and enters into a deadly agreement in exchange for fame and fortune.

Director: Kevin Kolsch, Dennis Widmyer

Starring:  Alex Essoe, Amanda Fuller, Fabianne Therese, Noah Segan, Pat Healy, Shane Coffey, Natalie Castillo, Nick Simmons, Marc Senter, Maria Olsen and Louis Dezseran

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"If David Lynch and David Cronenberg came together to craft a gory, psychological mindbender, it might be Starry Eyes." - TIME Magazine

"Featuring a knockout performance by Alex Essoe (...) the pic pushes the Tinseltown nightmare scenario to inventive and exciting extremes." - Variety

''Kevin Kolsch and Dennis Widmyer break new ground with the horrific answer they deliver. (...) Horror fans should keep their eyes on the filmmakers — and Essoe, who gives a star-making performance." - Entertainment Weekly

"Starry Eyes may leave you feeling hopeless, but its bleak vision of masochistic perfectionism is clear-eyed, cogent, and devastatingly unsettling." - RogerEbert.com

"this film is never just one type of horror film, and while it has many influences, none of this film feels borrowed – it fully creates itself into something wholly unique. This could very well be the best horror film of the year." - Sound on Sight

"Deservedly, Widmyer and Kolsch will be awarded props for intelligently merging the black comedy of Hollywood failure with the Cronenberg-like body horror and slasher-movie brutality. The secondhand trauma is something special." - Complex Magazine

"a most welcome addition to the Hollywood nightmare genre. The genius of Starry Eyes is that it melds the abstract Lynchian nightmare with the body horror of Cronenberg." - TwitchFilm

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FESTIVALS

World Premiere: SXSW 2014

International Premiere: Neuchatel International Fantastic Festival

Asian Premiere: Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival 2014

Official Selection: Stanley Film Fest, Sitges International Film Festival, Film4 FrightFest, Fantasia International Film Festival, Paris International Fantastic Fim Festival, Helsinki Night Visions Film Festival, Strasbourg European Fantastic Film Festival, BeyondFest , Fantasy Film Festival 

AWARDS

Special Mention of the Jury - BIFFF 2014

Excellence in Poster Design - SXSW 2014

Director's Choice Awards for Best Feature - Boston Underground Film Festival, 2014

Best Actress (Alex Essoe) - Fangoria Chainsaw Awards

NOTEWORTHY

Best Film out of Top 10 Horror Films of 2014 - Bloody Disgusting

Best Film out of Top 15 Horror Movies of 2014 - Icons of Fright

One of 10 Best Horror Movies of 2014 - Movies.com

One of Top 10 Horror Films of 2014 - Fangoria

One of Top 10 Horror Films of 2014 - Collider

One of 14 Best Horror Films of 2014 - Film School Rejects

One of Top 14 Movies of 2014 - Birth.Movies.Death

One of Top 15 Genre Films of 2014 - Shock Till You Drop

STARRY EYES on Amazon

The STARRY EYES Soundtrack on Waxwork Records

(2013)

A scheming couple put a struggling family man and his old friend through a series of increasingly twisted dares over the course of an evening at a local bar.

Director: E.L. Katz

Starring:  Pat Healy, Ethan Embry, David Koechner and Sara Paxton

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"You should watch it as a twisted comedy. Those who do will be rewarded, especially by the film's outlandish final image." -Neil Genzlinger, The New York Times

“Cheap Thrills is a thoroughly nasty piece of work." -Joe Leydon, Variety

"One of the most involving works of cinematic misanthropy in years." -John DeFore, The Hollywood Reporter

"Suggests 'Jackass' Meets Michael Haneke." -Eric Kohn, Indiewire

"A Black Comic Masterpiece. -Drew McWeeny, HitFix

"Simple, effective and consistently provocative, Cheap Thrills is a masterful debut from a director to watch.. -Chris Tilly, IGN

"100% can’t miss film for any viewer that wants to be sickened, surprised and impressed." -Evan Dickson, Bloody Disgusting

"Fiendish, fierce, and funny." -Peter Martin, Twitch

"Original, satirical, violent, funny….Consider yourself warned. Genre flicks this unique, daring, and perversely thoughtful don't come around very often." -Matt Barone, Complex Magazine

"Nasty fun on the surface, but rather a smart little morality play on the whole." -Scott Weinberg, FEARnet

 "Its a gritty, brutal film that’s much smarter than it may look at first glance." -Luke Mullen, Film School Rejects  

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FESTIVALS

World Premiere: SXSW 2013

International Premiere: Fantasia International Film Festival

European Premiere: Film4 Fright Fest

Official Selection: Seattle International Film Festival, Fantastic Fest, Sitges International Film Festival, 2013, Sydney Film Festival, Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival, Lund Fantastisk Film Festival, Toronto After Dark Film Festival, Paris International Fantastic Film Festival, Glasgow Film Festival

AWARDS         

Midnighters Audience Award - SXSW

New Flesh Award - Fantasia International Film Festival

Director's Choice Award - Boston Underground Film Festival, 2013

Best After Dark Gold Hugo Award - Chicago International Film Festival

Best Feature - Imagine Film Festival

Best Screenplay - Malaga International Week of Fantastic Cinema

Best Actor (Pat Healy) - Fright Meter Awards

NOTEWORTHY

Best film of 2013 - Bloody Disgusting

One of 11 Best Directorial Debuts of 2014 - Indiewire

One of Top 10 Films of 2013 - HitFix

One of 10 Best Films of 2014 - Chicago Reader

One of Top 10 Films of 2014 - Collider

One of Top 15 Genre Films of 2014 - Shock Till You Drop

CHEAP THRILLS at Drafthouse Films

CHEAP THRILLS on Amazon

(2013)

The story of cult film director Alejandro Jodorowsky's ambitious but ultimately doomed film adaptation of the seminal science fiction novel.

Director: Frank Pavich

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"A deeply moving testament to single-minded, indefatigable commitment of creative vision and to an almost spiritual ability to let that vision go, thereby allowing it to exist in the world in an entirely unexpected form." -The Washington Post

"A great seminar on creativity." - The Wall Street Journal

"If you enjoy sci-fi, cult cinema, or messianic quests by quixotic lunatics, you will love this movie." - Entertainment Weekly

"A fascinating document of one of the most legendary films ever not made." - NPR

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FESTIVALS

World Premiere: Quinzaine Des Realisateurs - Director's Fortnight, Cannes Film Festival 2013

International Premiere: Toronto International Film Festival

Asian Premiere: Tokyo International Film Festival

Official Selection: Telluride Film Festival, Fantastic Fest, London Film Festival, AFI Fest, Sitges International Film Festival 2013,Hong Kong International Film Festival, Imagine Film Festival, Sydney Film Festival, Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival.

AWARDS

Best Documentary and Audience Awards - Fantastic Fest 2013

Silver Scream Award - Imagine Film Festival 2014

Special Mention of the Jury and Audience Award - Sitges International Film Festival 2013

NBR Award for Top Five Documentaries- National Board of Review 2014

AFCA Award for Best Documentary - Australian Film Critics Association Awards 2015

EDA Award for Best Documentary - Alliance of Women Film Journalists 2015

NOTEWORTHY

98% Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes

One of Best 10 Movies of 2014 - Entertainment Weekly

One of Best 10 Movies of 2014 - Examiner 

One of Best 10 Movies of 2014 - The Japan Times

One of Top 15 Movies of 2014 - Birth.Movies.Death

One of Top 15 Movies of 2014 - The Dissolve

JODOROWSKY'S DUNE on Amazon

(2014)

John Falcon did 10 years of hard time in prison. Now he's got 24 hours to get revenge on every person who had a hand in sending him there.

Director: Ravi Dhar

Starring:  Nick Principie, Robin Sydney, Todd Farmer, John Fallon, Malice McMunn, Trent Haaga, Philip Salick, Laban Pheidias and James Duvall

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"This movie is going to take us all out back and kick our asses until we say "Uncle!"- Eric Walkuski, Arrow in the Head  

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OFFICIAL SELECTION

Morbido Fest, 2014

AMERICAN MUSCLE on Amazon

(2013)

A giant alien spider escapes from a military lab and rampages across the city of Los Angeles. When a massive military strike fails, it is up to a team of scientists, a clever exterminator and his security guard sidekick to kill the creature before the city is destroyed.

Director: Mike Mendez

Starring:  Greg Grunberg, Lombardo Boyar, Clare Kramer, Patrick Bauchau and Ray Wise

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"An exceedingly good-natured Z-grade creature feature that finds Angel City under attack by a quite literal spider from Mars. Made with tongue welded firmly to cheek, loads of affection for big rubbery monsters, and some surprisingly accomplished bargain-basement effects, director Mike Mendez’s fifth schlock feature is strictly for genre buffs who’ll delight at the sight of Troma impresario Lloyd Kaufman get devoured by a giant arachnid — as well as anyone who found “Sharknado” a bit too highbrow for their taste."

-Scout Foundas, Variety

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FESTIVALS

World Premiere: SXSW 2013

International Premiere: Dead By Dawn Horror Film Festival

European Premiere: Strasbourg European Fantastic Film Festival

Asian Premiere: Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival

Official Selection: Calgary Underground Film Festival, Fantasia International Film Festival, Sitges International Film Festival , Fantaspoa International Fantastic Film Festival

AWARD

Best DVD Release  - 2014 Saturn Awards

BIG ASS SPIDER on Amazon

(2012)

Four heavily armed hitmen and two unusual teenagers go to war over $500,000 of stolen cash.

Director: Steven C. Miller

Starring:  Ryan Hartwig, Fabianne Therese, Dana Ashbrook, Derek Mears, Jacob Reynolds, Joseph McKelheer, Boyd Kestner, Lisa Rotondi and Ray Wise

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"A thrilling and violent film that puts a new spin on the fight of good versus  evil."  - Blu-Ray.Com

"A tough-as-nails indie stalk/chase/revenge thriller...a low-budget ass-kicker"  -Scott Weinberg, FearNet.com

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FESTIVALS

OFFICIAL SELECTION

SXSW 2012

Strasbourg European Fantastic Film Festival 2012

Lund International Film Festival

Fantasy Film Fest 2012

Newport Beach International Film Festival 2012

THE AGRESSION SCALE on Amazon

(2012)

On the run with the law on their trail, America's most anguished family of blood-suckers heads to England to find an ancient vampire clan. What they find instead could tear their family, and their throats, apart forever.

Directors: The Butcher Brothers (Phil Flores, Mitchell Altieri)

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FESTIVALS

World Premiere: Film4 Fright Fest 2012

THE THOMPSONS on Amazon

(2010)

An escaped murderer is in pursuit of his ex-girlfriend, who has fled to start a new life in a small town.

Director: Adam Wingard

Starring:  Amy Seimetz, AJ Bowen and Joe Swanberg, 

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"A restrained, ripely atmospheric thriller that relies more on mood than on special effects." - The New York Times

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FESTIVALS

World Premiere: Toronto International Film Festival 2011

International Premiere: Leeds International Film Festival

Official Selection: Denver International Film Festival, Stockholm International Film Festival, Imagine Film Festival, Calgary Underground Film Festival

AWARDS

Best Screenplay - Fantastic Fest 2011

Best Actor - Fantastic Fest 2011

Best Actress - Fantastic Fest 2011

A HORRIBLE WAY TO DIE on Amazon