Two estranged brothers, Gordon and John, come together after their father disappears to close up his old video store. After gaining access to his office, they find a VHS game called Beyond the Gates. Back at their family’s house, they decide to play the game with Gordon’s girlfriend Margot. As they play, they open a portal to a supernatural dimension or world. Director Jackson Stewart co-wrote the film with Stephen Scarlata, they create a film about a Jumanji-like horror VHS game.
Author Archives: Emilie Black
Blood Hunters (2016) [FrightFest 2016]
After an overdose, a woman wakes up in what looks to be an abandoned hospital, pregnant. As she looks for help, she stumbles on a quarantined man, a woman, a nurse, and a priest; together they work to find a way out before roaming beasts kill them all. Written by Corey Brown and directed by Tricia Lee build their characters as flawed human beings who made mistakes, took bad decisions, and are living with regret. These characters are put in a crazy situation where they have to fight for their lives, make the right decisions, and help others which may help with their redemption.
Antibirth (2016)
Smalltown, USA. The local party girl and recreational drug-user by excellence finds herself afflicted with an odd illness after a particularly crazy party. Little does she know, she seems to be pregnant with a parasitic being growing at a high rate and affecting all facets of her life.
Blood Feast (2016) [FrightFest 2016]
The Ramses family moved to France for a new start and opened an American-style dinner in the Paris vicinity. As business is floundering, Fuad Ramses works a second job as after hour watchman at the Musée de l’homme (Museum of Man) where he encounters visions of the goddess Ishtar. Under her charms, he begins plans for a blood feast in her honor at his diner.
Monolith (2016) [FrightFest 2016]
A couple with some big issues buy a brand new, state of the art, highly intelligent car. While thee husband is away on business, the wife grows suspicious and decides to drive this new vehicle across the desert to go join or confront him with their toddler son in tow. After an accident on an unused desert road, she finds herself locked out of her fancy car with her son locked in.
Los Parecidos (The Similars) (2015) [FrightFest 2016]
October 2nd, 1968, a group of people is stranded in a bus station by a deluge that is hitting around the world. As tensions rise within the group, something begins to happen to them. Something odd and possibly supernatural is happened around and to them. As they become more and more paranoid, they start looking for a culprit, someone to blame, someone to accuse.
The Evil in Us (2015) [FrightFest 2016]
A group of students heads to the island cabin one of the girl’s parents just bought. Once there, they party like they used to, drinking and partaking in recreational drugs. Meanwhile, in a medical facility that looks more like a prison, tests are bring run on unwilling participants. Soon it becomes clear that not all is at is seems when the students start attacking each other.