International Horror & Sci-Fi Film Festival 2008

It's the end of yet another night at Hastings Supermarket, an idyllic family grocery store in Buck Lake, Arizona. But the normal monotony of rounding up shopping carts and settling out the cash drawers is broken at 11:07pm, just before closing when a group of masked and armed-to-the-teeth militants invades the store, immediately killing several of the employees and shoppers and holding the rest hostage. Though the hostage-takers at first appear to be robbers or terrorists, they reveal themselves to be a cadre of rogue scientists that has discovered and tracked an alien infestation to THIS STORE on THIS NIGHT, and they are determined to find out which of the survivors are extraterrestrials and end the invasion at any cost.

Based on a true story. Detective Megan Paige (Eliza Dushku) must battle her own personal demons in the hunt for a killer known as "The Alphabet Killer" due to his choosing of young female victims with double initials.

A meteorite falls in the country of a small town, bringing a jelly creature. An old farmer is attacked by the alien in his hand, and the youths Steve Andrews and his girlfriend Jane Martin take him to Dr. T. Hallen. The local doctor treats carefully the blister, and asks Steve to investigate the location where they found the old man. When Steve returns, he sees the blob killing the doctor. Steve and Jane try to warn the police and the dwellers, but nobody believe on them, while the blob engulfs many people, getting bigger and bigger.

The Road to Hell Begins Here. Centigrade is a contemporary thriller about a man (Colin Cunningham - Elektra, Da Vinci's Inquest) who lives in an old, busted up camper trailer. He wakes up one morning to find himself (and it) rolling down the highway. Towed by a mysterious black pickup truck, The Man is taken hostage aboard this rolling nightmare and will have to use his wits in order to survive.

The Wild West.A bounty hunter is tracking down a criminal. He catches up with him in a small half-abandonned village where he soon discovers that the few remaining locals have unusual customs.

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A motorist stuggles to lay the past to rest after picking up a hitchhiker who claims to know the future

A satirical science fiction short, telling a story with elaborate imagery. A world, as spotless, bleak and cold as its uniform design is not a good place for a dreamer like Lutz. With as much courage as desperation, relying only on his skills and imagination, he faces a terrible fate and fights for his personal happy end.At the end of the twenty-first century society has given up on the illusion of happiness for everyone. Another ideal has taken its place. Your usefulness for society has become the measure of all things. Based on it's own rating of the citizens, a dehumanized system distributes goods and services to the inhabitants of it's world. Lutz is not cut out for this. He is a romantic aficionado of 2D-films of the twenties century. Instead of paying his dues to society, he prefers to sit in front of his antique DVD player and immerses himself into a world where there is still freedom, adventure and heroism. Soon his romantic inclination gets him kicked out of university and loses him his prestigious enrollment at the institute for neuro-informatics. Without perspective or status he finds himself in a situation with no way out. This is where D-I-M picks up the thread of his story and accompanies him in his fight for self-determination. He is dependant on help from his one true friend Jannik, but in the end it is solely up to him if he can defy the system and win a future.

Sex, drugs, and beautiful people on board a luxurious yacht in the Mediterranean—not your typical setting for a horror film. But Donkey Punch isn't your typical horror film. Three gorgeous ladies on holiday in a Mediterranean beach town are determined to let their hair down and leave their troubles behind. The festivities begin at a nightclub, where libations flow and libidos grow. As luck would have it, they encounter three charming lads who are more than eager to provide them with what they are looking for. Collectively they make their way to the yacht where the men crew. Caught up in the hedonistic wave created by the sexual tension, and spurred by the fact that the yacht's owner is away, they throw caution to the wind and head out to sea. This is where the terror begins. What's remarkable about Olly Blackburn's debut feature is the way he builds suspense over the film's first half. He takes his time in developing the characters, plot, and place, and it pays off. He is aided by an impressive cast of fresh faces who are at ease with each other and their situation, as well as by the lush Mediterranean scenery, which is perfectly captured and appears both serene and menacing. Blackburn's gut-wrenching, nerve-shredding Donkey Punch stimulates the senses and shatters conventions