International Horror & Sci-Fi Film Festival 2009

“1881 Zombies” is what you get when you take Clint Eastwood from “High Planes Drifter” and place him in the world of “28 Days Later”. A high action film set in the old west, but in the vein of a Sam Raimi Horror Flick. A rugged outlaw and gunfighter, everyday of Merrick’s life is spent searching for the next great adventure. Now, he is a broken man seeking to give those he wronged a chance for retribution by returning to town to finally face his crimes. Will his guilt leads to him to become a hero? Or this time has he bitten off more than he can chew?

Westly Ferris is in love with his co-worker, Shannon, but she barelyknows he's alive. When he builds up enough courage to ask her out, hefails miserably.But that night Shannon contacts Westly on the internet and offers him asecond chance: the opportunity to get to know her better online. Despite company policy forbidding intra-office relationships, Shannonsuggests an internet relationship, using web cameras and instantmessaging. The two coworkers begin an online romance, talking all nightlong. With each passing night, Westly falls more and more in love withShannon, perceiving her aloofness at work as an attempt to cover-uptheir illicit online relationship. But while Shannon is proving to beeverything Westly hoped she would be, there is still one very importantelement missing from their relationship: physical contact.Shannon makes every effort to fulfill Westly's desire online but theneed for the unobtainable begins to unravel a surprising ruse: Westly'scompany has been setting him up with a series of complex relationshipsto help him learn about love and he is a test subject in a plan to writea program that will teach computers how to love.But in the process, Westly has fallen in love with an unobtainablebeauty and yearns for a normal relationship he now realized he can neverhave.

There exists a virtual country on the internet, its name: 8th WONDERLAND.8th WONDERLAND secretly gathers people from around the world which have one point in common: the wish never again to be subjected to news broadcasts, without being able to react. And as it is true that an individual barely has any chance of being listened to, a country on the other hand, has many more possibilities of intervention at an international level.Every week, each inhabitant of 8th WONDERLAND gives one euro. Every week, they vote for a different motion by referendum. Should one be adopted, the inhabitants of this virtual country take it upon themselves to apply it to the real world. They have only one line of conduct: to improve things.The small country starts in good spirits. Their operations resemble more those of students in lack of amusement, than the thoughtful acts of a serious country: the Pope pronounces himself yet again against the use of condoms? The following Sunday Vatican worshippers discover the walls of their churches have been covered with' host flavored” condom distributors. The USA persists in practicing death penalty? The turkey pardoned by the American president the day before Thanksgiving is kidnapped. A video is sent to the media, showing men masked and armed with blades surrounding the animal and forcing it 'to pronounce' an abolitionist speech …But soon, 8th WONDERLAND politics change. Their inhabitants become more committed and more ambitious motions are voted. At the same time, the media start to gain interest in the accumulation of unusual international acts being committed, by 8th WONDERLAND, which can hardly be considered a coincidence.Everything evolves very fast when the virtual country prevents the creation of nuclear power plants in the Middle East, without succeeding to preserve their anonymity. The media blow out: formerly undercover, 8th WONDERLAND suddenly finds itself in the limelight. Everybody wants to know more about this mysterious virtual country, which as a result, records an unprecedented surge of immigration.With several million inhabitants, 8th WONDERLAND becomes a true force of opposition. Even the politicians from traditional countries, although feeling overshadowed, hesitate to openly criticize this country which obtains unanimity around it.New threats loom: what would happen if the motions of 8th WONDERLAND became little by little more reactionary? What if its way of behaving became slowly but surely similar to terrorist behavior?We are left to hope that the inhabitants of 8th WONDERLAND can control their creation because irreparable problems would arise for traditional nations: how do you counter a country whose inhabitants infiltrate all the worlds’ bodies of decision?How do you capture millions of people disseminated throughout the world?How do you fight a country that doesn’t exist?

A single five minute shot chronicles the attempt of one man to survive a vicious monster's massacre on a house full of victims.

An astronaut struggles with loneliness and boredom, having spent 3 years alone in a lunar space station. Monotony is shaken when the station has an invader.

Adam Phillips and Mark Taylor have a philisophical disagreement that spirals out of control.

A man (Mark Nutter) sits silently at a dinner table as his superficial upscale friends share indulgent stories about their small children. When he can't take it any longer, Mark turns to the piano and sings about his imaginary trip to the patent office to obtain a patent for his new invention: a baby shredder.

Since 1889, cursed lovers, Tristan and Rachel, have roamed the Earth looking for a way to end their misery as a vampire and werewolf. Only during an eclipsed blood moon can they see each other’s human forms renewing their love. In the year 1969 they put an end to their agony only to have it soiled by Tristans jealous wife and daughter of the Devil, Lucy. Back from the grave and still hot from hell, her plan goes beyond revenge. She seeks to rule Earth with the army of hell. The only person who can stop Lucy is her great-great granddaughter Sadie Hawkins. Sadie is swept into the turmoil and is soon joined by sidekick, Darrel Lee. A comic book geek and soda jerk whose been waiting for this moment all his life. As the plot thickens with werewolves, zombies and vampires, Darrel finds his element and falls in love with Sadie. They battle the army of hell with the help from a 1969 film crew who pops into Blood Moon Rising while making a zombie flick of their own. Together they take on Captain Faust and the ghouls of hell to stop Lucy from destroying Earth.

After centuries of rampant industrialization, the two remaining races of planet Zednok had to endure cybernetic modification to survive their toxic world. The struggle for dwindling resources finally plunged them into endless war. All were made to serve.The great harpist Bohemibot served as a pilot. But like all on Zednok he was ultimately shattered by the war. Relegated to working in a military facility that recycled enemy bodies, each night Bohemibot would purge his nightmares and shoot them into outer space. This story has been reconstructed from his dreampods and is presented in the language of Zednok.