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After Dark

From pandemics and personal apocalypses to body and folk horror, these chilling, violent, and spinetingling stories will keep you up late into the night.


After Dark Shorts: Disturbing Diversions

Various  |   France, Hong Kong, Mexico, Taiwan, United Kingdom, United States
Chinese, English, French, Mandarin Chinese, No Dialogue, Spanish

This collection of uncanny and unhinged stories from around the world represent the growing global appetite for genre films. Full of inventive stories with stunning practical effects, this program will delight late night moviegoers of all stripes.

A man stares and points a handgun straight into the camera lens.

Cloud

Kiyoshi Kurosawa  |   Japan
Japanese
Action, Crime, Thriller

Angry customers get their revenge on an amoral online reseller in this intriguingly bizarre thriller from Japanese genre master Kiyoshi Kurosawa.

A woman with dark hair and blood on her cheek looks off camera left.

Fréwaka

Aislinn Clarke  |   Ireland
Irish, English
Horror, Mystery, Women Centered

What appears to be a simple home-care assignment turns into a supernatural identity crisis for an Irish nurse in this terrifying folk-horror film.

A woman, holds something to her neck with blood running down her hand.

Grafted

Sasha Rainbow  |   New Zealand
English, Chinese
Horror, Women Centered

A young scientist struggling to fit in in a new country uses her experimental skin-grafting research to get vengeance on those who wronged her.

Three kids look at something bloody in the foreground. One of them has blood on their face.

Párvulos

Isaac Ezban  |   Mexico
Spanish
Action, Coming of Age, Horror

Young brothers hiding a dark and disturbing secret in their basement fight for survival in a post-apocalyptic world.

Two old men in a hospital room. One works on a baby doll.

The Rule of Jenny Pen

James Ashcroft  |   New Zealand
English
Action, Horror

John Lithgow stars as a sadistic menace who terrorizes a retirement home with an unusual doll-based game. Will Stefan (Geoffrey Rush) be able to stop him?

Two men in a forest drop a small firework into an empty gatorade bottle.

Vulcanizadora

Joel Potrykus  |   United States
English
Drama, Thriller

Middle-aged buddies walk in the woods towards an unknown destination. Are these overgrown adolescents blowing off steam, or is something darker afoot?