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Evil Dead II | Career Achievement Award for Peter Deming, ASC
Meet the Filmmaker
Synopsis
Ash Williams, the lone survivor of an earlier onslaught of flesh-possessing spirits, holes up in a cabin with a group of strangers while the demons continue their attack.
Film Category
Free Ghostbusters (1984) Outdoor Screening at Ovation Courtyard
Synopsis
Armed with proton packs, four paranormal investigators battle mischievous ghouls in New York.
About Ovation Hollywood
Ovation Hollywood, formerly known as Hollywood & Highland, is an iconic shopping, dining, and entertainment destination located in the heart of Hollywood. Situated steps away from the world-famous Hollywood Walk of Fame and the historic TCL Chinese Theatre, Ovation Hollywood combines contemporary style with a rich legacy of entertainment, resulting in a vibrant hub that spans over 460,000 square feet with breathtaking views of the Hollywood Hills, including the iconic Hollywood Sign. Ovation Hollywood offers visitors a one-of-a-kind experience in the epicenter of the entertainment capital of the world.
About Ovation Hollywood
Ovation Hollywood, formerly known as Hollywood & Highland, is an iconic shopping, dining, and entertainment destination located in the heart of Hollywood. Situated steps away from the world-famous Hollywood Walk of Fame and the historic TCL Chinese Theatre, Ovation Hollywood combines contemporary style with a rich legacy of entertainment, resulting in a vibrant hub that spans over 460,000 square feet with breathtaking views of the Hollywood Hills, including the iconic Hollywood Sign. Ovation Hollywood offers visitors a one-of-a-kind experience in the epicenter of the entertainment capital of the world.
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Bite Size Terror on Tubi
Meet the Filmmaker
Synopsis
A bite-sized horror anthology where seemingly harmless encounters, desires, and decisions take terrifying turns.
Book Club
A painfully polite woman joins an aspirational book club, only to discover its sadistic initiation will continue until she finally learns to say no.
Director: Hannah Alline
Writer: Hannah Alline
Producers: T.C. Barrera, Thang Ho, Robert Ravenscroft
Come Home
A lonely boy searches the city for offerings to feed the creature hidden in his apartment - desperate for the fleeting moments after each sacrifice when the monster gives him back something that feels like home.
Director: Eduardo Braun Costa
Writer: Eduardo & Mateo Braun Costa
Producers: Natasha Gurfinkel, Manuel Aguer, Sophie Seyd, Kirsten Pasewaldt, Eduardo Braun Costa
The Deep End
A babysitter reluctantly times a child's underwater trick in the deep end of a backyard pool, only to realize something is wrong when he resurfaces silent, unblinking, and not quite himself.
Director: J. Zachary Thurman
Writer: J. Zachary Thurman
Producers: Connor Paolo
Floral Remains
After returning to her late mother's macabre flower shop, where the dead are preserved in bloom, a grieving daughter demands one final message from the dead and discovers some goodbyes are better left buried.
Director: Jasmine J. Johnson
Writer: Jasmine J. Johnson
Producers: Mary Bonney, Whitney Fuller
Kachina
A rental makeover influencer and home décor stylist hired to transform a desert home into a post-worthy stay disrespects the owner's sacred family doll-turning her picture-perfect redesign into a blood-soaked reckoning.
Director: Boise Esquerra
Writer: Boise Esquerra
Producers: Jamie Ohlsen
Marisol
At her older sister's funeral, a grieving teenage girl defies a taboo passed down through her family in hopes of reaching the dead-only to discover that the voice calling back may not belong to her sister at all.
Director: Jill Marie Sachs
Writer: Jed Shepherd
Producers: Jess Bartlett, Ethan Evans, Jed Shepherd
Marissa’s Office
After years as the perfect assistant to a powerful magazine editor with a taste for ambitious young women, Beth weaponizes her own body to claim the promotion she has already paid for in blood.
Director: Chaconne Martin-Berkowicz
Writer: Chaconne Martin-Berkowicz
Producers: Zoey Pressey, Phillip Braun, Nuer Taqa
Mother Marrow
When a young couple discovers an old matchmaking card game inside their rental RV, every question forces a darker confession-until they realize the game is testing whether their love deserves to survive.
Director: Charlie Schwan
Writer: The Lawler Brothers (Jake Lawler and Conor Lawler)
Producers: Marshall Kistner, Grant Norsworthy, Jay William Thomas
Resonance
While clearing out her late father's house during a storm, a grieving woman discovers his final experiment: a signal spreading through water that turns the exposed into vessels for something inhuman.
Director: Mark Lammerding
Writer: Mark Lammerding
Producers: Laura Leal
Sucker
After a broke motel clerk is bitten by a bat, her petty scams turn bloodier when a guest with a valuable antique reveals a bigger world of valuables, victims, and opportunity.
Director: Katelyn Douglass
Writer: Katelyn Douglass
Producers: Katelyn Douglass
Book Club
A painfully polite woman joins an aspirational book club, only to discover its sadistic initiation will continue until she finally learns to say no.
Director: Hannah Alline
Writer: Hannah Alline
Producers: T.C. Barrera, Thang Ho, Robert Ravenscroft
Come Home
A lonely boy searches the city for offerings to feed the creature hidden in his apartment - desperate for the fleeting moments after each sacrifice when the monster gives him back something that feels like home.
Director: Eduardo Braun Costa
Writer: Eduardo & Mateo Braun Costa
Producers: Natasha Gurfinkel, Manuel Aguer, Sophie Seyd, Kirsten Pasewaldt, Eduardo Braun Costa
The Deep End
A babysitter reluctantly times a child's underwater trick in the deep end of a backyard pool, only to realize something is wrong when he resurfaces silent, unblinking, and not quite himself.
Director: J. Zachary Thurman
Writer: J. Zachary Thurman
Producers: Connor Paolo
Floral Remains
After returning to her late mother's macabre flower shop, where the dead are preserved in bloom, a grieving daughter demands one final message from the dead and discovers some goodbyes are better left buried.
Director: Jasmine J. Johnson
Writer: Jasmine J. Johnson
Producers: Mary Bonney, Whitney Fuller
Kachina
A rental makeover influencer and home décor stylist hired to transform a desert home into a post-worthy stay disrespects the owner's sacred family doll-turning her picture-perfect redesign into a blood-soaked reckoning.
Director: Boise Esquerra
Writer: Boise Esquerra
Producers: Jamie Ohlsen
Marisol
At her older sister's funeral, a grieving teenage girl defies a taboo passed down through her family in hopes of reaching the dead-only to discover that the voice calling back may not belong to her sister at all.
Director: Jill Marie Sachs
Writer: Jed Shepherd
Producers: Jess Bartlett, Ethan Evans, Jed Shepherd
Marissa’s Office
After years as the perfect assistant to a powerful magazine editor with a taste for ambitious young women, Beth weaponizes her own body to claim the promotion she has already paid for in blood.
Director: Chaconne Martin-Berkowicz
Writer: Chaconne Martin-Berkowicz
Producers: Zoey Pressey, Phillip Braun, Nuer Taqa
Mother Marrow
When a young couple discovers an old matchmaking card game inside their rental RV, every question forces a darker confession-until they realize the game is testing whether their love deserves to survive.
Director: Charlie Schwan
Writer: The Lawler Brothers (Jake Lawler and Conor Lawler)
Producers: Marshall Kistner, Grant Norsworthy, Jay William Thomas
Resonance
While clearing out her late father's house during a storm, a grieving woman discovers his final experiment: a signal spreading through water that turns the exposed into vessels for something inhuman.
Director: Mark Lammerding
Writer: Mark Lammerding
Producers: Laura Leal
Sucker
After a broke motel clerk is bitten by a bat, her petty scams turn bloodier when a guest with a valuable antique reveals a bigger world of valuables, victims, and opportunity.
Director: Katelyn Douglass
Writer: Katelyn Douglass
Producers: Katelyn Douglass
Film Category
Trick 'r' Treat - w/ 4K Restoration of Season's Greetings
Meet the Filmmaker
Synopsis
It is said that Halloween is the night when the dead rise to walk among us and other unspeakable things roam free. The rituals of All Hallows Eve were devised to protect us from their evil, and one small town is about to be taught a terrifying lesson that some traditions are best not forgotten. Nothing is what it seems when a young couple learns the dangers of blowing out a Jack-o-Lantern before midnight; four beautiful women cross paths with a costumed stalker; a group of pranksters discovers the horrifying truth buried in a local legend; and a cantankerous hermit is visited by a strange trick-or-treater with a few bones to pick. Costumes and candy, ghouls and goblins, monsters and mayhem... the tricks and treats of Halloween turn deadly as strange creatures of every variety-- human and otherwise --try to survive the scariest night of the year.
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Postmortem
Meet the Filmmaker
Synopsis
Six months after her husband's sudden death, medical examiner Helena Martinez runs a small morgue on the California–Mexico border, holding herself and her teenage daughter together by not talking about it. Then sixteen bodies arrive at once: an elderly cult that took its own lives in a ritual meant to raise their leader from the dead. Processing them, Helena finds the ceremony recorded on the members' own camcorder; and one survivor still breathing in the hospital next door. He tells her the ritual can be finished. She has a body of her own.
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Apocalypse Z: New World
Meet the Filmmaker
Synopsis
The story takes us to the Canary Islands, which have become Europe’s last refuge following the outbreak of the TSJ virus. When a special mission sets out for the mainland in search of vital supplies, Roberto joins the team with questionable intentions. The dangerous operation turns into a desperate race for survival, and Roberto and his companions find themselves caught between hordes of infected and divided loyalties. Then the timeless question arises: save yourself, or risk everything to preserve what little humanity remains?
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Slay
Meet the Filmmaker
Synopsis
When her best friend’s murder shatters her carefully curated world, teen influencer Chloe Cruz and her friends escape to an isolated disco-themed cabin, where fractured friendships, growing paranoia, and a masked killer threaten to expose what they’re all hiding.
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NERVOUS
Meet the Filmmaker
Synopsis
Sarah (Sarah Bolger) and her husband Sungsoo (Sungsoo Yune) move to the Korean countryside in the hope of saving their crumbling marriage. But their new home hides a strange secret - an unmarked vinyl record that plays nothing but silence. After listening to it, Sarah slowly begins to lose the ability to hear men’s voices, and her grip on reality starts to fracture. Isolated from her husband, she is drawn to their enigmatic neighbour Eunbyeol (Ko Asung) whose raw, erotic presence entices. As Sarah’s obsessions deepen, paranoia, hallucinations, and dangerous desires spiral out of control and she must confront whether the horrors are psychological, or something more sinister.
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The Exit State
Meet the Filmmaker
Synopsis
In a near-future America collapsing into authoritarian rule, a group of fugitives fleeing south toward the Mexican border takes shelter in what looks like a safe house — until a relentless government agent closes in and the fractures inside pull the walls down. A political horror-thriller reuniting stars of 2025's Weapons.
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Valley View Motel
Meet the Filmmaker
Synopsis
It’s 1977 in this neon-noir thriller, and after a diamond heist goes seriously awry with multiple slaughters, two small-time crooks attempt to flee the wrath of the hitman put on their tail. Seeking refuge at a motel in the remote foothills of Pennsylvania run by a very peculiar owner and his sister, they have no idea what even grimmer hot mess they have stumbled into and soon must figure out a way to survive the night.
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WOUNDS
Meet the Filmmaker
Synopsis
Caleb Castle (Jack Kilmer) is a horror-obsessed special effects makeup artist struggling to prove himself in an industry that barely notices him. He works under his uncle Jefferson (Eric Roberts), the owner of a once-promising indie horror studio now on the verge of collapse. With the studio facing closure, Jefferson is determined to make one final film—and gives Caleb his little break to work on a low budget vampire movie where he meets Ginny Brown (Paris Jackson), a talented fellow makeup artist and Todd Bracken (Lambert Houston), an arrogant, unsupportive rival . Insecure about his craft and desperate to prove himself, Caleb ultimately transforms when he witnesses a real life murder which inspires him to use extreme, horrific measures to make his special effects look chillingly realistic. As he becomes more ambitious, his lines between reality and imagination blur, leading to a series of heinous crimes.