The floodgates will be open soon, for the most terrifying edition of Nevermore Film Festival the Carolina Theater has ever seen. We'll see you there.

Our film, The Red Hourglass, is an official selection of @nevermorefilmfest.bsky.social

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had a fantastic weekend watching indie horror movies c:

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they're plating "Bela Lugosi's Dead" outside the @nevermorefilmfest.bsky.social !!

Saint Drogo was in my Top 5 Movies of 2023. If it's playing anywhere near you, *grabs you by your jacket lapels and shakes* GO AND SEE IT.

Tickets secured for @nevermorefilmfest.bsky.social!

Horror fans! The Nevermore Film Festival is happening in Durham, NC this weekend. I’m on the jury and we’ve selected some great pieces for you. There’s a virtual option, too. 🎞️🦇

In Filmmaker Nicholas Gyeney’s THE ACTIVATED MAN, as Ors Gabriel struggles with the grief & pain from losing his best friend & beloved dog, Louie, to cancer, the shock from the trauma brings on strange visions only Ors can see.

In J.Brown’s sci-fi short DRAGON FRUIT, set in a smoggy, hellish world where the atmosphere itself has become toxic to breathe, and the gap between rich & poor has never been worse, a young Mother is forced to make ends meet while caring for her son in an awful dystopian world.

In Filmmakers’ Alix Austin’s & Keir Siewert’s body horror debut feature, Axel & Dakota are mired in a toxic relationship, slowly poisoning each other both mentally & physically. When Dakota tries to break it off, it causes a violent physical reaction in Axel & worst of all, he’s contagious.

In Filmmaker Mart Sander’s DR. SANDER’S SLEEP CURE, a man, plagued by chronic insomnia, turns to "Doctor Sander's Sleep Cure" tapes for relief, becoming the unwitting star of his own nightmarish productions, navigating through bizarre & morbid dreamscapes filled with macabre humor.

In Filmmaker Michael Moore Pearce’s apocalyptic zombie thriller, LATER, a young woman survives a zombie apocalypse alone, until one day when she ventures outside to meet a kindred spirit she has never seen in person.

In NO OVERNIGHT PARKING, a woman (Alyssa Milano - killing it literally & figuratively) fleeing her abusive husband (French Stewart - unbelievably menacing as the sleazebucket) gets trapped in an underground parking garage with a misogynistic, masked killer out for blood.

In Filmmaker Rubi Rock’s complex thriller HADO, we meet Javi, an unfaithful, powerful man, driving down a poorly lit, infrequently traveled road by night. He’s returning home from a 'work trip' - which we alone are privy to know, through cell phone texts - that was anything but all work & no play.

In Filmmaker James Morris's slasher film, HE NEVER LEFT, after hearing strange noises coming from an adjoining motel room, an on-the-lam criminal fugitive & his girlfriend inadvertently become targets of the notorious "Pale Face" killer, whose legend has consumed & haunted a community for decades.

In filmmaker Michael Rich’s disturbing and deep dive into the darkest depths of the internet, THE QUEUE, a newly hired content moderator (Burt Bulos excelling in the role) is forced to confront the horror within the very real videos he prescreens.

In Filmmaker Javier Yañez Sanz’s beguiling and ghoulish short BOOKWORM/RATÓN DE BIBLIOTECA, an overly doting mother seeks a prosperous marriage for her shy daughter, a librarian, who is instead completely enamored of a mysterious young man who visits the library every afternoon.

In Filmmaker Gus Reed’s truly spooky ghost story, FREE BENCH must PICK UP TODAY, a young couple - played by Hunter Doohan (“Wednesday”) and Davi Santos (“Good Sam”) - who are moving in together, unexpectedly pay an unexpected price for bringing home a free piece of furniture.

Jesse Thomas Cook has teamed up with screenwriter Tony Burgess to bring us THE HYPERBOREAN. A seasoned crisis manager navigates a dysfunctional family and their faltering whiskey company through a public relations disaster involving triple homicide, Arctic ice mummies, and intergalactic moonshine.

In Filmmaker Kristine Gerolaga’s timely & enormously frightening MOSQUITO LADY, terrified of telling her parents that she's pregnant as restrictions to abortion access worsen, a desperate teenager seeks the help of a reclusive neighbor who her parents warned her about.

In Filmmaker Pablo Riesgo Almonacid's intriguing sci-fi morality tale MIS-ALIGNMENT, when Roberta, an engineer who destroys malfunctioning androids, encounters a shocking abnormality in a rebellious patient, she risks everything to save her new friend & herself.

In Filmmaker A.K. Espada’s Southern Gothic horror fairytale I COULD JUST DIE, AND THAT WOULD BE ALL RIGHT, a woman wants to die. Attempting to end her life, she offers herself as human fodder to a strange monster in the woods near her house.

LET ME SPEAK TO THE MANAGER!!! In Filmmaker Sebastian Ganschow’s delightfully wicked horror-comedy THE MANAGEMENT, a seemingly lost tourist just wants a good old soy milk pumpkin spice latte. She finds her way into a creepy old delicatessen run by a shopkeeper who has a lot waiting for her.

In Filmmaker Craig Williams’s contemporary folktale THE WYRM OF BWLCH PEN BARRAS, early one winter morning in the rural town of Rhuthun in North Wales, three men are called upon once again to carry out a terrible assignment on the Bwlch Pen Barras mountain pass.

In North Carolina Filmmaker Jim Haverkamp’s experimental, Lynchian-reminiscent THE VOICE IN ISABEL FLEISS’S OFFICE, a woman with an unusual malady--cobweb buildup in the throat--receives an even more unusual treatment in this adaptation of a surreal poem by North Carolina writer Virgil Renfroe.

In Filmmaker Cooper Roberts’ quirky & scary-fun feature ALL YOU NEED IS BLOOD, when a strange meteor lands in his backyard & turns his deadbeat father into a brain-eating zombie, Bucky Le Boeuf, a 16-year-old aspiring director teams up with his friends to create the ultimate student film.

KIDS DO THE DARNDEST THINGS . . . In Filmmaker Tizian Herzberger’s cryptic horror short, THE LITTLE GIRL EATER, a stranded fisherman is perilously trapped beneath an overturned boat under an old & dilapidating pier.Threatened by the slowly approaching high tide, he fights for survival.

In Filmmaker Kyle Perritt’s devastating & timely ROBBIE AIN’T RIGHT NO MORE, a young girl’s brother returns from war with a most disturbing souvenir . . .

In Filmmaker Pol Diggler’s aural horror short SINCOPAT, what if the music won't stop? Ona, a creative executive of a large company that is about to launch the latest technological revolution into the market: a device that allows listening to music directly inside the brain.

In Filmmaker Carluccio’s film, before her 30th birthday party, Elanor's anxiety and demand for perfection turn a pre-celebration pleasant manicure into a bloody mess. From the Director, "MANICURE is a psychological thriller short film that explores the burden of body dysmorphia, anxiety, and OCD.

In Filmmaker Jessica Lauren Doucet’s fractured fairy tale version of these holiday films, HELLMARK, throwing your entire life away for the love of a stranger (the Hallmark playbook) doesn’t always result in a happy ending. A woman learns this the hard way when her romance ends in horror.

In Filmmaker Zac Coats’s not-quite-what-you-anticipated horror short CRAVE, a young man in an isolated motel desperately tries not to succumb to addiction while navigating a long night of temptation.

In Director Shane Bannon’s THE PERFECT PLACE TO CRY, it is late at night & deep in a dark forest many miles from nowhere. Alone, a young woman softly cries in her car. Suddenly a strange light flickers through the trees.

In Director Chris McInroy’s hilarious and goofy WE JOINED A CULT, two unsuspecting dudes show up just to play kickball with some new “friends” but instead encounter the most incompetent cult.

From the brilliant minds that brought us 'Death Drop Gorgeous' Directors, Michael J. Ahern, Ryan Miller & Brandon Perras-Sanchez, comes SAINT DROGO. Caleb has been plagued by nightmares about an ex that won't return his calls. He convince his boyfriend, Adrian to head to P-town to investigate

In Filmmaker Phillip J. McLaughlin’s simultaneously affecting & horrific TOAD BOY, Todd is different & the other kids at school have noticed. After an upsetting incident with several bullies the principal (Cliff Chamberlain) discovers a disturbing book in Todd's locker & fears a retaliation.

In Filmmaker Txema Ballano’s WHAT WE DON’T SAY/LO QUE NO NOS DECIMOS, a young & up-and-coming filmmaker, is taken aback by the abrupt passing of his long-estranged father, He reluctantly visits the morgue, where he has a surreal encounter that forces him to confront both present and past traumas.

The Barber Brothers also bring us the claustrophobic & deadly SEMPRE AVANTI - in which 2 U.S. soldiers plunge into a suspected enemy combatant tunnel system during the Vietnam War only to awaken unparalleled horrors.

In Matthew Barber’s and Nathaniel Barber’s awesomely harrowing short SHELTER HALF, Kelly, a naturalist, investigates the reported disappearance of a mother black bear while camping in a remote valley that may hold much darker answers than for which he likely bargained.

From Filmmaker Stu Silverman, Two girlfriends pick up a traumatized woman near the scene of an accident. But something isn't right about their passenger and soon the good Samaritans are trapped in a nightmare ride they'll never forget.

Simon Öster’s incredibly moving LOST IN THE SKY, a sci-fi film that has deservedly been amassing a number of awards and unanimous audience praise across the world.After a long search in a strange galaxy far, far away, a lone rescue robot locates a surviving astronaut . . .

From filmmakers Charles Carson Monroe & Raven Angeline Whisnant crawls the itchy BITERS AND BLEEDERS. Beneath the thin veneer of a couple’s marriage lies a rotting core of regret, frustration, & contempt.

In Filmmaker Joan Vives Lozano’s mythical ELS AMANTS/THE LOVERS, "a Valèncian production", we are presented the story of Teresa (a spectacular Imma Sancho), a woman unable to overcome the shipwreck and apparent death of her fisherman husband Ovidi (Josep Manel Cassany), that occurred a decade ago.

Filmmaker Andy Zou’s short OPERATORS takes a laugh-out-loud look at the next doomsday, this time descending from outer space. On what starts out as a normal evening, two unsuspecting night shift 911 operators try their best to hold things together during an alien invasion.

Now in its 25th year, Nevermore Film Festival is a juried competition festival that programs brand-new feature and short films with an emphasis on horror, science fiction, dark fantasy, animation, and mystery/thrillers from around the world.

In Filmmaker Emily Greenwood’s high octane, STOP DEAD, when a workaholic city detective and her laid-back partner try to stop a disheveled, confused girl staggering down the middle of a deserted country road, they discover she’s being stalked by some unseen entity with a shocking ultimatum.

WWYD? In Filmmaker Blake Simon’s RED VELVET, the world is ending - think Chernobyl mixed with a dash of recent pandemic paranoia - so an anxious young man rents a motel room & arranges for an escort to be with him on this last night on earth.