Un cuento oscuro y mágico ambientado en la posguerra española. La joven Ofelia se adentra en un mundo de fantasía lleno de criaturas extrañas mientras lucha contra la brutalidad del mundo real. Con una mezcla de horror y maravilla, la película explora la lucha por la inocencia y la esperanza en tiempos de oscuridad.
Cuando la joven madre de Lillian muere durante el parto, su padre repentinamente se vuelve a casar con la bella y vanidosa Lady Claudia, pero la aparente buena apariencia de Claudia es sólo eso: pura apriencia lejos de la realidad. Su objetivo es dar a luz su propio hijo y convertirse en la Reina Claudia con el maléfico espejo mágico. El intento fallido de asesinar a Lillian deja a la joven perdida en el oscuro bosque donde conocerá a siete enanitos.
Tras presenciar la muerte de su hermana bajo las garras de un lobo, la joven Rosaleen regresa a casa de su abuela, lugar donde ella acostrumbra a contar historias acerca del hombre lobo y del peligro que entrañan los hombres cejijuntos.
André Toulon es un titiritero y el mejor en su tipo. Un día descubre una antiquísima formula egipcia para que los muertos regresen a la vida. Decide utilizarla en sus títeres, que no tardan en convertirse en unas pequeñas bestias asesinas. Al salirse de su control, desesperado, el titiritero comete suicidio. Años más tarde, cuatro psíquicos son enviados a investigar acerca de Toulon y sus demoníacas invenciones para destruirlas. Sin embargo, los títeres harán todo por detenerlos.
A darkly brilliant stop-motion adaptation of The Pied Piper of Hamelin about a plague of rats that punish townsfolk corrupt with greed. One of Czechoslovakia's most ambitious animation projects of the 1980s, notable for its unusual dark art direction, innovative animation techniques and use of a fictitious language.
A boy is thrown into the middle of an increasingly bizarre local disturbance.
A tyrannical landlady in Hemet, California lords it over her tenants, pitting them against each other in a web of paranoia spun for deadly results.
Described as 'a fairytale with its roots in the worlds of dadaism and surrealism'.
Cinderella finds freedom from her wicked stepmother with the help of her fairy godmother. Only this time, they unleash a plan of bloody vengeance.
Leigh has lived a reclusive existence in a secluded old home on the outskirts of town for her entire adult life. You see, Leigh has excreted extremely potent pheromones.
"Described as 'Snow White meets Eyes Wide Shut,' Rouge is a horror-tinted gothic fairy tale about a lonely dress shop clerk whose mother’s unexpected death sends her down a treacherous path in pursuit of youth and beauty. Set in California, the story explores the cult-like nature of the beauty industry — as well as 'the danger of internalizing its pitiless gaze.' Set to be published in September this year by Simon & Schuster/Marysue Rucci Books, Rouge is the latest novel from [Mona] Awad, behind All’s Well, 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl and Bunny, which was listed among the best book of 2019 by Time, Vogue and the New York Public Library." (THR)
Inspired by the classic fairy tale. While taking a shortcut on the way to her grandmother's house Rose has a shocking encounter with a mugger. Her bag is snatched and a stranger comes to her rescue. Rose is grateful for his timely help, but beware the friendly wolf for there lurks danger.
Simultaneously sumptuous and gorgeous, garish and grim, this is a re-working of Pinocchio for the neo-liberal era. Rachel Maclean’s dark fairytale, which represented Scotland at the Venice Biennale 2017, depicts a brash and baroque binary world of poverty and riches where the prospect of easy wealth tempts even good boys like Pic into bad ways. But if everyone believes the lie, what’s the problem?
Rhena's father tells a story about Atlas, a forest entity that whispers stories of the dead to its trees. That same night he disappears into this forest. Rhena does everything she can to get her father back.
Psychological Horror short film directed by Elena Coletta.
Robert spends his nights hunting people for execution with his anarchic gang. But when he falls in love with one of his victims, he sees a new life open up. Can he escape from his life as a trained killer in time to save her?
An experimental fairy tale about life, death, and spreading your wings. After Cecilia witnesses a bird smashing into her window, she begins to notice her body transforming. Her skin starts to peel and little feathers start to grow out of her back. Will she fly away or end up like that poor little bird?
A nameless scavenger finds a body in the swamp. Moss is set on fire. The horror of being alive leads to a loving embrace. We might be seeing the beginning of a new life or perhaps a nightmare that endlessly repeats itself. Starring Paul Soileau (aka Christeene, Rebecca Havemeyer) & Llywyn Máire. This dark fairy tale was filmed in glorious 16mm, in the late 1990s, and then remastered, with an original score by Curtis Heath, in 2019.