Schedule of the Dead…
Hysteria Fest is back for its fourth year, and just keeps growing! The festival will run for 5 days, from June 27th - 30th 2025. Join us for 4 days and over 50 films. Stand by for films have played at other major horror festivals around the world including Fright Fest, Fantastic Fest, Fantasia, and Panic Fest, along with a couple of premiers of our own. Check back here for more information when the lineup is announced.
$10 per block/ feature
2024 SCHEDULE
Thursday, June 27th - Dogville
DAY 1
7pm - Opening Night: Dogville
The opening night screening for Hysteria Fest!
A barren soundstage is stylishly utilized to create a minimalist small- town setting in which a mysterious woman named Grace (Nicole Kidman) hides from the criminals who pursue her. The town is two- faced and offers to harbor Grace as long as she can make it worth their effort, so Grace works hard under the employ of various townspeople to win their favor. Tensions flare, however, and Grace's status as a helpless outsider provokes vicious contempt and abuse from the citizens of Dogville. Friday, June 28th
DAY 2
7 p.m. Cults & Creatures Shorts Block
Cults and Creatures (Shorts Block): A diverse collection of short films that delve into the eerie and enigmatic realms of cults, creatures, and the supernatural. Some of these films will terrify you, while others will surprise you with their dark humor. Additionally, a few touch on themes of animal rights, adding a layer of moral complexity to the haunting tales. Prepare for a thrilling mix of the scary and the surprising.
• We Joined a Cult • Three Baths • Jenny's Absinthe Trophy • Exposed • Poacher Poacher • Spaghetti Man
• Howl at the Dead • Pages Blanches • The Kindness of Strangers
9 p.m. HAXAN (1929)
Grave robbing, torture, possessed nuns, and a satanic Sabbath: Benjamin Christensen's legendary film uses a series of dramatic vignettes to explore the scientific hypothesis that the witches of the Middle Ages suffered the same hysteria as turn-of-the-century psychiatric patients. But the film itself is far from serious-- instead it's a witches' brew of the scary, gross, and darkly humorous.
7p.m. Happy Hour - Outdoor Screening A happy hour and filmmaker meet-and-greet
9 p.m. RED NIGHT AT SKYE'S with local shorts
This is an outdoor screening. Bringing your own chair is strongly recommended.
RED NIGHT AT SKYE'S
Directed by Chris Grega When down on his luck family man and ex-soldier Cole Boyd gets drawn into a scheme to rob Skye's pawnshop, a front for a ruthless gang of meth-making bikers known as The Spiders, a group led by the enigmatic and evil "Doc", a bad idea turns into a blood-soaked nightmare. Local Horror Shorts
The Last Thanksgiving - Directed by Braden Fogal
Stepmother Doris' final feast turns deadly when her dying husband's three children plot to poison her, driven by a sinister desire to claim their father's inheritance.
Nightmare Inc. - Directed by Nikita Gahr
An irrationally fearful man faces his deepest childhood fear while having a scary movie night with his best friend, but the game changes when the boogeyman is working from home.
XMASsacre - Directed by Mando Franco
A Woman Finds herself hunted in the snowy woods by a maniac in a Santa Claus costume.
Sleeper - Directed by Carol Jackson
Super short about a rusty 1991 Buick Century
Saturday, June 29th
1 p.m. TERRA BELLA
After robbing and murdering her drug dealer boyfriend, Stefanie goes into hiding in hopes of starting a better life. But when she moves in with a shy recluse in an unfamiliar town, she learns she isn't the only one with deadly secrets..
3 p.m. The Gore & The Melody Shorts Block
Discover "The Gore and the Melody," an intriguing mix of short films that blend gore, music, and unique horror tales. This block features stories where blood-soaked scenes meet haunting melodies. Some films are intensely gory, others revolve around music, and a few offer unexpected and unconventional horror narratives. Prepare for a thrilling experience where the visceral and the harmonious collide in a captivating showcase of horror and creativity.
• We Joined a Cult • Howl at the Dead • Three Baths • Poacher Poacher • Pages Blanches • Exposed
• Jenny's Absinthe • Trophy • Spaghetti Man • The Kindness of Strangers
5 p.m. SORRY WE'RE DEAD
Cinema and reality blur with comic deconstruction when Lana's movie falls through the ceiling into her life.
7 p.m. The Demons and The Deceptions Shorts Block
Enter a world where reality blurs and the supernatural reigns in "The Demons and the Deceptions," a captivating mix of short films about demons, illusions, and other terrifying tales. This block features dark and twisted narratives where nothing is as it seems. Some films will terrify you, others will haunt you with lingering dread, and a few will make you laugh with their dark humor. Get ready for an unforgettable experience of scary, haunting, and funny stories where the demonic meets the deceptive.
• The Herring Girls Doghouse • The Harvester
• Be Bad •Pur Sang
• Fairy Ring • The Gourd, The Brad, and The Ghostly
•Parasomnia •Sentient
9 p.m. YOUNG BLONDES, STALKED AND MURDERED with short GOOD GIRLS GET FED
Anxious and awkward, Stacy is an actor in LA struggling to play the game. Opposite her is the confident Josie, whose path shines bright and auspicious.
Even with a serial killer hunting down starlets, the two remain undeterred from their respective journeys. However, after Josie offers up a meeting with a mysterious director to Stacy, everything is disrupted and Stacy slips into a new world of disturbed paranoia.
With simmering tension and humor, Young Blondes, Stalked and Murdered seeks to examine the dread and uncertainty that comes with trying to forge your future. Short GOOD GIRLS GET FED shows before the feature. Held under surveillance, three women are forced to perform twisted challenges for food as failures mount and their escape plan is thrust into peril.
ARK AT THE TOP OF THE STAIRS with local horror shorts Outdoors Screening
A happy hour and filmmaker meet-and-greet will take place before the films, beginning at 7 p.m.
This is an outdoor screening. Bringing your own chair is strongly recommended.
Feature
DARK AT THE TOP OF THE STAIRS
After the death of his twin brother, a man goes to the family house he has just inherited to deal with his past, his own personal demons - and a ghost.
Short Films
Zombie Resurrection
A vigilante zombie hunter pursues an infected human in the woods.
Dolly
A grieving mother copes with her daughter's death by buying a doll in her memory.
Sunday, June 30
1 p.m. ECHOES OF SHADOWS with Asian Horror Shorts Echoes of the Shadows and Other Asian Tales Experience a captivating blend of Asian cinema with "Echoes of the Shadows and Other Asian Tales." This block features the compelling Japanese feature film "Echoes of the Shadows," alongside two intriguing longer shorts: "Will You Come Up?" from Korea and "Almost Love" from Myanmar. Immerse yourself in this unique showcase of storytelling from across Asia, highlighting both a major feature and remarkable shorts.
ECHOES AND SHADOWS
Directed by Takeshi Furusawa. Yasuko is a single mother raising her only daughter in a rundown apartment. Unable to make ends meet with her lunch box shop job, Yasuko decides to become a sex worker. One day, Yasuko returns home and discovers her daughter has been kidnapped. However, Yasuko does not choose to get Aya back. Why? Yasuko's secret routine begins.
3 p.m. El Terror y la Tristeza (The Terror and the Sadness) Shorts Block
El Terror y La Tristeza," a captivating block of Spanish-language short films that span the globe. This collection features a diverse range of stories, from the dark and gory to the haunting and funny. Representing three continents and numerous countries, these films share a common language and offer an incredible mix of international horror. Prepare for a journey through the many faces of terror and sadness in this unique showcase.
· Bâba
Hado
· Turno De Noche Witchcraft
Wheeze
The Stranded
· The Skin
Bookworm
5 p.m. GHOST GAME (2024)
with post-film Q&A with director Jill Gevargizian
A brand new horror thriller movie about a couple who participate in an online challenge to break into homes and live undetected. The couple, Laura (Kia Dorsey) and Adrian (Sam Lukowski), target a haunted house and experience a series of chilling incidents, including witnessing a family descend into madness. The movie is directed by Jill "Sixx" Gevargizian, who also directed The Stylist in 2020.
Hysteria Fest Closing Night Screening
7:30 p.m. LET THE RIGHT ONE IN (2008)
Set in 1982 in the suburb of Blackeberg, Stockholm, twelve-year-old Oskar is a lonely outsider, bullied at school by his classmates; at home, Oskar dreams of revenge against a trio of bullies. He befriends his twelve-year-old, next-door neighbor Eli, who only appears at night in the snow-covered playground outside their building.