Nevermore Film Festival

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

Oh 100%. But also, the idea that just credits roll and the high schooler is just standing there with a broom, glaring at you, waiting to clean the theater is such a funny image.

Can you imagine settling in, starting a movie, and five minutes in the people leave and it's just like... 'Take your popcorn and go, movie is over.'

A multiracial woman wearing a mask and holding a film festival brochure.

My afternoon.

had a fantastic weekend watching indie horror movies c:

@nevermorefilmfest.bsky.social is the best!

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.