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- DirectorJ.D. FeigelsonStarsGordon BaxterLinda April RainesTalmadge ArmstrongAn adaptation of the short story by Ambrose Bierce, follows the grim fortunes of a rebel sniper who becomes trapped in the rubble of a bombed-out house.
- DirectorPhillip A. BolandStarsHarry BennettDanny GrossmanZale MorrisA man waiting to be hanged, escapes by killing his jailer and flees deep into the woods where he is capture by the jailer's ghost.
- DirectorTobe HooperStarsSean Patrick FlaneryMarisa CoughlanBrendan FletcherApocalyptic tale of a monstrous force which devastates Sheriff Kevin Reddle's family and his small Texas town. Sheriff Reddle thinks there's a connection between this mysterious, invisible force which made his father kill his mother back in 1981, and he sets out to uncover and stop the so-called "damned thing" before it decimates the whole town by forcing the residents to kill each other and then finally... themselves.
- DirectorCary Joji FukunagaStarsMatthew McConaugheyWoody HarrelsonMichelle MonaghanAn overlooked detail provides Hart and Cohle with an important new lead in their 17-year-old case.
- DirectorRobert EnricoStarsFrançois FrankielEric FrankielStéphane FeyA Civil War story by Ambrose Bierce of a Union Army soldier who, in the cover of night, kills a Confederate soldier, only to discover the next day that the soldier is his twin brother.
- DirectorJanusz MajewskiStarsEwa KrzyzewskaJózef DuriaszAn intimate drama taking place in a small house lost in the forest, inhabited by two people: a woman suffering from anxiety neurosis and persecution mania and a powerless husband against her terrible illness.
- DirectorSture RydmanStarsPeter VaughanRosalie CrutchleyRoyds wants to buy a property that has been empty for twenty years and has a sinister past. He insists on spending the night in the wedding chamber. He dies from fright during an apparently solitary night-time vigil. It transpires that he was the original owner of the house who murdered his wife twenty years previously.
- DirectorBranko PlesaStarsRade MarkovicNikola SimicVasja StankovicTakes an arty approach which stresses the metaphysical dread of a man encountering an invisible entity which slaughters people in the marshes.
- DirectorManfred MüllerStarsJella JostPeter JostWolfgang Kandutsch"Oil of Dog" - Boffer Bings was born of honest parents, his father was a manufacturer of dog-oil and his mother had a small studio in the shadow of the village church, where she disposed of unwelcome babes. One evening while passing my father's oil factory with the body of a foundling from my mother's studio I saw a constable who seemed to be closely watching my movements.
- DirectorTravis MillsStarsLindsey CorkJohnny Rey DiazNick MarkovichA stranger challenges the rituals of some members of a secret society for unknown reasons.
- DirectorTravis MillsStarsFrank GonzalezJessica MooreJon NangleA college grad student challenges his professor to prove that he fears the "dead".
- DirectorSergi SchaaffStarsJosé María PradaÀngels MollJoan BorràsA painter in Washington Square in New York. He dreams of a mysterious, black-plumed hearse and is obsessed with a loathsome man with a white, puffy face who inhabits the steps of the church outside his apartment window.
- DirectorAaron VanekStarsShawna WaldronDale SnowbergerDavid ReynoldsA young art gallery owner, facing bankruptcy, dreams about a painter, who she discovers actually exists. She tracks him down in a dilapidated hotel and asks him to show at her gallery. He agrees, provided she poses for him.
- DirectorLuis PuenzoStarsJane FondaGregory PeckJimmy SmitsWhen school teacher Harriet Winslow goes to Mexico to teach, she is kidnapped by Gen. Tomas Arroyo and his revolutionaries. An aging American, Ambrose "Old Gringo" Bierce also in Mexico, befriends Gen. Arroyo and meets Harriet. Bierce is a famous writer, who knowing that he is dying, wishes to keep his identity secret so he can determine his own fate. Though he likes Arroyo, Bierce tries to provoke the General's anger whenever possible in an attempt to get himself killed, thus avoiding suffering through his illness. Winslow is intrigued by both Bierce and Arroyo, and the men are in turn attracted to her. She becomes romantically involved with Arroyo. When Winslow learns of Bierce's true identity (a writer whose work she has loved and respected for years), she is singlemindedly determined to fulfill his dying wish.
- DirectorMarcos Cline-MárquezStarsJim BeaverAna SoberoAlberto TejadaFamed American writer Ambrose Bierce disappeared in Mexico during the revolution of 1913-1914 and was never heard from again. This short film interweaves a thread from Bierce's most famous story, "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" with speculation as to a possible scenario for Bierce's fate.
- DirectorChristian NybyStarsJames HamptonRobert CornthwaiteHenry BeckmanWilliam Randolph Hearst has big plans to make The Examiner the most successful newspaper in San Francisco. But big plans have a high price tag, and although he increases circulation Hearst still finds it difficult to turn a profit.
- DirectorP.J. PesceStarsMarco LeonardiMichael ParksAra CeliSet 100 years ago in Mexico, this horror/western is the story of the birth of the vampire princess Santanico Pandemonium.
- 1955–196230mTV-147.1 (570)TV EpisodeDirectorRobert StevensonStarsAlfred HitchcockRonald HowardJuano HernandezIn the Civil War, Union soldiers hang a Confederate farmer for sabotage. The rope breaks and he falls into a river. He swims to safety and begins walking home. Disoriented, he's glad to see plantation staff who guide his befogged travel.
- 1959–196425mTV-PG8.3 (2.7K)TV EpisodeDirectorRobert EnricoStarsRoger JacquetAnne CornalyAnker-Spang LarsenDuring the American Civil War in 1862, a condemned Confederate prisoner, Peyton Farquhar, is due to be hanged by Union troops.
- DirectorKing AbalosStarsKim AbalosRona LallanaJames LomahanA battered woman wanders upon a mysterious, isolated mountain, where she meets an enigmatic man who seems to be hiding something sinister.
- DirectorChristopher ErnstStarsNick FlintJessica KnutsonMatthew LavinUnder the insane leadership of two mysterious figures, an underground support group for sufferers of 'reverse deja-vu' starts to fall apart at the seams, pulling the group members down into a fractured world of strange visions and surreal flashbacks, as they try to make sense of the city around them.
- DirectorIan Walker HendryStarsRachael FultonMarco FedericiRyan PasiA tourist takes an audio guide tour of the iconic city of Carcosa.
- DirectorVivek ElangovanStarsSubbu ChandrasekranDiya ModiJerald PeterNine men are the embodiment of good and face up against nine Kali worshippers, who sow confusion and masquerade as the true sages. The story surrounds a priest called Father Cyprian who is in possession of the books but who wants to destroy them out of Christian piety, and a number of other characters who are interested in learning their contents.