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FESTIVAL STORE & HOSPITALITY
Located in the Sheridan Opera House, the Festival Store & Hospitality is the place to pick up your 3-Day Pass or 6-Pack and purchase official Telluride Horror Show merchandise. Open Friday 10AM-9PM, Saturday 9AM-8PM, Sunday 9AM-5PM.
STARTING TIMES
Doors open 15 minutes before show time, or earlier if the venue is ready. We ask all 3-Day pass holders & 6-Pack ticket holders to arrive no later than 10 minutes before show times. If there are empty seats at the start of a program, we will release them to the public. We cannot let people into a venue once the program has started. This applies to ALL 3-Day pass holders, 6-Pack ticket holders and individual ticket buyers. Don’t be late!
FESTIVAL INFO
A SIMPLE SYSTEM
Your 3-Day Pass or 6-Pack ticket does not guarantee a seat but does provide admission to all programs until all seats are filled on a first-come, first-serve basis. If a venue reaches capacity during any timeslot, we do our best to send you to another venue where seats are still available. All venues are within walking distance of each other, and we frequently have a later start time at the Palm, our largest venue, to accommodate any turn-aways at The Blob or Sheridan Opera House. If there is a particular program you really want to see, we highly recommend getting in line at the venue in advance to avoid being turned away to another venue due to a sold-out show. It’s as simple of a system as we can make it and our staff will be here to help you have a great weekend!
VENUES, LINES, AND INDIVIDUAL TICKETS
Films screen at The Blob , Palm Theatre , and Sheridan Opera House . There are two lines at each venue:
1) Pass holders & 6-Pack ticket holders.
2) The line to buy an individual ticket. Individual tickets are $20 per person, cash, unless otherwise noted. Individual tickets are only sold at the door after pass holders & 6-Pack ticket holders have been admitted. Classic films at the “Horror Vault” (Wilkinson Public Library) are free of charge. Telluride Elks Lodge hosts festival events.
TBAS (To Be Announced)
Any TBAs will be posted online on the SCHEDULE page at telluridehorrorshow.com
2025 DATES
The 16th Telluride Horror Show will be held October 10-12, 2025. Visit telluridehorrorshow. com and sign up for our email list to receive news and updates!
SPECIAL GUESTS
RACHEL HARRISON
GUEST AUTHOR
Rachel Harrison is the national bestselling author of So Thirsty, Black Sheep, Such Sharp Teeth, Cackle, and The Return, which was nominated for a Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a First Novel. Her short fiction has appeared in Guernica, Electric Literature’s Recommended Reading, as an Audible Original, and in her debut story collection BAD DOLLS. She lives in Western New York with her husband and their cat/overlord.
GRADY HENDRIX | GUEST AUTHOR
Grady Hendrix is the New York Times-bestselling author of How To Sell a Haunted House, The Final Girl Support Group, My Best Friend’s Exorcism, and many more. His history of the horror paperback boom of the ‘70s and ‘80s, Paperbacks from Hell, won the Stoker Award for Outstanding Achievement in Nonfiction. His books have been translated into 23 languages and sold over two million copies, which means he is guaranteed a seat on the space ark when the earth becomes uninhabitable.
PAUL TREMBLAY | GUEST AUTHOR
Paul Tremblay has won the Bram Stoker, British Fantasy, and Massachusetts Book awards and is the author of Horror Movie, The Pallbearers Club, Survivor Song, The Cabin at the End of the World, Disappearance at Devil’s Rock, A Head Full of Ghosts, and the crime novels The Little Sleep and No Sleep Till Wonderland. His essays and short fiction have appeared in the LA Times, Entertainment Weekly online, and numerous year’s-best anthologies. He has a master’s degree in mathematics and lives outside Boston with his family.
JEREMY ROBERT JOHNSON | GUEST AUTHOR
Jeremy Robert Johnson is the author of The Loop, Skullcrack City, In the River, and Entropy in Bloom. His fiction has been praised by The Washington Post and Publishers Weekly, authors such as David Wong, Chuck Palahniuk and Jack Ketchum, and has appeared internationally in numerous anthologies and magazines. A long-time member of the Telluride Horror Show family, Jeremy is “a defining name within the [bizarro] genre. His work is most aptly described as a mixture of all these things — thrillers that become bloodbaths, horrors that blend into fantasies, and apocalypses that transcend into high art” (Los Angeles Review of Books).
STEPHEN GRAHAM JONES | GUEST AUTHOR
Stephen Graham Jones is the NYT bestselling author of nearly thirty novels and collections, and there’s some novellas and comic books in there as well. Most recent are I Was a Teenage Slasher, The Angel of Indian Lake and the ongoing Earthdivers. Up before too long are True Believers and The Buffalo Hunter Hunter. Winner of four Bram Stoker Awards, three Shirley Jackson Awards, six This is Horror Awards and countless other accolades, he’s also the guy who wrote Mongrels, The Only Good Indians, and My Heart is a Chainsaw. Stephen lives in Boulder, Colorado.
DANIEL KRAUS | GUEST AUTHOR
Daniel Kraus is a New York Times bestselling writer of novels, TV, and film. The latest novel, Pay the Piper, is a terrifying tale of supernatural horror from the minds of legendary director George A. Romero and Kraus. His recent novel Whalefall received a front-cover rave review in the New York Times Book Review, won the Alex Award, and is L.A. Times Book Prize Finalist. With Guillermo del Toro, he co-authored The Shape of Water, based on the same idea the two created for the Oscar-winning film. Also with del Toro, Kraus co-authored Trollhunters, which was adapted into the Emmy-winning Netflix series. He also cowrote The Living Dead with George A. Romero. Kraus has won the Bram Stoker Award, Scribe Award, two Odyssey Awards, and more. Kraus’s work has been translated into over 20 languages. He lives with his wife in Chicago.
1978
Argentina | 2024 | 78 min
Directors: Nicolás Onetti, Luciano Onetti
FRIDAY, 10:30PM, BLOB
SATURDAY, 10:30PM, BLOB COLORADO PREMIERE
During the World Cup final between Argentina and Holland, in times of military dictatorship, torturers kidnap a group of young people. But an inhumane interrogation turns into a true martyrdom: the wrong people have been kidnapped, part of a macabre cult guided by a supernatural force. The detention center will become hell itself…
A DESERT
USA | 2024 | 103 min | Director: Joshua Erkman
FRIDAY, 7:50 PM, SHERIDAN
SATURDAY, 3:30PM, PALM COLORADO PREMIERE
IN PERSON: Joshua Erkman
A past his prime photographer heads out on a road trip across the American Southwest to recapture the magic and success of his previous work. Instead, he finds himself thrust into the dark and chaotic underbelly of America and unwittingly drags his wife and a shady private detective down into this nightmare world with him.
AGFA VIDEODREAMS: NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD
(1986 COLORIZED VERSION)
USA | 1968 | 96 min | Director: George A. Romero
SATURDAY, 10AM, BLOB FREE ADMISSION
SPECIAL INTRODUCTION BY DANIEL KRAUS
A staple of late night TV in the 1980s, this colorized version of George A. Romero’s NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD is a treat for the senses. The movie’s eerie mood, bold messaging, and haunting visuals are transformed into an impressionistic netherworld - one filled with green zombies, pink skies, and neon- red gore. Preserved from the original 1986 VHS release by AGFA. Special introduction by guest author Daniel Kraus, known for his collaborations with George A. Romero and an expert on all things NOTLD!
BLACK SPINES
USA | 2024 | 100 min | Director: Jordon Foss
SATURDAY, 7:30PM, SHERIDAN
SUNDAY, 12:30PM, BLOB
IN PERSON: Jordon Foss with cast members Jan Luis Castellanos, Tiana Le, Nicole Berger, Casey Mills, and Henry Frost III (The Pill)
Inspired by real events, BLACK SPINES transports us to Page Hollow, where a series of chilling murders engulf the quiet community. As residents grapple with the tragedies, outcast high school photographer Cameron stumbles upon several VHS tapes holding cryptic clues. He is thrust into a nerve-wracking race against time down a path of terrifying discovery. The killer may be closer than he ever imagined.
DADDY’S HEAD
UK | 2024 | 97 min | Director: Benjamin Barfoot
FRIDAY, 10:30PM, PALM
SPECIAL THEATRICAL PRESENTATION COURTESY OF IFC FILMS AND SHUDDER
In the wake of his father’s death, a young boy is left in the eerie solitude of a sprawling country estate with his newly widowed stepmother. The boy begins to hear unsettling sounds echoing through the corridors. Soon, he is haunted by a grotesque creature bearing a disturbing resemblance to his late father. As the boy’s warnings are dismissed, the sinister entity tightens its grip on their lives.
DARK MATCH
Canada | 2024 | 94 min | Director: Lowell Dean SATURDAY, 7:30PM, BLOB SUNDAY, 3PM, BLOB
A small-time wrestling company accepts a well-paying gig in a backwoods town only to learn, too late, that the community is run by a mysterious cult leader with devious plans for their match. The latest feature from the director of WolfCop (2014 Telluride Horror Show)!
DEAD TALENTS SOCIETY
Taiwan | 2024 | 110 min | Director: John Hsu SUNDAY, 3:10PM, PALM COLORADO PREMIERE
Being human is challenging, but being a ghost is no cakewalk. In the afterlife, ghosts must be frightening to survive. They can become scary legends or disappear without a trace. A rookie ghost only has 30 days before she fades away forever. A ghost agent invites her to team up with a washed-up ghost champion. Their mission: revive the legend of haunting ghosts in The Lucky Hotel. Not wanting to be forgotten by the world, they must conjure up the talent to scare, and be seen.
FRÉWAKA
Ireland | 2024 | 103 min | Director: Aislinn Clarke
SUNDAY, 12:40PM, PALM NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE
Haunted by a personal tragedy, home care worker, Shoo, is sent to a remote village to care for an agoraphobic woman who fears the neighbors as much as she fears the Na Sídhe – sinister entities who she believes abducted her decades before. As the two develop a strangely deep connection, Shoo is consumed by the old woman’s paranoia, rituals, and superstitions, eventually confronting the horrors from her own past.
GET AWAY
UK | 2024 | 86 min | Director: Steffen Haars SATURDAY, 7:45PM, PALM COLORADO PREMIERE
A family’s vacation to a remote getaway takes an unexpected turn when they discover the island they’re on is inhabited by a serial killer. From IFC Films and Shudder, a slasher comedy written by Nick Frost, who stars alongside Aisling Bea, Sebastian Croft, and Maisie Ayres.
PÁRVULOS
Mexico | 2024 | 119 min | Director: Isaac Ezban SATURDAY, 3PM, SHERIDAN SUNDAY, 9:50AM, PALM COLORADO PREMIERE
Three young brothers living in a cabin in the middle of the woods hide a dark, disturbing secret in their basement.
JIMMY & STIGGS
USA | 2024 | 80 min | Director: Joe Begos FRIDAY, 10:30PM, SHERIDAN SUNDAY, 8:10PM, SHERIDAN COLORADO PREMIERE
IN PERSON: JOE BEGOS, JOSH ETHIER
Jimmy Lang (Joe Begos) claims to have been abducted by aliens. He contacts his old friend Stiggs (Matt Mercer) for help. At sunset, the duo are thrown into a hallucinatory explosion of aliens, drugs, booze and all out carnage. The latest, and craziest, from the director of Christmas Bloody Christmas, VFW, and The Mind’s Eye, all past Telluride Horror Show official selections.
PRESENCE
USA | 2024 | 85 min | Director: Steven Soderbergh SUNDAY, 8:20PM, PALM NEON SPOTLIGHT | COLORADO PREMIERE
A family moves into a suburban house and becomes convinced they’re not alone. NEON presents Steven Soderbergh’s PRESENCE, starring Lucy Liu, Chris Sullivan, Julia Fox, Eddy Maday, Callina Liang, and West Mulholland.
STRANGE HARVEST: OCCULT MURDER IN THE INLAND EMPIRE
USA | 2024 | 94 min | Director: Stuart Ortiz FRIDAY, 2PM, SHERIDAN SATURDAY, 10AM, SHERIDAN COLORADO PREMIERE
A true-crime horror documentary about two detectives pursuit of an infamous serial killer named Mr. Shiny, who terrorized Southern California for almost two decades.
THE CREEP TAPES
USA | 2024 | 75 min | Director: Patrick Brice FRIDAY, 8:10PM, PALM SPECIAL PRESENTATION | COLORADO PREMIERE
IN PERSON: PATRICK BRICE
The Creep Tapes continues to unravel the mind of a serial killer who lures videographers with the promise of a paid job documenting his life. But as the tape rolls, the killer’s questionable intentions surface with his increasingly odd behavior and the victims learn they may have made a deadly mistake. Director, Writer and Executive Producer Patrick Brice returns to the festival with an advanced three-episode preview screening of the new series based on the found footage horror hits CREEP and CREEP 2, both past Telluride Horror Show official selections. Writer and Executive Producer Mark Duplass reprises his leading role in the six-episode series debuting Friday, November 15 on Shudder and AMC+.
THE RULE OF JENNY PEN
New Zealand | 2024 | 103 min | Director: James Ashcroft
FRIDAY, 4:40PM, PALM
SATURDAY, 12:30PM, PALM
COLORADO PREMIERE
An arrogant judge (Geoffrey Rush) suffers a near-fatal stroke, leaving him partially paralyzed and confined to a retirement home. Resistant to the staff and distant from his friendly roommate, the ailing judge soon clashes with a seemingly gentle resident (John Lithgow) who secretly terrorizes the home with a sadistic game called “The Rule of Jenny Pen” while wielding his dementia doll as an instrument of cruelty. What begins as childish torment quickly escalates into far more sinister and disturbing incidents.
THE SEVERED SUN
UK | 2024 | 80 min | Director: Dean Puckett
FRIDAY, 4:30PM, BLOB SUNDAY, 12:30PM, SHERIDAN COLORADO PREMIERE
IN PERSON: DEAN PUCKETT
Magpie lives in an isolated church community ruled over by her father, The Pastor. When a man is murdered, paranoia sets in, and people start to whisper about a strange ‘Beast’ that lives in the forest. Short film alum Dean Puckett (The Sermon, 2018 Telluride Horror Show) joins the festival in person with his debut feature.
THE SOUL EATER
France | 2024 | 111 min
Directors: Alexandre Bustillo, Julien Maury SUNDAY, 5:45PM, PALM COLORADO PREMIERE
When violent and gruesome deaths start plaguing a small mountain village, an old legend about a malevolent creature resurfaces. Two cops with different methods are compelled to join forces and uncover a sinister plot involving the disappearance of local children. From the directors of The Deep House, Livid, Inside, and Among the Living (2014 Telluride Horror Show).
TRIZOMBIE
Belgium | 2024 | 78 min | Director: Bob Colaers
SATURDAY, 12:20PM, SHERIDAN SUNDAY, 10AM, BLOB COLORADO PREMIERE
IN PERSON: BOB COLAERS
What if a virus turns everyone on Earth into zombies? Everyone except those with a DNA mutation. Everyone except people with trisomy-21, also known as Down syndrome.
HORRORVAULT
JON DAVISON | VAULT KEEPER
Jon Davison, producer of RoboCop and Starship Troopers, returns to the Telluride Horror Show as host of the Horror Vault. Pulling from his vast collection of movies, Mr. Davison presents six horror classics on glorious 16MM film! Located in the program room at Wilkinson Public Library in downtown Telluride.
SCHEDULE
THE BLOB (HIGH SCHOOL: 120 SEATS)
4:30PM - 6:10PM | THE SEVERED SUN IN PERSON: DEAN PUCKETT
8PM - 9:30PM | “SQUIRM” SHORTS BLOCK THE NEW WAY PROGRAM, TINKERHELL, NEVER HAVE I EVER (JAMAIS JE N’AI), THE BARGAIN, MORA, THREE WEEKS
10:30PM - 12AM | 1978
SATURDAY OCTOBER 12
10AM - 11:45AM | AGFA VIDEODREAMS: NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD (1986 COLORIZED VERSION) SPECIAL INTRODUCTION BY DANIEL KRAUS FREE ADMISSION
PALM THEATRE (587 SEATS)
8:10PM - 9:50PM | THE CREEP TAPES IN PERSON: PATRICK BRICE 10:30PM - 12:10AM | DADDY’S HEAD
10AM - 11:40AM | “VAULT OF HUMOR” SHORTS BLOCK BRENNAN REED’S THE BOX, LIKE ME, DEEP CUT, A REALLY GOOD DEAL, A FAMILY GUIDE TO HUNTING, THE LAST THING SHE SAW, /HAAW/, NEPOTISM, BABY!, MEAT PUPPET, SKEETER
12:30PM - 2:10PM | “SPELLBOUND” SHORTS BLOCK THE MEETING SPOT, TRANSYLVANIE, SHADOW, EONIAN, GIRLS, LES BÊTES 12:30PM - 2:15PM | THE
3PM - 4:30PM | “UNCANNY TALES” SHORTS BLOCK COOKS, POP, MASKS, ZOÉ, THE WATCHER, AMYGDALA, APOTEMNOFILIA, HICKORY DICKORY DOCK, OFF CUTS
7:30PM - 9:05PM | DARK MATCH
10:30PM - 12AM | 1978
SUNDAY OCTOBER 13
10AM - 11:40AM | TRIZOMBIE IN PERSON: BOB COLAERS
12:30PM - 2:30PM | BLACK SPINES IN PERSON: JORDON FOSS & CAST
3PM - 4:35PM | DARK MATCH
5:30PM - 7PM | “BUMPS IN THE NIGHT” SHORTS BLOCK ESCAPE, MR. SUNSHINE, NIGHT WHISPERS, WAKE, THE VISITOR, TABOO, THE COST OF FLESH, OUTSIDE NOISE, DREAM CREEP
3:30PM - 5:30PM | A DESERT IN PERSON: JOSHUA ERKMAN 10:30PM - 12AM | TBA 7:45PM - 9:15PM | GET AWAY
4:40PM - 6:25PM | THE RULE OF JENNY PEN 9:50AM - 11:50AM | PÁRVULOS
12:40PM - 2:20PM | FRÉWAKA
3:10PM - 5PM | DEAD TALENTS SOCIETY 5:45PM - 7:35PM | THE SOUL EATER
8:20PM - 9:50PM | PRESENCE NEON SPOTLIGHT
SHERIDAN OPERA HOUSE (230 SEATS)
2PM - 3:40PM | STRANGE HARVEST: OCCULT MURDER IN THE INLAND EMPIRE
4:30PM - 6:10PM | “SPELLBOUND” SHORTS BLOCK THE MEETING SPOT, TRANSYLVANIE, SHADOW, EONIAN, GIRLS, LES BÊTES
7:50PM - 9:50PM | A DESERT IN PERSON: JOSHUA ERKMAN
10:30PM - 12:10AM | JIMMY & STIGGS IN PERSON: JOE BEGOS, JOSH ETHIER
10AM - 11:35AM | STRANGE HARVEST: OCCULT MURDER IN THE INLAND EMPIRE
12:20PM - 2PM | TRIZOMBIE IN PERSON: BOB COLAERS
3PM - 5PM | PÁRVULOS
7:30PM - 9:30PM | BLACK SPINES IN PERSON: JORDON FOSS & CAST
10:30PM - 12AM | “BUMPS IN THE NIGHT” SHORTS BLOCK ESCAPE, MR. SUNSHINE, NIGHT WHISPERS, WAKE, THE VISITOR, TABOO, THE COST OF FLESH, OUTSIDE NOISE, DREAM CREEP
10AM - 11:40AM | “VAULT OF HUMOR” SHORTS BLOCK BRENNAN REED’S THE BOX, LIKE ME, DEEP CUT, A REALLY GOOD DEAL, A FAMILY GUIDE TO HUNTING, THE LAST THING SHE SAW, /HAAW/, NEPOTISM, BABY!, MEAT PUPPET, SKEETER
12:30PM - 2:10PM | THE SEVERED SUN IN PERSON: DEAN PUCKETT
3PM - 4:30PM | “UNCANNY TALES” SHORTS BLOCK COOKS, POP, MASKS, ZOÉ, THE WATCHER, AMYGDALA, APOTEMNOFILIA, HICKORY DICKORY DOCK, OFF CUTS
5:30PM - 7PM | “SQUIRM” SHORTS BLOCK THE NEW WAY PROGRAM, TINKERHELL, NEVER HAVE I EVER (JAMAIS JE N’AI), THE BARGAIN, MORA, THREE WEEKS
8:10PM - 9:50PM | JIMMY & STIGGS IN PERSON: JOE BEGOS, JOSH ETHIER
2:30PM - 3:30PM | HORROR SUMMIT
AUTHOR CONVERSATION: DANIEL KRAUS, PAUL TREMBLAY, & JEREMY ROBERT JOHNSON. ELKS LODGE (FREE & OPEN TO PUBLIC)
3:30PM - 4:30PM | ICE SCREAM SOCIAL SHERIDAN OPERA HOUSE (OPEN TO 3-DAY PASS HOLDERS)
BONFIRE & AUTHOR READINGS. ELKS PARK: ACROSS FROM COURTHOUSE (FREE & OPEN TO PUBLIC)
LATE NIGHT FESTIVAL HANGOUT, CASH BAR, ELKS LODGE
11:30AM - 1PM | HORROR BOOK FAIR 10:30AM - 11:30AM | HORROR SUMMIT
6:20PM - 7:20PM | CREEPY CAMPFIRE TALES 4:30PM - 7PM | PIG ROAST 7:30PM - 8:30PM | FINAL GIRL SUPPORT GROUP
AUTHOR CONVERSATION: RACHEL HARRISON, STEPHEN GRAHAM JONES, & JEREMY ROBERT JOHNSON. ELKS LODGE (FREE & OPEN TO PUBLIC)
BOOK SIGNING WITH ALL GUEST AUTHORS. BOOKS FOR SALE ON SITE COURTESY OF BETWEEN THE COVERS BOOKSTORE. ELKS LODGE (OPEN TO PUBLIC)
OAK: LOCATED AT BASE OF GONDOLA (OPEN TO 3-DAY PASS HOLDERS) FREE PIG, CASH BAR.
A GUIDED TOUR OF THE HISTORY OF MURDER BOOKS & MOVIES WITH BESTSELLING AUTHOR GRADY HENDRIX! ELKS LODGE (FREE & OPEN TO PUBLIC)
9PM - LAST CALL | HORROR SHOW SOCIAL HALL 9PM - LAST CALL | HORROR SHOW SOCIAL HALL
LATE NIGHT FESTIVAL HANGOUT, CASH BAR ELKS LODGE
12:30PM - 1:30PM | ANNUAL MEETING OF THE SECRET HORROR SOCIETY: TELLURIDE CHAPTER
ELKS LODGE (ALL HORROR DEVOTEES WELCOME. NO ADMITTANCE AFTER MEETING BEGINS)
2:30PM - 4:30PM | FRIGHT OR WRONG HORROR TRIVIA
ELKS LODGE (OPEN TO 3-DAY PASS HOLDERS)
VISIT THE VINEGAR SYNDROME BOOTH AT THE PALM, BEFORE & AFTER THE FILMS ON SATURDAY/SUNDAY!
VINEGAR SYNDROME IS A FILM RESTORATION & DISTRIBUTION COMPANY SPECIALIZING IN HORROR, EXPLOITATION, AND GRINDHOUSE, FROM THE 1960S TO 1980S.
10PM - LAST CALL | LAST CALL AT THE LAST DOLLAR LAST DOLLAR SALOON (OPEN TO 3-DAY PASS HOLDERS) IF YOU’RE STILL STANDING, JOIN US FOR ONE LAST GET-TOGETHER! CASH BAR.
ESCAPE
USA | 2024 | 4 min
Director: Lorenzo Manetti
U.S. PREMIERE
IN PERSON: Lorenzo Manetti
Awakening on the floor of a destroyed suburban bedroom, we discover a global invasion has begun, and we are not alone in the house…
MR. SUNSHINE
USA | 2024 | 10 min
Director: Charlie Schwan
WORLD PREMIERE
In Person: Charlie Schwan, Emmie Ray, Nelson James, Ryan Kerr
Struggling to cope with her father’s death, a woman begins to lose her grip on reality as an unknown entity lurks inside her home.
NIGHT WHISPERS
USA | 2023 | 14 min | Director: Ethan Hunt
NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE
An ominous sound alerts a teenager that an imperceptible malevolent presence may be resting right beside him.
BUMPS IN
WAKE
USA | 2024 | 13 min | Director: Sean Carter
COLORADO PREMIERE
With a hurricane raging outside, two nurses have to stow a dead woman in the hospital morgue before the building floods. But the corpse quickly reveals itself to be more than it seems.
THE VISITOR
Spain | 2024 |10 min
Director: Tony Morales
COLORADO PREMIERE
Alone in her home overnight, a young influencer’s solitude is interrupted by an unexpected visitor.
USA | 2024 | 8 min
Director: Almog Avidan Antonir
COLORADO PREMIERE
IN PERSON: Almog Avidan Antonir, Meghan Hughes, Jennifer Levinson
When a young woman turns to her friend for support about a sensitive topic, she doesn’t find the safe space she was looking for. Instead, she encounters a dark entity that gains strength the more attention it’s given.
THE NIGHT
SATURDAY, 10:30PM SHERIDAN SUNDAY, 5:30PM, BLOB
THE COST OF FLESH
France | 2023 |10 min
Director: Tomas Palombi
COLORADO PREMIERE
Alice is a totally paralyzed teenager who can only communicate through the movements of her eyes. Her brother and sister try an obscure method to free her from the evil that hinders her…
OUTSIDE NOISE
UK | 2024 | 8 min | Director: Ethan Evans
COLORADO PREMIERE
An overwhelmed woman listens to a sleep ambience app to unwind before bed, but when the sounds eerily begin to blend with reality, she suspects it has conjured something frightening into her room…
DREAM CREEP
USA | 2024 | 13 min
Director: Carlos A. F. Lopez
COLORADO PREMIERE
A couple awakens in the night to sounds emanating from an unlikely orifice.
TABOO
SPELLBOUND
FRIDAY,4:30PM,SHERIDAN
SATURDAY,12:30PM,BLOB
THE MEETING SPOT
USA | 2024 | 18 min | Director: Lauren Sick
COLORADO PREMIERE
IN PERSON: Lauren Sick
A skeptical science major scours the streets of New York City, searching for proof of the afterlife.
TRANSYLVANIE
France | 2023 | 15 min
Director: Rodrigue Huart
COLORADO PREMIERE
Ewa is a 10-year-old girl living in a high building in a quiet town. She’s an odd, lonely child and for good reason: she’s convinced of being a vampire. Fascinated by Hugo, 15, she dreams of turning him into a vampire too, so that she can overcome her loneliness. When Ewa opens up to him, she gets bullied by teenagers from the neighborhood. Hurt in her body and soul, she’s ready to act in the creepiest, sickest ways to prove her identity to the world.
SHADOW
USA | 2023 | 12 min
Director: Kamell Allaway
COLORADO PREMIERE
A young mother’s shadow takes on a life of its own and terrorizes her and her daughter over the course of one night.
EONIAN
USA | 2024 | 20 min
Director: Michael Machin
COLORADO PREMIERE
IN PERSON: Michael Machin
While grieving the loss of her father in his remote countryside home, a young woman makes a chilling discovery that suggests eternal life.
SHORTS BLOCKS
GIRLS
France | 2023 | 22 min
Director: Julien Hosmalin
COLORADO PREMIERE
Romane and Ally are in love. As they run away searching for a place they can be free, they end up kidnapped at a local gas station. They were looking for peace, but vengeance will first cross their path.
LES BÊTES
USA | 2024 | 12 min
Director: Michael Granberry
COLORADO PREMIERE
IN PERSON: Michael Granberry
A mysterious rabbit with a set of magic keys summons a host of strange creatures to entertain a wicked king and his decadent court in this dark stop-motion animated fantasy inspired by the works of Ladislas Starevich.
SQUIRM
FRIDAY, 8PM, BLOB SUNDAY, 5:30PM, SHERIDAN
THE
NEW WAY PROGRAM
Director: Billy Senese
A series of found VHS tapes from a mysterious 1980s self-help program, called THE NEW WAY. The series will be presented in its original segments over five separate tapes. This exclusive program will teach you how to unlock the power hidden deep inside you, giving your life limitless potential! www.newwayprogram.com
TINKERHELL
USA | 2024 | 5min | Director: Noah Sterling
IN PERSON: Noah Sterling
A young girl learns the consequences, after she incites the wrath of a very small and very deadly entity.
NEVER HAVE I EVER (JAMAIS JE N’AI)
France | 2024 | 19 min
Director: Joyce A. Nashawati
COLORADO PREMIERE
I wake up gagged, hands and feet tied.
I can see the clouds go by through the window. I’m in the back seat of a car. Who is this man driving? And where is he taking me?
THE BARGAIN
USA | 2023 | 15 min | Director: Alec Patchin
COLORADO PREMIERE
IN PERSON: Alec Patchin, Leana Gardella, Kathleen Donachie
A young girl summons the Devil to get revenge on her former foster father who abused her. The Devil is willing to make a deal but the cost is more than she bargained for.
MORA
USA | 2024 | 12 min
Director: Sam Evenson
COLORADO PREMIERE
IN PERSON: Sam Evenson
A struggling artist searches for a mysterious woman that appears in gruesome AI images.
THREE WEEKS
Sweden | 2024 | 14 min
Director: Björn Liljegrääs
A woman wakes up strapped to a bed in a dark basement, where she has been confined for the past three weeks. Tortured and completely apathetic, she longs for death, convinced she won’t leave this place alive. Despite her despair, she finds herself in an unwilling struggle against her tormentor. But who is actually being tortured?
UNCANNYTALES
SATURDAY,3PM,BLOB SUNDAY,3PM,SHERIDAN
COOKS
USA | 2024 | Director: David Lee Hess
COLORADO PREMIERE
A Suite of Cooking Clips w/ Special Guests.
POP
USA | 2024 | 6 min | Director: Josh Jones
COLORADO PREMIERE
Two cleaners attempt to clean a house. Some jobs aren’t worth it.
MASKS
USA | 2024 | 13 min
Director: Andre LeBlanc
WORLD PREMIERE
IN PERSON: Andre LeBlanc, James M. Miller
A husband slowly draws his wife from a long-standing catatonic state by having her wear a series of old Halloween masks. Driven by the hope of having her back, he pushes the experiment into dangerous territory, sending him towards a final confrontation he’ll soon regret.
ZOÉ
Canada | 2024 | 16 min
Director: Rémi St-Michel
COLORADO PREMIERE
The remaining shreds of Zoe’s mind desperately cling to her vague memories of better feelings.
THE WATCHER
USA | 2022 | 9 min
Director: Nathan Sellers
COLORADO PREMIERE
The sole survivor of a small religious cult known as The Children of Enoch awaits the resurrection of her recently departed ’sisters’ and their leader, Father Enoch. What unfolds next is beyond her comprehension.
AMYGDALA
Sweden | 2024 | 11 min |
Director: Oskar Johansson
COLORADO PREMIERE
A mother and her daughter move into an old family house. The daughter struggles to adjust to the house and, to the mother’s great horror, begins feeling an increasingly intense attraction to a locked door upstairs.
APOTEMNOFILIA
Spain | 2023 | 10 min | Director: Jano Pita
COLORADO PREMIERE
It is opening night, the theater is crowded and Clara, the leading actress, refuses to leave her dressing room. Something inside her is keeping her from leaving.
HICKORY DICKORY DOCK
USA | 2023 | 10 min
Director: Jennifer Trudrung
COLORADO PREMIERE
IN PERSON: Jennifer Trudrung
A woman escapes from a lifetime of confinement and wanders in search of playmates for demented versions of her favorite nursery rhyme games.
OFF CUTS
UK | 2024 | 4 min | Director: Ben Steiner
U.S. PREMIERE
Returning home to his pregnant partner, an angry man brings home an unwelcome presence. From the director of Hulu’s Matriarch (2022 Telluride Horror Show) and The Stomach (2014 Telluride Horror Show).
BRENNAN REED’S THE BOX
USA | 2024 | 9 min
Director: Brennan Reed
A mysterious stranger offers a desperate man a way out with deadly consequences.
LIKE ME
USA | 2024 | 7 min
Director: Ashley Lauren Thomas
COLORADO PREMIERE
A young woman discovers the dangers of attempting to cut her own bangs.
DEEP CUT
USA | 2024 | 15 min
Director: Michelle Farrah Huang
COLORADO PREMIERE
IN PERSON: Michelle Farrah Huang, Keir Gilchrist
After being publicly humiliated for being “just a pretty face”, a depressed actor finds an unexpected ally in a charismatic background actor. But as their bond deepens, our lead actor is plunged into a psychological battle, forcing her to confront her demons.
SATURDAY, 10AM, PALM
SUNDAY, 10AM, SHERIDAN
A REALLY GOOD DEAL
USA | 2024 | 6 min
Director: Sarah Stephens
COLORADO PREMIERE
IN PERSON: Sarah Stephens
Desperate to keep her mother’s magazineselling legacy alive, Evelyn finds a creative way to make a sale.
A FAMILY GUIDE TO HUNTING
USA | 2024 | 14 min | Director: Zao Wang
COLORADO PREMIERE
A dark comedy about an Asian-American family on a bonding hunting trip gone wrong. When Eva accidentally shoots her doomsday prepping boyfriend dead, her parents insist on getting rid of the body in order to protect her. The wilderness turns the temperature up on their dysfunctional family dynamics, as well as their unique brand of Asian-American sacrifice, love, and filial piety.
VAULT OF HUMOR SHORTS BLOCKS
THE LAST THING SHE SAW
USA | 2024 | 8 min
Directors: Anthony Cousins, Rebecca Daugherty
COLORADO PREMIERE
IN PERSON: Anthony Cousins, Rebecca Daugherty, Bailey Bolton, Frank Foster-Bolton, Brady Richards
After being attacked by two burglars, Emmy must see if she can escape her desperate situation. Longtime alum Anthony Cousins (FROGMAN) returns to the Telluride Horror Show with his latest horror short, codirected by Rebecca Daugherty and written by our own Brady Richards!
/HAAW/
USA | 2024 | 12 min | Director: Joey Scoma COLORADO PREMIERE
A typical day at a ski resort takes a bizarre turn when a xenophobic guest shares a gondola with an unusual family.
NEPOTISM, BABY!
USA | 2024 | 12 min | Director: Tij D’oyen COLORADO PREMIERE
After her nepotism fails her, a fame obsessed young woman fabricates a conspiracy to garner media attention and jump-start her career.
MEAT PUPPET
UK | 2024 | 12 min | Director: Eros V COLORADO PREMIERE
On the day he promised his girlfriend he’d grow up, a man-child inadvertently traps himself inside a puppet.
SKEETER
USA | 2024 | 4 min | Director: Chris McInroy COLORADO PREMIERE
IN PERSON: Chris McInroy, Carlos LaRotta
A backyard party goes bonkers when this one weird guy shows up. Longtime alum Chris McInroy returns to the Telluride Horror Show with his latest horror comedy short!
VISITING FILMMAKERS
SPONSORS
INDUSTRY
SUPPORTING
LODGING
STAFF
THEATERS
FESTIVAL DIRECTOR: Ted Wilson
DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT: Anna Wilson
PUBLICIST & MARKETING DIRECTOR: Travis Volz
LEAD PROGRAMMERS: Erik Cooper, Brady Richards
TECHNICAL DIRECTOR: Mark Cheney
PATRON SAINTS OF HORROR: Dan Beedy & Laura Rigolo, Holden Payne
PROJECTIONISTS: Chris Bredenberg, Alex Fountain, Wanashe Frank, Luci Reeve, Modestina Weeden, Kelly Youngstrom
PRODUCTION: Gypsie Frank, Sammy Frank
VAULT KEEPER: Jon Davison
HOSTS: Vanessa Beletic, David Lee Hess, Brad McHargue, Becky Sayers, Mike Snoonian, Colin Sullivan
VENUE MANAGERS: Sherry Brieske, Calob Ebright, Mike Marchyok, Pat Marchyok, David Marks, Tiffany Perry-Marks, Jim Riley, Elizabeth Rowe, Dave Smith, Bart Steck, Adin Sterling, Timmy Territo
HOSPITALITY: Allison Bills, Lindsay Bledsoe, Brant Miller, Natalie Price, Ellen & Julian Thayn, Joe & Grace Wilson, Pete Wilson
SUPER DUPER SCOOPERS: Danny Roberts, Charlie Scheuermann, Brian Smolnicky, Hope Wilson
FESTIVAL PHOTOGRAPHER: Crystal Morris
FESTIVAL ARCHIVIST: Tyler Garn
POSTER ARTIST: David Coulson
PROGRAM DESIGN: Barbara Kondracki
SPECIAL THANKS
Dan Beedy & DBPC, Holden Payne & Sundance Institute, Mark & Kayla Cheney, Nicole Hattler, Michael Wingfield, Ronnie Palamar, Josh Laydon, Mike Metz, Amanda Baltzley, Between the Covers Bookstore, Last Dollar Saloon, Oak…The New Fat Alley, Mountainfilm, Telluride Elks Lodge, Telluride Film Festival, Town of Telluride, Town of Mountain Village, Wilkinson Public Library, Corndog & Pedro
Dedicated to Roby “Creepy Long Hug” Peabody, legendary Telluride local and the number one fan of Telluride Horror Show. RIP Roby.
