2013 Entries

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  Taniwha

  In the small coastal town of Mauatahanui, life is good. But when an offshore drilling company begins prospecting a few miles out at sea, they awaken a terrible force that has lain dormant for centuries.

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  Taniwha Rising

  A group of archeologists exploring an isolated area of New Zealand ignore warnings of the existence of a Taniwha - a legendary, supernatural monster - with terrifying consequences.

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  Taniwha Utu

  A tale of colonial atrocities, starcrossed lovers, and a Taniwha getting some serious revenge.

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  Tararua

  One of New Zealand’s most treacherous mountain ranges will push to the limits of survival those who dare enter. A quintessential tramping suspense thriller.

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  Taste No Evil

  Recently acquitted Steve Stevenson makes it into the top six finalists for the ever popular KitchenMaster television show and as contestants start to disappear, the tastier his dishes seem to get...

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  Tears of the Forgotten

  In the Waitomo region, a new sinkhole reveals a forgotten cave. As its discovery brings about local tension, a more sinister evil begins to awaken.

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  The Arksville Homicides

  Its 1967, and in the large town of Arksville, Pennsylvania - something evil is about to surface

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  The Baron

  In an orphanage that is a front for the intergalactic slave trade. Dangerous creatures run amok, when an alien waste disposal unit malfunctions.

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  The Black

  On the dark side of the moon, the workers of the Fujitomo Mining Company toil tirelessly on the craggy surface. But when a solar flare disrupts their communications and cybernetic implants, as well as the mine's automated AI, the workers find themselves under attack both by the harsh lunar landscape, and within the architecture of their own minds

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  The Blue Bloods

  The rich have developed a new taste for their health and beauty. A taste for human flesh.

  As they descend on the tenements for The Hunt, where they find victims every month, down-on-her-luck former socialite Sophie McGregor finds her building in the firing line. And who can you turn to when your enemy owns everything and everyone?

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  The Butcher of Mekong

  Lieutenant “Dagger” Donaldson leads a squad of NZSAS soldiers deep in country to hunt down a deadly Viet Cong ghost-assassin and discovers there are fates worse than death.

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  The Calloway Festival

  New Years Eve at Calloway Festival is absolute paradise. Set in the secluded Bay of Islands, Calloway Fest is three days of beaches, live music, and manic crowds. For James and his friends the perfect adventure becomes their worst nightmare as regrets isolate the group and their tormentor will make sure they don’t survive the countdown.

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  The Card Game

  A stranger joins a small town poker game and sets about winning everything from the players until they have nothing left to gamble but their children.

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  The Chasm

  A group of vegan activists lost in the lava tunnels under Auckland stumble on the lair of an inbred cannibal family.

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  The Cut

  Fortune hungry contestants must sever a part of their own bodies then tastefully cook it for the judges on an internet reality show.

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  The Dead Earth

  Can you feel it? Touch it? Hear it? See it? The fear? The fear of being buried alive...buried deep within the earth...The Dead Earth.

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  The Devil's Whisper

  A father makes a deal with the Devil to save his daughter. But what will it ultimately cost him?

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  The Devoted

  A father must find his missing daughter in a small New Zealand town where the residents will do anything to keep their dark secret hidden.

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  The Directors Will Die

  Six up-and-coming horror filmmakers have become targets to a murderous maniac who splices his or her kills into the films they've made. The group has to devise a plan to survive, before they become the victims of a death they directed.

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  The Evil at the crossing

  At certain crossings of time and space when pure evil elements come together, time can be disrupted. Then the different possibilities of suffering in a person’s life come together to inhabit a single life of terror.

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  The Furry

  A group of road trippers discover that a rural town’s residents are actually a cult of deranged Furries.

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  The Game

  A group of teens discover a board game and are trapped playing for their lives.

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  The Ghost Master

  A 19th Century professional ghost buster attempts to communicate with a malevolent spirit terrorizing a country homestead, only to find himself the victim of a larger conspiracy instigated by the living who reside there.

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  The Ghostly Haunts

  In 1920, an enigmatic Doctor invites five members of the Society for Psychical Research back to his ‘haunted house’ to give them proof of the afterlife they’ve been searching for. But to tell the world, they must first survive the night…

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  The Gingerbread Man

  A man is running for his life, hunted by the entire population of a city.
  His crime? The terrible misfortune of being made entirely out of delicious gingerbread.

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  The Hanging Garden

  One woman's descent into madness and ultimately the resurrection of her soul in the face of sadistic adversity.

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  The Hitchhikers Guide to New Zealand

  Who can you really trust when it seems like everyone around you is hiding something?

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  The Honeymoon

  Two woman on their honeymoon are being harassed by a sadistic stranger, with time running out they must fight back to ensure their survival.

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  The Horror of Corrans Creek

  “Children hide and women weep, for monsters lurk in Corrans Creek. “

  After a string of grizzly murders in the desolate settlement of Corrans Creek, locals believe an urban legend older then the town itself has resurfaced. What secret does the town hold and how long will they be stricken with fear and suffer the death of more innocents?

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  The House of Fades

  Six friends must face apparitions of their former teenage selves and justify the direction their lives have taken or spend eternity trapped in their past.

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  The Hunger

  A young female werewolf undergoes a dangerous rite out of lycan lore in a remote cabin to cure her need for live flesh and spare the life of her human boyfriend. Unaware that the cabin’s grounds are steeped in dark magic and a coven of human witches will soon descend on it.

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  The Immured

  1854. A group of shipwrecked settlers in an undiscovered West Coast cove find themselves disappearing one by one. Although they fear that someone within their group is responsible, they begin to believe they may be at the mercy of something far more ancient… the Moehau, a race of long haired undead.

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  The Itch

  A writer, determined to recover from his debilitating phobia of germs, is trapped in his worst nightmare as the community of the small Otago town he now calls home is slowly consumed by a virulent contagion... When you get The Itch... scratching only makes it worse.

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  The Key

  Mans quest for knowledge about the afterlife finally opens a door that should have forever stayed closed.

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  The Lactating

  A young man is entrapped by a browbeaten cheesemonger and forced to grow breasts, lactate, and fulfil her perverted pet project: MAN-CHEESE!

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  The Legacy of Baby J

  When a mysterious terminally ill patient draws Caroline, a young doctor, into a world of infanticide, organ theft and an old family curse she soon finds the lines between life and death blurring and discovers that she carries an awful secret inside her that is almost too evil to escape.

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  The Lighthouse

  Washed up on an island whose sole occupant is the Lighthouse Keeper, a young woman struggles to piece together strange dreams and discoveries while she recovers from her injuries. Maybe they are not alone after all.

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  The Lonely One

  A brutal murder draws a young woman back to her childhood home. Here she learns of the strange entity that haunts the area and begins to realise that her own life might be at risk as well.

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  The Lullaby

  A young mother has growing suspicions that her newborn child is being watched by a demonic presence. She calls upon a paranormal expert to investigate.

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  The Man In The Woods

  When obsessive Detective, Brian Fletcher, traces a number of Child Abductions to a remote forest near a lake, his shocking discovery leads him to realise something that threatens his entire family.

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  The Maul

  When a retired cop takes over Mall security, shoplifting and staff car parking become the least of her concerns when something far worse gets loose behind the walls of New Zealand’s newest shopping centre.

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  The Midnight Men

  Faceless and unstoppable, they are creatures of myth. The Midnight Men. They appear in different towns, targeting people seemingly at random. No locked door, no security system can stop them.

  One survivor, biologist Noah Buchannon has found where they are striking next. But nothing has prepared him for the secret behind the Midnight Men.

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  The Monster Among Us

  A werewolf in a monster’s rehabilitation clinic must discover who is murdering the doctors before the clinic is closed and all the convicted monsters are put back on death row.

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  The Night Watch

  If art has the ability to capture your soul, what happens when those souls want to get out? Why, in a house of hundreds of portraits, does one portrait stand unfinished? Is there space on the walls for more?

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  The Omega Wave

  The world is on the brink of global peace. Our only hope of restoring the balance of war and destruction lies with a group of anti-techno Brethren.

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  The One You Feed

  Since returning from holiday Eva has felt increasingly ill at ease. Smells overwhelm her, the smallest sounds assault her senses, & there is a terrible feeling she gets as the moon rises & dusk falls. People are beginning to look like prey.

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  The Pattern

  Funded by activists, a group of misfit thieves break into the headquarters of a transmission called 'The Pattern' - the mind-altering global entertainment sensation. There they find that The Pattern is part of a larger, more insidious plan and that finding a way out will be infinitely harder than getting in...

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  The Phantasmagoria (1925)

  A group of film experts gather to examine newly discovered footage from an infamous 'lost' silent movie - purported to be laced with supernatural powers - and consequently disappear; leaving their documentary EPK footage as clues to their ultimate fate.