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Arborville

Arborville is an award winning Folk-Horror feature screenplay. 

Logline: A treeplanter and her crew are stranded in a small northern town populated by a tree worshipping cult on the eve of their annual sacrifice.

What follows is a selection of key scenes leading to the break into act 2.

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Grimoire

A Young Woman is lured into a world of sorcery and witchcraft after being stalked by a creepy lawyer. She must defeat his schemes with the help of an aging sorceress before he takes what he wants from her.

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The Shadow Cabinet

Moll, a traumatized burlesque performer, struggling to make rent, embarks on a journey to self discovery, adventure, and horror beginning with the first step: leaving her house. 

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The Alabaster Jar

Nominated at The Author Script Awards, and Selected at Cannes Arts Film Festival. Egyptian student, Hanna, begins to have disturbing hallucinations of a cat-headed goddess attended by worms. Her visions lead her on a journey of self-discovery that ends in blood, as she uncovers a human trafficking ring disguised as a meditation centre, and the horrible, and mundane source of her visions.

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The Dismemberist

When a troubled young man gives into bloodlust, his sentient right hand decides it's time to head out on its own.

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Tokophobia

Tokophobia (ˌtɒkəˈfəʊbɪə ) noun. An abnormal fear of giving birth or becoming pregnant.

A cosmic body horror short about the consequences of unwanted parasites. 

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