Hysteria Fest is back for its fourth year, binging you the best in contemporary horror, as always, plus a special repertory spotlight on Canadian Horror.

Thursday, July 10th

5pm: OPENING ACTS AND FINAL GASPS – shorts block  – Free
Description: Opening Acts & Final Gasps plunges into the eerie and unexplainable—where the supernatural bleeds into madness and the final breath may not be the end. These twisted tales deliver creeping dread, otherworldly forces, and descent-into-darkness horrors that blur the line between reality and nightmare.

Shorts:

• Dormant
• Chimp
• To Hell With You
• Blood, Sweat and Tears
• The Last Word
• It Draws Closer
• Undone
• The Baby

7pm: Dead Ringers – Opening Night Feature – $9
Description: David Cronenberg’s ice-cold psychological thriller starring Jeremy Irons in a double role as twin gynecologists.

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Friday, July 11th

7pm: Dooba Dooba – Feature – $9
Description: Amna expected a relaxed night of babysitting but when she arrives, she learns that her ward is not only a sheltered sixteen-year-old girl who goes by Moony, but that she is being watched at all times by in-home security cameras. It quickly becomes apparent that Moony is unaccustomed to socializing and that she has a grave misunderstanding of the term friendship.

Shorts preceding the feature:

• Rejected
• The Moon Rabbit

9pm (outside): Dead Lover – Feature – $9
Description: A lonely gravedigger who stinks of corpses finally meets her dream man, but their whirlwind affair is cut short when he tragically drowns at sea. Grief-stricken, she goes to morbid lengths to resurrect him through madcap scientific experiments, resulting in grave consequences and unlikely love.

Short preceding the feature:

• Turn it Off

9pm (inside): The Blood and the Bizarre Shorts Block – $9
Description: A shorts block that dives headfirst into the wild side of horror—where logic is optional, and weird reigns supreme. These films are unhinged, unpredictable, and unapologetically fun, delivering twisted laughs, surreal shocks, and the kind of chaos that reminds you horror should never play it safe.

Shorts:

• Follow You
• Housewife
• Frankenbabes From Beyond The Grave!
• Lês Betes
• The Haunted Belldown School
• Beetlemania
• Defile
• Rabbits
• Spotting Trains
• Night Feeding
• The Lost Cosmonaut
• Hope
• Vines

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Saturday, July 12th

12pm: The Blood in the Bevo Local Shorts Block – $5
Description: This block shines a spotlight on the twisted talent brewing right here in St. Louis. From local legends to rising voices, these homegrown nightmares tap into the unique style, grit, and imagination of our city’s horror scene—proving the Midwest can get just as dark and demented as anywhere else.

Shorts:

• RV Massacre
• Glimpses of Yesterday
• The Quarry

1pm: Girls Just Wanna Have Kill – Feature – $5
Description: A time traveler and pop culture “splatter heroine” investigate the murders of a coach and two female runners, which occurred thirty years ago. Mondo bizarro time travel splatter.

2pm: The Hedonist – Feature – $9
Description: A young man moves in with his parents and hires an escort to take care of him after a nervous breakdown.

Short preceding the feature:

• Rat!

4pm: The Shadows and the Screams Shorts Block – $9
Description: This block explores the shadowy corners of human nature—stories of cruelty, despair, and the violence we inflict on each other and ourselves. But even in the darkest depths, a flicker of wit or levity or absurdity sometimes breaks through, reminding us that horror doesn’t always have to flinch… even when it hurts to look.

Shorts preceding the feature:

• CLAUD_IA
• Contraction
• Like Me
• Twice as Shy
• Phantasmic
• The Salad
• Poppa
• Open the Door
• The Bomb

6pm: Play Along – Feature (followed by filmmaker’s Q&A) – $9
Description: A relentless captor preys on young women, forcing them into a deadly game of psychological warfare using costumes. When 17-year-old Skylar becomes the first to outsmart him, a battle of wits ensues in a fight for their very survival.

8pm (outside): The Melody and the Madness Music Video & Shorts Block – screening as part of Hysteria Fest’s Horror Prom – Free

Shorts and Music Videos:

• Lupe Q and the Galactic Corn Cake
• Release the Hounds
• Castle Upon the Hill
• The Black Hole
• Silverberry

9:15ish (outside): Hello Mary Lou: Prom Night II – $9
Description: Legendarily strange pseudo-sequel to Prom Night starring Wendy Lyon as a high schooler possessed by the spirit of a deceased prom queen.

9:15ish (inside): The Damnation – Feature – $9
Description: ‘The Damnation’ takes place in the small largely Indigenous Canadian communities of Creek and Buffalo Mines.

Short preceding The Damnation:

• Firecrow

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Sunday, July 13th

1pm: Beyond the Drumlins – Feature – $9
Description: A team of academics lose one of their own in a forest where reality and the afterlife meet.

3pm: La Sombra y la Sangre – A Spanish-Language Shorts Block – $9
Description: A celebration of Spanish-language horror from across the globe.

Shorts:

• Killergotchi
• Rear Road
• Tragedium
• Anecoica
• Evil Dinner
• Umbra
• The Christ of the Skull
• The Pretty

5pm: Haze – Feature – $9
Description: A young man returns home after rehab and uncovers the secrets of his town’s abandoned psychiatric center.

7pm: Curtains – Closing Feature – $9
Description: Deep-cut snowbound slasher from the Great White North.