The Telluride Horror Show returns this month for its sixteenth edition, running from October 10-12, immersing Telluride, Colorado, in a three-day horror celebration. Highlights of Telluride Horror Show’s 2025 lineup include Bryan Fuller‘s charming Dust Bunny, with Fuller in attendance, and the Colorado premiere of Shelby Oaks. The Adams Family returns with festival darling Mother of Flies, […]
The Telluride Horror Showreturns this month for its sixteenth edition, running from October 10-12, immersing Telluride, Colorado, in a three-day horror celebration.
Highlights of Telluride Horror Show’s 2025 lineup include Bryan Fuller‘s charming Dust Bunny, with Fuller in attendance, and the Colorado premiere of Shelby Oaks. The Adams Family returns with festival darling Mother of Flies, and the festival will also an advance screening of three episodes of Season 2 of “The Creep Tapes.”
The festival welcomes a stacked slate of guest authors, including Grady Hendrix, Stephen Graham Jones, Sarah Langan, Daniel Kraus, Paul Tremblay and Jeremy Robert Johnson, whose works have reshaped modern horror literature. Authors will participate in Creepy Campfire Tales, the annual Horror Summit, and signings throughout the weekend.
Legendary film producer Jon Davison (RoboCop, Starship Troopers) returns as the Vault Keeper, hosting six classic horror films on glorious 16MM as part of the beloved Horror Vault program. And Meredith Borders, senior editor at Fangoria, returns as Guest Host, bringing her deep genre knowledge to the festival stage.
A Woman Called Mother
Indonesia | 2025 | 119 min | Director: Randolph Zaini
COLORADO PREMIERE
A teenage girl from a broken home, Vira, and her younger brother, Dino, live under constant threat as they share a house with a mother who is no longer herself—possessed by a dark force from a powerful talisman.
Blood Shine
USA | 2025 | 100 min | Directors: Emily Bennett & Justin Brooks
COLORADO PREMIERE
IN PERSON: Emily Bennett & Justin Brooks
In upstate New York, Clara is a religious zealot who worships light in lonely, sacred rituals. Brighton West is a horror filmmaker trying to work on his script when a chance encounter with Clara leads him into a hallucinatory web of faith, flesh, and the sublime. From the directors of “Alone With You” (2021 Telluride Horror Show).
Boorman and the Devil
USA | 2025 | 112 min | Director: David Kittredge
COLORADO PREMIERE
After the success of POINT BLANK and DELIVERANCE, Warner Brothers offered John Boorman the opportunity of a lifetime…the chance to direct a sequel to their smash hit, THE EXORCIST. The result was one of the biggest disasters in movie history. A critical and financial failure that not only changed how Hollywood did business, but nearly ended Boorman’s filmmaking career. But to be an artist is to be a risk-taker. Now, John Boorman, Linda Blair, Louise Fletcher, Karyn Kusama, Mike Flanagan, and more reflect back on the ambition of the film, the artistry and craft, and the value of big creative swings.
Crazy Old Lady
Spain/Argentina | 2025 | 94 min | Director: Martín Mauregui
COLORADO PREMIERE
A man is asked by his ex-girlfriend to care temporarily for her senile mother, Alicia. But Alicia won’t let him leave, turning a simple task into a nightmare he must escape.
The Creep Tapes – Season 2
USA | 2025 | 67 min | Director: Patrick Brice
COLORADO PREMIERE
The Creep Tapes season two will continue to expose a collection of video tapes from the secret vault of the world’s deadliest and most socially uncomfortable serial killer (Mark Duplass). Unfortunately, as the tape rolls, the killer’s questionable intentions surface with his increasingly odd behavior and the victims will learn they may have made a deadly mistake. Watch an advanced screening of three episodes from season two before the series returns on Friday, November 14 on Shudder and AMC+.
Deathgasm 2: Goremageddon
Canada/New Zealand | 2025 | 102 min | Director: Jason Lei Howden
COLORADO PREMIERE
Years after thwarting a demon apocalypse, Brodie finds himself unemployed, single and without ambition. But when he learns that ‘NoizeQuest’, a battle-of-the-bands competition is coming to his town, he decides to reform his heavy metal band DEATHGASM to find redemption and, most importantly, get his ex-girlfriend Medina back. Only problem, his drummer Giles is missing an arm, and the rest of his band is, well…dead. Thankfully Brodie still has the pages of The Black Hymn, so raising his bandmates from beyond the living is as easy as playing a little tune…
Demons
Italy | 1985 | 89 min | Director: Lamberto Bava
40TH ANNIVERSARY
Welcome to the most life-enriching Italian terror-party of 1985. Produced by Dario Argento (SUSPIRIA) and directed by Lamberto Bava, DEMONS follows a panorama of punks, preppies, and ne’er-do-wells as they get trapped in a movie theater and possessed by gut-shredding Satanic demonoids. Featuring songs by Mötley Crüe and Billy Idol, gloopy effects, and the iconic Geretta Geretta in a lead role, this is the most fun you’ll ever have in a movie theater while watching a movie about beasties on the loose in a movie theater.
Dolly
USA | 2025 | 83 min | Director: Rod Blackhurst
COLORADO PREMIERE
IN PERSON: Noah Lang (Producer)
A young woman, Macy, fights for survival after being abducted by a deranged, monster-like figure who wants to raise Macy as their child. A daring blend of New French Extremity and 1970s American horror. From the director of “Here Alone” (2016 Telluride Horror Show).
Dust Bunny
USA | 2025 | 106 min | Director: Bryan Fuller
COLORADO PREMIERE
IN PERSON: Bryan Fuller
In visionary creator Bryan Fuller’s (“Hannibal,” “Pushing Daisies”) fantastical and wickedly inventive feature directorial debut Dust Bunny, a 10-year-old girl joins forces with her hit man neighbor to confront each other’s monsters. Ten-year-old Aurora has a mysterious neighbor (Mads Mikkelsen) who kills real-life monsters. He’s a hit man for hire. So, when Aurora needs help killing the monster she believes ate her entire family, she procures his services. Suspecting that her parents may have fallen victim to assassins gunning for him, Aurora’s neighbor guiltily takes the job. Now, to protect her, he’ll need to battle an onslaught of assassins – and accept that some monsters are real.
Flush
France | 2025 | 70 min | Director: Grégory Morin
U.S. PREMIERE
Trying to win back his girlfriend in a shady club, Luke finds himself in the middle of a drug deal gone wrong. Left for dead with his head stuck in the hole of a squat toilet, he must survive a nightmarish night involving dangerous dealers, a junkie rat, and an ever-increasing series of crazy circumstances.
Fuck My Son!
USA | 2025 | 94 min | Director: Todd Rohal
COLORADO PREMIERE
An X-Rated descent into demented comedy and maniacal horror, as a desperate mother drags an innocent stranger into an absurd, filthy nightmare beyond comprehension. An unflinchingly loyal adaptation of transgressive artist Johnny Ryan’s joyfully disgusting comic book. Adults only!
‘Good Boy’
Good Boy
USA | 2025 | 72 min | Director: Ben Leonberg
SPECIAL PRESENTATION COURTESY OF INDEPENDENT FILM COMPANY/SHUDDER
Our canine hero, Indy, finds himself on a new adventure with his human owner and best friend Todd, leaving city life for a long-vacant family home in the country. From the start, two things are abundantly clear: Indy is wary of the creepy old house, and his affection for Todd is unwavering. After moving in, Indy is immediately vexed by empty corners, tracks an invisible presence only he can see, perceives phantasmagoric warnings from a long-dead dog, and is haunted by visions of the previous occupant’s grim death. When Todd begins succumbing to the dark forces swirling around the house, Indy must battle a malevolence intent on dragging his beloved Todd into the afterlife. Celebrate your love of horror and pets with a special presentation of GOOD BOY, one of the best horror movies of the year, starring Indy the Dog. Donate to Second Chance Humane Society and Telluride Humane Society at the show! All door sales at the GOOD BOY screening will join passholders’ voluntary contributions.
Hellcat
USA | 2025 | 91 min | Director: Brock Bodell
COLORADO PREMIERE
Lena wakes up in a moving camper trailer with a horrifying wound. She’s warned by the driver that they have one hour to get to a doctor, or she’ll succumb to an unimaginably awful fate. As the pain sets in and reality begins to fray, who should really be afraid? Dakota Gorman (Natural Disasters) delivers a blistering performance in this tense, mind-bending horror where survival cuts both ways. The directorial feature debut from “Grief” short film director (2019 Telluride Horror Show).
Honey Bunch
Canada | 2025 | 113 min | Directors: Madeleine Sims-Fewer and Dusty Mancinelli
COLORADO PREMIERE
Diana’s husband is taking her to an experimental trauma facility deep in the wilderness, but she can’t remember why… As her memories begin to creep back in, so do some unwelcome sinister truths about her marriage.
It Ends
USA | 2025 | 87 min | Director: Alexander Ullom
COLORADO PREMIERE
A group of recent grads head out on a late-night drive for grub, hoping to enjoy one final hangout before their paths diverge. Instead, they accidentally turn onto a never-ending, two-lane hellscape surrounded by untold horrors and cosmic forces beyond their understanding. Cramped together inside a Jeep Cherokee and with the miles stretching infinitely ahead, they face a choice: embrace their new existence or fight to escape it.
Man Finds Tape
USA | 2025 | 84 min | Directors: Peter Hall & Paul Gandersman
COLORADO PREMIERE
Pulled in by a series of strange and unexplainable video clips, a brother and sister team up to investigate the events captured in the footage, only to discover a shocking secret that’s overtaking their small-town Texas community.
Mother of Flies
USA | 2025 | 92 min | Directors: John Adams, Zelda Adams, Toby Poser
COLORADO PREMIERE
IN PERSON: John Adams, Zelda Adams, Toby Poser
Mickey faces a deadly diagnosis, but she isn’t ready to die yet. Heading into the woods with her father, she seeks dark magic at the hands of mysterious recluse, Solveig, who has an intimate relationship with death and roots that go deep in the land. For three days, Mickey endures Solveig’s extreme rituals of death magic. But every cure has its cost, and every curse is another’s gift. As buried secrets claw their way to the surface, the veil between the living and the dead begins to unravel, and Mickey finds herself facing dark truths that only the dead and the dying can know. The Adams Family returns with their fourth feature film at Telluride Horror Show!
Shelby Oaks
USA | 2025 | 91 min | Director: Chris Stuckmann
NEON SPOTLIGHT
COLORADO PREMIERE
A woman’s obsessive search for her missing sister leads her into a terrifying mystery at the hands of an unknown evil.
The Vile
UAE/USA | 2025 | 101 min | Director: Majid Al Ansari
COLORADO PREMIERE
Amani is living a happy family life – until one day, her husband, Khalid, shows up at the door with his new wife, Zahra. Citing Amani’s inability to bear him a son as the reason, Khalid insists he still loves her and their daughter, Noor, and that nothing will change. But change comes quickly. Zahra grows increasingly comfortable, inserting herself into every corner of the household and getting involved in Noor’s struggles with bullying at school. Bit by bit, she wins Noor over – much to Amani’s distress. Amani begins to suspect there’s something dark and evil about Zahra. Trying to adjust to this new reality, Amani turns to her sister for support—only to be told she’s overreacting. Gradually, she finds herself pushed to the margins, handling the household duties while Zahra enjoys a life of ease. When Amani uncovers details about Zahra’s previous marriage, she tracks down the former wife, Huda, now living in an institution. There, she gets the confirmation she feared: Zahra is truly dangerous. Determined to protect her daughter, Amani prepares to do whatever it takes.
We Bury The Dead
Australia | 2024 | 92 min | Director: Zak Hilditch
COLORADO PREMIERE
The dead start to rise and roam the island of Tasmania after disaster strikes. While searching for her missing husband, Ava (Daisy Ridley) discovers a horrible truth: the undead are becoming more violent and dangerous.
SHORTS
“Weak in the Knees”
“Chamber of Horrors”
The Gnawer of Rocks (Mangittatuarjuk)
Canada | 2025 | 14 min | Director: Louise Flaherty
COLORADO PREMIERE
Two young women out for a walk follow a trail of colored stones left on the ground, which leads them to danger. They are trapped in the lair of the Mangittatuarjuk, the Gnawer of Rocks. The women are terrified when they realize what the monster has been doing. The young women and their village must use the teachings of the elders to defeat the monster.
Väsen
Sweden | 2025 | 8 min | Director: Kiggs
COLORADO PREMIERE
Returning Filmmaker
In a cold 18th century Sweden, two sisters fight for their survival as they find themselves trapped in a farmhouse by the maleficent Gårdstomten and his army of man-eating Mylings.
Hammer
USA | 2023 | 12 min | Directors: Alejandra Parody & Ben Sottak
COLORADO PREMIERE
IN PERSON: Alejandra Parody
Accused of witchcraft, an enslaved woman comes face to face with evil incarnate and must make a Faustian bargain for her freedom while imprisoned in the bowels of the Palace of the Inquisition.
AMIRA
Spain | 2025 | 16 min | Director: Javier Yañez Sanz
COLORADO PREMIERE
In the XIX Century there’s a music school where it’s always dark…
The Chosen
USA | 2025 | 9 min | Director: Brady Richards
WORLD PREMIERE
Returning Filmmaker
IN PERSON: Brady Richards, Toby Poser
Reed is troubled by a vision forcing him to do bad things, but nobody believes him. Maybe this new therapist will understand?
The Littles
USA | 2025 | 7 min | Director: Andrew Duplessie
COLORADO PREMIERE
IN PERSON: Andrew Duplessie
When 11-year-old Juliet stubs her toe on a loose floorboard, she unwittingly sets off a series of mysterious events. A faint noise and an unusual glow seeping through the cracks capture her curiosity. But as she investigates, Juliet finds herself pulled into a chilling, otherworldly encounter.
The Pearl Comb
UK | 2024 | 21 min | Director: Ali Cook
COLORADO PREMIERE
In 1893, an endearing Cornish fisherman’s wife captures the attention of the medical profession as the first person to ever cure someone of tuberculosis. A doctor, hell bent on proving a woman’s place is in the home and not practicing medicine, is sent to investigate her miraculous claim – only to discover the source of her unearthly power…
“Sinister Stories”
TURN IT OFF
USA | 2024 | 7 min | Director: Senda Bonnet
COLORADO PREMIERE
IN PERSON: Senda Bonnet
A woman races through the woods, hiding from an unseen threat. After injuring her leg, she finds refuge in a house, but we see a girl curled up on her couch, safe at home watching the same film we are. As the woman hides, the girl realizes the events on-screen are linked to her world. Terrified, she turns off the TV but hears a cry from upstairs. Drawn by fear, she approaches her closet…
Inheritance
USA | 2025 | 10 min | Director: Arvind Palep
WORLD PREMIERE
IN PERSON: Arvind Palep
A family’s quiet evening of unpacking boxes descends into a chilling nightmare when they uncover a mysterious artifact – an ominous relic that reveals itself as a portal to another dimension. As Iris’s husband and children are pulled beyond its shadowy threshold, she is left to confront an abyss alive with whispers and dread – only to discover the malevolent forces lurking within may have been waiting for her all along.
Animas Forks
USA | 2025 | 14 min | Director: Sam Blakesberg
COLORADO PREMIERE
IN PERSON: Sam Blakesberg, Jack Ebstein, Maggie Hernandez, Van Wampler
A young woman and her uncle stumble upon a dark ritual performed in an old Colorado mining town.
Nightfall
USA | 2025 | 18 min | Director: Zac Villanueva
WORLD PREMIERE
On a stormy night a guilt-ridden teen visits a grieving mother, looking for some kind of connection. As buried grief resurfaces he’s drawn into a psychological reckoning that blurs reality – a final act of shocking vengeance completes the cycle.
Heirlooms
Canada | 2025 | 13 min | Director: Dan Abramovici
Jaime’s quest for healing leads her to restore a family heirloom. But what begins as a therapeutic project, soon spirals into a battle against an ancient evil that has plagued her bloodline for generations.
The Night Within
USA | 2024 | 18 min | Director: Mark Lammerding
COLORADO PREMIERE
IN PERSON: Mark Lammerding
A social worker’s obsession with a case plunges him into a fight for survival against malevolent forces.
Harvester
USA | 2025 | 13 min | Director: Charlie Schwan
COLORADO PREMIERE
Returning Filmmaker
IN PERSON: Charlie Schwan, Micah Schultz, Eric Palmer
A woman forms a pact with a dark entity in exchange for a glimpse into her tormented past.
“Sleep Tight”
“Uncanny Tales”
What’s in Your Bag?
USA | 2025 | 5 min | Director: Béla Baptiste
COLORADO PREMIERE
It starts, predictably, with the benign. An interview, a celebrity with effortless charm, a designer bag, and the familiar ritual of personal revelation in this “inside look” series – shallow as it is invasive. The host’s expectation for sanitized intimacy is soon subverted, as a polished, white smile transforms into something far more dangerous.
MurderBird
USA | 2025 | 16 min | Director: Barrett Lesly Shuler
NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE
IN PERSON: Barrett Lesly Shuler, Jazmin Patiño, Keith Roenke, Arturo Reyes, Donovan Edelstein
In an attempt to save his relationship a man buys his girlfriend a rare exotic bird for her birthday. After the couple develops a deep emotional bond with the bird, its true colors begin to emerge.
A Hand to Hold
UK | 2025 | 15 min | Director: Philip Clyde-Smith
WORLD PREMIERE
Moira, an elderly Irish woman, finds herself literally attached to her deceased husband Patrick. When his hand refuses to let go after death, it leads to increasingly grotesque events. Everyone in the couple’s orbit, from their daughter to the local doctor, a farmer, a priest, and a Satanist, all try to intervene with horrific consequences.
Forever, Liam
Canada/Venezuela | 2025 | 22 min | Director: Guillermo de la Rosa
WORLD PREMIERE
Alejandro and Paula’s young relationship takes a dark turn when her parents reveal a family secret: they live with the preserved corpse of Paula’s grandfather, caring for it as if he were still alive.
Sleep Tight
USA | 2025 | 5 min | Director: Grace Presse
COLORADO PREMIERE
IN PERSON: Grace Presse
A woman suffering from sleep paralysis awakes to a noise coming from inside her closet.
The Path
USA | 2025 | 7 min | Director: Patrick Guera
COLORADO PREMIERE
IN PERSON: Patrick Guera
A boy is stalked on an isolated path.
Man of the House
USA | 2025 | 8 min | Director: Alex Henes
COLORADO PREMIERE
Returning Filmmaker
IN PERSON: Alex Henes, Eric Wysocki, Audrey Harden, Gabe Harden
An exhausted mom must face the monstrous truth about who – or what – her son becomes at night.
Don’t Talk to Strangers
Spain | 2023 | 5 min | Director: Imanol Ortiz Lopez
COLORADO PREMIERE
My mom tells me not to talk to strangers, but Agustín is not a stranger because every time we go to his store he offers me candy…
Sicko
USA | 2025 | 10 min | Director: Aman Johnson
COLORADO PREMIERE
Returning Filmmaker
IN PERSON: Aman Johnson, Josh Verduzco, David Lee Hess, Lee Rothenflue
A family conversation turns grim.
“Vault of Humor”
Museum of Regret
USA | 2025 | 9 min | Director: Skye Braband
COLORADO PREMIERE
IN PERSON: Skye Braband, Sara Dowling
A television repair spirals into a surreal nightmare.
Oliver
Canada | 2025 | 14 min | Director: Andrew Strickland
U.S. PREMIERE
Renowned chef Oliver Stewart’s life takes a sharp turn when he’s bitten by a seductive vampire co-worker, rendering his beloved ingredient, garlic, off-limits. Forced to reinvent himself for a career-defining review, he faces moral dilemmas and grapples with newfound identity.
Damsel in Geekstress
France | 2025 | 11 min | Director: Renaud Parra
NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE
Glued to her computer screen, Eva is a die-hard geek, much to the dismay of Koki, her loyal gerbil. But when the collector’s figurine of her dreams finally goes on sale, things quickly spiral out of control…
Wall Udder
USA | 2025 | 9 min | Director: Alexandra Hayden
COLORADO PREMIERE
IN PERSON: Alexandra Hayden
A surreal story of love, loss, and lactose.
Bidet
Canada | 2025 | 7 min | Director: James Brylowski
COLORADO PREMIERE
A group of friends are hunted by a possessed bidet.
Five Star
USA | 2025 | 14 min | Director: Kai Hasson
COLORADO PREMIERE
IN PERSON: Kai Hasson, Caitlin Enright, William Hasson, Chizu Hamada
When late-night locksmith Soung Kang is asked to lock a door forever, he discovers a dark secret that pushes him to extraordinary lengths to secure his five-star Yelp review.
Whitch
USA | 2025 | 6 min | Director: Hoku Uchiyama
After putting her daughter to bed, Aura discovers an intruder in her house: an elderly lady who acts strangely familiar, and is hell-bent on performing a bloody ritual before midnight.
Lurk
USA | 2024 | 10 min | Directors: Mairin Hart and Josh Wallace Kerrigan
COLORADO PREMIERE
A man is awoken late at night by an unexpected visitor who won’t seem to leave him alone.
CHÄIR
USA | 2025 | 6 min | Director: Chris McInroy
COLORADO PREMIERE
Returning Filmmaker
IN PERSON: Chris McInroy, Carlos LaRotta
Carl just wanted to sit down. The chair had other plans.
Weak in the Knees
USA | 2025 | 7 min | Directors: Shivers & Viking
WORLD PREMIERE
The story of a masked killer who was eventually feared by all.
Passes are available at www.telluridehorrorshow.com. Individual tickets will be sold at the door of each venue just before showtime, but only after 3-Day Pass and 6-Pack holders have been admitted and seats are still available.
