Join us for 12 hours of creepy fun - noon to midnight at Smitty's Cinema (1327 Main St., Sanford)!

NOTE: Our rating system is only a suggestion made by SIFF staff to help families make the best decision about which films they should watch. All films are officially unrated. Please familiarize yourself with the programming before sending your children to the theater for SIFF2018.

12:00 PM
The Blood Calls (10 minutes)
United States (ages 13+)

A man suspects his family isn't who he thought they were, requiring him to take extreme measures.

Directed by Kenneth R. McKinney.

12:10 PM
Munchies (2 minutes)
United Kingdom (all ages)

Zombie Lee has an outrageous hunger that won’t be satisfied by food alone. With his need to feed increasing, misjudgment and disaster arise in the kitchen until a simple solution is found.

Directed by Sinead Stoddart.

​Nominated for Best Animated Film.

12:12 PM
The Weeping Woman (2 minutes)
United States (ages 13+)

La Llorona is a ghost in Mexican folklore - a woman who lost her children and causes misfortune to those who are near or who hear her cries. A woman veers off the road and crashes into a tree one evening, and she begins to hear strange noises coming from the woods...

Directed by Issac Rodriguez.

12:15 PM
Count Your Curses  (9 minutes)
Belgium (all ages)

In a town where supernatural beings are part of everyday life, two roommates face a problem: Their house spirit was devoured by an unknown creature overnight. They seek a replacement spirit and a solution to their pest problem.

Directed by Lorène Yavo.

Nominated for Best Animated Film.

12:25PM
Carved (13 minutes)
United Kingdom (ages 13+)

Once upon a time, Nick and Cathy carved their initials on a tree. Three years later, Nick and Cathy break up... and something in the tree snaps.

Directed by Daniel Caradec.

12:40 PM
Fynn (11 minutes)
Germany (ages 13+)

A young rapper Dissy falls under the influence of a DJ named Fynn. Dissy falls in love but soon becomes a psychopathic stalker. Must he defeat Fynn to save himself?

Directed by Till Krücken.

​Nominated for Best Music Video.

​12:50 PM
Saving Mercury (7 minutes)
Australia (ages 13+)

Unexpectedly reunited with his daughter amongst the ruins of the world as they knew it, a father is determined to make this day special, even if they're already dead.

Directed by Ali Kadhim.

Nominated for Best Editing (Ali Kadhim).

1:00 PM
Our Friend Jon (80 minutes)
United States (ages 13+)

World Premiere! Before Jon Hernandez passed away due to complications stemming from sickle cell anemia, he was writing a horror film he wanted to make with his friends. Upon his untimely death, his friends (all of whom have their own disabilities) decide to make the film in Jon's honor - even though they have no clue where to start​.

Directed by Edward Payson.

Nominated for Best Feature Film and Best Documentary.

*Filmmakers plan to be in attendance.​

2:45 PM
Dead Air (12 minutes)
Ireland (ages 13+)

A man spends his days sending radio transmissions out to a post-apocalyptic world overrun by zombies, assuming he's the last living person on earth. Then, during one broadcast, the phone rings.​

Directed by Emmet O'Brien.

3:00 PM
Heimlich (20 minutes)
Greece (ages 13+)

An attractive woman greets a slovenly man living in a run-down home in a seaside town and insinuates herself into his existence.

Directed by Kostas Bakouris.

Nominated for Best International Film and Best Director (​Kostas Bakouris).

3:20 PM
The Gatekeepers (10 minutes)
Germany (ages 13+)

A man enters a labyrinthine building in search of a job. As he struggles to find the interview room, each turn leaves him more and more confused.

Directed by Mirko Hans.

Nominated for Best Music (Chris Köbke) and Best Cinematography (Mirko Hans).

3:30 PM
Beneath the Surface (20 minutes)
Denmark (ages 13+)

When the ice melted, the human race took shelter deep beneath the surface of the ocean. After a device designed to conjure up the lost world of the past is invented, two friends decide to escape this underground world in hope of a better one.

Directed by Mark Pallisgaard Hansen.

3:50 PM
Shelter (10 minutes)
Austria (ages 13+)

​A wanderer in the wasteland seeks shelter in an abandoned trailer, where he discovers the corpse of a boy with strange wounds... 

Directed by Daniel Andrew Wunderer.

4:00 PM
Papers, Please (11 minutes)
Russia (ages 13+)

1982. East Grestin, Arstotzka. The 6-year war with neighboring Kolechia is over. There is a fragile peace, although a border checkpoint now separates East and West Grestin. An official adaptation of the award-winning game by Lucas Pope.

Directed by Nikita Ordynskiy​.

Nominated for Best Cinematography (Alexsandr Alexsandrov) and Best Editing (Dmitry Khrenov​).

4:15 PM
The Dark Hunger (15 minutes)
United States (ages 16+)

They took away his memory and his life. Now "Dead Fred" must embrace the monster he’s become to regain his humanity - and try to set everything right.

Directed by Anthony Williams.

Nominated for Best Horror Film.

4:30 PM
The Peculiar Abilities of Mr. Mahler (29 minutes)
Germany (ages 13+)

East Germany, 1987: The police assign a special investigator - said to have paranormal abilities due to his keen powers of observation and deduction - to deal with a child's disappearance. The family tragedy is becoming a political embarrassment in the press, but is there more to the situation than meets the eye?

Directed by Paul Philipp.

Nominated for Best International Film, Best Actor (André Hennicke), Best Screenplay (​Belo Schwarz).

5:00 PM
Save (4 minutes)
Spain (ages 13+)

Two new parents are exhausted from caring for their baby. Disaster ensues as one of them has a psychotic break.

Directed by Iván Sáinz-Pardo.

​Nominated for Best Short Film and Best Music (Philipp Fabian Kölmel).

5:05 PM
Bot (24 minutes)
Germany (ages 16+)

After his marriage has ended, Noel - a middle-aged programmer - tries to redirect his personal and professional life with the help of a new intelligent language assistant. The AI not only assists him in coping with everyday life, but also arranges a date with the much younger Claudine.
​
Directed by Daniel Hoffmann​.

5:30 PM
Dysphagia (1 minute)
The Eighth Circle (5 minutes)
United States (ages 16+)

​Two films by director Pete Yagmin.

A man begins to feast on his prey, but difficulty swallowing creates some unexpected challenges.
 and
World Premiere! ​A clerical error in hell has delayed a man's eternal damnation - or so he thinks...

​*Filmmakers plan to be in attendance.

Dysphagia is nominated for the SIFF Audience Choice Award.
The Eighth Circle is nominated for Best Local Film and Best Horror Film.

5:45 PM
Omphaloskepsis (9 minutes)
United States - MAINE (ages 13+)

A young woman confronts her umbilical obsession with uncanny results.

Directed by Will Berry

Nominated for Best Student Film (College and Post-Grad) and Best Local Film.

​​*Filmmakers plan to be in attendance.

6:05 PM
Top Dollar Pawn presents:
For the Road (18 minutes)
United States (ages 13+)

A woman in a small local bar recounts her terrifying last night in Jerusalem's Lot, a ghost town overrun by vampires. Based on a short story by Stephen King.

Directed by Simon Scott.

Nominated for Best Horror Film.

6:25 PM
She Came from the Woods (12 minutes)
United States (ages 13+)

A scary campfire story comes to life for a group of counselors on the last day of summer at Camp Briarbrook.
​
Directed by Erik Bloomquist.

Nominated for Best Horror Film and Best Visual Effects.

​*Filmmakers plan to be in attendance.

6:40 PM
Eaglehawk (21 minutes)
Australia (ages 13+)

An aspiring actress performs in a local forest as the "Yowie" - a bigfoot-like creature. As she scares and entertains tourists, she also seeks to break free from her mundane daily routine.
​
Directed by Shannon Murphy.

Nominated for Best Actress (Tilda Cobham-Hervey).

7:00 PM
Cold Bee Gone presents:
Hominid (20 minutes)
United States (ages 13+)

Two young, ambitious primatologists are funded for a trip into the depths of the Northern Cascades of Washington State, to either prove or debunk the Sasquatch myth once and for all.
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Directed by Justin Suttles.

7:20 PM
Discussion with Loren Coleman

Learn more about Bigfoot and other cryptids in this live lecture from Loren Coleman - one of the world’s leading cryptozoologists and President of the Board for the International Cryptozoology Museum in Portland, Maine.

8:15 PM
Halloween ​(101 minutes)
United States (ages 16+)

Help us celebrate the 40th anniversary of John Carpenter's original classic with this high definition presentation!

Halloween night, 1963. Haddonfield, IL. A six-year-old child murders his older sister and is locked away in a sanitarium. 15 years later, Michael Myers escapes... and he's coming home.

10:00 PM
Halloween II (92 minutes)
United States (ages 16+)

The terror continues with the original sequel to the 1978 classic - presented in high definition!

Picking up right where the first film left off, Dr. Loomis tries to convince town sheriff Brackett that the monster is still on the loose. Meanwhile, the body count continues as Laurie Strode is taken to Haddonfield Memorial Hospital.

11:40 PM
The Eve (20 minutes)
Italy (ages 16+)

8-year-old Simon seems to have everything in life. But he's unhappy, sensing there's something wrong. His greatest wish is to leave the materialistic world behind; the only present he wants for Christmas is for Santa Claus to take him away to live in his toy factory. At the same time, a secret that his family has been keeping suddenly comes to the surface.

Directed by Luca Machnich​.

Nominated for Best Horror Film, Best Visual Effects, SIFF Audience Award.

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