Sacramento Horror Film Festival IX (2015) [What I saw]

A man uses his smart phone to assist in burying a dead body.

After attempting to cross the US/Mexico border in search of a better life, Armando awakens in an unknown room, his body broken down and a Lucha Libre mask sewn into his neck. He attempts to escape, but is surrounded by a sadistic family, who watch him with hungry eyes. The only chance for Armando's survival in this hellish nightmare is to last in a wrestling match against the most terrifying villain of all: GIGANTE!

One bad guy discovers that moving up in a crime ring has its downsides. Just as his new career starts, it might already be coming to an end. He'll either have to set an example or become one. This 'goredy' follows the bad guy who just got promoted to the dead end job of bad guy #2. It's the job of the guy who always gets killed by the boss in order to prove a point that the gang needs to stop messing up. Promotions are good, unless you're bad.

'LAPSUS' tells the tale of Terry, a psychologically disturbed predator who's roaming ground is a laundromat. Terry thinks he is the hero of a comic gangster he is reading 'Terry Lawrence, Gentleman Gangster'. He uses the personality from every individual who enters progressively into the scullery, to create his own gangster story, shortly after being murdered in cold blood. Then, Terry switches the characters of the comic book by its own victims he kills and kills again differently and indefinitely.

A horror morality tale about the custodian of an electric chair and its last casualty. Inspired by the recent reinstatement of the electric chair in Tennessee.

Prepare for immortality.

Simon is a little boy that has to deal with his babysitter, Sonia, a total nuisance. But that same night Simon will receive and unexpected visitor, Timothy, the main character of Simon's favourite show, a visit he will never forget.

An acupuncturist forms a primal bond with her female patient after years of treatment.

What happens when an unsuspecting man gets in the way of another's fate?

THE SHUTTERBUG MAN tells the tale of a very twisted man, whose only passion in life is taking pictures. That passion takes him to terrible and wicked places.

On a seemingly ordinary commute in San Francisco, a woman finds herself on a journey of terror aboard a mysterious streetcar.

When a mysterious girl falls into the sights of a violent stalker, she is left with only one means of survival...

An innocent mix-up leads to disaster when two girlfriends encounter an extraterrestrial substance at a winter music festival.

A dark horror comedy about a new dating service, for the most dangerous people that walk amongst us.

A pair of home invaders consider their potential character choices just prior to their planned invasion.

Anna suffers from an unknown illness, and she tries to keep her daughter save.

An aging porn star agrees to participate in an "art film" in order to make a clean break from the business, only to discover that he has been drafted into making a pedophilia and necrophilia themed snuff film.

A film about a family's terrifying experience with a mysterious foster child's buried secrets.

An unknown man who has been kidnapped, is now in the diabolical clutches of the Crude Surgeon, a dart-loving, cold-blooded, psychopath on a terrifying and gruesome mission.

Leah, a lonely zombie-in-hiding, is forced to rejoin society when she inherits a house from a mysterious relative. Bullied into getting roommates by a suspicious inheritance lawyer, she's joined by Hazel (a gutter punk goblin-in-exile) and Half-Off (a naive alien researching human love) on the path to redemption. Monster Girls takes a darkly comic look at the lives of every modern 20-something; desperate to find identity, acceptance, and a way to resist the urge to kill everyone they meet.

A man invites his friend over one night to show off his latest invention: a trap for catching aliens.

Beatrice and Laurent are a couple. Laurent mysteriously lost his senses, little by little. Gradually, he lost the taste and smell, and touch. But more worryingly, it only affects his perception of his wife. He wonders if the problem really comes from him...

When parents start to notice disturbing behavior in their only son, they call on a local tribal healer to rid him of the evil "demon."

A newly-engaged couple have a breakdown in an isolated area and must seek shelter at the bizarre residence of Dr. Frank-n-Furter.