Atop the beachhead penal colony of Atlantis, inmates are inexplicably committing suicide in the grisliest of ways, shaking the already controversial facility to its very sand and stone foundation and leaving a staff and surviving population to unravel a web of deceit, corruption and treachery whose source is closer than they would ever suspect.
Diagnosed as terminally ill, Boone Harrison’s final wish is to reunite with a long-lost offspring he had once so callously abandoned. Unable to drive the required thousand-plus miles required for the reunion, he hires Bradley Kane, a man facing down his own demons, to chauffer him down the long, winding trail from eastern Montana to northern Mississippi. As the three-day odyssey transpires, the older man regales Kane with tales of a tragic family history spanning nearly three centuries, each story more cruel, sadistic and horrifying than the last. In the face of the Boone Harrison’s rapidly deteriorating health, the pair eventually arrive at the secluded, desolate country farmhouse of the mysterious kin he has so desperate sought. As night falls beneath a fittingly foreboding blood moon on the isolated ranch, a terrifying legacy will be either put to merciful rest or given new, horrific life.
During the patriotic heyday of the cold war era, Deron Barrow gained a measure of fame portraying tough-as-nails war movie host Sergeant Ace Claymore, his fledging television career soon derailed amid lurid details of a checkered, real-life military history. Decades later and living in relative reclusion in a small Mississippi town, Barrow is approached by a pair of young documentary filmmakers and offered the opportunity to separate fact from fiction regarding a pair of infamous tragedies; one at a remote Air Force base and the other an infamous hotel massacre at an iced-in Arkansas lodge, the question of Barrow’s status as either hero or villain left to interpretation. As filming draws to a close, the many vengeful ghosts of Barrow’s bygone days fire a final, potentially fatal salvo, pressing the fictional Sergeant Claymore to the forefront once more, the actor behind the makeup forced to revisit life-or-death survival skills once reserved for a television soundstage.
As the atypical small southern town, Baymont, Alabama holds but one unique, albeit tragic distinction; that being the mysterious, grisly murders of two former high school standouts the night of the Class of `81¿s twenty-fifth reunion. Hoping to shed new light on the bizarre, quasi-supernatural circumstances surrounding the twin slayings, a documentary filmmaker and his crew descend upon the town amid a general indifference from the locals, the majority of which regard all media-related types as little more than predatory blood-mongers and publicity seekers. However, as filming progresses and interviews with former classmates of the victims reveal a dark, sinister flipside to Baymont's tranquil surroundings, the identity of a possible killer begins to take shape, unlocking not only the shocking secret to the reunion night murders, but also the horrid truth behind a similarly gruesome cold-case from twenty-five years earlier.
The tiny, isolated Louisiana township of Dufour Path lays claim to the singular distinction of being home to what locals refer to as 'Oddity Manor', a stately southern mansion located in the boggy backwoods that serves as an isolated safe-haven of sorts for an eccentric gathering of retired, specially-endowed types once referred to as carny or sideshow freaks. Assigned by a newly hatched news-webzine whose brash young editor has somehow finagled a meeting with the manor's reclusive head-of-household, noted investigative reporter Brett Delaney arrives at the infamous, media-dubbed House of Freaks to question the current inhabitants concerning a mysterious double-disappearance from the estate grounds nearly a decade past, now a legendary cold-case long-since written off as unsolvable. Beneath a surging storm-cloud pregnant with distrust, disdain and barely-restrained fury, the veteran journalist will slowly unearth a sinister agenda revealing not only the dark secret of those earlier vanishings, but a twisted charade of murderous mayhem that threatens both the sanity and survival of all present. Welcome to Oddity Manor, where the welcome mat invites the innocent while cleverly cloaking the many horrors of its blood-soaked past.
The passing of time in seconds, minutes, and hours can be many things; redundant, noteworthy, exhilarating, or horrifying, depending of course on the situation at hand and the subjects involved. However, as the clock on the wall strikes midnight and the surrounding shadows seem to sway and pulse with a life all their own, the Witching Hour officially begins anew, during which time a cloak sewn of menace and malevolence blankets the darkened landscape. It is during this brief period that all things normal mutate into the abnormal, when the mundane becomes anything but. The evidence of such sinister alterations are witnessed in the following terror-tales: ~~At an isolated cabin retreat deep within a desolate forest, a vacationing family discovers a terrifying new meaning to the term 'bug hunt'. ~~ In the very near future, a fragmented group of second-rate, ragtag 'Super-heroes' attempt to quell the systematic slaughter of their own kind by a mysterious, powerhouse assassin whose sole agenda seems to be an extreme case of 'hero' eradication. ~~Drifting atop the open sea in an inflatable life-raft, the lone survivors of a cruise-ship disaster soon find themselves locked in a psychological death-match for what little previsions remain... ~~ Strangers stranded in a snow-encased bus stop swap their favorite Yuletide memories, at least one of which is anything but cheery and heartwarming, but instead filled with grisly, graven images better suited for All Hallows Eve. ~~ Marooned on an uncharted planet, the crew of a space supply vessel discover the very grounds they walk upon infested with an all-too-familiar internal parasite with a hunger for warm, human flesh. ~~ 21st Century LawEnforcement meets 18th Century mythology as the dedicated men and women of the New Orleans PD come face to face with a legendary beast of Lupine origin.. Twenty-eight chronicles in all, each providing chilling proof that not only can time indeed heal all wounds, but also open permanent, potentially fatal gashes to the human psyche.
Following extensive damage and several tragic deaths incurred from a deadly tornado, the infamous Pine Hills Penitentiary permanently closed its cell doors in the spring of 1989. Decades later, the long-abandoned prison is reopened for a one-night-only concert to be attended by former staff and inmates, the mysterious benefactor and host the son of a former inmate who vanished on the night of the deadly twister. Specifically requested as the show’s feature act is ‘80’s hard rock band, Death Adler, newly reformed with faint hopes of a comeback. As the curtain lifts beneath a full and foreboding southern moon, the aged rockers, notorious for their snake tattoos, lurid song lyrics and reptilian cool, will fall victim to an encore of unrelenting terror.
Framed for a murder he didn't commit, second-tier superhero Ben Thomason, known in the trades as 'Desolation Outlaw', is convicted and sentenced to life in prison at Eagle Island Detention Center, a top secret, billion dollar penitentiary that houses only the elite of super-villains and super- hero's gone bad. Following the initial incarceration phase, he greets both old allies and enemies alike amid an inexplicable feeling of dread that looms atop the desolate island location like a toxic black cloud. Set against a surreal backdrop filled with deadly mutants, vile alien entities and merciless madmen, the purest of all evils is slowly awakening just below the surface of the prison's stringently controlled environment; an ancient being whose raw power dwarfs those of all assigned inmates combined. As centuries-old mysteries unravel and shocking truths are unmasked, the imprisoned inhabitants and embittered staff of Eagle Isle are forced to ban together and pool their respective powers in order to survive the greatest threat of all, and from the most unlikely of sources. No man is an island, indeed, most notably a penal colony turned beachhead graveyard soon to be renamed 'Desolation Island'.
Enter a realm where unbridled horror dwells, an isolated, long-abandoned homestead that opens it's decomposing doors to three Halloween thrill seekers on a quest for the ultimate trek into unrelenting terror. Tales will be told to chill the bones and freeze the bloodstream as a foreboding presence that thirsts for the souls of the wicked lurks in the shadows, patiently waiting for the arrival of the Witching Hour, when the manifestation of true evil will find sweet release.
Enter a dark, frigid realm where nightmares take shape; a harsh, frozen dreamscape littered with grave images of dread, fear and impending doom. Join Staff Sergeant Jesse Thornton and Airman Lauren Carter atop a desolate, isolated Air Force base located on Alaska's Aleutian Islands as they pass an otherwise routine security shift critiquing horror tales as a blinding snowstorm engulfs their tiny guard shack safe haven. As the witching hour approaches and the final terror tale is read, both will discover that the old adage 'WHEN HELL FREEZES OVER' has an entirely new, and undeniably horrific meaning. Join us...if you dare, at the steely, ice-coated front gates of Myerson Air Force ase...where true warmth is a commodity, but 'Bone Chills' are plentiful....
A suspenseful tale of a man happily isolated from the whole of society, a 21st Century hermit, having lived the first four decades of his life witnessing constant bouts of tragedy and inexplicable death to both family members and strangers alike.After years of refusing to do so, the man grants a local newspaper reporter an interview in an attempt to unburden his own weary, battered soul, believing that such a vocal cleansing will remove the massive weight that misery has banded to his very being.As tales are unwoven and shocking truths uncovered, the 'sole citizen', as the old man has been duly labeled by local media, soons discovers that the act of baring one's soul can unwittinglyrelease ancient specters from the past better leftlocked away and forgotten....
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One by one they stroll to the podium to tell their storyA[a¬afamily members whose relatives became infamous for crimes of shocking savagery. They unweave their tales to an auditorium filled with medical students tasked with writing extensive essays on the criminally insane mind. The victims of the gene pool step forward and regale the fascinated group with tales that witness utter madness in its most primal, primitive form. Are the traits of lunacy and dementia actually drawn from oneA[a¬a[s family heritage or do the brief flashes of insanity all humans display only reveal themselves in random cases? Witness a strong argument to the former, as the individuals in the audience will attest to by the time the final, horrific saga is toldA[a¬A]Every family has its black sheep. An unfortunate few are cursed with lineages soiled by nothing less than SatanA[a¬a[s touch.
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