Three aspiring ad-men take a weekend in the wilderness, brainstorming for their first assignment: to overhaul the image of a once popular cleaning product, Claractix. While in the woods, a girlfriend’s mysterious disappearance sparks a harrowing descent into unreality.

“I CAN SEE YOU heralds a splendid new filmmaker with one eye on genre mechanics, 
one eye on avant-garde conceits and a third eye for transcendental weirdness.”
—The New York Times

“Without a doubt one of the most intriguing and well-crafted low-budget horror films in recent memory.”—Fangoria

“Ultimately opting for Brakhage over butchery, by turning vision itself into 
a mind-frying source of anxiety.”
—Village Voice

8PM
AUTOMATONS
James Felix McKenney (2006 83 min, B&W)
Christine Spencer, Angus Scrimm, Brenda Cooney

Somewhere in the distant future, The Girl is alone. She is the last of her people, the others having died in a generations-long war that the girl continues to fight with the assistance of a group of antiquated robot helpers and soldiers.

“Robot radness achieved! Budgets are for bitches.”
—Nathan Lee The Village Voice

“Mr. McKenney’s claustrophobic technique becomes his way not only of accommodating his small budget, but of evoking the film’s themes of isolation and denial.”
—S. James Snyder The NY Sun

“If you’re into retro tech, or just retro sci-fi, or damn good MiSTie fodder,
then you’re going to love Automatons.”
—Steve Anderson Film Threat

10PM
Satan Hates You
Dir. James Felix McKenney (2011 94 min, hvx, 1.78)
Don Wood, Larry Fessenden, Christine Spencer, Angus Scrimm,
Reggie Bannister, Michael Berryman

We follow Marc (Don Wood) a homicidal maniac driven by demons buried deep within his soul, and Wendy (Christine Spencer) Marc’s polar opposite who lives life fast and hard without a second’s thought to the consequences. Their separate paths will eventually cross, but will it be on the road to salvation or the highway to hell?

“works as a sneakily sincere re-imagining of Christian scare tactics
as a punch-drunk passion play for wayward hedonists”
—Simon Abrams

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