Philadelphia Asian American Film Festival

Sci-Fi Horror Genre Shorts

Lightbox Film Center 3701 Chestnut St, Philadelphia, PA, United States

Back by popular demand, this year’s FREE program of Sci-Fi, Horror, and Action Genre shorts are sure to keep your spine tingling long after you leave the theater! Subjects include time travel, revenge beyond the grave, and demons of ancient folklore. Black Thread Yuji Okumoto (Karate Kid II) stars as a supernatural hitman caught between his desire for revenge and damning himself to a hell of eternal suffering. Time Capsule As an astronaut barrels towards Earth on a crash landing she’s certain not to survive, she makes a final call to her mother and finds herself in a most unexpected conversation. The Sweetening A lonely woman takes part in the beta testing of an augmented reality program and falls for a man she meets in a florist shop. Desperate to find out if he’s a real person or just an avatar, her obsession with the program leads to the destruction of her life as she knows it. Wan Mei (Perfect) When a man realizes his girlfriend has been unfaithful to him, he resorts to revenge... and the love of a mannequin. Kumiho A young man on a light jog through the woods is disrupted when an alluring woman runs past and coaxes him to a cabin. By the time he realizes that the woman is more than what she appears - it’s too late! Facebook Event Page

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