Below, you can find a quick summary of the four features playing at Phoenix FearCon 2021.
Click on the links for each feature, to get full details, trailers, director statements, etc.
Apps (Chile, 93 min) – Friday 9 PM
Dir: Lucio A. Rojas, José Miguel Zuñiga, Sandra Arriagada, Camilo León and Samon Marquez
Star: Tutú Vidaurre, Nicolás Durán, Clara Kovacic, Nestor Cantillana, León Arriagada, Fernanda Finterbusch, Ignacia Uribe
Five stories where an app will open the doors to mystery and horror. A young woman, in the hands of a group of perverts belonging to a sinister network dedicated to sinister online streaming. A voyeur, who will discover that his neighbors hide dark secrets he wishes he had never heard. A young woman on a mysterious dating app. A group of friends on their way to a beautiful cabin, fall into the hands of an occult sect that hides behind the holiday accommodation business. And a little boy, used by his father to help him date online, will discover the power to defend himself.
Dark Fears (Argentina, 91 min) – Saturday 7 PM
Dir: Gabriel Musco
Star: Fabio Rosenstein, Grace Ulloa, Nahuel Yotich, Leandro Sandonato
Martín is the leader of a gang of kidnappers who, pressed for the health of his son, decides to kidnap a wealthy young woman living with her father. When they ask for the ransom, they discover that the father has disappeared. While Javier, Martín’s brother, leads the search for him, Martín and the rest of the gang try to obtain information from the young woman at any cost. Soon inexplicable events begin to occur and what seemed like a simple job quickly turns into a nightmare where each member of the band must fight to survive their worst fears.
Reset (USA, 89 minutes) – Saturday 3 PM
Dir: David Sumner
Star: Alyssa Corella, Ben Barlow
Danielle is your average college student getting ready to graduate. At a party she seems to become drunk, passes out and wakes up in the spare bedroom of a man named Edgar. He seems nice… but it soon becomes clear that his intentions are anything but benevolent. As she desperately tries to escape she finds that an heirloom may give her an unexpected advantage.
Zombie Infection (Malaysia, 92 min) – Saturday 1 PM
Dir: Ray Lee
Star: Pablo Amirul, Anna Melissa, Nelissa Nizam, Iqbal Danell
What starts as a series of secretive biological experiments has become a catastrophic event as Borneo Island is crippled by a zombie-like epidemic in the year 1999. Dr George brought the virus from the Comoros Island and used the local indigenous people as experimental subjects, until a breakout from his facility. Meanwhile, a group of teenagers led by Miss Ayu, who have survived the experiments, run into the jungle to take refuge. But their arrival is not welcome as there are already cases of zombies attacking the local inhabitants. Miss Ayu and her charges are suspected as carriers of the virus, and confined while the chief investigates the matter further. When the zombies horde eventually attacks, a young Dayak warrior named ‘Gadang’ leads everyone to fight back and defend their land.
This is the first horror feature in the Dayak language ever produced in Malaysia.