JoAnn Nordstrom

Clara and her two sons escape from her abusive husband with little more than their car and plan to start over in New York. After the car towed away, the family meets Alice, who gets them into an emergency shelter. While stealing food at a Russian restaurant called ‘Winter Palace’, Clara meets Marc, who has been given the chance to help the old eatery regain its former glory. The ‘Winter Palace’ soon becomes a place of unexpected encounters between people who are all undergoing some sort of crisis and whom fate has now brought together.

After nearly drowning in a lake, a young girl develops an abnormal fear of water and is plagued by visions of a mysterious dark figure. A year later, in an attempt to cure her phobia and visions, her skeptical friends stage a séance and subject her to a bathtub experiment, unwittingly summoning the dark figure into the world.

A socially disconnected young man with Tourette's Syndrome undergoes an experimental surgery to correct his disorder, but as his symptoms start to fade so does his ability to heal the sick and dying.

Four twentysomethings find themselves stuck on a haunted antique bed where leaving means suffering a gruesome death. Plagued with frightening hallucinations, they must figure out the bed's secrets before they are ultimately picked off one by one.

A widowed mother struggles to cope with the imminent death of her only son.

When an ignored little boy bonds with Bigfoot and discovers the human-like ape is in danger, he has to find the courage to stand up to those bigger than him to save the legendary creature and set him free.

Growing up with addicts for parents, Abigail's only solace is an odd porcelain doll named Betsy. Only Betsy isn't like other dolls. She moves, speaks, cries - and Betsy wants Abigail to bring her to a dark tunnel in middle of the woods.

With a child abductor at large in the neighborhood, 11 year old Fleur Flannery must fend for herself when she is left behind after a Girl Guide meeting.

A "day in the death" black comedy that follows a husband as he begins to behave increasingly erratic with the people he deals with while failing to cope with the tragedy of his wife dying that morning.