Party Monster: Scratching the Surface

Film producer Sy Lerner makes a bet with a fellow film executive that he can turn any nobody into a star at the Cannes Film Festival. A New York cab driver who is visiting the festival is chosen as the test subject to settle the bet and Sy uses his skills of hype and manipulation to try and turn the cab driver named Frank into the talk...

Runtime

1h 28m

Cast

Seymour Cassel, Francesco Quinn, Rebecca Broussard

Young Gregory Tudor sees his local ice cream man murdered and later grows up to inherit his business, opting to inject gruesome ingredients—including human body parts—into his frozen confections. When one of the neighborhood boys goes missing, the local kids suspect Gregory and band together to get to the bottom of things.

Runtime

1h 27m

Cast

Clint Howard, Justin Isfeld, Anndi McAfee

A young black lesbian filmmaker probes into the life of The Watermelon Woman, a 1930s black actress who played 'mammy' archetypes.

Runtime

1h 25m

Director

Cheryl Dunye

Cast

Guinevere Turner, Valarie Walker, Lisa Marie Bronson

Three high school seniors throw a party to make a name for themselves. As the night progresses, things spiral out of control as word of the party spreads.

Runtime

1h 28m

Director

Nima Nourizadeh

Cast

Thomas Mann, Oliver Cooper, Jonathan Daniel Brown

A British secret service agent tracks down a lunatic doctor whom has stolen the frozen body of a dormant cave woman from a determined archaeologist.

Runtime

1h 17m

Cast

Frank Bowdler, Erin Brown, Rob Taylor