Held each year since 1992, the Philadelphia Film Festival annually screens nearly 300 features, documentaries, shorts and animation from 50 countries. Its Danger After Dark series showcases an eclectic mix of horror and other "genre" films. Last year's entries, for instance, included France's Them, Great Britain's Severance, and the remake of Brian DePalma's Sisters.

Bad Biology
Director: Frank Henenlotter
Starring: Charlee Danielson, Rachel Robbins, Tom Kohut, Anthony Sneed, Jelena Jensen
Plot: The director of Frankenhooker and Basket Case delivers a horror-comedy-love story about a man and a woman with freakish genitalia who discover each other and delve into over-the-top sexual excess.

Black House
Director: Terra Shin
Starring: Jeong-min Hwang, In-gi Jung, Shin-il Kang, Seo-hyeong Kim, Seung-Mok Yoo
Plot: In this Korean film, an insurance gets involved in a web of deceit woven by a psychotic client whom he suspects of committing murders to collect insurance money.

Dead Fury
Director: Frank Sudol
Plot: From the director of the animated zombie epic City of Rott comes this animated homage to splatter films like The Evil Dead about demon-infested woods.

Epitaph
Directors: Jeong Beom-sik and Jeong Sik
Starring: Kong Ho-Seok, Choi Jae-Hwan, Mu-song Jeon, Jeong Jin-an, Ku Jin
Plot: Set in the 1940s, this Korean film features three intertwined stories involving ghosts, corpses and serial killers.

Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer
Director: Jon Knautz
Starring: Trevor Matthews, Robert Englund, Rachel Skarsten, James A. Brooks, Daniel Kash, Ashley Bryant, Stefanie Drummond, Meghanne Kessels, David Fox
Plot: Jack Brooks (Matthews) is a plumber with a chip on his shoulder who discovers that his destiny lies in cleaning up monster scum...and I don't mean in the sink.

The Last House in the Woods
Director: Gabriele Albanesi
Starring: Daniela Virgilio, Daniele Grassetti, Gennaro Diana, Santa De Santis, David Pietroni, Geremia Longobardo, Cristiano Callegaro, Luigi Campi
Plot: In this Italian gorefest, a young couple is held captive by a sadistic backwoods family.

The Sperm
Director: Taweewat Wantha
Starring: Leo Putt, Pimpaporn Leenutapong, Nattawat Srimawk, Chakrapong Siririn, Thanwarin Sukhaphisit, Somlek Sakdikul, Dollaros Dachapratumwan
Plot: From director of the outrageous Thai zombie opus SARS Wars comes this even more bizarre tale of a teenager whose sperm mutates and sprouts mutant clones of himself all over town.

Storm
Directors: Måns Mårlind and Björn Stein
Starring: Eric Ericson, Eva Röse, Jacqueline Ramel, Per Ragnar, Matias Padin, Karl Norrhäll, Jesper Malmberg, Ann-Sofie Lundin, Niclas Larsson, Sofia Hvittfeldt, Christian Hollbrink, Sasha Becker
Plot: This Swedish mix of horror, action and science fiction finds a man coming to the aid of a woman fleeing from assassins who seek a mystical box in her possession that allows people to travel through time.

Stuck
Director: Stuart Gordon
Starring: Mena Suvari, Stephen Rea, Russell Hornsby, Rukiya Bernard
Plot: From horror icon Stuart Gordon (Re-Animator, From Beyond) comes the story of a woman who hits a man with her car, sending him hurtling into her windshield. Panicked, she drives home with him imbedded in the windshield and leaves him there to die, underestimating his will to survive.

Timecrimes
Director: Nacho Vigalondo
Starring: Karra Elejalde, Candela Fernandez, Barbara Goenaga, Juan Inciarte, Nacho Vigalondo
Plot: A Spanish time traveling film about a man who meets himself in the past, with disastrous consequences...like re-living middle school. Ack!

Trailer Park of Terror
Director: Steven Goldmann
Starring: Nichole Hiltz, Ryan Carnes, Priscilla Barnes, J.P. Manoux, Lew Temple, Tracey Walter, Duane Whitaker, Cody McMains, Dale Dickey, Trace Adkins
Plot: Based on a comic book series of the same name, this entry finds a group of high school students stranded in a zombie-infested trailer park. Catch the action on Zombie Cops this Saturday night.